rights - senate - 1970

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

Will the Leader of the Government in the Senate request the Prime Minister to give immediate consideration to calling a meeting of those concerned in both State and Commonwealth spheres to discuss the Commonwealth’s intention to legislate for control over all submerged lands that surround this continent, so that greater harmony may be engendered between State and Commonwealth authorities and the rights of the States to have control over certain submerged lands may be discussed more fully? [More…]
When will he give further consideration to the legal position of Unilever Australia Pty Ltd in regard to its patent rights for the processing of Surprise peas? [More…]
It will limit the cases where documentary evidence may be admitted, but the amendment is accepted as a necessary safeguard to the rights of an individual in a particular case. [More…]
I think it clears up all of the matters in dispute and removes the fear that I had that there may be some infringement of human rights and liberties. [More…]
But I do not know what would have happened if someone had not detected that there could be some breach of common law or human rights. [More…]
What are the current developments in connection with the entry rights into Australia of the two American airlines, Pan American Airways and American Airlines? [More…]
As the General Assembly of the United Nations has designated 1971 as the International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination will the Government make an early statement on whether it will actively support this decision, which would be in line with Australia’s subscription to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? [More…]
I have no information which would lead me to believe that a particular lender is trying to tie his loan money to reciprocal flying rights. [More…]
Is it a fact that Qantas may have to pay up to 12% for the necessary finance and, in addition, allow overseas airlines certain reciprocal entry rights into Australia? [More…]
I think we ought to establish a standard practice whereby it will be open to any other senator to give notice and to preserve his rights when a notice of motion is withdrawn on the last day of the allowable period. [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Postmaster-General furnish me with any further information regarding the difficulties that the Australian Broadcasting Commission has apparently encountered in acquiring television rights of the current world cup soccer events in Mexico? [More…]
Will the Minister representing the Postmaster-General tell us whether an inquiry is being made into the secret recording of telephone conversations by members of the public ringing up the telephone branch in Adelaide, and can she tell us how this breach of decency and of the ordinary rights of the citizens occurred? [More…]
Is this famous non-violent champion of civil rights to be kept out of Australia because he is black or because citizens of Australia may wish to hear him during the Vietnam Moratorium? [More…]
It seems to be not a very good thing for railway employees doing national service to be deprived of their rights. [More…]
That Standing Order 33A be amended as follows - At end of Standing Order add “; and also to inquire into and report’ upon matters concerning rights, responsibilities, obligations and protection of Senators and in relationto proceedings of the Senate, of members of the public, which may be referred to it by the Senate”. [More…]
That there be referred to the Standing Committee on Privileges for inquiry and report the following matter- All aspects of the right to publish in whole or in part the content of Papers presented to the Senate and of the proceedings of the Senate or any Committee thereof, or any reports of Committees with a view to making known for general information the rights, responsibilities and protection of persons proposing to publish matter connected with such Papers and proceedings and Reports of the Senate or any Committee thereof. [More…]
This gives us rights to fly into those countries, but they are reciprocal rights. [More…]
The agreements give those countries rights to fly into Australia. [More…]
Where did the Minister obtain the view that the granting of Aboriginal land rights will hinder the progress of Aboriginal people towards selfdetermination and independence. [More…]
There are repeated interjections from a senator who is trying to infringe my rights. [More…]
I think you, Mr Temporary Chairman, as custodian of the rights of senators, should try to stop such interjections. [More…]
Senator Cavanagh, I am always willing to protect senators’ rights. [More…]
Does the voting system operating in Holland provide for absentee voting rights: for example, can crews of the North Sea fishing fleet delegate to other members of their family the right to exercise proxy votes. [More…]
734 about Aboriginal land rights which apparently was answered on 29th October 1970, and to some statement by the Minister for the Interior. [More…]
Will he equate the rights of rank and file members of such funds with the present infallibility of decision making vested in the Hospitals Contribution Fund of Australia and the Medical Benefits Fund of Australia presidiums? [More…]
Is it a fact that a legal case on the patent rights of the process of xeroxing is now proceeding in Japan, with our Department of Supply as a party to the proceedings? [More…]
Is it cor rect that a decision against the Department could result in a loss to Australia of up to $10m a year from the patent rights to the process of colour xeroxing? [More…]
Will the Minister make a detailed statement about this case which involves the rights to one of Australia’s genuine technological advances? [More…]
I think that he is possibly stressing unnecessarily the rights of a person to come in and assist in the dispersal of an assembly because the ability of that person to move in is conditioned, by what he can do. [More…]
The Bill is being treated as a vehicle for raising matters similar to the one raised a few moments ago in relation to Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
The Minister might have noticed that in the other place the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) urged that members of Parliament should be covered by this legislation or that the Government might consider bringing in a specific Bill to cover them, because if a member of Parliament is incapacitated before his pension rights become due he will not get anything. [More…]
I think that it is most important that the whole matter of the rights of the Press, and so on and so forth, should be referred to the Privileges Committee. [More…]
23, be referred to the Privileges Committee for consideration in conjunction with the matter referred to the Standing Orders Committee on 29th April regarding a proposed amendment of the Standing Orders dealing with privilege, with a view to establishing the rights, responsibilities, obligations and protection of senators, members of the Press and others in relation to Committee proceedings. [More…]
That is an attempt to cut down on the rights of honourable senators when they need time to explain a question. [More…]
My whole complaint is that while it may be desirable for the Government and while it may suit a number of people to go home early on more frequent occasions, the effect is to encroach upon the rights of honourable senators. [More…]
I think that all Australians deplore any situation in which a small but determined minority, by resort to violence and by threat of a denial to the majority of people of their ordinary civil rights, can impose its will upon the majority. [More…]
Has the disagreement which has existed between Australia and the United States of America relative to the landing rights of Qantas Airways Ltd in the United States of America been settled? [More…]
The rights of people in different States might differ. [More…]
The position is that the Senate has referred to the Committee of Privileges the question of establishing and making known matters connected with the rights, responsibilities, obligations and protection of senators, witnesses, members of the Press and others in relation to committee proceedings. [More…]
If the honourable senator looks at that definition he will see that it states that, a person who, for the purposes of that definition, has rights in the nature of an equity of redemption in respect of wool or sheep the subject of a mortgage or other security shall be deemed to be the owner of the wool or sheep. [More…]
If so, will the Minister bring this matter before Cabinet with a view to amending the appropriate legislation and/ or regulations to give these ex-servicemen rights equal to those enjoyed by exservicemen who served in previous wars? [More…]
There was only one party - no Opposition parties, no judiciary, no human rights. [More…]
Has the AttorneyGeneral examined the recent Press articles relating to the activities of the League of Rights? [More…]
Will he consider making an authoritative statement on the nature and activities of the League of Rights? [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Government does not enact any law that would detract from or hinder the rights of the Aborigines to be there. [More…]
Can the Minister inform the Parliament whether all rights to mineral deposits at the former Aurukun mission have been sold to a Dutch, Japanese and French consortium by arrangement with the pastor in charge? [More…]
1 believe a summary of the electoral rights of Australians abroad should be given to Australians who are about to depart for overseas. [More…]
He wrote to one of my State colleagues about the possibility of the virtual freezing of the electoral rights of travelling Australians as at their last domicile or last posting. [More…]
In that way they could be made aware of their electoral rights. [More…]
It is only a small matter but a growing number of Australians - largely professional people, some working with the United Nations and others with hospitals in Europe - are writing back here about their election rights only to find that they have been disfranchised. [More…]
I am not canvassing whether electoral rights should be frozen as at the last enrolment in Australia before departure for overseas. [More…]
As the Minister is aware, steps were taken to provide for the voting rights of servicemen in South East Asia. [More…]
A certain amount of compartmentalisation would be required, but whatever the Government intends to do to the Electoral Act in future, I think it should keep in mind the possibility of issuing a short pamphlet to people seeking passports so that they may be advised of their voting rights. [More…]
Senate by myself and others on earlier occasions, that is, to do what has been done is prejudicial to the rights of the persons affected and is not the proper practice to be followed in these matters. [More…]
Does an agreement exist between Australia and New Zealand for reciprocity of Social Service rights; if not, is New Zealand one of the countries with which Australia is seeking to achieve portability of pension rights. [More…]
Why has the Australian Government failed to adopt Convention 87 which should ensure the democratic rights of Australian citizens. [More…]
However we have no special rights in this regard. [More…]
And that this is an unfair imposition on the human rights of all people who wish to plan their families. [More…]
I was and still am of the opinion that the estimates committees were established in order to investigate formally the estimates and that all honourable senators had equal rights to be members of a committee or to attend committee meetings. [More…]
It seems to me that any senator attending any meeting of a committee should be given equal rights, but only those senators who are appointed to the committee are the ones that can determine a report which is then sent to the Senate at a later stage. [More…]
The motion relates to the Commonwealth Electoral Bill 1972 which is to provide voting rights for 18-year-olds. [More…]
This Bill provides voting rights for 18- year-olds. [More…]
The Standing Orders Committee at this stage recommends to the Senate, without prejudice to any constitutional rights, that Senate committees be directed to refrain from meeting and transacting business after the forthcoming dissolution of the House of Representatives. [More…]
this Parliament re-affirm our rights to our Islands, our ancestral homes for generations before the discovery of Australia; [More…]
While the subject matter of both Bills is perhaps of a like nature, nonetheless these Bills are of tremendous importance to the rights of people in this country. [More…]
Does the Labor Government pose as being deeply concerned about the rights of Australian citizens? [More…]
That so much of the Standing Orders be suspended as would prevent the moving of a motion forthwith for (a) the rescission of the vote of the Senate on Thursday, 10th May 1973, negativing the question for the appointment of a select committee on civil rights of migrant Australians and such motion of rescission being carried by a simple majority of the senators voting; and (b) the order of the day for the consideration of the proposed select committee being restored to the notice paper and the question for the appointment of the select committee, as finally put by the President on 10th May, being again put immediately to the Senate by the President and voted upon without further debate. [More…]
Mr President, I ask for leave to move a motion to vary the resolution appointing the Select Committee on Civil Rights to Migrant Australians. [More…]
That notwithstanding anything contained in the Standing Orders, the resolution of the Senate of 17th May 1973 relating to the appointment of a Select Committee on Civil Rights of Migrant Australians be varied as follows: [More…]
the rescission of the vole of the Senate on Thursday, 10th May 1973, negativing the question for the appointment of a Select Committee on Civil Rights of Migrant Australians, and such motion of rescission being carried by a simple majority of senators voting; and [More…]
the vote of the Senate of Thursday, 1 0th May 1973, negativing the question for the appointment of a Select Committee on Civil Rights of Migrant Australians be rescinded and [More…]
The reason for seeking the rescission of the Senate’s vote of last Thursday negativing the question for the appointment of a select committee on civil rights of migrants in Australia is that we believe the vote recorded last week did not accurately reflect the Senate’s will. [More…]
As the President is the focus of all the rights of honourable senators and the one from whom they can obtain redress, instinctively I knew that I had hurt Senator Poyser, so I requested him to come to see me. [More…]
The subject of voting rights may not have anything to do with this Bill, but I think the public of Australia, particularly the British people in Australia who hitherto have had certain privileges, ought to be alerted to the fact that if this Bill ever becomes law, unless someone makes very strong action against the present anti-British Government, British people in Australia will not have the right to vote for at least 3 years. [More…]
The subject of voting rights has nothing to do with this piece of legislation, but I will draw Senator Greenwood’s comments to the attention of the relevant minister in another place. [More…]
We of the smaller States who depend upon that one plank of power against the larger States of the Commonwealth for exertion of our rights of justice would be recreant to our faith to pass over the balance of power in this place to what is a segment of New South Wales, now greatly inflated and enriched by its unique proximity to the Federal Government and with all the advantages of enrichment that we have seen over recent years. [More…]
If is an inquiry by the Senate Select Committee on the Civil Rights of Migrant Australians. [More…]
For the information of honourable senators, I table the first report of the Aboriginal Land Rights Commision. [More…]
For what purpose has the Attorney-General required the attendance of numerous reporters and typists of the Commonwealth Reporting Service, which is attached to his Department, in order to provide a transcript of the proceedings of the Senate Select Committee on the Civil Rights of Migrant Australians additional to the usual Hansard facilities which have been available at each hearing? [More…]
That the time for the presentation of the report of the Select Committee on Civil Rights of Migrant Australians be extended to the first sitting day of the Senate in November 1973. [More…]
I inform the Senate that I have received a letter from the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Murphy) requesting the discharge of Senator James McClelland from service on the Senate Select Committee on the Civil Rights of Migrant Australians and nominating Senator Georges to fill the vacancy. [More…]
That Senator James McClelland be discharged from service on the Senate Select Committee on the Civil Rights of Migrant Australians and that Senator Georges be appointed to fill the vacancy. [More…]
The reactionary capitalist forces of the world had built up Hitler and he in turn was able to suborn others of his ilk like Mussolini and the powers in Japan in order to form a triumvirate or a troika, or whatever one likes to call the trio that challenged the rights of man to live in freedom on this earth. [More…]
That this Senate recognising that the question of human rights is a matter of universal significance, believes there is prima facie’ evidence to support allegations by Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov that human rights of political dissidents are being abrogated inside the Soviet Union and resolves that this question should be referred to the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations for examination. [More…]
I inform the Senate that I have received a letter from the Leader of the Government in the Senate requesting the discharge of Senator Georges from service on the Senate Select Committee on Civil Rights of Migrant Australians and nominating Senator James McClelland to fill the vacancy. [More…]
That Senator Georges be discharged from service on the Select Committee on Civil Rights of Migrant Australians and that Senator James McClelland be appointed to fill the vacancy. [More…]
1 ) Yes, I have been concerned both with the civil rights of persons named under privilege and with my responsibilities as Attorney-General to make statements to the Parliament on matters of national concern. [More…]
and (4) Their civil rights were not infringed. [More…]
1 ) Has the Attorney-General interested himself in protecting the civil rights of persons named under privilege. [More…]
Have the civil rights of any of the persons referred to in (2) been infringed. [More…]
1 ) Are air traffic rights being negotiated between Australia and the People’s Republic of China; if so, are the negotiations being carried out at the instigation of Qantas or on the direction of the Australian Government? [More…]
I thank all honourable senators on both sides of the chamber for the spirit in which they have entered into the debate and indicated their support for the motion on human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I have no doubt that in the future there will be plenty of opportunities for the examination of human rights in other countries. [More…]
But if there are instances of human rights which are jeopardised and threatened in that country, I believe that just because we happen to be growing in closer relationship, government to government, we should not be sufficiently tamed not to raise our voice in protest, and to seek a change or an amelioration of the lot of people in those countries. [More…]
As the AttorneyGeneral said in answer to Senator Kane’s question without notice on 12 September 1973, the Government has on a number of occasions made its views known both on the question of civil liberties and on fundamental human rights, its own adherence to them and its wish that those rights embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights be extended to peoples elsewhere. [More…]
With the likelihood of the butter-vegetable spread ‘Butterine’ being marketed in the near future, what steps has the Minister taken to ensure that the patent rights to this product are retained by the dairying industry? [More…]
As the honourable senator indicates, there are sacred rights involved and those sacred rights include not only those of property which is mentioned but also the sacred rights of the Aborigines. [More…]
1 ) Is the Minister aware that, on 1 1 October 1973, Senator Hannan asked the Leader of the Government in the Senate to have the Minister direct Australia’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Sir Laurence McIntyre, to press, as a matter of urgency, for an examination of the Senate’s unanimous Resolution on the abrogation of human rights of Soviet dissidents. [More…]
Earlier today Senator Georges asked me a question relating to his rights in connection with a certain letter. [More…]
Attorney-General: Does he propose shortly to introduce several Bills dealing with human rights? [More…]
Should the Government’s concern, for the rights of the people come into question in the light of the experience of 2 Taiwanese fishing boat captains convicted on charges of illegal fishing off the north-west coast? [More…]
I seek an undertaking from the Minister that he will do everything he can to ensure, in the interests of people being able to plan for next year and people being able to know where they are going and what their rights are going to be, that this does happen. [More…]
1 ) Is the Minister aware that a Tasmanian court action to defer a decision on mining rights in the Precipitous Bluff area will mean a long delay in the formulation of a management plan for the area. [More…]
Other activities of terrorists have been dealt with in evidence published by the Senate Select Committee on Civil Rights of Migrant Australians. [More…]
Likewise I notice from what the Attorney-General said that a Human Rights Commissioner may apply to the Industrial Court and that Court may set aside a judgment which I assume means a judgment of the State courts. [More…]
I ask the Minister for the Media (Senator Douglas McClelland) to respond to the considerable emphasis which was placed, during the discussion on this amendment, on Article 26 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights as it relates to education. [More…]
Surely the Declaration of Human Rights as it relates to education contains points of view which are not only worth writing into legislation but also are worth a reply. [More…]
If so, how is he so prohibited, and what is the reason for this abrogation of human rights? [More…]
We were most impressed by the fact that 6 State Premiers, not only conservative Premiers but also Labor Premiers, went to London and fought hard for what they considered were the rights of the States. [More…]
Information regarding this matter has been given to the Senate Select Committee on Civil Rights of Migrant Australians. [More…]
I ask the AttorneyGeneral: Does the International Covenant on Human Rights grant the ability for parents to give their children religious education of the parents’ choice. [More…]
The only amendments still remaining are those relation to proposed new clause 6a and the definition of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
For the information of honourable senators I lay on the table the texts of the undermentioned Conventions and Protocols in the field of human rights to which Australia has become a party or is about to become a party by accession or acceptance: [More…]
That leave be given to introduce a Bill for an Act relating to Marriage and to Divorce and Matrimonial Causes and, in relation thereto, Parental Rights and the Custody and Guardianship of Infants, and certain other Matters. [More…]
And whereas all such rights, liberties, heritage, advancement and prosperity, etc., are of no avail if our Armed Forces are unprepared or incapable of repelling invasion of our shores or withstanding other military threats, [More…]
The humble petition of citizens of the division of Sydney respectfully showeth that in view of the present situation in Chile, where twenty out of thirty articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are not being adhered to. [More…]
How many and which countries have ratified or acceded to the Convention on Political Rights of Women and deposited instruments of ratification or accession with the SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations. [More…]
1 ) There is no provision in the Constitution providing for rights of appeal from exercise of discretionary powers conferred by statute. [More…]
I do not consider the matter appropriate for inclusion in a Bill of Rights. [More…]
If there is no provision for such an appeal, will the Attorney-General have such a proposal included in his proposed Bill of Rights. [More…]
That whereas the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 20, Sections1 and 2 states: [More…]
And whereas the Australian Government has endorsed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights but has, to date, failed to implement Article 20, Sections1 and 2 of the said Declaration and therefore denied Australian Citizens the rights inherent in that Declaration. [More…]
And whereas all such rights, liberties, advancement are of no avail if our Government is not ready to rectify this failure. [More…]
Ensure the rights of every Australian Citizen to choose whether or not they shall belong to a trade union. [More…]
Your petitioners humbly pray that part II, section 3 of the proposed Bill of Human Rights which now reads: [More…]
It is regarded as objectionable because it reverses the onus of proof and places an unreasonable burden upon the defendant in the matters which he is required to prove, and thereby trespasses unduly upon personal rights and liberties. [More…]
The Committee considers that what amounts to reversal of the onus of proof and an extremely heavy penalty for such an offence makes the ordinance unduly oppressive and an undue trespass upon personal rights and liberties. [More…]
Your petitioners humbly pray that Part II, Section 3, of the proposed Bill of Human Rights, which now reads: [More…]
As at 4 April 1974, twenty-six countries had ratified or acceded to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
How many and which countries have ratified or acceded to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and deposited instruments of ratification or accession with the Secretary-General of the United Nations. [More…]
That the Senate take note of the second report of the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission dated April 1974. [More…]
In view of current reports that South Australia may be granted sole rights to export kangaroo skin products, will the Minister outline the present position? [More…]
that the taxing of any citizens to propagate or support any religion is contrary to this principle and a violation of human rights. [More…]
Your petitioners humbly pray that Part II, Section 3, of the proposed Bill of Human Rights, which now reads: [More…]
Will the Government have discussions with the Czechoslovakian Government to abolish this discrimination and to protect the rights of these Australian citizens? [More…]
I can say only that, when I am in charge of the Opposition, if there is no consultation then one can proceed only upon the basis that the ordinary rights which senators have ought to be followed. [More…]
that this act of recognition is against the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; [More…]
Human Rights and civil liberties and are therefore unable to express their will, we the undersigned Australian citizens of Baltic origin humbly petition the Senate to express its moral support to the rights of the Baltic States to freedom and self-determination. [More…]
And whereas the Senate is not only an independent House of Review elected democratically by the people with its own mandate to protect their heritage and constitutional rights, but is the States’ House by which all Australians in their own sovereign states formed long before Federation can bring together ideas and plans and resources for their mutual benefit and advancement, [More…]
Has there been a change in the rights of Australian citizens of Baltic origin in regard either to the carrying of their national flags in Australia or showing Estonia, Lithuania or Latvia as their country of birth when applying for Australian passports or visas to visit other countries. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Over the- years he has made an incessant cry about the power of the Arbitration Commission and about elements in the community that he feels put their own rights above the public good. [More…]
That the amendment to the bill recommended by the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee will ensure that the rights of women who play the traditional role in society will be protected, as will the interests of the children. [More…]
If so, what are the exceptions made to the Board’s powers, rights, functions, liabilities and duties conferred or imposed on it by any, and if so what, State Act. [More…]
Will the Leader of the Government in the Senate inform the Senate how the granting of low cost accommodation to a highly paid government employee who could well alford private accommodation would ‘advance the implementation of government policy in the important field of human rights’? [More…]
12 Aboriginal Land Rights Commission- Second Report- Paper; [More…]
The matters that the Minister has raised in relation to the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission headed by Mr Justice Woodward and the implementation of some things by the present Government are, as I said in my speech on 19 September 1974, but charity of the government of the day. [More…]
Will the the Government, as an elementary exercise in protecting an Australian’s human rights, refuse to hold the projected talks with the Pathet Lao Minister for the Economy, who is about to visit Australia, until the Pathet Lao have given satisfactory assurances about the welfare and the future of Mr Sharman? [More…]
Again the Government seeks to preserve the rights that it has under the Defence Service Homes Act 1918-1975, under which the Australian Government has this power. [More…]
As no work is proceeding on the freeway, will the Minister take appropriate action to ensure that the rights of the tenants are fully protected. [More…]
This is adding confusion in the minds of people who are sometimes in a position of weakness and who will not realise that their rights vary in this way. [More…]
Clause 30 (Preservation of special pension rights). [More…]
It is true that a motion passed in the House of Representatives on 13 September 1973 called for a Royal Commission on this matter and included in the proposed terms of reference that the Commissioners should have regard to the United Nations’ declaration on the rights of children and the sanctity and preservation of human life. [More…]
1 ) Did a Resolution of the House of Representatives of 13 September 1973 call for the Royal Commission into Human Relationships to include in its terms of reference that the Commissioners should have regard to the United Nations declaration on the rights of the child, the sanctity of life and the preservation of human life. [More…]
Why do the terms of reference, published on 21 August 1974 by the Minister, confine themselves to matters of sexual practice, abortion and related matters, and do not specifically include concern for the rights of children and for human life. [More…]
Senate to the presence in the President’s Gallery of Mrs Shalomit Aloni, a member of the Israeli Parliament and a former Cabinet Minister and Leader of the Civil Rights Movement in Israel. [More…]
The first and third amendments, which I did not support, concerned the rights of contributors. [More…]
Pursuant to the resolution of the Senate, if you wish to consult counsel as to your legal rights or any question asked of you, you shall apply to the President for permission to do so. [More…]
The Senate, acknowledging the well established practice of the Senate in its Committees that counsel may be present during the taking of evidence and that, with the permission of the Chairman, a witness may from time to time consult counsel as to his legal rights, resolves: [More…]
That if Mr Karidis, as a witness before the Senate, wishes to consult his counsel as to his legal rights on any question asked of him, the witness shall apply to the President for permission so to do. [More…]
Will the Minister agree that community groups using the video resource centres and willing to pay for their tapes should be allowed to keep the copyright and thus keep their entitlement to performing rights for any tapes with entertainment value. [More…]
But it was considered that it could not reasonably be expected that the intention was to protect Mr Edwards against every conceivable type of loss and that such an assurance could have related only to the application of the Officers’ Rights Declaration Act. [More…]
It has not been the practice of this and previous governments to interfere with the rights of Australian universities and the organisations within them to manage their own affairs. [More…]
That, in the matter of the approval by the Senate of Bills for Supply to the Australian Government, certain decisions and declared intentions of Senators of the parties of the Opposition in Parliament are placing in jeopardy the welfare and basic human rights of those citizens who are aged or disabled and thereby dependent upon pensions payable by the Australian Government. [More…]
Your petitioners are impelled by these facts to call upon all Honourable Senators to forthwith determine as a matter of urgency that approval of the Bills for Supply be no longer delayed in order that the Government shall continue to adequately provide for the welfare rights of Australian citizens. [More…]
That, in the matter of the approval by the Senate of Bills for Supply to the Australian Government, certain decisions and declared intentions of Senators of the parties of the Opposition in Parliament are placing in jeopardy the welfare and basic human rights of those citizens who are aged or disabled and thereby dependent upon pensions payable by the Australian Government. [More…]
Your petitioners are impelled by these facts to call upon all Honourable Senators to forthwith determine as a matter ofurgency that approval of the Bills for Supply be no longer delayed in order that the Government shall continue to adequately provide for the welfare rights of Australian citizens. [More…]
-Can the Minister for Social Security give the Senate some advice as to the future of the program supporting welfare rights officers, particularly in the various ethnic, welfare and other organisations? [More…]
Can the Minister inform the Parliament whether the Fraser Government intends to adopt a new land rights policy for Aborigines living in the Northern Territory? [More…]
Can the Minister assure the Parliament that the Federal Government will reconsider the situation in order to protect the rights of Aborigines? [More…]
As it was for an initial pilot program, I will be interested to have some reporting back as to the success, acceptability and purpose of the welfare rights officers who have been appointed. [More…]
That the requirement now in force for electors to mark preferences for all candidates on Senate ballot papers is an unacceptable interference with the democratic rights of the people. [More…]
I believe that this House is not only a protector of the rights of the States but also is the protector of the rights of the individual citizen and has prided itself on being such. [More…]
Will the Minister give early consideration to clarify section 156 (b) of the Act so as to ensure that, in future, political personalities who have moneys to give to opponents in an election will know their lawful rights. [More…]
Did the representations suggest that in future legislation on Aboriginal land rights in the Northern Territory the Government should make provision in the legislation that where terms and conditions for mining cannot be agreed upon between Aboriginals and mining companies provision should be made for arbitration. [More…]
There is a difference, of course, between these 2 rights. [More…]
I thought the Minister was both charitable and thoughtful in the comments which he made, but I thought, with the utmost respect of course, that he might have misinterpreted the nuance between the 2 rights which were being sought. [More…]
Patents and inventions had previously been the responsibility of the Attorney-General but those rights will now be vested in the Commonwealth. [More…]
The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: ( 1 ), (2) and (3) The Government regards the implementation of its land rights policy as a matter of high priority and, on 4 June 1976, introduced the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill into the House of Representatives. [More…]
Does the Minister recall recent Government statements that it was proposed to implement, as a matter of priority, legislation granting Aboriginal land rights in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Does the Australian Government no longer consider Northern Territory land rights legislation an urgent matter. [More…]
Aboriginal groups were not specifically consulted as the Ordinance in no way affects their traditional rights or puts any impediment to land rights. [More…]
This Section provides that even within parks and reserves which are set aside for the benefit of all Australians, Aboriginal rights to traditional hunting, use of water and use of the area for traditional ceremonial purposes are protected and specially provided for. [More…]
We have no guarantee that people cannot preserve their rights. [More…]
Has the Roman Catholic Jesuit Order requested Comalco Ltd to recognise Aboriginal land rights and to increase compensation to the Aboriginal people of Weipa. [More…]
What assistance has (a) Comalco Ltd, (b) the Australian Government, and (c) the Queensland Government given to the Aboriginal community of Weipa since the date mining rights at Weipa were first granted to Comalco Ltd. [More…]
administration will be fully protected in all their rights. [More…]
To provide a framework for the negotiation of provisions related to the prices of wheat and to the rights and obligations of members in respect of international trade in wheat. [More…]
1 ) That we are thankful that the Government intends to introduce legislation to give effect to Aboriginal Land Rights in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Your Petitioners therefore most humbly pray that the Senate, in Parliament assembled, will show respect for the laws of Aboriginal people and enact Land Rights Legislation which will allow our traditional land laws to operate unhindered. [More…]
He would be aware that the Working Women’s Centre in Melbourne is essential to encouraging and assisting women in the work force, researching the needs of working women, running elementary training school and providing essential information as to rates for work and rights to decent working conditions. [More…]
Arnhem Land is scheduled for return to Aboriginal ownership under provisions of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976. [More…]
Grants for welfare rights officers are made, subject to review from time to time. [More…]
1 ) Is the Minister aware that there have been lengthy delays in bringing forward land rights legislation in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I believe that viewed at this particular time when the Aboriginal people had taken it in their own hands to have discussions on this land rights legislation this article is a reasonable record of a meeting that these Aborigines had with a reporter. [More…]
That the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976, does not satisfy the Aboriginal needs for land in the Northern Territory. [More…]
a ) The removal of all powers to pass Land Rights Legislation from Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, particularly its control over sacred sites, entry permits, control over the seas adjoining Aboriginal land, the fishing rights of non-Aborigines, the right of Aborigines to enter pastoral stations and control of wildlife on Aboriginal land. [More…]
d ) The restoration of all powers vested in Land Councils and the Land Commissioner in the 1973 Land Rights Bill. [More…]
Senator Georges, I believe that Senator Baume is quite within his rights in asking the question in the way in which he has asked it. [More…]
It is the preservation of an existing legal obligation that is taken into account by the amendments; it is not the creation of fresh rights for which no legal right exists at present. [More…]
I inform the Senate that I have received letters from the Leader of the Government and the Leader of the Opposition nominating Senators Bonner, Cavanagh, Chaney, Coleman, Kilgariff and Robertson to be members of the Joint Select Committee on the Operation of the Provisions of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976. [More…]
That the Senators nominated be appointed members of the Joint Select Committee on the Operation of the Provisions of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 in accordance with the resolution agreed this day. [More…]
The Government has deplored the fact that the suppression of civil liberties and a lack of basic human rights is fast becoming the hallmark of the Ugandan regime. [More…]
-I present an interim report from the Joint Select Committee on Aboriginal Land Rights in the Northern Territory, being a report that the Committee has been unable to complete its inquiry. [More…]
1 from the House of Representatives requesting the concurrence of the Senate in the appointment of a Joint Committee on Aboriginal Land Rights in the Northern Territory. [More…]
1 of the House of Representatives relating to the appointment of a Joint Committee on Aboriginal Land Rights in the Northern Territory; [More…]
I inform the Senate that I have received letters from the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Withers) and the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (Senator Wriedt) nominating Senators Bonner, Cavanagh, Chaney, Coleman, Kilgariff and Robertson to be members of a Joint Committee on Aboriginal Land Rights in the Northern Territory. [More…]
That the senators nominated be appointed members of the Joint Committee on Aboriginal Land Rights in the Northern Territory. [More…]
That Australia asserts sovereignty over the 200-mile zone of sea adjacent to the Australian continent and that the requests of other nations for fishing rights be subject to licence. [More…]
In the four or five parts of his question the general thrust is whether there is a challenge to the title to the land and to the mineral rights on the continent of Antarctica. [More…]
I think it is a matter which we all deplore as being contrary to human rights and human dignity. [More…]
-Has the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations noted a report in the daily Press stating, first, that the International Labour Organisation has criticised communists and Third World countries for violating some of its key conventions; and secondly, that the ILO report cited the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in particular for using the law to restrict trade union rights and that an ILO committee of experts picked out the communist States and eastern European countries as well as 30-odd African and Latin countries for violating the rights of workers, calling them to task for failing to apply Convention 87, despite the fact that they ratified it and nominated the following countries: Algeria, Bolivia, Burma, Central African Empire, Chad, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Greece, Honduras, Kuwait, Liberia, Mauritania, Mexico, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Syria and Uruguay? [More…]
I am sorry also that most of the opposition to this Bill, indeed it has been reflected in speeches made in this chamber by the Opposition, seems to be devoted more to a concern for the rights and careers of some of those who are taking part in the delivery of legal aid under the present system than to the concern and interests of the people who need legal aid and the clients of the system. [More…]
1 ) What number of land claims have been made to date under the Northern Territory Aboriginal Land Rights legislation. [More…]
The Constitution implies that in the matter of labour relations there ought to be conciliation and arbitration and respect for the rights of both employers and emloyees. [More…]
Under this Bill it is possible for the head of a department or a Minister to sack an employee, as a result of which the employee might lose all of his inherent rights. [More…]
Pursuant to section 61 of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976, 1 present the report of the Aboriginal Land Commissioner for the year ended 30 June 1977. [More…]
1 ) In determining the number of copies of a book which is in libraries for purposes of Public Lending Rights, how many libraries are sampled. [More…]
Will the Minister advise what action has been taken following presentation of a petition to the Senate on 25 May 1977 (Hansard, page 1332) concerning the civil rights of Slovenes and Croatians in Austria. [More…]
-This policy reflects a fundamental review of the rights and responsibilities of the parties engaged in industrial relations and the demands of the contemporary community. [More…]
Has agreement been reached between the Commonwealth Government and the Queensland Government on the provision of full trading rights in Queensland waters to the Australian National Line, following the announcement by the Queensland Premier on 25 April 1977 that the Queensland Cabinet had lifted restrictions on the operation of the Australian National Line in Queensland; if not, why not. [More…]
-Clause 14 of the Bill provides that all rights and property that immediately before the expiration of the transitional period were vested in the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority are, by force of this section, vested in the Committee. [More…]
1 ) Has the Government made a submission for consideration at the Borroloola Land Rights hearing. [More…]
Is the submission similar to that lodged by Mt Isa Mines and in direct opposition to the case for Land Rights put forward by the Aborigines concerned. [More…]
Government officials will provide the Aboriginal Land Commissioner with factual information relating to the land rights hearing, if required. [More…]
Proposed section 79E(l)(a) provides for the production or presentation of programs or the arrangement or provision of facilities for that purpose and proposed section 79E(l)(d) provides for the acquisition, acceptance or taking on hire or the letting out of personal property, including programs or rights or interests in programs. [More…]
the proceeds of the sale or other disposition of any property of the Service (including programs and rights or interests in programs); [More…]
-Can the Minister representing the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs inform the Senate whether the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly has introduced complementary legislation to the Federal Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill? [More…]
Notwithstanding any question of our membership of the British Commonwealth of Nations, I hope the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) will exercise our rights to protest, via the Canadian High Commission, that there are certain standards which apply and that we expect them to be adhered to. [More…]
Can the Minister comment on the adequacy of the existing companies legislation and regulations to protect the rights of minority shareholders in this predicament? [More…]
Human Rights in the Ukraine [More…]
That Ukraine, a nation of some 50 million people, is deprived of those national and individual rights and human freedoms which are deemed sacred in Australia. [More…]
Those who have the courage to speak out in defence of national and human rights in the Ukraine are dealt with by the Moscow government in a manner which is abhorrent to every freedom-minded Australian. [More…]
In its sixtieth report, presented to the Senate on 13 April, the Committee recommended the disallowance of this amendment on the ground that it had the effect of unfairly discriminating between individuals, and thereby trespassed unduly on individual rights. [More…]
The person about whom we are talking is the senator who is elected for a six-year term, who needed this amendment to clarify his rights and equate them with the rights of members of the House of Representatives. [More…]
That the Federal Government recognise Land Rights in the States, such as Queensland in a similar manner to the recognition of Land Rights in the Northern Territory, that is enact an Aboriginal Land Rights Act for Queensland; [More…]
Probably the majority of matters raised by Senator Keeffe concern company law and the rights of shareholders under company law to obtain details of share transactions and so forth. [More…]
The amendment will ensure that the rights of the people of the Northern Territory will be protected. [More…]
We further request that prompt acton bc taken by the Federal and Tasmanian Governments to secure these rights. [More…]
As Senator Robertson said, it is a Bill to provide for mining companies in the Alligator Rivers Region to retain their current rights of ownership of and access to existing improvements constructed by them when the land on which the facilities have been erected becomes Aboriginal land. [More…]
The proposed new Standing Order will remedy that situation, but it will not in any way guarantee any rights of minority senators to sit on committees. [More…]
Has an arbitrator yet been appointed under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act to review disputes. [More…]
I am delighted to hear you are at last considering protesting to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights over the violation of human rights, but perhaps you should be warned of the fate of those who live in glass houses. [More…]
She certainly should have been allowed to put her case to her fellow employees and not be treated with the denial of civil rights which is such a common feature of the situation in your own State. [More…]
I think it was Senator Wriedt who tonight asked whether State government rights are affected. [More…]
If the Commonwealth were to come to the conclusion that this report and the recommendations in it should be accepted, it would be in a strong position to persuade the States that they also should abandon their rights because they would then stand in equal position with the Commonwealth and no doubt would gain from it. [More…]
So the Commonwealth is in a powerful position to negotiate with the States if it were prepared to abandon its rights. [More…]
Since Viktoras Petkus, and the group he is a member of, conducted their activities openly, believing that the Soviet constitution granted them some rights not only in word but also in fact, this severe punishment is a blatant denial of human rights recognized even by the Soviet constitution. [More…]
We ask the Australian Government to make representations to the United Nations to adopt a resolution condemning Soviet violations of human rights, and to request the Soviet Government to release the unjustly incarcerated Viktoras Petkus. [More…]
It is not a question of uranium mining being placed above Aboriginal rights: It is a question of concern for all the people of the world, not just a group of Aboriginals. [More…]
I do not know whether Senator Bonner explained the land rights legislation to them. [More…]
That is a sine qua non of the whole Aboriginal land rights legislation. [More…]
So the Aboriginal land rights legislation has been carried out to its entirety at this stage. [More…]
1 ) What has been the European itinerary of Mr Justice Staples in his inquiry which, on 26 December 1976, the Attorney-General’s predecessor requested him to undertake into the practices, procedures and laws which other countries have adopted for the protection of basic human rights. [More…]
How much did the Australian Broadcasting Commission pay for television rights or for films of the events of the 1976 Olympic Games. [More…]
) Has the Australian Broadcasting Commission made an estimation of the costs which might be involved in its securing television rights for the 1 980 Olympic Games in Moscow. [More…]
I make it clear that the important rights which back bench senators have at times when statements are brought down should not be limited by any prior arrangement. [More…]
May I say that in the evolution of the greater protection of the rights of Parliament there are various areas which, whilst they do not come within the immediate jurisdiction of the Presiding Officers, it is good to hear discussed by honourable senators. [More…]
Recently in the other place the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in reply to a question by Mr Clyde Cameron from South Australia assured him that the rights of the Parliament have been protected very effectively by Mr Speaker and me over the last couple of years. [More…]
I think this is a recognition of the desires of Executive Government to do those things which we as parliamentarians in our own rights as distinct from the rights of Executive Government are seeking to attain. [More…]
On behalf of the Minister for Social Security, pursuant to section 6 1 of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 I present the report by the Aboriginal Land Commissioner for the year ended 30 June 1978. [More…]
I am seeking to find out what procedures apply to recruitment to the Public Service and what rights to any promotions or promotion appeal existing members of the Public Service have regarding promotions. [More…]
in respect of export earnings consisting of consideration for the disposal of eligible industrial property rights or eligible knowhow, such earnings exceed $10,000; or [More…]
Legislation was enacted to protect the rights of contributors whose claims for benefits are refused by funds on the grounds of improper discrimination in relation to: chronic or particular conditions; the age of a person; frequency of rendering of medical services; the amount or extent of benefits paid or payable or any other matter prescribed by regulations. [More…]
Will the Minister issue a statement that the Government has no plans to tax commutation or to change a serviceman’s commutation rights in any way whatsoever now, or in the future, thus preventing a spate of Defence Forces resignations and discharges, particularly amongst the longserving and highly skilled members, and the accompanying loss of experience and skills from our Armed Forces. [More…]
That on the 10th December 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which declares that, [More…]
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in the Declaration. [More…]
Australia, as a Member State of the United Nations, is pledged to achieve observance of Human Rights and Freedoms. [More…]
1 ) What conditions apply to the superannuation rights of Qantas employees who leave and then subsequently resume employment with the airline. [More…]
For the information of honourable senators I present the report of the Australian delegation to the thirty-fifth session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. [More…]
The rights of these citizens are limited. [More…]
He is quite within his rights in making that request. [More…]
That leave be given to introduce a Bill for an Act to amend the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976. [More…]
Its purpose also is to preserve his rights as a judge of the Federal Court of Australia. [More…]
1 ) Did a commercial channel buy the television rights for coverage of the Rugby League series in which Australia is playing test matches against Great Britain and France. [More…]
Human Rights in the USSR [More…]
An individual who is subjected to that would still have the other rights of appeal which are given to him under the legislation. [More…]
Senator Cavanagh raised a matter relating to the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act, which is outside the confines of this debate. [More…]
I simply wish to identify myself with the appeal made by him to the Government for it to take up with the Czechoslovakian authorities the express wishes of members of the Senate, and hopefully of the Government, that the appeals that are now coming from all parts of the world are heeded by the Czechoslovakian authorities to ensure that these people who are under arrest and detention prior to trial are released and that their rights are preserved and safeguarded. [More…]
It is being sought from that fund to provide support for these people to ensure their basic human rights. [More…]
Its use places Commonwealth Government employees in direct conflict with the Government as it circumvents the arbitration tribunals and denies appeal rights. [More…]
The International Labour Organisation has condemned the Provisions of the Act as being incompatible with the rights of organised labour in a free society. [More…]
They are Australian citizens with Australian rights. [More…]
I ask simply that the Government take up this matter with the Yugoslavian Embassy as a matter of urgency to try to protect the rights of those Australian citizens. [More…]
The Red Army is the main instrument in keeping formerly free people under subjugation, and its presence enables blatant violations of Human Rights to be perpetrated. [More…]
I understand that a person in that situation has the usual rights with regard to wages and other matters while he is living in Australia, but I would need to refer the matter and get advice for him. [More…]
On what criteria was the $ 1 .4m paid by Japan for fishing rights based and what, if any, supervision does Australia retain under the agreement? [More…]
If so, does this mean that Tasmania’s area of fishing rights also has been reduced? [More…]
That the Senate condemns the Government for its failure to ensure that the Australian Broadcasting Commission retains rights to televise national sporting events and its subsequent failure to provide through the Australian Broadcasting Commission a television coverage of the 1979 Melbourne Cup to many rural areas of Australia. [More…]
The Government does not propose to take such action as Australia is not a party to the European Convention on Human Rights. [More…]
I intend to speak very briefly but would like to congratulate Senator Wheeldon, the Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union upon the tremendous work that he has done in producing this report, also the members of his committee including, from this chamber, Senator Sibraa, Senator Martin, and Senator Scott, who was originally also a member. [More…]
I know that, as the Sub-Committee has pointed out, under the czars Russia was not noted for its sensitivity about human rights. [More…]
By the community of Australia- I thank Senator Young- for a better understanding of the real problems of people who are denied what we regard as fundamental human rights. [More…]
As Senator Wheeldon has said, no country is free of the charge of denial of human rights. [More…]
The two statements should be considered together because the Senate is a protector of States and State rights. [More…]
We have been talking about human rights. [More…]
We are taking the view that the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights should be ratified as an Australia-wide responsibility and adopted as such by the States as well as by the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
I remember- my memory was jogged by Senator Evans during his speech- that one of the most inhuman, unchristian and rotten things to have been done in this country in recent years against human rights was done by Mr Bjelke-Petersen at the last federal election when, for political purposes or reasons, he denied to helpless and harmless Aboriginal people the receiving of eye treatment. [More…]
In standing up here and pretending that we are concerned about human rights we should not be as concerned about the kind of people who are articulate and who can make flowery speeches as we are about the little guy, the person who cannot battle for himself, such as the helpless, illiterate Aborigines who have a serious eye disease that might send them blind. [More…]
With my limited knowledge of the law, I would say that Senator Evans’s amendment would at least allow the Human Rights Commission to inquire into that. [More…]
He has indicated that he would wish this chamber to enable the Human Rights Commission to examine Acts or enactments of States or the Northern Territory. [More…]
He wishes the Commission to inquire and to report to the Minister and thence to the Parliament on State enactments or Acts or activities engaged in by State authorities under State laws which infringe upon human rights. [More…]
It is simply that where the activity, engaged in by a government authority under or by authority of a State law is identified as being in conflict with human rights, is reported to the Minister and that information is laid before the Parliament 1 5 sitting days later- which is all consistent with Senator Missen ‘s approach- we say that we should go one step further and ensure that there is a mechanism available whereby rights can be enforced. [More…]
Senator Missen is in favour of rights being enforced in the Commonwealth sphere. [More…]
We say that to be consistent he ought to enable rights to be enforced when they are found to be in jeopardy because of some action under State law. [More…]
I shall therefore put the questions in relation to the Human Rights Commission Bill 1979. [More…]
The Government ought to consider seriously the fact that it has in Mr Grassby, as the present Commissioner for Community Relations, a man who has a valuable body of experience concerning human rights issues throughout this country and it ought to use him in that role. [More…]
The Human Rights Commission is to be able to report on its own initiative on any action that should be taken by the Commonwealth on matters relating to human rights. [More…]
I take it that the Attorney-General is trying to impress upon us that matters relating to human rights would include any action which needs to be taken by Australia in order to comply with the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil or Political Rights or any relevant international instrument. [More…]
Has the Attorney-General, in the light of the Government’s proposed action to prevent one parent taking children overseas without the consent or knowledge of the other, considered what steps might be taken, or be legally possible, to prevent one parent taking children interstate without the consent or knowledge of the other, where the children have been the subject of a Family Court order granting access rights. [More…]
I said then and I say again that the land rights Bill introduced by the Labor Government contained absolutely no provision for negotiation and consultation between the Aboriginal people and Ranger uranium mines. [More…]
That was when he said that land rights were not incompatible with development. [More…]
In 1975 when the Labor Party drafted its Bill for Aboriginal land rights in the Northern Territory, it said in the attendant publicity that of course it was not incompatible and that the Aborigines were entitled to their share of their traditional lands and their share of land granted to them on a basis of need. [More…]
Would it be considering their rights or their claim for rights as against another group of Aborigines wanting land? [More…]
what action needed to be taken by the Commonwealth Government to comply with the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
Clearly, the provision seems to be wide enough to satisfy any desire of the Commissioner to get a report from the Commission in relation to the Covenant, because ‘human rights’ means those human rights recognised in the Covenant. [More…]
It seemed to me, by expanding the terms of paragraph ( 1 ) (c) of clause 9, that that widened the coverage of human rights. [More…]
I listened to what Senator Evans said and certainly agree that there is some possibility of a restriction on the meaning of human rights which are, of course, defined as human rights under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
I have an amendment to delete paragraph (d) of clause 9(1) altogether, but in the light of the doubts which have been raised about whether that would restrict the Minister in what he may be able to ask the proposed Human Rights Commission to do under paragraph (c), I would like to think the matter over. [More…]
I am advised that they do not carry any travel rights. [More…]
Under the guise of being a sensible rationalisation of human rights institutions, what it really amounts to is a destruction, for political reasons, of the political and social effectiveness of Mr Al Grassby, the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]
Bills reported with amendments to the Human Rights Commission Bill; report adopted. [More…]
The question is that the Human Rights Commission Bill be now read a third time. [More…]
The protection given by this clause means that the Human Rights Commission, in the view of the Government, will be a more effective body. [More…]
I do not believe that rights are effective unless there is some remedy. [More…]
I do not think that a mere report to parliament is an effective remedy for someone whose rights have been infringed. [More…]
I feel that this amendment is central to effective implementation of a human rights Bill and it is also necessary, I believe, if we are to ratify the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which is the apparent intention of the Government. [More…]
I wish to speak generally on the Human Rights Commission Bill 1979. [More…]
I wish to make some final comments on behalf of the Australian Democrats on the so called Human Rights Commission Bill because we believe that the point needs to be clearly made that the Australian public is being sold a pup. [More…]
Why has Australia signed, but not yet ratified, the Convention on the International Recognition of Rights in Aircraft. [More…]
United Nations Declaration of Human Rights which provides that no country should exile a person or deprive him of the right to leave or return to his own country? [More…]
Without wishing to inhibit the rights of senators to question the Government, 1 would say that it seems to me that the attitude adopted by senators was aptly expressed by a notable professor of economics in the University of Singapore when he said that the time is occupied because the time is there to occupy. [More…]
We believe that the constitution of Papua and New Guinea should provide for the protection and implementation of fundamental human rights and civil liberties along the lines of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
Another aspect that concerns me greatly is the growing trend in this country - a trend that 1 feel is a danger to the democracy and freedom that we have won over the years, and a trend that is condoned by many - to buck authority, the laws of the land and our law making institutions under the guise of freedom of speech, the rights of the individual and the rights of minorities. [More…]
If it were not so the result would be to destroy the very freedoms and rights that it has taken us so many years to achieve. [More…]
Will the Leader of the Government in the Senate state what action the Government has taken about the member of the Liberal Party who has made public statements, which have not been retracted, that he supports trampling upon the human rights of the people of Rhodesia and that he supports legislation which is anathema to democracy and freedom loving people all over the world? [More…]
Has the Prime Minister ever conferred with the Queensland Premier on the proposal to introduce legislation to assert and establish what the Commonwealth conceives to be its legal rights in relation to resources from the low water mark to the outer limits of the continental shelf? [More…]
I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate a question in relation to the proposed legislation to assert and establish the legal rights of the Commonwealth over the continental shelf. [More…]
It records the rights they enjoy and the obligations they undertake in common with Australian citizens and other migrants. [More…]
As in other migration agreements the rights of Yugoslav settlers as residents and as workers are set out. [More…]
To this figure must be added drawing rights at the International Monetary Fund and now, also, the allocation of Special Drawing Rights under the new International Monetary Fund Arragements. [More…]
Is it not correct that the overseas firm Unilever Pty Ltd has the patent rights for the manufacture of what are known as Surprise peas and that this system of manufacture is being used in the United States of America, in New Zealand and even in the United Kingdom for peas exported to Australia, which exports are certainly damaging the Australian industry? [More…]
The specific question of whether patent rights belong to Unilever in respect of the processing of Surprise peas in the United States of America and New Zealand is a matter upon which I gave the honourable senator detailed information last year. [More…]
Having regard to the growing need for eternal vigilance in upholding and maintaining basic civil and human rights in Australia, I ask: Why does the police force in Canberra have discretionary power to intimidate people by insisting on the right to fingerprint and photograph people under arrest? [More…]
Will the Minister have an inquiry instituted and a report made to the Senate on the erosion of human rights which was observed by Mr Justice Fox of the Australian Capital Territory Supreme Court when he said that the appeal of Marrilyn Lee Sernach had brought to light a rather unhappy and unedifying situation in which an instruction to the Australian Capital Territory police force as to when fingerprints were to be taken was unlawful? [More…]
All I would say at this stage is that what I read, which appeared to be a fairly full excerpt from the judgment, did not warrant the reference to human rights and a violation of civil liberties which the honourable senator has made. [More…]
They are granted water rights just the same as any other person living in South Australia engaged in the fruit industry under conditions applicable at the time of making application for that water. [More…]
Dr Evatt was the first President of the United Nations, and he was one of the principal authors of the Charter of Human Rights. [More…]
This matter should be dealt with promptly, because if we are to secure migrants we will have to give social service rights to migrants who have been naturalised. [More…]
They are British subjects and they want rights similar to those given to British and New Zealand citizens. [More…]
If the Government cannot prove what in its opinion, according to what we read in the Press, this man has done, .1 see no reason why he should not have the same rights as anybody else has. [More…]
Therefore they establish the same rights in the government of this country as any honourable senator. [More…]
Sooner or later the Government will have to face up to its responsibilities federally and take away from the States, because of their neglect, their rights to legislate or to act on behalf of the Aboriginals or Torres Strait Islanders. [More…]
It set out to protect the civil rights of the people of South Vietnam. [More…]
The United States of America did not sign the agreement; it reserved its rights. [More…]
When the conference on human rights was being held in Teheran, one of the nations represented was Haiti. [More…]
It came up with a magnificent resolution on human rights. [More…]
But no-one in the world was prepared to support a resolution on human rights that came from a country which had trampled on human rights. [More…]
In the second communication from the Minister for Immigration, dated 2nd March 1970, which was in reply to a series of questions whichI asked him about Spanish migrants and the protection of their rights, he pointed out: [More…]
I do not see why we could not emulate Malaysia and other countries which have communal rights by creating an adequate tribunal that could vet cases. [More…]
I transmitted to him detailed information with regard to the patent rights of Unilever Australia Pty Ltd and also work that had been done by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in connection with frozen peas. [More…]
lt is consequent upon the answer he just supplied to Senator Lillico concerning the patent rights of the Surprise peas process. [More…]
Can he enlighten me on the duration of patent rights in Australia in matters of this kind? [More…]
We must ensure that this legislation docs not cut across the normal rights of a person who is being held in custody. [More…]
1 imagine it is due to the processes of the United Nations discussions about Australia’s rights in connection with other laws governing its international position, lt is not unusual for international ratification to take some time. [More…]
A person has rights underour system of law. [More…]
Are we taking away all rights of the accused at the time of hearing? [More…]
The Commonwealth and State governments have adopted a common policy of assimilation which seeks that all persons of Aboriginal descent will choose to attain a similar manner and standard of living to that of other Australians and live as members of a single Australian community, enjoying the same rights and privileges, accepting the same responsibilities and influenced by the same hopes and loyalties as other Australians. [More…]
We may well ask what rights these people have in the land of their origin. [More…]
I am rather concerned that the legislation was introduced hurriedly, because this does not allow the Senate to concern itself with clauses which might impinge upon the rights of individuals. [More…]
That does not allow us to vet clauses which might impinge upon the rights of individuals. [More…]
While we accept the general proposition and while we accept that there might be advantages in the legislation, we are concerned that in dealing hurriedly with it we might impinge upon the rights of u shipping company or of individuals. [More…]
During debates on Bills he frequently raises the subject of the rights of individuals. [More…]
We have not seen one action to prevent this by the Queensland Government which is very proud and conscious of its rights over the coast. [More…]
My friends of the Opposition laid emphasis on an attack on the measure as a threat to the rights of individuals. [More…]
Therefore, are they not crocodile tears which the Opposition is shedding when it suggests that in some way the States’ rights might be affected and so the States should be consulted? [More…]
The Opposition in the past has never, with regard to any matter of legislative power, been tender about the States’ rights because we know that the Opposition believes that so far as possible all power should reside in the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
Therefore on this occasion it is crocodile tears for the Australian Labor Party to suggest that we ought to be tender about the rights of the States. [More…]
My motion did not go to the question of transgression of the rights of the statutes or anything like that. [More…]
But many hundreds of people in the community are unaware of their rights to social service benefits. [More…]
Have not the taxpayers of this country, represented by this Parliament, some rights? [More…]
It is basic to the civil rights of the citizen that his acquittal be not brought into question, especially in Parliament where he who does so is immune. [More…]
Does this mean that because in the past someone has been able to invest in shares in companies they are to be given superior rights over persons who only recently acquired sufficient money to invest in companies? [More…]
If he is saying that some stockbrokers take investments from small investors, I do not dispute that But the fact remains that the large investors are being given rights which are not available to the smaller investors. [More…]
This is a very serious limitation on the rights of the general public to share in whatever profits are coming to Australia and to Australian investors as a result of the developments which have taken place. [More…]
Will the Government make a statement as soon as possible as to the principles upon which it is intended the portability of superannuation rights will operate. [More…]
See my statement of 25th September 1969 on the preservation of superannuation rights (Hansard, pages 1462-1464). [More…]
Because of this Government’s incompetence and maladministration it is injuncting the just rights and entitlements of Australian ex-servicemen, particularly young boys returning from the unwholesome war in Vietnam. [More…]
The DLP thinks that these schemes should be far broader and, indeed, that there should be much more assistance given to all families to become home owners in their own rights. [More…]
If he is eligible he should have equal rights. [More…]
I say that this is a breach of all principles of common law and of the rights of the individual. [More…]
In these circumstances 1 believe that the rights of the individual are adequately preserved and that no further amendment of the Bill is necessary. [More…]
Surely there is a question of human rights here, which needs consideration. [More…]
However, I very much doubt that some honourable senators who have entered the debate place as high a value on the rights of the individual as I do. [More…]
I would have thought that members of the legal profession, who are so accustomed to protecting individuals, would place a higher value on the rights of the individual than has been indicated by their remarks. [More…]
I appreciate the difficulties that may be involved in bringing a witness from overseas or in holding an inquiry when witnesses may be available in Australia for only a short while, but rather than trespass on the rights of the individual I would prefer not to use the evidence. [More…]
If the answer is in the affirmative, what are the rights of party workers on polling day when they seek to hand out How-to-vote cards outside such booths which are on private property. [More…]
Before approval is given for setting up such booths, does the Divisional Returning Officer spell out clearly to the property owner concerned the rights of booth workers irrespective of parties. [More…]
No specific instructions are conveyed to property owners concerning the rights of party workers. [More…]
He referred to the rights and liberties of individuals and civilians. [More…]
In some cases the Committe might think that a regulation was unjust and unfair to the rights and liberties of individuals. [More…]
I would not want it to be thought that in proposing the clause in its present form the Government lacked any consideration for the rights of an individual. [More…]
I refer to the reconciliation of individual rights with community rights. [More…]
We are considering a violent assault against the rights of a number of people in an aircraft and against the community at large. [More…]
Against that there is the entitlement of an individual to his rights under the law. [More…]
But we must not forget the question of community rights and that justice is justice to all, not only to an accused person but also to people who have been injured. [More…]
But tonight we are discussing the rights of simple, honest, decent people who have lived for thousands of years as happy people. [More…]
Incidents in Bougainville showed that as people they have as much steel as any other human beings, that they will protect their rights. [More…]
We put coppers in New Guinea to deprive people of their rights. [More…]
Do we have specific rights in regard to education? [More…]
But Australia has not done anything to ensure that these people are provided with a suitable education so that they will know that they are not inferior to other people in the world, that they have equal rights to other people, that the law protects them and that there are people outside of Australia who protect their interests. [More…]
I have seen these people exercising their democratic rights as elected representatives. [More…]
As 1 said before and I say again very emphatically, the people of the Territory should be very pleased that they have had a responsible and sympathetic government in Australia which respects the people, the potential of a country and the rights of the people and which ensures that they will have an opportunity to develop themselves to a stage at which they can become a nation in their own right. [More…]
On the other hand, there are people who assert that it is to be carried out without any interference with the rights of people in industry, in the streets and elsewhere. [More…]
Whereas the right of free protest and freedom of association is at all times to be upheld, anything that by mob action is designed to disrupt other people’s rights is to be deplored. [More…]
Will the Government build up an industry which could not only build but also service our own planes and not be bugged by such matters as patent rights, which are now involved in the servicing of overseas built planes? [More…]
I think Senator Devitt and I had a discussion last year as to what are democratic rights and privileges and as to what represents anarchy. [More…]
If we, as a nation, want to preserve all the rights and privileges that we enjoy, we should not put them at risk, as we should do if we were to incite people to break the law. [More…]
As we all appreciate, there are certain requirements in the Services in relation to resignations involving matters of training, rights, and penalties according to rank. [More…]
We of the Labor Party, as I mentioned earlier, believe that this Bill is a repudiation of South Australia’s legal rights and a repudiation of South Australia’s rights to the protection of Chowilla and what it would offer us in the quantity and quality of water. [More…]
Yes, it is still the law as far as the legal rights of South Australia are concerned. [More…]
The LCL Party, after taking office in 1968, revoked that instruction thereby ensuring that South Australia’s rights to arbitration would be forfeited forever. [More…]
The people of South Australia regard the decision not to proceed with a dam at Chowilla as a betrayal of our legal and moral rights and a serious threat to the future of South Australia. [More…]
In my opinion it would be very wrong for this chamber as a State House to interfere in a matter to take away from those 3 States their rights to meet together and to formulate a decision on this, but that is precisely what the amendment seeks to do. [More…]
If carried in this chamber - a House purporting to represent the States - it would take away from the States their rights and place their rights almost under the sole authority of something set up by the Commonwealth. [More…]
But should we as a State House in the Commonwealth Parliament, in order to protect the rights of the States, at this stage in the programme intercede and take away from the States the requirement to resolve the matter within their own Stales in their own way? [More…]
Opposition senators have initiated debates in this chamber on this subject Ibr the specific purpose of ensuring that South Australia’s rights in this important issue would not be lost. [More…]
The Victorians, I suppose motivated by their own State rights and their own State requirements, are acting in what they consider is the proper way to defend the rights of their own State. [More…]
Surely any man who has the interests of his own State at heart, any man who fears for the future of South Australia, appreciates that the rights of South Australia should be preserved in this matter. [More…]
Significantly, there was no attempt to dispute Dr Cairns’ repeated claim that the citizens’ rights to use public places for political purposes are the same as their rights to use those places for commercial or social purposes. [More…]
I refer to the endeavour which is being made to intimidate people out of exercising ordinary democratic rights by accusing them of being parties to violence, of being treacherous and of being subversive. [More…]
In the first place I would say that this is lifting the edge of the carpet, on a very important question as to what limitations should be placed upon the rights not only of members of a committee but also of members of Parliament in other transactions. [More…]
In the Committee’s view these regulations grant to the Naval Board a wide power of discretion in determining the rights of naval personnel and do not set down any criteria to guide the Naval Board in its determination. [More…]
Such legislation not to trespass on civil rights and liberties; not to make the rights and liberties of citizens unduly dependent upon administrative and not judicial decisions; and to bc concerned wilh administrative detail and not matters of substance. [More…]
Where individual rights are involved, Parliament is always particularly jealous that protection shall rest within the ambit of Parliament itself. [More…]
I refer to the question of the power and rights of the Parliament itself and the abdication of those rights into subordinate hands. [More…]
They have to demonstrate that they are taking note of these things and are the watchdogs of the democratic operation of Parliament and the rights of the people. [More…]
To destroy respect for the law is to destroy something of everyone’s rights and freedoms. [More…]
This is the great upholder of the rights of the individual and of human rights. [More…]
He now turns to the role of prosecutor and says that I am not allowed to raise a matter which I believe is an infringement of human rights. [More…]
I am unable to show this infringement of human rights and the inconsistency because that would be in breach of the ruling of the Chair. [More…]
In regard to housing, migrants now have equal rights with Australians in relation to eligibility to apply for State Housing Commission Homes in all States of the Commonwealth. [More…]
To my way of thinking it is indeed a most serious situation when the Executive can take away from Parliament its rights. [More…]
Finally - and this perhaps is the core of the matter in Victoria - it gives me much pleasure to announce that the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission has resolved that it will make additional water rights available in the vast Goulbum-Murray Irrigation District when this further amending River Murray agreement authorising the construction of Dartmouth dam has been ratified by the four Governments concerned. [More…]
Mr Borthwick says that immediately the agreement is ratified and there is authorisation for the construction of the Dartmouth Dam the Victorian Government will make available additional water rights in the vast Goulburn-Murray Irrigation District. [More…]
Now, Victoria for one has stated categorically that immediately the agreement is signed it will make new rights available. [More…]
Senator Drury raised questions as to the quality and security of South Australia’s water supply and referred to the repudiation of South Australia’s rights. [More…]
Under the Bill, the rights of administrators to contest decisions of the Commissioner of Taxation before a board of review, a valuation board or a court, where the decisions affect the liability of the estate for duty, will be available in relation to the proposed rebate of duty. [More…]
The Labor Government was still adamant on the question of Chowilla, but due to the increase in cost and with the hope of going to arbitration as it was entitled to do under the rules of the River Murray Commission it could not refuse the computer studies which the other States were insisting upon, believing that whatever the computer studies might show, because of the sacrifice that South Australia made in giving certain water rights away at the time of the building of the Snowy Mountains scheme, there was an obligation to honour the promise of a storage in South Australia. [More…]
They would have arbitrated on undertakings that were given to South Australia when it had forgone some of its water rights at the time of the building of the Snowy Mountain scheme. [More…]
Their privileges and rights should not be ignored merely because they live in an isolated region of Australia. [More…]
I ask him to give the matter earnest consideration and to assure the people of Broken Hill and Menindee that their rights to water will not be affected by the passage of this legislation. [More…]
We believe that the Agreement, which the Liberal-Country League Government in South Australia wants this Parliament to ratify, is a sell-out of the State’s legal rights and the protection which Chowilla offers South Australia in water, both as regards quantity and quality. [More…]
revoked thai instruction immediately on taking office, thereby assuring that our rights to arbitration were nullified. [More…]
We said that we were prepared to recognise the rights and requirements of other States but that they should recognise South Australia’s rights. [More…]
The Minister for External Affairs refers to countries to the north of us, in proximity to us, and says that they have been granted sovereign rights, their freedom and their own selfgovernment. [More…]
As the legislation is for the express relief of primary producers economically affected by drought, is the Minister satisfied that primary producers are familiar with the legislation and their rights under it. [More…]
Quite apart from one’s political idealology or political views there is a common acceptance today of greater state intervention in the rights of people. [More…]
In some cases those definitions may embody departures from accepted principles and particularly may trespass upon, say, principles of the common law where statute will take over from the common law in some aspect or other, for example, the movement of the onus of proof or something of that character, or an intrusion upon civil rights. [More…]
Patent rights covering the manufacturing processes for these products are held in a number of countries. [More…]
Had the Minister done his homework more thoroughly, and had he been more responsible in his attitude towards the shipping services to Tasmania he would not have said that Tasmania was automatically to be entitled to the same rights as the mainland ports. [More…]
We ask that they make a statement now accepting that Tasmania is entitled to exactly the same rights as any other State of the Commonwealth and that we in Tasmania are not prepared to remain outside the ambit of this system which the Department’s own publication admits is benefiting exporters all over Australia but which in fact is not benefiting Tasmanian exporters and importers. [More…]
of the old Federal Exporters Oversea Transport Committee, which dealt with all aspects of freights, tonnages and problems involved in the export of Australian goods particularly to the United Kingdom and the Continent, I can say that that Committee dealt fairly with the States as a national committee and recognised the rights of Tasmania equally with those of any other State of the Commonwealth including my own Stale of South Australia. [More…]
The Moratorium is further to be condemned because it is an unjustifiable denial by a few people of the rights of many people, lt is a claim of right made quite unjustifiably which, in its turn, unjustifiably denies the rights of many people. [More…]
Those who support the Moratorium Campaign rejoice in the rights of democracy. [More…]
There would not be as many civil rights for black people in the United States, as there are at present, if it had not been for the campaigns of passive resistance by brave men such as Martin Luther King. [More…]
There still would not be civil rights for a very vast section of the population of Northern Ireland if it were not for the civil rights movement which is taking place in Northern Ireland at present. [More…]
This is organisation of the crowd irrespective of the rights of others and irrespective of who gets hurt so long as the objectives are achieved. [More…]
Whatever are the rights or wrongs of that campaign, the Australian public does not accept that Australia has any right to be in Vietnam. [More…]
In the organisation of the Moratorium Campaign and the accompanying appeal for peace not a word of rejection of the rights of those individuals was uttered. [More…]
As 1 was saying when I was rudely interrupted, as a matter of selfinterest, as well as to preserve the principle of maintaining the rights of small nations, Australia must do everything in its power to contain this aggression. [More…]
Rather 1 think that the sensible and fair approach on all sides is that there be a reasonable distribution of the time available taking into account the rights of all senators and, so far as the parties are concerned, their proportional representation in this place. [More…]
The 4 Labor Governments of Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and Tasmania ceded to the Commonwealth broadly the financial taxing rights that the Commonwealth still controls today. [More…]
The Liberal Government of South Australia also ceded those rights to the Commonwealth. [More…]
have the same rights as prosperous Australians? [More…]
I believe I know what are the States’ rights. [More…]
know something about their needs, their sovereignty and the way in which they carry out their sovereign rights. [More…]
So I believe that the idea of having a constitutional inquiry with a notion of changing our constitutional rights will never, or not in our time, be successful. [More…]
So far as parliaments are concerned, each parliament and each State feels that it has its own traditional rights to certain aspects of revenue and, indeed, certain rights as to expenditure. [More…]
Although I am a State man - and 1 believe in the rights of the States - I also believe, as a senator, in the responsibilities that devolve upon the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
in reply - Whatever the rights or wrongs of the matter may be and whatever may be the wisdom of having names incorporated in Hansard, that is all beside the point. [More…]
This then was the Australian position and the extent of our rights as they existed prior to my visit to the United States. [More…]
I am proud to be associated wilh a Government which stands up for these rights. [More…]
Built into the Standing Orders and the forms of the Senate is ample provision for the exercise of an individual senator’s rights and one has to tread very carefully in any attempt to curtail those individual rights. [More…]
I have today given notice of a motion which, on the face of it, when it comes up for debate tomorrow will have the effect of restricting the rights of individual senators after 8 o’clock on Thursday nights. [More…]
I say that notwithstanding that it was a denial by the view of the rights of a majority, notwithstanding that it was a usurpation of the streets by a few determined to protest, irrespective of the inconvenience which they caused to other citizens. [More…]
As he said it, every citizen has the right to enforce the law and these marshals were doing no more than exercising citizens’ rights. [More…]
After all, the Regulations and Ordinances Committee is in existence to ensure that regulations made are in accordance with the statute; that they do not trespass unduly on individual rights; that they do not make rights dependent unduly on administrative rather than judicial acts, and that they do not introduce matters which, because of their, substantial innovatory character, ought to be legislative rather than regulatory. [More…]
I suggest that, whatever the rights or wrongs of this matter may be, it is important that a serious question such as this be entered upon deliberately. [More…]
In correspondence he has exchanged with me he has suggested that to be able to run a viable film industry Australia should have a home production of not less than 10 feature films per annum and that these should all be produced in colour because the eventual residual rights for television programmes, particularly in the United States, demand the use of colour and are too valuable to ignore here. [More…]
Its consequences go far beyond agricultural policy; social and fiscal policies, the principals of proprietary rights, relations between developing countries and rich countries, and regional and industrial policies of the EEC countries are also involved. [More…]
Just briefly I mention the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, the section of general practice, the Australian Medical Association, the Royal College of Physicians and the Australian Medical Association of New South Wales which are some of the many sections of the medical profession which have been making representations to us and submitting claims presenting their particular outlook in relation to their particular rights that they feel are being hampered or trodden on by this new legislation. [More…]
341 items in which there is a measure of conflict as between the rights of general practitioners and of specialists. [More…]
In a matter like this where the regulation does not adversely affect the rights of parties but merely implements the right of the tribunal, because the Commonwealth is honour bound lo pay the officer I should think that the only purpose of the Regulations and Ordinances Committee in bringing the matter before us is to note that there were deficiencies of an administrative nature in the preliminary procedures and to call our attention, quite properly, to the requirement that these administrative procedures ought to be dealt with more punctiliously and punctually. [More…]
The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT (Senator Sir Magnus Cormack) - I would deprecate any further pursuit of argument as advanced by Senator McManus, but he was within his rights because we are dealing with the whole of the regulation. [More…]
I have entered the debate not to argue the rights or wrongs of the case or its legalities, but just to mention to my honourable colleagues certain facts as I understand them and certain operating problems with which we must properly concern ourselves. [More…]
In the 19th Report of the Committee, the principle was enunciated that, based on a desire to avoid any possibility of adversely affecting the rights of servicemen serving in overseas areas, a maximum period of two years retrospectivity could be accepted for exceptional cases, but that two years should not be taken in any way as a criterion for retrospectivity. [More…]
Senator Greenwood was within bis rights when he addressed himself to the proposition of the disallowance of the entire regulation. [More…]
The Committee is living proof that the Parliament can supervise, administer and protect the rights of the people, regardless of whether it is their civil rights as individuals or their collective rights, which we should protect as their representatives. [More…]
It could be political propaganda which is being paid for by the Australian taxpayers rather than information on the rights of people under the schemes. [More…]
It is advising them on their taxation rights and disabilities. [More…]
Why should the rights of a member of the public to a reimbursement or payment be dependent upon this condition? [More…]
This will give the people within the community some rights under the National Health Act and that is all we are asking. [More…]
The Minister’s reply was precipitated by a letter which 1 wrote to him on 13th October concerning the rights of people on Aboriginal reserves in Queensland, or the people in charge of them, to exclude people who have in fact a perfect right to enter those reserves. [More…]
I would do so not because of my interest in what is there but because T believe that some organisation, some Government department or somebody has to assert this authority to ensure that the rights of these people are protected. [More…]
In any legislation which is likely to be brought down the Department should make certain that if any mineral exploitation is to take place in that area the rights of- the Torres Strait islanders should be protected. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party asks the Department to take firm steps to protect the rights of the islanders. [More…]
They have been given very great power to determine matters which affect the rights of other people, which affect the benefits which other people might get, which affect the professional standing even of those in the medical field. [More…]
Some of the rights which are arising under this legislation can be extremely important rights and they should not be left in the area of discretion. [More…]
By that I mean preserving the rights of citizens whether they be contributors, patients or professional men in the various disciplines covered by the Bill. [More…]
special drawing rights. [More…]
The special drawing rights scheme came into operation on 1st January 1970. [More…]
Under this scheme, a total amount of $US9.5 billion in special drawing rights will be allocated to member countries of the Fund over the next 3 years and will con-‘ stitute an addition to the first-line reserves of those countries. [More…]
The second approach to the problem of increasing international liquidity has been that of increasing the ‘conditional’ reserve assets of member countries in the Fund by increasing their quotas - or ordinary drawing rights - with the Fund. [More…]
But the Fund decisions on special drawing rights and the quota review have done much to restore confidence in currencies and to provide a favourable climate for the readjustment process. [More…]
In brief, for a subscription of $US41m ($A37m), returnable in the event of the winding up of the Fund, we would obtain an increase in our Fund drawing rights of $US41m, available automatically, and of $US165m, available in case of balance of payments need. [More…]
We have first-line reserves consisting of gold, foreign exchange, gold tranche position with the Fund and special drawing rights of around SA 1,400m. [More…]
There is some difference in our opposing an adjournment to hand the business of the Parliament to an outside body and the Senate taking its normal rights in amending legislation, thereby producing some delay. [More…]
We feel that now this Bill is before us - and the committee has not presented a report to the Minister who in turn has not reported on the matter to Parliament - we should see that rights of appeal are established under the legislation now before Parliament. [More…]
What I have to say may not be strictly applicable to the section with which we are dealing, but my idea of the rights and equity of contributors is such that never again should any hospital and medical benefits fund be able to purchase a light aircraft without consulting its members. [More…]
But if the section were amended in the manner proposed it would at least ensure that regulations would be made and these regulations would be subject to examination by the Parliament and to disallowance if they made the rights of individuals unduly dependent upon administrative decisions. [More…]
It is an attempt to reconcile the purity of the law and civil rights wilh what we might call administrative demands. [More…]
However that might be in relation to the purity of the regard for rights, whether it is consonant with any smoothness in his departmental administration is the very difficult matter which has to be resolved. [More…]
1 would not like anyone to think that 1 am not as jealous of the exercise of discretionary powers in statutes as any other honourable senator, or that 1 am less solicitous of individual or group rights. [More…]
Surely we are entitled to ensure by way of statute that the rights of Parliament and of the public through Parliament are protected. [More…]
which concerns the marketing of Surprise peas in Australia, the reasonable demands of the public are being met by the holders of the patent rights? [More…]
I ask the Minister: Could it nol be construed that because producers in this country have noi available to them this method of processing their product and because these producers are pan of the public to which he referred, the reasonable requirements of all the public are not being met by the holders of patent rights? [More…]
The matter that Senator Branson has raised - for which he is to be commended - in my opinion only highlights the need for the establishment in Australia of an Australian Press Council to protect the rights of individuals, organisations and citizens who from time to time are reported incorrectly in the columns of the daily newspapers and in other mass media. [More…]
Indeed, it could well be that the Senate should give consideration to the establishment of a Senate standing committee on the mass media in order to ensure that the rights of Australians who are reported incorrectly from time to time are adequately protected by the Australian Parliament. [More…]
The speech that we heard in favour of the amendment was a 30 minutes or 40 minutes talk on the rights and wrongs and the properties of various drugs prescribed either individually or 3 together or several mixed in a capsule. [More…]
Has a particular bus company exclusive rights to transport South Australian Army personnel, stationedat Kapooka. [More…]
Who are the principal shareholders in the companywith exclusive passenger rights. [More…]
In 1950 Australia’s overseas currency reserves equalled 14 months imports, now they are three or four months imports (plus some drawing rights). [More…]
There has to be constant research and technological development and in a rationalised scheme, we believe, there would have to be some assurance that the operatives in the industry would have their rights protected. [More…]
The point that I make and have made in this chamber on a number of occasions is that currently Australian networks cannot afford - and this is a matter of business within our community - to pay more than from $14,000 to 20,000 per episode for an Australian drama series, even with generous terms including, in some instances, the Australian playing rights in perpetuity which are granted with the sale of such a programme. [More…]
Will the Minister draw the Postmaster-General’s attention to the fact that the policy of treating them as second class employees by denying them the rights and justices to which they are entitled will result in further discontent and disruption in post offices throughout the Commonwealth? [More…]
Previously I have expressed the personal view, which I repeat, that a parliamentarian does nol cease to be a citizen or to enjoy the rights of a citizen when he becomes a parliamentarian, lt seems to me to be completely unreal to suggest that because a man chooses to represent the people of this country his own personal affairs should become public property. [More…]
That is an occupational hazard, lt seems to me that that is vastly different from suggesting that because a man chooses to do one of the highest things that a man probably can aspire to, namely, to represent his fellow men, the whole of his domestic life and the whole of his rights as a citizen in the matter of the investment of his savings or anything else should become public property. [More…]
Because no residual rights exist in Australia for the playing of repeat performances, will the Minister agree that this decision is making it extremely difficult for new Australian productions to get on air and also is creating difficulties for Australian artists to secure work in the television industry? [More…]
Can the Minister elaborate on the apparent difficulties that the Australian Broadcasting Commission has experienced in its failure to obtain television rights to the current world soccer championships in Mexico, particularly when it appears that no other continent has encountered this barrier? [More…]
1 am not canvassing the rights or wrongs of this move. [More…]
I think, as parliamentarians, we should stand up for the rights of Parliament wherever possible. [More…]
Protection of the rights of parliamentarians to ensure that they have the closest scrutiny possible of these matters is a good thing. [More…]
I think that Senator Gair was also quite right in his remarks, if it is provided in the legislation that these things should be fixed as prescribed, that does not deny the Senate its rights because it will find expression by regulation. [More…]
I believe that the intervention in sport by the South African Government in the manner in which it, firstly, selects the teams that it sends overseas, and, secondly, denies the rights of people other than white people to go into that country to engage in competition in sport is a very sound and valid reason why we in Australia should refuse at all times to support the visits of such teams to Australia. [More…]
It will be liberal in the largesse which it distributes to meet the rights and the needs of this establishment. [More…]
In view of the States’ unanimous approval and acceptance of the mirror legislation provisions in respect of offshore petroleum resources and the expressed intention of the Government, as I understand it, to have the off-shore mineral resources and other direct State interests covered in like manner, as between State and Commonwealth, after legal interpretation of basic sovereignty rights, will the Commonwealth initiate a further conference with the States to arrive at mutually satisfactory conclusions in this complex matter? [More…]
We all know the attitude that has been taken in regard to the rights of the House of Representatives finally to determine issues involving expenditure. [More…]
In 1959, in Geneva, Australia was a signatory lo the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child, Principle 1 of which reads: [More…]
The child shall enjoy all the rights set forth in this Declaration. [More…]
All children, without any exception whatsoever, shall be entitled to these rights without distinction or discrimination on account of race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or social origin, property, birth or other status, whether of himself or of his family. [More…]
Anyone who comes under a law passed by the Parliament must be assured that he can receive justice, so that his rights under that law are equal to those of. [More…]
If he is denied such rights he should have recourse to law. [More…]
At the turn of the century there was a fond belief amongst many of the founders of the Constitution that by setting up a Senate which represented State’s rights the States would be protected, but that view has never been realised because, as Alfred Deakin said, the great issues of principle would divide the senators and not the issues of State. [More…]
Why should that citizen not have the right to go back to the tribunal that dealt with the matter by way of recording the judgment and verdict and receive a proper hearing of the matter to determine as between the citizen and the Minister where the rights are? [More…]
I cannot imagine a more serious interference with a citizen’s financial rights than for the Minister to be able to say, in his discretion, that so much of the money which a citizen has received as a result of a claim ought to be repaid into this fund. [More…]
of section 21 of the principal Act one will see that the amendment was directed towards protecting the rights in entirety of the Department and providing a proper form of appeal for citizens. [More…]
The Opposition submits that the amendment would make the position perfectly clear and that it is a just amendment which preserves the right of the Commonwealth, the Department and the Minister as well as the right of an ordinary citizen to have access to a court of law when a determination is made affecting his financial rights. [More…]
In the light of what has been put to me and my further reflections on this matter, I feel that there are aspects of this amendment which would not really give a citizen the rights which Senator Murphy claims it would. [More…]
It purports to uphold certain liberal theories as to the rights of a citizen in the community. [More…]
If that is true in this case, there is no reason why it should not be suggested across the whole field of citizens’ rights, in all sorts of matters: Let a CommonWealth Minister make a determination and there Will be no appeal because the expense and delay do not warrant it. [More…]
Now we have the rule of law coming under consideration in relation to the medical practitioner, that is, his rights in a most important regard and a decision being made against him by a committee of inquiry which would seriously affect his reputation and standing amongst his fellows. [More…]
If we are going to deny justice to the medical profession in circumstances which may be oppressive, then we are not carrying out the duties which we should carry out in this place; that is, the protection of the citizen’s rights. [More…]
We feel that the restriction which is placed on the rights of a citizen in favour of the airlines should not exist and that in addition to the limited liability provided in the Bill, even in the absence of proof of negligence, there should be an additional but not cumulative liability on an airline to pay the full amount of damages to an injured person or his dependants upon proof of negligence. [More…]
But the legislation is designed to balance the rights of carriers and passengers. [More…]
When some powerful interests, be they private or public, can implement legislation which protects them against the citizen in the pursuance of his ordinary rights they do it. [More…]
Detailed provisions of the Bill deal with the appointment of staff, the preservation of rights of staff taken over from the Authority and machinery for the transitional problems of the new organisation. [More…]
Does the Minister representing the Attorney-General believe that the right of freedom of speech of members of parliament and the democratic rights of individuals are being eroded when a member of parliament who makes a statement supporting the policy of his federal leader is tried and suspended from his party and is not permitted to attend a meeting of that parliamentary party although he has appealed against his expulsion? [More…]
Freedom of speech is one of the fundamental rights which the Constitution confers upon a member of parliament. [More…]
I would only make the comment that if there is to be freedom of the Press I would think there should also be freedom for any organisation that wants to carry out an act which is within its own rights and privileges. [More…]
I have asked my legal advisers to approach the AttorneyGeneral’s Department to examine whether the Commanding Officer acted within his legal rights. [More…]
I suggest the Senate has its rights and privileges to introduce a motion for consideration of a certain aspect of allowances, obviously having regard to First Division officers of the parliamentary service because, significantly, they are the only ones not in the category the honourable senator has mentioned. [More…]
Whatever the rights or wrongs, we should know. [More…]
But can he tell us that the prices suggested in his amendment, as opposed to the Government’s proposition that the Wheat Board should have some rights to make a decision on this, are prices which the growers of the stock would be able to afford to pay in the circumstances? [More…]
We reject the specious attempt by the Government to deny or nullify inherent rights for the protection of workers by compensatory provisions when unable to perform ordinary duties. [More…]
Let me look at the question of State rights. [More…]
Quite frankly, having regard to the Minister’s second reading speech and from the remarks of the honourable member for Farrer, I say that a lot of poppycock has been talked about the rights of the States and the rights of the Commonwealth in water development. [More…]
Finally, I want to say something about the rights of officers and employees of the Snowy Mountains Council, which is the organisation responsible for the operation and maintenance of the completed works of the Snowy Mountains Authority. [More…]
I ask the Minister: When will this second Bill be introduced and what will be the transfer rights of officers or employees transferred from the Authority to the Snowy Mountains Council? [More…]
I ask this because responsible trade union officials have spoken to me expressing concern to see that their members are fully protected in relation to both the transfer of existing rights and conditions and their rights in winning future awards. [More…]
If this is so, because of the complications would it not seem better for the Commonwealth to facilitate action by the father in the courts, either in England or here, to establish rights to custody and to obtain some order of the court, rather than for the Department to pass some moral judgment on the matter and to lake administrative action? [More…]
Whatever the rights or wrongs in this complicated situation, surely if the interests of the children are to be taken into account the paramount consideration should be the welfare of those children. [More…]
They equally may be assured that in all negotiations for flying rights into and out of Australia all the considerations that have to be taken into account are taken into account - immigration, ability to earn overseas exchange, the maintenance of a growing tourist industry and the viability of the Australian air carrier. [More…]
1 call to mind that he ended his statement by indicating that if the treatment meted out to the States by the Commonwealth continued along the same plane the States eventually would be deprived of their rights as sovereign States. [More…]
Having regard to the traditional opposition which the trade union movement has registered to all forms of restrictions on its rights 1 think it Ls necessary for me to make understood why the Government supports such provisions, lt appears to me that it is absolutely essential for the Government to retain these provisions in order to preserve the so called free enterprise system and enable it to operate successfully. [More…]
Until that happens I am sure that members of the trade union movement will not accept in any circumstances such restrictions, limitations and prohibitions on their rights as free men. [More…]
If the Bill is carried the only other part of section 1 09 that will be left relates to section 144 which deals with the rights of a person employed in an industry to remain or become a member of the union. [More…]
1 protest to the Minister for Works who, as a back bencher, upheld the great rights of back benchers in opposition to Ministers. [More…]
The working man of today has the opportunities of compulsory education; he is able to get away from the continuous grind of poverty; he is able to see the light on the hill; he believes that after all is said and done he has certain basic rights and certain basic civil liberties; and he is looking for a place in the sun. [More…]
The only asset that he has to sell - his labour - is constrained and circumscribed by the Court by the force of law and by the use of the old traditions under which the sledge hammer of penalties, fines and goal sentences is used against a man who is standing up only for his rights. [More…]
the way in which the rights of the worker are defined to the Court is different from the way in which a criminal offender is treated. [More…]
Of course we will see the greatest turmoil that this country has ever seen because this very institution is a basic part of the unjust system which forces a man virtually to be a slave and to surrender the rights that he has to sell the only commodity that he can offer - his labour. [More…]
They are the ones who have been able to get all the rights and privileges in relation to our iron ore, our bauxite and our oil. [More…]
I am sorry that this little interlude has taken place but I felt that I was within my rights in getting to my feet at that point of time. [More…]
When the workers seek to exert their rights and to obtain justice the penal clauses in the Conciliation and Arbitration Act are invoked by the employing class. [More…]
We think that the Senate should recognise not only the rights of the [More…]
Government, not only the rights of the Opposition, not only the rights of the DLP but certainly the rights of somebody who is not in any of the Party groups. [More…]
The Department immediately telephoned the Australian Embassy in Athens and instructed officials there to interview Mr Vrettos at his hotel and to do all in their power to ensure that his civil rights were protected. [More…]
1 ask the Minister for for Civil Aviation, ls it a fact that, resulting from the recent negotiations with 2 United States of America airlines for operating rights between Australia and the United States, Qantas Airways Limited will be forced to increase the number of its monthly nights to the United States of America to 13 and will stand to lose financially because of having to meet the new competition? [More…]
As the legislation is for the express relief of primary producers economically affected by drought is the Minister satisfied that primary producers are familiar with the legislation and their rights under it. [More…]
Will the Government make every effort through the United Nations to get that body to intervene actively and assist Cambodia, a small country, in its fight to defend its neutrality and rights against the naked and brutal aggression against its territories and people by North Vietnam and Communist forces? [More…]
What powers does he possess in granting charter flight rights between Australia and Europe, to ensure that the passengers involved have adequate meals en route and are not forced to follow a policy of bringing along a cut lunch? [More…]
I feel the Senate could work more satisfactorily and with better results without interfering with our democratic rights in this very important forum if there were a stricter application by the Chair to points of relevancy and tedious repetition. [More…]
The second principle is that these measures should not trespass unduly on personal rights and liberties. [More…]
The third principle upon which the Committee acts is that this subordinate legislation should not unduly make the rights and liberties of citizens dependent upon administrative rather than judicial decisions. [More…]
The Committee is not concerned withthe policy of the regulation, but is concerned to scrutinise regulations to ensure: (a)that they do not unduly make the rights and liberties of citizens dependent upon administrative rather than upon judicial decisions; and [More…]
That is, making rights and liberties of citizens dependent upon administrative rather than judicial decisions - because the Public Service Board is not bound by any objective criteria in making its determinations under the regulation. [More…]
So we are dealing with quite a considerable number of people whose rights and privileges would be, under this disallowance, very much circumscribed. [More…]
If we find dissatisfaction with the formula as embodied in the section and as reflected in the proposed legislation, the proper approach is to review the statutory enactment to ensure that the formula does satisfy the demands of the Parliament in relation to the protection of individual rights of members of the Public Service. [More…]
1 do not criticise anybody for this, but undoubtedly we must attempt to find some proper reconciliation between a proper and adequate protection of the rights of the individual and the exercise and imposition of discipline, public order and the function of the administration. [More…]
It is not Whether the report of this Committee should be referred to an appropriate body but whether the fact that the proposed regulation when brought to its attention attracts no resentment is at least an acceptance by thai body that individual rights are not impugned. [More…]
The other aspect is whether there is a trespass upon the rights of the individual concerned. [More…]
Surely the fact that the union made no response, knowing of the regulation, knowing of its implication and knowing the regulation which was repealed, is some support for the suggestion that there is no trespass on the rights of the individual. [More…]
I presume that this body is equipped, that it has advisers, that it is alert and that it is sensitive - as we know trade union organisations are and should be - to trespass upon individual or group rights. [More…]
support for the suggestion that there is no undue imposition upon the rights of the individual that the union itself has not been concerned. [More…]
While I acknowledge the sensitivity of the Committee in this field I think we have to be careful of one thing and that is that sensitivity on rights of this kind does not move into the field of academic theory so that it finds itself totally out of harmony with particular administration. [More…]
1 wish to say a few words about the prestige of the Regulations and Ordinances Committee which has, in the past, been eulogised by honourable senators for the work it has done over the years in examining regulations and reporting on whether they have involved an infringement of civil rights. [More…]
The Committee has always held that where regulations confer- upon an authority a discretionary power affecting the rights of individuals, that authority should be bound by some criteria set out in the regulations in exercising its discretion. [More…]
The Committee accepted that where an authority is given a discretionary power affecting the rights of the individual, that authority should be bound by some criteria set out in the regulations in exercising its discretion. [More…]
However, the Committee ls of the opinion that basic criteria should be set out in the regulations for the guidance of such a body in the exercise of its discretion, and for the protection of the rights and liberties of the subject. [More…]
Is the regulation we are considering an infringement of the rights and liberties of the subject? [More…]
Senator Devitt has said that it could be an infringement of the rights and liberties of an individual. [More…]
On the point whether the Committee acted properly, if the regulation infringes the rights and liberties of the individual, no matter how the Committee operated the Senate should be concerned to see that there is no such infringement, irrespective of whether the Committee was at fault. [More…]
There seems to be some recognition of this possibility because an appeal has been made to the Senate to this effect: ‘If you will let it go on this occasion and permit an infringement of the rights and liberties of the individual, the Public Service Board will discuss with the responsible organisation the question whether we can fall into line to remove such an infringement.’ [More…]
These are principles which impinge upon the liberties and rights of individuals. [More…]
I appreciate that the union has to protect the interests of its members, but the Committee has to protect the rights and liberties of the individual, whoever he may be. [More…]
If the motion to disallow the regulation is rejected on this occasion, that offends against the principles and the Committee must be very concerned whether it should continue to recommend the disallowance of regulations that impinge upon human rights and liberties because the Senate has established a precedent on this occasion. [More…]
They are to ascertain that the regulations and ordinances are in accordance with the statute; that they do not trespass unduly on personal rights and liberties; and that they do not unduly make the rights and liberties of citizens dependent upon administrative rather than judicial decisions. [More…]
When the Committee looked at the principles it was concerned as to whether the regulation did not unduly make the rights and liberties of citizens dependent upon administrative rather than judicial decisions. [More…]
The Committee has always held that where regulations confer upon an authority a discretionary power affecting the rights of individuals, that authority should be bound by some criteria, set out in the regulations, in exercising its discretion. [More…]
We make this concession in the knowledge that there would be great difficulties for public servants and in the operation of the Public Service if action were taken which would deny to members of the Commonwealth Public Service their rights under the Act. [More…]
It would not have to start from scratch to tell the various bodies what action to take, what were their rights and what they would be expected to do. [More…]
If Vesteys is prepared to recognise Aboriginal land rights, will the Government now reverse its decision of 1968 when it refused to grant 500 square miles of the 6,158 square miles Wave Hill leasehold to Gurindji and Walbiri Aboriginals? [More…]
Does the Government recognise the justice of Aboriginals’ claims for land rights, or does it still subscribe to the belief that they are essentially second class citizens? [More…]
Others have rights too. [More…]
That a Select Committee be appointed to inquire into and report upon the structure, recruitment and management of the Commonwealth Public Service and the citizen and industrial rights of its members. [More…]
But other honourable senators have rights just as you have and I try to distribute those rights as much as I possibly can. [More…]
I think we need to pay some attention to how this ought to be dealt with so that we do not have the position in which the rights of an individual senator might be prejudiced. [More…]
I would like the Senate to have an opportunity to vote also on the days of sitting but my first thought is to ensure that our rights to speak, at question time particularly, and our other rights will not be interfered with in order to tailor the business of the Senate to the times that members want to sit. [More…]
I agree that in changing sitting days and hours we must be very careful not to interfere with the rights and privileges of senators. [More…]
Does this mean that there is some desire to curtail the rights and privileges of senators? [More…]
Does the Minister representing the Minister for the Interior recognise the importance of granting Aboriginal land rights in terras of recognising Aboriginal ownership of existing Aboriginal reserves and Aboriginal ownership of traditional tribal land at present owned and leased by the Crown? [More…]
If the Minister does not recognise these Aboriginal land rights, will he explain how culturally and economically depressed groups of Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory are to be assisted to develop into healthy, cohesive and selfsupporting communities? [More…]
I direct the attention of the Leader of the Government in the Senate to an announcement made on Australian Broadcasting Commission radio today by a spokesman of the Swiss Red Cross, which is supervising the Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners of war, in which he strongly criticised both the North Vietnamese and South Vietnamese military authorities for their disregard of the Geneva Convention and their failure to observe the rights and entitlements of prisoners of war. [More…]
Probably the earliest discussion that took place about law and order was in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea Bill of Rights. [More…]
the reason being that once land is allocated on a tribal basis to any tribe in this country the whole question of tribal rights in relation to land will have to be investigated. [More…]
About his only contribution in relation to land rights has been his membership of that Committee. [More…]
I do not think that any member of the Labor Party condones disturbances that cause bother to people and interfere with their rights. [More…]
But we would have no part of any demonstration that resorted to violence or upset the rights of citizens. [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…]
Yesterday we had another example of this when a champion of civil rights in the United States was refused entry to Australia because he intended to speak at the forthcoming Vietnam Moratorium. [More…]
Declaration of Human Rights states that everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression. [More…]
Although Australia is a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the Government does not honour its provisions. [More…]
It is set out in the Declaration of human rights, as it has been set out in the other great documents through history, that we are entitled to freedom of speech. [More…]
Senator Murphy also referred to the Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
I think it was perhaps unfortunate that he did not have in his mind at the time some of the other provisions of the Declaration of Human Rights - the ones that he omitted to mention. [More…]
In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society. [More…]
I venture to suggest that someone who has the reputation of having done a great deal to ensure that there was no recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and did not meet the just requirements of public order and the general welfare in a democratic society is someone who may well be not admitted to this country to carry on in the way in which he obviously has carried on in the United States. [More…]
In an interview which was reported in the ‘Canberra Times’ of yesterday, 2nd September, Mr Gregory said that he had been convicted 5 times after Negro civil rights marches in the United States. [More…]
Let me return to the Declaration of Human Rights and read Article 30. [More…]
Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein. [More…]
If honourable senators care to look at the kind of books that Dick Gregory writes I think they will find that they fairly clearly advocate a breach of Article 30 of the Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
Over a period of years the Government has sought to decide the rights and wrongs of particular issues. [More…]
When businesses were forced to close during the last Moratorium Campaign there was no discussion of the rights or freedom of those individuals who were not associated with the Moratorium. [More…]
We are fighting for human rights for Sam Benson; we are fighting for human rights for the individual who does not wish to be compelled to join a union; we are fighting for the right of Senator Cavanagh to vote against his leader should he desire to do so, although it has not happened once since he came here. [More…]
We have had people blocking the roadways, denying rights of access to other people, and we have had scuffling and fighting and arrests taking place in the streets. [More…]
It is very difficult to do this because we must pre serve and maintain the basic rights of all Australians and preserve and maintain their freedoms. [More…]
Against that background the Govern7 ment has received an application from a man who has a record of convictions for offences connected with civil rights marches in the United States. [More…]
The Moratorium people are those who in this case say that on grounds of civil rights and people’s freedoms he ought be allowed to come here. [More…]
They propose to break the law flagrantly and to deprive other people of their civil rights. [More…]
When he wants to come here for the purpose of stirring up people who say that they are going to break the law and take over the streets of Melbourne for 3 days, T am prompted to say that I do not see why we should import a person to deprive the ordinary citizen of his rights when we have thousands of people here already prepared to do it and without making any charge. [More…]
The whole thing is a lot of hyprocisy by people who have no time for human rights and liberty but who are attempting to serve the interests of people in North Vietnam who, in many cases, are of their own kind. [More…]
One of the most important rights of human beings is to be able to move freely from country to country. [More…]
I think it would be reasonable to expect that when members of the Government parties and the DLP were supporting a proposition which denied the rights of a particular individual, a citizen of the United States of America, to come in to this country, very cogent arguments would need to be presented as to the character, behaviour, and associations of that man. [More…]
A number of people with convictions have been admitted, but as I understand it, the convictions which Mr Gregory has received during the course of his career were imposed on him because of his activities in the civil rights movement in the United States. [More…]
If anybody with minor convictions of the nature of Mr Gregory’s convictions for activities in the civil rights movement should not be admitted to Australia, certainly the late Dr Martin Luther King should not have been admitted to this country. [More…]
One would take it from listening to Senator Greenwood and Senator Rae, whom 1 find it very difficult to mention without a feeling of very strong distaste, that all of those persons in the United States who over the past 10 years have taken part in that great civil rights movement, that great movement to liberate a depressed minority of the American people, should be prevented from coming into Australia if they wished to visit this country. [More…]
They would have been the opponents of the people who were demonstrating for civil rights. [More…]
The reason why the United States of America still retains some allegiance and support from a great many people throughout the world is because it has stood for certain guaranteed rights of citizens, in particular the freedom of movement of people. [More…]
The matter was not one of the human rights of Mr Dick Gregory to travel around the world and to come to Australia as a sightseer - and that is how he applied and that is what he was, because be was asked to come here by the Reverend Ted Noffs. [More…]
This is something which is against our human rights’. [More…]
If he stood for human rights and if he believed in a free country and a free world he ought to be doing everything he can to assist these people. [More…]
That is a right which the school children, such as those who are in the public galleries at the present time, are taught in their school books was one of the great rights that have come down not only from the British heritage but also from ancient Greece and other places. [More…]
That is enshrined in the Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
1 have read the Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
I welcome what has been said by Senator Byrne, because in regard to each one of those rights he will say, as Senator Rae did: Look at the end; all this is subject to the requirements of public order, morality and so forth.’ [More…]
If Senator Byrne adopts that approach he will say that there is not one of those rights which is not subject to those requirements. [More…]
It is no use honourable senators opposite taking a stand and saying that the Government can be excused for breaching these basic human rights because something has been done by the Labor Party or by the Moratorium committee or by someone else. [More…]
This Government ought to be ashamed of its trampling on human rights, especially those of the Aboriginal people in this community. [More…]
As a member of the Standing Orders Committee I attended the meeting and when I came back I had to face some criticism from members of my Party because they believed I had acquiesced in some way in the curtailing of the rights of honourable senators. [More…]
To take away our right to have questions and answers read is unjust and an infringement on the rights of senators. [More…]
Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson wants some further restrictions on the rights of senators. [More…]
Are members of the Senate prepared to restrict their rights to propaganda value associated with questions and replies? [More…]
This attempt to restrict the rights of senators is something that I am opposed to. [More…]
1 would hate to think that, merely because one is a member of the Standing Orders Committee, one thereby loses all his rights as a private senator. [More…]
I would not want to remain a member of that Committee if it meant that I would lose my rights as a senator and be a prisoner, in my view, of the Standing Orders Committee. [More…]
If we take the matter to its logical conclusion, we are virtually giving a direction to the Standing Orders Committee to bring down certain recommendations which, in my belief, will take rights away from senators and will move us closer to Executive control of the Senate, as is the case with the House of Representatives. [More…]
The Senate is making a decision tonight, not on the curtailment of question time, debates on urgency motions or the length of speeches, but on the basis of handing over to the Executive of this Parliament rights that senators have held for many years. [More…]
We are now asked to approve of the automatic system thai operates in another place, lt would curtail our rights and that is the situation that every honourable senator faces - a curtailment of rights that we have held for a Jong, long time. [More…]
Another matter which has been raised is the restriction or curtailment of the rights of the various committees which have been set up. [More…]
I think to do so would take something away from the rights of the individual members of this chamber. [More…]
We must always guard against any curtailment of the rights of senators, whoever they may be at a given time. [More…]
Therefore we must protect one safeguard that the people have, that is, that at all times elected senators should have the right - and obtain more rights if possible - for free and open discussion. [More…]
The rights of private members must be always jealously protected. [More…]
I certainly agree with all my colleagues who have said that they will not agree to anything being done to curtail the rights of private members in this place. [More…]
If parliamentary procedure has to be modernised and updated, let us look at other time consuming matters before we make inroads on the rights of private members. [More…]
Let us add some length of time to the hours of sitting of each day or even to the number of days; but let us make sure, whatever we do, that the rights of private members are fully protected in the interests of the Australian people. [More…]
Even if I am in the minority 1 will insist upon my minority rights. [More…]
We can readily understand why Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson, following his policy of restricting the rights of senators, is willing to accept the amendment. [More…]
But this is just a sort of initiation of the process of curtailing the rights and freedom of members of the Senate. [More…]
I had certain rights when I come into this Senate and I am not prepared willingly to leave the Senate without leaving all those rights intact for the person who follows me. [More…]
I know I cannot convince him because he has been so long in the cut and thrust of politics and has for so long determined his own policy that he is unconcerned about principles, rights and justice, believing that the only proper principles, rights and justice are those of Senator Turnbull. [More…]
lt has been rather fascinating to hear the sorts of speeches that we have heard in this place about Vietnam, Cambodia, civil liberties and the rights of individuals - except when it suits the Opposition’s book to say nothing about them. [More…]
Did the Assembly support the Gurindjis in their claim for 500 square miles of Wave Hill land and the general claims for Aboriginal land rights? [More…]
Will the Government now take notice of the rising tide of public opinion in favour of restoration of land rights to the Aboriginals or will it continue to be steered by the Country Party rump which has its giant pastoral interests to protect? [More…]
1 can find no other expression than to say that the reductions provided for by the 1970 Budget show a cruel, hard, callous disregard of the rights of those in the lower income bracket. [More…]
If necessary, will the Government consider amending the Act to protect the employment rights and opportunities of professional Australian actors, writers and dramatists? [More…]
Did the Prime Minister on 25th September last year present a minis,terial statement to the Parliament on the Government’s proposals for the preservation of superannuation rights? [More…]
No honourable senator wants to give away the rights which are accorded to him by the Senate. [More…]
Perhaps the system of estimates committees will involve an extension of their rights, but I do not know whether it will. [More…]
In considering whether 1 would nominate for membership of an estimates committee I had to take into account how best I could preserve my rights as a senator. [More…]
T believe that in formulating methods of procedure we should keep to the forefront the right of every honourable senator to have the same rights at committee meetings as he had in this chamber prior to the introduction of the committee system in view of the fact that many honourable senators cannot be in attendance at committee meetings when items in which they are particularly interested are discussed, they should be entitled to reserve their right to bring these matters up in this chamber at the committee stage of the Appropriation Bill. [More…]
If we do not take our rights into consideration in any determination of the procedures of these committees and preserve them we could be stuck with a set of rules which will debar us from asserting our rights in the future. [More…]
If he cannot attend, if he is required at another committee meeting or is attending a standing committee meeting, or even if he is meeting a constituent in King’s Hall, he does not prejudice his rights. [More…]
If a senator finds that he cannot attend a committee meeting his rights are not prejudiced. [More…]
A senator has to exercise his rights and privileges as a senator, just as he does in the committee of the whole. [More…]
It has been stated that the suggestions in the report were an unwelcome interference with State rights. [More…]
I hasten to add that this does not mean that anybody is suggesting that the matter should be taken over by the Commonwealth and that the rights of the States should be completely abrogated, or that any step should be taken other than the sensible one of adoption of a national approach. [More…]
What has been suggested by the Committee is a framework within which the States’ rights are protected but through which a national approach is possible. [More…]
If we do not take our rights into consideration in determining the method of operation of committees and thereby ensure the preservation of those rights, we can be stuck with a set of rules which will debar us from asserting them. [More…]
1 was much concerned that any of my rights as a senator might be taken away from me by the operations of the committees. [More…]
No honourable senator wants to give away the rights which are accorded to him by the Senate. [More…]
Perhaps the system of Estimates committees will involve an extension of their rights, but I do noi know whether it will. [More…]
1 pointed out that to preserve my rights I had decided not to sit on an Estimates committee and I expected to be able to attend the hearings of any committee. [More…]
He said that it is a trial operation and that we would find we had increased rights rather than restricted rights. [More…]
Estimates committees because they were not fortunate enough to be selected by their parties should have the same rights as members of committees and that no rights should be taken away from them. [More…]
The system must break down because the rights of honourable senators must be preserved. [More…]
I am certain that honourable senators will exercise their rights when the appropriate occasion arises in this place. [More…]
Will the Government refute these alarming allegations that a Minister controlling Aboriginal land rights in the Northern Territory is looking after the interests of a foreign owned company, and will it do so in the most effective way, that is by granting the Gurindjis the land rights they seek at Wave Hill? [More…]
The only way pensioners can and will improve their lot in life is to organise themselves into one powerful body to demand their rights. [More…]
by leave - The Opposition is becoming concerned about the manner in which the rights of the Senate to debate matters are being curtailed. [More…]
Any government vested with this power has a tremendous political advantage, and governments are most reluctant to surrender such an advantage but there is no reason why the recipients of social service benefits should be required to surrender their rights so that a government can maintain its position of advantage. [More…]
An Aboriginal organisation known as the One People for Australia League disintegrated because the local people insisted on their rights. [More…]
Those who were attacked in Queensland could stand up and say: ‘What we have done is right and proper’, but instead there has been an underhand method of attacking these two men, of getting dossiers compiled on them and of undermining the political rights of everybody in this country, because if their rights are undermined the rights of everyone are undermined. [More…]
This is an attack not merely on those two; it is an attack upon the rights of every senator and of every Australian, and it is time that members opposite realised this. [More…]
Surely hundreds of young lads are exercising their rights today and that selfsame Premier and members of the Government would deny to those young lads the right to exercise their entitlements under the provisions of the National Service Act. [More…]
Surely we cannot be so inconsistent as to say that, on the one hand, the Premier of Queensland during the Second World War could exercise his rights and not be charged for being disloyal but that when young lads exercise their rights today under the National Service Act they are tobe charged with being disloyal, are to be regarded as unAustralian and everything else. [More…]
As the rights of this silent majority of Australians are being jeopardised by a few radicals and fellow travellers, who apparently are supported by some members of the Opposition, will the Minister ensure that the Government takes steps to protect the rights of the great majority of Australians to go about their lawful pursuits unhindered by this noisy minority. [More…]
It must cause concern that any citizen, regardless of whether he is a member of Parliament, can be subjected to threat and intimidation calculated to inhibit him in the exercise of his political rights. [More…]
The attack is a serious infringement of the rights of the Senate and of those citizens who elected the honourable senators to this chamber. [More…]
The Government has had the opportunity to conduct its legislative programme in such a way as would not entail interference with the rights of honourable senators to discuss the General Business of this chamber. [More…]
I want to say a few words about Government Business taking precedence over General Business, because from the time I entered this chamber I have been protesting against the taking away of rights of individual senators. [More…]
think we should guard the rights we have very keenly and see that nothing interferes to take them away from us. [More…]
At the end of each session it has been necessary to forgo some of those rights, such as conducting debates on General Business and perhaps the incorporation in Hansard of answers to questions on notice. [More…]
If we forgo that right then we have no rights as private members of the chamber. [More…]
1 am just as strong a stickler for the rights of members of this chamber as is any other senator. [More…]
Bondy is not agreeable to that being done in trading hours, and in that sense he is within his rights. [More…]
Will he also tell us where the rationale lies in an approach that the Government should authorise a set of rules permitting that course to bc followed for its own Ministers in election campaigning while refusing equal rights to the Opposition? [More…]
That they in fact welcome this change, having regard for the fact that it demonstrates an increasing tolerance of and respect for the rights of individuals to think their own way through their own lives, free from information-withholding restrictions which people of one religion or one standard of morals may seek to impose on cither the majority of minority who do not hold the same views; [More…]
If these passengers bookings were made with World Air Corporation and European Air Charter, both of which companies have Sydney and Melbourne offices, what action is contemplated by the Minister to protect the rights of the air travellers involved and what punitive action can be taken against the organisations which have welshed on their obligations to passengers? [More…]
Must they be guided in their rights and obligations by a circular from the Public Service Board issued in 1970; the circular issued by the Public Service Commission in 1965; the circular issued by the Administrator in 1970; or by some other authority. [More…]
Native (Citizenship Rights) Act 1944-1964. [More…]
1 raised this matter for the simple reason that I believe that these girls, as employees of the airlines, ought to be offered exactly the same rights as any other employees. [More…]
Australia’s buying networks (the ABC and three city, commercial networks and ATI- for the country stations) are in the market for available output from the three networks in the U.S.A. and as such pay the relatively high price for Australian rights of $2,550 as listed in Variety for one run, with one-half guaranteed for repeat at 50% of the original price. [More…]
Did the Australian Minister for Externa] Affairs state that the present Australian Government would not change its attitude to the recognition of Red China whilst the Government of that country would not recognise the Declaration of Human Rights and whilst Red China continued to assert that it intends to pursue its political policies by the use of force? [More…]
Can the apparent intense interest of and the several questions asked by the Leader of the Opposition in this place indicate that, in the remote possibility of a change of political control of this Parliament, a government of Labor complexion would support Red China in its rejection of the Declaration of Human Rights and would also support a policy of force to achieve its political ends? [More…]
We have stated - the Prime Minister has recently confirmed this and I now confirm it again - that of course we would like Red China to be in the United Nations provided only that it accepted the Declaration of Human Rights and abided by it and provided it was willing to abide by the principles of the Charter itself. [More…]
This would affect Qantas Airways Ltd in its round the world services and the huge amount of money that it pays to the Australian taxpayer for its Australian rights to land and take off. [More…]
But for this test, terms and conditions of the borrowing could be manipulated so as to induce Australian lenders to exercise conversion rights earlier or later than might otherwise have been the case. [More…]
Tt is not for us to discuss the rights or wrongs of that at this stage. [More…]
The Committee considers that it is rendering the rights and liberties of citizens to be unduly dependent upon administrative rather than judicial decisions if the Minister may decide, after the question has arisen, which questions of status may be referred to a court. [More…]
Accordingly the rights of citizens are liable to be affected unduly by a ministerial decision. [More…]
Is it a fact, as claimed by high officials of the Australian Soccer Federation, that the Australian Broadcasting Commission could have saved SO per cent on television rights if Australia had worked in partnership with Japan and other Asian nations in the procurement of these television rights. [More…]
If Vesteys are prepared to recognise Aboriginal land rights, will the Government now reverse its decision of 1968 when it refused to grant 500 square miles of the 6,158 square mile Wave Hill leasehold to Gurindji and Walbiri Aboriginals. [More…]
Does the Government recognise the justice of Aboriginals’ claims for land rights or does it subscribe to the belief that they are essentially second class citizens. [More…]
Iiic holders of the notes are, very often if nol invariably, given rights correspondingly very closely with those of shareholders. [More…]
Provision has to be made for the rights of honourable senators opposite in relation to all matters which they may wish to raise. [More…]
Gradually our rights are being eroded and whittled away. [More…]
Again J offer my objection to the proposal because 1 believe that the rights of the back bench members pf this place are being ignored completely by the Government and are being eroded. [More…]
I. have as much respect and thought for the rights of back benchers as members of the Australian Labor Party have protested that they have, lt is only fair, if one recognises the realities of the situation, that we should say that the Government is taking the only course available to -it. [More…]
If the business of the Senate can be finished on Friday night in the normal course of events, without the gag being applied, without an attempt being made to railroad legislation through, without taking away the rights of honourable senators to speak, good luck to us: we can then go home. [More…]
If it is necessary to sit extended hours, we should do so, but 1 have always tried to protect the rights and liberties of members of the Senate. [More…]
If Parliament desires to exercise its rights, obviously it has that right. [More…]
So far as rights of action have been continued or created by legislation passed for the Australian Capital Territory these rights are rights enforceable in the courts of the Australian Capital Territory and clearly, in my opinion, not in any other court by virtue of that legislation. [More…]
I do not think it is right that we should have to wait until matters of company law or property rights arise before attention is given to these affairs. [More…]
While the Government cannot be happy at the settlement of freight rates outside Australia for Australia’s principal export commodity, it must be recognised that Australian woolgrowers, who do not own wool at time of shipment, have only very restricted rights to negotiate freight rates. [More…]
I only insist on preserving my rights as a senator and equal rights with Senator Greenwood. [More…]
As an individual member of Parliament I take umbrage at the manner in which the Minister has brushed off the rights of a citizen to approach a member of the national Parliament. [More…]
In the light of the overwhelming opinion of anthropologists and researchers that the provision of traditional land rights is necessary for economic and social independence for Aboriginal communities, why has the Minister chosen to ignor such expert opinion and denied land rights to the Aboriginal people of Australia. [More…]
The one at which the Committee was looking in this case was that concerning the amount of discretion given to the Minister and thereby the rights and liberties of the individuals concerned. [More…]
The other point so far as the rights and liberties of people are concerned is that there is nothing to stop any person from going before -the court in this connection, even though he has not been brought before the court by the Minister. [More…]
As Chairman of the Committee I take the view that the Committee must act on safe ground so far as its rights are concerned. [More…]
But other people have the same rights as they have. [More…]
When the honourable senator moved that we sit from 10 o’clock in the morning until 11 o’clock at night he never at any time intimated that he would come along the next day or the day after and move that certain rights be taken away from honourable senators as he has done now. [More…]
1 support strongly the retention of our rights on this occasion. [More…]
I say to Senator Gair that the Government now wants to take away certain of our rights, lt fixed 21st November as the date of the election, lt could easily have fixed 5th December or 1. [More…]
The writs do not have to be returned until the end of next June, lt is.no excuse to say that, because an election has been fixed for a certain date, our rights must be taken away. [More…]
The people who are now wanting to take away our rights -were those who fixed the date of the election as 21st November. [More…]
This is a matter of extreme urgency which involves the rights of the community, including the rights of workers claiming workers’ compensation. [More…]
These rights will be denied in the absence of the passage of this highly technical legislation. [More…]
Whatever else may be sacrificed in an endeavour to get away from this place, the rights of individual senators should not be sacrificed. [More…]
I know that I would have had the support of the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson), who believes in upholding the rights of honourable senators. [More…]
But Senator Byrne is seeking to remove from honourable senators the opportunity to discuss any other item of General Business and to take away the rights of honourable senators who are not members of the Government Parties. [More…]
It is important, if the rule of law is to be observed in this country, that we continue to have trial lawyers and professional advocates, people who spend most of their time in court, people who are familiar with the proceedings, so that they can act for and ensure that the rights of citizens are secured under the law. [More…]
Recognition of the Bar Association by expressed reference to it in a few places in the ordinance is no more than an acknowledgment that it exists and ought to have some rights, duties and standing. [More…]
To me there is only a question of degree in the difference between providing for the recognition of a Bar Association and later - if in 5 years we had a group of conveyancers, a group of tax experts or something like that who wanted to form an association - providing such an association with the same rights as those which have been described by Senator Wright this afternoon and referred to by others, namely, the right to object to the admission of any person. [More…]
To my mind that could well be a breach of the rights and privileges, of the individual. [More…]
I think Senator Wood reported on behalf of the Committee today that after consideration of a letter from the Minister the Committee took the view that if the Minister does not refer a matter to the court the person involved suffers no breach of rights on that account. [More…]
The Committee worked on the basis that the regulations do not unduly make the rights and liberties of citizens dependent upon administrative rather than upon judicial decision. [More…]
It was thought that it could not be claimed that by not applying this discretion it would unduly affect the rights and liberties of anyone in respect of whom the power to refer to court was not used. [More…]
If a person knows his rights and if he is seeking a benefit under this Act, he has the right to apply at any time for exemption. [More…]
1 believe that the purposes of the Committee in examining regulations and ordinances are, first, to see that there is no arbitrary exercise of discretion by the Executive - that undue discretionary powers are not given to it; secondly, to see that the rights and liberties of the subject are not unnecessarily interfered with; thirdly, that matters which should properly be dealt with by legislation are not included in regulations and ordinances; fourthly - I believe this is a very important point which does attract the attention of the Committee - that if there are circumstances where the Commit tee believes that any of these matters have arisen, they should be of sufficient substance to warrant a resolution from the Committee that the regulation or ordinance not be accepted by the Senate. [More…]
It has been argued - I think with some justice - that if a person does not wish to exercise the present rights he has under the National Service Act for classification as a conscientious objector, and if he is prepared to take the consequences which follow for a person who refuses to comply with the Act, he should be entitled to refuse to comply with the Act subject to his taking the consequences of that refusal. [More…]
1 believe it affects the rights and liberties of the subject if an individual is brought before a court and argument takes place in the court as to whether or not he is a conscientious objector without his having applied to go before that court. [More…]
This in itself could deprive him of certain rights and liberties. [More…]
This, in itself, is an infringement of this person’s rights. [More…]
The other - perhaps more substantially material - infringement of his rights would follow if this were to have the consequence that were he to change his mind, not about his conscientious objection but about his particular objection to the operation of the Act, and if he desired at some later date to make an application to be classified as a conscientious objector, the previous finding of the court that he was not a conscientious objector would prejudice any subsequent application he may make. [More…]
Once again Senator Devitt reminds me of the rights and liberties of the individual. [More…]
Certainly if the decision which was reached in Perth is to be regarded as a proper decision within the terms of the Act, then clearly the rights and liberties of an individual are very severely interfered with because the Act enables a court to come to a decision without any evidence having been given by anyone. [More…]
The court having arrived at that decision, a serious interference with the rights and liberties of the person involved took place despite the fact that no evidence was given either by Mr Cook or by the Department of Labour and National Service. [More…]
Certainly there is an infringement of the rights and liberties of individuals insofar as they should have the right to be regarded among their peers as either having or not having a conscientious objection only if they choose to give evidence that they do have such a conscientious objection. [More…]
It seems to me to bc a gross breach of a person’s rights if a stale of affairs is reached in which a person is found not to have a conscientious objection without his ever having applied to be regarded as a conscientious objector. [More…]
I think it is fair to say that in the long run we recognised that: the nature of the rights and liberties which were affected were of an insubstantial character, having regard to the fact that a person at all times has a right to make a claim for exemption. [More…]
Because in my opinion the Minister who administers the Act would not act unfairly and because the consequences of any such action would not represent a substantial interference with the rights and liberties of an individual I do not feel that the motion ought to be supported. [More…]
Perhaps I should end my remarks by shortly making a comment about what some people assume to be their rights in the community. [More…]
The main point seems to me to turn on the expression ‘unduly interfere with the rights and privileges of the citizen’. [More…]
There is no doubt at all that it docs interfere with the rights and privileges of the citizen. [More…]
What can happen under this regulation can be seen in fact to unduly interfere with the rights and privileges of the citizen. [More…]
So the regulation gives the Minister a discretion and it certainly makes the rights of a person dependent on an administrative decision rather than a judicial one. [More…]
Surely it must be held that his rights and privileges are in fact subject to an administrative rather than a judicial decision. [More…]
If it is held that the rights of individuals are of paramount consideration in this country, I strongly suggest that the Senate ought to disallow this regulation. [More…]
No-one has explained how the rights of Gary James Cook in Perth have not been prejudiced if he has a conscientious belief and wants to exercise his right to go to court. [More…]
But that is a recorded decision of a court which will have to be faced up to if this individual makes an application for his rights under the National Service Act. [More…]
The grower would retain his rights to place his own reserve price on his wool. [More…]
There are 2 main features here - the genuine desire to get maximum mileage to do as much as possible for the industry and the individual grower, and at the same time the desire for the protection of the individual grower’s rights. [More…]
It states that the Commission has power to do a number of things - to inspect and appraise wool, to buy wool, to sell wool, to appoint agents, to make arrangements and agreements with persons, to obtain market intelligence, to operate a wool statistical service and to acquire and dispose of property or rights in respect of land or buildings. [More…]
But as the Minister representing the Attorney-General in this chamber, the Minister for Works and the Minister-in-Charge of Tourist Activities was speaking on the Australian Wool Commission Bill I could not help but compare his remarks as a Minister with the remarks that he enunciated front time to time when he sat up on the back benches as a private member espousing the cause of the community at large, the rights of the Parliament and the responsibility of the Executive to the Parliament. [More…]
Frankly, I think the rights of this Parliament would be undermined if a provision of this nature were to be included in the legislation. [More…]
Mr Chairman, there is no reason why you would not recognise me if I was within my rights. [More…]
He has full rights of access to all the tribunals of the land to establish the propriety of his behaviour. [More…]
It is true, as Senator Wright has said, that a person has civil rights. [More…]
If a public servant, of whom we have many thousands, is sacked or has bis employment terminated, to use the nice words, although they mean the same thing, he has rights of appeal. [More…]
If he was not a member of the Public Service and his appointment is taken away for what the Minister alleges to be misbehaviour, he has all the normal civil rights to sue for wrongful dismissal. [More…]
His rights are completely protected. [More…]
If he has all the normal rights and no rights are taken away, why worry about putting rights :n the Bill? [More…]
They will have the rights and privileges and responsibilities of the normal members of the Commission while they are acting as deputies for those members, and it seems to be perfectly reasonable that in considering their responsibilities we should also consider their position in regard to the provisions of clause 16. [More…]
To safeguard the industries of Australian Aboriginals from increasing competition from cheap overseas-produced imitation bark paintings, boomerangs and other traditional Aboriginal products and to assist the Aboriginals in retaining and building their markets, both domestic and overseas, for such products, which represent their culture, will the Minister request the Minister-in-Charge of Aboriginal Affairs to investigate the possibility of taking action to legislate to license the manufacture and sale of any such products and to secure the widest possible patent and design rights for Australian Aboriginals? [More…]
These people should not be denied their rights out of hand when they have believed from the start that they would be eligible. [More…]
I say to the Minister: Do not deprive people of their rights by making too tight a valuation in these circumstances and please accept at their face value the honest submissions that are given to the Department supported by receipts and other evidence, lt is quite clear that these people have endeavoured honestly to submit the evidence to the Department. [More…]
4 meetings - and if a senator decides to publicly and openly probe matters about which he feels concerned then I feel he has every right to do so without any interference from senators who may have been members of a committee and who may attempt to indicate to any senator on this side of the chamber that he has no rights to speak on a certain matter. [More…]
In that question J drew the Minister’s attention to the possibility of a parallel between the complaint to the European Commission on Human Rights concerning 25 Asians in East Africa who possess British passports but were denied entry into the United Kingdom and the denial of entry right to mainland Australia of. [More…]
The field of hospital operation and the increasingly important role that it plays in the maintenance of a desired health standard in the community should not become a subject for Commonwealth and State bartering but should be viewed with the correct focus on the needs and rights of the population in general. [More…]
I instance the eligibility of naval personnel from HMAS Melbourne’ for the Malaysian clasp and certain rights in relation to war service homes. [More…]
That the Senate is of the opinion that recent events in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea for which the Government is responsible constitute a danger to the civil liberties and rights of the people of those Territories. [More…]
That the House of Representatives be requested to amend the Second Schedule by reducing the vote- Divisions 270-282, Department of External Territories, $104,616,000 - by $2- as an indication to the Government that the Senate is of the opinion that recent events in the Territories of Papua and New Guinea for which the Government is responsible constitute a danger to the civil liberties and rights of the people of those Territories. [More…]
Recent events in the Territories of Papua and New Guinea for which the Government is responsible constitute a danger to the civil liberties and rights of the people of those Territories. [More…]
The previous debate was on a particular matter, namely, that the estimates be reduced by $2 as an indication to the Government that the Senate is of the opinion that recent events in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea for which the Government is responsible constitute a danger to the civil liberties and rights of the people of those Territories. [More…]
It is unfortunate if an impression is created that it is using its powers and its representation in order to have foisted on the Territory provisions which are objectionable and which ought not to be tolerated in a community in which we are seeking to establish a set of laws and a constitution which will observe at least a minimum of the basic human rights. [More…]
The sooner there is provision for at least the basic human rights in a Constitution of Papua and New Guinea I would think the better. [More…]
At least we ought to leave a legacy in that community of those basic human rights enshrined in a Constitution. [More…]
1 would think, and my Party takes this view, that their Constitution ought to embrace those basic human rights. [More…]
Our view is that the Constitution of Papua and New Guinea ought to provide for the protection and implementation of fundamental human rights and civil liberties along the lines of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
That being so, we do not think that legislation ought to be passed through that body under the pressure of this Australian administration which is thought by many to depart seriously from those rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
Here is an Ordinance which in the opinion of these distinguished bodies and others is a departure from the proper standards which ought to be applied in measures so that basic human rights will be protected. [More…]
It is within our power and it is our right and our duty not to allow to pass into the legislation of this young emerging country laws which are contrary to basic human rights. [More…]
For those distinguished bodies of lawyers, scientists and others concerned with matters of human rights to be described as indulging in propaganda aimed at injuring Australia shows the depth to which Government senators are willing to descend in order to protect any kind of action by their Government, however despicable it might be in the eyes of other respectable citizens. [More…]
He said that the legislation ought to incorporate the fundamental human rights. [More…]
Where did the Minister obtain the view that the granting of Aboriginal land rights will hinder the progress of Aboriginal people towards self-determination and independence. [More…]
Exclusive corporate land rights should be granted to Aboriginal communities which retain a strong tribal structure or demonstrate a potential for corporate action in regard to land at present reserved for the use of Aboriginals or where traditional occupancy according to tribal custom can be established from anthropological or other evidence. [More…]
Aboriginal land rights shall carry with them full rights to the minerals in those lands. [More…]
This is the policy of the Australian Labor Party in relation to the land rights of Aboriginals. [More…]
1 wish to quote briefly some of the statements of complaint which have been made by Aboriginals to show how they feel about the taking away of their rights. [More…]
The question is, have we any legal rights to our tribal land and is there any law that you can be forced OUt of the land without a reason? [More…]
The Government has taken my rights away from me. [More…]
It is the opinion of those responsible for circulating this petition that the Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders’ Affairs Act 1965 oppresses the Aboriginals of Queensland and that it is a denial of human rights. [More…]
Aborigines on reserves have grown up believing that they had no rights at all and that they must always obey the white staff on the reserve. [More…]
Thus even where the act does give him some rights, e.g., the right to appeal, he is unlikely to know this and is probably unable to use them. [More…]
The difficulty of access to the reserves for outsiders ensures that he does not learn to exercise these rights. [More…]
I sometimes wonder whether that was wise, but nevertheless they must have equal rights although, indisputably, for some reason or other, they do not seem to handle their grog as well as they might. [More…]
On the question of land rights I point out that land rights are given to naturalised British subjects from almost all countries. [More…]
Italians and others who come here permanently enjoy such rights. [More…]
It would be unjust and unfair to suggest that the Aboriginals, the descendants of the original people of Australia, should not have equal rights. [More…]
The Government has already made many more Aboriginals aware of their rights. [More…]
The principle is that rights and liabilities should not be retrospectively created. [More…]
Under the Constitution, we have our rights and powers. [More…]
How many discussions regarding Aboriginal land rights in the Northern Territory have been held during the last 12 months between the Minister and principals of the firm of Vesteys; on what dates did the discussions take place and what were the venues. [More…]
The proxy voter has the same rights and duties as the voter. [More…]
What applications have been made for regular landing rights in Australia by overseas scheduled airlines in the last 2 years. [More…]
Normal international practice is for Governments to seek traffic rights for use by their airlinesand not for such applications to be lodged by airlines themselves; in 2 instances (Central Pacific Airlines of Nauru and Aeroviss Siesta Del Peru) in which airlines applied for traffic rights direct, the companies were so informed and the applications lapsed. [More…]
In the past 2 years applications have been received from Governments of the following countries for specific traffic rights in Australia for use by their respective international airlines: Netherlands, Federal Republic of Germany, France, Italy, Ireland, Nauru and Indonesia. [More…]
The following applications for specific traffic rights are pending: Netherlands and Germany. [More…]
In the following cases negotiations as required have been completed and rights granted: United States of America, France, Italy, Nauru and Indonesia. [More…]
Ireland’s application for rights is subject to further review. [More…]
The United Nations held a conference on human rights, which is a very important subject. [More…]
I was there, and I think that of all the countries in the world - I may be corrected but I think I am right - Australia did not put forward one motion on human rights, nor did it join as a co-sponsor of any amendment on the question of human rights. [More…]
If honourable senator.applied their minds purely to policy they might say that it is a disgrace that, in the year that was set aside to consider the whole topic of human rights, Australia, Which once had a proud position in the advancement of democracy and its contributions to human rights, was not cosponsor to one motion. [More…]
We have rights. [More…]
I asked Senator Murphy to give some instances of this and., after stumbling and bumbling for a few moments, he plucked one out of his hat and that was the conference on human rights. [More…]
I would like to know how many of the 100 nations attending the conference respect human rights. [More…]
How many of the African countries respect human rights? [More…]
A banker, like anyone else who deals with property inconsistently with the rights of the true owner, is liable to the true owner in an action for conversion. [More…]
The Bill contains two proposed provisions directed: to that end: proposed new section 88c, which is intended to preserve the value of paid order cheques as evidence of receipt- of the amount of the cheque, and proposed new section 88e, which is intended to preserve the rights that a collecting banker now has as a holder for value under section 32 in respect of. [More…]
The purpose of new section 88e is to ensure that a collecting banker who at the present time has the rights of a holder for value, in respect of an indorsed cheque will not be prejudiced by the proposed change in the law to do away with the necessity for indorsement on cheques payable to order that are paid into the payee’s account. [More…]
In orderthat a collecting banker will continue to have the rights of a holder for value in respect of cheques that will not in future be indorsed because they will be collected for the payee, new section 88e provides that the banker will have the rights of a holder that he would have had if the payee had indorsed it in blank. [More…]
It will also serve to ensure that the rights and property of landholders are adequately protected. [More…]
This type of restrictive legislation seems to me to be a further incursion into the rights of the individual and reflects a tendency towards the growth of the bureaucracy over the rights of the Australian citizen. [More…]
I repeat that I have no intention whatsoever of traversing the rights or wrongs of the decision of the Senate. [More…]
If he does not regard it as a strong unit” of the Parliament and will not stand up for its rights, I say to him with respect “that he is denying the role of the Senate in the government of Australia. [More…]
Their actions involve the denial of individual rights; that is the rights of the persons who in an open market have purchased these rams and the rights of the persons who in open market have sold these rams to enjoy the fruits of their transactions. [More…]
Let’s look at the history of this whole matter without even discussing the rights or the wrongs of doing it. [More…]
Surely these people who have contributed magnificently to the wool industry have some rights in this matter. [More…]
Does the Minister see a parallel between the complaint to the European Commission on Human Rights concerning 25 Asians inEast Africa who possess British passports but were denied entry into the United Kingdom and the denial of entry rights to mainland Australia of indigenous citizens of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. [More…]
It describes the facilities for settlement of Maltese citizens, lt records the rights they enjoy and the obligations they undertake in common with Australian citizens .and other citizens; it affirms that Maltese citizens resident in Australia will receive social service and health benefits which Australia provides to Australian citizens, and that both Governments will make efforts towards reaching areement on reciprocity in payment of each other’s corresponding social security benefits. [More…]
The Agreement provides for advice to Maltese migrants on the acceptance of vocational qualifications in Australia and records that the Australian Government will endeavour to advance the acceptance of Maltese qualifications within the framework of Australian laws, regulations and practices; the rights of Maltese settlers as residents and as workers are set out. [More…]
Many of its supporters in the country areas are now supporting the bogus organisation called the League of Rights. [More…]
In the course of my remarks 1 instanced a number of examples that I thought of at the time to show that individuals could be severely penalised without justification, lt appears to me that the 3 amendments that the Minister for Housing (Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin) has moved on behalf of the Government tighten considerably the rights of an individual so far as public benefit is concerned. [More…]
But, as I have said, it is obvious that at this late hour the Government has had second thoughts about the legislation and in some respects is tightening it up with respect to the rights and liberty of the subject. [More…]
I believe that amendments of this type - moved- as they are, by the Government - indicate that Government senators are as concerned as Opposition senators about the provision of legislation which comes before us and that we are as concerned as Senator McClelland claims the Opposition is to ensure that there is a scrutinising of these provisions and that they are enacted in such a way that as far as possible the rights of individuals are protected. [More…]
It distresses me when I see even members of the Labor Party - particularly those who are interested in the law and who should be the upholders of the civil rights of the people - introducing for the first time legislation under which a man can be charged before a court and the only notification that it is necessary to give him is one via the post - to notify him by posting a letter to him. [More…]
not improve the rights of the individual. [More…]
Members of the legal profession serving as members of this Parliament have upheld the rights of individuals. [More…]
They have been outstanding in establishing British law on our statute book and in upholding the rights of citizens. [More…]
I share with Senator Cavanagh a concern whenever it appears to me that the rights of an individual may be infringed in the interests of any one of the 3 factors I have mentioned, lt seems that in the amendments moved by the Minister and the amendments foreshadowed in the circulated list we will achieve adequate safeguards of the rights of individuals because in the unlikely event - it happens sometimes - that a person does not receive a summons, adequate opportunity will be given for that individual to go before a court and obtain a re-hearing. [More…]
When I rose previously 1 stated that it was of concern to me that people, with legal minds and with a reputation over generations of upholding the rights and civil liberties of the individual, were prepared to accept the amendment. [More…]
They recognised the importance of the matters I raised and on no account would they be parties to an infringement of civil rights. [More…]
We should be concerned that this legislation destroys protection of the rights of the individual. [More…]
If we are worthy of our position here we must be concerned about the protection of the civil rights of the individual. [More…]
Because this error has been made in the States it is suggested that we can disregard the rights of the individual. [More…]
It is very important that we uphold the principle of the rights of the individual. [More…]
As I said before, while doing our utmost in this chamber to protect the rights of the individual, I do not think there is an honourable senator who does not believe in those rights. [More…]
The points of view taken on that occasion were the balance between the facilitation of administration and the rights of individuals. [More…]
Some individuals participating in the debate will say: ‘It is important that we facilitate the administration, and providing we can give reasonably adequate protection to the rights of the individual, well and good.’ [More…]
On the other hand, some will say: ‘It is most important that we give protection to the rights of individuals and then we shall attempt within that circumscription to facilitate public administration.’ [More…]
The Government by the presentation of this amendment has shown that its attitude is Well, we are trying to facilitate the general administration and we are trying to provide reasonably adequate safeguards for the rights of individuals which might otherwise be the subject of public trespass.’ [More…]
the fair demands of public administration and provides as fair a protection for the rights of individuals as can be devised in these circumstances. [More…]
734 on 29th October 1970 and a statement made by the Minister for the Interior in the House of Representatives on 3rd September 1970 regarding Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
If the Minister is not prepared to withdraw the statement referred to, will he undertake to allow Aboriginals to obtain land in the same way as tribal lands were seized from Aboriginals in the first place, that is, by making it legal for Aboriginals to use force in their struggle to obtain land rights just as previous governments made it legal for while men to use force to obtain land owned by Aboriginals? [More…]
I am speaking about the rights and merits of the Bill. [More…]
It was rather unusual to find in listening to the debates in another place that members of the Australian National University Council, which includes members of the Government Parties, were in great praise of the student representatives on the Council and of the participation by the President of the Australian National ‘University Students Association who for some years has been invited to attend the Council and has all the rights of a member except the right to vote. [More…]
After all if any honourable senator believes there is a publication which is pornographic he has his rights not only outside the Parliament but also inside the Parliament to specify some action. [More…]
The Democratic Labor Party seeks to say to them: Yes, we have agreed to your representation on the Council of the Australian National University, with all the legal rights attaching to it. [More…]
Having delegated to the executive Government of the country the right to make rules of application to the general public - general laws - we have constituted a committee to supervise those rules to see they do not impinge on individual rights and do not usurp the right of Parliament to make substantial legislation, whereas we think regulations should conform to matters of detail and should be consistent with the statute. [More…]
Fourthly, I take the view that in regard to expressing any judgment, however tentative, upon a particular proposition that may affect the rights of an individual person, a House of Parliament is a most inappropriate tribunal to express even a tentative point of view. [More…]
I refer specifically to the matters he raised which indicate that, if a person desires to ascertain the rules, by-laws or orders which have been made under the Australian National University statutes, there are problems in ascertaining precisely what a person’s rights are. [More…]
That creates an uncertainty and a lack of precision which can only be regrettable in an area in which there should be some positive standards upon which people can formulate their rights. [More…]
I think that while students find it difficult to ascertain their rights and the limitations imposed by law in areas of student activity, there will be a tendency to go as far as human endeavour can take them. [More…]
I am talking about the legislative standards, the objective criteria and the setting out of the rules so that all can see what are their rights and obligations. [More…]
It is a very serious matter that a large number of persons could be affected by a law and not one person knows what his rights and obligations are. [More…]
They said further: ‘If three or four Estimates Committees are running simultaneously, this would negate our rights as senators to participate in the proceedings of those committees’. [More…]
If this proposal were adopted, the rights of senators who were not involved in the particular committee which sat in a Party room would be negated so we have decided on L.17. [More…]
It is true that those of us who oppose the establishment of the estimates committees and support the establishment of standing committees were given certain undertakings last year to the effect that our rights in this chamber would not be cut short and that we would nol be denied the opportunity of discussing, al length and in full, the Estimates presented to the Senate. [More…]
As to the rights of members of a board for compensation for personal injury by acci dent during their employement, one would have to consider first the Commonwealth Employees Compensation Act and, secondly, the Air Accidents (Commonwealth Liability) Act. [More…]
Although the Bill sets out to protect banking operations conducted under the new sections 88b to 88e inclusive, I am a little concerned about the rights of persons conducting business with banks; they should have been protected more adequately. [More…]
As far as I can see and as far as the Opposition has been able to determine, the alteration will not affect the rights of persons who have accounts with banks. [More…]
I think we should say that the Bill is concerned not only with either education or immigration policies as such but also with fundamental social rights These rights have been set out in the United Nations Universal Declarations oi Human Rights. [More…]
Also under the Bill it is intended to have courses designed to impart an understanding of the rights and duties of an Australian citizen and of the way of living of the Australian people. [More…]
Have applications been called for off-shore oil prospecting rights in the coral reefs surroundingthe Trobriands and other islands in the general area of Papua. [More…]
I have some rights in the Senate and I rely solely on the Chair to preserve those rights for me. [More…]
I completely reject your assertion thatthe delay in replying to your letter is an attempt to obstruct your clients in the pursuit of their legal rights. [More…]
Provided that the Parliament of the State may disallow any such Order in Council within a period of fourteen (14) sitting days but any such disallowance shall not prejudice the rights of the Companies under this Sub-clause.’ [More…]
In addition, I further believe that the NCDC should be required to report on these aspects to the Joint Committee on the Australian Capital Territory so that we as the custodians of the rights of the people may be satisfied in that aspect and have an opportunity to express an opinion as to whether the NCDC has gone sufficiently far in alerting the Police of any dangerous points that may exist when disasters such as flood waters come upon us. [More…]
My Party, recognising the difficulties of the Department and acknowledging the entitlements of the people concerned, might be prepared to accept such a compromise term based on a fair assessment of the rights and responsibilities of the 2 parties concerned. [More…]
The operators told me of their intended move, which is within their rights. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs: Has the Government received any protests against the entry into Australia of sporting teams, athletes and ballet or circus performers from Communist countries where one party rule exists and there is widespread denial of human rights, the latest example being in the denial of rights to Jews? [More…]
Can the statement made in the House of Representatives on 3rd September 1970 relating to Aboriginal land rights be withdrawn, since it can only be described as Government pressure on the Northern Territory Supreme Court; if not, will he undertake to allow Aborigines to obtain land in the same way as tribal lands were seized from Aborigines in the first place, that is, by making it legal for Aborigines to use force in their struggle to obtain land rights and in the same way as previous Governments made it legal for white men to use force to obtain land owned by Aborigines. [More…]
It will mean that it will be very difficult, in the absence of uniform superannuation schemes, to cope with this problem of portability or the transfer of superannuation rights along with the transfer from one job to another. [More…]
Similarly, if he and his Government yield to the current illbased Leftist campaign for compassion and land rights for the aborigines to the lune of several million dollars, this move will pacify the ABC which is always ready to espouse any odd-body or mischief maker who needs a platform from which lo air his aberrant views al national Government expense. [More…]
At the same time, they recognised that respect for human rights and individual freedoms and the avoidance of any kind of discrimination constitute the indispensable basis of all social welfare development. [More…]
Let the passage of this motion be taken as an indication of the view of the Senate that the Government is not acting as it should in the matter of social service payments and that it is not acting as it should in regard to the adjustment of superannuation rights. [More…]
However, we discovered that in a number of cases the rights of the citizen under these Bills were being affected severely. [More…]
In those circumstances we have to try again to solve this problem of achieving a resolution between the rights of the individual and the communal rights of all those involved in the industry in which the individual participates. [More…]
I should indicate to him that the 6 per cent increase which was awarded in the national wage case is an increase which has in fact already been granted but, as far as the question of the projected increase in doctors’ fees is concerned, the Australian Medical Association has only made an announcement - which, of course, it is within its rights to make - as to what the fees of doctors should be throughout Australia. [More…]
The authority to sell duty free goods in the terminal was not granted on a sole rights basis. [More…]
Some have various other rights; others do not. [More…]
But if partnership is going to consist only in talking about local rights and central responsibility- responsibility, particularly when it is financial - that is going to be a pattern - there is no hope. [More…]
Attitudes, desires and rights of people change. [More…]
Our aim has been to achieve the principle that the law and its administration should recognise the rights and responsibilities of persons and organisations to pursue, in a satisfying variety of ways, activities consistent with the observation of the day as one of spiritual, social and physical recreation and the enjoyment of leisure. [More…]
In seeking a fair deal for all concerned in this matter and realising that various awards govern the rights of those who do work for wages in respect to overtime and hours of employment, the Committee has found it wise to include it its recommendations one which reads: [More…]
It would indeed weaken our credibility amongst Asian countries if we were unilaterally to recognise the People’s Republic of China without seeking protection for the status and rights of the people of Taiwan. [More…]
It has been stated before and it needs to be stated again, especially in view of what we have heard from Senator Turnbull, that Australia attaches great importance to the interests and rights of Taiwan as a member of the international community. [More…]
The first objective must be to find ways of protecting the status and rights of the people of Taiwan to representation in the United Nations. [More…]
Article 18 goes on to state that these questions shall include - I will mention only the relevant ones - the suspension of the rights and privileges of membership and the expulsion of members. [More…]
The status and rights of Taiwan as a member of the international community must be protected. [More…]
They should have the same rights and privileges as others. [More…]
They should have the same rights to the pursuit of happiness - to use an American phrase - as every other person in the world. [More…]
Calls in support of the right to dissent must be heeded, but they must not be allowed to deteriorate into attacks upon the rights and proper liberties of other people. [More…]
To admit such rights would ignore the legitimate interests of others. [More…]
That those interests are entitled to protection is recognised in Article 29 (2) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in which it is stated that in the exercise of bis rights everyone shall be subject to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing recognition of the rights of others and of meeting the requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society. [More…]
the existence of rights depends upon the establishment of related obligations and neither can exist without the co-existence of the other. [More…]
One way of doing such an injury is unreasonably to obstruct your neighbour in the legitimate exercise of the rights and privileges that he, as a member of the public, is entitled to enjoy. [More…]
The committee recommended that the law in the United Kingdom should be revised in order to simplify and clarify it, to help the authorities in maintaining order and to give participants in assemblies a greater understanding of their legal rights and liabilities. [More…]
The term ‘unreasonable obstruction’, as used in the Bill, is an act that constitutes, or contributes to, an obstruction of the exercise or enjoyment by other persons of their lawful rights or privileges where, having regard to all the circumstances of: the obstruction, including its place, time, duration and nature, it constitutes an unreasonable obstruction. [More…]
In summary, this Bill is designed to protect the civil rights of innocent persons, and the property of those persons, from unlawful and unreasonable conduct occurring in the course of certain assemblies. [More…]
Public tenders were invited for the rights to sell and supply duty free merchandise in the Sydney international terminal. [More…]
The various legislative measures made to date to deal with the problems are bound to failure because the amendments made to any one Ordinance are based on short-sighted, stop-gap methods made without any real attempt to study and evaluate the consequential side effects of such amendments upon another Ordinance or upon the rights of parties under leases and agreements made prior to the amendments of the legislation. [More…]
Indeed, most recent amendments deny the rights of persons arising under contracts made by the Commonwealth in the form of leases with unexpired terms of many years. [More…]
To safeguard the industries of Australian Aboriginals from increasing competition from cheap overseas-produced imitation bark paintings, boomerangs and other traditional Aboriginal products and to assist the Aboriginals in retaining and building their markets, both domestic and overseas, for such products, which represent their culture, will the Minister request the MinisterinCharge of Aboriginal Affairs to investigate the possibility of taking action to legislate to license the manufacture and sale of any such products and to secure the widest possible patent and design rights for Australian Aboriginals? [More…]
I desire to add a few words on this motion, mainly in order to have it recorded that, consistent with my previous policy, I again oppose the intrusion upon and the taking away of the rights of senators to open debate in this chamber and object to the fact that about a quarter of the number of senators are not being able to be in the chamber because they have responsibilities on committees. [More…]
Since I became a member of the Senate I have seen from time to time this attempt to take away some of the rights of senators and to impose some restriction on their speaking time or on debating time by cutting down here and cutting down there. [More…]
On every occasion I have opposed this restriction of the rights of senators. [More…]
It will be seen that those who framed the Standing Orders of the Senate guarded keenly the rights of this chamber. [More…]
If we accept this proposal we will be eroding the rights of members of the Senate. [More…]
When framing the Standing Orders the founding fathers could envisage situations of this kind developing and endeavoured to protect the Senate, the rights of senators and the people who are bound by decisions of the Senate. [More…]
It may be remembered that during 1970 Mr Spiro Agnew, the Vice-President of the United States, and Mr Reagan, the Republican Governor of California, entered into an intensive campaign of law and order directed against the civil rights movement and against those people who were demonstrating in the streets against the continuation of the war in Vietnam. [More…]
Vice-President Agnew was the star performer in the campaign for law and order and he campaigned very vigorously against people such as Adlai Stevenson III, a former Marine Corps officer who was the Democratic Party candidate for United States senator from the State of Illinois; against Mr Tunney, the Democratic Party candidate for the Senate in California; and against many other eminent Americans who have been opposed to the Vietnam war and who have supported the civil rights movement in the United States. [More…]
No doubt all of these things should be preserved, but how different is that approach from the principles which are safeguarded in the Bill of Rights of the United States of America. [More…]
The First Amendment to the Bill of Rights states: [More…]
The right of persons to assemble appears in the First Amendment of the, Bill of Rights, in the United States Constitution. [More…]
The primacy of those rights is given to the people who wish to assemble. [More…]
He mentioned only the rights of people who may in some way be hindered or obstructed by those people who do assemble. [More…]
The subsidiary rights are those of persons who may be interfered with by the exercise of the right of assembly. [More…]
The First Amendment of the Bill of Rights refers to the right of assembly and not the right of persons who may be affected by an assembly. [More…]
If that City of Chicago ordinance is a meat axe ordinance, what we have before us now is a. whole butcher’s shop full of meat axes because it is much more imprecise than was the Chicago ordinance declared to be unconstitutional and contrary to the Bill of Rights by the United States Supreme Court. [More…]
Only recently Frank McManus, a member of Parliament, was sentenced to gaol for 6 months because of his vigorous activities on behalf of the civil’ rights of the Irish people in Northern Ireland - so-called Ulster. [More…]
We hear a great deal about somebody sitting down disgracefully in the Department of Labour and National Service and how the full majesty of the law and the police forces must be called in in order to stop these shocking activities which were used in the civil rights campaign in the United States of America supported by President Kennedy and President Johnson. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party says that the primary right is the right for people to demonstrate and the right of free assembly, not the rights of those people who object to it. [More…]
the existence of rights depends upon the establishment of related obligations and neither can exist without the co-existence of the other. [More…]
This gap has been referred to already by Senator Wheeldon who cited the American Bill of Rights as an example df a positive’ charter for dissenters. [More…]
is always assumed that we have these rights, but the fact is that there is no law and ho constitutional guarantee that we have a right of freedom of speech and a peaceful assembly. [More…]
A true synthesis of law and order would require that the emphasis in this Bill should be the other way; that is, in the direction of spelling out specific rights of dissent and public assembly. [More…]
The Act, as originally framed, spelt out positive rights, not adequately, not as wa would like them spelt out, but at least in a’ way which indicates that the legislature of 1914, when this country was in a state of war, had a more libertarian approach to civil rights than this Government had in 1960, when the Act was amended, when we were in a state of peace, or has in 1971 when we are still, technically at least, not at war. [More…]
frame laws stating positively the rights pf freedom of expression. [More…]
Naturally, I do not agree, with his attitude to this Bill; but I must say that I last heard him speak nearly 20 years ago when, with ability and eloquence, he was defending individuals against interference with their rights by the Communist Party, and I am glad to see that he still has the ability and eloquence that he showed on that occasion. [More…]
We affirm the right of Australian citizens and organisations to protection of their persons, their property and their civil rights from interference by alleged demonstrators. [More…]
Everybody concedes that, but what is needed today is protection of the rights of those in the community who are not demonstrating against those who are demonstrating. [More…]
They are merely attempting to voice their democratic rights. [More…]
The Constitution to be amended to provide for the protection of fundamental- civil rights and liberties. [More…]
The Commonwealth and State parliaments to pass Acts providing for human rights and civil liberties, and to take all possible legislative and administrative action and judicial proceedings to prevent infringement of such rights and liberties and in particular to prevent discrimination on the grounds of colour, race, sex, creed or politics. [More…]
Australia to pass laws and to press for world wide and regional implementation of international covenants on human rights. [More…]
Calls in support of the right to dissent, as the Minister pointed out in his speech, must be heeded, but they must never be allowed to deteriorate into attacks upon the rights and proper liberties of people. [More…]
In a world such as that in which we live there cannot be absolute rights for people to assemble together or to roam without restriction or to go into premises that are lawfully and properly occupied by other people. [More…]
These restrictions are essential in the interests of national freedom, national security, public safety and public order and even go as far as the safeguarding of public health and protecting the rights of others. [More…]
The job done by our police forces in protecting the public and maintaining public order and the rights and freedom of the people is highly commendable. [More…]
I despise those who would undermine our society by the attacks they make upon the police who endeavour to preserve the rights and freedoms of our people. [More…]
And the discipline, amongst other things, demands a respect for social order, a respect for the rights of people to move as they wish.’ [More…]
If honourable senators had listened to Senator McClelland’s speech they would see that there is no necessity for the Bill because there are sufficient laws in Australia to meet any contingency that may arise should someone trespass unlawfully on someone else’s property or should someone else interfere with someone else’s rights and liberties. [More…]
All who have served on the Regulations and Ordinances Committee and have protested against the infringement of rights of the individual and direction by the Administration must oppose this legislation. ‘ [More…]
Provided that I am within my rights in my movements and they are within the law of this country of which I am a citizen and which has given me my infant nurture, I believe that I should not be interfered with by other people in the community who wish to press their views on me. [More…]
The core of this legislation seeks to uphold the rights of citizens and I have expressed that view. [More…]
People do not interfere with the rights of others. [More…]
In general, people do not want to interfere with the rights of others. [More…]
We have laws in relation to patent rights, the control of violent acts and those who may create risk whether it be in the air or on the sea. [More…]
But there should be basic rights for individuals in the community not to be interfered with by others. [More…]
They are blackmailing not only the State government but also the Commonwealth Government in an attempt to have their rights forced on the community. [More…]
The action they take to interfere with the rights of individuals is nothing more than forcing their views on the individual. [More…]
That is a pretty forceful sort of comment to make about a force which attempts to uphold the rights of citizens in this community. [More…]
If one can follow what Senator Keeffe had to say, 1 believe he defended the rights of demonstrators. [More…]
According to the Bill, the term ‘unreasonable obstruction’ means an act or thing done by a person that constitutes, or contributes to, an obstruction of, or interference with, the exercise or enjoyment by other persons of their lawful rights and privileges. [More…]
It is a safeguard to the rights of those wishing freely to move about their lawful undertakings. [More…]
That the following matter be referred to the Standing Orders Committee - That standing order 33A be amended as follows: At end of standing order add ‘; and also to inquire into and report upon matters concerning rights, responsibilities, obligations and protection of senators and, in relation to proceedings of the Senate, of members of the public, which may be referred to it by the Senate”. [More…]
It is not a question only of whether a ban will be effective, as the rights of individuals are also involved, as is the revenue which the Government derives. [More…]
other persons of their lawful rights or privileges (including rights of passage along the public streets) where, having regard to all the circumstances’ of the obstruction ‘ or interference, including its place, lime, duration and nature, it constitutes an unreasonable obstruction or interference, and ‘unreasonably obstructs’ has a corresponding meaning. [More…]
At the moment situations of this kind, involving the safety and security of the public, develop in relation to all sorts of unrelated national and international questions, such as land rights for Aboriginals or the policy towards the coloured -people in some other country ,- such as Africa. [More…]
Demonstrators insist on interfering with the public rights of others. [More…]
If the basic philosophy is accepted that a law considered as bad should be broken by the person who holds that view, we have no law; we have no law on public order; no law on property; no law on the rights of man; no law against rape; no law to protect women and children and the weak in our community and no law even against murder itself. [More…]
Bill when it becomes law there will be no special rights and privileges for those who consider themselves above the law and for those who have a greater responsibility to obey the law because they are entrusted by the community with the responsibility of making laws. [More…]
Down through history it has -been said by many philosophers that the civilisation which cannot protect the rights of the babes, the weak and the women in its community fails to be a civilisation at all. [More…]
The other morning [ was walking past Parliament House at about 8.15 when 1 saw a group of young people who had conducted a night vigil over land rights for Aboriginals. [More…]
I raise this with the Minister to ascertain my rights in a demonstration. [More…]
I refer to Article 29, paragraph (2) of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
In a book entitled ‘Essays on Human Rights’, at page 183, he stated: [More…]
World Law Day asks all mankind to praise and consider the value of human rights under the protection of law - justice - to human kind. [More…]
Human Rights, which I define as justice for all individuals under just laws, are today the most sought for ideal for all peoples everywhere. [More…]
But if we proceed from that basis, again I ask: Why do we need a Bill of rights; why do we need some constitutional guarantee; what are the existing problems which have to be overcome? [More…]
If we have those freedoms in relation to the system, if we have the freedom to exercise the right to speak in Parliament, if we have the right of Parliament to exercise supervision over the Executive, then again we have the practical day to day necessities for the preservation of the rights and liberties of individual subjects. [More…]
It does not enable them to trample on the rights of others or to resort to violence. [More…]
They have to understand that people of all classes, colours and creeds have equal rights under the sun. [More…]
They have to restate and subscribe to the great principles of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights; they have to restate principles, like those laid down in the Magna [More…]
I believe that it is reducing the field of human rights, including freedom of speech, freedom of association and all those other freedoms without which man can never reach his estate. [More…]
The resolution recalled that Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights provides that everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person and that Article 5 provides that no-one shall be subjected to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. [More…]
In order to protect fully the rights of medical insurance fund contributors, will the Minister discuss with his counterpart in New South Wales - the New South Wales Minister for Health - and the Australian Medical Association this matter to ensure that all contributors to funds are not deprived of their right to receive home visits irrespective of the distance they might live, from a doctor’s surgery? [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Repatriation whether it is a fact that members of the Australian merchant marine have restricted repatriation rights vis-a-vis the other arms of the Services, particularly in regard to medical and hospital treatment. [More…]
Australia as a coastal state has sovereign rights over the continental shelf beyond the limits of Australian territorial waters for the purpose of exploring it and exploiting its natural resources: [More…]
This is a clear statement by the Commonwealth Parliament that it is a coastal state which has constitutional rights over the area of the continental shelf. [More…]
And whereas Australia is a party to this Convention on the Continental Shelf signed at Geneva on the twenty-ninth day of April, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight, in which those rights are defined: [More…]
During the discussions on the level of the third replenishment, agreement was also reached on a proposal to adjust the relative voting rights of individual Part 1 countries so as to reflect more accurately the total amounts which each such country had, or will have, contributed to IDA since its inception. [More…]
By way of background, I might explain that voting rights are based on subscriptions to IDA. [More…]
By general consensus at the times, it had previously been decided that the additional resources put at IDA’s disposal under the first and second replenishment exercises should not affect voting rights and for this reason the commitments then entered into took the form of contributions and not additional subscriptions. [More…]
This will be done by permitting Part I countries to make additional subscriptions, which will carry voting rights, to IDA as well as contributions under the third replenishment exercise, the relative proportions between the 2 varying in each instance so as to produce the overall voting adjustments desired. [More…]
Complex calculations undertaken by the staff of the Association indicated that, of the total amount of $US48m which Australia is expected to make available to IDA over the next 3 years, SUS583.440 should take the form of an additional subscription with voting rights. [More…]
In fact, the agreement specifically provides that when it is judged that prices and related rights and obligations are capable of successful negotiation, the International Wheat Council shall arrange a further conference with the objective of bringing them into effect within the life of the agreement. [More…]
This Bill is an onslaught upon the rights of freedom of speech and of peaceable assembly in this country. [More…]
Indeed, it is a fundamental right of every person to disagree with the Government of the day, but there are other rights in the community. [More…]
the existence of rights depends upon the establishment of related obligations and neither can exist without the co-existence of the other. [More…]
If there are no laws, if people have the right to intimidate those with whom they disagree, to interfere with the rights of others to go about their work or pleasure in freedom, without threats of violence or actual violence, this is anarchy- People who advocate this policy in fact are advocating anarchy. [More…]
I believe that in any society there must be restrictions in order to protect the rights and liberties of others. [More…]
There cannot be rights without obligations. [More…]
Because of the growth of these extreme elements on both sides, the Government has a right and an obligation to ensure that the rights pf the citizens of this country are protected. [More…]
At the same time it has to strike a sensible balance to ensure that those who wish to dissent and those who wish to demonstrate are protected and given that right so long as this does not mean that they interfere with the rights and freedoms of others. [More…]
It was apparent then - and it is now and it always has been - that every generation has to fight over and over again the battle for our fundamental civil rights and liberties. [More…]
We tend to think that our civil rights are beyond question. [More…]
In recent times, however, almost every one of our fundamental rights and liberties has been trampled on, whittled away, challenged or ignored in Australia. [More…]
Both of those rights have been swept away in modern times, one by judicial decision and the other - in New South Wales anyway - by a schedule to an amendment to the Supreme Court Procedure Act which was slipped through without the knowledge of the lawyers and those who would be concerned. [More…]
We know that in many other respects there have been endeavours to break down the rights of the people, from cases like the Interstate Parcel Express Co. Ltd case to the use of instruments in writing to avoid control by this Parliament of what is done by the bureaucracy. [More…]
Outside all these rights there are continuing attempts by State and Federal authorities to suppress the right of peaceful dissent. [More…]
From ancient times one of .the great rights of the citizen that he has had to assert constantly against the executive government is the right to peaceable assembly, as well as the right to freedom of speech. [More…]
The Bill is a collection of provisions to enable these rights which we have and of which we ought to be jealous to be swept away. [More…]
They will be like the Crimes Act provisions which were designed to deter public servants by leaving them in complete doubt as to what their rights were. [More…]
This Government does not want to enforce the provisions of the Act; it does not want to institute any prosecutions under the Crimes Act because the limits might then become known by judicial decision, and it is better to leave people in fear and uncertainty because they do not know what their rights are. [More…]
Are the great rights of the people to be dependent on this? [More…]
The Opposition agrees that the rights of the community should be protected and that people, should not be harassed and subjected to violence; but there should be a balance and that balance is strongly against the right of peaceful assembly and free expression in this community. [More…]
If there had been an intention to preserve these rights that intention could have been written into this Bill, but it was not written into it. [More…]
It is a Bill which promises public order and protects individual rights. [More…]
It will indicate that liberty may not degenerate into licence, that violence may not masquerade under the cloak of dissent and that the rights of the ordinary law abiding citizen will be protected in his person and property. [More…]
This Bill defines rights, preserves liberties and protects those who have a claim upon the nation for its protection. [More…]
He said that the Bill was an onslaught upon the rights of freedom of speech. [More…]
What we must be concerned to ensure is that liberty does not degenerate into licence and that the needs of public order, the preservation of the rights of others and the fair and efficient administration of justice shall, from time to time, permit actions to be taken which change laws that have their sole justication in their antiquity. [More…]
I should have thought that it would be at the very bastion of our own rights of personal freedom and personal property, yet this clause is castigated as a provision which is offensive to a democratic society. [More…]
The balance with which the Bill is concerned is a balance which ensures that people do not allow their freedom to become a matter of excess which denies the reasonable rights of others. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party says that the primary right is the right for people to demonstrate and the right of free assembly, not the rights of those people who object to it. [More…]
In effect he is asserting the rights of a minority to do what it pleases so that it may in effect use violence, that it may give rise to an apprehension on the part of others that violence will be engaged in and in effect, if it pleases, to damage property. [More…]
Laws of such character ought to be imposed because they are part and parcel of the rights of all of us. [More…]
One might ask why cannot those who want to exercise their right of dissent and to demonstrate at least recognise the rights of others. [More…]
But if we want to see how the legislation would work, then I suggest that it would be right and proper that we should have the best assistance that we can get on a Bill of this highly technical nature dealing with the rights of citizens, and the best way to do this is through a committee of this Senate. [More…]
If, as I suspect, we are pursuing a completely different line and making inroads into the rights of people which, it is probably not suspected, are completely different from the measures which have operated in the common law countries all over the world, it is well that we know. [More…]
It is clear from a reading of this definition that the draftsman was confronted with the problem of reconciling two competing rights. [More…]
or interference wilh, the exercise or enjoyment by other persons of their lawful rights or privileges (including the rights of passage along the public streets) where, having regard to all the circumstances of the obstruction or the interference, including its place, time, duration and nature, it constitutes an unreasonable obstruction or interference, and ‘unreasonably obstructs’ has a corresponding meaning. [More…]
In that situation, the policeman interpreting his brief on the spot, without having anything more in this definition, would be entitled to regard the rights of people proceeding along the street as being so paramount that the rights of peaceful demonstration would run a very poor second. [More…]
When it came to the task of a magistrate construing this clause and weighing the evidence which might be adduced by the policeman who had been on the spot, it would be reasonable to expect that much more weight would be given to the question of whether people walking along the street had had their rights interfered with in any way. [More…]
of their lawful rights or privileges . [More…]
If I am going to participate in an unreasonable obstruction in an assembly or contribute to an unreasonable obstruction in an assembly and I desire to keep within the law I would have to know whether it would be an interference with the lawful rights and privileges of other persons. [More…]
I doubt whether the average participant in a march would know what are the lawful rights and privileges of another person. [More…]
It would be necessary to examine a lot of court judgments to determine what are the lawful rights and privileges of other persons. [More…]
It would appear that while a person can obstruct in some circumstances he cannot obstruct if it is against the lawful rights and privileges of another person. [More…]
We know that these rights and privileges include the right of passage along a public street. [More…]
A person who wishes to ensure that he is within the law has to have a lot more knowledge than simply what are the lawful rights and privileges of people passing along the street. [More…]
He said, first of all - this is what he referred to first in his judgment - that the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States in the Bill of Rights does guarantee freedom of assembly. [More…]
means an act or thing done by a person that constitutes, or contributes to, an obstruction of, or interference with, the exercise or enjoyment by other persons of their lawful rights or privileges (including rights of passage along the public streets) where, having regard to all the circumstances of the obstruction or interference, including its place, time, duration and nature, it constitutes an unreasonable obstruction or interference, and ‘unreasonably obstructs’ has a corresponding meaning. [More…]
There is no charter of rights in this Bill. [More…]
There is certainly anything but a charter of rights even implied in the definition of unreasonable obstruction’. [More…]
For that reason I think there should be a much stricter definition of ‘unreasonable obstruction’ and it ought to be coupled with some statement of the rights of people to hold demonstrations and provide an obstruction without leaving it so loosely as an ‘unreasonable obstruction’. [More…]
We have then to find that it is ‘an act or thing done by a person’ which, firstly, constitutes by itself or, secondly, contributes to an obstruction or interference with the exercise or enjoyment by other persons of their lawful rights or privileges. [More…]
One of the lawful rights or privileges which is referred to is the right of passage along a public street. [More…]
Unquestionably that is one of our lawful rights and privileges. [More…]
Equally I would think that it is one of our lawful rights and privileges to be able to go to an election meeting and to address that meeting. [More…]
I would have thought that Senator Wheeldon would value as one of his rights the right to address people in a public concourse or to go to a meeting, and that he would regard any group which sought to prevent him from doing that as interfering with his lawful rights and privileges. [More…]
It must constitute or contribute to an obstruction or interference with a person’s lawful rights or privileges and the exercise or enjoyment of them where, having regard to all the circumstances, it constitutes an unreasonable obstruction or interference. [More…]
I do not see that that very subtle and cunning definition which has been implanted in the Bill is a reasonable approach to the rights of citizen. [More…]
It states: unreasonable obstruction’ means an act or thing done by a person that constitutes, or contributes to, an obstruction of, or interference with, the exercise or enjoyment by other persons of their lawful rights or privileges . [More…]
Where one or two people happen to sit down in a street, that does not constitute - I should imagine - an unlawful or an unreasonable obstruction of other persons rights. [More…]
I am concerned that the common man should know his rights. [More…]
If I and 2 of my mates want to demonstrate outside Parliament House against the abortion law or in favour of marriage law reform what are our rights? [More…]
The Minister has claimed that Senator James McClelland said that the Bill does not affirm the rights of peaceable demonstration. [More…]
An ordinary citizen who may wish to demonstrate outside Parliament House gets no assistance from this Bill in determining his lawful rights. [More…]
In fact, over the years it has been found that the law is far too often unduly protective of property rights and not sufficiently protective of personal safety or of certain economic rights which are protective of the person. [More…]
The Government has been concerned mostly about property rights rather than the rights of human beings. [More…]
We have seen the subsequent antitrade union and anti-civil rights legislation. [More…]
I rise only because by interjection tonight I said that Senator Wheeldon believed that the only right was the right to dissent and that the people who opposed dissent had no rights. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party says that the prim,ary right is the right for people to demonstrate and the right of free assembly, not the rights of those people who object to it. [More…]
Therefore I say that Senator Wheeldon laid down clearly that there is only one right in his mind and that is the right to demonstrate, not the rights of those people who oppose demonstrations. [More…]
He was subjected to what the Opposition regard as the rights of free expression. [More…]
1 fail to see where there is not a promotion of public order, a preservation of rights and an innate fairness in this provision. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party says thatthe primary right is the right for people to demonstrate and the right of free assembly, not the rights of those people who object to it. [More…]
I also asked what applications had been made for regular landing rights in Australia by overseas scheduled airlines in the last 2 years, what applications were pending and what was the status of each application. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Soviet Union and Aeroflot have been pressing heavily over the last 2 years for regular landing rights in Australia? [More…]
It is not a fact that Aeroflot has been pressing heavily for landing rights in Australia. [More…]
The rights of the. [More…]
Should the rights of citizens be dependent upon the belief of such persons? [More…]
I do not think there is any point in my incorporating in Hansard Article 44; 1 merely mention that it deals with the safe and orderly growth of international civil aviation; the encouragement of the arts of aircraft design and operation for peaceful purposes’, the encouragement of the development of airways and airports; meeting the needs of people for safe air transport; preventing economic waste; ensuring that the rights of contracting States are respected; avoiding discrimination; promoting air safety; and promoting generally the development of all aspects of international civil aviation. [More…]
We accept, I think, as one of the rights which attends the privacy of the occupation of our own homes, that people cannot come into our homes unless we invite them in. [More…]
I think it should be borne in mind that when there are exceptional circumstances of the character raised by Senator Murphy, such as in relation to Aboriginals in the Northern Territory who believe they have rights from time immemorial to land which is in the occupation of someone else, they may go upon that land and say that they have a right to stay there. [More…]
But it seems to me whether it be as a result of a demonstration, whether it be in pursuit of some real or alleged political purpose or whether it be a person who is just plain disrespectful and unconcerned about the rights of others and who trespasses on a person’s property, this action constitutes a penal offence. [More…]
I think we could agree that the postponement of this clause would not prejudice your rights to move a motion. [More…]
The provisions deal with the rights of persons who might be subjected to imprisonment. [More…]
Where there is a question of the rights of the people, then the people should participate in the determination of those rights. [More…]
Although this provision purports to give him a right, actually it is cutting down on his rights. [More…]
In England legislation is now being introduced to outlaw warranties of this kind because they cut down a person’s rights. [More…]
He has not said that I am putting forward anything which would do anything other than preserve the rights of the citizen under the common [More…]
He is in effect saying that even though the rights of citizens under this provision are limited the magistrate will go beyond the provisions of this legislation and actually do what 1 am proposing should be done in the amendment. [More…]
Why should we be putting a clause in this legislation which, on the face of it, limits the rights of defendants? [More…]
It has cut down his common law rights. [More…]
We are going to treat that as a breaking down of the common law rights of the defendant’. [More…]
If what I have proposed is proper; if it cannot be criticised in any way; if it will maintain the rights of a defendant at common law why has it not been accepted? [More…]
Are they going to vote against an amendment at which no criticism can be levelled and which is necessary to preserve the rights of a defendant? [More…]
The Minister said that any reasonable court will go further than is provided in the legislation to maintain the rights of a citizen. [More…]
I think that any reasonable legislature would also go further than that to maintain the rights of a citizen. [More…]
There are these encroachments into what I conceive to be the rights of the person before the courts of the land, especially here where we have the limitation that the proceedings can only be commenced with the consent of a high official of the Crown. [More…]
We have the limitation upon the rights of the accused person. [More…]
I think the person would be much better off if he was left to his rights under the common law. [More…]
Again I ask: Why should this Bill be used as a vehicle for this kind of whittling down of his rights? [More…]
I think that there is no whittling away of the rights of persons charged. [More…]
I ask the Committee to reject this clause because I am of the opinion that a person is better off under the common law of this land than he would be if his rights were chopped down by this provision. [More…]
Those who are doing it will have cause to rue the day that they commenced upon this curtailment of the rights of the citizens. [More…]
Clause 12 was postponed, as was clause 11, in order that the questions raised as to the tenancy rights and the other difficulties in the clause, which had not been explained by the Minister representing the AttorneyGeneral, could be considered. [More…]
I think it is reasonable that the amendment should have been made to protect the situations which were not concerned with public order and which could invade these other traditional rights of tenants or of other persons. [More…]
We say that it is an unnecessary and a bad Bill and that it takes into its scope provisions which have nothing to do with public order but which cut down the rights of the citizen in situations not associated with public order. [More…]
In dealing with matters of public order, the Bill is bad because it is entirely negative in striking down the rights of the citizen and in saying what should not be done. [More…]
As has been stated repeatedly, this is a Bill to preserve the rights of all citizens. [More…]
In the case of companies, in broad terms a company will be treated as an Australian entity if, in addition to its being a resident of Australia, at least 60 per cent of the ownership and control is vested in Australian entities, including shareholder companies that are themselves Australian entities, and no one person who is not an Australian entity has rights to more than 20 per cent of the ownership or control. [More…]
An enterprise owned by a company will be an enterprise with substantial Australian participation if rights to at least 20 per cent of the ownership and control of the company are held by one Australian entity. [More…]
Other ancillary tests, dealing with matters such as rights over the appointment of directors, redeemable shares and options unacquire shares and artificial arrangements designed to obtain exemption that otherwise would not have been available, are also proposed as safeguards against devices to circumvent the main tests I have described. [More…]
The law will treat this notice as if it were a notice of an income tax assessment, with the consequence that the borrower will have usual rights of objection and appeal against the Commissioner’s refusal to give a certificate. [More…]
We do this because Qantas has comparable rights in other countries. [More…]
The Bill codifies and states in very much more detail than the existing Act the law concerning employees’ rights to compensation. [More…]
In Bill after Bill the Government is breaking down the rights of the people engaged in the industries to which these levy collection Bills apply. [More…]
The Commonwealth always wants to make it easy for itself to collect money and the traditional rights of citizens in legal proceedings will be swept away. [More…]
I do not see why the Government should be able to have an averment clause in these unlimited terms in the Bill and I do not think anyone who has any real regard for the rights of the citizen would oppose its exclusion. [More…]
Is this running over the people’s rights? [More…]
Surely this is not doing away with the rights of the individual growers. [More…]
He endorses the provision and all honourable senators opposite fight like steam to preserve the provision even though it cuts down the rights of the people. [More…]
There is a rather interminable conflict between Senator Murphy and myself in relation to the reconciliation between the rights of individuals and the group rights in communities. [More…]
Because this is the conflict in which there has to be some circumscription of the rights of the individual in favour of the communal rights of others associated with the individual and as a means of protecting the other members of the participating group, this averment seems to be warranted. [More…]
I feel that this is not any unwarranted assumption of the rights of the State or of any authority unduly inserted against . [More…]
It was a very wrong provision and it shows that those who put it in did not have very much regard for the rights of the citizen. [More…]
No such case has been shown here and the only way we can stop the erosion of the rights of people is persistently to oppose such clauses. [More…]
Eighteen foreign international airlines now operate into Australia and eight more have indicated that they would like rights into Australia despite the fact that Qantas does not land or wish to land in their home countries. [More…]
Traffic rights are a valuable commodity which are traded,- [More…]
The disappointment of other airlines who don’t win the traffic rights into Australia they want is understandable, but horse trad.ing is a frustrating business if you don’t have a horse. [More…]
at all times maintain its right to carry on operations and shall, except as the Bank shall otherwise agree, take all steps necessary to acquire, maintain and renew all rights, powers, privileges and franchises which are necessary or useful in the conduct of its business; [More…]
In a statement to the Senate on 25th September 1969 the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson) outlined the Government’s proposals for the preservation of superannuation rights. [More…]
The Government’s intention is to remove that barrier from Commonwealth schemes so that Commonwealth employees, who have spent a considerable part of their working life in one field of endeavour and who could contribute much more to the community and to their own lives in some other area of Commonwealth, State, university or private employment, will no longer feel compelled, by the fear of the loss of their accumulated superannuation rights, to remain in their employment waiting only for the effluxion of time and the arrival of their date of retirement. [More…]
The rules of other Commonwealth schemes will also be amended to provide for the preservation of superannuation rights in general accord with the provisions of this Bill. [More…]
In addition, an employee who moves to public employment with the States, including State universities, within 3 months of ceasing his Commonwealth employment, will be able to preserve his superannuation rights. [More…]
Generally, preservation of superannuation rights under the Superannuation Act will be effected by means of transfer values or deferred benefits. [More…]
Turning now to inwards preservation, on becoming a contributor a person will have the right to choose to pay to the Superannuation Board any preserved superannuation rights received from his previous employment, including private sector employment, and to obtain credit in the Superannuation Fund or the Provident Account for the amount paid. [More…]
In this way the rights of the employee himself, as well as those of continuing contributors to each scheme, will be protected. [More…]
I should mention that the opportunity has been taken to remedy defects that have been found in sections 52 and 88 of the principal Act that relate to the rights of an employee who resigns to contest a parliamentary election. [More…]
As Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson said in a previous statement, the Government believes that the arrangements now being made for preservation of superannuation rights in Commonwealth schemes mark an important step forward in the development of Australia. [More…]
This Bill is a companion measure to the Superannuation Bill 1970 that I have just introduced and amends the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1970 to give effect to the Government’s proposals for the preservation of superannuation rights. [More…]
This is the Mouse that has been particularly concerned with the definition of Commonwealth and State rights and has interested itself in this field. [More…]
I am mentioning this because if a new Minister is to be appointed and if one of the major areas of his ministerial responsibility is to be this question of environmental control, as the Senate has been the initiating body in directing and stimulating parliamentary interest in this operation and as the Senate is by its constitution a body of the legislature which has the question of the definition of Commonwealth and State rights within its protection, the new Minister should be appointed to the Senate. [More…]
This is demonstrated by the fact that His Excellency the Governor-General felt it 12 May 1971 incumbent upon him at an earlier stage in this new Ministry to draw attention to the fact that the rights of the Crown had to be protected. [More…]
When I look at annex B to the Agreement - I find that the voting rights of the various governments to come to an agreement on this world marketing situation are such that 1,000 votes are allocated to the consuming countries. [More…]
In order to assure supplies of wheat and wheat flour to importing members and markets for wheat and wheat flour to exporting members at equitable and stable prices, the Council shall at an appropriate time examine the questions of prices and related rights and obligations. [More…]
In feet, the agreement specifically provides that when it is judged that prices and related rights and obligations are capable of successful negotiation, the International Wheat Council shall arrange a further conference with the objejctive of bringing them into effect within the life of the agreement. [More…]
Senator Wilkinson referred to Article 21 of the Agreement which does insert an amendment dealing with prices, related rights and obligations and obviously is intended, if the situation makes it possible later on, to enter a price factor into the scene. [More…]
Prices and related rights and obligations [More…]
In order to assure supplies’ of ‘wheat and wheatflour to importing members and markets for - wheat and wheat-flour to exporting members at equitable and stable prices, .the Council shall at an appropriate time examine the questions of prices and related rights and obligations. [More…]
ensure that all lands vested in the States or Commonwealth will be retained and that private rights to such lands is limited to leasehold; [More…]
What action does the Minister intend to take to enable fund contributors to have the same rights and privileges as trade unionists, so that they can find out how and why these big funds are disgorging their reserves? [More…]
As we are a States’ House charged with the responsibility of protecting the rights of the States, I do not think it is for the Senate to suggest that the Commonwealth should intrude into areas which are quite clearly not under its jurisdiction having regard to present circumstances. [More…]
Paragraph (b) suggests that the instrumentality will ensure that all lands vested in the States or the Commonwealth will be retained and that private rights to such land are limited to leasehold. [More…]
The total abolition of any further rights of private ownership of property in this country under any circumstances is not a matter upon which I would suggest the Senate make a decision in a small Bill that is merely an emergency measure to continue housing grants for the States. [More…]
A parallel situation occurred, not in relation to mining but in relation to pastoral rights, involving the [More…]
The injustice or otherwise of the land rights claimed by Aboriginals has come into prominence only in comparatively recent years. [More…]
But this is not to say that the tribes ever gave away their rights to the land. [More…]
There was no mention of land rights or the purchase of those rights, nor of compensation for the loss of land. [More…]
In fact, they have not been compensated for surrendering or being deprived of their ownership rights. [More…]
That exclusive corporate land rights be granted to Aboriginal communites which retain a strong tribal structure or demonstrate a potential for corporate action in regard to land at present reserved for the use of Aborigines, or where traditional occupancy according to tribal custom can be established from anthropological or other evidence. [More…]
Aboriginal land rights shall carry with them full rights to minerals in those lands. [More…]
It is time for every Australian to stand up and be counted on this national issue which concerns the rights of indigenous Australians to their own tribal land. [More…]
On other occasions, particularly during the Budget session of this Parliament, the Labor Party will be moving other motions which will support a fairly large number of people in the Australian community both in relation to land rights and in relation to the questions of health, welfare and job opportunities. [More…]
Therefore, we have to be sure that in trying to assist primary producers we do not deprive them of their rights because they have been an important unit in production for Australia. [More…]
I accept that Senator Laucke is within his rights in expressing a different opinion. [More…]
What I have said suggests that perhaps there is a need for preserving rights that deserve preservation in the public interest. [More…]
The Senate has before it now a Bill which deals with the rights or wrongs of resale price maintenance. [More…]
Also I think a statement in the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ questioned whether this Committee is acting within its constitutional rights and whether the Commonwealth Parliament does have a control over the stock exchanges. [More…]
It was suggested that if he was not entitled so to do it would be a grave infringement of a person’s business rights and that he might be compelled to provide supplies to a person who, for example, was a credit risk and who normally would not be supplied. [More…]
The schedule to the Bill completely preserves the Commonwealth’s rights and interests, yet the Commonwealth in effect adopts a holier than thou attitude and says: ‘Look that we have done to help the Shepparton Preserving Company.’ [More…]
very necessary advice which they should be given as to their rights upon discharge or in respect of their employment needs. [More…]
His re-appointment, allowances, rights, conditions, ability to engage in outside occupation and absence from duty are under the control of the Minister. [More…]
I do not know whether the Minister has given any thought to this matter, but I believe that it is important, in the interests of the worker, that this matter should influence the Government to look seriously at what can be done to protect the rights of the workers. [More…]
That Standing Order 33a be amended as follows - At end of Standing Order add “; and also to inquire into and report upon matters concerning rights, responsibilities, obligations and protection of Senators and, in relation to proceedings of the Senate, of members of the public, which may be referred to it by the Senate”. [More…]
Within the various States there is workers compensation legislation from which State employees derive their rights and benefits. [More…]
The consequence of that is that an air training cadet has no rights as such to compensation- [More…]
limits the rights of an employee by defining the places which he may attend. [More…]
I simply convey to the Minister that when the Health and Welfare Committee completed its report the key words of that report were ‘without prejudice to existing rights’. [More…]
If the Opposition is prepared to play politics and to play it hard, then we on the Government side likewise are prepared to say what has to be said and to assert our rights in the same way as members of the Opposition assert what they regard as their rights. [More…]
The 2 Bills now under discussion are closely related to each other in that they each deal with the subject of portability of pension rights. [More…]
Portability rights confer on a person by law the right to take with him an accrued pension entitlement from one area of employment to another area of employment. [More…]
The whole intent of the 2 measures is, of course, to preserve the accrued rights of a person for superannuation or pension entitlement at the conclusion of his period of service. [More…]
In addition, a person who moves to public employment with the States, including State Universities will be able to preserve his superannuation rights. [More…]
The rights which a person has built up in these areas which he is leaving will be portable and will be carried over into the new scheme. [More…]
Incidentally a point arises in relation to the qualifying period at which a, person may elect to have those preserved rights carried over. [More…]
When they do so they should be able to carry their superannuation rights with them. [More…]
Surely this is better than having somebody with a chip on his shoulder because he had to wait another 10 years before he could take his superannuation rights with him into some other area of employment in the same field which has become perhaps more attractive to him. [More…]
The officer wishes to move to a more senior academic post in a university, but because of grave doubts whether the scope and application of the proposed legislation will preserve his accumulated superannuation rights the officer is remaining in the Commonwealth service. [More…]
As the Australian Commonwealth Officers Association has said, the real worth of the preservation legislation is unknown and the rights of contributors cannot be ascertained with any degree of certainty. [More…]
in reply - In dealing with these 2 Bills, the Superannuation Bill and the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Bill, we have been reminded by those who have spoken in the Senate that the 2 Bills have a joint purpose, that is, to enable officers either coming to or going from these schemes to carry with them certain rights with regard to superannuation. [More…]
The terms upon which those rights can accompany the officer in and out of the Public Service are sufficiently set forth in the second reading speech and in the legislation, and there is no need for me to canvass them again. [More…]
It is quite obvious that when it is intended to pay out benefits that have accrued in a scheme it is essential that the terms of those other schemes be considered to see whether the rights that accrue to an incoming officer are acceptable under the Public Service superannuation scheme. [More…]
- Preservation of Rights of Certain Contributors and Former Contributors. [More…]
- Preservation of Rights of Certain Members and Former Members. [More…]
Our expectation is that you will be fair and impartial, that you will uphold the rights of senators and that you will use your office to promote the interests of all the people we represent. [More…]
Now that there are 3 of us sitting here the time has come when the Whips must realise that we constitute quite a portion of the Senate, that we cannot do our duty without an opportunity to speak, and that we have just as many rights as has anyone else in this chamber. [More…]
This is a very great office to which he has been elected ‘by the Senate, and the Opposition is confident that he will carry out the duties of that office in the manner in which they have been carried out, that is, with impartiality and with due regard to the rights and susceptibilities and failings of every one of us. [More…]
I do not know whether the considerations and the statements of supposed principle made at various times by various honourable senators as to the proper role of members or chairman of committees are right but [ think it is fair to remind the Senate that on 19th May this year it decided to refer to the Standing Committee on Privileges the whole question of the rights and responsibilities of honourable senators and of members of the public in relation to the Senate and the proceedings of its committees. [More…]
This followed, I think, a proposition which 1 had put forward some time earlier to the Senate that these matters should be clarified so one would know just what one’s rights and responsibilities were. [More…]
They are the subject of investigation by the Committee and we hope that as speedily as possible a report will be brought down so that everyone will be aware of the rights and responsibilities. [More…]
Honourable senators who have been in the Senate as long as I have will know that my concern during the 9 years that I have been here has been to protect individual senators against attempts to encroach upon the rights they have always held. [More…]
But for the purposes of this discussion I am still within my rights in referring to something on the notice paper. [More…]
The Australian Government should give a lead to ensure that these people do not starve because some international power wants to exercise its rights to carry out nuclear tests which are designed to destroy and not to enable human beings to survive. [More…]
It comes a little hard at 10 o’clock at night, when this issue started, to have hurled at mc that I am a great plotter who is seeking to destroy the rights of honourable senators opposite. [More…]
ls the Repatriation Department insisting on exclusive rights in this field of activity? [More…]
When will the Government sign and ratify the United Nations Covenant of Civil and Political Rights, the adoption of which was supported by Australia in the United Nations General Assembly in 1966? [More…]
I was at the conference on human rights in Teheran and I well recall the motions which were passed there by the delegations from most of the world. [More…]
We heard Senator Murphy refer to his visit to Teheran, the Declaration of Human Rights and non-racial discrimination. [More…]
We deny to them the right, by the use of industrial power, to cause the disruption of the economy of the country and the invasion and breach of people’s individual rights and to deny our civil liberties. [More…]
As recently as the time of the last Hall Government in South Australia the trade union movement went on to the streets and to the parks and demonstrated at stop work meetings against this discrimination against the rights of electors. [More…]
After he completed his speech I acted within my rights under the Standing Orders and asked for the documents to be tabled in the Senate. [More…]
Senator Murphy is very vocal in his references to human rights and what should be permitted. [More…]
Trade unionists do not believe that they have special rights. [More…]
It was not suggested by the mover of the proposition that the rights of the trade union movement be interfered with, except in the misuse of power. [More…]
The legislation to which my colleague Senator Kane referred was brought down by the Chifley Labor Government not to stop trade unions from taking an interest in political activities or expressing opinions but to stop the use of industrial power to interfere with the rights of the Government to govern. [More…]
Traffic rights have to be negotiated under the present pattern of government to government traffic rights negotiation. [More…]
Since the Committee was established in 1932, the principle has been followed that the functions of the Committee are to scrutinise regulations and ordinances to ascertain (a) that they are in accordance with the statute, (b) that they do not trespass unduly on personal rights and liberties, (c) that they do not unduly make the rights and liberties of citizens dependent upon administrative rather than judicial decisions, and (d) that they are concerned with administrative detail and do not amount to substantive legislation which should be a matter for parliamentary enactment. [More…]
The Committee in the preparation of its report was not concerned about the rights or wrongs of the Ordinance. [More…]
Members of the Committee conscientiously try to carry out the terms of reference of the Committee and to protect the rights of Parliament so far as delegated legislation, regulations and ordinances, are concerned. [More…]
There are new proposals as to the rights of spouses in giving evidence. [More…]
Speaking as a lawyer, I should have thought that there was more of a substantive character about the provisions of a companies ordinance which affects people’s rights and obligations in a tremendous number of ways than in an evidence ordinance which does not affect rights. [More…]
I think the Committee is elevating the law of evidence which, after all, does not affect individual rights in the sense that substantive laws affect individual rights, to a position which is not warranted. [More…]
Law is commonly divided into substantive law, which defines rights, duties and liabilities; and adjective law, which defines the procedure, pleading and proof by which the substantive law is applied in practice . [More…]
It concerns the way in which the judicial branch of government carries out its affairs, it concerns the rights of the citizen in practice in the courts and it is noteworthy that when the establishment of the important judicial branch in this Territory was being dealt with, the Parliament determined to do that by substantive legislation - direct enactment - and not by way of subordinate legislation. [More…]
Rightly so, because the enforcement of the rights of the citizen is basic to the Jaw. [More…]
There would be an opportunity for discussion at the Committee stage and we would be able to put our point of view on these important matters which so intimately affect the rights of the citizen in practice. [More…]
But when we have matters undoubtedly of considerable principle, undoubtedly of important changes in the law which effect the rights of citizens in the enforcement sphere, which concern the judicial branch of government, I think it is fair to say that this should not be left to the Executive. [More…]
Nevertheless, one cannot underestimate its significance and its importance and I think it is equally impor tant to say that it does not interfere with rights. [More…]
After all, rights are affected in a very fundamental way by the applicable laws of evidence going towards their establishment or to their destruction. [More…]
Because this Ordinance does purport merely to collate in many respects existing law that is otherwise contained in the statutes, particularly in the statutes of the State of New South Wales; because there is fluidity in the approach to the whole of this question; because of the assurance of the Attorney-General that he is conscious that, even though it is not a body of substantive law, it does to an extent impinge upon the statement of rights that it may quite properly find its place in the statutes; because he has that within his contemplation at the appropriate time; and because of the practical difficulties that may be associated with the destruction of this Ordinance and the resurrection of the multitude of laws otherwise applying, with their confusions and complexities, 1 feel that prudence dictates that this Ordinance be allowed to live. [More…]
We must have a nice balance, always in issue, between individual rights and community rights, between the facilities that a government must have at its command if it is to function in the interests of all as against the rights and entitlements of individuals. [More…]
Allied with sensitivity to these rights must always go a recognition of the practicalities of the situation and the rights of the community at large. [More…]
This has been written into our Standing Orders to protect the rights of individual senators. [More…]
In discussing this standing order we are in a sense dealing with an issue involving the rights and privileges of a senator. [More…]
The Standing Orders as a whole are framed to ensure the responsibility of the Government in leading and governing; they provide that the Government shall have certain rights and privileges. [More…]
The Standing Orders are written in such a way that, running parallel with those rights and privileges, an individual senator has a right to bring before the Senate a matter that he considers to be of importance. [More…]
The Standing Orders provide other rights for an individual senator. [More…]
It gives no rights at all to the individual. [More…]
For example, they may think that an independent member should have certain rights and privileges electorally or otherwise. [More…]
I think I can safely say that all my endeavours are designed to ensure that the privacy and the rights of individuals, subject to law, are protected and preserved as far as possible. [More…]
Criminal trials in the Australian Capital Territory cannot proceed while there is no Evidence Ordinance adequately to protect the rights of accused persons. [More…]
I can only ask that the Senate give consideration to this matter on the basis that what it is concerned with are the real rights and liberties of persons in the Australian Capital Territory in the circumstances of what has happened following the disallowance of this ordinance last Thursday, and that the appropriate, speedy and effective course is to enable a position to be reached in which an evidence ordinance can be introduced immediately so that what has been held up as a result of the disallowance resolution last Thursday can be allowed to proceed. [More…]
There were 2 members of the Committee who did not consent to the decision to proceed with the disallowance motion and reserved their rights. [More…]
One of the functions of the Regulations and Ordinances Committee is to retain the power and the rights of Parliament in the hands of the parliamentarians. [More…]
I say to honourable senators that it is their duty to recognise their rights as senators and the preservation of the rights of Parliament. [More…]
There would be an opportunity for discussion at the committee stage and we would be able to put our point of view on these important matters which so intimately affect the rights of the citizen in practice. [More…]
The discussions which took place and the answers which were arrived at then indicated to me that the Government was within its rights if it wanted to appoint Assistant Ministers. [More…]
I think that it is most important that the whole matter of the rights of the Press, and so on and so forth, should be referred to the Privileges Committee. [More…]
1 did that because anything that involves the rights and liberties of the individual is a very serious matter and one in which delays and procrastination cannot be accepted or tolerated. [More…]
So too, in general, does a decision to take away a person’s property rights in the public interest. [More…]
The prerogative writ of certiorari is one of the prerogative rights to move a matter from one jurisdiction to another jurisdiction and that operates only in judicial jurisdictions. [More…]
First, there arc the cases in which a duty to act judicially in accordance with the rules of natural justice has been held to arise by implication from the nature of a power and its impact upon the rights of individuals, despite the absence of any express duty to follow a procedure analogous to the judicial. [More…]
It would be very bad if at this stage of the development of the committee system the Senate did not show the greatest sensitivity in relation to civil rights. [More…]
I think that such a decision would bring great credit to the Senate and that members of the public, who undoubtedly approach these new developments in the Senate with some trepidation - already questions have been raised in regard to trespass upon civil rights - would be reassured if they knew that the Senate was so conscious about these matters that, even to the extent of rectifying what it thought may have been a departure from proper practice wreaking some element of injustice, it was prepared to retrace its steps and to revoke the discipline that had been imposed. [More…]
I appeal to honourable senators to do so without embarrassment and to do so with a proper concern not only for the dignity of this chamber and the rights of those who may be in it. [More…]
but more particularly for the rights of those who are not in the chamber but of whose welfare we are the guardians and the custodians. [More…]
But the important point which should never be forgotten is that in anything which a parliament does, whether it is in the exercise of a jurisdiction to assert its privileges or whether it is in any other way which affects the rights of individuals, the Senate has an obligation to act fairly. [More…]
When one examines tribunals which are not exercising judicial powers one should postulate that above all they should have regard to their responsibilities, to the rights of individuals and act fairly by everybody. [More…]
I do not enter this debate as a lawyer because I am not one, but as one who has some respect for natural justice, particularly as it applies to the rights of honourable senators to bring before the Senate matters that they consider to be in the interests of the Senate and the citizens of this country. [More…]
This is not true because, while Senator Byrne did advise us that he proposed to bring this matter before the Senate, he in no way attempted to convince us of the rights or wrongs of this case. [More…]
As I see and have always seen the role of this Parliament, we have the same rights perhaps as the Crown has to be above the courts of this country. [More…]
But the fact that we have these rights, does not give us the power to ignore the ordinary concepts of natural justice and the forms of natural justice which have been found by the courts of England and Australia over the ages to be necessary to carry out natural justice. [More…]
I ask honourable senators: Would they as judges sit here and submit to a proposition that some person be sentenced to a long period of imprisonment for a very serious breach of the rights and privileges of this Parliament if the only public defence that such a person was allowed was to stand silent while he was sentenced? [More…]
I know that such procedures are applied in some countries that have a different concept of justice and a different concept of human rights from those that we have. [More…]
However mild in the circumstances the ultimate sentence may have been, we were all concerned at what we considered to be the tremendous potential in the breach of privilege that took place and the serious necessity for the Senate to protect its rights and its privileges. [More…]
We should not fail to take every precautionary measure to protect the natural justice that should be afforded to citizens who may at any time offend and who may have to appear before us, as a judicial tribunal, when we may be called upon rightly to impose sentences upon those people to protect the rights of the Senate. [More…]
This, therefore, gives us much higher responsibility to ensure that our forms shall not be lesser than those of the courts but instead will be even more powerful in protecting the natural justice and the rights of somebody who even wishes to plead, when guilty, for the mercy of those who are about to sentence him. [More…]
To suggest that I was inspired by motives other than a proper regard for the dignity of this place and the rights of these citizens is to impute to me the type of motive that I hope never does inspire me and has never been suggested does inspire my conduct. [More…]
At all times my conduct has been dictated by a regard for or perhaps a sensitivity for the rights of these 2 people. [More…]
The food and liquor concession rights in the Sydney International Terminal were granted, after public tenders were invited, to Olims Travellers’ Services Ltd, Sydney, a company formed by Olims Consolidated Limited to operate concessions in the terminal. [More…]
The company was granted these rights for 10 years from May 1970, with a further 5 years option. [More…]
is the Repatriation Department insisting on exclusive rights in this field of activity. [More…]
We will have to face an enormous problem in the future if we do not give attention to these young people who have been deprived of some of their rights because of the attitude we take in our society. [More…]
Aboriginal rights leader, Faith Bandler, put her finger on the problem when she said: [More…]
But apart from the role of Parliament, I believe that we need to evolve at least another institution to protect the rights of the individual in the community. [More…]
I believe that it will be necessary in the future, much more than in the past, for Parliament to create administrative tribunals of a semi-judicial character - whatever one likes to call them - which will be available to provide rights of appeal for the citizen against decisions of the Executive Government, insofar as those decisions are concerned with private rights or obligations conferred by legislation. [More…]
I refer particularly, so far as this Parliament is concerned, to rights under our social services legislation. [More…]
This, I believe, is a classic case where Parliament is conferring individual rights, but under a very wide discretion. [More…]
I wish to refer to some of the events which have occurred in the last few days and which are a clear indication of where the Government has fallen down and of the inability of senior Ministers to uphold the constitutional rights of this country. [More…]
Some criticism was made recently concerning the League of Rights. [More…]
went to South Australia and cried great tears because, he said, the League of Rights was taking over. [More…]
The Premier of Queensland - the man who said he would put Senator Georges and myself under continuous police surveillance because of our unpatriotic attitudes - has said that the League of Rights has very much in common with the Country Party and he would not be banning it. [More…]
He is dead right, because the League of Rights now exerts a tremendous influence on the Country Party in Queensland in the same way that the National Civic Council has completely infiltrated the Liberal Party. [More…]
He has at all times stoutly guarded the rights, privileges and procedures of the Senate. [More…]
Recalling that article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights provides that everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person, [More…]
Recalling further that article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights provides that no one shall be subjected to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. [More…]
Desiring to promote further the dignity of man and thus to contribute to the International Year for Human Rights, [More…]
1 should, at the start, remind the Senate that the 2 main Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the United Nations Charter on which the resolution rested primarily were Article 3 and Article 5. [More…]
I believe that it is contrary to Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which states: [More…]
Of course that is an extraordinarily important social question because the preservation of law and order, the preservation of the rights of people, the insistence on the responsibility and the observance of the rights of others are things - and those alone - which make the conduct of a community possible. [More…]
Where there is a disturbance in the most violent way by the destruction of human life then there is a tremendous trauma and a tremendous violation of public order and of individual and community rights. [More…]
The document indicated that in Belgium fund subscribers had more rights than have subscribers in New South Wales to the Medical Benefits Fund of Australia and the Hospitals Contribution Fund of Australia? [More…]
I wish to refer to resolutions carried by the United Nations Conference on Human Rights in Teheran in 1968 and a. [More…]
I feel bound to point out to the Senate and to the honourable senator that Australia is a federation of States with sovereign rights. [More…]
I understand that this is a matter which has caused people in the United States to give special consideration to what are the relative rights of the employer and the employee in that type of situation. [More…]
I am not alone in my thinking when I say that Senator Bonner will have many disillusionments when he tries to persuade this Government to change its attitudes to the rights of Aborigines. [More…]
Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: [More…]
I claim that they are a violation of article 25 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
I quote again from the Declaration of Human Rights: [More…]
Respect has been replaced not by requests but by demands; demands for this and demands for that; demands for power and demands for rights to which children are not entitled. [More…]
In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the United Nations declared: [More…]
If the Committee wishes to extend the system of Executive control it will carry this amendment and restrict further the rights of members of Parliament. [More…]
They are entitled to take the view that this restricts the ability to debate; that it is a negation of human rights and freedoms; and that it puts the Senate in a posture different from that which existed when they came hire. [More…]
As Senator Gair said, this will be a typical example of how time can be wasted in discussing this subject tonight, but 1 think that in this wasting of time an important argument has been raised as a justification of why we should vote to take away the rights that senators now have and why we should restrict rights which normally would not be restricted. [More…]
The contention is that the taking away of those rights is justified because of the important business that has to be debated in the Senate. [More…]
I do not think I am at liberty to discuss what took place at that meeting, but the same kind of argument that we heard from Senator Wilkinson and Senator Byrne tonight was advanced at that meeting as the reason for wanting to deprive honourable senators of certain of their rights. [More…]
Those who are determined to vote for the amendment and to take away the rights of senators should at least put their argument on some sounder basis than the one on which they have presented it, namely, on the volume of business on the notice paper. [More…]
We should not under any circumstances, by making a decision tonight, place ourselves in a situation which will make it easier next year to make a decision that will cut back further the rights of honourable senators. [More…]
I am impressed with the arguments which have been put in relation to reducing in any shape or form the rights which presently exist for honourable senators to speak in this chamber. [More…]
Let us not sell the democratic rights of senators down the drain, for they might at some time very much regret having done so. [More…]
I want the rights of members of this House to be preserved so that they will be able to ventilate their grievances and to discuss in detail legislation that comes before them. [More…]
The rights that we now have should be preserved in toto. [More…]
But any proposal to cut down debating time is regarded as a matter of great urgency which must be brought into the chamber with the greatest possible speed so that the rights of members can be whittled away. [More…]
The proposed curtailment of the rights of members of this House does not seem to concern many honourable senators to any great extent. [More…]
I think it is tremendously important to preserve our rights because - I repeat this for the sake of emphasis - the moment we give way on this issue we give the green light to the Committee to bring in a number of other amendments to short cut the proceedings of this House and to take into other rooms of the Parliament discussions that rightly should be held in this House. [More…]
the Public Officers Superannuation Ordinance 1971 which was passed by the House of Assembly on 30th August 1971 and which will provide superannuation rights, including pensions on retirement, for local officers. [More…]
I propose also to issue a statement on the occasion of Human Rights Day on 10th December, which will make further reference to the Year. [More…]
It does seem that this is an extremely serious matter which involves the rights of the individual, the rights of the public as television interviewers and those concerned with freedom of speech, and the proper execution of powers under the Broadcasting and Television Act. [More…]
Of course, it relates to the rights of the licensees and the duties of those who are broadcasting matter from television stations. [More…]
In opening the matter I mentioned that it concerned the rights of persons who were licensees of television receivers and the rights of people to receive where there were proper operations in relation to receivers. [More…]
Although I am not a member of that Committee I shall exercise my rights to the full to get the full story. [More…]
To what extent have negotiations for landing rights been finalised and for which countries? [More…]
In view of the current operations of the British Overseas Airways Corporation charter services between Kuala Lumpur and London and the possible early final iSa ion of that airline’s rights between Singapore and London, I ask: What is being done to expedite the arrangements for the Qantas subsidiary charter airline? [More…]
Negotiations for flying rights for this part of Qantas’ operations’ are being conducted with expedition. [More…]
The views enunciated to which Senator Jessop referred relate currently to one of the most important topics in Australia; that is whether it will be found competent for this Parliament to provide sanctions or means of enforcement of industrial rights in the industrial area. [More…]
Of course, it is Important to preserve the rights of minorities. [More…]
No government has gone as far as this Government has gone in recognising the rights of minorities. [More…]
No Labor government in the past has ever put on the statute book legislation protecting the rights of minorities as this Government has done. [More…]
But it is a perversion of the truth to believe that we discharge our duties when we look after the rights of minorities. [More…]
The rights of majorities are equally important. [More…]
The Government is aware that the Western Australian Parliament recently passed legislation to provide for the orderly and planned development of the Pilbara iron ore resources and to clarify rights of occupancy of some areas where iron ore resources are located. [More…]
First of all, it involves the application of funds with the background of the Nimmo report and the aspect of Government decisions in relation to the Health Act consequent upon movement in the funds and variations in the Health Act is a very sensitive question in relation to the inherent rights and responsibilities of organisations. [More…]
I will ensure that his rights are not impinged. [More…]
He has no rights. [More…]
If he refuses to serve and if he has exhausted all his rights - I cannot concentrate while what I called recently the ‘Neanderthal grunts’ on my left persist. [More…]
Any of the penalties which devolve upon a man who has exerted all his rights to be a conscientious objector are penalties imposed by an act which we attempted to abolish altogether. [More…]
In the last resort a conscientious objector who has exercised his rights under the superior provisions which we propose would, since we have been unable to abolish the Act altogether, finally have to go to gaol to the shame of this Government’. [More…]
I think the mind of the Attorney-General was drawn to the fact that over a number of years we have heard comments by various Labor speakers about what should be the rights of a person. [More…]
I ask: As the institution of the Parliament protects the rights and the freedom of the individual, subject to the rights of others, will you give an assurance, Sir. [More…]
that the rights of individuals in this Parliament, including that of freedom of choice in relation to the joining of a trade union, will he protected? [More…]
As to the question about whether the Senate will be responsible for the protection of individuals and their rights - and I think the questioner said subject to the rights of others’ - the institution of Parliament exists for that purpose. [More…]
Similarly the owner may sell all rights in a film for many years and thus preclude its acquisition by the archive. [More…]
The Government believes that these 2 immediate decisions relating to the report of the Commonwealth Administrative Review Committee will be taken as a tangible demonstration of the significance it attaches to the protection of the rights of individuals at a time when governments excise extensive powers on their behalf. [More…]
These officers have made orders with respect to such matters as maintenance payments, property rights and access to children. [More…]
The 2 decisions I have mentioned have made it clear that many other similar orders are of questionable validity, and it is most desirable that the doubts that at present exist in relation to the rights of persons affected by such orders be removed. [More…]
These rights are of vital importance to the individuals affected. [More…]
The enforceability of such important rights as these plainly cannot be left in doubt. [More…]
The present Bill will remove the doubts that have arisen by providing that the rights of such persons are to be the same as they would have been if the orders had been validly made - that is, made by a judge of the Supreme Court. [More…]
The effect of this provision will be that, in the case of an order that an officer of the court has purported to make in accordance with the long established practice to which I have referred, the rights, liabilities, obligations and status of all persons will, by force of the Act, be the same as if the purported order had been made by a judge. [More…]
However, in the many cases to which the Bill will apply, it will provide for the rights of persons to be as it was intended that they should be when the purported orders were made and will place the persons affected in the same position as they believed themselves to be in before the High Court decisions which 1 have mentioned. [More…]
In view of the length of your association, the Fund is prepared to accept the arrears from 31st April 1970 with full continuity of benefit rights if you so desire. [More…]
I am pleased to see that in this Bill, generally speaking, the rights of these dispensaries and the friendly society members have been preserved. [More…]
If so, is such an action a contribution to industrial peace or an unwarranted interference with the rights of employers and unions to negotiate freely in the spirit of conciliation for the fixation of just wage rates? [More…]
In general, the intention is that the deficiency payment will be paid along with the proceeds of the wool and there will be the same legal rights in the deficiency payment as in the sale proceeds unless there is a separate agreement between a producer and a creditor covering the direction of a deficiency payment. [More…]
Accordingly it is necessary for the legislation to provide who is to get the payment and what are the rights of persons for the payments. [More…]
Quite apart from the aspect of civil rights of seamen, I suggest to Senator Wright that a check with the provincial labour councils in the major States of Australia will reveal that seamen who have been fined have been unduly harrassed. [More…]
What will be the legal rights of a motorist who refuses to stop or who refuses to submit to questioning or a breath test? [More…]
Mr President, I ask you whether, when you are preparing that statement, you will take into account the fact that earlier this year the Senate referred to the Privileges Committee the whole question of the rights, immunities, duties and protection of honourable senators and also the proceedings of the Senate and its committees in relation to members of the public? [More…]
Will the Attorney-General bear in mind also that the Privileges Committee of which he is a member is engaged currently on this very task of defining what are the limits and what ought to be the rights and duties of the various persons concerned, whether they be members of Senate committees or members of the public? [More…]
After all, the Attorney-General is a member of the Parliament and naturally is concerned with the rights of parliamentarians. [More…]
It is only in some of the States, particularly in Queensland I think, that there is any legislation which seeks to deal comprehensively wilh insurance companies, their obligations, the security which they must provide and the rights of policy holders. [More…]
These include an order restraining the exercise of voting rights attached to the bank shares, or directing the sale of all or any of the shares, in which the person concerned has an interest. [More…]
The court may not make an order, other than an order restraining the exercise of voting rights, if it is satisfied that failure to comply with clause 10 was due to the person’s inadvertence, mistake or ignorance and that, in all the circumstances, the failure ought lo be excused. [More…]
If I am any judge of the Public Service Board, its requirements would be that there be a phasing of staff to deal with the introduction of computers over a period, that the phasing of staff have regard to redundancies, if any, and that the intake of new officers into a department be watched to ensure that there was no injury to the employment rights of people in the department. [More…]
Was the purpose of this request to safeguard ethnic and minority rights against the encroaching demands of central government in Port Moresby? [More…]
Will the Minister give an assurance that any request by responsible Papuan politicians for a federal government in New Guinea that will not infringe State or regional rights will receive full and sympathetic consideration from the Australian Government? [More…]
Another^ and more far-reaching, aspect of this matter is its significance for the role of gold in the monetary system in the future; and in that context also the Managing Director of the Fund, Mr Schweitzer, has made the valid point that any outcome to the present impasse which did not involve gold in at least maintaining its value relative to the average appreciation of other currencies against the United States dollar would not only affect the future of gold but also the future of Special Drawing Rights which are. [More…]
There is some strong support now in certain quarters for an increased role for Special Drawing Rights (SDR’s) in the monetary system. [More…]
I ask the AttorneyGeneral: What powers does the Commonwealth Government have in relation to compulsory unionism and the protection of the rights of individuals who do not wish to join a union? [More…]
Can his rights, including that of freedom of choice, be protected legally? [More…]
I think that that sort of attitude is an absolute negation of what should be the rights and the freedoms of individuals. [More…]
The Government’s policy generally is that the rights of individuals are important; that organisations registered under the conciliation and Arbitration Act are free organisations; and that no individual should be compelled to join an organisation in order to continue his employment. [More…]
I am a little surprised in the light of what the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to which Senator Murphy has often referred, asserts about the ability of persons to be free and not to be compelled to join associations, that the honourable senators should adopt the attitude which he did in the course of his question. [More…]
One of these guidelines stresses the duty of doctors to respect at all times the personality, rights, wishes, consent and freedom of patients. [More…]
As for Government Business taking precedence after 8 o’clock on Thursday nights, I am very conscious of the rights of honourable senators in relation to General Business. [More…]
In other words it is not an attempt to circumscribe the rights of senators or of the Senate, but as we face a heavy end of session legislative programme the proposal has been devised as a means by which it might be accommodated into the remaining period with the minimum of inconvenience and disturbance. [More…]
It is not that anybody wants to circumscribe the rights of private members. [More…]
Nevertheless, while on this occasion we see it this way we would be very sensitive to any undue or premature truncation of the rights of private members or of the opportunities for General Business. [More…]
To use the General Business night for a debate on the Standing Orders was a deprivation of the rights of private senators and, in my opinion, it was quite wrong. [More…]
Nevertheless, it was an imposition upon the general rights of honourable senators for the Leader of the Government or the Leader of the Opposition to advance a proposal that we should give away our General Business night in order to discuss the Standing Orders. [More…]
Whatever emergency arises with respect to the business of the Senate I say that the rights of individual senators should not bc sacrificed and that on no account should the only night that back benchers have available to them an which to present General Business to the Senate be sacrificed to Government business. [More…]
1 believe that the other creditors - the unsecured creditors, including the small shop keeper and other people in country towns - have some rights in this matter. [More…]
Clause 9 of the Bill safeguards the rights of secured creditors by directing that the deficiency payment moneys shall be treated in the same manner as the sale proceeds of the wool. [More…]
If the Bill provided that the deficiency payment was to go to the grower, a problem would be associated with the establishment of the rights of creditors. [More…]
The position of producers where there was a security over the wool needed to be clarified so that each party would be aware of his rights. [More…]
However, I do not want unduly to repress or to restrict the rights of honourable senators in these matters. [More…]
If they are entitled to rights or the ability to exercise powers, they should know what those rights and those powers are. [More…]
According to the emoluments, obligations or rights of persons who are to be appointed to an office there may be a necessity to indicate their obligations with regard to sitting on the Tribunal or performance on the Tribunal in the light of other obligations which they may have. [More…]
he retains his existing and accruing rights; [More…]
for the purpose of determining those rights, his service as a member shall be taken into account as if it were service in the Public Service of the Commonwealth; and [More…]
the Officers’ Rights Declaration Act 1928- 1969 applies as if this Act and this section had been specified in the Schedule to that Act. [More…]
Even though as a matter of strict law administrative tribunals may not determine rights, so that it becomes a question of whether they are exercising judicial power, they do nevertheless make decisions which lead ultimately to the determination of rights of individuals. [More…]
Will the Attorney-General first allow to be concluded the investigation by this Parliament into the rights, privileges and protection of witnesses who come before our committees? [More…]
Will he accept that had these rights been properly defined, and protection and advice properly given to this witness, the witness would not now be in a serious predicament? [More…]
The rights of occupancy on the Angelas were held in abeyance until, for some extraordinary and inexplicable reason, the Minister for Mines issued a statement that he had confiscated these discoveries from Hancock and Wright and allocated them to Armco Resources Pty Ltd - not the Armco Steel Corporation - but Armco Resources, a Sydney registered American company with a paid up capital of $2 and a nominal capital of $10,000; completely managed by Americans. [More…]
I do not pass any comments on the rights or wrongs of what happened regarding those deposits, but the fact is that the Government of Western Australia provided an opportunity for an American-owned company to develop those deposits. [More…]
When Senator Murphy seeks to amend the provision by bringing in this provision for treble damages he is going against the whole tenor, the whole strain, of the development of laws which give rights to individuals to recover damages which have had expression in legislation over the last few decades. [More…]
We have noted that as far as Australia is concerned our scheduled air routes have to pass over the terrain of other countries and for this we have to get approval in the form of flight rights. [More…]
This Bill is designed to ensure that where an order of the Supreme Court has purported to be made under the Matrimonial Causes Act by an officer of the court, or by a commissioner appointed under the Supreme Court Act of South Australia, the status, rights and obligations of any person affected by the purported order will, by force of this legislation, be the same as they would have been if the order had been made by the Court itself. [More…]
The present law relating to maintenance of wives and children, and property rights between spouses, is complex, confused and inadequate and not infrequently results in injustice. [More…]
The most necessary and important reform of all is, however, the establishment of a new tribunal for matrimonial causes to determine the merits of the parties, their rights to dissolution, the custody and general welfare of children, and the rights of the parties to property as well as questions of maintenance. [More…]
I was intrigued with that part of the second reading speech of the Attorney-General (Senator Greenwood) on this Bill in which he adverted to the ancillary rights which were affected. [More…]
After all, where the status of persons and a person’s judgment in rem is determined, and where rights of matrimonial proceedings are affected, it is of extraordinary significance and of tremendous importance to the parties concerned. [More…]
I am merely saying that I dislike legislation which changes rights or duties which have been established by courts and undoubtedly this type of legislation will affect judicial decisions that established such rights and duties. [More…]
The Bill does not seek to validate purported decrees, lt seeks by legislative declaration or by the force of the legislation itself to declare or to establish rights which people would have had if the decrees which had been made had been validly made. [More…]
However, in the many cases to which the Bill will apply, it will provide for the rights of persons to be as it was intended that they should be when the purported orders were made and will place the persons affected in the same position as they believe themselves to be in before the High Court decisions which I have mentioned. [More…]
It provides for the rights, liabilities, obligations and status of all persons. [More…]
The rights, liabilities, obligations and status of all persons are to be the same as if the purported decree had been made by the Supreme Court constituted by a single judge. [More…]
However, the Parliament can establish, by the marriage and divorce and matrimonial causes powers, by force of legislation, by a legislative declaration, the rights, liabilities, obligations and status that the parties would have had if the purported decrees had been valid. [More…]
It merely states, as I said, that these rights, liabilities, obligations and status shall be the same as if the purported orders had been made by the Supreme Court. [More…]
It mentions the drawing rights of the loan and the repayment conditions of the loan. [More…]
That we request the Commonwealth Government to make representations to the Government of the Soviet Union expressing the deep concern of a large section of Australians of East European origin and other Australians at the harsh treatment of prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union and the non-implementation by the Soviet Union of the Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
I assure the honourable senator that my concern in any proposed consideration will be to ensure that, if there is to be any extension which the public interest would warrant of the ability to intercept telephone conversations, such extension will be in a way that protects the privacy and civil rights of all citizens, and that if this extension does occur it will be because considerations of public interest have necessitated it. [More…]
Is the Minister also aware of the activities of extremist groups known as the Australian League of Rights and the National Civic Council in country and provincial areas in Queensland? [More…]
In order to alert people of the true motives and objectives of these organisations, will the Minister prepare a White Paper on the Nazi Party, the National Civic Council and the League of Rights? [More…]
The existence of a warrant to arrest a person carries with it certain rights in the constable who holds the warrant or who, pursuant to that warrant, is seeking to effect an arrest. [More…]
Was the purpose of this request to safeguard ethnic and minority rights against the encroaching demands of central government in Port Moresby. [More…]
Will the Minister give an assurance that this request by responsible Papuan politicians for a federal government in Papua and New Guinea, with entrenched state or regional rights, will receive full and sympathetic consideration from the Australian Government. [More…]
The Australian television rights tothe English Rugby League 1970-71 season were purchased by Australian commercial television network and are therefore not available to the ABC. [More…]
Will the persons carrying out the survey be unqualified civilians, and what will be thelegal rights of a motorist who refuses (a) to stop or (b) to submit to questioning or breath tests. [More…]
As this black ban is a clear case of compulsory unionism by threat and virtual blackmail, will the Minister point out to the trade unions the financial harm that they are doing to these people on Kangaroo Island who are already under great financial stress, in the hope that some semblance of decency and respect for the rights ot the individual might be shown by the trade unions lifting this most undemocratic black ban? [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and MinisterinCharge of Tourist Activities inform the Parliament why his Government recognises - even if only partially - land rights for some persons in Papua New Guinea but consistently refuses the same recognition of tribal land rights to Australian Aborigines and islanders? [More…]
I again respectfully suggest that if there is an attempt to vote against the rights of people who have been committed in this war then it is an act of utter hypocrisy on behalf of the splinter group and on behalf of the supporters of the Government parties, because they would be denying publicly the right of these people to receive proper repatriation benefits, the right to receive a war service home, the right of the widows to be properly compensated and, worst of all, the rights of the hundreds of kids in this country who will not have fathers because they were killed by this Government in an illegal war. [More…]
quotes the increase in gold, special drawing rights, gold tranche, US dollars, sterling and other foreign assets. [More…]
That in itself, without judging the rights or wrongs of whether wives should work - that is their own business - gives a family in which both the husband and the wife work much more money to spend and therefore much more money with which to contribute to an inflationary tendency. [More…]
As the rights of the individual are being ignored by trade unions in their demands to enforce compulsory trade unionism on some farmers on Kangaroo Island by imposing a black ban on their wool, does this mean that any farmer who employs non-union labour on his property will be similarly black-listed, thus preventing the delivery of wheat and livestock? [More…]
As a black ban has been placed upon 5 farmers on Kangaroo Island by some trade unions because nonunion labour was employed during shearing, will the Attorney-General make inquiries to see whether any legal action can be taken to assist these farmers to defend their rights and freedoms against the militant actions of these trade unions? [More…]
That may be an area which could be utilised to advantage by people whose rights are being infringed. [More…]
The reduction of the number of independent schools in Australia will effectively deprive many taxpaying parents of their rights to choose an alternative type of education tor their children. [More…]
Have the negotiations with Britain and European countries in relation to landing rights arising from the formation of Oantair been completed? [More…]
How does the Government view the fact that when Pastor Frank Roberts, representing the Aborigines, asked for more detail in the answers, he was abruptly silenced by Mr Hooker who old him that the meeting would not be turned into a debating forum on the rights of Aborigines? [More…]
Would the Government consider this kind of behaviour by a wealthy land tycoon to be of any assistance in maintaining good relations wi h the Aborigines, especially in connection with their claims to land rights? [More…]
If so, is such an action a contribution to industrial peace or an unwarranted interference wilh the rights of employers and unions to negotiate freely in the spirit of conciliation for the fixation of just wage rales? [More…]
Parliament passed an Act this year redefining the responsibilities of demonstrators and the powers available to the police in order to give greater protection to people’s rights and property during demonstrations. [More…]
A second danger is that we are proposing to give .away the rights of the elected representatives of the people to Executive control. [More…]
I do not think one can do a great deal more to protect the rights of the Parliament than already has been done. [More…]
Essentially they felt a desire to fight back against what they experienced as an alien apparatus of law enforcement which bore oppressively on Aborigines and did not operate to protect them or accord them rights. [More…]
A Mr Messer claimed that he had some legal rights in respect of a talking chair which was used by the Commonwealth at Expo ‘70. [More…]
Last night Senator Bishop asked certain questions about the relationship of the Legal Service Bureaux to certain rights that under the Defence (Re-establishment) Act which might be sought to be availed of by persons entitled to those rights. [More…]
Re-establishment rights are given to national servicemen by the Defence (Re-establishment) Act, which is an Act administered by the Department of Labour and National Service. [More…]
In direct response to what Senator Bishop said, I think the position is that if an ex-serviceman sought advice from the Legal Service Bureau concerning his reinstatement in employment the Bureau would advise him of his rights under the Defence (Re-establishment) Act. [More…]
For this information to be made publicly available is possibly to prejudice the Commission’s negotiating ability when it cornea on a particular occasion to negotiate the rights. [More…]
Advertisers are the people who pay the high prices for rights and for the nuts and bolts that go with the televising of sport. [More…]
So when it comes to a consideration of who will be given the television rights for a particular sport, whether it be rugby league or anything else, everyone knows that the commercial stations have a decided advantage over the Australian Broadcasting Commission because they have the opportunity to call upon adverti sers. [More…]
When the rights are given, competitive tenders are called for the right to broadcast or televise the game. [More…]
It is for this reason that I believe it is necessary for this Committee to spell out, in accordance with the motion that has been proposed by Senator Murphy, definitely and for all time in order that there may no longer be any doubt in the minds of the Attorney-General or other Ministers as to the rights of the Senate and that in fact the Senate does have the right to scrutinise the accounts, receipts and financial dealings generally of statutory corporations. [More…]
Nevertheless, it is nothing more than the assertion of a right or an entitlement and, less important possibly than the assertion of the right - which Would not have very much challenge within the Parliament - is the question of how such rights :are capable of being exercised. [More…]
Indeed it is, because it involves an examination of the language of the Broadcasting and Television Act, the obligations of the Commission and, to some extent, the rights and powers of the Senate and the powers of -the Estimates committees which have been constituted. [More…]
The issue before the Committee is not so much the rights of the Parliament to scrutinise the affairs of independent corporations but rather the rights of the Senate - one House of the Parliament - to examine the affairs of independent corporations. [More…]
But the question raised is how far one House of the Parliament, in the exercise of such rights as one House possesses, might go in its examination of the affairs of independent corporations. [More…]
The matter has to be treated with some care because if the Parliament, by an Act, has established a corporation and has delineated the powers and functions of that corporation, I would think the Parliament would respect the rights of persons to act under that charter given by the Parliament. [More…]
The ABC, in its coverage of sporting events on radio and television, endeavours to embrace both major and minor sports, where the rights to broadcast and televise are available, with the funds available for the purchase of sporting programmes and rights. [More…]
Rights were not available to the ABC to broadcast or televise the English rugby league matches, which were the concern of Senator McAuliffe. [More…]
The ABC’s estimated cost of broadcasting and television rights for all types of sport for 1971-72 is $413,030. [More…]
In some Stales the ABC and commercial stations have negotiated joint rights of coverage of sporting events for fees which are shared on agreed terms. [More…]
I cannot see in the chamber an honourable senator who has not served on a committee, and many of us have had experience in dealing with subjects with State rights overtones. [More…]
It is the duty of every senator to stand here and to fight for the rights of his State. [More…]
The Committee’s recommendations were adopted by the House on 1 1th March 1971, with the exception of the proposed name of ‘Nuigini’, which was later amended, and the drafting of a bill of rights, which was deferred. [More…]
I am keenly interested in firm action being taken within the ability and competency of, firstly, the Federal Parliament and then by the States acting within their own rights. [More…]
There should be no intrusion on State rights. [More…]
If the States are so small minded that they are prepared to fight to the death for the protection of their own rights to control this problem and are not prepared to engage in a co-operative effort to overcome a national problem, I believe that if proper action were taken by the Commonwealth, the States would stand condemned, if in fact that is their attitude; and I find it hard to believe that it is. [More…]
‘The preservation of my own rights stands above the preservation of the rights of those who are to follow us in this country’. [More…]
That is why I cannot believe that any States would be sufficiently small minded to stand out from a suggestion which was made not in a spirit of taking away from the States their rights but in a spirit of what is the only solution which is available to this country to a problem which is a national problem, if we wish to preserve for those who are to follow us anything like the beauty, the majesty and the integrity of the environment which we inherited. [More…]
We have to realise that we no longer live in a frontier world in which everybody’s rights and freedoms can be expressed, as they were 50 or 100 years ago. [More…]
We live in a limited world in which there has to be a balance between the rights and the freedoms. [More…]
It may well be that some rights have to be sacrificed so that the freedom of all to enjoy the total environment can be achieved. [More…]
Airlines had exclusive rights; to oversimplify the case, expired on 30th September 1971. [More…]
When 1 say impediments’ I am referring to arrangements with foreign countries in relation to landing rights. [More…]
As at this morning, the situation of negotiating for landing rights is moving along quite satisfactorily. [More…]
Whatever may be said about the rights of the States, their rights do nol extend beyond the 3-mile limit. [More…]
How many employees, since the Superannuation Act 1922-1971 was last amended to pro-ride superannuation rights for Commonwealth employees moving to other areas of Commonwealth employment, or to public employment with the States (a) have transferred to such other employment and fully obtained the benefits of the recently amended Act and (b) have applications for benefits pending. [More…]
46 of 1971 to provide for the preservation of superannuation rights became operative on 25 May 1971. [More…]
Under that Act, where an employee exercises his option to preserve his superannuation rights on movement to public employment the preserved benefit may be either a transfer value paid to another superannuation scheme that has been declared an eligible superannuation scheme, or a deferred benefit, payable at a later date, under the Superannuation Act. [More…]
It details the history of the negotiations between the Commonwealth and the States which led to the formulation of the CommonwealthState Agreement and the joint legislative scheme, and it discusses the international law situation as it affects Australia’s rights over the seabed and its resources. [More…]
Commonwealth work in conceit and they have equal voting rights on the River Murray Commission. [More…]
Nevertheless, in drafting these provisions, care has been taken to ensure that proper safeguards exist for the rights of the defendant. [More…]
If that organisation made its own arrangements, I think the Department would be fully within its rights to say it at the next summit conference: ‘You are always bleating about industrial harmony. [More…]
ThereforeI think it could be said that there has been an accord as to the terms of reference and also as to the formal parts of the motion dealing with the staff and personnel of the Committee as well as its rights and powers. [More…]
I will not take the matter any further than that, except to say that the terms ‘with the approval of the Minister’, at the direction of the Minister’ and ‘in the opinion of the Secretary of the Department’ deprive an individual of his human rights. [More…]
Another point that greatly disturbs me is that this Bill, which to my mind offends against all human rights and political democracy, will receive passage through this chamber: but if this legislation were in the form of a regulation it would never be approved by the Regulations and Ordinances Committee. [More…]
The rights and privileges of the individual could be preserved while not destroying the purpose of the legislation. [More…]
lt does not properly provide for the rights of the individual, lt does not allow him reasonable time nor does he know in what form a notice in writing is to be served. [More…]
While we are prepared to prosecute the person who is dependent on drugs and cannot give up the habit, we are not prepared to place any restriction upon the rights of the traffickers in the tobacco industry who peddle their dope to the public of Australia on the radio and on television. [More…]
It seemed to us to he a power for the convenience of the Department, without consideration of the rights of the individual. [More…]
The provision in the Bill is a breach of civil liberties; it is a breach of the rights of individuals. [More…]
A document issued with the press announcement of 12th September 1971 on the subject indicated that a particular consideration in assessing the suitability of applicants would be an applicant’s preparedness to respect the rights of Aborigines on the island and a willingness to provide Aborigines with tangible economic benefits from mining development. [More…]
The document indicated also that the Government reserved the right not to grant prospecting rights after considering the proposals submitted. [More…]
The Council, taking into account the resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 25lh October 1971, “Restoration of the lawful rights of the People’s Republic of China in the United Nations”, whereby the representatives of the People’s Republic of China were recognised as the only lawful representatives of China in the United Nations, recalling Resolution 396 (v) adopted by the United Nations General Assembly at its 5th Regular session on 14th December 1950, recommending that …’.- altitude adopted by the General Assembly” on the question of the representation of a member state “should be taken into account in other organs of the United Nations and in the specialised agencies” [More…]
He then realised the things that were, happening between employer and employee - unfortunately they still exist - and he realised also that unless men stood up for their rights, were properly organised and were prepared to stand up as men they would continue to suffer injustice. [More…]
Is the AttorneyGeneral aware that indigenous Australians - probably the greatest number to visit the Canberra region in the last century - are demonstrating for land rights outside the Parliament today? [More…]
In view of the fact that Aboriginals now occupying some of their own land in front of Parliament House have conducted their land rights campaign with great dignity and credit to their people, will the Minister persuade the Government to make available to them a suitable building in Canberra which will serve as a headquarters for their embassy and for the Aboriginals’ and Islanders’ campaign for land rights and other matters? [More…]
The fact that there has been a group of Aboriginals outside Parliament House for some period is a well known fact, but if they are purporting to sit upon land, as the honourable senator says, which is land to which they are entitled, in my view this weakens the case which is being made out by Aboriginals in other parts of Australia for rights over certain land with which traditionally they have had a long association. [More…]
It is a matter of public knowledge that the Australian League of Rights and the National Civic Council are active in Queensland and elsewhere. [More…]
The question of any action to prevent interference with the lessee’s rights to enjoyment and use of the land held by him will be considered if and when such circumstances arise. [More…]
Mr Etheridge was classified by the Department of Immigration Technical Advisers in London as a machine setter operator which is not a skilled occupation in terms of the Tradesmen’s Rights Regulation Act 1946-1966. [More…]
If the Australian Government has some concern for this part of the world, if it has some concern for humanity and if it has some concern for Australia’s future relations with its neighbours in the Indian Ocean area it should exercise very strong pressure on the British Government to ensure that any settlement which is reached in Rhodesia is a settlement which guarantees constitutionally the rights of the overwhelming mass of the Rhodesian people - the non-whites - to be able to form their own government. [More…]
The ANZUS pact, which the Government parties view as the key to the basic security of this country, is now seen by the Labor Party as being no longer a military pact but as some form of human rights document, some form of platitudinous words rather than effective deeds. [More…]
A beginning of support for the ‘human rights’ revolution around the world most often expressed in the national liberation movements. [More…]
I have heard people at the United Nations in New York declaiming the wickedness of the South Africans and proclaiming democracy, justice, freedom and the rights of man. [More…]
Throughout Africa people are concerned that their fellow Africans are deprived of normal civil rights. [More…]
It is accepting now the rights that were given to us and saying: ‘We can exercise them’. [More…]
Rather, our system of federation is so good because wc have an overall federal authority dealing with certain matters of national import and then States with their sovereign rights attending to matters within their boundaries. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition is not the only one who has rights in this place. [More…]
Fundamentally, the Government’s aim is to have one Australian society in which all Australians - including Aboriginal Australians - will have equal rights, responsibilities and opportunities. [More…]
To this end, the Government is going to consult with any Aboriginal communities which might be affected by such mining activities so that their welfare will be taken into account when applications for exploration and development rights arc being considered. [More…]
Exploration rights will be granted on the basis that the granting of development rights will be deferred if, in the Government’s view, they would be detrimental to the interests and well-being of an Aboriginal community in the area. [More…]
With the proliferation of administrative agencies in the community and with the aggregating and accumulating demands of society that more and more disciplines shall be exercised in the social order, a proliferation of administrative tribunals is inevitable and their operation can have a very big effect on the rights of citizens. [More…]
The purport of this report is to discover whether the existing traditional common law or royal prerogative processes of appeal from the decisions of administrative tribunals are any longer appropriate in the modern age, whether other procedures should be devised, whether administrative tribunals themselves can any longer give to the citizens in the modern community that protection which once they were able to give, or whether there should not now be made available the services of what is called a public counsel, or what we familiarly call on ombudsman, to represent the rights, demands and entitlements of citizens to the administrative structure. [More…]
who did in fact order the raid and will he take action to ensure that the rights and privileges of ordinary, decent Australian people are preserved and protected at all times, and above all else on Christmas Day, the day of peace on earth and goodwill to all men? [More…]
My Association has as one of its objects the following: “ To uphold and defend the professional interests, status and rights of members and the usages and customs of journalism.” [More…]
One gets the impression that the only reason that this matter is raised is because of its political content, not because of its content from the point of view of civil liberties or the rights of the citizen in relation to the police force. [More…]
Has the Minister seen reports in the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ of yesterday and today that his own Party has been infiltrated by the extremist anti-Semitic League of Rights and that the director of that organisation, the notorious Mr Eric Butler, has claimed that substantial numbers of branch presidents, secretaries and rank and file members of both the Liberal and Country Parties are members or supporters of the League of Rights? [More…]
J have seen reports, although i have not read them closely, about the alleged activities of the League of Rights, an organisation which is entitled to exist in this country. [More…]
When considering the application or the possible amendment of the Territory’s Pharmacy Ordinance, will the Minister bear in mind that the United Nations Conference on Human Rights at Teheran in J 968 passed a resolution which stated that the: . [More…]
I refer to a question that I. asked of the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts about Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
and (2) I have previously dealt with the matter of the relative rights of access to the Joint Defence Space Research Facility. [More…]
We have been chipping away at the whole question of Public Service rights. [More…]
That a Select Committee be appointed to inquire into and report upon the structure, recruitment and management of the Commonwealth Public Serv ice and the citizen and industrial rights of its members. [More…]
That a select committee be appointed to inquire into and report upon the structure, recruitment and management of the Commonwealth Public Service and the citizen and industrial rights of its members. [More…]
He has no dependents as far as the station properties are concerned and by, rights the leases should terminate. [More…]
It is the traditional duty of the AttorneyGeneral to protect public rights and to complain of excesses of power bestowed by law. [More…]
His remarks were an infringement on the rights of the accused. [More…]
One of the duties of the Attorney-General is to safeguard the rights of those accused of federal offences. [More…]
He made it perfectly clear in language which 1 think is accepted by all lawyers and by all those who are concerned about the Constitution, that the role of the Attorney-General must be a different role from that of other Ministers; that although the AttorneyGeneral may, and indeed does, comment freely on political matters as they come before the Parliament, he must not allow the intrusion of his political views and the interests of his political Party into the discussion of an offence which any person is alleged to have committed; and that in fact - and this has been pointed out by other distinguished Attorneys-General, not only of England but also of this country - on many occasions the Attorney-General must act as a safeguard of the rights of the citizen against the views of the Cabinet, against the views of the Government and against the views of the political Party of which he is a member. [More…]
If it had not been for the Glorious Revolution of 1688 there would not have been the Bill of Rights of 1689. [More…]
This is not entirely a legal question: essentially it is a question of civil rights. [More…]
Senator Wheeldon, himself a member of the legal profession, points to actions which resulted in the Bill of Rights and actions taken throughout history which resulted in other great reforms. [More…]
There are those in this place who protest concern for civil rights and hold, for example, that parties under interrogation should not be subject to pressures by police or improper entry and search by investigating authorities. [More…]
Senator Cavanagh has so often and with such relevance and sometimes very great effectiveness raised propositions and proposed amendments in respect of regulations where individual rights have been interfered with. [More…]
But it is breaking the law and the police arc within their rights lo arrest you? [More…]
There has been no disparagement of a person’s rights before t’“e court in respect of the matters for which he is charged. [More…]
The public is concerned in seeing that Acts of Parliament are obeyed, and if those who are acting in breach of them persist in so doing, notwithstanding the infliction of the punishment prescribed by the Act, the public at large is sufficiently interested in the dispute to warrant the Attorney-General intervening for the purpose of asserting public rights and if he does so the general rule no longer operates, the dispute is no longer one between individuals, it is one between the public and a small section of the public refusing to abide by the law of the land. [More…]
If he is familiar with these authorities but chooses to flout them, he shows his contempt for the rights and traditions which he has sworn to uphold and he disqualifies himself for office on that alternative count. [More…]
Generally’, he said, ‘we are too tender atom the rights of individuals who, in circumstances of apparent, wrongdoing, can claim that they are not obliged lo answer questions. [More…]
He said that it is the traditional duty of the Attorney-General to protect public rights and to complain of excesses of power bestowed by law. [More…]
Instead this Attorney-General has invaded the rights of this accused. [More…]
He said that he has consulted his legal adviser, which suggests that there may be some doubt about the action that he took, and he has been told lhat he was quite within his rights. [More…]
I have read the articles relating to the League of Rights which have appeared in. [More…]
I think I should say that I have expressed a view that the economic policies of the League of Rights are dangerous. [More…]
I ask the Minister: Have any mining rights been granted in respect of any part of the Island or ils foreshores? [More…]
1 understand that mining rights were applied for but, since that time, those rights have been withdrawn. [More…]
Oil exploration rights had existed but the State authorities were requested to cancel them. [More…]
somewhat provocatively and challengingly, come into this place and suggest that he is being denied his rights, when in fact the whole record is that, in terms of General Business, the Senate is master of its own business and in times past has shown that it will exercise its rights. [More…]
Just as Senator Carrick expounded from his own experience of life why he puts undue, emphasis on the sovereign rights of the States, I hope in a different context to justify why I, quite apart from my Party thinking, have always advocated more centralisation of governmental action. [More…]
1 do noi: want the old situation in relation to the Stales and their so called sovereign rights when at the age of 15 or 16 years, one could go to a place and be. [More…]
It is said that the States have sovereign rights. [More…]
If I had to chose between sovereign rights and legislation against people using shotguns in hold-ups, maiming people and blowing off shopkeepers’ heads - these crimes in the streets about which people are talking - I would not have any inhibitions about trampling upon State rights. [More…]
Senator Carrick propounded the idea that if we had centralisation or if we returned taxation rights to the States they could raise only a certain amount of revenue. [More…]
I think it would be a much better idea if the Department of Foreign Affairs were a little more militant and if it argued that if it is good enough for the Soviet Union and for a small country like Greenland to have defined fishing rights we should have defined fishing rights also. [More…]
I believe with undue sovereign Stale rights we will never have any more projects of the magnitude of the Snowy Mountains project. [More…]
These are situations that we do not want here, and they can be bred if we have undue Slate sovereign rights. [More…]
My experience from the past is the only test I apply to political systems or the question of sovereign State rights. [More…]
From my own experience, I repeat that I never want to turn the clock back in relation to State rights. [More…]
Representatives of these groups come before the inquiry and the rights and wrongs of the matter are discussed. [More…]
Mr Needham appeared before Magistrate Curtain in the Bendigo court and, naturally, sought an adjournment of the case so that he could be instructed by Mr McClelland and so that he in turn could advise Mr McClelland of his rights. [More…]
Not even Darcy Dugan would have these rights taken away from him, yet we find this young man of 22 years in a situation where he was unable to put before the courts a proper defence. [More…]
That on December 10, 1948, Australia signed the ‘Universal Declaration of Human Rights’. [More…]
Whilst I am not seeking in that way to lecture the Senate or to advise it against taking any step which could be regarded as making an amendment, I hope it is appreciated that we are dealing with the working rules by which those who practise in the courts deal with the rights and obligations of the parties who appear before the courts and that in a sense the practitioners are the persons who are the best judges of what are the appropriate rules. [More…]
I think we all appreciate that at the present time inquiries are going on into areas of privilege and the rights of witnesses before parliamentary committees so that an appropriate code or standard of conduct can be evolved which will govern those proceedings. [More…]
One should not forget that plain’ im with rights to assert could often be in difficulties if, for example, medical evidence which could be given in support of their case was not given because in the period be’ween the examination being made by the doctor and the case being adjudicated in the courts the doctor had died. [More…]
If this clause is passed there will be great public controversy about its operation and questions of human rights which will arise under it. [More…]
I do not propose to go into the rights or wrongs of the particular exception which Senator Wright seeks. [More…]
The ordinance contained provisions protecting from its operation rights that had accrued before its commencement. [More…]
This result has been achieved by amending certain provisions in the principal Ordinance which ensured that it did not operate against rights that had already accrued before the principal Ordinance came into operation. [More…]
This protection has now been extended to cover rights that had accrued under transactions entered into before the announcement which was released at midight on 15th March 1972, Australian Eastern Standard Time. [More…]
Shares held in excess of 15 per cent higher this special arrangement will have normal voting rights and their holders will be able to participate in any new general share issues by virtue of their holdings of these shares. [More…]
I think there was justification for arguments to be advanced about the reception and rights of people coming into Australia, but the status of Australian nationals overseas has not always been dealt with as quickly as it should have been. [More…]
It is apparent from what Senator Douglas McClelland has said that some members of the Commonwealth Public Service are not aware of their rights. [More…]
It cannot be suggested thatthe rights of any honourable senator are being cut down. [More…]
Item 8 (Rights of witnesses - Standing Order 390). [More…]
Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSON (New South Wales - Minister for Health) (5.40) - in regard to standing order 390, the Standing Orders Committee considered the suggestion that it was advantageous to have formulated a code of rules relating to the fundamental rights of witnesses. [More…]
In the light of what has transpired subsequently in relation to the rights of witnesses, we were almost pathetic in our looking at the situation. [More…]
In regard to the rights of witnesses, dealt with in item 8, the Committee states: [More…]
The Committee considered a suggestion that it would be advantageous to have formulated a code of rules relating to the fundamental rights of witnesses appearing before standing and select committees of the Senate, including provision in such code for protective procedures where individual interests might be under inquiry. [More…]
In considering this matter, it was noted that the Senate has already referred a cognate matter to the Privileges Committee, with a view to establishing the rights, responsibilities, obligations and protection of senators, members of the Press and others in relation to Committee proceedings. [More…]
The question of the rights of people and the procedures that should be adopted is a matter which has grown with the growth of the. [More…]
People - senators and others - would be guided by those rules, and the staff, witnesses and others involved would know what were their rights, obligations, immunities and protections. [More…]
be amended to include: and also to inquire into and report upon matters concerning rights, responsibilities, obligations and protection of senators, and, rr; relation to proceedings of the Senate, of members of the public, which may be referred to it by the Senate. [More…]
In this way the Privileges Committee would be a body which at least could look into matters without any occasion of complaint of breach and it would be able to say that this is the way in which some matter should be conducted, these are the rights, these are the responsibilities and these are the protections. [More…]
Along with that was the reference also of a matter which I had suggested, namely, an inquiry by the Committee of Privileges into what were, the rights, responsibilities and so on in connection with the publication of papers or documents by such committees. [More…]
The purpose of that reference was to have ascertained the rights, responsibilities, obligations and protection of senators, members of the Press and others in relation to committee proceedings. [More…]
I am sure that senators on all sides of the chamber want to see that the committees are conducted fairly and that they discharge their high responsibilities with a due regard to the rights of not only the persons who give evidence before them but also the persons who are affected by them. [More…]
Therefore it is extremely important that, if it is necessary to lay down guidelines, a formula or a code, it should be done as soon as possible and with the greatest precision - if with precision is considered the desirable way in which these rights should be determined. [More…]
When there is an over-presentation in detail of a code of rights there is always the possibility of interpretation destroying the rights which are not stated explicitly. [More…]
Perhaps part of the strength of the British constitutional system has lain in the vagueness of the constitution and the indefinite and unspecified rights which, in a crisis, in some way can be discovered and implemented. [More…]
If the Senate is to embark upon a delineation of its rights and privileges in relation to the conduct of its business, it is most appropriate, even highly important, that the Standing Orders Committee be as rep resentative as possible, and it is quite unreal that the Standing Orders Committee should not have as one of its members a representative of a significant party in the Senate. [More…]
We are dealing with very precious things, with the rights and liberties of people. [More…]
A serious question about the infringement of the civil rights of any individual who appeared before a committee has never arisen. [More…]
The question is not whether we should refer the subject of evidence to the Privileges Committee; the question is whether we should refer to it the question of the rights of witnesses called before a committee. [More…]
It may involve the liberties and rights of citizens of this country. [More…]
I am sure it would be totally unacceptable to the Senate or any person who has regard for the ordinary concept of civil individual rights. [More…]
There was nothing to be said that was in any way to be regarded as inhibiting the rights of witnesses, or to set aside anybody’s powers or not to give anyone a fair trial. [More…]
When one makes that suggestion one immediately is likely to receive the answer: Yes, but greater protection is already given by the Bill of Rights of 1688. [More…]
I agree that the Bill of Rights does provide substantial protection, a very important protection, but one wonders whether there are not some imperfections in standing order 390 and whether there are not some doubts in relation to the Bill of Rights. [More…]
The other aspect which is of very great importance in a consideration of the rights of witnesses before parliamentary committees and particularly Senate committees is the law of the customs of Parliament or the common law. [More…]
Since coming into the Senate I have always been a back bencher and I am not prepared to take, away any rights or privileges which were contained in Standing Orders at the time I came into this place. [More…]
I have found that there are insufficient rights for ordinary honourable senators. [More…]
On no occasion will I be a party to curtailing those rights. [More…]
Under this item honourable senators are reducing rights which could be extended to apply to other occasions. [More…]
I ask every honourable senator to ask himself: ‘Should we reduce the rights which we have as honourable senators unless there is something wrong which needs rectification?’ [More…]
He has referred to the rights of honourable senators. [More…]
There is no doubt that Senator Cavanagh has a great regard for the Senate and the rights of honourable senators but one has to look at these matters in 2 ways. [More…]
Of the unlimited right of one person as against the rights of others. [More…]
I point out that in doing so they are making themselves parties to restricting the rights of individuals who will follow us in this chamber. [More…]
I have now been given the question to ask on behalf of Aborigines who want to know what their rights are in this community. [More…]
I think it is one of the great tragedies of life that a man who has been appointed to this Senate, as is the case with Senator Bonner, to defend the rights of his people now demonstrates that the only speech that he can make in respect of Aborigines is one that attacks somebody who is aligned with the Aboriginal cause. [More…]
The general policy of the Liberal Party is not to grant tribal land rights to any Aborigine in this country. [More…]
This argument on Aboriginal rights will go on in this Parliament whilever this Government is in power because it is only the Australian Labor Party which has a reasonable policy and which can implement it in a reasonable way to give to Aborigines the status of human beings. [More…]
You should defend the rights of these people instead of defending some of the interests which you have defended in this chamber. [More…]
I shall also direct the attention of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson), whom I represent, to the matter to see whether anything can be done on a basis which acknowledges the rights of people to move to better jobs and, at the same time, to avail themselves of opportunities to establish businesses in this country. [More…]
The fundamentals of our approach to education are contained, I think, and are best spelt out in the Declaration of Human Rights in the United Nations Charter. [More…]
Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. [More…]
I and my Government would accept the inherent principles as stated in the Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
It is the bounden duty of all governments to respect those rights of people. [More…]
This community is bound to observe these rights whether they be in relation to hospitals or whether money is provided for homes for the aged, for child welfare or for social welfare. [More…]
Under rationalisation, a wonderfully euphemistic word, the rights and the roles of the independent hospitals would go. [More…]
I have spoken al length, but I thought it important, because of the amendment, to state what I believe to be the philosophy of the Government, what I believe to be the philosophy underlying the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and what I believe to be the principles underlying equality of opportunity. [More…]
At the same time we have heard this continual plea for the ‘rights and freedoms of parental choice’ and charges of educational injustice. [More…]
Does absence of such a declaration leave in any doubt the rights of companies drilling offshore for oil? [More…]
When the licence rights and assets of a commercial television licensee are acquired as the result of a general takeover of one company by another, as might occur with both a Melbourne and a Brisbane station in the event of a takeover of Ansett Transport Industries Ltd by Thomas Nationwide Transport Ltd, what is the position insofar as the continuity of the television licence is concerned? [More…]
Why does the Government consistently refuse the same recognition of tribal land rights to Australian Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders that it gives to some persons in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. [More…]
In view of the fact that the Aborigines now occupying some of their own land in front of Parliament House have conducted their land rights campaign with great dignity and credit to their people, will the Minister persuade the Government to make available to them a suitable building in Canberra which will serve as a headquarters for the ‘Embassy’ and the Aborigine and Torres Strait Islander campaigners for land righto and other matters. [More…]
Every two or three years Electoral Officers conduct educational programmes for the purpose of acquainting the Aboriginal people of their enrolment and voting rights. [More…]
Members of the Commonwealth Teaching Service will have the protections and rights available under the Compensation (Commonwealth Employees) Acts, the Commonwealth Employees Furlough Act and the Superannuation Act. [More…]
Part V of the Bill includes a provision that any Commonwealth public servant, who is appointed as Commissioner or who joins the Teaching Service, will retain his existing and accruing rights, lt provides for the Commissioner to furnish an annual report, the first such report to relate to the period ending 31st December 1972. [More…]
However, the Bill safeguards the rights of members of the Service when promotions are made. [More…]
The information I have in relation to the voting rights of partnerships and companies who own 200 hives or more is that the Bill follows the basis adopted in previous legislation of a comparable nature, lt provides for property qualifications. [More…]
That on 10th December, 1948, Australia signed the ‘Universal Declaration of Human Rights’, [More…]
Will the AttorneyGeneral give the Senate an assurance that the rights of individual citizens will be protected and that industry and commerce will not be disrupted by the supporters of North Vietnam and other outside influences? [More…]
It is licence of the few in dental of the rights of the many. [More…]
I cannot give the honourable senator the assurance which he seeks - that rights of individual citizens will be protected - because essentially the maintenance of law and order in those circumstances is very difficult and primarily the responsibility of an overtaxed State police force. [More…]
Electoral Officers regularly conduct educational programmes to inform the Aboriginal people of their franchise rights and the next such educational programme for the Northern Territory will be undertaken during August/September next. [More…]
These and a few other piffling items are what brought Father Kasic a sentence of 6 years’ strict imprisonment, plus one year’s loss of citizens rights, whatever that may mean in a communist country. [More…]
I know that many honourable senators present come from the trade union movement and that they know about tradesmen’s rights and that this is a difficult question. [More…]
We hope that no situation will ever arise in this country in which more extensive powers which impinge upon or infringe in some way the traditional rights of individuals will be given to police. [More…]
Any allegation by unversity students that they have some right over and above the rights which apply to all other citizens is merely an arrogant usurpation which is quite undemocratic and, if I might say so, absolutely deplorable in a university. [More…]
What rights did the existing shareholders of TNT have to the purchase of these shares? [More…]
It is suggested that if they are stood down without pay over some considerable period because of an irresponsible stoppage of work by somebody else in the Public Service, their annual leave rights and long-service leave rights may be interfered with because of the drafting and wording of certain Public Service regulations. [More…]
There must be other reasons for termination of employment, and certain rights accrue to persons whose employment has been terminated. [More…]
It has been definitely established that where the employment is terminated, the rights of the employee to annual leave and long-service leave shall be protected. [More…]
f do not propose, as I have said, to go into the rights and wrongs of any particular stoppage. [More…]
is adi Iia ted, and the Trades Union International of Public Service Employees have condemned the Australian Government measures as a curtailment of trade union rights and contrary to Internationa) Labour Organisation conventions. [More…]
Therefore, whatever the rights or wrongs of strike action, strikes must be avoided if it is possible to avoid them. [More…]
Nevertheless, it is our responsibility to provide a levelling of incomes by legislation rather than to bar the rights of workers to receive the same income as their counterparts are paid who are working for another firm. [More…]
the privileges, rights and duties of employers and employees; [More…]
In the context of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act an industrial dispute is a dispute between an employer and employees and it includes the privileges and rights of employees, the hours of work and everything else. [More…]
The Government asks him to hear cases involving the rights of workers as against the rights of employers. [More…]
It is very nice to talk in an heroic way about the downtrodden workers and the rights of the worker to do this and that, including to go on strike because he does not agree with a decision given by an arbitration court, but what would the unions say if, as a result of an arbitration court giving a decision to workers or the employers were to say: ‘We think it is too tough. [More…]
I am concerned that the Attorney-General sets himself up as the custodian of the people’s rights on any matter anywhere in Australia irrespective of whether it is the responsibility of this Government, a State government or a local government organisation. [More…]
If the Western Australian Opposition wants to challenge anything that the Western Australian Government or any Western Australian Minister has done, is doing cr intends to do, that Opposition has its rights and indeed has its responsibilities to the Western Australian people. [More…]
Can the Senate be assured that the Australian Government will not support such a proposition and that the rights of Trans-Australia Airlines to entry and operation in Papua New Guinea will be protected? [More…]
More important, the Australians would also have marketing rights for South East Asia for the aircraft, which can be used for combat. [More…]
This measure has been condemned by every public service and post office union throughout the Western world as being contrary to the United Nations charter on human rights and as being a blatant contravention of the International Labour Organisation conventions dealing with trade union rights. [More…]
Will the Government take such action as would ensure to expatriate public servants, first, the maintenance of salary scales and promotion opportunities for those remaining in Papua New Guinea and, secondly, the continuation of superannuation rights to ensure the security of those who remain in Papua New Guinea after self-government is granted? [More…]
With regard to the third part of the honourable senator’s question, the Government, over the years, has given quite firm assurances regarding the maintenance of existing conditions for these expatriate officers, including not only salaries but also superannuation rights. [More…]
Having noted that the project was not to proceed, the Committee sought from the New South Wales Minister for Mines clarification as to whether any residual rights under the State legislation or the agreement between the New South Wales Government and the company would remain with Clutha Development Pty Limited or any associated company. [More…]
It then dealt with what it regarded as the main issues, such as State rights and the Public Service, and then went on to deal with the restructuring of Cabinet and the signs of internal disintegration of the Liberal Government. [More…]
1 hope you will permit me to exercise my rights to quote from another document. [More…]
Is Professor Stanner’s view a correct one and the Minister’s wrong, or is this a further attempt by the Government to confuse the issue of land rights for Aborigines and to camouflage the Government’s decision not to give them those land rights? [More…]
This has been done by me in no way as an attempt to curb the inalienable rights of honourable senators, for the Standing Orders provide no limit to the time available. [More…]
When I sat above the tree line, before I occupied this chair, I was as vigilant as he to see that the rights of honourable senators were protected. [More…]
I give honourable senators an unqualified assurance that in the Senate my interest is not in any way to curb or inhibit the rights of honourable senators. [More…]
There are 60 senators in this place and all are entitled to equal rights. [More…]
We of the Opposition have certain rights in this place. [More…]
We may reach times of friction and difficulty when it will not be possible to do this, lt is always open to an honourable senator to exercise his rights under the Standing Orders and refuse leave. [More…]
This is an important extension of the rights of honourable senators. [More…]
That will not happen so far as Tasmania is concerned because, if we are to have any kind of tourist industry in that State, we will fight for our rights to make sure that every ship sails with a full passenger load. [More…]
I seek to ventilate a grievance that concerns the rights of senators. [More…]
I shall digress for a moment to mention the rights of senators and members of the House of Representatives, including Ministers. [More…]
When 1 was a fledgling senator I asked Senator Anderson, as he then was, whether there was any difference between the rights of senators, members of the House of Representatives and Ministers; he replied, We are all equal here.’ [More…]
He agrees that if a senator puts a question on notice 15 days before a decision is made, he has equal rights with any member of the House of Representatives, whether he be a Minister or not. [More…]
I was very concerned with the treatment that was dealt out to me last evening, when I was refused my rights under the Standing Orders. [More…]
Since I have been a member of the Senate I have fought governments and individuals, and I have urged members of my own party to stand up for their rights. [More…]
I have done this to ensure that the rights of individuals would not be taken away. [More…]
Also, I had questioned the treatment to which I took objection last evening when I was refused my rights under the Standing Orders after seeking to speak during the debate on the motion for the adjournment of the Senate. [More…]
Here we have another example of the work load of the committee system causing some curtailment of the rights of honourable senators. [More…]
If no-one is prepared to stay in the Parliament and debate the questions on the notice paper we will go on cluttering up the notice paper and the fact that the notice paper is cluttered up will bs used as an excuse to curtail certain other rights of honourable senators. [More…]
I think that it is most necessary that the rights which honourable senators have under the Standing Orders should be preserved. [More…]
1 have fought right through against the curtailment of the rights of honourable senators. [More…]
There has been a further curtailment of those rights as recently as tonight as a result of a debate on the important subject of giving precedence to the con.sidertion of reports of committees of the Senate on Thursdays. [More…]
This is another example of how the rights of honourable senators are being encroached upon. [More…]
If we do not succeed in maintaining our rights in a vote of the Senate on the adoption of certain recommendations of the Standing Orders Committee we will have to accept the consequences. [More…]
That on December, 10, 1948, Australia signed the ‘Universal Declaration of Human Rights’, Article 25 reads: ‘Everyone has the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age and other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.’ [More…]
I opposed restriction of senator’s rights whenthe Standing Orders were amended so that senators might speak for only i hour at such times as the proceedings were being broadcast. [More…]
I know that reconciliation must be found between the preservation of the electors’ rights and the smooth, efficient and effective functioning of this chamber. [More…]
That on December 10, 1948, Australia signed the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights”, Article 25 reads: “Everyone has the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age and other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.’’ [More…]
What stage has been reached by the Bland Committee in its examination of those numerous discretions which are available to Commonwealth departments through the various statutes and regulations and which, if exercised arbitrarily, can and do affect the rights of the citizens? [More…]
We all recognise that, but what puzzles me whenever Bills of this nature are before the Senate is the patronising attitude the Government adopts towards the sovereign States of the Commonwealth which have sacrificed their own taxing rights to the Commonwealth in the interests of the sane and sensible management of the economy. [More…]
The Commonweath has nothing but the right to collect taxes and customs duty, and it was the States which granted it those rights. [More…]
I refer particularly to Western Australia where exploration rights to enormous areas of tens of thousands of square miles were granted by the State prior to the introduction of this legislation. [More…]
Further to the question just addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service by Senator Cavanagh I ask the same Minister: Is it not a fact that the legislation under which the rank and file of a trade union can be financially assisted in an endeavour to assert their rights was passed by the Chifley Government in the commendable belief that members of the rank and file of trade unions are entitled to have their ordinary rights in a union preserved? [More…]
As a consequence the Queensland people are denied their just rights to the financial assistance that they should be receiving. [More…]
But the company which owns it was able to obtain the rights to this field at a minimum of company expense and at a maximum of loss to the Queensland taxpayer. [More…]
The proposed new section 35, therefore, provides for appeals against awards, certain decisions in relation to awards and agreements and it extends appeal rights to the whole of section 41 (1) (d) of the Act. [More…]
But this does not answer the criticism of the Commonwealth Grants Commission which suggested that royalties of 5c a ton for mining rights in Queensland was insufficient. [More…]
1 dare say that a non-Queenslander has only limited rights even to enter this debate. [More…]
For many hours we have listened to honourable senators from South Australia argue the rights and the wrongs of the Chowilla Dam. [More…]
The dissent relates to the question of the eligibility of unmarried male and female members of the Services to pass on rights to others on the same basis as married male personnel can pass them on to their dependants under the existing scheme and will be able to do under the proposed scheme. [More…]
He has worked on the basis that all personnel are in fact married and will pass on rights in succession to their survivors. [More…]
They would have to forego certain rights. [More…]
Now, because we are up against time, the Government wants to alter the Standing Orders and commit us at every future session of Parliament; it wants to reduce the hours allocated for the exercise of the rights of back benchers. [More…]
In how many cases has a reduction in the rights under the Standing Orders been justified? [More…]
I submit that the proposition moved by Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson would save 2 or 3 hours a session but it would mean sacrificing the rights of many honourable senators. [More…]
I put it to you, Mr Deputy President, and to the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson), that when a technical matter or a special matter is raised on which the independent senators and the Democratic Labor Party senators wish to speak, they have the same rights as have other senators. [More…]
What concerns me is the fact that the rights of honourable senators are being niggled away at continually. [More…]
W; talk about retaining all the other rights which we have in this chamber. [More…]
It is an attempt to cut down the rights of senators. [More…]
I have fought in my Party room this question of the rights of the back bencher; I have fought it in the Standing Orders Committee; I have fought it in this chamber. [More…]
There is a determination among some honourable senators to cut down the rights and liberties of back, benchers. [More…]
Now we have it in the accursed committe system which takes away the rights of the elected people in this chamber. [More…]
Because of the determination of sections of this Senate to deprive individuals of their rights, we have no, alternative but to 30 to our respective party rooms in an attempt to wreck this new role of the Senate so that we can come back to being a debating forum in which the rights to the individual are protected. [More…]
Wherever this proposal to take away the rights of individual members originated, it has to stop. [More…]
If Mr Shanley - I believe there is a very big ‘if - believes that civil rights have been denied to him he has every opportunity to avail himself of access to the courts to allege, if he pleases, an unlawful arrest, an unlawful assault or a false imprisonment. [More…]
If the police did wrong by Mr Shanley I would suggest to him that he has civil rights and should exercise them. [More…]
In the first place, as I have said, if Mr Shanley claims that he has been wrongly dealt with he has, as I have indicated, certain rights at law which he may exercise. [More…]
The situation amounts to this: Here is a young man whose civil rights have been taken away by a bungle. [More…]
I expressed my great concern that the Attorney-General should place the Commonwealth Police in the position in which they have been placed at his direction and also that the individual freedom and civil rights of Chris Shanley were offended in this way. [More…]
I think Senator Turnbull raised this matter reasonably; I think Senator O’Byrne unreasonably jumped in to make quite outrageous statements about rights being taken away by a bungle, about fascistlike conduct and about other things. [More…]
He says: ‘Well, Mr Shanley is a young man of 20 or 21 years of age and he has his civil rights’. [More…]
Does a person have to go to a court of law to establish the fundamental rights of a citizen in this country? [More…]
This has been another example of grandstanding and now, when the chickens have come home to roost, senators in this chamber are attempting to protect those poor downtrodden people who claim their civil rights are being affronted. [More…]
I have been heard to express very strongly in this Parliament my views that our duty is to uphold the rights of both majorities and minorities. [More…]
It is improper to reflect on the police force in the same way as it is improper to interfere in any way with the rights of any party being dealt with by the law. [More…]
The rights of stall who may be members of the Commonwealth Public Service are protected and preserved. [More…]
It is curious that the rights of the people should be raised in these primary industry Bills. [More…]
We think that the provisions in regard to averment represent an encroachment upon the rights of citizens who are affected by them. [More…]
They are the ones who rise in this place so often and express the greatest tenderness about the rights and privileges of others. [More…]
Senator Cavanagh is another blatherer who speaks here so often and is heard in comparative silence, but let anyone else try to make a speech and the honourable senator and his ilk blather from beginning to end, yet they profess to be so sensitive about the rights of others in other spheres. [More…]
It is supposed to defend the rights of people. [More…]
In the social history of mankind it is not so very long ago that there were no legal rights in terms of employment and no legal rights to organise as a trade union. [More…]
I know that we have to reconcile the demands of the community as a whole to the rights of individuals in the work force. [More…]
I believe that the normal union organiser has the right to protect his men, to make sure that they are not exploited and to take every advantage of industrial legislation which this Government, in the main, has introduced to protect the rights of workers. [More…]
It is contrary to the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and it is a matter to which I will be referring in my proposals for amendments to the legislation. [More…]
Contrary to the opinions of Senator James McClelland, the legislation before the Senate tonight will give the trade unions more democratic protection and democratic rights at the grass roots. [More…]
Clauses 33 and 34 extend the powers of inspectors in terms of the rights of entry to premises outside ordinary working hours. [More…]
Do not those 9 collective reforms add up to a valuable widening of the rights and protections of unionists at the grass roots? [More…]
They cannot wage economic war on the community and at the same time claim the rights of the arbitration system. [More…]
If there is provision for interference which is contrary to what was slated in the International Labour Organisation conventions and contrary to what has been set out as to what ought to be the rights of trade unions, if we are to have judicial decisions which interfere drastically with the affairs of trade unions and which allow no appeal to anybody, and if we are to have an amount of interference by administrative bodies such as we have in this Act and especially in the amendments which are being proposed by the Government, does anyone think it will stop there? [More…]
I am astonished that Government senators have not been told what the position is, namely, that we are dealing with corporations and that the provisions of the Bill provide a blueprint for future governments as to legislation dealing with the rights of corporations and with corporation mergers. [More…]
The union told the New South Wales Police Force of its intention and there were one or two officers of that force there in their role as protectors of the rights of the people and, of course, in their role as the protectors of property. [More…]
I and other senators have attended virtually hundreds of naturalisation ceremonies at which we are told about the privileges, responsibilities and rights of people becoming citizens of this country. [More…]
1 must rule against Senator Willesee on the ground that Senator Webster is still within his rights. [More…]
That is to say, at that time more than 50 per cent of the capital, voting power and the rights to dividends and other distributions are in the hands of a public company shareholder. [More…]
There coexists, however, countervaling devices which ensure that any attempt by the public company shareholder to exercise its ostensible rights can easily be defeated by the private company interests so that the public company rights are, in fact, worthless. [More…]
If a taxpayer is not satisfied with the opinion formed by the Commissioner on the facts of a particular case, the usual rights of objection and appeal against the Commissioner’s decision will, or course, be available to contest the correctness of the Commissioner’s decision. [More…]
Many statements have been made on the rights and freedoms of trade unions. [More…]
This practice is going against the world opinion on what the rights of trade unions should be. [More…]
This Bill is directly hi contravention of that statement of the rights of trade unions. [More…]
I do not think it is proper, for example, that there should be unappealable judicial decisions which gravely affect the rights of the members of trade unions, the officers of those bodies and the property of those bodies. [More…]
When dealing with the rights of corporations, their officers and members, no matter how erroneous that decision might be, there is no appeal from it. [More…]
There is a feeling in the community that no man ought to be given the power to make very great decisions concerning the rights of persons without some form of appeal being available. [More…]
It has tried in a dozen different ways to break down the rights of citizens. [More…]
Why do its members have to fight for the rule of law and for some reasonable kinds of provisions so that there will be a free exercise of their rights by citizens, whether they be members of trade unions or otherwise? [More…]
Let us not say that in these matters all of the blame is on one side, but it is time the situation was looked at and that somebody started to realise that we are dealing with the rights of people. [More…]
It affects the rights of persons, corporations and all those engaged in restrictive practices. [More…]
So let us proceed extremely cautiously before we do anything which might affect their rights’. [More…]
To push this legislation through in the teeth of our opposition, our assertions and our feelings that it is eroding the rights of those persons whom the Australian Labor Party represents, is not the way in which affairs ought to be dealt with by a House of review. [More…]
Since Senator Murphy has dealt at some length with what he refers to as the rights of unionists, maybe it is appropriate that in stating my part of the case of the Australian Democratic Labor Party I should outline the principles upon which we would judge this legislation. [More…]
Secondly, union organisation, as such, should not be weakened by legislation not merely because it is an expression of the basic rights of wage earners but because it is the necessary foundation of the conciliation and arbitration system. [More…]
Thirdly, the legitimacy of authority within the trade union necessarily requires voting procedures which safeguard the democratic rights and proprietary interests of individual members in their unions. [More…]
As we see the position, the Bill can be divided into 4 fields: Firstly, matters related to the constitutional position of unions concerning questions which could, in the case of a number of unions, go to their very existence; secondly, the rights of rank and file unionists within the unions; thirdly, amendments to the structure and procedure of the conciliation and arbitration system; fourthly, the question of sanctions and the responsibility of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
However, to the extent that the Bill does promote measures to assist in preserving unions from the constitutional challenges of the Moore v. Doyle case, and to the extent that the Bill gives effect to a number of our views in preserving and promoting the rights of union members within their institutions, we consider that it should not be rejected. [More…]
One does not find in this Bill or in the Conciliation and Arbitration Act itself any provisions that represent an attempt by the Government to impose restrictions on the rights of the employer. [More…]
I think it can be established that the objectives and policy of the Government aided and abetted by the Democratic Labor Party, are to restrict the rights and activities of the trade union movement. [More…]
Basically the philosphy of the current and previous governmentsin relation to organisations registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act is that they are voluntary organisations and the Government should not interfere in their affairs unless it can be demonstrated that there are or are likely to be dishonest practices which would prejudice the rights of members or groups of members. [More…]
Not only is the Government insincere in respect of the democratic control of the trade union movement; it can also be shown and will it be shown by Opposition speakers that the main aim of the Government is to weaken the capacity of the trade union movement to defend its rights and its members. [More…]
The Conciliation and Arbitration Act was amended by the Menzies administration in the 1950s to provide that a member of a union could exercise his rights in accordance with the Act to receive financial assistance to challenge actions taken by trade unions. [More…]
In the provisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration Bill the Government is saying that trade unions, as corporate bodies, should be subject to certain government interference and certain government supervision, so that the members of the organisations shall have their rights protected. [More…]
When we consider the application of that principle cross the board and see the manner in which it is applied to one of the largest organisations in Australia - I am led to believe that this position is somewhat similar to that of organisations in other States and the Hospitals Contribution Fund of New South Wales - we see that the rights of the members of the organisation are deliberately restricted by its rules. [More…]
There is no restriction on the rights of members of trade unions. [More…]
Members of trade unions have full and equal rights to participate in the management and affairs of the organisations. [More…]
But in this wonderful organisation - the Medical Benefits Fund in New South Wales - the membership have no rights whatsoever. [More…]
So I find it somewhat hypocritical of the Government to say that it is concerned with democracy and with the rights of members of trade unions, when the members of these important organisations, which are concerned with the medical and hospital rights of contributors, have no say in the running of the organisations. [More…]
The Committee was constituted to examine complaints received concerning alleged infringements of trade union rights. [More…]
1. which covers the human rights of individuals, and Convention No. [More…]
87 which protects the rights of the trade union movement to organise and to have freedom of expression and freedom of organisation. [More…]
On the other hand, today members of the Government that is a signatory to the Convention are trying, in a hypocritical manner, to steamroll through this chamber a Bill that does nothing but interfere with the rights of trade unions and their members. [More…]
87 guarantees to all workers and employers, without distinction whatsoever and without previous authorisation, the right to establish and join organisations of their own choosing; these organisations are to have the right to draw up their constitutions and rules, to elect their representatives in full freedom, to organise their administration and activities and to formulate their programmes, without interference by the public authorities; they may not be dissolved or suspended by administrative authority; they shall have the right to form federations and confederations, and to affiliate with international organisations of workers and employers; those rights also apply to federations and confederations; the acquisition of legal personality by organisations may not be made subject to conditions restricting the exercise of these rights; in exercising them workers and employers and their respective organisations must respect the law of the land, but in turn the law of the land may not be such as to impair, nor may it be so applied as to impair, the guarantees provided for in the Convention; the extent to which the guarantees provided for in the Convention shall apply to the armed forces and the police is to be determined by national laws or regulations. [More…]
I nearly cried last evening when I heard Senator Carrick say that there is no greater champion than he is of the rights of the genuine trade union leader. [More…]
I am hoping too that legislation will be enacted to protect the rights of shareholders and give them some feeling, some element of democracy. [More…]
democratic rights of trade unionists have to be protected, surely the same remarks ought to apply to the shareholders, to the systems that are operated by the various companies and to mergers, takeovers and other forms of affiliation or amalgamation - call them what you will - within the commercial world. [More…]
For instance, I feel that in this area there exists no democracy because the small shareholder in a company in this country has very few rights, nor does he have what we consider to be a democratic right. [More…]
He is often ignored and decisions are taken without any consideration of his rights. [More…]
I think the significant fact about what the General Practitioners Society said - one must be cautious in accepting the authority of statements coming from that body - is that the Society indicated that, under the plan of the Labor Party, the general practitioner would not have any rights at all. [More…]
People require recourse to law to establish citizen rights. [More…]
They need advice on planning estates, arranging finance, the use of trust funds, entering into contracts, asserting citizen rights under the Constitution, defending themselves or their families in the courts of the land, fighting for their freedom and liberty, and generally in asserting citizenship. [More…]
We are not dealing only with the rights of the legal profession. [More…]
Not only are the people of the Australian Capital Territory affected, but people outside the Territory in future will have to come here more often in order to pursue their rights in the courts which will be set up in the Territory. [More…]
As in other countries, the courts situated in the seat of government will be the courts in which, for various procedural reasons, many of the rights of Australian citizens will be protected and pursued by proceedings initiated in those courts. [More…]
Clause 1 1 - Preservation of rights. [More…]
This clause amends section 12 of the principal Act by adding new sub-sections which will have the effect of preserving the rights of those who are appointed to the Commission from the Public Service. [More…]
I sense that the real area with which he is concerned is the movement of persons from outside the Government Service where they may have some accrued pension rights into the Government Service. [More…]
Likewise, this clause does provide for protection of rights and, in a sense, this covers the general area of concern. [More…]
Quite apart from the rights and wrongs of parliamentarians salaries to which Senator Bishop has referred, we on this side of the House, who consider that we have a responsibility to the lower paid sections of the community, could not in conscience support a wage increase for Commissioners which is so vastly out of proportion to the treatment which those people themselves have meted out to the persons whose wages it is their task to fix. [More…]
I think it reveals - I say this with some hesitation - a concentration upon the position of members of Parliament to the execution of what are the needs of the community and the rights - and I repeat the word rights’ - of other people. [More…]
Will some people, who have for years gone through the tortuous processes of negotiating, amending their rules and all sorts of things and actually observing the law, have their rights cut off at this point? [More…]
Basically, the philsophy of the current and previous governments in relation to organisations registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act is that they are voluntary organisations and the Government should not interfere in their affairs unless it can be demonstrated that there are or are likely to be dishonest practices which would prejudice the rights of members or groups of members. [More…]
There is no interference with existing rights. [More…]
I have said that there is no retrospectivity or interference with existing rights. [More…]
In those circumstances it follows that there is no deprivation of the existing rights that we have and no action which takes away a particular organisation’s current rights at law. [More…]
But the Government is teaching some very curious lessons to the people of Australia as to how legislation ought to be framed and as to how the rights of the people can be eroded and trampled upon. [More…]
Senator Murphy is a lawyer and, as a lawyer, Senator Murphy knows that retrospective legislation is legislation which operates so as to affect vested rights. [More…]
There are no vested rights under this proposal which is being put forward, and Senator Murphy knows it. [More…]
He does not because the situation is that there is no deprivation of existing rights; no action which takes away from organisations rights which they currently have. [More…]
I say emphatically it is not, for the simple reason that it does not take away existing rights, and that is the commonly, generally understood meaning of the word ‘retrospective’. [More…]
Before any agreement could be reached it was necessary to draw up rules for an amalgamated body, preserving the rights of each union. [More…]
The rights of small unions had to be covered, as did the rights of crafts, the settlement of demarcation disputes and other questions affecting any union going into the amalgamation. [More…]
To my mind this involves an infringement of the rights and duties of officers of organisations. [More…]
But many honourable senators on this side, such as Senator Cavanagh, Senator Milliner, Senator Brown, Senator Cameron, have for 20 or 30 years been protecting the rights of union members in shearing sheds and furniture factories, night and day. [More…]
Did any other companies follow Noranda Australia Pty Ltd and make application for prospecting rights in the region concerned. [More…]
I will not go into States’ rights issues at the moment. [More…]
I emphasise those words - ‘nothing happened after 20 months’ and one station notified that it was intending to act within its rights and show delayed football, that a new standard quickly materialised. [More…]
I am not opposed to re-plays of football on Sunday mornings provided that the rights of minorities are protected. [More…]
But this Government in allowing these programmes at these times has not taken any action at all to protect the rights of those minorities. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party has said that upon assuming office, among other things it will protect the rights of such minority groups by imposing quotas not only for drama but also for professional variety, documentary and educational programmes. [More…]
The Government should have taken action by this time to protect the public interest and the rights of the minorities which are so often referred to by this Government and also by the Control Board in its annual reports. [More…]
But there are no questions of the preferential rights that exist for ATI. [More…]
In that submission the preferential rights of ATI are spelled out clearly. [More…]
All I am saying is that ex-members of Parliament have rights. [More…]
He worked in a period of great challenge, a period in which the judge was tested as the final repository and the protector of individual rights under the law. [More…]
That the state of Aboriginal rights, health, infant mortality, life expectancy, education, training, employment, ownership, movement and democratic political advancement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Peoples everywhere in Australia is unequal compared with people of European origin, whether migrating to or bom in Australia; and this constitutes a challenge to the Australian people on grounds of racial discrimination, racism and even forms of genocide; [More…]
Will the Minister state also whether, in view of the fact that a number of important travel agencies are located in Canberra, the Commonwealth contemplates action to ensure the rights of travellers in the future? [More…]
I ask the Minister why the Australian Government has failed to adopt Convention 87, thus necessitating a representative of the ILO visiting this country to ensure the protection of the democratic rights of the Australian people. [More…]
This matter will bring in the question that Senator Webster raised in regard to State rights. [More…]
Did this company give an undertaking when granted mining rights at Bougainville that a smelter would be established in the Territory of Papua New Guinea, and [More…]
I think that enough has been said and is known in relation to education but, for Senator Turnbull’s information, I say that the Commonwealth has produced, under a vote of $500,000, in the last 3 years a lot of very worthwhile pamphlets, television shorts and films which have been made available to and are greatly appreciated by the State governments which are using them according to their sovereign rights as they wish to have them. [More…]
The Convention aims to accord to the consulate and its staff that degree of immunity which the international community considers necessary for them to perform their functions free from interference or harassment, while at the same time the rights of citizens and the receiving State are protected to the greatest extent possible commensurate with that need. [More…]
Will the Minister take note that at meetings and demonstrations throughout Australia the gravest possible concern is being expressed by migrants to this country from behind the Iron Curtain at a revival, instigated by the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, of a system’ of repression, tyranny and deprivation of human rights such as one had hoped would have disappeared to some degree in those countries? [More…]
This situation is entirely foreign to our system of trial and prosecution, and is one which I think anyone would agree makes an assault’ upon the fundamental human rights of people affected by those prosecutions. [More…]
As has been pointed out elsewhere by the parliamentary Leader of the Australian Labor Party, one wonders to what extent the Australian Government is observing the spirit of the various conventions regarding the rights of consular representatives of other countries, particularly when one looks at some of the assaults which are being made on the consulates of the Yugoslav Republic in this country. [More…]
I do not think it is altogether appropriate to equate the need in the legal area to something approaching a national health scheme, but 1 do believe that justice should be available to everybody and that it should not be denied because of lack of means to assert rights before the courts. [More…]
Of course, it should be appreciated that within the area of conciliation and arbitration there is a very generous scheme of legal aid to enable trade union members to assert their rights either against executives of the union who they allege are not doing their duty according to the rules or to ensure that the rules are observed. [More…]
Does he regard this irresponsible action by the union as a blatant misuse of power to achieve monetary gain and a complete disregard of the rights of the Australian people? [More…]
If this is a minority view for a parliamentarian, at least minorities have their rights. [More…]
There are a dozen ways in which such a system could work without interf ering with the rights of the people. [More…]
Today there is a move inside the Australian Country Party from the Butler league or the League of Rights and it has even sucked in our independent senator from Western Australia. [More…]
The pamphlet was based on the philosophy of the League of Rights. [More…]
If Senator Negus wants to associate with the Country Party League of Rights, it is his right to do so. [More…]
I did not know that the honourable senator was a member of the League of Rights. [More…]
Senator Keeffe mentioned the dispute in the oil industry and he insinuated something about the League of Rights, a remark which I thought was not applicable to the Budget. [More…]
Many have succumbed to the lure of taking up land there and having rights over the land, which is part of the colonial process. [More…]
The Department of Civil Aviation over many years has called for tenders for the rights to sell and deliver duty free goods on airports. [More…]
Because of the trading rights that have been consequently granted, I regret I cannot issue any further authorities under that Act for the right to operate airport duty free shops at those airports, while present contractual arrangements exist. [More…]
It is supplementary to the question asked by Senator Mulvihill concerning the competitive rights of seals and fishermen to catch and eat fish off the Victorian coast. [More…]
It is interesting to recall that, in pursuance of this policy of granting equal access when economically justified, Ansett Airlines of Australia received rights from Adelaide to Darwin and Brisbane to Darwin in 1961. [More…]
Trans-Australia Airlines also will be given immediate rights to operate air services in competition with the Ansett airlines between Darwin-Gove and between Cairns-Weipa-Thursday Island. [More…]
In the meantime, the major airlines will continue to enjoy unrestricted rights to operate charter flights to cater for the important tourist trade. [More…]
The last figures that I can obtain in respect of State revenue show that in 1969-70 the States collected $926,242m from their taxation rights. [More…]
Honourable senators should be aware that a certain amount of the grants which the Commonwealth makes available to the States is conditional upon the States raising certain funds within their own rights. [More…]
Are there procedures to safeguard the rights of permanent Commonwealth Public Servants in such cases; if so, what are they and were they followed in this case. [More…]
Is there any substance in these allegations which, if correct, are a flagrant breach of article 13 of the Declaration of Human Rights? [More…]
If so, will he warn people that by its use they may fail to obtain the full rights and advantages for themselves and their children which are intended and provided by the Commonwealth Matrimonial Causes Act? [More…]
The point which Senator Rae makes, that by relying upon this do-it-yourself kit people may deny themselves the rights which they and those who are dependent upon them are entitled to if their matter is properly adjudicated by the court, is a very real one. [More…]
The Bank is within its rights, and indeed may well have a responsibility, to express an opinion on the state of. [More…]
“The Minister has not criticised the general manager, rather has he criticised those employees who should be subject to the general manager but who have attempted to supersede his rights. [More…]
Let me emphasise that the vast majority of our employees are perfectly loyal and understand both the rights and responsibilities which flow from the autonomy of the ABC [More…]
I am sure that the voters are getting sick and tired of hearing Ministers of this Government referring to what the unions want, such as the 35-hour-week and civil rights. [More…]
Senator Keeffe mentioned the League of Rights. [More…]
To my knowledge, I have not addressed a meeting of that organisation; but there is nothing to stop any members of organisations that I have addressed from being members of the League of Rights. [More…]
In the course of his speech on 31st January the Minister for Foreign Affairs made it clear that Australia hoped that in due time Bangladesh would assume the rights and obligations of membership of the United Nations. [More…]
I refer to the Minister’s statement on airline policy made last Tuesday in which, among other things, he said that Trans-Australia Airlines will be given immediate rights to operate air services in competition with Ansett Airlines of Australia between Cairns, Weipa and Thursday Island. [More…]
As to whether any compensation may be payable, I feel that the Government’s attitude would be that if people considered that their rights had been infringed they, like everyone else, have access to the courts of law to assert those rights. [More…]
So often people are called upon to protect their innocence or their legal rights and the cost of obtaining legal opinion and representation in the courts is quite beyond the means of so many people. [More…]
There is a world of difference between retrospective legislation, which is legislation which affects persons in circumstances where their rights are taken away or where a certain situation is changed from what it is believed to be, and validating legislation, which is designed to validate legislation on a general position which has been proved defective as a result of some error. [More…]
Of course, the person who received the benefit of that particular decision was set free., because to have imposed upon him an obligation would have been to take away from him the rights which he had acquired by his court action. [More…]
Therefore, there, is a difference between validating legislation of the character I have mentioned and what would have been retrospective legislation if that person had been compelled, to serve his sentence after he had gone to the courts and had had accrued rights. [More…]
Therefore at the present time if there are persons who might, if they wanted to exercise their legal rights and to get another court to find in the same way as has the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory- [More…]
The point is that there are possibly persons who might wish to avail themselves of legal rights. [More…]
If people want to take some advantage from this, then in the intervening time they can rely on such legal rights as they have, knowing that if the Parliament does set the matter right they will be back where they were very quickly. [More…]
In the light of the view expressed by the Minister for Primary Industry to the Australian Fisheries Council that coastal nations such as Australia should have prior rights over their adjacent fishing resources, I ask the Minister, firstly, whether he can define the off-shore limits which we seek to preserve for exclusive fishing rights and, secondly, how far such a policy takes Australia into line with that practised by Iceland and several of the Latin American coastline nations. [More…]
Will he ask the responsible Minister to give consideration to allowing prisoners to exercise their voting rights, especially as responsible members of the Penal Reform Council have offered their assistance to prison authorities in such activity? [More…]
Government’s stated objective in participating in the current law of the sea negotiations is to influence a change in international law which will result in recognition, by foreign countries, of the preferential rights of Australian fishermen throughout a broad zone of coastal fisheries. [More…]
As a matter of common sense and regard for the rights of citizens, the Government should have cleaned up the procedure. [More…]
But I will tell the Senate this: It obviously was not satisfactory as a matter of meeting the rights of citizens to be given proper information about the laws that had been made in this delegated way. [More…]
It is not merely a matter of a person escaping because of some rule of evidence such as in the Miranda case in which because of a procedural rule a person could not be proved guilty because he was not advised of his rights. [More…]
The Government is tampering with one of the most important human rights - a right enshrined in the various conventions and embedded in the statements made by the International Commission of Jurists. [More…]
The Attorney-General of this country, although he is the protector of the rights of the citizen and, as we know from the debates before, lie is supposed to stand in a position different from that of the Government and even stand up against his Government, has not lifted a finger to go out and advise those people of their rights, to commence any action for habeas corpus, to allow his officers to do it or to facilitate the rights and the vindication of the rights of the people who, according to the consequences of that Supreme Court judgment, are illegally there. [More…]
We saw what happened in the primary industry Bills where the rights of the rural citizens were being chopped away. [More…]
I believe that this matter should be discussed thoroughly and that legislation should not be rushed through this place until we get the chance of looking at it and making some sensible legislation which will protect properly civil rights and not breach this great principle. [More…]
The right to vote for those representatives who will make the laws which apply to all citizens is one of the great human rights. [More…]
The High Court held that even if the States gave their 18-year-old citizens the right to vote this did not automatically allow them to have a vote in Federal elections, because the constitutional guarantee of Federal voting Tights for those who bad State voting rights applied only to those whom the Constitution described as adult persons who, in the understanding of 1901, were persons of 21 years or more. [More…]
The Senate can decide to pass a law, for presentation to the other House, pertaining to voting rights, and it ought to do so because this one of the most obvious developments in which Australia is lagging. [More…]
It should be granted to them as an extension of their democratic rights. [More…]
Being conscripted is a high price to obtain the voting rights of those over 21. [More…]
What would happen politically with the introduction of voting rights for 18-year- olds has given rise to some debate. [More…]
There are the rights and obligations of persons which are dependent upon the various ordinances applying in this Territory. [More…]
There are the many rights and obligations which people have under regulations made under Commonwealth legislation extending right across the territory of the Commonwealth of Australia. [More…]
There are the Companies Ordinance of the Australian Capital Territory, the Legal Practitioners Ordinance, the Workers Compensation Ordinance of the Australian Capital Territory and many others about which there is doubt as to the validity, under which the obligations imposed upon persons are inoperative and under which the rights which people would expect to be able to exercise from those laws cannot be exercised until this Parliament sets the position right. [More…]
If the Executive is shown not to have followed procedures and so to have prejudiced the rights of individuals ->n a particular occasion, the courts will say so and the Executive will uphold the judiciary’s right to say so. [More…]
If it finds a situation in which the ordinary rights of people are subject to doubt, it sets the legislative processes in motion with a view to having the matter rectified. [More…]
Nothing in this Act affects in any way the rights and liabilities in civil and criminal law of persons charged wilh offences arising out of incidents outside Parliament House, Canberra, on Thursday, 20th July 1972 and Sunday, 23rd July 1972- [More…]
Exclusive rights to operate any type of service will not be given. [More…]
Is the present expropriation of the belongings and assets of these people a clear infringement of basic human rights? [More…]
I refrain from any expression of my opinion on Uganda’s contravention of the principles of basic human rights. [More…]
It is a view of the Government that a delay in passing the legislation would prejudice the rights of all people who have cases listed for hearing in the Australian Capita] Territory Court of Petty Sessions. [More…]
Mr President, the rights of the people and the rights of the Parliament become eroded little by little. [More…]
The rights that we think are important are being dealt with in a shabby way, not in the interests of this Liberal-Country Party Government, not in the interests of good government and not in the interests of the nation. [More…]
The Government would be denying us our rights in Parliament. [More…]
If the Government denies us that, it is denying us our rights as an Opposition in Parliament. [More…]
The rights of people are gravely affected and are. [More…]
In each case individual rights are affected and are likely to be affected. [More…]
It seeks to regularise the position, to protect the rights of individuals and to defend the situation of those who otherwise might be unjustly and inequitably affected. [More…]
It would do the Attorney-General the world of good to spend his weekend, firstly looking for loopholes that he has not plugged in the Ordinance and, secondly, drafting a few humane laws to cover the people who are being deprived of their rights. [More…]
The Opposition as well as the Government, has rights. [More…]
Is the Government going to make another incursion into people’s rights so that the honourable senator will not be allowed even to finish his speech? [More…]
It is curious how often the rights of man will come up in a curious way. [More…]
Often the great rights of human beings have been determined in cases which have centred on the fate of some despicable human being. [More…]
He knows as well as I do - I have said it before and I will say it again - that obviously there must be some kind of validating legislation to cover civil rights. [More…]
The idea is to get this legislation through before the full implications get out into the country at large where professors of law, bar councils and law societies will get the message and voice their protests about this way of dealing with these rights. [More…]
Whatever might be the criticism to be levelled at the substance or the manner in which it was carried out, the fact is that the community believed that all these laws which are now open to some doubt were in operation, that the obligations people incurred under these Jaws were properly incurred and that the rights people had under these laws were ones they were entitled to have. [More…]
The importance of this clause flows from what has been provided for in the Bill and the way in which it affects the rights of persons. [More…]
If the Bill is passed tonight, is the Government going to prevent persons from pursuing applications which they may have commenced before the courts in which they have a claim of legal right under a writ of habeas corpus or similar great remedies for civil rights? [More…]
Let us return to the position that people believed was the law and believed were the rights and obligations of people and laws as speedily as possible. [More…]
Is the, Government to wait upon the Opposition to draft some amendment to present to the Senate in order to protect the rights of those persons? [More…]
I ask the Attorney-General (Senator Greenwood) who is in charge of this Bill: In the light of what has been said in this debate about the dire effects on the administration of justice in the Australian Capital Territory, if this Bill is not passed - the effects on civil rights and on the administration of the criminal lav? [More…]
It means that any rights which people have for inspection must be open to doubt. [More…]
There is nothing in our attitude that would suggest we are against the validation of ordinances or regulations to preserve those rights. [More…]
We are not opposed to legislation which operates retrospectively to preserve civil rights. [More…]
We do not want to have working men deprived of their rights because of some doubt about regulations of that nature and purport. [More…]
bad much time to prepare our amendment, in the same way as the Government has rushed through the legislation without, we think, proper regard to the rights of persons who would be affected retrospectively in the criminal area. [More…]
If people have gained rights and incurred obligations and there is some doubt as to whether those rights or obligations truly exist, it seems to me that one has to put the position beyond doubt. [More…]
What has happened here is that we agreed that there should be a Bill to deal with civil rights. [More…]
We agree that the civil rights of people should be corrected. [More…]
I see that it will do it but it will be offending against the Declaration of Human Rights which has been declared to be the standard for peoples everywhere. [More…]
It will be declaring itself against the Convention on Civil and Political Rights which, again, is a standard for peoples everywhere, lt is easy to avoid doing this. [More…]
All the civil and political rights of persons are not being interfered with. [More…]
I believe that the administrative convenience of the Attorney-General should not stand against what we conceive to be the human rights declared by mankind in the United Nations and in other world forums. [More…]
It is apparent that the Government, the Australian Democratic Labor Party and one or two Independent senators, perhaps, are not prepared to accept the world standard of human rights. [More…]
I think that many honourable senators will have reason to regret itif they do not support a point of principle but rather think that they should be caught up in sweeping through this House legislation in some panic and hysteria and avoid the discharge of the responsibility to observe the rule of law, to observe the standards and to maintain the rights of people, even those whom you oppose, those with whom you disagree or even those whom you despise. [More…]
In this regard, I also draw the attention of the Senate to the International Covenant of the United Nations on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
I point out in this regard that in the first speech I made in this chamber I drew attention to the shortcomings of the Australian Constitution in this regard and I strongly urged the necessity for our country to have a Bill of Rights which would spell out specific rights. [More…]
In the light of what this Government is attempting, I draw attention again today to this gap in our legal code which does not spell out similarly the sorts of rights which exist under the American Constitution and the sorts of precautions against this arbitrary tyrannical conduct which is possible from a government - fortunately a rare occurrence in this country - which is as insensitive to the rule of law as is this Government which boasts so constantly to be the upholder of the rule of law. [More…]
There are plenty of passages that can be cited showing the inexpediency, and the injustice, in most cases, of legislating for the past, of interfering with vested rights, and of making acts unlawful which were lawful when done. [More…]
As I have said, today Senator James McClelland has placed firmly his opposition to this legislation on a very high principle, namely, that it is changing and affecting established legal rights or obligations, and the legal character of past events. [More…]
Senator Murphy, who spoke today in such resounding terms about the abrogation of these great rights, did not speak in that debate. [More…]
They would have had rights to claim damages for having been put in gaol over a period of many years. [More…]
About 12 months ago in Western Australia, shortly after the Labor Government took office, it introduced and passed through the Parliament in the course of one day a Bill not just to validate but to deprive entirely a mining entrepreneur of the legal rights which he was claiming against that Government in respect of prospecting areas in the Pilbara. [More…]
A gentleman by the name of Lang Hancock was claiming the rights against the Government in respect of areas on which he had spent millions of dollars prospecting. [More…]
He had commenced action to have his rights declared by the Supreme Court and the [More…]
It deprived him of his rights. [More…]
Under the various ordinances and regulations a multitude of rights will have been created, duties and obligations will have been imposed and penalties will have been imposed. [More…]
There have been impositions on people, and there have been rights given to people. [More…]
When the Attorney-General introduced the Bill he indicated some of the Ordinances under which people have acquired and have had the benefit of many important rights, financial and otherwise. [More…]
It seems to me that there is no alternative but to take this action in a situation where the rights and obligations of thousands of people have been affected over a period of 30 years or more. [More…]
Rights and obligations of citizens have been the subject of a multitude of legal decisions. [More…]
In other words they have enjoyed rights as well as obligations under countless ordinances and regulations. [More…]
Of course, the second point is that the Air Force Canteens Regulations which were the ones in question and which became involved were regulations which imposed certain duties and created certain rights in relation to the conduct of canteens. [More…]
The Air Force (Canteens) Regulations of 1957 purported to create rights, liabilities and responsibilities as do the ordinances which we are now trying to resurrect into legal, viable form. [More…]
Today we are inclined to look at the rights of small groups in the community which seek to challenge in one way or another the ordinary processes of the community. [More…]
Equally we are inclined to overlook trespass to the rights of the great numbers of people who are affected by such actions. [More…]
The history of the ‘embassy’ in front of Parliament House began on 26th January of this year, the day on which the Prime Minister said that he would bring down so-called enlightened legislation on the land rights of Aborigines. [More…]
He wanted to avoid a debate in the Parliament and he wanted to avoid any sort of discussion in the courts of civil rights. [More…]
The basic things for which they were looking were land rights in accordance with their requirements, better health, education, employment and housing facilities for themselves and for their people. [More…]
The land rights issue is a very major one for the Aborigines. [More…]
It is relevant to the Bill because it deals with the rights of Aborigines, the very rights for which these people were fighting in occupying land in front of Parliament House. [More…]
He accused us of being liars in actual fact But the point I wanted to make is this: That the Commonwealth has got power to move in and override the State, and ‘I think this ought to be borne in mind when we are talking about land rights for Aborigines. [More…]
The issue of land rights was probably the major reason why the Aboriginal embassy was estabished. [More…]
One of the purposes expressed in the United Nations Charter is ‘To achieve international cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion’. [More…]
Discrimination between human beings on the grounds of race, color or ethnic origin is an offence to human dignity and shall be condemned as a denial of the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, as a violation of the human rights and fundamental freedoms proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human [More…]
Rights, as an obstacle to friendly and peaceful relations among nations and as a fact capable of disturbing peace and security among peoples. [More…]
<1) No State, institution, group or individual shall make any discrimination whatsoever in matters of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the treatment of persons, groups or persons or institutions on the grounds of race, color or ethnic origin. [More…]
Its members wish to talk about something to do with the United Nations, something to do with human rights but nothing to do with the human rights. [More…]
Senator Keeffe, of the people of the Australian Capital Territory; nothing to do with their rights to have a body of laws available to them to protect them, to provide their rights for them, to provide protection from the crimes which may otherwise be committed against them and to provide the organisation of their business affairs, such as hire purchase, and matrimonial affairs, such as legal aid, together with all the other matters which have been referred to already in this debate as coming within the area of the rights and privileges provided by the ordinances and regulations which at the moment are subject to doubt in respect of the people of the Australian Capital Territory and the other Territories. [More…]
It is not a question to do with the Aboriginal embassy or whether the rights of Australian Aborigines are being infringed in some way. [More…]
If they are residents of Australia, they are Australians and should not be looked at from the point of view advocated by Senator Keeffe and others as being entitled to some distinction in their rights in comparison with the rights available to others. [More…]
As a matter of common sense and regard for the rights of citizens, the Government should have cleaned up the procedure. [More…]
Nothing in this Act affects in any way the rights and liabilities in civil and criminal law of persons charged with offences - [More…]
There is a clear similarity because the sort of action that is taken is designed to put union members above the law and to take away the rights of other people in relation to what happens during an industrial dispute - in other words, to encourage lawlessness without any sort of responsibility. [More…]
The Labor Party looks after its friends; it selectively distinguishes between those who are to be given rights and those who are not. [More…]
It is stretching the imagination to suggest that we should give protection to those people for that type of activity and, presumably, even go further and give protection in respect of civil wrongs which they may have committed during that time and deprive other people of any rights they may have in any action for assault. [More…]
The BUI is an extremely important one which affects the rights of persons. [More…]
There is no question as to what ought to be done about civil rights, if civil rights are being affected. [More…]
It is part of the generally accepted code of the rule of law, which is understood by all who have an acquaintance with it, that legislatures must abstain from retroactive laws in the criminal sphere, lt is stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in all the great political conventions that no person shall be liable to prosecution for an act or omission which at the time of its commission was not punishable in law. [More…]
It is not prepared to work out a sensible piece of legislation which will protect civil rights and maintain the rule of law. [More…]
All I can say is that we do examine the methods which other countries use and, consistent with what we regard as proper safeguards for individual rights and consonant with the maintenance of order in the public interest, we do our best in this country to ensure that activities of a terrorist nature are properly investigated. [More…]
Because an important issue of civil rights is now involved, is not the appropriate action for the honourable senator to take in such a case to place the evidence before the Public Service Board for investigation first rather than to blacken the character of these persons in the Senate where the senator concerned has the protection of privilege and the people concerned have no power to defend themselves? [More…]
It is extremely important that the rights of persons who are on charges before the courts be pro tected. [More…]
We can take steps to ensure that the civil rights of the persons to whom reference has been made are not affected, even if it means going to the whole length of not proceeding with their trials. [More…]
His proposition, stated baldly, was that where there is a matter of over whelming public interest, that is what he is concerned with and he does not care what happens to the rights of individuals. [More…]
Whilst these matters may arise certainly in the near future if a certain motion proceeds today, I think it is incumbent upon this Senate to recognise that justice in this country is to be found in the courts of the land and in the rights which individuals have to be tried by judge and jury in an atmosphere in which they get a fair trial and thai Parliament should not seek to usurp the role of the courts and to pass judgment on the basis of supposition, assumption and suspicion. [More…]
In the first place a committee inquiry would be extremely prejudicial to the rights of accused persons who are currently before the courts and in respect of whom members of the Opposition already have been making public statements presupposing their guilt. [More…]
In the first place it is the duty of any state to recognise and not to impair the rights of other states. [More…]
The majority of the Court in that case stated that every State was under an obligation - and these are the words used - not to allow knowingly its territory to be used for acts contrary to the rights of other States. [More…]
One must realise that there are grave problems associated always with any attempt to force people into a government which they do not want to join and which they believe refuses to give them ordinary and elementary rights. [More…]
Secondly, all human fundamental rights will be guaranteed by the Croatian state. [More…]
The separation of powers will be established and the rights of the individual will be protected. [More…]
To return to the serious matter of Croatia - while there is some merit in the suggestion, and ultimately it may be necessary that we have this inquiry, of course at present it would prejudice legal rights. [More…]
The Senate committees have made their rules but in fact they are not bound by the rules of evidence at this time, and I believe that any inquiry involving the behaviour of particular persons and the prospective criminal behaviour of particular persons, must be carried out by a judicial body bound by the rules of evidence so that the rights of every individual are protected. [More…]
I do not always agree with Senator McManus but the honourable senator argued about a citizen and his rights. [More…]
Each time the Treasurer has said to me that the bank has autonomous rights. [More…]
I said at the outset that I would not involve myself in an argument as to the rights or wrongs of this case. [More…]
I think that Senator Keeffe, who will be the next speaker from this side of the House in the debate, is more competent than I to talk on the emotional issue, because he has had a long-standing interest in the rights of Aborigines, and he will put a case on that point. [More…]
On this issue, let me just say that on Australia Day, 26th January, the Aborigines erected a number of tents on the lawns in front of Parliament House for the purpose of protesting against deprivation of Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
The Aborigines supported, as Senator Webster suggested in his interjection, by many other people consider that they are deprived of land rights. [More…]
The legislation does not restrict traditional rights of freedom of speech or assembly. [More…]
The legislation does not restrict the traditional rights, such as the right of freedom of speech and assembly; nor should it. [More…]
That was the very basis of the establishment of the embassy on the lawns in front of Parliament House, lt was established there to draw attention to the lack of social rights, to the lack of legal rights and to the lack of the ordinarily accepted human rights which are suffered by the Aborigines and Islanders of Australia. [More…]
I point out that one of the first reasons for setting up the embassy on 26th January 1972 was to draw public attention to their lack of rights to their tribal lands. [More…]
I am sure that Government supporters will recall with some shame, probably at least with some political embarrassment, a recent television programme in which Professor Colin Tatz discussed land rights so far as the Wattie Creek area was concerned. [More…]
Land rights was one of the reasons why the Aboriginal people set up their embassy to protest. [More…]
In Victoria the Democratic Labor Party pioneered land rights for Aborigines who had been segregated into Aboriginal reserves in the Gippsland area to give them back the dignity that they seemed to have lost under the old handout system. [More…]
It has been suggested here today that other persons’ rights were affected by the embassy being there on a small plot of ground and that the ground was needed by somebody else for their use. [More…]
The legislation will not in any way restrict traditional rights of freedom of speech of assembly. [More…]
All legislation is a compromise between the rights of the individual and the public interest. [More…]
Every legislator when determining his attitude to legislation has to choose between an infringment on the rights of individuals, which all legislation of necessity involves, and whether the public interest which is to be served by ‘.he passage of the legislation provides for him sufficient justification for the enactment of the measure. [More…]
Would the Opposition concede that right to the Nazi Party or the League of Rights, organisations to which in time past the Opposition has objected? [More…]
Yet no attempt has been made by this Government to provide land rights to Aborigines. [More…]
In South Australia they are allowed to demonstrate their opposition to the deprivation of their land rights, with the approval of the Liberal-controlled Adelaide City Council. [More…]
Because an important issue of civil rights is now involved, is not the appropriate action for the honourable senator to take in such a case to place the evidence before the Public Service Board for investigation first rather than to blacken the character of these persons in the Senate where the senator concerned has the protection of privilege and the people concerned have no power to defend themselves? [More…]
It then mentions the principles of the Croatian Liberation Movement and states that they are based on the principles of the Croatian League of Rights, established by Dr Ante Starcevic, and also it puts into effect the principles of the Croatian Ustasha movement laid down by Fuhrer Dr Ante Pavelic. [More…]
He said that the organisation upholds all ideas not only of that organisation but even the Croatian Peasants Party, the Croatian Party of Rights and all Croatian political parties. [More…]
I can assure the honourable senator that the Government takes this matter very seriously, but it must inquire into the allegations that are made before it can take any steps which the result of those investigations may necessitate in the national interest and in the protection of the rights of Australian citizens. [More…]
Is it also a fact that the dispute has been intensified by the influence on the Australian Government of foreign-owned oil interests which are anxious to obtain rights over areas of the seabed which will give those interests access to areas where hydrocarbons are most likely to be found and where the lowest taxation rates will apply? [More…]
They wanted equal rights for homosexuals in marriage and everything else. [More…]
I did not think that this letter required a reply, but had I replied 1 would have been forced to warn them in their own interest that they should not seek the rights and benefits of marriage status in our community, as they put it, because if they were still interested in homosexuality at the stage when they became entitled to pensions, they would find that they might have the same rights as married people but would not get the same benefits as 2 single persons. [More…]
On transactions in marketable securities - that is, in company shares or debentures or in rights to take up shares or debentures - Australian Capital Territory duty is at present levied at the rate in force in the States when the Australian Capital Territory duty was introduced. [More…]
The Government earnestly hopes that internal stability will be maintained in Uganda and that the rights and freedoms of foreign residents, including Australians, will be fully respected. [More…]
Clearly, so far as the Australian Gas Light Co. is concerned, it is a matter of sour grapes because it missed out on some of the earlier exploratory rights in the natural gas field. [More…]
I am sure that the Senate would agree that it is the responsibility of responsible union officials to fight for the rights of their members in any given industry. [More…]
This has led the National Secretary of that organisation Mr Short to stand up and fight for the rights of his members, including their right to work. [More…]
Frankly, it appears to me that the Army has set itself up as being above the rights of this Parliament. [More…]
Not only the rights of Western Australia but also the rights of all of the people of Australia to a parliament constitutes as provided under the Constitution may be involved. [More…]
Possibly a stage has been reached at which a person of 18 years should have the rights and responsibilities of an adult. [More…]
But if the young people are developing as I suggested earlier in my address; if they are participating more and more in the affairs of life; if they are assuming responsibilities earlier than they did; if they are managing their own affairs; if there has already been an extension in other areas of life - for example, the extension of the testamentary capacity and in other fields of law which confer rights on minors, those under 21 - then I would think there is a body of opinion and experience building up which would appear to justify the next step which is the extension of the franchise to such young people. [More…]
But I do not believe - I think Senator Cavanagh would agree with me - that this is a House where senators’ rights to speak on matters should not be interfered with without looking at them very carefully. [More…]
I believe that the rights now vested in our people at the age of 21 years should be given to our youth in one piece of legislation, or by the necessary pieces of legislation coming before the Parliament at the one time and receiving royal assent at the one time. [More…]
I trust that I will never hear Senator Cavanagh stand in this chamber again and talk about the rights of senators to discuss a Bill or to discuss some matter that is before the chamber. [More…]
He has lectured us ad nauseum about the Government seeking to take away the rights of honourable senators by trying to cut down speaking times; yet, as I have pointed out, on the first occasion I have attempted to speak on a Bill since we resumed on 15th August he would deny me the right to speak for 30 minutes. [More…]
Senator Webster spoke apparently about some incident which was aired about 6 weeks or 2 months ago on which there was a good deal of discussion and in relation to which finally I went on a national television programme and explained - I think to the entire satisfaction of all - that if the constitutional rights which are guaranteed to citizens were to be vindicated a certain course of action ought to be taken. [More…]
If Senator Webster wishes the subject matter of the constitutional rights of citizens and the freedom of religion to be debated properly in this chamber, I would suggest that he should raise it in a more substantial way than he has raised it this evening. [More…]
In view of the considerable changes that have taken place in the Senate over recent years, looked at in the light of the fact that we have been operating for some 70 years according to procedures which were inherited from other places, would you consider presenting to the Senate considered views on what might be done, in your opinion, to improve the efficiency of the operations of this chamber so that the rights of honourable senators could be preserved and at the same time so that we might be able to achieve the optimum of efficient operation? [More…]
Zone allowances have been introduced by an Act of this Parliament and that Act of Parliament is a valid Act in respect of which rights and obligations have been incurred. [More…]
One of the most vital things that any country is required to do is to defend the civil rights of its citizens. [More…]
As this matter has gone on now for 2 months I believe it indicates an apparent attempt by the Yugoslav authorities to deprive this Australian citizen of his rights. [More…]
There has been very little trouble of this kind but when it occurs it is up to us to take the strongest of stands on the rights of people to whom we have granted Australian citizenship. [More…]
their birth, who have Australian citizenship are entitled to the protection of the Australian authorities and the assurance that their government will make the strongest representations and view with the greatest concern any deprivation of their rights as Australians when they are in European countries. [More…]
It gives both of us reciprocal rights in each other’s country. [More…]
I take it that you will permit me to proceed to emphasise my point and to demonstrate why it is difficult to conceive how the Opposition here in one instance can seek to proclaim that a person over 18 years of age has the full competence of an adult in our community and should be granted the important right to vote when in a House of the South Australian Parliament rights which might be said to be those which should be granted to an adult are confined to persons of 21 years of age and over. [More…]
When granted the vote, persons under 21 years of age should be impressed with the fact that they have been granted one of the most sacred rights that can be made available to an adult in our community. [More…]
The rights of each of us have to be limited by the collective rights of everyone else in the community. [More…]
Whatever the laws might be and whatever the Parliament, if they are made by a parliament which has been granted majority rights by the community they are valid laws and they should be obeyed by all of us in the community. [More…]
Neither of us can take that principle and say that our rights are such that they should obliterate the rights of our fellow man in the community. [More…]
Democracy predicates the equal rights of people who live in the democracy. [More…]
Necessarily it excludes questions of worth, questions of intelligence, questions of greater or lesser education as standards or criteria upon which a person’s rights in the community must depend. [More…]
Nevertheless, the fact that they are 21 years of age entitles them to equal rights with other persons. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs whether this matter might again be taken up to see whether some compensation might be obtained in respect of the loss incurred by this individual and whether a warning might be issued to others to make sure of their landing rights in Greece before they venture from Australia on a trip to that country. [More…]
I draw the attention of Senator Wright who represents in the Senate the Minister for Foreign Affairs to the fact that, as Australia is acting as a catalyst in attracting people from these various European countries to migrate here, we should be able to make contact on all necessary levels so that the rights of these citizens can be preserved. [More…]
A good deal of consideration should be given to a review to seek to make the necessary contacts with the countries from which these people have come in order to see that whatever rights these people who have been encouraged to come here have are preserved as many of them have migrated to Australia as a refuge or as their hope for the future. [More…]
The Corporation is empowered to employ its own staff and the Bill also contains safeguards designed to preserve the rights and entitlements of employees who pre now engaged by the Wool Board and the Wool Commission upon their transfer to the Corporation. [More…]
You profess to be liberal in your political outlook, defending the rights of the individual and his freedom of speech, yet you have denied me these things. [More…]
Referring to the first part of his question as to what means people have to assert rights against the might of the PostmasterGeneral’s Department when they feel that they may have been overcharged for their telephone calls, people should not feel in any way inhibited in questioning the accounts which they receive. [More…]
For example, the costs of the television rights to imported drama, which is probably the most costly of the various forms of televising, are about $4,000 per hour whereas the costs of producing Australian drama are anything from $12,000 to $25,000 an hour. [More…]
One can gain from the tenor of reports in the Press that Mr Justice Gowans’ judgment was that the takeover code was less than fully effective to protect the rights of investors and that possibly, as a result of that, some investigation could be make as to whether there should be amendments. [More…]
Senator Byrne referred to the effect of a dissolution of the House of Representatives on business and proceedings of the Senate and its committees, and Senator Murphy asked whether, in the light of 70 years of Commonwealth parliamentary experience and in view of the recent considerable changes which have taken place in the Senate, I would present to the Senate my considered views on what might be done ‘to improve the efficiency of the operations of the Senate so that the rights of honourable senators could be pre served and at the same time so that we might be able to achieve the optimum of efficient operation’. [More…]
Therefore it has a right to bring it in in a manner which does not interfere with the rights of anybody else and the rights which have been granted by the New South Wales and South Australian governments. [More…]
We know very well that Australian labour will be used to lay this pipe if it will work on the project but we cannot take rights from the people concerned if they have already let the tender. [More…]
As far as I am concerned, it is extremely important to preserve the rights of those who do not often put forward matters for consideration by this chamber. [More…]
In addition to the work that Mrs McLean has done over the years to make young men of this nation aware of their rights under the National Service Act, quite recently she was responsible for the release of a statement calling for an end to the blatant bombing of women and children in North Vietnam. [More…]
1 appreciate that the motion will not take away entirely the rights of senators because it contains the words ‘unless otherwise ordered’, so it is competent for us to move a motion in order to raise particular matters. [More…]
Let me say at the outset that the Australian Democratic Labor Party believes that both of these vital steps will advance the educational rights of parents. [More…]
It is in fact in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
That was a negation of basic human rights. [More…]
However, it is available to perform any services that may be required, subject to the approval of foreign governments for traffic rights. [More…]
They go right across the board covering such matters as land rights through to education, housing and schooling. [More…]
He has voted consistently against all of the amendments and motions moved by the Australian Labor Party, starting with those in relation to land rights and working up through all the others. [More…]
Aborigines will have equal rights and opportunities with alf other Australians, and every form of discrimination against Aborigines will be ended. [More…]
refusing to restore land rights to Aborigines living on reserves or in significant communities; [More…]
He is merely asking for the same rights as any other Australian has. [More…]
I refer now to land rights. [More…]
We have had many arguments in this chamber in relation to land rights for Aborigines and Islanders. [More…]
A long time ago the Gurindjis went on strike and established a settlement in the Wattie Creek area as their form of protest against industrial conditions, health conditions, and the refusal of this Government to recognise the value of their case for land rights. [More…]
The terms of the amendment are very wide and cover a great area, including the matter of land rights. [More…]
Whether it is possible under the terms of the Bill to restrict the discussion to land rights in relation to areas other than those controlled by the Commonwealth, seems to me to be a doubtful proposition. [More…]
Again I must take the Minister to task because land rights is one of the greatest problems facing the Aborigines in this country today. [More…]
I refer to the famous statement made by the Prime Minister on 26th January 1972 in which he said: ‘We will give you land rights’. [More…]
The Government said: ‘We will give you land rights. [More…]
The Bill, of course, contains appropriate provisions relating to officers’ rights, staff, audit and finance. [More…]
If we look at the second reading speech of the AttorneyGeneral and the Bill, we see no specific reference to land rights as the Aboriginals and Islanders require land rights. [More…]
In fact, the only reference to land rights that the Government has made in recent times was that enunciated by the Prime Minister on 26 th January 1972. [More…]
Attempts were made to saddle us with generalised propaganda statements in regard to land rights without detailed descriptions of what land rights or ownership were involved or anything of that nature. [More…]
There should not be an oversimplification of terminology by using propaganda phrases such as ‘land rights’ and conferring on people 35 square miles of land in a terrain where you would not raise 35 rabbits on the whole 35 square miles. [More…]
We do not support the generalised idea that some huge success should be expected merely from the granting of land rights, whatever that term may mean. [More…]
The Aboriginal people with whom I have sat down and talked, and of whom I have asked the question ‘What do you want with land rights?’ [More…]
The suggestion now is that by Crown grant we should give particular land rights to the Aborigines. [More…]
Those who suggest that this is a logical proposition - 1 feel that in certain circumstances it could become advantageous to these people - at least ought to produce more specific modes in which this can be done to prevent the Aboriginal people, with whatever land rights they are given, going through the processes which we in our civilisation developed since land was first granted by the Crown to feudal lords and everybody else in the community was a peasant. [More…]
I say this: The Aborigine people are just as intelligent as the people of our own race who conceived the principles of land rights and are just as capable of exploiting one another as we are. [More…]
Opposition senators want to be very sure what they mean when they talk about granting the Gurindjis land rights over a great area of Australia to see who actually has the rights. [More…]
The Aboriginal culture gives him rights over a 17-year-old girl who is living in a different environment. [More…]
The Government is also condemned, according to the Opposition’s amendment, for refusing to restore land rights to Aborigines. [More…]
If to some people land rights conveys the idea that merely because a person is born in a country he is born with the right to soil in that country, it is the first time to my knowledge, on a private and personal basis, that that philosophy has existed. [More…]
Indeed, is I understand Labor philosophy, it was opposed to the land rights of feudal times. [More…]
I remind the Senate - Senator Little may have forgotten - that full rights to control the welfare of Aborigines were granted to the Commonwealth 5 years ago. [More…]
The fundamental objectives of Government policy in relation to Aboriginal Australians are that they should be assisted as individuals and if they wish as groups, at the local community level, to hold effective and respected places within one Australian society with equal access to the rights and opportunities it provides and acceptance of responsibilities towards it. [More…]
The Government recognises the rights of individual Aborigines to effective choice about the degree to which, and the pace at which, they come to identify themselves with that society; and we believe that they will do so more readily and more happily when they are attracted to it voluntarily and when their membership of it encourages them to maintain and take pride in their identity, traditions and culture. [More…]
We on this side of the Senate - and, I am sure the public at large - have become confused as to the real attitude of the members of the coalition Government towards the fascist body known as the League of Rights. [More…]
Certainly one might assume from some of his utterances that he is quite clearly against the League of Rights and regards it as a reprehensible organisation. [More…]
At this point may 1 refer briefly to a matter which has been given some prominence in the press in South Australia recently, that is the activities of the League of Rights. [More…]
I want to dissociate the Country Party from any connection with the League of Rights. [More…]
The League of Rights also is trying to ‘horn in’ on the Country Parry’s own objectives, and use the Country Party along with other organisations as a means to push its own views. [More…]
The statement to which exception has been taken is my comment that in the past the League of Rights tended in its ideas to be anti-semetic, pro-nazi and racialistic. [More…]
anti-semitism was being deliberately fostered by the League of Rights and the Nazi Party. [More…]
The picture becomes a little muddy when we consider the views of that great Queensland democrat, Mr Bjelke-Petersen, who, as we know, is under slightly more pressure from the activities of the League of Rights, who went to the extent of having this organisation investigated and who is on record as having said: [More…]
Then we come to another prominent member of the Government, Mr Nixon, who is the Minister for Shipping and Transport and who is alleged by Mr Jeremy Lee, the Queensland Director of the League of Rights, to have dissociated himself from Mr Sinclair’s attack. [More…]
A publication, which gives rise to my remarks tonight, called ‘On Target”, copies of which may be inspected in the Parliamentary Library, is a weekly commentary produced by the League of Rights, which has the very praiseworthy slogan which I am sure will commend itself to the Attorney-General: ‘The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance’. [More…]
So far as I am aware the Australian League of Rights is not engaged in activities that are proscribed by law and in that context it is capable of being described as a ‘reputable organisation’. [More…]
Little from Victoria, placed the following question on the Senate notice paper: ‘Has the AttorneyGeneral’s Department any evidence to indicate whether there is any substance for an allegation made by the Honourable Ian Sinclair that the Australian League of Rights and the Nazi Parly are closely linked? [More…]
I quote from the 20th October issue of the League of Rights journal again. [More…]
In discussion after the meeting Mr Hunt told the League of Rights supporters that Mr Eric Butler and The League of Rights were doing a good job and that he had at one time subscribed to The ‘New Times’ for 3 years. [More…]
Maybe the source of that information is the same as Mr Hunt’s source - that is, the League of Rights. [More…]
Mr Hunt expressed the view that the communists were behind the Ustasha business and the agitation for Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
Minister for Primary Industry, attacked the League of Rights, which was doing so much against communism. [More…]
His favourable words about the League of Rights at Perenjori, expressed when he knew he was in the middle of a group of League supporters are rather different from his blatant misrepresentation of Mr Eric Butler and Mr Jeremy Lee, at a Wellington, NSW meeting when he attacked them for going around the country advocating ‘unlimited printing-press money’. [More…]
The question that I would like answered - I am sure everybody on this side of the Senate would like it answered - is this: What is the official and authentic attitude of the coalition Government to the League of Rights? [More…]
Is it the attitude of Mr Anthony and if so, which Mr Anthony - the Mr Anthony who at Nuriootpa sounded rather categorical in his condemnation of the League of Rights or the Mr Anthony who found it necessary to square off to a constituent who was a little put out by his comment? [More…]
What is Senator Greenwood’s line on the League of Rights? [More…]
This leads me to comment on something that was said by Senator James McClelland on the matter of the alleged association of the League of Rights with the Country Party. [More…]
It has been variously stated by writers on the subject - there have been many published studies of the vagaries and the peculiarities of the League of Rights - that the League of Rights has an influence on the Liberal Party. [More…]
It has even been said that members of the League of Rights are also members of the Labor Party. [More…]
I have no doubt that the policy of the League of Rights is to infiltrate all parties, and it certainly has made attempts to infiltrate the Australian Country Party. [More…]
But Senator James McClelland engaged in a very pleasant little exercise in attempting to demonstrate some variations in attitude between various members of the Country Party - mainly in varying degrees of condemnation, it must be admitted, of the League of Rights. [More…]
Some statements could have been interpreted as approving some part, but if one looks at the various publications of the League of Rights one will see that it espouses a great variety of causes. [More…]
Senator James McClelland referred , I think in a somewhat contrived and strained way , to some links which he believes exist between certain Government members and the League of Rights. [More…]
I thought that the evidence which he adduced was a fairly selective group of statements made by some Ministers with respect to the League of Rights. [More…]
In the first place, he referred to a letter written by me which apparently has been published in the League of Rights journal. [More…]
I do not know what the League of Rights journal says because I do not receive it. [More…]
1 reply to correspondence 1 receive from members and officers of the Communist Party and the Socialist Party of Australia, as I do to correspondence I receive from the League of Rights. [More…]
All I can say with regard to the League of Rights is that Senator James McClelland would know full well that I have expressed quite firm and clear views on it in the past. [More…]
I should have thought that he would have referred to those answers if he was interested in getting a different view on the League of Rights from the view which he attributed to me in the context of the letter which he quoted. [More…]
All I can say is that on the basis of earlier statements made by me in answer to his questions, I assure him that League of Rights officers, officials and members do not regard me as being sympathetic to them. [More…]
I think that the general pattern which is to be found in the statements to which Senator James McClelland referred is a pattern of disagreement with a very significant number of the policies of the League of Rights. [More…]
I believe that there are policies to which no self respecting Australian would subscribe, but that is not to say that every item of policy and every expression of opinion to which the League of Rights has given vent is to be condemned. [More…]
After all, there are some views of the League of Rights, as there are some views of the Australian Labor Party, with which people would not disagree. [More…]
The really important point which I think has arisen from what Senator James McClelland has said is not what the Government thinks of the League of Rights. [More…]
It is not necessary for the Government to explain its view about the League of Rights because that has been done. [More…]
The important thing is: What does the Labor Party think about the League of Rights? [More…]
1 am interested to know what the Labor Party would do about the League of Rights. [More…]
Does the Labor Party concede the right of the League of Rights to exist in this country^ or would it ban the League of Rights? [More…]
What would it do with the League of Rights? [More…]
I for one, whilst I accept what Senator James McClelland personally has said, am not at all convinced that the Labor Party would not come down with a heavy hand on organisations like the League of Rights to which it objects. [More…]
I concede it has every right to object to the .League of Rights. [More…]
For example, what would the Australian Labor Party say if I were to speak of the Communist Party as honourable senators opposite have spoken of the League of Rights? [More…]
Will he ask the responsible Minister to give consideration to allowing prisoners to exercise their voting rights, especially as responsible members of the Penal Reform Council have offered their assistance to prison authorities in such activity. [More…]
If a limitation were placed upon question time it would mean thatthe rights of honourable senators could be effectively cut down. [More…]
Honourable senators had certain rights when they came here. [More…]
It is all right, to meet an emergency, that we should perhaps take certain rights from honourable senators but there is a tendency for such a procedure, having been introduced, to become a practice. [More…]
In the past as a result of such discussions there has been a curtailment of the rights of honourable senators. [More…]
Rather than use numbers to take away the rights of honourable senators there should be some consultation between the leaders. [More…]
If he saves half an hour at question time, another half an hour will be taken up on other matters which would not be pressed if there were not this curtailment of the rights of honourable senators. [More…]
Among other things, this has the effect of restoring to any seamen involved, all rights accruing under the Act, including the rights to have their cases referred to a compensation tribunal or to make application to a prescribed court for judicial review of their claims. [More…]
Its purpose is to discuss the power of inquiry of committees appointed by Houses of the Parliament, and the rights and duties of witnesses appearing before those committees. [More…]
That policy recognises that we are not as dependent on others as formerly and that Australians have rights at stake in foreign take-overs in the ownership and control of Australian industry. [More…]
The Court will be able in such circumstances to restrain the exercise of voting rights, direct payments to be withheld, direct the sale of shares, and make desirable ancillary orders. [More…]
Existing members were not transferred on to the new basis: Instead, special arrangements were made that preserved for them their accrued rights and established a basis for them to contribute for additional benefits as they arose. [More…]
With minor cases being reported, in summary form the criteria are as follows: Firstly, the taxpayer has understated his taxable income; secondly, he has not voluntarily made a true and full disclosure of the unstated taxable income; thirdly, the amount of statutory additional tax charged after any remission exceeds $500 and the total additional tax is more than 25 per cent of the tax avoided; and, fourthly, the case has reached (finality in the sense that the taxpayer has exhausted all his rights of objection and appeal. [More…]
Nevertheless, I have some rights. [More…]
I think it is a travesty of the rights of honourable senators to come into this place and defame a person in the way that Senator Keeffe has tonight. [More…]
Can the Minister inform the Parliament if all rights to mineral deposits at the former Auruken Mission have been sold to a Dutch, Japanese and French consortium by arrangement with the pastorincharge; if so, will the Auruken people now receive no return from the mineral deposits in this area. [More…]
Has the Attorney-General’s Department any evidence to indicate whether there is any substance in an allegation made by the Minister for Primary Industry that the Australian League of Rights and the Australian Nazi Party are closely linked. [More…]
Quite apart from that, there is a continuing body of evidence that numbers of people have these entitlements but for one reason or another - possibly because they are unaware of them or possibly because on principle they do not want to exercise their rights - they have not made a claim. [More…]
I think it is time that this matter was reviewed by the Attorneys-General and that greater emphasis were given to the rights of persons than to the rights of property. [More…]
Although it provides wide-ranging benefits, this Act does not extend to its beneficiaries the advantages of appeal rights to either War Pensions Entitlement Appeal Tribunals or War Pensions Assessment Appeal Tribunals, or the payment of war pension in respect of non war-related pulmonary tuberculosis. [More…]
It preserves the rights of exservicemen, formerly members of the Torres Strait Light Infantry Forces, who will now be brought under the provisions of the Repatriation Act. [More…]
However, because of the geographic location of the Torres Strait Islands, their remoteness, and the limitations of sea transportation between the islands, this time limit has been extended to 6 months for persons resident in the Torres Strait Islands, so that no member will be disadvantaged in respect of the exercise of his rights of appeal. [More…]
It is important to the persons who will benefit therefrom and who will henceforth enjoy the same rights under the same legislation as all Australians who were members of the Defence Forces.I should like to assure the Senate that officers of the Repatriation Department will take steps to ensure that the measures will be given publicity in the areas where these former ex-servicemen live, so that all those eligible are aware of this important change. [More…]
The Commonwealth has no rights in the matter because the moneys which the Commonwealth Advertising Council disburses to the various agencies are the commissions which are paid by the media to the Council for distribution to the agencies. [More…]
It should be realised that the South .Australian Premier is responsible to the people of South Australia to uphold their rights. [More…]
without prejudice to any constitutional rights, that Senate committees be directed to refrain from meeting and transacting business after the forthcoming dissolution of the House of Representatives, except with the permission of the President. [More…]
Is the AttorneyGeneral aware of the state ment made by Mr G. O’Donnell, who is Chairman of the Australian Copyright Council which represents authors, publishers, musicians, composers and journalists, that universities are contributing to the gross erosion of authors’ and publishers’ rights through the use of photocopying machines and that the universities themselves are denying their purpose as a community of scholars when they authorise large scale photocopying on their campuses? [More…]
The motion relates to the Commonwealth Electoral Bill 1972 which is to provide voting rights for 18yearolds. [More…]
The major services which are essential to the quality of life fall within the province of the State governments and their various instrumentalities which obviously are very jealous of their sovereign rights. [More…]
Although this assistance will be given, there will be no interference with many rights cherished in Queensland, including Queensland’s free hospital system. [More…]
1 suggest that this is an intrusion into the rights of the State of South Australia. [More…]
One reminds the Senate that it was this Gov ernment, which will remain in office after December 2nd, thus saving me SIS, that introduced the Australian flag vessels into overseas shipping services, and by the provisions of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act has protected the rights of efficient Australian flag operators to enter the overseas trade. [More…]
As I said earlier, it is disgraceful that the commencement of any initiative has not occurred until the end of 1972. lt may seem ridiculous to be talking about women’s rights in 1972, but it is even more ridiculous that there is a need to do so in 1972. [More…]
At naturalisation ceremonies migrants are told that they have become Australian citizens and have the rights and privileges of every other Australian. [More…]
One is the Bill giving voting rights to 18-year-olds and the other is the matter dealing with the Government’s declaring its observations and intentions in respect of reports of Senate committees. [More…]
The Bill also contains transitional provisions which are designed to protect the rights of employees. [More…]
The Government has deep feelings and sympathy for and recognition of the rights of injured persons. [More…]
Are we extending the rights of workers under this legislation, as everyone thinks, or restricting them? [More…]
Any existing rights must be based upon legislation, lt is clear that the existing provisions of section 8 sub-section (3.) [More…]
TAA also will be given immediate rights to operate air services in competition with the Ansett airlines between Darwin-Gove and between Cairns-Weipa-Thursday Island. [More…]
I do not want to hear the nonsense that States have certain rights and the Federal Government has certain rights because the Commonwealth has deliberately dodged its obligation to bring down legislation in this area. [More…]
I think the story of the long State-Commonwealth tug-of-war that has gone on about territorial rights does not really need much reiteration by me. [More…]
However, because of the geographic location of the Torres Strait Islands, their remoteness, and the limitation of sea transportation between the islands, this time limit has been extended’ to 6 months for persons resident in the Torres Strait Islands, so that no member will be disadvantaged in respect of the exercise of his rights of appeal. [More…]
As senators, we have been inundated with submissions from the Standing Orders Committee and other groups about the rights of witnesses who testify before Senate committees. [More…]
He is the leader of a group of 26, and they are 26 out of 60 and the other 34 here also have some rights. [More…]
The House of Lords is a non-elected House whereas the Senate is a House which has emerged by formal contract from the Constitution as a body which has protective rights over the States. [More…]
He attempted to carry out Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programme to distribute more equitably America’s wealth and guarantee civil rights to black Americans. [More…]
Among them were the anti-poverty programme, the Civil Rights Acts of 1964, the medicare scheme to provide health insurance throughout the community, and an attack on slum housing and urban decay. [More…]
Although it has been said often that President Johnson failed in foreign fields - an argument with which I do not agree - there is no doubt that he introduced a vast number of social programmes and gave real meaning to the civil rights programme in the United States. [More…]
Other achievements were his civil rights Bill in 1964 and his call to create a great society. [More…]
I know that President Johnson was responsible for the passage through the American parliament of more legislation granting civil rights and fighting against poverty than was any other President. [More…]
I ask: Is the Attorney-General aware that one of the new matrimonial causes rules, which provides that no costs are payable by a respondent husband in an undefended divorce matter, whether it be for a decree or an order for custody or maintenance, is preventing many wives and mothers without adequate means from pursuing their legal rights, even from wealthy husbands? [More…]
As the custodian of the rights of Australian citizens will it demand an explanation and/ or apology and reparation? [More…]
This House asserting in a particular manner its role as the custodian of the rights of the States within the Federation and honourable senators their role as representing the component States of the Federation, take into immediate consideration the following: [More…]
This House asserting in a particular manner its role as the custodian of the rights of the States within the Federation and honourable senators their role as representing the component States of the Federation, take into immediate consideration the follow-‘ ing . [More…]
The preamble particularly requests the Senate to advert to its role as the custodian of the, rights of the States within the Federation. [More…]
They are so represented for the purpose of enabling them to maintain and protect their constitutional rights against attempted invasions, and to give them every facility for the advocacy of their peculiar and special interests, as well as for the ventilation and consideration of their grievances. [More…]
I think they will be greviously disappointed and will feel that they have not been adequately represented if they find that on this issue, one of those rare occasions when the Senate can stand within its original concept in the Constitution, Slate rights have not been protected. [More…]
Thirdly, it is obviously of advantage to the Australian Government to attempt an amicable settlement of the problem while Australia has jurisdiction on both sides of the border, always bearing in mind the wishes and rights of the Torres Strait islands people involved. [More…]
I take this opportunity to point out to honourable senators that the wishes and rights of the people inhabiting these islands have been at the forefront of consideration of this matter by this Government and the Papua New Guinea Government. [More…]
He said that his Government was conscious of the existing rights including land rights of the islanders and intended that these should be safeguarded in any settlement that might be reached. [More…]
These relate to seabed divisions, fishing and navigation rights. [More…]
The Government is adopt ing a flexible approach to the matter and is considering a number of proposals which may enable changes to be made while at the same time preserving the citizenship and land rights of those Torres Strait islanders affected. [More…]
Each family has its own land rights on the islands where they have their gardens. [More…]
They have their land rights and the Government wants to take them away. [More…]
It is obvious that the statement is not offensive to Senator Lawrie but I will withdraw it in deference to Senator Bonner, The final stupid statement by Senator Lawrie was that land rights are available to people in the Torres Strait. [More…]
Land rights never have been available to them. [More…]
The only way land rights will be made available to the islanders is through the Labor Government, and in due course that will be done. [More…]
Mr Somare also said Papua New Guinea wanted fishing rights. [More…]
1 urge all honourable senators in this chamber tonight to support Senator Byrne’s motion and to carry it so that the rights of the [More…]
It seems obvious from Senator Georges’ speech (hat somebody had to do something to ensure that the rights of the people of the Tories Strait Islands were considered. [More…]
Has it ever been suggested that their rights of transit will be interfered with in any way whatsoever? [More…]
The 100 warriors would be stronger than the forces which could be provided toy the Queensland Government, which Senator Georges suggested should be there defending the people’s fishing rights. [More…]
Nobody has suggested that we should be in any way abridging the rights of the Torres Strait islanders to their land or homes. [More…]
If I may say so, 1 find it very extraordinary that Senator Bonner as a member of the Liberal Party should be feeling so agitated at this stage about the land rights of the Torres Strait islanders when the Government of which he was a supporter and which is now the Opposition showed by its actions just precisely what it thought about the land rights of the Aboriginal people of Australia. [More…]
This sudden discovery that the present Opposition has made about land rights of Torres Strait islanders is remarkable and I think it would make hilarious listening for the Aboriginal inhabitants of Western Australia, Queensland and the Northern Territory to hear tonight that the Liberal Party, the Democratic Labor Party and the Country Party were the advocates of their land rights and that in some strange way the Australian Labor Party was their opponent. [More…]
We acknowledge also that the rights and the wishes of those people who are presently Australian citizens living in the Torres Strait islands have to be considered and they are one of the most important factors to be considered. [More…]
As a good Queenslander - unlike Senator Keeffe apparently in this debate, anyway - I am prepared to support the rights, responsibilities and privileges of the Queenslanders in the Torres Strait islands. [More…]
The rights of the people concerned in these Torres Strait islands have never been considered by either of those 2 senators. [More…]
It simply states that in considering the transfer of any Australian territory, whether in the Torres Strait or anywhere else, the rights of the people and the views of the people concerned must be consulted. [More…]
What right has any Federal Government in Canberra to ignore the rights of these people and give these islands to another nation? [More…]
The Commission is to be guided in its work by the principle that a high standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every Australian without distinction of race, creed, political belief or economic or social condition. [More…]
As I said, 1 have been in this chamber for a number of years and 1 have heard members of the Labor Party on many occasions place great reliance upon the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
If one also considers other articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights one finds that certain rights with regard to industrial relations are regarded as the rights of all and not simply the rights of people who are members of an organisation. [More…]
Preference should not be given to unionists and there should be rights, for non-unionists’. [More…]
He quotes the Declaration of Human Rights but he forgets to quote the International Labour Organisation Conventions. [More…]
Will the decision be impeded in its fullest application by union officials snooping on membership and membership rights? [More…]
They suffered violence and everything else because, as good unionists, they had the courage to stand up for their rights. [More…]
We have done this without any strings because we recognise the rights of associations. [More…]
After the Attlee Government went out there were times when trade union rights were broken down. [More…]
I say also that it should be rejected because it is fundamentally opposed to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which provides that no-one may be compelled to belong to an association. [More…]
Considering that the Declaration of Philadelphia affirms that all human beings, irrespective of race, creed or sex, have the right to pursue both their material well-being and their spiritual development in conditions of freedom and dignity, of economic security and equal opportunity, and Considering further that discrimination constitutes a violation of rights enunciated by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . [More…]
The Convention enshrines and adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but it goes further. [More…]
I have said that the Public Service determination has dishonoured the Australian Labor Party’s policy; that it is a bad principle to do by regulation what thereby bypasses the Parliament; and that this action is opposed to the declaration of human rights. [More…]
The whole of the ILO conventions are based not only on the fundamental acceptance of the Declaration of Human Rights but on the freedom of the right of people to organise, and the freedom of the right of people to organise means the freedom if they wish, not to organise. [More…]
A waterside worker, a turner and fitter or an employee of the New South Wales Government Transport Department is not inferior to a clerk or shop assistant in terms of human rights and conversely. [More…]
The present proposals arise therefore from a discriminatory approach and apparently some employees have greater rights than others. [More…]
We even had the quaint experience of hearing that great libertarian Senator Greenwood invoke the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
Despite what other speakers had indicated, I think that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has to be considered. [More…]
The basic rationale of the speciality rule is to safeguard the liberty of the person and protect his human rights, especially where a person is only accused of an offence. [More…]
The problem has been to achieve a balance between that principle of human rights on the one hand and efficient law enforcement on the other. [More…]
It gives flexibility to and removes the inhibiting effect of the otherwise strict speciality rule and at the same time safeguards the human rights of the accused person. [More…]
As I understood him, he said that the ILO conventions are in some manner or means contrary to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
The point arose of which should take priority, the ILO conventions or the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
He put the matter at rest because the ILO conventions and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights seem to be in complete agreement. [More…]
We have heard ad nauseam in the Senate Senator Murphy demanding that the previous Government accede to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
I accept the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
Senator Cavanagh may be speaking for the Labor Party in saying in effect that he does not believe in article 23 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
The right wing unions went cold because it was pointed out to them by the legislators that if compulsory trade unionism was introduced a Bill of Rights would have to be introduced for the individual trade unionists who were forced to join a union. [More…]
The unions did not want that because some people pointed out that a section would have to be included in the Bill of Rights stating that a unionist should not be forced to contribute to a political party in which he did not believe. [More…]
They are against compulsory unionism by law because a Bill of Rights to protect the individual unionist would be necessary. [More…]
Henceforth these student children will attract full benefit rights irrespective of age. [More…]
I will now make another request of the Queensland Premier: Will he disclose to the Queensland people whether he is a shareholder in any of the 6 other companies that have applied for the rights to explore for oil in the Gulf of Papua? [More…]
Because of the temporary electoral insanity of the 2 most populous Australian States, the Senate may well be called upon to protect the national interest by exercising its undoubted constitutional rights and powers. [More…]
We will not at any time allow unionists rights, privileges and rewards which are not available to all other members of the working community. [More…]
For the past 5 years each time the Senate has debated a matter concerning unions, my illustrious colleague Senator Milliner and I defended trade union rights. [More…]
All land so acquired will remain vested in the Australian Government which will for the duration of this Agreement grant to the United States Government all necessary rights of access to, and of exclusive use and occupancy of, such land. [More…]
I am not particularly concerned where they come from, nor do I think persons automatically have rights to membership simply because they belong to particular organisations. [More…]
I say again to the honourable senator that it appears to me that persons have constitutional rights whether we agree with them or not, and that after a thorough consideration of the issues before him a magistrate found that a certain organisation had come into being as a church - an incorporated church with a constitution. [More…]
Does the acceptance of loose and indefinite criteria and provisions in recognising a church mean that people practising witchcraft and similar practices can now apply to have their practices given benign approval and marriage ceremonies perpetrated under their rights recognised by law? [More…]
We are part of Asia and many of the things that we regard as everyday rights are not yet part of even the wildest dreams of the people with whom we shall have to live and trade, for their benefit as well as our own. [More…]
The situation is that we do not agree that anybody should interfere with the rights of anybody else. [More…]
Will the Minister exercise his well known interest in human rights to inquire from Bijedich whether Father Draganovich is still alive and when, if ever, formal charges will be laid against him? [More…]
This is something which affects the rights of a citizen. [More…]
If this is the approach which the so-called Liberal Party is to adopt to the rights of individuals and to justice before the law, it. [More…]
The privilege of freedom of speech carries with it grave obligations, and it is not surprising that responsible legislatures have steadfastly refused to exercise it in such a way as to put in jeopardy the rights of a private individual whose case is in due process of trial. [More…]
That would be too restrictive of the rights of Parliament. [More…]
If so, bearing in mind the Government’s policy of greater Australian participation in industry and control of overseas companies, will he ascertain what percentage of the Australian wheat quota is allocated to overseas companies and Australian companies with overseas control in an endeavour to see whether the rights of Australian wheat growers are being fully protected? [More…]
That is one reason why our policy is compulsory enrolment and compulsory voting - so that people will be obliged to exercise their rights. [More…]
I am not able to foretell the future, but from the spirit of the Acts I should imagine, without wishing in any way to intrude on the responsibilities of the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Bryant), that the Government would want to move towards a situation in which Aborigines do vote and, in due course, exercise the same rights and responsibilities as anybody else. [More…]
Another is that a ministerial abolition of real individual rights by subordinate legislation without access to court supervision will not be permitted. [More…]
Ever since I have been a member of the Senate we have fought against the principle that a Minister should be the person to make a judgment as to individual rights. [More…]
This is a serious charge but is supported by an earlier example of Senator Greenwood’s benign view of the rights of terrorists. [More…]
Action will be taken for deportation in cases where that is appropriate, having regard to the observance of the rights of persons and their civil liberties and to what crimes of violence they may have committed, and to initiate prosecutions in cases where that is appropriate. [More…]
I will reactivate this question by giving notice of motion so that this matter will not pass unnoticed by the Senate and so that the rights and privileges of honourable senators will not be taken from them. [More…]
His primary concern has always been that the rights of individual Australians be upheld through their elected represenatives, such as himself, working through the institutions of the Parliament of Australia. [More…]
I know this is a revolutionary theory but I believe that even members of ASIO have rights. [More…]
I would hesitate to give a constitutional opinion but it is probable that all members of ASIO who suffered this tort, instigated by the Attorney-General, would have a right of action against the Commonwealth for this interference with their rights. [More…]
He is exercising his rights to conduct a diversion, if he wants to, and that is the - [More…]
I consistently attempt to allot questions on the basis of the rights of senators and to protect the rights of senators in these matters. [More…]
In fact, if he had been listening carefully to what I said in relation to your statement last night and in relation to the notice of motion I gave today he would know that, whilst the Opposition admits he is quite within his rights to answer questions as he pleases, it does not admit that he has the right to request honourable senators not to ask questions! [More…]
All of the criticisms of the other rules strike me as pettifogging lawyers’ objections, nitpicking objections, objections that do not go to any fundamental question of human justice, or human rights, or humanity or compassion. [More…]
I am interested to see Senator Cavanagh sitting at the ministerial table in charge of the Senate at the moment, because for 4 years or more he and Senator Murphy have carried on in the Senate a persistent and even an implacable campaign against the transposition by rules of the rights of the legislature and the doing of things by rules, regulations or exercises of ministerial discretion that should more properly be done by statute. [More…]
I am not discussing the rights or wrongs of the National Service Act. [More…]
I said that having in mind the civil rights of ordinary citizens the Bill should never become an Act of this Parliament. [More…]
A booklet, I think entitled Rights and Privileges of Members of Parliament’ was circulated to honourable senators last year. [More…]
Firstly, as a group of people who represent country areas we have always believed in the principle that people who live in country areas throughout the length and breadth of Australia have rights in this national Parliament equal to those of their city cousins. [More…]
We, as a Party which essentially represents people in country areas, believe that we should have rights equal to those of other members of this Parliament. [More…]
I think we ought to bear this in mind because we in this place have always been pretty jealous of the rights of the Senate. [More…]
Firstly, it is designed to place clearly on the records of the Senate that until some standing order comes into this place limiting the rights of honourable senators to ask questions, the only method of limiting the rights of honourable senators to ask questions was for the Senate so to decide.I take no objection to the fact that if a Minister moves a motion to that effect and gets it carried that is the will of the Senate, and those who desire to ask questions must put up with it. [More…]
The second matter is that what we on the Opposition side are saying is that Ministers in this place quite rightly are accorded certain rights and privileges over and above those of other honourable senators, and Ministers ought to have these other rights and privileges so that they are able correctly to discharge their duties of office. [More…]
The Senate recognises that the Ministers have certain rights. [More…]
But in return for those rights there is an obligation on Ministers also to discharge their responsibilities to honourable senators. [More…]
1 am left with no alternative because 1 believe that the action of the Government today is one of the worst displays of arrogance, petulance, discrimination and denial of the rights of the Opposition that I have witnessed in any Parliament in which 1 have served. [More…]
I uphold the traditions of the Senate and its rights as strongly as does any other honourable senator in this place. [More…]
By no stretch of the imagination can it be said that honourable senators are having their rights taken away. [More…]
We are a national Parliament and honourable senators have certain rights, and the Government will not in any way derogate from those rights. [More…]
The Senate, by exercising these rights over the years and because of the work that has been put into the effort, has built up a situation where it is now a formidable unit of government in this country. [More…]
I am a patient soul, a submissive soul, but very persistent in the pursuit of principle and the preservation of the constitutional rights of this chamber, and not only the preservation, the improvement of them. [More…]
I rise to say that if a Minister in this chamber is to be absolved from the obligation to answer questions according to ministerial responsibility, having regard to our other constitutional limitations, that constitutes an important deprivation of our fundamental constitutional rights. [More…]
I suggest that the motion should commend itself to the Senate for the preservation of those fundamental rights. [More…]
We have heard an emotional speech from Senator Wright on the dignity, constitutional rights and ability of the Senate by force of numbers to take all day if need be to ask questions oh matters of national importance. [More…]
No honourable senator would ever say that I have never stood in support of the rights of honourable senators at every level. [More…]
That, in the absence of any standing order on the matter, honourable senators’ rights to question Ministers is limited only, by the judgment of the Senate .. . [More…]
I support what Senator Wright has said about the rights of Ministers in this area. [More…]
To me, this is a denial of the rights of honourable senators. [More…]
We must recognise that the right to ask Ministers questions is one of the inviolable rights of any member of Parliament. [More…]
If a limitation were placed upon question time it would milan that the rights of honourable senators could be effectively cut down. [More…]
If that is the situation, is it any wonder that an Opposition which is vigilant in the interests of the people and concerned about the rights of honourable senators in this place should be concerned to ensure that question time shall be preserved in its present form? [More…]
Victa Ltd sold the design rights of the Airtourer to a New Zealand firm. [More…]
Therefore that project could not be returned to Australia unless the design rights were to be relinquished by the New Zealand firm. [More…]
The ecclesiastical laws back in the last century contained all these matters of confessions, discretion statements and the general approach of restitution of conjugal rights. [More…]
Mr Justice Woodward, Q.C, has been appointed as Aboriginal Land Rights Commissioner to report on the most effective means of implementing this decision. [More…]
In increasing the total grants to the States for 1972-73 by over 50 per cent, we are honouring the trust placed in us to restore to the Aboriginals the basic human rights and to create for them the conditions in which they, too, may enjoy a standard of living, a freedom from fear and deprivation which has previously been reserved for non-Aboriginal Australians. [More…]
If the Minister for Works were to take his mind back a little into the past, with the shades of history drawing in upon him, he would acknowledge that he was a person who was very conscious of the rights of minority groups and who was anxious to protect the rights of people to have a say. [More…]
They are the same people who have preached for the right of government to govern, open government, protection of the individual, protection of civil rights and so on. [More…]
We have had a tremendous amount of mouthing by honourable senators opposite about how the rights of the people must be protected. [More…]
We value certain rights as part of our free society. [More…]
The Attorney-General may be certain of the co-operation of the Opposition in any attempt to rid this country of terrorism and violence - but he will not get the co-operation of this side of the Senate if he intends to pursue that aim by destroying the principles of civil and legal rights which are the basis of our way of life. [More…]
That is a limitation on justice and legal rights - a limitation determined by the [More…]
Justice and civil rights are not enhanced by the Attorney-General’s tabling documents in this Parliament whereby people are named as associated with activities which we deplore when he has not taken any action to have the persons so named arrested and charged. [More…]
Because of the pursuit of information for the purposes of the Attorney-General we have already had notice of instances brought to the attention of the Senate involving people who claim that they have had their rights infringed. [More…]
Surely that is an infringement of his rights. [More…]
Certainly it is contrary to human rights as declared in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for which Senator Murphy professes to have a very high regard. [More…]
Mr President, persons in this country have come to expect such rights and there should be no infringement of them now. [More…]
While speaking on the subject of individuals and their rights I would like to deal with the question of deportation to which Senator Murphy has referred. [More…]
The result of this can be seen in the organisation which was formed in Canberra last Sunday to try to protect their rights as citizens in this country. [More…]
We do not want another example of the attitude expressed by the wartime Labor government on civil rights when individuals were detained not because of any evidence that they were engaged in subversive activities but because they were thought to be. [More…]
However, this does not give the Attorney-General a right to impugn the character of individuals and it does not give him a right to limit the natural rights that persons residing in this country enjoy. [More…]
The point I want to make is this: I saw some of the crocodile tears expressed by the Leader of the Opposition (Senator Withers) about the rights of migrants and I wondered whether he had referred back to speeches such as those I made in the past 5 years in which I begged the then Government to change the Crimes Act in order to avoid discrimination against people who had acquired Australian citizenship not having been born in Australia. [More…]
Senator Wright is accusing them of not knowing their own Act and of being so weak and so incompetent to defend the nation’s security that when a Minister of a Labor Party government arrives in their office illegally without any authority, they have so little knowledge of the law, of their own charter and of their own rights that the Director-General of Security himself hands over the secret documents - quite illegally - to the Attorney-General. [More…]
We have had people blocking the roadways, denying rights of access to other people, and we have had scuffling and fighting and arrests taking place in the streets. [More…]
The Australian people know from 23 years experience how much they can expect in the way of civil liberties and civil rights from the Liberal Party, the Democratic Labor Party and the Country Party. [More…]
In 1919 the Croatian people approached that conference in the belief that the war had been fought for the rights of small nations, and in the belief that the leaders of the democratic world at the time believed in their own slogan that government was by the consent of the governed. [More…]
Because the Serbian people had shown great heroism and had made great sacrifices it was determined that they should be rewarded without regard to the rights of other subject peoples. [More…]
When it was determined that there should be some kind of a legal government in Croatia under a system of federalism, which Tito tried to introduce, a system was brought in under which, although the Croats were about 90 per cent of the people in Croatia and the others were only about 9 per cent, that 9 per cent should have equal electoral rights with the 90 per cent formed by Croats. [More…]
When they came to this country, having experienced communism and a denial of human rights, they set up a liberation organisation. [More…]
But it is good enough to.- table documents on some Croat or some Yugoslav whose dignity, rights, freedom and liberty are at least equal to those of Mr Burchett or any honourable senator here o.r elsewhere. [More…]
It is quite obvious that Senator Greenwood took a proper attitude, taking into account the civil liberties and the rights of the people who were involved. [More…]
He has always been an upholder of the rights of the Senate and has aimed at raising the Senate to a higher standard during the time that he has been here. [More…]
I feel also that the present Attorney-General is a man who has a determination to carry out his work in the best way and to uphold the rights of the Parliament by honest endeavour. [More…]
Human rights is another important matter to be considered. [More…]
In the years that I have been here I have looked upon Senator Murphy as a person who stood up and attempted to protect the rights of others in the community. [More…]
I desire to ask a question of the Attorney-General on a matter that I believe concerns the important subject of human rights and civil liberties. [More…]
At the same time, equality of political rights is inherent in a truly democratic State and these rights must be indisputably safeguarded by the legislature. [More…]
It gives to those who sit in this Parliament the opportunity, to say whether, they believe in these democratic principles and the equal rights of all electors. [More…]
As I have said, we have acceded to the viewpoint that there should be nominations rather than appointments and that the rights of individual senator’s should be preserved. [More…]
The 6 individual States cannot control prices successfully and effectively because of the system under which we live today and because of our constitutional rights in connection with trade. [More…]
The main view which I would take - holding, as I do, that there is no moral argument which I would accept or acknowledge as being opposed to the death penalty - is that it represents the condemnation by society of certain types of crime and the means by which society unites its ranks against those who in a particularly heinous way would seek to destroy the liberties, rights and values which, as a society, we would seek to maintain. [More…]
Japan, United States, Canada, New Zealand and the member countries of the enlarged European Communities are all members of the GATT, the rights and obligations set out in the General Agreement form an important basis of our trading relations with these countries. [More…]
My question contains a plea to the Leader of the Government in the Senate to restore one of the rights of hon ourable senators. [More…]
If what the honourable senator alleges has occurred - that is, that in some way the rights of some citizen have been infringed - ample remedies are available within the law for those rights to be vindicated. [More…]
If individuals desire to assert their legal rights, how can they otherwise obtain information on what is contained in the warrants except by having those documents produced to them. [More…]
To facilitate the exercise of individual rights if they think an injustice has been done, I ask again: Will the Attorney-General table the warrants and affidavit material upon which the warrants were obtained? [More…]
This matter or a mutter akin to it was discussed on 11th April 1961 when 1 moved the adjournment of the Senate for the purpose of discussing the question of the increasing threat to the rights of migrants from communist governed states who desired to live their lives in Australia in security under the rule of law. [More…]
Of course, in any extradition treaty a government must have regard to the Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
Everyone is entitled in full equality, to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him. [More…]
The statement by citizens who have come to this country and are opposed to communism is that if they are extradited to a communist country they will not receive a just trial in accordance with the terms of the Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
In increasing the total grants to the States for 1972-73 by over 50 per cent, we are honouring the trust placed in us to restore to the Aboriginals the basic human rights and to create for them the conditions in which they, too, may enjoy a standard of living, a freedom from fear and deprivation which has previously been reserved for nonAboriginal Australians. [More…]
It is the desire of the Government to protect and to preserve the individual rights of members of the Senate, including the 3 Independent senators - 2 of whom have been elected by the people of Tasmania and the other by the people of Western Australia. [More…]
It is on that principle, namely the protection of the rights of individual senators, that we have moved this motion. [More…]
But, knowing the great civil libertarian that Senator Murphy is, I think he would have said, as he said on Tuesday, that the rights of the individual members of the Senate are to be preserved. [More…]
We on the Government side of the chamber believe in preserving and protecting the rights of individual members of the Senate. [More…]
That is the issue of civil rights. [More…]
This question of civil rights is important. [More…]
A particular concern in the case of national groups such as the Croats is that refugees from police - state administrations with an incomplete grasp of the English language are unlikely to know or stand on their civil rights in Australia. [More…]
As an example of the need for an inquiry in the interests of the civil rights of Australian citizens, I wish to read a sworn declaration. [More…]
They represent the Party which has always said that above all it stands for the civil rights of citizens. [More…]
I have based what I have had to say, firstly, on the necesssity to uphold civil rights in this country and, secondly, on the necessity to give people who have been charged under privilege and whom the Attorney-General has informed me have no redress, no way of proving their innocence, no tribunal to which they can go, an opportunity to appear before a tribunal. [More…]
I conclude by saying that whatever decision may have been made regarding Senator Murphy, no decision has yet been made on the question of civil rights. [More…]
By ‘civil rights’ I mean the right of people to be protected from intrusion without a warrant and the right of people to have some tribunal to which they can go and put their case if they have been wrongly accused. [More…]
In those circumstances, for the protection of human rights, to allow people to prove their innocence, and for the purpose of showing that undesirable activity is being carried out in this country by the Yugoslav secret police I believe that this inquiry ought to be held. [More…]
So I am not suggesting that Senator Greenwood, Senator Hannan or the other defenders of the rights of the Croatians in this country who advocate a separate Croatian state are people who love violence - not for one moment. [More…]
You have safeguarded the rights of honourable senators in this place. [More…]
Yes, we are very concerned about the rights of Australian citizens. [More…]
I ask: Was there any discussion during the visit to Australia of the Yugoslav Prime Minister of the rights of holders of Australian passports, particularly Australian citizens born in Yugoslavia who are visiting Yugoslavia? [More…]
I was sent here by the electors of Western Australia to make certain that the rights of Western Australia and of the Government of Western Australia under the Constitution were upheld as far as is possible. [More…]
Dr Evatt’s statement tends to emphasise that in 1942 the then Attorney-General had a proper sense of the rights of the State parliaments and State governments in this matter. [More…]
This agreement superseded a similar agreement entered into in 1949, the year after the Australian and New Zealand governments acquired the mining rights from the Christmas Island Phosphate Co. [More…]
Some 1,250 appear to have clear rights to go to Singapore, Malaysia or Indonesia through their possession of the citizenship of those countries. [More…]
Under present arrangements for portability to occur - that is, the right to draw Australian pension benefits outside of this country - a pensioner has in general to have been resident in Australia for at least 20 years after reaching the age of 16 years and additionally can only attract portability rights in 4 countries: Italy, Greece, Turkey and Malta. [More…]
There are also long-standing reciprocal social security benefits rights for Australians in the United Kingdom and New Zealand. [More…]
These are comprehensive reciprocal rights as distinct from pension portability. [More…]
The extension of portability rights beyond the limited number of countries mentioned was dependent on increasing the number of countries with which reciprocal arrangements could be established. [More…]
lt comes in recognition of the special rights and needs of migrants in this country - justice too long denied them. [More…]
Of course, the rights of such pensioners who are absent from Australia on the date this legislation becomes operative will be fully protected. [More…]
Pensioners receiving their pensions in Malta, Italy, Greece and Turkey in accordance with the reciprocal pension portability agreements entered into under the legislation introduced by the previous Government not only will have their existing rights preserved but also will be brought within the new provisions, that is, they will be able to continue to receive their Australian pensions but the requirement that they live in one of the 4 countries mentioned will no longer apply. [More…]
In addition to providing for continuation of payments to pensioners wherever they choose to live outside Australia, the provisions introduced by this Bill will also allow a social security pensioner living overseas, if he wishes and is otherwise eligible, to transfer to a repatriation Service pension, or vice versa, thus giving him the same rights in this respect as would be available to him in Australia. [More…]
One was on the rights of and facilities to be provided to senators. [More…]
This is without any consideration being given to the rights of the individuals who own or control the land. [More…]
He came out fighting and finished up as the great champion of liberty and the mover of the Bill of Rights and the Bill of Liberties. [More…]
Among many measures already announced, my Government will give priority to establishing Aboriginal land rights and to ensuring that Aborigines are truly equal before the law. [More…]
In a sense, my question is a follow-up to a question related to civil rights that I asked the Attorney-General some weeks ago. [More…]
-I ask the Minister representing the Postmaster-General: As Australia is a signatory to the Declaration of Human Rights, including that section of it which guarantees freedom for the passage of information, will the Postmaster-General make a statement to the Parliament, firstly, on his decision to deny postal and similar facilities to the Rhodesian Information Centre in Sydney and, secondly, on the decision of the [More…]
Is it true that the Federal Labor Government is concerned to preserve the civil rights of Australian citizens? [More…]
It should be standing up for the rights of the Senate in this case. [More…]
The Australian Democratic Labor Party, perhaps because it is a Party that is particularly and almost exclusively identified with the Senate at this stage, sees a trespass on the traditional rights of the Senate in this field. [More…]
Pension rights will be available to persons who have become entitled to them in Australia, irrespective of the existence of such a reciprocal agreement. [More…]
The Minister said that this Bill is a recognition of the special rights and needs of migrants in this country and was justice too long denied them. [More…]
If the Government is to lake claim for doing things for migrants, such as recognising the special rights and needs of migrants in this country, which it suggests the previous Government denied them for too long, 1 ask the Minister who made this speech, his Cabinet colleagues and his Party to reconsider what they are doing to the migrant community of Australia in other ways. [More…]
It is all very well to take credit for something which is being done but which, after all, is only a continuation of a concept developed by the previous Government, and then to suggest that the previous Government was unmindful of the rights and needs of migrants to this country at a time when the migrant community is more unsettled by the actions of the new Government than it was during the whole 23 years of the preceding Government. [More…]
If there is a genuine interest in looking after the migrant community and seeing that its rights and needs are met I hope that we will not have wide-sweeping unsettling accusations made about sections of that migrant community, accusations which do have a disturbing and unfortunate effect on the migrant community. [More…]
I say to the Minister and to the Senate that even in a social measure for which we all have warm endorsement and which will benefit so many people, the question of the taxpayers’ rights should not be overlooked. [More…]
It is interesting to note that under the present arrangements, for portability to occur a pensioner has in general to have been resident in Australia for at least 20 years after achieving the age of 16 years and, additionally, can attract portability rights only in 4 countries - Italy, Greece, Turkey and Malta. [More…]
In addition, there are long-standing reciprocal social security benefit rights for Australians in the United Kingdom and New Zealand. [More…]
But these are comprehensive reciprocal rights as distinct from pension portability rights. [More…]
Does the AttorneyGeneral believe that citizens of Australia have a right to believe that their civil rights and liberties should not be violated? [More…]
I believe that the citizens of Australia ought to have their civil rights and that those civil rights ought not to be violated. [More…]
Does the opposition to the Bill in several States suggest that the Prime Minister, who said yesterday that he expected that only a handful of senators would oppose the Bill, is unconcerned about State rights or is totally unaware of the thinking in the States on this controversial matter? [More…]
There are not only State rights, there may be Australian rights in this area. [More…]
10, relating to the appointment of a select committee on the civil rights of migrant Australians. [More…]
10, relating to the appointment of a select committee on civil rights of migrant Australians. [More…]
I refer to the civil rights of individuals and the matter that he, as the Leader of the Australian Democratic Labor Party, has attempted to emphasise here. [More…]
Before the original statement on Croatian terrorism was made in the Senate, Senator Murphy - a man whom I respected when he was the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate - had always claimed that the Australian Labor Party stood up for the civil rights of individuals. [More…]
In my view, Senator Murphy a year ago made more statements about protecting the rights and liberties of individuals than did any other honourable senator. [More…]
Yet, as a protector of the civil rights of individuals in Australia, he chose to name them in the Senate as being terrorists. [More…]
Am I correct in saying that Senator Murphy is very reluctant to have it known in the Senate whether the rights of those individuals were infringed in any way by him, the Attorney-General of the Commonwealth of Australia? [More…]
I believe that I am speaking to the point when I say that on 12th April I placed on the notice paper a question which related to the matter on which Senator Gair has moved a motion, namely, to have the rights of individuals mentioned in the Croatian debate examined. [More…]
10 deal fundamentally with the question of civil rights of a major section of our community. [More…]
We have mentioned a number of migrant groups who are gravely concerned about their position in this community because of the possible trespass on their civil rights. [More…]
I was merely illustrating that this is a civil rights matter. [More…]
The point I make is that the question of civil rights is an extremely important one. [More…]
In this place and outside of it they have always been protesting about the importance of the adequate and proper protection of civil rights under the law. [More…]
If there is some suggestion that civil rights have been impugned, attacked or assaulted, then civil rights must be protected. [More…]
Our justification for putting aside all other business in order to enable this motion to come forward is on that basis, that it is important that as early as possible an investigation should be held to ascertain whether civil rights have been trespassed upon, to what extent they should be protected and the methods that should be adopted to achieve that protection. [More…]
In fairness, I think that honourable senators who have protested about the question of civil rights would not deny the validity of that proposition. [More…]
That intervention by Senator Murphy at The Hague, I suppose in Senator Murphy’s connotation, is essentially a question of civil rights. [More…]
It is a question of civil rights- [More…]
That is Senator Murphy’s assessment of the trespass upon the individual rights of Australians and of the people in the Pacific community. [More…]
We say that here is another case, an immediate case, where we allege that civil rights have been trespassed upon. [More…]
Civil rights must be declared, they must be defined and they must be protected. [More…]
Therefore, I would have expected that contrary to Senator Murphy opposing our proposition, he would have been the first to say: ‘Of course, I am going over to The Hague on this very question of theassertion and protection of civil rights. [More…]
They are being attacked in Australia, and I will be the first to see that there is an early investigation to ensure that civil rights are protected and defined.’ [More…]
We have had migrant communities claiming that their rights have been attacked. [More…]
This is a matter of civil rights. [More…]
Urgency is associated with those civil rights. [More…]
The Senate has an obligation to a tremendous number of people - perhaps one million Australians - who feel that their rights are being impeded. [More…]
Surely the proposition must appeal to everybody in this chamber that this Parliament above all institutions or authorities should move as quickly as possible to assert the rights of those people, to defend them and, where those rights are uncertain, to define them. [More…]
1 would imagine that in relation to any investigation of civil rights we would have received the enthusiastic, immediate and unanimous support of all members of this Senate. [More…]
He attempted to justify the bringing on of this question on the ground that it would examine whether there had been a breach of rights of the individual or of civil liberties of certain Croatians. [More…]
However, that was Senator Byrne’s suggestion, and of course he stated that the question of civil rights is more important than any other. [More…]
As Senator Webster will agree, Senator Murphy never denied the rights of the Government to dominate the committees or to ensure that it exercised control of the committees. [More…]
1. relating to the appointment of a select committee on civil rights of migrant Australians. [More…]
Senator Townley has his rights. [More…]
Senator Negus has his rights. [More…]
Government senators have their rights. [More…]
Opposition senators, subject to the President, have their rights. [More…]
whether the civil rights of migrant Australians and, in particular, members of the Croatian community, have been infringed by: [More…]
witnesses may be accompanied by counsel or solicitor for the purposes of being advised by them as to their rights and, subject to the discretion of the Committee, be permitted to ask questions of other witnesses either themselves or through their counsel or solicitor; [More…]
witnesses may be accompanied by counsel or solicitor for the purposes of being advised by them as to their rights and, subject to the discretion of ‘the’ Committee, be permitted to ask questions’ of other witnesses either themselves or through their counsel or solicitor; [More…]
They will not know their rights. [More…]
Were the civil rights of Croatians protected in these raids? [More…]
Were the civil rights of Croatians protected in those raids? [More…]
Paragraph CD (a) deals with the civil rights of Croatians, This is the most important aspect of the whole Senate committee inquiry. [More…]
It is my belief that the civil rights of the Croatians have been trampled on. [More…]
Paragraph (13) is the new paragraph dealing with the rights of witnesses. [More…]
In this paragraph we have gone to great pains to protect the rights of witnesses. [More…]
to grips with these people, so-called concern is expressed for the civil rights of these people who in fact are violating our civil rights. [More…]
The League of Rights has a sprinkling of strong supporters amongst honourable senators on the Opposition side. [More…]
If ever there was a reactionary, despicable organisation, it is the League of Rights. [More…]
The Opposition wants to set up a committee on a pretext of finding out whether the civil rights of migrant Australians, particularly members of. [More…]
It seeks to inquire whether the civil rights of Australians, naturalised or otherwise, Croatian citizens and related persons are being infringed. [More…]
Does any member of the Labor Party say that it is wrong to set up a committee of this Senate to inquire into whether civil rights are infringed? [More…]
That Australian citizens place great value on the rights of individuals; [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Honourable the President and members of the Senate in Parliament assembled will give support to the abortion Bill before the House of Representatives upholding the liberty and rights of individuals. [More…]
Will he present a summary to show the Yugoslav community of Sydney that the SMA has met all compensation claims, in view of the solicitude shown last night by all Opposition senators for the rights of members of the Yugoslav community? [More…]
The considerable body of scientific and technological expertise now existing in Australia has much to contribute to the achievements of acceptable balances between the needs and rights of consumers on the one hand and the problems of manufacturers on the other. [More…]
I had hoped that there would be a continuance of the debate on the proposed appointment of a Senate committee to examine the matter of civil rights of Australian migrants. [More…]
In essence, the committee is to inquire, first into whether the civil rights of a number of Australians, specifically migrants - and, more specifically, people of Croatian origin - are being infringed; secondly, whether there is any intimidation against any such Australians from any source, specifically from agents or officers of the Yugoslav Government, whether those persons be intelligence agents or secret police of that government, or from some other source; thirdly, to inquire into the circumstances of the visit by the AttorneyGeneral (Senator Murphy) to the offices of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation in March; and fourthly to look virtually at the problems that now arise of dual citizenship of migrants and the threat to their lives and to their freedom when they travel abroad. [More…]
I predict that the Attorney-General will find that a very troublesome statement to live with in the future because the right of the Ivan Pavlovics of this world is one of the fundamental rights, whether in fact history proves him innocent or otherwise on this issue. [More…]
I said: ‘Without going into the rights or wrongs of it, because we do not know them, there is a complaint by the government of a friendly country about the actions and the inactions of the Australian Government’. [More…]
I ought to place on record that when the motion moved by Senator Gair for the appointment of a Senate select committee to inquire into the civil rights of migrant Australians was called on for final decision by the Senate, the Senate divided on the question. [More…]
It is to your credit that you have not lent yourself to this campaign to deny justice, rights and equality of opportunity to every member of the Senate. [More…]
If it is feasible for us to recognise that the Government has certain rights in this chamber without seeking to take away the rights of the Opposition to reject or amend legislation, the sort of tension build up that has been evident in this place in recent weeks can quickly disappear. [More…]
How does the ‘Courier-Mail’ justify this infringement of democratic rights to information with Jefferson’s statement, which incidentally appears above the entrance to the ‘Courier-Mail’ building? [More…]
If the Government is concerned about the civil rights of the citizens of Australia - I take it that it is - can an answer be obtained to my question No. [More…]
The Yugoslav Government is insisting that it has prior rights - in fact, the only rights - under the. [More…]
Fair-minded employers will not seek to deny to workers the rights they themselves enjoy. [More…]
The Leader of my Party, Senator Murphy, pointed out that equality of political rights is inherent in a true democratic State and that those rights must be indisputably safeguarded. [More…]
While we may not have equality of voting and complete equality of electors in a division, we should at all times safeguard the equality of political rights. [More…]
The Committee believes that as long as governments are democratically elected and there is full parliamentary responsibility to the electors, the protection of personal rights will, in practice, be secure in Australia. [More…]
In modern usage of the words I believe it to be correct to say a ‘democratic State’ denotes one in which all citizens have equal political rights. [More…]
I suppose that one would hope in vain to hear from Senator Wright - that doughty champion of the rights of Tasmania - any suggestion that the number of seats in Tasmania should be reduced by amendment, constitutional reform or any other method. [More…]
Does the Minister agree that if this occurs it will further weaken the Australian Government’s position in any air traffic rights discussions with the United States if alternatives are precipitously closed off? [More…]
This Senate over the last 5 months has demonstrated the real reason for its existence - its responsibility for State rights and its sensible approach to reviews. [More…]
But they come here and talk of the rights of the Senate when it suits them. [More…]
It is a lot of poppycock for Senator Carrick to talk about electoral justice, the rights of the voters, the rights of rural communities and the rights of people when he turns a blind eye to gerrymanders of this kind. [More…]
When we seek to bring in an amendment to correct this position we are criticised and accused of endeavouring to take away from the people their rights within the electorates. [More…]
Let us not forget that in the Senate each State is equally represented and each State has equal rights. [More…]
But the DLP has the audacity to challenge the rights of a Party which attracted 49 per cent of the votes. [More…]
The Committee believes that as long as governments are democratically elected and there is full parliamentary responsibility to the electors, the protection of personal rights will, in practice, be secure in Australia. [More…]
At the same time, equality of political rights is inherent in a truly democratic State and these rights must he indisputably safeguarded by the legislature. [More…]
I suppose that if we accepted the principle that some people have greater rights than have others we would wind up with the almost horrendous conclusion that politicians have a greater right to determine who should be in power than have people who are not politicians. [More…]
We are attempting in this legislation, not to deprive any person of his rights under the electoral laws but to correct the imbalance which now exists between certain areas of the Commonwealth. [More…]
If one accepts the first principle that every person in this country has the right of equality and not privilege, as Senator Webster’s Party Leader said last night, and if we accept that a rural dweller has the same rights as has an urban dweller, and vice versa, it is unfortunate that Senator Webster’s emotional attachment to his representation of the Country Party causes him to lose sight of the rationale of what elections are all about, and he adopts an emotional attitude that the people he represents should have a higher representation than do people in non-rural areas. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Social Security whether his attention has been drawn to a reported statement by the Chairman of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights - it appears in today’s ‘Australian’ - in which he said that almost half the patients in Australian mental institutions were being detained against their will because of laws which intruded on personal liberty. [More…]
It is true that the State shipping line was not a very profitable line but nevertheless King Islanders are Australians with equal rights. [More…]
That motion is not acceptable to the Opposition because apparency it would be far too fair to have a situation where the Government had equal rights in relation to any discussions that take place. [More…]
I find it surprising that a Government which talks about the rights of minorities constantly being protected and preserved does not follow this theme through into the field of electoral reform. [More…]
But there has not been one word from those honourable senators about standing up for the rights of individuals who live in rural areas. [More…]
The matter refers to the appointment of a Select Committee on Civil Rights of Migrant Australians. [More…]
That Senator Gair’s motion relating to civil rights of migrant Australians be agreed to as follows: [More…]
whether the civil rights of migrant Australians and, in particular, members of the Croatian community, have been infringed by: [More…]
witnesses may be accompanied bv counsel or solicitor for the purposes of being advised by them as to their rights and, subject lo the discretion of the Committee, be permitted to ask questions of other witnesses either themselves or through their counsel or solicitor; [More…]
With the aim of ensuring continuity of supplies and uniformity of price, the Authority will have trading rights to buy and sell hydrocarbons. [More…]
So it is that this Bill provides For all, regardless of origins, the same requirements as to residence, good character, knowledge of the language and of the rights and duties of citizenship, and intention to live here permanently. [More…]
It is sufficient to say that it has had a major role in promoting the acceptance and application of human rights in such areas as abolishing forced labour, promoting freedom of association and removing discrimination in employment. [More…]
He indicated that priority attention was being given to those conventions dealing with fundamental human rights which Australia had not ratified at that time. [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…]
But we have our rights and our duties. [More…]
Does he recall the Attorney-General stating in the Senate, in his concern for the civil rights of our citizens, that he would reinvestigate whether some citizens with no charge or conviction ever having been recorded against them, unfortunately had been named by him as terrorists? [More…]
Does he understand the need to maintain the civil rights of our citizens? [More…]
Yes, I realise the necessity to maintain civil rights in Australia. [More…]
With the State governments claiming sovereign rights in some of the same areas as the Commonwealth, we find ourselves in the absurd position of having one of the longest coastlines and most extensive continental shelves of all littoral nations, without a clear decision on this most important matter. [More…]
It is for us, here in the national Parliament, to provide the legislative framework which will enable the national Government to exert its sovereign national rights and to speak with authority in national terms on these matters. [More…]
Part II of the Bill, which deals with sovereignty over the territorial sea and sovereign rights in respect of the continental shelf, is based largely on the earlier Territorial Sea and Continental Shelf Bill which has been mentioned previously. [More…]
Similarly clause 11 makes it clear that the sovereign rights of Australia in respect of the exploration and exploitation of the natural resources of the continental shelf are vested in and exercisable by the Crown in right of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Thirdly, the Bill contains, in Division 3 of Part II, certain saving provisions to ensure that the assertion of Commonwealth sovereign rights in the territorial sea will not invalidate existing property rights in wharves and other installations or works, nor limit or exclude the operation of any law of the Commonwealth, a Territory or a State in force at the date of commencement of this legislation or coming into force after that date. [More…]
This exemption will not extend to any State law in so far as it is expressed to vest any sovereignty or sovereign rights, or make these exercisable otherwise than provided in this Bill. [More…]
The other short-term title is the access authority which will authorise a title holder to have limited access to areas outside his title area if the Minister is satisfied that this is necessary or desirable for the more effective exercise and proper performance of the rights and duties of the title holder. [More…]
The Senate is more than just a chamber in which to talk about what is loosely and quite inaccurately termed ‘State rights’. [More…]
None of the States of the Commonwealth would surrender any of the rights it thinks it has. [More…]
But now that there has been a change of Government and the present Government wants to take the natural course of asserting its rights by legislation over these off-shore areas, the Opposition moves that the Bill be deferred until consultation takes place. [More…]
They are still arguing that they have certain rights within the territorial sea but they are not arguing that they have rights beyond the territorial sea. [More…]
On the contrary, during the negotiations when, firstly, Sir Robert Menzies, as he now is and, secondly, Mr Holt, was Prime Minister, and conducting the negotiations with the States, the States were bluffing that under the letters patent they had certain rights to the continental shelf. [More…]
During the hearings of the Senate Select Committee on Off-shore Petroleum Resources, I think, it was pointed out that there was a case in Western Australia some time ago - and Senator Durack would know of it - in which the State of Western Australia was defeated and it proposed to appeal to the High Court to settle the question whether it had rights in this area. [More…]
The simple fact that the States have issued permits to explore for minerals off their coast - what might be referred to as their adjacent area - is not evidence that they have sovereign rights in that area. [More…]
We believe that naturalisation gives to an Australian citizen absolutely and without equivocation the same rights under the law as natural born Australians possess under that very same law. [More…]
I said in regard to this man Marincic that there is a paramount obligation in the type of society in which we live always to err - if erring it is - in favour of individual liberty and individual rights and not in favour of the public interest of some totalitarian country. [More…]
I hope that this Government will make it abundantly Clear that any person who is deported from this country or is about to be deported from this country has rights and that those rights will be exercised. [More…]
We hope that the Labor Party Government will go further and will examine the provisions of the Migration Act to ensure that under those provisions people who may be deported are adequately protected and that the rights which they have will not be dealt with in secret and possibly not revealed to the people of this country until after they have been deported. [More…]
One or two of them said that they were concerned about justice and about their Australian rights. [More…]
However, in this Bill we are primarily concerned with providing effective political rights for people to become not merely members of the community but if needs be militant advocates. [More…]
They intimidated the whole of the migrant community because migrants value their rights as citizens of this country. [More…]
Under the age of 21 a person had certain rights of avoiding the consequences of obligations which he had entered into unless it could be established against him that the contract or obligation which he had made ought to be regarded as being for his benefit or something which was necessary for his sustenance and development. [More…]
I would have thought that one of the very purposes of the law in the legalisation of the relationship of marriage is to give legitimacy to the children which, of course, gives them rights against the parents and the parents’ property. [More…]
I suggest that we have to be careful to preserve the rights of children against the indiscretions of parents, if I may put it in that form to open up the debate. [More…]
With Senator Murphy presenting a case to the International Court of Justice in The Hague on French nuclear tests and the rights and protection of humanity, can the Minister say whether the AttorneyGeneral will be returning home via Yugoslavia in order to have discussions with the heads of Government in that country on the rights and protection of Australian citizens in Yugoslavia and, further, to ascertain whether any Australians are being held in custody there? [More…]
If the Attorney-General does not intend to do this, will the Government instruct him to do so as this is also an important matter of human rights? [More…]
Insofar as superannuation, retirement and employment security benefits are concerned the Bill continues certain provisions in the existing Papua New Guinea law and preserves the continuity of pensions and the rights of contributors. [More…]
Equally, we need to maintain a high degree of consultation with the States to ensure that their rights are not to be set at one side and ignored but that they arc consulted. [More…]
In view of the other things that are looming, the fact that there is another Bill on this subject presently before the Senate and a Bill dealing with the control of the seabed and the continental shelf, one being more or less tied up with the other, I would not like to think that what we agree on in this Bill will prejudice our idea of preserving the rights of Torres Strait islanders in regard to their territory, fishing and the land adjacent around the coast. [More…]
I can understand the concern of Senator, Lawrie about the boundary lines between Queensland and Papua New Guinea, but I hope that the same goodwill, the same tolerance and the same width of vision that have been shown in this piece of legislation will be extended into that area and that everyone will benefit and no one will lose by any future arrangements that are made concerning the boundaries of our territorial rights and the sea bed generally. [More…]
I shall bring them under the general heading of ‘protection of private rights of citizens which are bound to be affected in some way by an authority of this kind constructing a pipeline’. [More…]
A pipeline even throughout central Australia could well affect homesteads, fencing, bores or other rights which even in those remote areas private citizens may have. [More…]
But a pipeline in the more heavily populated areas can of course be a most important factor as far as private citizens and their rights are concerned, particularly the rights of owners of property. [More…]
I am happy to say that the mining Acts in my own State have been amended very drastically to preserve the rights of private owners of property as well. [More…]
Therefore it seems sensible, particularly in view of the defence aspect, that there should be a national authority having the backing of the Commonwealth Parliament which in extreme circumstances can override the rights of individuals and of the States in the interests of the whole of Australia. [More…]
Written into the Bill are some clauses which will give certain guarantees to and securities for individual rights and which will afford protection if they are interfered with. [More…]
I refer to the establishment of an overriding authority such as an ombudsman to whom people can appeal if they believe that they have been aggrieved or their personal rights have been interfered with by the ultimate decision of authority. [More…]
They could appeal to an ombudsman, a body which is not of the Government but of the people, who could act in judgment between their rights and those of even the Parliament. [More…]
We talk about the invasion of private rights. [More…]
Indeed, I think Senator Murphy in Paris, where he is arguing for human liberty and the protection of human rights, must be listening somewhat anxiously at this moment to this kind of fallout. [More…]
Hie Attorney-General (Senator Murphy) and the members of his Party talk about protection of human rights. [More…]
Is this giving the individual his freedom and rights? [More…]
It is typical discrimination, because the one thing that a socialist government hates is the little person, the individual and individual rights. [More…]
I believe it is most important that the layout of the pipeline should be drawn on a map of a Australia, with the idea of reserving country which at the present time is not taken up, so that in the future the Government will not interfere with an individual’s personal rights and property. [More…]
If we give the Authority the capacity to buy these commodities anywhere in the world, in order to meet its requirements we must be very sure that, at the whim of the Authority, it is not able to deny the rights of the producers in this country, whoever they may be, and exclude their products from the common carriage to the necessary markets in the various States. [More…]
We have demonstrated our active concern for the rights of peoples oppressed in Rhodesia and South Africa by voting in favour of the last 2 United Nations General Assembly resolutions on Rhodesia, which we had not previously supported, terminating al] trade to and from Rhodesia, and by seeking the closure of the Rhodesian Information Centre in Sydney. [More…]
Further, we have signed, as a first step towards ratification, the 1966 International Covenants on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
Australia has asserted its sovereign rights to explore and exploit the natural resources of its continental shelf out to the outer shelf of the continental margin. [More…]
Sub-clause (2) then purports to provide some protection for the rights of the owner of that land. [More…]
In the broad powers that are outlined in the Bill there may be an offence against civil rights. [More…]
The Australian Democratic Labor Party is for civil rights and we are in favour of this clause being amended. [More…]
If a person wished to consult his lawyer because he believed an injustice was being done to him a journey of thousands of miles might be involved before he could even obtain the legal advice he is seeking in relation to his rights in resisting the authority. [More…]
It will have to plan months ahead whether it will pass through property A, B or C. To require it to give 30 days notice will impose no hardship or inconvenience on the authority at all and it will afford added protection to the thousands of ordinary people whose rights can be interfered with because of the magnitude of this venture. [More…]
I think it is trying to treat it in the way in which we should treat a Bill, namely, with due regard to the fact that without any shadow of doubt the Authority will be interfering with the rights of people. [More…]
We must protect the rights of people. [More…]
Our proposal to extend from 7 days to 30 days the period of notice which must be given is a clear example of our trying to protect the rights of the individual. [More…]
If it does not, all I can say is that it has no respect for the civil rights of the people of this country. [More…]
I do not know whether the rights of any one Australian means less to him than the rights of thousands of Australians. [More…]
with ,the protection, rights, actions, procedures arid inquiries which are to be extended and taken’ by the Tribunal. [More…]
This is a time when the community is prepared to surrender many of its rights and privileges and to put up with all sorts of difficulties in Order to defend the nation. [More…]
It would not have limited the rights of unions to demand either increased wages or better conditions. [More…]
It states: services’ includes the rights or benefits provided under an agreement for the performance of work (otherwise than under a contract of service), whether with or without the supply of goods; 1 call attention to the exclusion of a contract of service and to the inclusion of services and goods. [More…]
The poor should have the same rights as the rich. [More…]
This is, of course, the way in which the States have exercised their rights under the existing legislation. [More…]
Firstly, the Government believes that it ought to be possible to appoint 7 Commissioners to run TAA, instead of six as at present, and that the Act should enable the General Manager to be appointed as a Commissioner, with the same rights and responsibilities as other Commissioners. [More…]
We have no legal rights in the situation. [More…]
It relates to various questions that have been asked in the Senate regarding the civil rights of individuals who were named by Senator Murphy, during the debate on Croatian terrorism, as being terrorists. [More…]
I notice further that, despite the fact that he has reached conclusions and expressed himself in a manner which shows that he has an invincible bias on certain matters, nevertheless he has put himself forward as a prospective member of the Senate committee that has been established to consider the matter of civil rights. [More…]
Rather than express any opinion as to the legal solution of the matter I shall ask that it be investigated by my Department in order to ascertain the legal position and whether Australia can take proceedings not only to establish its rights but also to carry out any agreement which has been entered into with a foreign government. [More…]
Constantly the Opposition has spoken about the civil rights of persons and said: ‘Do not start talking about people, their backgrounds and whether they have been convicted’. [More…]
It is all very well to talk about the civil rights of people. [More…]
I think it is proper that there should be this recognition of the quality of work, its extent over a number of years, and the value it could mean in the future to those who are concerned to ensure that the citizens’ rights are encouraged, promoted and protected against an enveloping bureaucracy. [More…]
lt is true that that Committee has an assignment on Aboriginal affairs and that Senator Keeffe and I sounded the tocsins in respect of the Black Mountain project, but the plea I make now is that this is one of those subjects on which, as the Senate committees complete their charters, we will not surrender our sovereign rights if we join forces with the House of Representatives. [More…]
The time may well come, and almost certainly will come, when it will be necessary for the Authority to exercise its rights in constructing pipelines over off-shore areas, for example, in Bass Strait or off the north-west coast. [More…]
The suggested course relates to ensuring that this Senate preserves the rights of State Governments to be properly consulted and to have an opportunity of taking courses which they consider proper about a matter of such enormous importance. [More…]
It is unclear only because the States have ceded certain rights to the Commonwealth and have granted the Commonwealth certain controls over those offshore areas. [More…]
But the Commonwealth now says that it will create a situation where the States will be forced to go to the High Court to establish the rights which the States at the moment clearly believe they already have. [More…]
It appears that he believes that if Mr Gorton and Mr Whitlam, who are politically on different sides of the fence, have reached a particular conclusion, honourable senators, although elected to represent the rights of the States, should seek endorsement from those 2 honourable gentlemen rather than from the people who represent their political machinery in the States and who later will submit them to the will of the electors. [More…]
At present, the various State governments claim sovereign rights in respect of such resources from low water mark to the outer limits of the shelf. [More…]
The Commonwealth believes that, except for internal waters as they existed at federation, it has sovereign rights in this area. [More…]
In order that this may happen, my Government will ask the Parliament to pass legislation to assert and establish what the Commonwealth conceives to be its legal rights. [More…]
The Commonwealth believes … the States have no such rights … it would serve Australia’s national and international interests to have the legal position resolved as soon as practicable. [More…]
They have expressed the view that they do not intend to surrender their rights and that they intend to utilise to the full their legal rights to challenges this legislation before the Privy Council or in any other jurisdiction to establish what they consider to be their sovereign rights. [More…]
The object of the Bill is to provide legislative jurisdiction clearly and concisely to assert national sovereign rights over the resources in the continental shelf. [More…]
But he did not consider the fact that the Premier of Victoria now has such a definite mandate from the people that he is to join other Premiers in London to assert State rights in this matter. [More…]
State rights are involved in this matter. [More…]
The States have some rights in our federation. [More…]
Only the matter of mineral rights has been mentioned. [More…]
But there are fishing rights and other matters like that. [More…]
The State Premiers are in London consulting with the Imperial authorities on State rights. [More…]
The Premiers have their rights. [More…]
We might not agree with them but they do have their rights. [More…]
They would lose freehold land title and other rights. [More…]
Its purpose was to ensure that all possible steps were taken to ensure that the land rights of the Gurindji people would be met by the grant of an appropriate area of land. [More…]
Can the Minister inform the Senate whether the States have any legal rights to intercept private telephone calls? [More…]
I ask the AttorneyGeneral whether it is a fact that one significant and vital protection of the rights and liberties of citizens lies in the inability of police to enter private property except with search warrants issued by a magistrate on affidavit material. [More…]
Is it not also a fact that unless citizens can see the search warrants and the affidavit material upon which they are obtained their rights could be nullified. [More…]
It is right that a very important part of the rights of citizens is that their homes should not be entered except with a search warrant based on proper information. [More…]
The honourable senator seems to be confusing his rights with those of the citizen. [More…]
Do we regard it as sufficiently important an interference with States rights and with a principle which is believed to be’ fundamental to the general philosophy of the Liberal Party and the good of this country that we should take this action? [More…]
In the Submerged Lands Bill which is to come before the Senate, again the Commonwealth wishes to press its view, with the States having no rights. [More…]
This is the type of authoritarianism and, to use an expression so often used, riding roughshod over the States’ rights that characterises the Opposition’s objection to parts of this Bill. [More…]
1 can only regret that members of the Australian Democratic Labor Party who do have, as I know from their policy, a commitment to home ownership and a commitment to State rights as against centralist control, should not see their way clear to support the amendment which we will be moving in the Committee stage of this debate. [More…]
Although New South Wales was not particularly inconvenienced by this requirement, it was prepared to resist this infringement of State rights and to support the amendment to the motion which provided for 50 per cent. [More…]
It includes protection of the rights of public servants appointed to the statutory offices. [More…]
The provisions of the Bill are to, (a) provide for 2 members of the House of Representatives for the Australian Capital Territory elected on the basis of single member electorates, with effect from the first sitting of the twenty-ninth Parliament; (b) provide for full voting rights for both members for the Australian Capital Territory with all the powers, immunities and privileges held by other members of the House of Representatives; (c) divide the Australian Capital Territory into 2 single member electorates, of which one electorate shall embrace part of the Australian Capital Territory proper and the other electorate shall embrace the remaining part of the Australian Capital Territory plus the Jervis Bay territory - to be effective immediately following the expiry or dissolution of the Twenty-eighth Parliament; and (d) provide - (i) for the setting up of a distribution committee; (ii) for the inviting of suggestions and objections and preparation of a report to Parliament, along similar lines to that provided for the distribution of a State into electoral divisions. [More…]
The Australian Capital Territory was given representation in the Australian Parliament in 1948 on the initiative of the then Labor Government with effect from the 1949 elections, on the basis that the member representing the Australian Capital Territory had the same voting rights as the member for the Northern Territory at that time, namely that the member could vote only on a motion to disallow an ordinance affecting the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
The number of electors enrolled in the Australian Capital Territory increased from 11,841 in 1949, when the Australian Capital Territory was given its first representation, to 48,127 in 1966 when the member for the Australian Capital Territory was given full voting rights in this House. [More…]
The rights of present serving members are protected where they are superior to those provided in the Bill. [More…]
In order to protect the rights of individual senators, I have sought to discover whether the speeches were in the possession of honourable senators. [More…]
So far as the implementation and operation of the new scheme is concerned, however - and for this purpose, I am excluding reference to the parts which deal with members who become candidates at parliamentary elections and with the preservation of rights of eligible members who transfer to certain other employment - these, to a very large extent, will be short-lived. [More…]
I understand that rather than have an artificial legislative position under which the repealed provisions would be deemed to remain in force, it would be preferable to continue the existing legislation insofar as it relates to pension rights and to amend it as necessary. [More…]
The Government has not repealed the National Service Act primarily because it wishes to ensure preservation of the rights of those men who are serving at the date the Government assumed office, including those who have elected to continue their service under the provisions of the National Service Act. [More…]
That is hardly a profitable operation for an airline unless it has pickup rights within the State. [More…]
I understand that TAA wishes to operate into Karratha if it is given intrastate rights by the Western Australian Government. [More…]
Additionally, I am informed that ATI said at an earlier stage that a MacRobertson Miller Airways analysis of allowing TAA to operate Perth-Darwin services via intermediate points, even with unrestricted rights to pick up intrastate traffic, shows that it would cause no significant reduction in MacRobertson Miller Airways’ flying hours and therefore no pilot redundancy. [More…]
Action Sir, ls the name of the game, and the game requires you to publicly state outright do you support Trans Australia Airlines having equal competitive rights as outlined in your party’s statement on 19 August 1972 or not? [More…]
Trans Australia Airlines had asked for certain extra rights which, incidentally, it asked for during the inquiry conducted by the committee of this Parliament into the proposed takeover of Ansett Transport Industries by Thomas Nationwide Transport - exactly the same rights. [More…]
However, the rights that TAA asked for were for the provision of aviation engineering works - and surely there was nothing wrong with that. [More…]
There must be State government concurrence in intrastate rights in order to create competition in areas which this Government will designate for rapid growth development in the various States of the Commonwealth so that people and industries that go to those areas can be provided, if at all possible, with an economic air service. [More…]
In the course of deciding this matter the committee will consider the circumstances in which injury should be compensated for; the application of the scheme when death results from the injury; the nature and extent of the benefits that should be provided; how the scheme should be financed; the relationship between benefits under the scheme and other social benefits; whether rights under the scheme should be in substitution for all or any of the rights now existing; and other such matters. [More…]
What is involved in the Woodhouse inquiry is not only an examination of all our personal injury law on both a State and Commonwealth basis, but also a consideration of State rights which, as we know, are dear to members of the Opposition, and the common law tort of negligence. [More…]
Finally, after all those processes have been exhausted the rights to compensation of public servants covered in this Bill can be considered by the Senate. [More…]
I envisage that people who hold the rights of insurance companies dear, people who believe that the rights of the States should not be impinged on in any way, will find plenty to object to in a proposition like this. [More…]
This is the sort of postponement of the rights of public servants which is being suggested by the Opposition’s motion. [More…]
If, on the other hand, the Government and the Parliament adopt recommendations of a similar nature to those recommended for New Zealand but decide that the benefits should be in addition to and not in substitution for existing rights, again the Commonwealth employees will be delayed in the enjoyment of those benefits without any justification. [More…]
If it is merely an extension of existing rights but leaves untouched the rights under workers compensation Acts in the States and rights under common law liability for negligence, again the Commonwealth employees will have been delayed in the enjoyment of these benefits without any justification. [More…]
If a New Zealand type scheme, an egalitarian scheme which must necessarily provide lower benefits than some which are granted by the courts, especially in common law at the present time - it is surely not suggested that at this stage Australia could afford to pay to every member of the community the type of monetary compensation that is awarded in actions for damages - is adopted and becomes law, not only will the rights and benefits of Commonwealth employees be affected and go into the melting pot but also the rights of all citizens of Australia who happen to be unlucky enough to incur personal injury will be affected. [More…]
In the meantime, while the Woodhouse Committee is considering all these questions, these other citizens go on enjoying all their rights. [More…]
It is not suggested that because such a scheme is being examined people who are knocked down on the roads or highly paid people who might be injured by negligence in the course of their employment should have all their rights frozen pending the conclusion of the Woodhouse Committee’s considerations. [More…]
So why should Commonwealth employees alone have their rights frozen pending the result of an inquiry which will be long and which may never be implemented, or which may be implemented in a way which would leave Commonwealth employees outside its scope? [More…]
Even when we receive the report we are in for a bitter, fierce debate around the question of State rights and about the rights of insurance companies. [More…]
Under our system people have a number of rights and we are constantly expressing our concern for people’s rights. [More…]
Parliament works hard to confer rights, to defend rights and to protect rights, and as each facet of community development and service becomes available in due course those people come to expect those facets as their rights. [More…]
One of our most important rights is without doubt citizenship. [More…]
It may be pertinent to inquire of the Minister whether any plan is in hand that might take the opportunity which exists under the Commonwealth Electoral Act away from British people, because it could be assumed that the measures in the Bill that is before, the Senate today may find a reflection in another Bill which may also reduce the rights of British Commonwealth citizens. [More…]
It seems to me that by deleting the section of the Act relating to renunciation of a migrant’s previous nationality, this Bill will give to those people most of the rights of Australian citizenship without p’acing on them the responsibilities of that citizenship. [More…]
It is quite obvious that Britain has said - Mr Carr in the House of Commons argued this - that with all due respect to our partnership of nations, to show a distinction between the rights, responsibilities and wellbeing of British citizens and those of citizens of Canada, Australia and New Zealand, Britain will draw a fine line. [More…]
This Bill will not affect voting rights. [More…]
Indeed, had Senator Marriott listened carefully to Senator Greenwood’s opening remarks on this topic he would have understood that not only the voting rights but also, as I understand it, the obligations are to remain exactly as they were. [More…]
Senator Marriott can rest assured that his suggestions to those who are British citizens about any interference with their voting rights have no substance. [More…]
What has been said by honourable senators about the rights of the Senate to take this course is another matter altogether. [More…]
How does he envisage ensuring a reasonable balance between the rights of the individual and the rights of free discussion? [More…]
At the same time a way must be found so that the rights of the ordinary person, the man in the street, are given complete protection. [More…]
I should hope that such a law would mean that there would be greater respect for the rights of individuals and the community generally than appears to exist at the present time. [More…]
I refer to a question I asked in the middle of May in relation to claims made by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights concerning patients being detained in mental institutions against their will. [More…]
It shows its willingness when it has the numbers to ride roughshod over the rights of people in this country. [More…]
We have witnessed in the other House throughout this session the way in which the Labor Party has ruthlessly exercised its command of the numbers in that place in a way which the chamber had not seen for some 23 years, not since the days of the earlier Labor Party government - and of course the Opposition was denied its speaking rights and its right to express a viewpoint which an Opposition is entitled to express. [More…]
That Bill strikes at the very fundamentals of government rights. [More…]
It is disgraceful that a man who professes to stand for individual rights should, by the use of numbers, arbitrarily seek to curtail the individual’s right to speak in Parliament. [More…]
It renders unions immune from civil proceedings to which all citizens are subject and thereby denies to employers rights which they pre- viously enjoyed. [More…]
It certainly is not wrong for a government to safeguard the rights of rank and file members of unions. [More…]
If the Government claims to be the champion of unionists and of the rights of unionists, why does it want to take from the unionist his right to decide what happens to his union. [More…]
Senator Wright is always talking about the rights of honourable senators; yet he was one of the honourable senators who sought to frustrate a Minister whose job it is to answer honourable senators’ complaints and not to let him talk. [More…]
Trade union people are being put on boards and managements to make sure that their point of view ‘ is made known, But honourable senators opposite still talk about the old days, the days of the coal mines, the days of the first arbitration legislation when it was considered that a worker had no rights at all. [More…]
They will not work if we say, as honourable senator opposite say, that trade unions have no rights. [More…]
The rights of persons in regard to the usage of Commonwealth land in the Australian Capital Territory are not known. [More…]
This creates what I have said is the unfortunate effect that the rights of persons with regard to the usage of Commonwealth land are uncertain. [More…]
It was to remedy that situation, to provide some means by which persons would know what their rights were with regard to these lands, something to enable police officers to know what their obligations and duties were with regard to people who camped on these lands and, generally, to maintain throughout the Australian Capital Territory some regulation of land usage, that the Ordinance was introduced. [More…]
The Ordinance in no way restricted the traditional rights of freedom of speech and of assembly. [More…]
I recall pointing out at that time the very real difficulties people have in relying upon the general uncodified - unstated in statute form - law relating to trespass to assert their rights. [More…]
He says: ‘There are some uncertainties under the existing law in relation to persons who may come here, so let us deal with those uncertainties as to their rights by taking away their rights. [More…]
Do not let us have any uncertainty; let us take away the rights of the people. [More…]
I suppose if the Opposition had its way it would get rid of any uncertainty where it occurs about the rights of people. [More…]
If there is some uncertainty about the rights of people to demonstrate in the cities, about the rights of people to freedom of speech or freedom of assembly, the Opposition would say: ‘Let us attend to this uncertainty by the simple measure of taking away the rights.’ [More…]
When one talks of the rights of a few people one must also consider the rights of the great majority of the people. [More…]
I do not think the rights or wrongs of that ordinance should enter into this debate. [More…]
The nature of the action taken aroused considerable resentment not only on the part of the people involved directly but also on the part of other people in the Northern Territory who believe that the Commonwealth is endangering the whole question of freehold rights and titles which up to this time have been honoured and respected. [More…]
In expansion of that point I point out that one of the contentions is that the rights of these people would be adequately safeguarded because they could lease back the land. [More…]
Here hundreds of people are virtually dispossessed and their rights ignored and trampled on. [More…]
Every argument that is rational and logical seems to me to justify the Senate in taking action which will at least delay this acquisition so that the proper and right thing may be done with regard to the development of the City of Darwin, especially with regard to consideration of the rights of the people involved. [More…]
Bill which is before the Senate vary the rights of the Corporation and give it liberty to expand its activities in many areas. [More…]
It is quite within its rights to bring this matter before the House of Representatives and this place where, according to requirements, a copy of the notice must be laid down in the Parliament within 14 sitting days after the date of publication and either House may, within 30 days - not sitting days but 30 actual days - thereafter pass a resolution that the notice shall be void and of no effect. [More…]
A list of those people who are involved by way of title or rights to title in the 32 square mile acquisition area are listed as follows: [More…]
As the States agreed to federate on the basis that their rights would be safeguarded, it would be interesting to know whether the Australian Labor Government has consulted the State governments for their opinion on the effects on States’ rights of proposed territorial representation in the Senate. [More…]
Territories may have to be satisfied with parliamentary representatives sitting in the Senate rather than senators as such, and this could also raise questions about voting rights. [More…]
In my view everything that Mr Whitlam says points to the unfortunate mania of the Australian Labor Party about abolishing the Senate and weakening the rights and powers of the sovereign States. [More…]
It is a chamber in which the States, considered as separate entities, are represented in such a way as to enable them to protect their constitutional rights against invasion and to advocate their peculiar and special interests. [More…]
For this reason at Federation the original States were given equality of representation in one chamber of the Parliament so that they might effectively resist at the legislative stage any attempt to invade and violate their rights as States. [More…]
The proposed territorial senators, with full voting rights, would not be representatives of sovereign States and might well achieve a balance of power in the Senate as I suggested. [More…]
Surely the States that originally agreed to federate on the basis that the States rights would be safeguarded have every right to be consulted about this Bill which seeks to destroy their States House. [More…]
They are so represented for the purpose of enabling them to maintain and protect their constitutional rights against attempted invasions . [More…]
We on this side of the House believe that these arguments are equally applicable to Australia and the Opposition holds strongly and firmly to the view that the representation in the Senate of the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory would undermine the constitutional rights of the States. [More…]
Except that he has certain rights, man could starve for all the profiteers care about him. [More…]
The Founding Fathers ensured that the constitutional rights of the States were maintained and protected by providing in the Constitution equality of representation of the original States on the basis that the colonies prior to [More…]
But such territory representatives in the Senate under this Bill are to have full voting rights and could as non-State representatives hold the balance of power in an institution set up to safeguard the interests of the States - a principle embodied in the Constitution without which Federation would not have been accomplished. [More…]
Although provision was made in the Constitution for representation of territories in the Parliament, our Founding Fathers did not envisage that such representatives would have voting rights. [More…]
This ruse is only one of many attempts to invade and violate the domain of rights reserved to the States. [More…]
As each of these matters can seriously affect the rights of the States surely the democratic process demands that the States be consulted before any action is instituted. [More…]
If not, why is the convention being held and, at the rate the present Government is intruding on State rights and responsibilities, what matters will be left for the convention to consider? [More…]
We should approach this task recognising that the fundamental principle guiding our deliberations should be the attainment, insofar as possible, of equality of political rights to all citizens. [More…]
We regret, however, that the resolution before the House goes beyond that necessary to achieve equality and in fact creates a special class of citizens accorded greater political rights than that possessed by other Americans. [More…]
On the death of any recipient reversioner all further reversionary rights shall cease. [More…]
This is particularly so in these days in relation to female members when there is a growing acknowledgment of the equality of rights of males and females. [More…]
The husbands of the married women who have been in this Parliament may have been in quite good positions but the trustees sponsoring the fund eventually recognised that they had rights because of the contributions made. [More…]
This continuity of ownership test under the existing income tax legislation is as to not less than 40 per cent of the shareholders rights to dividends, to voting and to the return of capital. [More…]
Firstly, if we consider proposed section 80a we see that it increases the continuing ownership test from not less than 40 per cent of the shareholders rights to more than 50 per cent of those rights. [More…]
The more than 50 per cent test may be met by the retention by more than one shareholder of rights which, in the aggregate, are equal to more than 50 per cent of the total shareholders’ rights. [More…]
This proposed section could have harsh consequences in cases where one shareholder who has always been a substantial shareholder holding not less than, say, 40 per cent of the shareholders’ rights, pursuant to a plan of reorganisation acquires shares held by other shareholders and restructures the business to achieve profitability but, by reason of restructuring of the business, cannot meet the stringent requirements of section 80e. [More…]
Provided that this sub-section shall not apply where a person, who in the year of income beneficially owned shares which carried the rights to exercise more than one-half of the voting power in the company and to receive more than one-half of any dividends that may be paid by the company and to receive more than one-half of any distribution of capital of the company, owned shares which in the year of the loss carried rights to exercise not less than 40 per cent of the voting power in the company and to receive not less than 40 per cent of any dividends that may be paid by the company and to receive not less than 40 per cent of any distribution of capital of the company. [More…]
The traditional attitude of the law to retrospective legislation has been to assume that, unless the language of legislation is perfectly plain, legislation affecting substantial rights is not intended to be retrospective; no such presumption operates however in relation to merely procedural legislation. [More…]
The reason for these rules of construction (for which see, for example, Maxwell on Interpretation of Statutes, 11th Ed., at 204 and 205) is that retrospective legislation affecting substantial rights is regarded as likely to be unjust or unfair. [More…]
The law has always taken the view that, although the legislature has full power to change rights retrospectively, it will not ordinarily do so because of the possible injustice involved and Statutes have invariably been construed accordingly. [More…]
That is, the Courts will, where the language is plain, recognise the retrospective operation of Statutes even although they deal with and change substantial rights. [More…]
The Courts, however, will always be alert to look critically at the language of any such legislation and in any case of doubt, because of the presumption of unfairness in retrospective alteration of substantial rights, construe such legislation on the basis that it is not intended to be retrospective. [More…]
The rules of construction will not be able to prevent what seems to me to be a retrospective alteration of substantial rights. [More…]
Whatever the precise legal characterisation of the situation may be, it seems to me to be fair to describe a situation where a company which under the law had no obligation to pay a particular tax becomes obligated by a change in the law to pay $95,000 in tax as one where there has been a substantial alteration of the company’s rights. [More…]
This therefore seems to me to be the kind of legislation which is properly characterised as retrospective and which may fairly be thought to suffer from the defect of retrospective legislation in that it unsettles existing rights and disturbs the legitimate expectation of taxpayers that once a particular set of conditions has been laid down as governing taxability for a particular year, that set of conditions will not be changed. [More…]
Senator Jessop asked me whether he had any rights in this matter and I said that he could address himself to the motion for the adjournment of the Senate and that parliamentary propriety required that he should inform the Minister to whom he was going to address his complaint. [More…]
Does the Attorney-General understand that this Question does not infringe Lie civil rights of individuals, but that naming them as terrorists and then not clearing their good names, if no charge or conviction exists against them, does infringe their civil rights. [More…]
Is the AttorneyGeneral aware that the daily Hansard of the proceedings of the Senate committee investigating the civil rights of migrants and his raids on the offices of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation has not been published since the hearing on 19 July? [More…]
I am informed also that copy of the proceedings of the Senate Select Committee on the Civil Rights of Migrant Australians has been delayed in arriving at the Government Printing Office, that delay being up to as much as 2 weeks. [More…]
The second matter I wish to mention to honourable senators is that earlier Senator Wheeldon asked a question in regard to Hansard’s production of a transcript for the Senate Select Committee on the Civil Rights of Migrant Australians following its hearings, I think, on 17 July. [More…]
We believe that every parent and every child in Australia has the right - it is contained in the Declaration of Human Rights - to be educated according to that religious system to which they adhere or in which they believe, if they so choose. [More…]
At a time when such a tremendous increase in expenditure on education is proposed by the Federal Labor Government the Liberal Party can only say that we are denying the rights of Australian children to an education. [More…]
If we are denying the rights of Australian children to an education, what was the previous defeated Government doing? [More…]
I went to the United Nations conference on human rights in 1968 and I found - it was not only my experience; we asked other representatives - that other nations regarded Australia in all the international conventions as a joke. [More…]
In this country, as in any democracy which places reliance upon the enforcement of law and protection of the people, officers of the law who protect the rights of the individual can be placed in dangerous situations at times. [More…]
If we are to have laws in this country and expect officers to enforce those laws and to protect our rights and freedoms in this country the least we can do is to ensure that they have the full support they justly deserve. [More…]
This is one of the great fears which we, as a society, ought to recognise: If we create the situation in which a policeman, in order to protect himself, prefers to rely upon his own strength than upon the law of the land, all out rights and liberties are jeopardised - just because society is not prepared to take the stand to ensure that the police will be protected by the law just as much as ordinary citizens will be protected by the law. [More…]
It is a matter of civil rights, perhaps one of the foremost of civil rights, that a person is to be secure in his life and liberty, and that he should not be living in a society Where others can injure him and take away his life. [More…]
I believe in freedom of speech in the Parliament and the rights of senators to speak, but I believe the stage has been reached at which we must cut ourselves down in time but not in numbers. [More…]
They insisted on their rights. [More…]
But many honourable senators from the Australian Labor Party felt that the slightest alteration to the Standing Orders was taking away their rights. [More…]
We have found while this Government has been in office that there have been notable interventions in the affairs of other people and notable interventions particularly in the field of human rights. [More…]
It has belaboured them on the ground that in those countries there have been infractions of human rights. [More…]
But I think one objection that most Australians had to the expression of the Government’s indignation upon many of these questions of human rights was that the government’s indignation appeared to be almost entirely selective. [More…]
It was normally indignant to the nth degree when governments which were not communist infringed human rights and it slumbered peacefully when communist countries infringed human rights, in many cases to a far greater degree. [More…]
We ourselves, I think, have had an example of this denial of liberty and human rights. [More…]
I look forward to our Government issuing a protest this week on this fifth anniversary of that attack on human rights. [More…]
What we were talking about was the Government’s denial of a basic principle- its denial of the rights of people to know the facts relating to the steps taken by it. [More…]
Factors such as ‘the area of the Division’, the density or sparsity of population ‘ and references to ‘disabilities arising out of remoteness or distance’ inserted by the previous Government in 1965, are contrary to the concept of equality of political rights and encourage departure from the quota of electors in a manner which makes the value of a citizen’s vote depend largely upon his geographical location. [More…]
I should have thought that the Geneva Conventions represented a single advance in a world where war could not be outlawed but where, if war was to occur, the manner in which it was conducted could be regulated and the manner in which those who suffered as a result of war could have protected such rights as in wartime could be preserved to them. [More…]
My colleague the learned Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Senator Greenwood) in referring to the last amendment which related to murders for political rights or reasons, said that those things were important. [More…]
I should not have to stress that in the Parliament we should always be concerned as to how Parliament exercises its traditional and unchallenged powers when those powers impinge upon the vocations and the accepted rights and freedoms of citizens. [More…]
The Speaker is the custodian of the rights and privileges of the House over which he presides, and is empowered to admit to or to exclude from the galleries of the House any person who, in his discretion, he may deem it desirable to admit or exclude. [More…]
The first consequence is that Mr Everingham has been denied - because the Presiding Officers are operating in a field in which legal rights cannot be asserted in a court - any opportunity for redress in the way in which citizens placed in his position could seek redress. [More…]
There is no procedure under which the rights of journalists, in circumstances comparable to those in which Mr Everingham finds himself, can be protected. [More…]
There ought to be a precedent which enables basic rights to be protected. [More…]
I believe the rights of any person are matters which ought to concern us. [More…]
I point out to honourable senators that this is a lesson to the Senate that it must be extraordinarily sensitive where the rights of individuals impinge upon the rights of this place and where perhaps action taken in this place can unduly prejudice the rights of private citizens. [More…]
Therefore, if we have learned any lesson from my presentation of that case and if it has been in any sense underlined by the presentation Senator Greenwood has made tonight, it should be at leas*t instructive to this chamber that it should, whether by the means now available to it and by a greater and more sensitive approach to the discharge of the duties as it is now competent to discharge them or by devising alternative means by which the relations between this place and private citizens who may transgress the rights of this place or of journalists in this House who may in some way again transgress the rights, devise some formula by which these rights may be adequately investigated and properly determined. [More…]
As I have said, I do not wish to go into the question of what happened in the case of Mr Evringham; I wish merely to go to the general proposition that this place is endowed with tremendous power and authority and honourable senators must by sensitive in their exercise of that power and authority, particularly where people do not have the rights that they have in courts of law to be heard with all the due protection of the law, the right of counsel, the right of defence and all the legal canons that surround the rights of those people in those places. [More…]
When those events happened 4 days before a general election is held, I say frankly that if they be the facts - let us face the fact that the Speaker of the House of Representatives and you, Mr President, have examined all the files and all the facts and have heard Mr Everingham’s explanation - and if they be not proved otherwise, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and you, Sir, would have been recreant to the trust imposed in you bv this Parliament in protecting the rights and traditions of the Parliament and of its members. [More…]
Subject to approval being obtained from the authorities concerned, arrangements will be made for electoral officers to visit high schools and technical colleges to lecture students relative to enrolment and voting rights. [More…]
Television advertising of these rights would not be a worthwhile proposition economically, but a wide radio advertising campaign was undertaken with a view to attracting the attention of those 18, 19 and 20 year olds who had not submitted claims for enrolment. [More…]
I think it has been publicised also that the proposal would be for 3 representatives from each State and a certain number from the Territories but I think that voting rights would be restricted to one vote for local government in each State. [More…]
Having said that, I should again remind the Senate that it is entirely a matter for the Convention itself to determine what are the rights of local government or, for that matter, of any persons who are represented in any fashion at the Convention. [More…]
It has a duty to protect State rights. [More…]
All I say is that equal voting rights should be given to every person in Australia. [More…]
It has attacked the rights of a section of school children. [More…]
Under the Labor Government they will have equal rights with the sons and daughters of wealthy people. [More…]
We have looked at the position in the context of the development in the western world where servicemen now have not only new obligations but also a new role and new rights. [More…]
I present an interim report from the Senate Select Committee on Civil Rights of Migrant Australians. [More…]
By resolution of the Senate on 17 May 1973, the Select Committee on Civil Rights of Migrant Australians was established to investigate and report on five separate matters specified in section 1 of that resolution by ‘the last sitting day of the Senate prior to 31 August 1973’. [More…]
To ensure the greatest possible awareness by all migrant groups that the Committee was concerned with allegations of infringement of their civil .rights, submissions were invited by advertisements in the Australian metropolitan Press and in foreign language newspapers in 12 different languages. [More…]
From the submissions received and oral evidence so far presented, it is apparent that some members of the various migrant groups in Australia believe that, in one form or another, their civil rights have been infringed. [More…]
Perhaps I should remind the Senate that the Government is engaged in, and I am having prepared, legislation which will be directed towards the implementation of the International Covenants on Civil and Political Rights, which deal in large measure with some of the matters mentioned by the honourable senator. [More…]
Finally, could he advise me what rights other public servants have in this situation? [More…]
Each country accepts that where the other country seeks to impose upon a citizen an obligation or to exact from him some tribute, the other country to which he has some national allegiance will not assert its rights against that other State. [More…]
-The subject of dual nationality could well be one of the terms of references of the Senate Select Committee on the Civil Rights of Migrant Australians. [More…]
I direct Senator Byrne to what I thought was a good address in this place by Senator McManus on the question of the committee, the kangaroo court that we set up to inquire into the rights of migrants in Australia. [More…]
That standard was set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in which it was stated that the authority of government ought to come from the will of the people and that those persons who were to govern should be selected by the people. [More…]
They said that in no way does the authority of the Queen to govern Australia derive from the will of the people of Australia, notwithstanding the Declaration of Human Rights to the contrary. [More…]
The law is the basis upon which rights and liberties are protected, and whatever far reaches the law may move into that law is still a protection to all. [More…]
The view of everybody in the defence area has been that low pay standards, housing and low superannuation rights have been the factors which have militated against attracting the best quality servicemen to all of the Services, and I do not think that anybody can gainsay that statement. [More…]
I direct a question to the Attorney-General because of his recent statements about a bill of rights. [More…]
In fact, every year for a number of years the Australian Broadcasting Commission has attempted to negotiate television rights to telecast the final. [More…]
My understanding is that our Government has on a number of occasions made its views known both on the question of civil liberties and on fundamental human rights, its own adherence to them and its wish that those rights which have been stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights be in fact extended to peoples elsewhere. [More…]
Will the Minister take steps to ensure that the rights of all thalidomide victims are fully acknowledged, that all such victims are speedily identified and that a just settlement is made with respect to all? [More…]
Too often in our lawand even in areas away from the liberty of the subject- we have fallen into the error of substituting the individual discretion of officers, however highly placed, for the objective provisions of the law, so that we have had again and again in various enactments over the years the provision that the rights of a person should depend upon the discretion of some official rather than upon what has been directly provided by Parliament. [More…]
The point on which certain State governments stand indicted is that people can act like buccaneers with respect to stock exchange transactions but, because honourable senators opposite are so steeped in the rights of private enterprise, not one of them has ever been prepared to say in this Senate that there are evils in capitalism. [More…]
One girl had not given sufficient notice and had forfeited her leave rights. [More…]
I know that Senator Murphy is a man of humanitarian tendencies because of his statement in regard to the forthcoming Bill of Rights and I offer this Government a chance to redeem its humanitarian image by taking appropriate action at the United Nations without delay. [More…]
The suggestion that only one Committee sit at a time would meet the objection from some who say that they cannot be in two places at once and yet they do not want to be deprived of their rights. [More…]
Whenever there is a demand for the commodity of labour none of the rights of those who supply it should be taken away from them. [More…]
I did not ask for leave to make a statement on the calling of the quorums because one is permitted unlimited rights to rove over various questions when speaking to the Budget and I will take the opportunity now to say one or two words on this subject. [More…]
For example, we are told that Rhodesia is beyond the pale because human rights are not observed there. [More…]
Our foreign policy today is a shambles because it is conducted on the basis that Australia will be violently indignant to the governments of countries which are not communist and our protests will be of the mildest form if communist countries interfere with human rights. [More…]
The Government is asking for trouble while it interferes in what are the internal affairs of country after country throughout the world on the ground that it must protest against attacks upon human rights. [More…]
Of course a government has the right to say what it thinks about deprivation of human rights in other countries but it does not have any right to adopt an attitude of approval. [More…]
I would say to this Government that it would probably help itself in the eyes of the people of Australia if occasionally it made some strong protests against deprivation of human rights in communist countries. [More…]
I look forward to the day when the Government will attack deprivation of human rights in a communist country. [More…]
The husband, who came to Australia from the United States of America in 1925, did not know until he was advised of his rights by a Labor senator that he was entitled to an age pension and that he did not have to be naturalised in order to be entitled to an age pension. [More…]
The intention is to publicise government activities so that a wide cross-section of the Australian community will become aware of its rights, entitlements and responsibilities, the Government’s responsibilities, how those responsibilities are being fulfilled and the overall functions of government insofar as they relate to the Australian people. [More…]
In view of these facts, will the Minister dispel any suggestion that might arise from his statement that thalidomide victims have suffered any serious impairment of their legal rights due to inability to pay costs? [More…]
We used to hear Senator Cavanagh talk sincerely about the rights of people to be able to speak. [More…]
What action will the Government take against members of Parliament who defy this outrageous restriction of their rights? [More…]
Honourable senators on this side of the Senate have surrendered their rights to almost 1 hour 45 minutes of debate this morning which had been allotted for the consideration of committee reports. [More…]
1 ) That this Senate, recognising that the question of human rights is a matter of universal significance, believes there is prima facie evidence to support allegations by Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov that human rights of political dissidents are being abrogated inside the Soviet Union, and resolves that this question should be referred to the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations for examination; and [More…]
On the question of human rights, honourable senators might think it strange that a Government whose numbers rush in to wail about Chile before the facts are properly known, as Senator Willesee conceded this morning- I will have something to say about Chile on some other occasion- can raise no interest in the incredible position in 1973 of Soviet society. [More…]
Perhaps it would have been an exercise in statesmanship if we, or the Americans or the British has said: ‘All right, we will go along with you but we want to see that human rights are freed inside your country.’ [More…]
The third sponsor of this attempt to help the Fourth International Communist Party is that gallant fighter for civil rights around the world, Senator George Poyser- the gentleman who came rushing into the chamber the other night to defend the Marxist President Allende of Chile. [More…]
I rise not to indicate that the Opposition will oppose this motion but to use it as a vehicle to assert certain rights which the Senate has and which the Government appears to ignore. [More…]
Firstly, this Senate, irrespective of the circumstances in which the matter arises for attention, has certain rights attaching to it as a second chamber with constitutional obligations which it should always be prepared to affirm and acknowledge. [More…]
In short, the Senate, in pursuance of its constitutional obligations and conscious of its role as a chamber which is concerned with the rights of the States, considered it proper that there should be consultation between the Australian Government and the States. [More…]
The Government, in exercise of its rights, has chosen not to have the first Bills debated in this chamber and, following that course, has chosen instead to introduce into the House of Representatives other Bills of an identical character. [More…]
If we find that the reference of Bills to a committee for further consideration- just as on this occasion a Bill was deferred to enable consultation with the States to take place in an area which is of vital concern to the Commonwealth and the Statesthereby risks the House of Representatives taking the view that the Senate has failed to pass the legislation, we may be placed in the position that we have to acknowledge our rights under the Constitution or abandon the committee system as an aid to legislation. [More…]
It is a denigration of Parliament, it is a denial of the rights of members of Parliament, it is a frustration of the role of Parliament in discussing legislation and it is a denial of the right of the Opposition to have amendments considered and to have its viewpoint on clauses discussed. [More…]
Bill may be passed without delay it should recognise it has an arm in another place which can recognise the rights of the Parliament and the rights of the Opposition. [More…]
In effect, he said that he was prepared to use the rights of pensioners as a bludgeon to curtail debate upon the important matter of the constitutional referendum to give the power to the Commonwealth to control prices. [More…]
Does this not clearly show that this Government places a higher priority on a painting than it does on water for a community and also show the contemptuous disregard it has for the urgent needs and rights of South Australia? [More…]
I had 20 years in this Senate when the Labor Party was in Opposition and the members of that Party were great exponents- and I supported them- of the rights of members of Parliament, of upholding the tradition and the Standing Orders, and of freedom of speech. [More…]
The Constitution also provides that Parliament should draw up its Standing Orders, and the Standing Orders of the Parliament provides the further safeguard that the rights of the people shall be upheld and that the people, if they so desire, shall be able to make their voices heard before the Parliament takes any action in respect of which the people want to express their opinion to the parliamentarians. [More…]
Once upon a time, one of the few rights that a soldier in uniform had was to grumble and grizzle about his conditions but, by and large, when the chips were down and when he had to express himself as a trained soldier he gave a pretty good account of himself. [More…]
I think he is quite within his rights in referring to the occasion of the misinformation, without raising the question of the subject of the debate. [More…]
Certain events have occurred from time to time since I have been a member of the Senate which give me some real concern about whether we have in our Standing Orders an adequate preservation of those rights. [More…]
In practice when the Estimates come back into the Senate honourable senators are inhibited from exercising their rights that they used to exercise, although I must concede that they have them in theory. [More…]
I direct my question to the Attorney-General and I refer to the evidence given by his former counsel, Mr Kerry Milte, in public session of the Senate Select Committee on the Civil Rights of Migrant Australians. [More…]
I have told him that I have not read what Mr Milte said before the Senate Select Committee on Civil Rights of Migrant Australians so I can hardly be in a position to know whether I authorised what he said before the Committee. [More…]
I understand that there was an appeal by the persons concerned and their rights have to be considered as well. [More…]
They have their rights not to consult us on these things. [More…]
1 ) That this Senate, recognising that the question of human rights is a matter of universal significance, believes there is prima facie evidence to support allegations by Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov that human rights of political dissidents are being abrogated inside the Soviet Union, and resolves that this question should be referred to the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations for examination; and [More…]
Therefore this must be felt to be a motion which calls not only upon the world but also upon the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations to take action because of the plight of those within Russia. [More…]
He is a man of some 52 years of age, a married man, a great nuclear physicist and a man who some years ago formed within Russia the human rights committee. [More…]
He sought within Russia to develop through the Soviet human rights committee intellectual freedom. [More…]
Andrei Sakharov, who founded the Soviet Human Rights Committee, was one of the great leaders in establishing the underground Press called ‘Samizdat’ or ‘the Chronicle of Current Events’ through which vehicle dissidents- the men I have mentioned and others- who wanted to fight for intellectual freedom promulgated their ideas. [More…]
What we are saying- we are asking the Senate to support us- is: ‘Please ask the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations to look into this matter because human freedom and human dignity in the Soviet Union must be as precious to us as human freedom and human dignity in our own country ‘. [More…]
If a fraction of them are true then the approach to the Human Rights Committee commends itself. [More…]
Virtually all those who gathered round the ones who formed the Soviet human rights committee and those who formed and helped in the ‘Chronicle of Current Events’ have been pursued, imprisoned and punished. [More…]
We are asking that, on the basis of prima facie evidence, there should be referred to the United Nations Human Rights Committee a request to investigate these matters. [More…]
Nonetheless, I accept that in the terms of this motion there is a prima facie case to support the allegations made by the 2 leading Soviet dissidents, Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov, that human rights of political dissidents are being abrogated in the Soviet Union. [More…]
In saying that I am not expressing any approval or disapproval of it, I am looking at the question to which, I think, this motion is directed, the interest which humanitarians and civil libertarians all over the world should have in the civil rights of people in any country. [More…]
The Australian Government has on many occasions made its view known about denial of fundamental human rights. [More…]
that the question of human rights is a matter of universal significance . [More…]
I add that human rights not only are of universal significance but also are quite indivisible. [More…]
Wherever in the world we see a gross violation of human rights I believe it is the duty of all mankind and certainly any men or women in the position in which we are, as representatives of others, to speak out and to do what we can to declare these basic truths. [More…]
The proposal is that we should call on the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations to investigate the charges which have been raised in this matter, in particular by Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov. [More…]
It is suggested that we, as i Senate, should make our views known through the President of the Senate to the United Nations and in that way to invite the attention of the Human Rights Committee. [More…]
I would hope that the Government of Australia and the Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, would be associated with the views which we are expressing in this motion and the call which we are making indirectly to the Russian Government to modify the polices which apparently and prima facie are leading to a serious abrogation of human rights. [More…]
That is not to say that we should be selective when serious abrogations of the rights of man are perpetrated in other countries, but I believe that when we do decide to raise our voices and protest we should not qualify that protest in any way by saying that it happens in other places. [More…]
It congratulates Senator Hannan on having brought before the Senate a case in which human rights appear to have been gravely violated, so that at an international tribunal an investigation may take place which will vindicate the truth. [More…]
At times some of us have wondered why a body with the title of the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations has not taken action of itself in cases such as this. [More…]
I think that Senator Hannan decided very wisely in the method which he has chosen to try to bring before the United Nations this matter of the need for an inquiry into a grave infringement of human rights. [More…]
Of course, we all know that the Soviet Union is not the only country in which there are infringements of human rights. [More…]
But it appears- and one must be honest about it- that infringements of human rights in some countries get publicity more easily than do infringements of human rights in other countries. [More…]
I repeat that the Democratic Labor Party opposes attacks on human rights in countries all over the world, whatever their political complexion. [More…]
Firstly, it acknowledges that human rights are a matter of universal significance. [More…]
It establishes- and this point has not been challenged by any speaker- that there is prima facie evidence to support the allegations of Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov that their human rights and the human rights of political dissidents in Russia are being jeopardised. [More…]
The motion asks that this question be referred to the Human Rights Committee. [More…]
The Australian Government has been prepared to take public stands on a host of other issues affecting human rights. [More…]
All these protests have been made in the name of some principle which is associated with human rights. [More…]
The plea which is made by this Government is that in South Africa and Rhodesia there is a denial of rights which persons ought to be allowed to express. [More…]
-Is not the issue of politics and of rights of everyone throughout the world ultimately to be fought and resolved in the political arena? [More…]
We have a government in this country which has been outspoken, particularly in the protestations of some of its leading members, about civil rights. [More…]
When one reflects upon that and the fact that those protestations are based upon the universal declaration of human rights and the resolutions of the United Nations assembly, one would believe that they are rights which ought to be asserted, not only in this country, but in other countries throughout the world. [More…]
If ever there had been a threat to civil rights in this country, that threat occurred in the early part of this year. [More…]
Of course, they were instigated through the intentions and objectives of an AttorneyGeneral who on other occasions can be very eloquent about the need to protect civil rights. [More…]
There has been no protest from the Australian Government and apparently no willingness to take any action to defend and to uphold the rights of courageous people who are looking for support throughout the world. [More…]
The question of the protection of human rights throughout the world ought to be of world concern. [More…]
The only way in which there can be a basic and continuing concern for human rights if is those nations of the world who regard these values as values worth preserving to speak up and to use what action can be taken whenever there is a breach of those rights. [More…]
When we seek to protect the basic freedoms we acknowledge that the society in which an individual is part has some rights; indeed, it has some obligations in the interests of others to impose some limitation. [More…]
1 ) That this Senate, recognising that the question of human rights is a matter of universal significance, believes there is evidence to support allegations that human rights of political dissidents are being abrogated inside the Soviet Union and other countries throughout the world, and resolves that this question should be referred to the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations for examination; and [More…]
The transitional provisions of the Bill ensure the continuity of government and personal actions and the vesting of rights and liabilities in the new bodies and entities which are established at selfgovernment. [More…]
It may be that some aspects of that Act, as part of Australian law, but no longer as part of Papua New Guinea law, will require amendment to protect the rights under Australian law of persons, matters or things connected with Papua New Guinea, or to make provision for the occurrence of matters in Papua New Guinea affecting Australia but not Papua New Guinea. [More…]
-Will the AttorneyGeneral outline to the Senate the measures he proposes to take to give women equal status, in a Bill of Rights later to be drawn up, after the 23 years of neglect of such an important and widely accepted principle by the previous Government? [More…]
It is proposed to introduce legislation, in effect, to implement the international covenant on civil and political rights and to take whatever other legislative measures are open to us to ensure that women are given equal status in this community. [More…]
Thursday 27 September dealing with the question of the abrogation of the civil rights of dissidents within the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
But as a matter of incidental intelligence I wish to go on and add for the benefit of the honourable senator who asked me this question that the general procedure of the United Nations is to refer these matters to the Committee on Human Rights. [More…]
Does the Leader of the Government recall the advice given to the Senate yesterday by the President that he had referred to the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations the unanimous Senate resolution on the abrogation of the civil right of Soviet dissidents? [More…]
Does the Minister recall that the President also indicated that the Human Rights Committee received some thousands of resolutions every year. [More…]
Again, the rights of the little people in the area appear to be of no concern to the Government. [More…]
It has violated the rights of the various individuals in that area. [More…]
I think that this would concern Senator Murphy if he has any interest in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
May I quote Article 17, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1 948, to which Australia has fully subscribed. [More…]
I think that the interests of those who may wish to protect the human rights of individuals in this community are very much lost on a socialist Labor Government. [More…]
That resolution went to the United Nations because we thought that was the forum in which the rights of those people could be protected and defended. [More…]
I wish to make it clear to honourable senators that this Bill is not intended to bring about any of the major reforms that are required to meet the basic human needs and rights of the handicapped citizen. [More…]
There should be a preservation of the rights of employees and of employers to submit a case for determination by some independent industrial tribunal, whether it consists of a single commissioner or of several commissioners constituted to form a court. [More…]
That situation will depend very much probably on the life that workers have led over the past years and what they feel should be their just rights in the future. [More…]
Will the Minister ascertain whether details of the personal or medical history of Mr L. Shaw, ex-naval officer, who was a witness before the Senate Select Committee inquiring into civil rights of migrants, were available from his Department to a Government member of that Committee; if so, upon whose authority, in what circumstances, and for what purpose were these details made available? [More…]
As one who upholds the rights of the Senate, I ask him whether it is not a fact that the Senate has whatever right the Constitution gives to it to disallow legislation. [More…]
Is it not a fact that the Senate has the authority to carry out its constitutional rights? [More…]
In view of Senator O ‘Byrne’s question in relation to education, would the Minister take it upon himself to educate the Press about the real rights and authority of the Senate? [More…]
This could be achieved without unjustly denying the rights of honourable senators who may wish to express their point of view. [More…]
Item 6 of the manifesto calls for the immediate recognition of land rights and compensation for land and refers to the fact that any agreements with respect to land should be on the black man’s terms. [More…]
On the election of the new Government the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission was established. [More…]
Rights of access of Aborigines to pastoral properties; the protection of sacred sites on pastoral leases, and the recognition of land rights by the diverting of lease payments or mining royalties from the Crown to appropriate Aboriginal groups. [More…]
Aborigines to have equal rights and opportunities with all other Australians, and every form of discrimination against Aborigines to be ended. [More…]
In the interim, of course, it must be necessary for properties to be acquired but I would respectfully suggest to the Minister and to the Department that we speed up the legal investigation of granting land rights to the Aborigines of this nation. [More…]
A final decision on land rights in the light of the limitations of the Woodward Commission will be left until we get the complete report of that Commission. [More…]
1. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, opened for signature at New York on 19 December 1966 and signed for Australia on 18 December 1972. [More…]
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, opened for signature at New York on 19 December 1966 and signed for Australia on 1 8 December 1 972. [More…]
A bondholder’s rights, including income and equity, will be set out in the contract he has with the AIDC and he will know exactly what his position is. [More…]
I have no reservations with regard to the principle that an officer is entitled to have his rights and privileges protected. [More…]
I think Senator Bonner made a statement recently calling for land rights for Aborigines. [More…]
All I can say is that during its last 3 years of office the Government that he supported opposed land rights. [More…]
What I am saying now is that all members of the Liberal Party at that point of time voted against any suggestion in this chamber that land rights be restored to Aborigines. [More…]
So it is a little late in the day to start criticising the Government which is doing everything it possibly can to give back to Aborigines the land over which they have tribal rights. [More…]
It was resolved on the basis that the Aborigines of Queensland were to get no land rights and that there was to be no confrontation. [More…]
I think it was anticipated that it would do so because I see it more as having the effect of preserving the rights of State employees if they transfer to the Commonwealth. [More…]
All of these proposals are governed by the fact that the people affected have Australian citizenship, and those departments are not geared to give special rights in the areas of greatest need. [More…]
Conflict with the States will come and must come when laws are made that offend against human rights and civil liberties, laws which are repugnant to [More…]
If laws are made which make an ethnic group an inferior race of citizens the Australian Government, through Commonwealth law has the power, and shall exercise it, to override State laws, to ensure the civil rights and the dignity of the individual in accordance with international convention obligations. [More…]
They want housing, health and educational facilities, job opportunities, self determination and land rights. [More…]
It is Labor’s policy to recognise the rights and the cultures of the Aborigines. [More…]
When that happens, this Bill will give rights to continuity of employment to employees who come over to Commonwealth departments. [More…]
There ought to be operating throughout Australia laws against fraud, deception and the abrogation of the rights of consumers. [More…]
In one particular part of the Act, which apparently I am not able to refer to, Mr Acting Deputy President, the Tribunal is to be given power to investigate consumers’ rights. [More…]
My understanding at present is that the States, and particularly my own State, wish to see the rights of consumers in the States controlled and conducted by the State governments. [More…]
States’ rights must be considered. [More…]
In his speech Senator Murphy indicated that the consumers’ rights need protection and that the consumers are being badly done by. [More…]
While the Opposition will not oppose the second reading of the Bill it nevertheless regards the Government’s introduction of this legislationindeed, its whole approach to this question of who controls or exercises sovereign rights over the off-shore areas- as authoritarian and dictatorial. [More…]
There is no question- I do not believe that anyone can gainsay this-that State interests, State rights and State responsibilities are clearly involved. [More…]
Rights which may be purported to be granted under the mining code inherent in this legislation, if it becomes law and afterwards is found to be invalid in some way, will lack any prior foundation. [More…]
Expenditure committed or proposed by those who desire to explore and to exploit mineral rights in these offshore areas will be in jeopardy. [More…]
It purports to deal with the vexing and long disputed question as to where ownership and control- sovereign rights, as the more erudite international lawyers have expounded it- lies with respect to the seas around Australia, the seabed beneath those seas and the air space above the seas. [More…]
There is no doubt that a real question exists as to where the authority or where the sovereign rights actually lie. [More…]
But I mention those areas because they are the areas to which the Bill refers and about which the Commonwealth is asserting Commonwealth rights. [More…]
But the real question lay as to whether they must apply to the State in order to secure from the State Government adjacent to the seabed in respect of which they were searching, the appropriate authorities to explore and if they got an authority to explore to have the exclusive rights of exploration, and if they discovered oil to have the exclusive rights of exploitation in that area. [More…]
Or did they apply to the Commonwealth Government for those rights? [More…]
Because there had been an international convention in 1958 which had declared that sovereign rights over the continental shelf area around Australia were vested in the coastal state which was, in the international community, the nation of Australia, within the domestic community the Australian Government claimed the right to exercise, through the Commonwealth Parliament, legislative authority over the offshore areas. [More…]
Did the Minister not think it regrettable that Medical Benefits Fund of Australia Ltd and the Hospitals Contribution Fund of Australia did not participate in the recent medical fees inquiry to defend the rights of fund contributors? [More…]
-by leaveOn 30 August the Senate approved a request I made on behalf of the Select Committee on Civil Rights of Migrant Australians for an extension of time for the presentation of the Committee’s report until the first sitting day in November 1973. [More…]
That the time Tor the presentation of the report of the Senate Select Committee on Civil Rights of Migrant Australians be extended to the first sitting day of December. [More…]
There is Mr Justice Woodward who is engaged on an investigation into Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
But any question as to how the Commonwealth appears before the courts is, I think, a matter in which the rights of the Attorney-General ought to be protected. [More…]
We believe that as property and assets are involved as rights about which individuals may feel strongly appeals should not be prohibited. [More…]
Without making any suggestions against the integrety of these gentlemen, that type of unsupervised ballot is utterly unsatisfactory where rights of such significance are involved. [More…]
The original provisions which were laid down in what has been rather disparingly and quite unfairly called ‘Lynch law’ which was introduced last year provided a proper protection for rank and file members so that their assets, rights and union connections could not be disposed of without a substantial vote of the people concerned. [More…]
We are conscious of the fact that a political settlement must entail the recognition of the rights of both sides- not merely the rights of Israel, but also the rights of the Arab nations which are involved in the war. [More…]
Any political negotiations, any attempt at settlement, will have to consider the rights and entitlements of all the nations in the area affected so that a just and lasting settlement can be achieved. [More…]
The other essential and most important ingredient for a settlement is the willingness on both sides to come to an agreement which respects the territorial integrity of Israel and respects the rights and integrity of all other countries in the region. [More…]
If this debate does anything at all, I hope that it expresses the wish of this Parliament to see in the Middle East a peace that recognises, as I said earlier, the existence of the state of Israel and the rights and integrity of the other countries in the region. [More…]
I believe, and I say it here- I will say it anywhere- that this is but a small part of an overall pattern and that the Arab nations, whilst they may have some rights and some problems that should be aired before the United Nationssome privileges which should be granted to them and some rights restored to them- when they are equipped as they have been equipped for these purposes and when they are urged on and then their opponents are informed of what is about to happen, they should realise that they are being used as pawns, that nobody wants anyone to win this war, that other nations want the wars to go on and on even when there are no more dividends in the actual conflicts to ensure that there shall not be stabilised peace. [More…]
They had no rights to Israel. [More…]
They had no rights to Israel whatever. [More…]
In view of the widespread concern currently held by the wheat industry at government intrusion into the traditional commercial provinces of the Australian Wheat Board, will the Minister define the rights of government in respect of overseas wheat sales and the authority and responsibilities of the Wheat Board? [More…]
I believe that the Minister put before this Parliament a very powerful case to indicate that in his view the Australian Workers Union, the prime example of amalgamation, was a union in which there was a denial of the rights of the rank and file to a degree that should not have occurred. [More…]
The condemnation by the present Minister of this organisation and his court action against the organisation arose from rules which were against the common rights or the human rights of its members and took the control of the organisation out of the membership of the organisation and put it in the hands of some hierarchy. [More…]
Basically, the philosophy of the current and previous governments in relation to organisations registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act is that they are voluntary organisations and the government should not interfere in their affairs unless it can be demonstrated that there are or are likely to be dishonest practices which would prejudice the rights of members or groups of members. [More…]
We have heard a lot about the rule of law and a lot about the rights of the individual. [More…]
Therefore, to select a group of people in this community who can be adversely affected by the proposed law when their rights are already, in one case, in the process of litigation and, in other cases, where the Commonwealth itself has, as far as I have been able to ascertain, by its own laches been instrumental in delaying the acquisition of and payment of compensation for property is to discriminate against these people. [More…]
In the midst of them this legislation was introduced which gravely imperils and even destroys the rights which people would have enjoyed under the existing law to compensation under the terms that then applied. [More…]
If the Commonwealth has been, as its own instance, responsible for delays or if the processes were so cumbersome that it was impossible to have the proceedings finalised within that time, I think it must accept the responsibility and that it should not deny to the person whose land it intends to resume the rights he would have enjoyed under the existing law. [More…]
Therefore, both for the reason which Senator Withers advanced that in one case there is litigation actually in being and rights are still in the process of determination and because of the series of other cases where the quantum of compensation is still a matter for negotiation and consideration and where certain formal steps have taken place over a number of years, it does not appear just or proper that the Commonwealth should intervene by way of this legislation and truncate, deny or circumscribe rights. [More…]
We believe that any rights that the present freeholders have should be paid for on the basis that this is rural land. [More…]
A party that did not oppose this Bill would be wanting in principle, and a party that would initiate a Bill of this sort should be thoroughly condemned, especially when that party has spokesmen who parade through the country the idea that people ‘s rights should be preserved by a Bill of Rights and a reform of administrative processes, and that individual rights that are arbitrarily invaded should be recompensed. [More…]
That is the first principle which these disciples of the Bill of Rights invade. [More…]
The second is that without blushing at all those people who sat spuriously in Opposition some 8 or 10 years ago when I raised the question of the inequity of invading litigants’ rights after they had been before the law courts in the IPEC case- I have not looked to the debates but I can bring them all to mind- held up their hands in horror and said: ‘What a monstrous thing it is that the litigant should be deprived of his right to appeal to the Privy Council ‘. [More…]
Irrespective of which side of the chair I sit, when I find legislation as scurrilous as this coming in, having confiscated or notified the acquisition of people’s land rights, I say that they have their arbitral rights and their right to go to the court for compensation. [More…]
The last thing that I put in by way of a sweet postscript to the AttorneyGeneral (Senator Murphy) is that if I were more ignorant and more gullible I would thank him for the grace and favour that he has tended in clause 6 of the Bill, where, having invaded these rights and applied an exceptional formula to specified people, discriminating against them, he is good enough to say: [More…]
What a miserable indictment of people who pretend to be proponents of bills of rights to protect individuals from administrative discretions and to operate a committee. [More…]
It does not matter how emphatically or how persuasively one claimant asserts his rights; the mere assertion does not give him title. [More…]
Therefore, it would be tantamount to exercising the rights claimed. [More…]
At present the effective rights which are exercised over the territorial seas and the continential shelf are those rights which are exercised by the States. [More…]
There are a number of questions on the notice paper that are of particular interest to me because of my concern about the civil rights of migrant Australians. [More…]
I think it is important from the point of view of the operations of the Senate Select Committee on the Civil Rights of Migrant Australians that authoritative replies should be given to those questions. [More…]
Indeed, in evidence given in public to the Senate Select Committee on the Civil Rights of Migrant Australians the head of the Commonwealth Police, I think it was, stated that, for instance, Srecko Rover had been convicted of having a fire alight when he should not have had a fire alight and of running a second hand shop without a licence. [More…]
-It is right that at all times the actions of governments should be scrutinised in the light of our attitude to human rights. [More…]
I refer the Minister to the recent unanimous resolution of this Senate dealing with the abrogation of human rights of Soviet dissidents. [More…]
Prior to the change of Government, the Committee had discussed objectively and agreed to recommend that a change be made from the presently existing rights to make new claims for war-caused injuries from ex-servicemen from the 1914 and 1939 Wars who, like their civilian counterparts, served only within Australia. [More…]
I am surprised that Senator McManus should object to the reference on dual nationality because the Committee that is humourously described as the Senate Select Committee on the Civil Rights of Migrant Australians was supposed to report on dual nationality, among all its other problems. [More…]
We see it as desirable to refer to the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, something to which the Government itself has been often - [More…]
Article 26 of the United Nations Charter of Human Rights and in particular the prior right of parents to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children; [More…]
We are told that before Christmas we must revolutionise divorce, civil rights, overseas investment, the tariff, trade practices, fringe banking and a host of other questions. [More…]
I would not like to see enshrined in legislation a suggestion that one group of children has prior rights compared with other children. [More…]
Finally could he advise mc what rights other public servants have in this situation? [More…]
Does he agree in this matter with the views of minority parties that the proposal represents an attempt to deny their rights and the ability to place before the public contrary views to -those of the larger political parties? [More…]
The Government has sought to protect the rights of individuals in relation to cancellation or suspension of licences by providing the qualifications in clause 7. [More…]
At the same time, it considers that those provisions are necessary for proper management of the fisheries and for protecting the rights of law-abiding fishermen. [More…]
I suppose there would be nobody who, on other occasions, has protected the rights and dignities of the Senate more than I have or who has defended them more enthusiastically than I have. [More…]
These, with existing provisions of the Officers’ Rights Declaration Act 1928-1969, the Superannuation Act 1922-1971, and the Commonwealth Employees’ Furlough Act 1943-1968, will preserve or improve existing rights and terms and conditions of service of the present locally engaged High Commission staff, who will all continue in employment. [More…]
The clause preserves existing rights under the Officers’ Rights Declaration Act 1928-1969 of persons who have such rights by virtue of having been officers of the Public Service immediately before they became officers under the High Commissioner (United Kingdom) Act. [More…]
It will be interesting to see how the Government reacts to the Opposition’s suggestion, which I think is a very attractive one, that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations should be embodied in the legislation, because the Government on many occasions has said that it believed in and fully supported the Declaration of Human Rights in every way. [More…]
Does it really support the Declaration of Human Rights or does it support it only when it suits it? [More…]
Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. [More…]
If we really believe in the Declaration of Human Rights, the amendments which the Opposition will move in the Committee stage will be carried. [More…]
If it rejects the amendments which relate to the functions of the Commission, it must fundamentally reject the philosophy inherent in the Karmel Committee and in the Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
There has in the past been much confusion about the sovereign rights of these areas. [More…]
Having set aside the Constitution or the rights of the States or the Commonwealth under the Constitution, it was impossible to determine where the responsibilities lay. [More…]
Workers and their dependants- in particular, their dependants- should not be put in that position in order to obtain their rights. [More…]
When Queensland was separated from New South Wales in 1 859 her rights were not clearly denned regarding the islands off the coast. [More…]
I have mentioned that the position in relation to fishing rights is not clear. [More…]
Then the article goes on to say how the State Premiers had decided to approach the Privy Council in London to get a declaration that the Federal Government had no rights over the territorial seas and the continental shelf. [More…]
The sworn informations and warrants that had been obtained by the Commonwealth have been produced to the Senate Select Committee on Civil Rights of Migrant Australians. [More…]
What were the occasions and dates on which the Australian Government made known its attitude on the fundamental human rights of free emigration of a nation’s citizens to the Soviet Government. [More…]
The Australian Government has on numerous occasions in the past made known its views that all countries should respect the terms of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, of which the right to emigrate is an essential pan. [More…]
As leader of the Australian Delegation I stressed in my statement to the current session of the United Nations General Assembly the importance which Australia attached to the full implementation of all international instruments concerned with human rights. [More…]
That leave be given to introduce a Bill for an Act to implement the international covenant on civil and political rights and for other purposes. [More…]
It indicated clearly the rights and responsibilities of this Senate. [More…]
The member in the House of Representatives is entitled to vote on any matter and has all the rights and privileges of an ordinary State member of the Parliament. [More…]
I hope that I have been able to convince Senator Wright who claims to be a great upholder of the rights of the citizens of this country. [More…]
As an Australian, I do not believe that because there are only 120,000 people in the Northern Territory, those of us in the eastern States have any God-given rights. [More…]
Surely in 1973 the Northern Territory should not have to go through this political Gethsemane that was imposed upon Alaska and Hawaii in their efforts to attain state rights. [More…]
We talk a lot of rubbish about limited democracy and Opposition senators sermonise about little unions having rights along with big unions. [More…]
As Senator McLaren pointed out, the moment a person moves from a State to a Territory he loses certain rights. [More…]
If by the description ‘Black Power’ these gentlemen are implying that I am advocating equal rights for Aborigines and Islanders, then I am happy to be so classified. [More…]
But we have this Government parading Bills of Rights which proclaim that there shall be no discrimination between sexes. [More…]
The manager was therefore probably within his legal rights in directing the barman to refuse service. [More…]
I would believe that he was not within his rights in manhandling a person, if indeed he did so. [More…]
and (2) I am aware that a Tasmanian court action has deferred a decision on mining rights in the Precipitous Bluff area. [More…]
Is he not proud of the democratic rights of the Caucus when he says it was the Minister who made the change? [More…]
The Board is charged with a very high responsibility and the Government has to assume that that responsibility is being discharged bona fide in the proper exercise of the powers of the Board, with due regard to the rights of persons affected by the exercise of these powers. [More…]
In the light of these representations I foreshadow that in the Committee stage I will be moving certain amendments, which will deal, in particular, with the following matters: The Court will be empowered to adjust the rights of parties to contracts rendered unenforceable by the legislation; Division (2) of Part V will not apply to contracts made before the commencement date, to banking or insurance contracts or to sales by auction or competitive tender; contracts covered by clause 45 ( 1 ) will be rendered unenforceable instead of illegal; pyramid selling will be redefined; the exception in favour of the Standards Association in clause 51 (c) will be extended to cover standards or performance; the scope of clause 45 (3)(b) will be limited in relation to contracts for supply to be made by one party to another. [More…]
These are not rights to be taken away by those who would petulantly threaten to take their bat and ball home if they are not elected captain. [More…]
We also have made sure that for the first time servicemen are able, untrammelled, to have representational rights to their Government, to Ministers and to members of the Parliament Also, as the honourable senator well knows, the Government is on the eve of appointing an ombudsman for the Services. [More…]
I understand that we will get Bills on divorce and Bills on human rights. [More…]
Honourable senators can imagine the effect that a Bill covering human rights will have and the amount of examination that will be necessary. [More…]
The object of this Bill is to give recognition in legislation of the Australian Parliament to basic human rights and freedoms and to provide remedies for their enforcement. [More…]
On 10 December 1948 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations. [More…]
It is easy to be cynical about the failure of many members of the United Nations to ensure to their own citizens the rights embodied in the Universal Declaration. [More…]
I am not one of those who believe this justifies the absence in Australia of constitutional and statutory guarantees of those rights. [More…]
It is said to be more effective in ensuring freedom than a Bill of Rights. [More…]
In 1966 the United Nations adopted two other great instruments defining the rights that individuals should enjoy. [More…]
These are the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. [More…]
We hope that the interest in human rights engendered by the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights will prompt these countries to ratify the covenants, and that the 2 covenants will shortly come into force. [More…]
This Government has made plain its attitude to the denial of human rights in other countries. [More…]
No matter what the law may provide, those who are poor, who are socially disadvantaged, are denied the basic human rights of a full and satisfying life. [More…]
The aged, the chronically ill, the migrant groups and the Aborigines do not enjoy the full measure of human rights and dignity. [More…]
The programs of social security and social assistance which this Government is undertaking are fundamental to the promotion of human rights in Australia. [More…]
The main concern of the present Bill is to implement the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
In the case of the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, progressive implementation of its terms is required of a party to it. [More…]
Its terms are not so apt for direct legislative enactment as those of the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
The Covenant on Civil and Political Rights sets out a familiar catalogue of rights. [More…]
I will not go through them all; they are concerned with such matters as freedom of movement, freedom of expression, the protection of individual privacy, the rights of a person charged with a criminal offence, and so on. [More…]
Although we believe these rights to be basic to our democratic society, they now receive remarkably little legal protection in Australia. [More…]
What protection is given by the Australian Constitution is minimal and does not touch the most significant of these rights. [More…]
The common law rights exist only in the interstices of statutory regulation. [More…]
Many restrictions on individual freedom are necessary to protect the rights of others, or to prevent a crowded society from falling into chaos. [More…]
What is needed is a yardstick against which can be measured proposals to place restrictions or, as in the case of the protection of privacy, the failure to legislate and to provide the means whereby effective action may be taken in the courts to enforce rights. [More…]
Ideally, in my view, a Bill of Rights should be written into the Australian Constitution and I proposed at the Constitutional Convention in Sydney that this be done. [More…]
But in the absence of a constitutionally entrenched Bill of Rights, it is proposed that those rights should be set out in legislation of this Parliament, so far as it is within the powers of the Parliament to do so. [More…]
Only this Parliament will be able to abrogate the rights thus established and I would hope this Parliament would not lightly subtract from rights guaranteed by this legislation. [More…]
Moreover, I believe that a statutory Bill of Rights will have a very great educational value. [More…]
It will serve to make people more aware of their rights. [More…]
By identifying rights, it will be easier to know when they are being denied. [More…]
It would be futile, however, to grant these rights unless there is machinery to enforce them. [More…]
First, legal remedies will be provided for infringements of rights and an aggrieved person will have recourse to the courts to enforce his rights. [More…]
Second, the legislation will establish an Australian Human Rights Commissioner who will have power to investigate infringements of rights, either on his own initiative or where a complaint is made to him. [More…]
In establishing this machinery, Australia will be taking a lead that will put it to the forefront in the protection of human rights. [More…]
The legislation will also establish an Australian Human Rights Council that will advise the Attorney-General and the Commissioner on the implementation of international instruments relating to human rights. [More…]
The Bill is divided into 7 Parts, the first dealing with preliminary matters, the second with fundamental rights and freedoms, the third with the Australian Human Rights Commissioner, the fourth with the enforcement of rights, the fifth with the Australian Human Rights Council, the sixth dealing with administrative provisions and the seventh with miscellaneous matters. [More…]
Part II of the Bill will establish in legislation of the Australian Parliament fundamental rights and freedoms in a number of extremely important areas which are not at present covered by formal legislation. [More…]
A basic provision of the legislation is to provide that everyone is entitled to the fundamental rights and freedoms set out in the legislation, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. [More…]
Part II of the Bill then proceeds to deal with a number of important rights, including the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, the right to hold opinions without interference, the right to freedom of expression, the right to peaceful assembly, the right to freedom of association, the right, without unreasonable restrictions, to take part in the conduct of public affairs, vote at elections held by universal and equal suffrage and to hold public office, the right to liberty of movement, and the right to privacy. [More…]
In the provisions relating to freedom of religion, expression, assembly, association and movement, the legislation provides that these rights may be restricted in certain circumstances, such as where restriction is reasonably necessary to protect public safety or public health or constitute reasonable regulations, as to time, place and manner, of the right. [More…]
The enactment of this provision will enable Australia to ratify the Convention on the Political Rights of Women which has been in force since 1954. [More…]
He is to be informed of these rights. [More…]
Part III provides that there shall be an Australian Human Rights Commissioner. [More…]
An Australian Human Rights Council is established in Part V of the Bill. [More…]
It will be the function of the Council to make recommendations to the Attorney-General and the Commissioner on matters relating to the observance and implementation of international instruments relating to human rights, the promotion of educational programs with respect to human rights and other related matters. [More…]
Part VI of the Bill deals with the administrative provisions and provides for the appointment of an Australian Human Rights Commissioner and his staff. [More…]
Part VI also provides that the Australian Human Rights Council is to consist of 10 members who shall be appointed by the Attorney-General. [More…]
In conclusion, I would emphasise that the purpose of the Bill is to carry out the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
It proclaims the equality and essential dignity of all human beings which is the foundation of all instruments relating to human rights. [More…]
The Bill is the first of a number of measures the Government proposes to introduce to guarantee those rights in Australia. [More…]
The first and perhaps the greatest of these international instruments was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and it is in a spirit of commemoration of the 25th anniversary of this Declaration, which will occur on 10 December 1973, that this legislation is being brought forward. [More…]
The Universal Declaration proclaims in its first Article that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights and Article 2 provides that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set out in the Declaration, without distinction of any kind, including discrimination on grounds of race, colour or national origin. [More…]
The United Nations has placed high priority on the advancement of measures for the elimination of racial discrimination in its human rights program. [More…]
A good deal of attention was given to various aspects of discrimination at the 1968 Teheran Conference on Human Rights held during the International Year for Human Rights. [More…]
Discrimination affects Aborigines so far as it concerns the administration of the criminal law and the enjoyment of civil, political, social and economic rights. [More…]
The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination does, in fact, recognise the need to take special and concrete measures to ensure the adequate development of certain racial groups for the purpose of guaranteeing them the full and equal enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms, and the Bill gives recognition to this need. [More…]
The purpose of clause 9 is to guarantee equality before the law without discrimination as to race in the enjoyment of rights and this clause will supersede laws of Australia or of the States that discriminate on grounds of race in relation to the enjoyment of rights. [More…]
Clauses 10 to 15 deal in greater detail with discrimination in the enjoyment of rights. [More…]
As I have already indicated, the Bill provides that the Act does not apply to special measures, including laws, that confer rights and benefits on Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders. [More…]
This Bill is a first, but essential, step in providing measures for the elimination of racial discrimination in Australia and for the guarantee of rights without discrimination on grounds of race. [More…]
Honourable senators may notice that there are a number of provisions in this Bill which are identical with those in the Human Rights Bill 1973 which has been introduced. [More…]
As I have mentioned, the rights and responsibilities of the States and of individual school authorities were referred to by the Karmel Committee. [More…]
Article 26 of the United Nations Chaner of Human Rights and in particular the prior right of parents to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children; (aa) the obligation for governments to provide or assist in the provision and maintenance of educational opportunities for all children which are of the highest standard and which recognise the prior right of parents to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children and where provided and maintained by or on behalf of a government ensure that these opportunities are open without fees or religious tests, to all children; (ab) the rights and powers pursuant to the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act of the State Governments in relation to education; (ac) the need for research into education standards, quality, variety and opportunities in Australia; (ad) the importance of the improvement of the quality of education available to all students attending primary and secondary schools; ‘. [More…]
The first of those proposes that the Commission shall have regard to Article 26 of the United Nations Charter of Human Rights and, in particular, the prior right of parents to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. [More…]
Let me say at once that the Government gladly accepts the inclusion in this Bill of the extract from the Declaration of Human Rights from which the former Minister for Education and Science, the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has quoted, embodying, as it does very thoroughly, the philosophy and statement of faith on which the legislation before the House rests. [More…]
It is taken straight from Article 26, paragraph 3 of the Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
In view of the further fact that the Attorney-General and Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Murphy) this afternoon introduced into the chamber a Bill for the total incorporation of the Declaration of Human Rights into the statute law of Australia, I cannot imagine for a moment that the Government has any intention to oppose this amendment. [More…]
But I do know that it provides for the incorporation of the Declaration of Human Rights into Australian law. [More…]
Further, I point out that the Declaration of Human Rights in this respect embodies a principle which I think has been accepted as an important principle, namely to avoid the possibility that there could develop in a country- one hopes that it should never be a fear in Australia- political indoctrination and the opportunity for the political education of children, where steps are taken which would mean that children were not obtaining the type of education which they or their parents might wish them to have. [More…]
I propose to the Temporary Chairman that having referred to this question of the Declaration of Human Rights- the amendment to insert a new paragraph (a) into clause 13-1 should later deal with the other proposed new paragraphs one by one. [More…]
The third amendment which we would suggest is that regard should be had to the rights and powers pursuant to the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act of the State governments in relation to education. [More…]
For that reason I prefer what Senator Rae supports which is, in effect, that we regard all the children of this country as having equal rights and we give each of them justice. [More…]
Those who go to one school will have prior rights and the Government will have a primary obligation to look after them while those who go to other schools will come second and receive what is left over. [More…]
My final point is that the United Nations Charter of Human Rights states, as Senator Rae has pointed out, that the parent has the right to decide the school his child will attend. [More…]
How can a charter of that nature be incorporated in the legislation of this country when the Government has a provision in its education legislation which contradicts the Charter on Human Rights? [More…]
I believe that the Labor Party has made a grave mistake in once again putting forward this proposition that some children in the community have prior rights to others. [More…]
Therefore, it is altogether fitting that a piece of legislation such as this should give effect to the Declaration of Human Rights, which spells out in principle the very things that Senator Mulvihill was underlining with some effect. [More…]
Let me say at once that the Government gladly accepts the inclusion in this Bill of the extract from the Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
Article 26 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights is a worthy series of 3 paragraphs. [More…]
Education shall be directed to the full development of human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. [More…]
So, I give my support to this amendment which writes into the legislation article 26 of the Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
If the Commission has any ideas of working towards the full development of human personality and the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, then surely we are all united in the belief that this Article should be included. [More…]
I am certain that no one on this side of the Parliament would deny people the right to adopt Article 26 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
They have asked for their rights often enough. [More…]
As recently as 1 1 October this year the Legislative Council for the Northern Territory passed a resolution seeking voting rights in referendums on the same conditions as those enjoyed by citizens in the States. [More…]
Territory Advisory Council passed a series of resolutions seeking voting rights for Australian Capital Territory residents at referendums. [More…]
They have been denied their rights for too long. [More…]
In a week when we have scheduled into us yesterday a Bill of Rights protesting against discrimination on the grounds of sex, I ask honourable senators to listen to this: [More…]
Now we are told that in some cases the police do not know where the owners are and that in many cases the material is being retained- at a time when we are about to discuss civil rights, I would like honourable senators to note. [More…]
I think that is a scandalous attack upon the civil rights of people living in this country. [More…]
I consider that the Commonwealth Government and the New South Wales Government have been guilty of a grave and serious attack upon the rights of Australians. [More…]
I think it is farcical to talk about a civil rights Bill and a civil rights debate when the Commonwealth Government and the New South Wales Government are equally at fault by permitting their police forces to commit the gravest infringement of the ordinary civil rights of people living in this country. [More…]
I rise to support what Senator McManus said because whatever might be the arguments for and against the Bill of Rights, you cannot prescribe liberties simply by law. [More…]
The only way in which liberties and people’s rights can be preserved and made meaningful, is to have an alert and vigilant community concerned to maintain and protect rights. [More…]
Because the matter is at present before the Senate Select Committee on Civil Rights of Migrant Australians I do not propose to refer to actual evidence from Hansard but I intend to refer to police evidence which has been printed in the daily Press. [More…]
I merely mention that because later on we will have an opportunity of debating the Bill on human rights. [More…]
Our rights were never impugned because we had a democratic government. [More…]
I do not want to go into the matters which have been dealt with by the Senate Select Committee on the Civil Rights of Migrant Australians but a lot of the matters which have been referred to have been the subject of evidence given before that Committee. [More…]
Having indicated that the Opposition agrees with the Bill- it is a very short Bill which repeals the various High Commissioner Acts which are still on the statute book and preserves certain rights of officers who may be attached to the High Commission in London- let me say that the Bill marks the end of a quite historic era because, as the second reading speech indicates, the High Commission was the first of Australia’s overseas representations. [More…]
I asked whether when he visited Chequers on a weekend the subject of better citizenship rights for European Common Market nationals than for Australians was discussed. [More…]
I sum up by asking the Minister When we get, as we will, problems concerning the rights of Australians going on to the British labour market in competition with people from the European Common Market countries and representations are made here about them, will Mr Grassby get in touch with our representative in England who will then take the matter up with the British Home Office? [More…]
will preserve or improve existing rights and terms and conditions of service of the present locally engaged High Commission staff, who will all continue in employment. [More…]
There are rights and wrongs on both sides involved in this conflict. [More…]
Until those rights and wrongs are removed completely we will not have peace in the Middle East. [More…]
the Honourable the Premier and Ministers of the State, on behalf of the citizens of the State of Queensland, to take whatever action they consider necessary or desirable to safeguard and protect the sovereign rights of the citizens of the State of Queensland from any unwarranted intrusion or invasion by the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia; [More…]
Both aspects of man’s environment, the natural and the man-made, are essential to the well-being and to the enjoyment of basic human rights- even the right to life itself. [More…]
Both aspects of man’s environment, the natural and the man-made, are essential to his well-being and to the enjoyment of basic human rights- even the right to life itself. [More…]
The position in regard to our rights in international law, how far those rights extend in territorial waters, how far they extend over the seabed and such matters of international agreement, is clear. [More…]
Nobody is challenging those rights for one minute. [More…]
The questions that worry many people such as environmental control, pollution and other matters insofar as they are questions of international agreement are within the sovereign rights of the Australian Parliament. [More…]
There are no provisions, which are traditional in Australian mining law, in respect of proceedings in wardens courts and the protection of private rights and interests. [More…]
But what they mostly need is modernisation in regard to the protection of rights, not an extension of ministerial discretions with which this mining code is simply shot through from one end to the other. [More…]
It is ridiculous for the States to claim sovereignty over these areas on the slim pretext that Commonwealth control would cut across their sovereign rights and they would not be able to build a jetty or to fish offshore. [More…]
In these areas I have outlined the States have not challenged the rights of the Australian Government about the law of the sea and arrangements for territorial boundaries. [More…]
Why should we perpetuate this area of grey where the old traditional sovereign rights of the States come into confrontation with the expanding responsibilities of a nation? [More…]
Whether members of the Government party like it or not, we have a federal system in this country and our responsibility as the national parliament, and the particular responsibility of this House, is to see that the rights of the States are preserved. [More…]
Basically in the Bill the Australian Government is attempting to declare its sole rights to control the seas and submerged lands surrounding Australia. [More…]
As a representative of Victoria in the Senate I am not encouraged to the view that the demands of the centralist Government should override the possible rights of a State. [More…]
The core of the debate is the preservation of the rights of the several States. [More…]
That State was alert to the problems relating to the rights to off-shore mineral areas and was the first State to pass legislation which gave to the State Government the right to grant licences for commercial activity off its shores. [More…]
If this Bill succeeds and the Australian Government has the power to do everything that it wishes, will there not be an argument, even if the Commonwealth gives back to the States some of the rights in relation to offshore areas which undoubtedly it would not wish to control itself? [More…]
I think that this legislation is an indication of the Federal Government trying to reduce the power and the rights of the States and it is an attempt to build the Federal Parliament into a much greater structure at the expense of the States. [More…]
I feel that this chamber owes its existence to the fact that the States would not accept the setting up of a Commonwealth Parliament until such time as it included a chamber in which they had equal voting rights, as is the situation in the Senate. [More…]
Therefore I look upon the preservation of the State rights in this matter as having a safety factor to it and presenting a better aspect than passing over the whole of these powers to the Commonwealth. [More…]
I am here in this States House as a States man and I will stand for the rights of the States in this matter and vote against this legislation. [More…]
Then in Article 2, paragraph ( 1 ) it says that the coastal State exercises over the continental shelf sovereign rights for the purpose of exploring it and exploiting its natural resources. [More…]
So that the very treaty that was produced by the national Parliament and the national government away back in 1958, in the time of the Liberal-Country Party Government, in describing the continental shelf said that it is that part of the seabed extending from a point from the margin of the territorial sea; and it said also that the coastal State- that is Australia- in its national entity exercises sovereign rights over the continental shelf for the purpose of exploring and exploiting its natural resources. [More…]
In the first place there are fisheries rights. [More…]
It is by this Act declared and enacted that the sovereign rights of Australia as a coastal State in respect of the continental shelf of Australia, for the purpose of exploring it and exploiting its natural resources, are vested in and exercisable by the Crown in right of the Commonwealth. [More…]
This is not to say that if one enters into a convention for a bill of rights the exercise of the external affairs power enables one to invade the whole of the States’ power just because it is called a bill of rights. [More…]
I find in clause 14 of the Bill an express preservation of the State rights over bays, gulfs, estuaries, creeks and inlets. [More…]
This is a power to take away all rights to continue with their work from persons who may have spent hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in exploration or who have undertaken the work of exploiting what has been found. [More…]
Certainly not when we are calmly contemplating a Bill of Rights. [More…]
In fact, if my memory serves me correctly, I think the Country Party governs in Queensland with 1 7 or 1 8 per cent of the vote, which I assume Mr Anthony would argue is an indication of the rights of Queenslanders to have a Country Party Government. [More…]
Sihanouk, its lawful rights and recognition as the legitimate government of that country? [More…]
In fact, at the end of Senator Durack ‘s speech he digressed miles away from this question of the growing concentration of excessive power into a discussion of the rights and the wrongs of the goldmining industry. [More…]
Is it arbitrary and excessive power to introduce a Bill to provide for a charter of human rights for the Australian people? [More…]
Whatever criticisms there may be of individual provisions within that Bill, could anyone honestly say that a government which is dedicated to extending arbitrary and excessive power in its own hands would introduce such a Bill which guarantees the rights of the ordinary citizen within Australia? [More…]
I hope that while honourable senators opposite sit here and are prepared to have a socialisation program of bureaucratic control put before them, in Caucus they will exercise the rights of the people whom they represent. [More…]
Unfortunately, the Government tends to go too far in the direction of its policies which, at times, can have a very adverse effect on the individual, his rights and personal freedoms. [More…]
Constitutionally, the Senate is a House of the States and it exists, to some extent, to protect the rights of the States in our Federal system. [More…]
It carried a resolution calling for all necessary action to be taken to protect the rights and responsibilities or the State public services. [More…]
Yesterday the Senate debated the problems of submerged lands and the general attitude to territorial rights over waters, and that sort of thing. [More…]
But Senator Little was quite within his rights. [More…]
I can hope only that he will refer this matter to the Minister for Social Security with the suggestion that the rights of the Senate and the rights of senators are such that the Minister ought to give another answer. [More…]
-by leave- On behalf of the Senate Select Committee on the Civil Rights of Migrant Australians and in the absence of the Chairman, Senator Townley, who is ill and who has appointed me Acting Chairman of the Committee in accordance with the powers under the terms of reference, I wish to seek an extension of time for the presentation of the Committee’s report. [More…]
That the time for the presentation of the report of the Select Committee on the Civil Rights of Migrant Australians be extended to a date not later than the last sitting day in March 1974. [More…]
I have always taken the view that all members of Parliament have equal rights. [More…]
He records also his objection to the refusal to provide information to the Committee as to the nature and the reasons for the expenditure incurred by the Attorney-General ‘s Department in respect of the hearings of the Senate Committee inquiring into Civil Rights of Migrants. [More…]
Can the Minister for Primary Industry now indicate whether the 1974 conference on the law of the sea, with its implications for fishing rights, is still to be held in Santiago or whether, in view of the political turbulence in Chile, a new venue has been determined for this momentous conference? [More…]
Because the wilting of the Senate that took place between 1 900 and 1 949 had not been experienced in 1 900 and because it was expected to be a bulwark of State rights, it was decided that the Senate should not be subject to the whim of Whitlam or any other person who occupies the position of head of government. [More…]
This is just one more attack by the centralist, socialist Government on the rights of the States. [More…]
I believe it is very likely that the people of Australia will want to give voting rights to the territories but that many electors will have grave doubts about altering the majority of States clauses. [More…]
Since the questions all relate to the Croatian issue and to the raid on the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, since all facts necessary for detailed answers are fully available to the Minister, and since all such information is important both for public knowledge and for the Senate Select Committee on Civil Rights of Migrant Australians, will the Minister make available full and factual answers? [More…]
Is it not a fact that Article 12 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights asserts that everyone shall be free to leave any country, including his own? [More…]
Is it not a fact that Australia either has signed or proposes to sign, under the new Human Rights Bill, that Covenant? [More…]
-As the Leader of the Government in the Senate has shown by his introduction of a Bill of Rights that he nas a strong belief in the rights of people I desire to ask him the following question: Is he aware that a journalist named Alan Ramsey was employed for some years as a political feature journalist for the ‘Australian’ newspaper which is a segment of the multi-national news media organisation of Rupert Murdoch, who is a friend and supporter of Mr Whitlam as distinct from being a Labor supporter and is not a supporter of the Leader or of the Caucus? [More…]
Because of the belief of the Leader of the Government in the rights of the people, does he think a journalist or any employee should be sacked because that person does not desire to transfer from one position to another within the same organisation, when that person is carrying out that position successfully and is happy in that position? [More…]
Does he not consider that it is a flagrant breach of the rights of an employee to be sacked because he wanted to remain in the position and work in which he was happy and successful? [More…]
Obviously important questions are involved here in relation to the rights of an employer and the rights of an employed person. [More…]
I do not know that this raises a fundamental question of human rights. [More…]
The honourable senator raises the question of whether there are rights which presumably ought to be regulated by government or by law to a greater extent than they are now. [More…]
Mr Justice Woodward, notwithstanding that he has been on the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission, this year has sat some 1 3 days in the Northern Territory and in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
This is so notwithstanding an acceptance of the view throughout this community that in these respects there are certain rights which go with children, not with schools, not with their parents and not with some other relationship which may be attributable to them. [More…]
As a teacher for 19.5 years I was always under the impression that all Austraiian children were entitled to equal rights. [More…]
It is denying the members of the community within Australia their rights as citizens and their rights towards education. [More…]
I pause there in reading the letter to make the point that it is the Government which at this stage is bringing forward to the Senate a Bill dealing with human rights - [More…]
It is important that the civil rights of individuals be preserved. [More…]
Senator Webster deliberately set out to destroy 2 honourable senators because of statements they made in the process of exercising their rights in this place. [More…]
As I stated at the time, the Government has been engaged in preparing legislation to implement the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which will do much to prevent the practice of discrimination on extraneous grounds. [More…]
The Government, as a matter of policy, would not wish to interfere in the internal policies and administration of independent bodies such as residential college councils, except where there was some breach of federal law, for example on racial discrimination and other fundamental human rights. [More…]
Most transactions will be completed expeditiously and this section is likely to apply only in a limited number of compulsory acquisitions where bargaining over prices is extensive or where the vendor exercises his rights to litigate the matter. [More…]
The Act was introduced following an announcement by the former Prime Minister of the introduction of a scheme for the control of foreign takeovers effected by means of acquisitions of shares or assets, including mineral rights. [More…]
I refer in particular to the sale of rights of bonus issue shares. [More…]
Referring to sub-section (7) of proposed new section 26aaa, it seems to me that there could be an opportunity for expression to be given as to whether the sale of rights of bonus issue shares would attract taxability under this provision. [More…]
There is an expression with regard to bonus issue shares, but there is no clear expression as to what would be the situation if the sale of rights of bonus issue shares took place within the 12-months period. [More…]
In particular I would hope that I will receive some response from the Minister with regard to the sale of rights on bonus shares and the application of this section to such a transaction. [More…]
The provision does not tax the proceeds of sales of rights by a shareholder to whom they have been issued. [More…]
I have noted that the law reform work of the, I think, 7 law reform commissions or law reform bodies which exist throughout Australia has been performed essentially in the area of private law- the rights of citizens as between themselves. [More…]
There is potential in this field for drastic interference with the rights of citizens with insufficient justification. [More…]
I say to the Attorney-General that when we find similar provisions to these in his Racial Discrimination Bill and in his Human Rights Bill- provisions which give this tremendous inquisitorial power to commissions to interfere with the rights of ordinary citizens- this is the forum and this is the Parliament in which a voice must be raised to object to that sort of thing being done. [More…]
We are a free country and the rights and freedoms of citizens here are as well preserved and as well protected as they are in any country. [More…]
Battles which were won a long time ago have to be fought again if we are to preserve essential individual rights. [More…]
There are situations like that where there is a very marked diversity of law which is most unfortunate because rights are conferred on an Australian citizen in one State and denied in the other, or vice versa. [More…]
Any such powers, whether they are to summon witnesses or to have a hearing, are to be exercised in a bona fide way and for the purposes for which they were given and with due regard to the rights of persons affected. [More…]
that such laws and proposals do not trespass unduly on personal rights and liberties and do not unduly make the rights and liberties of citizens dependent upon administrative rather than judicial decisions, [More…]
that, as far as practicable such laws and proposals are consistent with the Articles of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights’ [More…]
One thing which a law reform commission can do, when it is reviewing all Commonwealth laws, is to examine them to see that they accord with traditional and accepted concepts of individual rights and the way in which individual rights ought to be protected and determined. [More…]
That Committee is required to look at regulations and ordinances to see that they do not trespass unduly on personal rights and liberties and that they do not make the rights and liberties of citizens dependent upon administrative rather than judicial decisions. [More…]
I think that there is some novelty in the provision relating to the articles of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
I think that the projected Human Rights Bill which has yet to come up for debate in this Senate seeks to incorporate those articles as part of the substantive law of the Commonwealth. [More…]
But at least in the work which this Commission undertakes it can certainly perform a useful function by having regard to the general standards and principles that are contained in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and I think that this is of benefit. [More…]
The same words have been included in the platform of the Australian Labor Party so that our test of delegated legislation is one which requires conformity with those standards in relation to trespassing unduly on personal rights and liberties and so on. [More…]
The suggestion in relation to the articles of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights is a very welcome one. [More…]
In view of the Minister’s general statements to the United Nations Assembly this year supporting the international agreements on human rights, will he undertake to protest to the Soviet Government specifically about its refusal to let the Panovs go to Israel? [More…]
Is not a similar resolution embodied in the International Covenant on Human Rights? [More…]
It is true that the International Covenant on Human Rights provides for the freedom of persons to leave a country and to return to it. [More…]
It is true that this is embodied in many other statements of human rights. [More…]
As to any international enforcement of the various rights which are stated in the International Covenant, except, I think, under the provisions of the judicial tribunal which has been set up to deal with human rights in Europe there is very little provision for enforcement of such rights. [More…]
-Of course, the International Covenant does not give them anything: it is only when legislation is passed in this country that the rights which are referred to in the Covenant can come into law. [More…]
The honourable senator will recall that this matter is covered in the Bill on human rights which I introduced. [More…]
For the information of honourable senators I present a copy of the speech the Prime Minister made at the United Nations Association Human Rights Day at the Australian National University, Canberra, on 10 December 1973. [More…]
Of course, now the boot is on the other foot and that Party has conveniently reversed its ideals on what are the rights and duties of this chamber. [More…]
Officers engaged by the Commission would be covered by the Officers Rights Declaration Act. [More…]
This inquiry is part of a larger project being carried out by the Attorney-General to examine what measures will be needed to guarantee the individual’s right of privacy under Article 17 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
I am just pointing out to the Government that one of the things which the Australian Constitution said, in line with human rights and fundamental justice, is that if the Government wants to acquire a citizen’s property it can do so only on just terms. [More…]
Did the Minister note that Mr Warner, on a recent tour of South East Asia, found widespread belief that Australia had adopted a double standard that turns a blind eye to communist contempt for human rights coupled with a highly critical attitude to its former friends? [More…]
At long last we are going to put the rights of the Australian people before the interests of any other government in the world, irrespective of which government it is. [More…]
I wish to direct a question to the Attorney-General because of his concern with human rights. [More…]
Does he recall that this year is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by members of the United Nations? [More…]
It is true that the Soviet Union was a signatory to the famous Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
I suggest, though, to the honourable senator that it might be appropriate for Australia to put its own house in order and for him to address his attention to some of the infringements of human rights that occur in Australia. [More…]
Does the Government accept this arrogant assumption by the Vietcong that it has rights over South Vietnamese territory? [More…]
The need to set up this Commission is based on the recognition that a high standard of health care is one of the fundamental rights of every Australian, and that the Australian Government must accept its full responsibility in this regard. [More…]
This is why the Liberal Party stands by the principle that there should be within the Schools Commission and other areas of education a basic attention to the rights of the individual member of the Australian society, that the whole of the legislation should be drawn with that in mind, and that the interests of individuals rather than institutions and political parties should be looked to. [More…]
Whilst not all the undertakings of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), especially in relation to independent schools, have been honoured the new provisions in the Bill at least respect the rights of the State Departments of Education and the independent school authorities. [More…]
It was thought by the drafters of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights to be a matter of sufficient significance to be included in that Declaration. [More…]
The practice and procedure of the courts have a substantial effect on the rights of individuals. [More…]
The present system also allows the rights of a person under federal law to vary from one State to another. [More…]
Parliament doing nothing in this important area of the law, which has a considerable bearing, as I have said, on the rights of individuals under laws made by this Parliament. [More…]
A good deal.of what is covered by practice and procedure affects substantive rights, so that the judges, in making rules relating to these matters, are in effect legislating. [More…]
It will have a significant jurisdiction in defining civil liberties under the Human Rights and Racial Discrimination Bills which are already before the Senate. [More…]
There are matters concerning the human rights of individuals who will be forced to transfer from the type of hospital in which they desire to stay. [More…]
As far as voting rights are concerned, this is a matter not for the Minister for Immigrati n but for the Minister for Services and Property and if the Senator is interested in retaining the preference for the 32 countries of the Commonwealth of Nations, then he is free to make his representations known. [More…]
I will not acknowledge that you have a special privileged position to be allowed double, treble or quadruple the number of questions merely because honourable senators have not been satisfied in relation to their due rights under the relevant Standing Orders to ask questions. [More…]
I understand that the ABC has sold ‘Seven Little Australians’ to Swedish television interests and that Twentieth Century Fox is interested in acquiring the distribution rights for this series of programs in North America and Latin America. [More…]
Is it not a fact that the vast majority of British subjects in Australia have rights under the Electoral Act to be enrolled- in fact, an obligation to be enrolled- and to vote at elections for this Parliament? [More…]
Many people are ignorant of their legal rights and what legal aid facilities are available. [More…]
I hold firms views about the necessity for a strong and independent private legal profession that can stand between the Government and the citizens, not least in the fields of human rights, civil liberties and criminal matters generally. [More…]
But this is not an objective to be achieved by usurping the rights of those overseas organisations which have a majority control today of our resources. [More…]
Reference was made during the debate to the fact that the Government allegedly has taken away from the growers the majority rights which applied under the old Apple and Pear Board. [More…]
One question which I have in mind and to which I direct the Minister’s attention is that in my view this Bill will commence an erosion of State rights, and in relation to health this may be a particularly important matter. [More…]
Queensland joins New South Wales and Victoria in expressing grave reservations regarding the Hospitals and Health Services Commission Bill 1973 presently before Federal Parliament insofar as many clauses appear to authorise invasion of States’ rights and responsibilities. [More…]
Judicial separation, restitution of conjugal rights and jactitation of marriage are abolished by the Bill. [More…]
The platform of the Australian Labor Party, on the basis of which this Government attained office, made clear that Labor’s industrial policy places human rights and values first and provides for the development of full human dignity in the industrial sphere. [More…]
Here again some provision is made, for compensation for any damage that may be done, but no real protection is given to the rights of private land owners, who under State law may or may not be the owners of the minerals. [More…]
The regulation and the development of those minerals, under State laws, clearly recognise the rights of the private owners of land so that their houses, their buildings or their farms are not destroyed by mining activities. [More…]
It trespasses, if I may use the term, on State rights and gives the Commonwealth authority to take up areas and to develop them within the realm of State sovereignty. [More…]
I acknowledge the recanting of the great Coke after he had been responsible for the execution of Raleigh, a man who fought for his rights in the House of Commons, as indeed the honourable senator is doing in this chamber. [More…]
We call on the Australian Government to instruct the Australian delegation at the United Nations to raise the Solzhenitsyn case and that of Soviet writers, historians, scientists, patriots and other defenders of the rights of the people, who are in grave danger as a result of exercising their basic right of free expression. [More…]
Will the Prime Minister use the occasion of his coming visit to the Soviet Union to protest to the heads of the Soviet Government against such brutal and mindless oppression of a distinguished writer whose only crime was to publicise the denial of human rights in the Soviet Union? [More…]
The Australian Government takes the view that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ought to be observed by every country. [More…]
It is very important to preserve the rights of persons to communicate ideas, and the Australian Government’s view is that every nation ought to observe the rights of those who wish to impart ideas to others beyond their borders. [More…]
One would think that there would be a greater obligation on such a nation to observe the rights which have been declared as the common standard of men everywhere. [More…]
Consistently with this Government’s great interest in human rights, including the human rights of the individual in time of armed conflict, the Australian Government was represented at the Teheran conference. [More…]
The British Labour Party at a dinner to Khruschev protested so strongly at the denial of human rights in the Soviet implemented by the KGB that Khruschev said that if he had a vote in a British election he would vote Conservative. [More…]
Recently the Australian Government refused entry into Australia of a group of Rhodesian Band of Hope girls to show disapproval of alleged denial of human rights there. [More…]
Why is a Lieutenant-General, who implemented the denial of human rights in the Soviet which Solzhenitsyn exposed, admitted and honoured by the Australian Government? [More…]
I believe that to be the procedure which the Government of this country, charged with the administration of our laws, should have been content to follow in order that the rights of individuals under the Public Service Act would be protected. [More…]
I stress that it is not only Mr Perkins whose rights are in question in regard to this matter but also all other members of the Public Service who may wish to do the sort of things which Mr Perkins claims he is entitled to do or who may wish to know precisely what limits and what constraints are placed upon them. [More…]
I acknowledge what I heard the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs say at the time he was questioned about this incident, that is, that as far as he was concerned he felt that it was up to Mr Dexter to determine whether a charge should be laid because, if he was not entitled to say the things which he had said, Mr Perkins would have the realisation that what he had done was wrong and that if, on the other hand, a public servant like Mr Perkins was allowed to say these things other persons in the Public Service would have the same rights. [More…]
As a matter of fact, the reaction I am getting from people is that it is time somebody stood up for the rights of whites in this country. [More…]
I am given to understand that talks are still progressing over the fees to be paid to the Victorian Football League for the television rights to show the programs. [More…]
This breakdown applies not only to law enforcement but also to respect for the law and respect for the rights of other people. [More…]
He established himself in this country as the great defender of the Senate, its rights, privileges and duties and for that he is entitled to a lot of credit. [More…]
He always stood up for the rights of the Opposition very strongly until he ceased to be the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
They will talk about the rights of the Opposition and so forth. [More…]
Let us see what Opposition senators can think up and let us hear their rationalisations as they justify their endeavours to prevent the matter being put to the people at the next Senate election, which is the most convenient and most inexpensive way of allowing the people of Australia to execise their democratic rights. [More…]
It has come from a man who has been an advocate of the rights and procedures of the Senate for many years. [More…]
Government supporters in this House talk about the rights of the people to express their point of view. [More…]
And whereas all such rights, liberties, heritage, advancement and prosperity, etc., are of no avail if our Armed Forces are unprepared or incapable of repelling invasion of our shores or withstanding other military threats. [More…]
I cannot imagine how a leader can ask his Party to go to a Senate election and complicate the position at the same time with a number of measures which can be interpreted as an attack upon the Senate as a States House, an attack upon State rights and an attempt to interfere with the electoral system. [More…]
Essentially, it is the reason I am speaking to this motion; not because we propose to oppose the customary motion- it is a customary motion- to suspend Standing Orders to enable all stages of the Bill to be dealt with without delay, but to ensure that the Hansard record of these proceedings contains the clearest assertion by the Senate of what it regards as its rights in this matter. [More…]
The Labor Party, in its pre-election campaign stated to local government bodies: ‘Put us in and we will give you full and equal status with State and Federal government, full and equal rights to go to the Loan Council and to go to the Grants Commission’. [More…]
In China ‘s approach to relations with other countries, we find a welcome emphasis on the principles of the equality of states and respect for the rights and views of small and middle powers. [More…]
I find myself in some difficulty in this for the simple reason that the rulings that I have given on sub judice matters are that questions are not to be asked on matters of a criminal nature which are either before the courts or are impending before the courts and in which the rights of citizens so arraigned may be prejudiced. [More…]
However, the substance of the honourable senator’s question is one to which I would answer, in general: Yes, the law ought to be altered so that the obligations and rights which a person has under contracts, especially the simple ones, are well known and to ensure that there can be no departure from them except by the clearest notice. [More…]
There are some provisions in the State laws, such as those covering hotels about the deposit of one’s valuables in a hotel and one’s rights there, which require large print. [More…]
Whatever the rights or wrongs of the case were at the time, one group of people should not be able to say whether mail from France comes in and goes out. [More…]
What sort of interest does a government like that have in human rights? [More…]
I wish to mention very briefly 3 matters which have been referred to in the amendment moved by the Leader of the Opposition (Senator Withers), namely the attack on the constitutional rights and the responsibilities of those rights by the present administration, the rural industries and, finally, defence policy. [More…]
I rather deplore the use of cliches such as State rights and centralism which mean different things to different people. [More…]
The Senate, which constitutionally is a States House, should be very jealous in protecting the rights and responsibilities of State governments. [More…]
1 objective of the Senate is to preserve the rights of the States against Federal Government encroachment. [More…]
If I may be permitted to boast a little, let me say that as a third generation Western Australian I am proud indeed to come here to fight to preserve the rights of Western Australia against Federal Government encroachment. [More…]
This has manifested itself in a States’ rights and secessionist movement. [More…]
-The Treasurer announced in the presentation of his Budget in the Parliament last August that the Government, in accordance with its policies of open government and in genuine endeavour to inform the Australian people, would be undertaking an extensive advertising campaign in order to inform the Australian people of the responsibilities of Parliament, the executive and government generally and also to inform the Australian community about the rights and privileges of Australian citizens. [More…]
In particular I refer to the Trade Practices Bill and the Human Rights Bill. [More…]
I refer now to the Human Rights Bill. [More…]
I propose to meet the reasonable objections which have been raised and even some of the unreasonable objections which have been raised and to clarify matters and so put beyond any question some of the issues which have been raised, for example, about the jurisdiction and so forth of the Human Rights Commissioner or the Superior Court as well as put beyond question some of the matters raised, I think, by the churches. [More…]
So the Trade Practices Bill and the Human Rights Bill would be substantially in their original form but there would be some clarification of various matters. [More…]
I have said previously, and I repeat that it is the Senate and the Senate alone which stands between the complete arbitrary power which is being sought by this Government and the individual rights and liberties of the Australian people. [More…]
I suppose it was acting with its rights. [More…]
What about the democratic rights of members of Parliament? [More…]
Its major roles are to review legislation and to protect the rights of the States. [More…]
I believe sincerely that a separate election for the Senate means that the purpose and the rights of the Senate are more clearly brought forth in the minds of the electors, which is important because they decide who represents them in this chamber and in the other place. [More…]
It is a protection, as it has proved on numerous occasions, of the fundamental rights and liberties of all citizens. [More…]
We are told that the Government is standing over the Senate and that we are trampling upon the rights of Opposition senators. [More…]
What did we hear about the rights of Parliament this morning? [More…]
Now these men who are anti-democrats are denying the rights of their own people- they are doing it here day after day- and are using every device to prevent their own people from having a say in changing their own Constitution. [More…]
They are the Select Committee on Securities and Exchange, the Select Committee on Foreign Ownership and Control and the Select Committee on the Civil Rights of Migrant Australians which were appointed last session be reappointed with the same powers and consisting of honourable senators to be nominated and reappointed; [More…]
The Senate will be aware that the establishment of one of those committees, the Senate Select Committee on the Civil Rights of Migrant Australians, was opposed by the Government very strongly. [More…]
I am one of those people who is sick and tired of people in this country talking about their rights and not their obligations. [More…]
Mr President, we have heard a great deal about justice and democratic rights over the past weeks. [More…]
I believe that most Australians will want to give voting rights to the Territories. [More…]
We have been asked to approve a series of constitutional alteration Bills which have been shown in debate to be unacceptable in that broadly they represent a plunder of State rights and an attempt to centralise power in Canberra. [More…]
There is nothing to guarantee equal voting rights for all Australians. [More…]
So the Government has decided, by means of these referendums, to allow the people to establish these rights once and for all. [More…]
The proposed changes will not guarantee equal voting rights. [More…]
They will not establish equal voting rights. [More…]
All they will establish is an equality of population in electorates with an inequality of voting rights, which must be the concomitant of it. [More…]
I thought that this proposition would bring forth loud protests from both sides of the Senate, the House which exists to protect the rights and individuality of the States. [More…]
1 challenge Government senators to rise and declare that this proposition is not an attempt to strip the States of their fundamental rights. [More…]
This proposal should be seen for what it is- another unpardonable attack by a centralist government on State rights. [More…]
These provisions empower the Court, upon application, to make orders adjusting the rights of parties to contracts made before the Act which become unenforceable by virtue of the Act. [More…]
This is in addition to the power of the Court to make ancillary orders adjusting rights etc. [More…]
My understanding is that they will have the same rights, subject to the means test, as any other borrower regarding interest on their loans. [More…]
Civil Rights of Migrant Australians [More…]
Because the River Murray Waters Act preceded the Officers’ Rights Declaration Act and the Superannuation Act, there have been problems in the application of those Acts to staff of the River Murray Commission. [More…]
We expect that the Human Rights Bill will be reintroduced at some stage, but for what length of time is the debate on that measure to be adjourned? [More…]
I leave aside the question as to whether or not members of parties in this Parliament who cannot claim to be represented by the 6 State Attorneys-General or by the Commonwealth Attorney-General have any rights to be considered in this matter and whether their views ought to count. [More…]
My own concept of human rights is that I like to refer to the plural of ‘referendum ‘as ‘referenda’ and I dislike my speeches being edited to the extent that I am shown as using ‘referendums’. [More…]
Yet we have this calamity howling, this great interest for protection of democratic rights and civil liberties and so on which is always plucked out of the wardrobe when honourable senators on the other side of this place have nothing else to present in their arguments. [More…]
I give that as one of the many examples of the absurd position that exists in respect of sovereign rights in this country. [More…]
Is it any wonder that all the referendums that have been put to the people have been rejected by the people because they did not want any disturbance in any major way of the existing constitutional rights of the States and the Commonwealth? [More…]
Even though I might be determined to uphold State rights, I have always been a realistic Australian. [More…]
However, as a representative of Queensland I will be fighting to the bitter end to preserve the sovereignty, rights and powers of Queensland. [More…]
My understanding of the role of the Senate is that its first obligationand has been so for some 74 years- is to preserve the rights of the States against Federal Government encroachment. [More…]
A very deep grass roots fear and suspicion of the erosion of authority and of the States rights versus Commonweatlh rights issue are spreading across Australia. [More…]
The first principle or objective is to preserve for the States their rights against Federal Government encroachment. [More…]
All honourable senators know that the States have the power to refer to the Commonwealth certain constitutional rights that we now have but did not enjoy at the time of Federation. [More…]
The attitude of members of the Opposition to the other 4 questions is that they do not intend to provide for democratic elections; they do not intend to give the people of the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory any rights to vote in a referendum; they do not intend to allow local government authorities to come before the Loan Council; and they do not intend to allow any of the things that we believe will bring greater democracy to this country. [More…]
We have heard from the Opposition a lot of nonsense about State rights. [More…]
We are dealing with a matter in which the States want clarification and reciprocal rights with the Commonwealth. [More…]
The substance of this debate is centred on two or three main points, but essentially it seems- as Senator Reid unfortunately was of the opinion during the course of his remarks- that it has become a debate involving State rights and Commonwealth rights. [More…]
I thought that the Senate would have accepted this Bill as not a matter involving State rights and Commonwealth rights. [More…]
It is not a question, as Senator Carrick said before the suspension of the sitting for dinner, of whether the Government was determined simply to take away the rights of the States. [More…]
There is a complete over-riding of State rights in this legislation as I see it. [More…]
Right at the beginning of my remarks I want to establish that although I have no intention of mentioning the floods in Queensland- a point of order was taken tonight suggesting that an honourable senator was not within his rights in mentioning that subject in this debate- I draw attention to clause 4 paragraph (a) which states: [More…]
As at 27 February 1974, seventy-four countries had ratified or acceded to the Convention on the Political Rights of Women. [More…]
We call on the Australian Government to instruct the Austrian delegation at the United Nations to raise the Solzhenitsyn case and that of Soviet writers, historians, scientists, patriots and other defenders of the rights of the people, who are in grave danger as a result of exercising their basic right of free expression. [More…]
The Senate has certain constitutional rights. [More…]
In his discussions with officials of Papua New Guinea regarding the allocation of fishing rights to Papua New Guinea vessels in the Gulf of Carpentaria will he make a distinction in the allocation of rights between Papua New Guinea registered vessels which are owned by Middle East interests, notably Kuwait, and vessels which are owned by indigenous Papua New Guineans? [More…]
-Has the Minister for the Media seen a report in today’s Melbourne papers that negotiations have been settled between the Victorian Football League and the television stations about the replay rights of Australian Rules football? [More…]
I understand that the ABC has negotiated an arrangement whereby it will purchase Melbourne, regional and interstate rights for replays. [More…]
Whereas previously the ABC purchased separate rights for Melbourne, regional and interstate stations it now will have only one contract covering them all. [More…]
I think the honourable senator himself will recall the decisions of the General Assembly of the United Nations and the United Nations Conference on Human Rights and the other resolutions which requested the various member nations not to participate in cultural or sporting activities with countries which were practising apartheid. [More…]
I stress, for the record, that this is the third occasion in this session on which the Opposition parties have yielded their rights in regard to General Business for the purpose of dealing with Government Business. [More…]
Social service recipients have rights in the community, the same as members of a parliament, judges, plumbers or bricklayers, who have their incomes fixed by a tribunal which determines what their services are worth to the community. [More…]
Indeed, in the unitary system in a country of British origins the judicial system is of very great importance, but in a federal system it is of unique importance inasmuch as there is entrusted to the judicial courts a determination of Constitutional powers as between Federal and State parliaments and instrumentalities, and citizens’ rights dependent upon different laws have to be adjudicated upon. [More…]
This function must be peformed whenever the necessity arises for enforcing rights which depend upon a doubtful exercise of power. [More…]
He said: lt seems unfortunate that the jurisdiction to entertain a legal proceeding in which the party originating it desires to enforce rights which he believes he possesses should depend on the character of the questions which arise when the matter comes to bc heard. [More…]
But of course the Parliament should not seek to apply or to determine what are the rules of procedures in Federal courts because of the complications this would cause and of the different rights which litigants in courts would have according to the nature of their own case. [More…]
If their case was a Federal case, then they may have certain rights according to the procedural laws which are applicable. [More…]
This is creating unnecessary divisions between rights which 1 think would tend to destroy the unity which I believe our judicial system can establish throughout Australia under the existing procedures. [More…]
Then it is said that the present system allows the rights of persons under Federal law to vary from one State to another. [More…]
We want a system which is not too costly and a system in which people can have their rights litigated, declared and affirmed, and justice done at a cost which is within their means. [More…]
But, as yet, in relation to those areas there has not been a delineation by this Parliament of what will be the ultimate form of the legislation, what rights will be defined and what will be the form and content of family law. [More…]
Similarly we have the contemplated Bill on human rights. [More…]
It is a robbing of the States of State rights and of State sovereignty. [More…]
As Senator Lillico, who has just resumed his seat, would know this is probably the first government in 20-odd years that has set out to protect the rights of the Australian people. [More…]
At no stage were the Presiding Officers making a wage determination as to permanent staff of the refreshment rooms who are not subject to the disabilities associated with irregular work as are the sessional staff and who have special rights such as superannuation, etc. [More…]
We on this side of the House are concerned about the rights of the States. [More…]
This must give people in Australia some reason for great concern, that this Government should use that sort of activity to try to erode the influence of the Senate against the blatant attempts by this socialist Government to destroy the States’ rights in this House. [More…]
I hope that everybody who supports the Labor Party and everybody who supports democracy will have a look at Federation Insurance Ltd and see that it is the type of organisation which, no doubt while it pays money to people who prate about democracy and freedom of speech, is prepared to deny a man and his family their livelihood because the man belongs to a legal political organisation and wishes to exercise his democratic rights as a candidate for Parliament. [More…]
The paper complained that the Federal Government was taking away the rights of farmers in Western Australia. [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was clearly developed as a Federation to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement and the communication of knowledge and information, and whereas our existing Australian flag and our national anthem, ‘God Save The Queen’ are perpetual reminders of these hard-won freedoms and of the wise British principle of the division of power, so well reflected in our own Australian Constitution with its careful separation of powers as between the Crown and Commonwealth Parliament, the Senate, the State parliaments, the Government-General and State Governors, and the independent courts of justice, and whereas all such rights, liberties, heritage, advancement and prosperity, etc., are of no avail if our armed forces are unprepared or incapable of repelling invasion of our shores or withstanding other military threats, so therefore must all these things be accorded the highest national concern and priority. [More…]
that the taxing of any citizens to propagate or support any religion is contrary to this principle and a violation of human rights. [More…]
Your petitioners humbly pray that Part 1 1, Section 3, of the proposed Bill of Human Rights, which now reads: [More…]
That whereas the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 20, Sections 1 and 2 states: [More…]
And whereas the Australian Government has endorsed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights but has, to date, failed to implement Article 20, Sections 1 and 2 of the said Declaration and therefore denied Australian Citizens the rights inherent in that Declaration. [More…]
And whereas all such rights, liberties, advancement are of no avail if our Government is not ready to rectify this failure. [More…]
Ensure the rights of every Australian Citizen to choose whether or not they shall belong to a trade union. [More…]
I have been criticised because the Human Rights Bill I introduced last year did not repeat certain provisions relating to the family to be found in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
The Human Rights Bill contained a specific provision to protect the family against unlawful and arbitrary interference. [More…]
The provision I have quoted from the International Covenant was left out of the Human Rights Bill because it was not thought to give rise to a legal right capable of enforcement in the courts. [More…]
It is a statement of a basic philosophic position that underlies rights specifically provided for in the Covenant. [More…]
States Parties to the present Covenant shall take appropriate steps to ensure equality of rights and responsibilities of spouses as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution. [More…]
For example, I do not think we have yet given nearly enough attention to the rights of children. [More…]
It was not so long ago that few would have regarded children as having any rights. [More…]
Although it is unlikely that there will be any proceedings for restitution of conjugal rights, judicial separation or jactitation of marriage pending at the date of commencement of the Act, it was thought better to provide that such proceedings may not be continued. [More…]
And whereas all such rights, liberties, heritage, advancement and prosperity, etc., are of no avail if our Armed Forces are unprepared or incapable of repelling invasion of our shores or withstanding other military threats. [More…]
I think that honourable senators have rights. [More…]
I have always thought that Senator Murphy was one who upheld the rights of honourable senators. [More…]
The Bill will make it unlawful for a person to do an act involving discrimination based on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin which impairs the enjoyment of fundamental rights and freedoms. [More…]
It will make it impossible to deny rights to members of a particular race of national origin, where those rights have been given to persons of another race or a different national origin. [More…]
The Bill goes on to deal in greater detail with discrimination in the enjoyment of rights on grounds of race, colour or national or ethnic origin. [More…]
It is important that the Australian and State governments and industry interests work in close harmony to achieve our aims and accordingly, all members of the Commission should be equal and have full voting rights. [More…]
We are familiar with the concept that applies to all sorts of bodies- this applies to a whole host of them- when they are determining questions which affect the rights of persons. [More…]
This is a concept well understood as a rule of conduct applying to administrative bodies and other bodies which have to decide questions which affect the rights of persons. [More…]
If we are not to proceed under section 203 of the Constitution, and if we are to ignore the view which has been put that the Senate’s power has been exhausted, does the Senate intend to have this question, which affects the rights of persons, determined in a judicial manner by the Standing Committee of Disputed Returns and Qualifications? [More…]
It would receive material and opinions, hear submissions and come to a proper decision in a way which is expected of a body concerned with the rights of persons and which is especially concerned with the right to vote- something which affects every person who is entitled to vote in Queensland, candidates who might wish to stand for election and in general the people of Australia. [More…]
But we will do it by Rafferty ‘s rules, and we will sit here and determine the rights of people according to a party political vote’? [More…]
Honourable senators opposite will, in effect, put up their hands in their party rooms and then come in here and decide questions of the rights of persons, not only of senators or would be senators, according simply to a party political vote - [More…]
I think the Senate has to defend its rights in this matter. [More…]
Unless we can rely on the Leader of the Government in the Senate and on Ministers of the Crown to defend the rights, privileges and honour of the Senate, where are we? [More…]
On that occasion a Senate vacancy was caused by the death of a senator from Queensland, and this man who now professes to have all the rights to democracy made a complete and utter joke of the process by which a successor was appointed. [More…]
Therefore honourable senators and the Senate as a whole are entitled to seek information so long as it does not prejudice the rights of the individual who is a litigant before the courts. [More…]
The Opposition purports to determine a question of the rights of a person and the rights of a chamber by the brutal use of numbers. [More…]
It will ensure effective discipline in the defence force, but at the same time it will ensure that the rights of individual servicemen are preserved. [More…]
Having joined a fund, a member has no rights. [More…]
Why would they not defend their rights? [More…]
The whole emphasis of the letter was on the rights of the AMA. [More…]
In all the debates that we have had on this matter over the years I have waited in vain for the Opposition to concede that subscribers have no rights. [More…]
I have said to them: ‘We are not arguing with you, but we say that it is time that the AMA had a look at the rights of patients’. [More…]
Opposition speakers, in this debate and in previous debates- I include Senator Little who I know is anxious to enter the debate- have had a fixation about the rights of the Australian Medical Association and about whether the vested interests of the medical benefit funds were involved. [More…]
If this Government is so conscientious about giving priorities to bricklayers, carpenters, plumbers, bootmakers or anyone else to express their points of view on circumstances in their industries which personally affect them, surely it should extend the same rights and privileges to the most highly intelligent members of our community, including members of the medical profession. [More…]
They are leaving England because of it and because they feel that they have no rights at all. [More…]
As the honourable senator may recall, this subject matter was touched on at the Teheran Conference on Human Rights and since. [More…]
I support the amendment on one major ground and that is in order to defend the rights of the States which, under our Constitution, to a very large degree have powers and responsibilities in this matter. [More…]
I pay tribute to him for that defence of the rights of the Senate, a defence of the rights of the Senate which did not please his leader in another place, the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam). [More…]
It is whether all power shall go to Canberra and whether supreme power over State rights, family rights, workers rights and every other right in the community shall be dominated by Canberra and the bureaucracy. [More…]
I repeat: This election must be fought on one issue- the issue of all power to Canberra, the issue of the defence of the rights of the States, the defence of the rights of the family and the defence of all the other rights which are essential in any community such as ours. [More…]
I stand, as do all my colleagues, behind a Liberal Party which does believe in individual freedom, which does believe in the opportunity of every individual to make his own life in his own way so long as he does not offend or deny to others the rights which he claims to himself and who seeks to ensure that this will be a self-reliant nation in which individuals will be proud of. [More…]
As to the Bill for the implementation of human rights which have been accepted by the United Nations, even though it has not been discussed here that great upholder of law and order, Senator Greenwood, indicated in advance that it also would be opposed. [More…]
We will see whether the Opposition is prepared to carry its arrogance, its obstruction and its denial of the rights of the Australian people any further. [More…]
I regard Senator Murphy’s attitude in denying us the information as to the program before we resume debate upon the Appropriation Bills and Supply as a denial of the fundamental rights of this chamber. [More…]
I am sure that no Governor-General in this country would ask us to approve the appropriation of finance until the completion of a poll knowing that this chicanery was under consideration and would not believe that we did not have the fortitude to defend the rights of all candidates to include themselves in the poll. [More…]
Since it involves the rights of other persons, if he is trying to draw some fine point on the Bill it would not matter what 1 said; it could not take away the rights of any person. [More…]
that the taxing of any citizens to propagate or support any religion is contrary to this principle, and a violation of human rights. [More…]
Your petitioners humbly pray that Part II, Section 3, of the proposed Bill of Human Rights, which now reads: [More…]
-I give notice that on the next day of sitting I will move that a select committee of the Senate be established to inquire into and report on the civil rights of migrant Australians. [More…]
1 ) That the Senate believes that the system of imposed regionalism being effected by the Minister for Urban and Regional Development under the Grants Commission Act 1973 will promote centralised direction and control of regional activities and destroy the ability of local government to respond to the needs and aspirations of its citizens, and further urges State governments and local authorities to be active in promoting and maintaining basic democracy by safeguarding the rights of local government bodies so that they are responsible to those who elect them for the policies they pursue, and (2) that the President of the Senate is directed to convey the text of this resolution- [More…]
Nobody thought very much about them as people or of what their rights were. [More…]
This Government took steps to advise these people of their rights. [More…]
It had been very difficult for those who could speak only a foreign language to find out what were their rights. [More…]
The Government is to be condemned for its continued confrontation with the State governments and the undermining of their rights and responsibilities.’ [More…]
This is an obvious attack on the States and their rights and responsibilities. [More…]
The Government is to be condemned for its continued confrontation with the State Governments and the undermining of their rights and responsibilities. [More…]
The Government is to be condemned for its continued confrontation with the State Governments and the undermining of their rights and responsibilities. [More…]
I hope that I have indicated in the short time available to me that those rights and responsibilities are basic to the survival and growth of this great country. [More…]
The Government’s proposals recognise that the Australian people have a right to enjoy this country’s historical heritage and its unique environment, and that that right should not be limited by the interests of particular groups in our community who are concerned, for private gain, to take those rights away from the Australian people. [More…]
I refuse to agree that its rights or powers are in any significant way circumscribed. [More…]
These great democrats- Mr Whitlam and those whom he cites for his authority- who state that the Senate is trenching upon democratic rights when it interrupts the free flow of mischief by a government within its 3-year term completely falsify the situation because each House goes to the country for a decision by the people. [More…]
These political personages who are so superficial as to suggest impropriety in the Senate action in putting up the processes for a double dissolution and committing both Houses to a decision by the people are completely betraying the fundamental rights of the people to democracy. [More…]
I object very strongly to the type of smear campaign engaged in by Mr Bob Katter and, I believe, by other Country Party members in Queensland supported by the League of Rights. [More…]
The Government, mindful of its mandate and responsibility, is determined to ensure that the Australian electoral laws embrace those fundamental principles of human rights and democracy in this nation. [More…]
Many electors in the outer suburbs of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, in particular, are clearly not enjoying anything like equality of political rights with electors in many other divisions. [More…]
Only yesterday my Department was approached by a network for special rights to television screening of a film that has been produced by Film Australia, an organ of my Department, for and on behalf of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
the repeal of those parts of the National Health Act governing the operation of the existing health insurance scheme after all rights and obligations have been satisfied the extension of the additional Commonwealth benefits payable in respect of nursing home patients with pensioner medical service entitlement to all nursing home patients and the consequential elimination of the payment of nursing home fund benefits the Minister to direct the Health Insurance Commission to operate a medical and /or hospital benefits fund in a State or Territory where this is necessary for the protection of the benefits entitlements of contributors. [More…]
And also given their due weight in determining the monetary affairs of the International Community No oil producing country finds it acceptable to be paid for its oil in certain currency substitutes such as the Special Drawing Rights because the sole aim of the advocates of such devices is to recycle the financial surpluses of the producers to the Western economies . [More…]
If the holder of an exploration permit is incapable of fully exploring the area held, then the surplus should be returned to the Australian Government in the interests of the Australian people, so that it can, itself, participate on at least a 50/50 basis with the new farminee whose obligation is to provide the necessary risk capital and technology to match the proprietary rights of the Australian nation. [More…]
In Queensland, for example, where coal activities are already 80 per cent dominated by overseas interests, including 60 per cent by one such company, the Shell Co. is acquiring rights to explore for coal and rights over proven reserves of coal for the purpose of developing in due course installations for the liquefaction of coal. [More…]
The last paragraph of the amendment says that the Government ought to be condemned for its continued confrontation with the State governments and the undermining of their rights and responsibilities. [More…]
Rights. [More…]
My Government has accepted in principle the recommendations contained in the Second Report of the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission and following consultation with Northern Territory Aboriginals will legislate to give effect to its policy . [More…]
Will he make inquiries to see whether that also impinges on the rights of individual members of the Queensland Law Society? [More…]
I suppose it was an activity in which the Society was entitled to indulge, lt obviously regards itself as having an interest in party politics and, like so many bodies that purport to be non-party political, it is party political and it was exercising its democratic rights. [More…]
Is it a fact that Mr Justice Woodward in his report on Aboriginal land rights said that his recommendations were being put forward as a basis for negotiation between Aboriginal councils and the Government, that Aboriginal people themselves must be fully consulted about any steps proposed to be taken and that an imposed white solution is unacceptable? [More…]
Already 2 lands councils, which were established on the recommendation of the first interim report of the committee, have had referred to them the question of Aboriginal land rights in respect of such matters as tribal lands and claims for residential rights, for the purpose of discussions with the Aborigines. [More…]
In modern usage of the words I believe it correct to say a ‘democratic State’ denotes one in which all citizens have equal political rights. [More…]
Yet, as Senator Webster said, the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and spokesmen on behalf of the Labor Party went to the people and said that it was a matter of giving equal voting rights. [More…]
There is nothing to guarantee equal voting rights for all Australians. [More…]
So the Government has decided, by means of these referendums, to allow the people to establish these rights once and for all. [More…]
Let us recognise that the United States Supreme Court, applying a different constitution from that which applies in Australia has, in fact, held that a margin of at least 16 per cent is consistent with equal protection and equal rights. [More…]
We have a system which claims that if a tolerance of up to 20 per cent either way is permitted, there is no interference with equal protection and equal rights. [More…]
1, having for 25 years stood for the rights of this Senate and for the authority of this Senate, weep to think that we have an outlook that says that defensive principles in those circumstances are denying the right of the Government to the absolute passage of this Bill, it having been defeated at the referendum and the Government having been denied a majority in this chamber. [More…]
Anybody who is true to the cause that he put forward to the electors opposing that referendum and denying the Government a majority in this chamber is bound, I submit, to cast his vote against this Bill, not in a spirit of obstruction but from the point of view of registering the principle upon which stand the rights of those people who voted for the senators who are not of the Government Party. [More…]
I appreciate that this is a Bill which seeks to ensure that there will be elected from the Northern Territory and from the Australian Capital Territory 2 senators who will take their places in this chamber and will have all the rights which the members of this chamber have. [More…]
The only way in which their rights will be diminished is that they will not have the tenure of office that other honourable senators have. [More…]
He now has the same voting rights as any other member of the other place. [More…]
If this amendment were carried and the proposed Senate select committee were to agree with the Opposition’s amendment would the Opposition want to take back those rights from the honourable member for the Northern Territory in the other place? [More…]
By denying them the right to vote the Opposition is also doing them a grave injustice because the population of the Northern Territory is made up of a great many people who, in years gone by, have enjoyed the right in the States to vote at Senate elections and referendums and who, because they have decided to go the the Northern Territory and help in its development, have lost those voting rights and have been disenfranchised. [More…]
They are endeavouring to deprive the residents of the Territories of their rights. [More…]
The Labor Party has always opposed voting rights for the member of the Northern Territory in the other place. [More…]
Finally, will the Minister assure the Senate that he and his colleagues will do everything possible to ensure that the rights of the Senate are fully asserted and upheld? [More…]
One would hope that the nations which have special rights under the constitution of 1960- namely, Greece, Turkey and the United Kingdom- play their part responsibly and hold themselves in great restraint during what must be a tremendously difficult time. [More…]
By way of brief preface I refer to the fact that yesterday the Minister said in reply to a question by me that the Woodward Aboriginal Land Rights Commission report was not being discussed with Aborigines or their organisations outside the Northern Territory. [More…]
For the information of honourable senators I table the second report of the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission, together with a statement by the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs relating to the report, and ask for leave to have the statement incorporated in Hansard. [More…]
In the past 10 years the question of Aboriginal land rights became the most important issue in Aboriginal affairs- as important for the urban Aboriginals of the south and east as it was for those in the north who still live in or near their traditional territories. [More…]
In relation to land the convention states that: The right of ownership, collective or individual, of the members of the populations concerned over the lands which these populations traditionally occupy shall be recognised and; no government in Australia had recognised any Aboriginal right of ownership of land, other than the ordinary rights of aboriginals as citizens to own land like any other person. [More…]
In doing so, they have shown scant regard for any rights in the land, legal or moral, of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
These are the simple historical facts which provide the background for the Government’s expressed intention to recognise Aboriginal land rights in the most appropriate way possible. [More…]
The significance of the judgment of Mr Justice Blackburn in the Northern Territory Supreme Court in 1971 was that it made it perfectly clear that if Aboriginals were to obtain land rights it would have to be by an Act of Government and not through the courts. [More…]
The campaign for land rights conducted by Aboriginal organisations and their supporters in the 1960s did not lack enthusiasm and the justice of the cause should have been apparent to all. [More…]
But those involved did not really provide governments with any adequate indication of how land rights might properly be recognised and granted to the Aboriginal people. [More…]
This Australian Government has not only acknowledged that the Aboriginal people were effectively the owners of the whole of this continent before the first white settlement but has expressed its determination to recognise in practical ways their rights to land. [More…]
The Government therefore appointed a Royal Commission to investigate the problems and advise it on: ‘The appropriate means to recognise and establish the traditional rights and interests of the Aborigines in and in relation to land, and to satisfy in other ways the reasonable aspirations of the Aborigines to rights in or in relation to land’. [More…]
The report proposes, in brief, that full ownership rights in the reserves and certain other lands should be vested in appropriate groups of Aboriginal trustees, holding title on behalf of the traditional owners of the land in Aboriginal law. [More…]
It is envisaged that they would continue, with their own staff and independent funding, in order to negotiate on land matters and generally to guard Aboriginal interests and traditional rights in land. [More…]
The report recommends that rights to minerals in Aboriginal lands should remain with the Government with 2 very important qualifications. [More…]
In effect Aboriginals would enjoy most of the rights of owners of minerals. [More…]
We do not intend to put pressure on the Aboriginals of the Northern Territory to accept the recommendations in haste but at the same time we do not wish to see any undue delay in implementing policy which will at last give Aboriginals some rights to the land of their ancestors. [More…]
I should stress that this is a report about landabout traditional land rights and ways of recognising these and about land needs and ways of meeting them whether in towns and cities or in reserves, pastoral properties and vacant lands. [More…]
It is interesting to note that it was a government of our persuasion which legislated to give the member for the Northern Territory full voting rights in the House of Representatives. [More…]
If we are to believe the hoary stories of the Opposition if a person born and bred in Sydney or Cairns were to shift to the Northern Territory or to Canberra, he would be denied certain of his democratic rights which he would have had if he had remained in the State of his birth. [More…]
The Bill has a very simple objective; it seeks to give the residents of the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory equal rights in respect of representation in this place. [More…]
I draw to the attention of honourable senators the fact that it was not so many years ago that the representative for the Australian Capital Territory and the representative for the Northern Territory had limited rights even in the House of Representatives, but as the evolution has taken place those representatives have been recognised as full members of the Parliament and are now able to exercise their rights on all matters that come before the Parliament. [More…]
We are seeking to extend this right in order to give the residents of the Territories who have particular and different problems the rights enjoyed by every other person in the Commonwealth. [More…]
The Legislative Council in the Northern Territory, the Australian Capital Territory Advisory Council and more recently, I understand, even the conference of the Liberal Party in the Australian Capital Territory have seen fit to support the proposition that the people in the Territories should be regarded as having equal rights in this place with every other Australian. [More…]
The argument seems to be that by allowing the senators for the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory to have equal votes with existing senators who claim to represent the States, the rights of those States would be reduced disproportionately. [More…]
This chamber would be seriously undermined as the protector of States rights. [More…]
Before that time is reached I believe that the Northern Territory will receive its full representation rights. [More…]
The alternative is to wait for another 10 years during which time some of the city slickers and developers will have got in for their chop and will have ruined much of the Northern Territory or, if they have not ruined it, they will have obtained ironclad leases and the natural rights of the Territorians will have been denied. [More…]
He supports federalism; he supports State rights; and I imagine he therefore supports the structure of the Senate. [More…]
Those of us who have looked at the debates of the convention in 1 897 and thereabouts and who have sought to find what was in the minds of our constitutional fathers have quite a clear view- we must have, from reading the debates of those years- that there was never any thought that there would be introduced into this chamber senators from the Territories who would have full voting rights and who would upset the formula of an equality of numbers from each State. [More…]
A restriction on voting rights for territory senators is surely not seriously contemplated by the Opposition. [More…]
Full voting rights for representatives of the territories in the other place have already been accepted by the Parliament and any suggestion of voting restrictions on territory senators would be inconsistent with this established concept. [More…]
The founding fathers ensured that the constitutional rights of the States were maintained and protected by providing in the Constitution equality of representation of the original States on the basis that the colonies prior to Federation were equal constitutionally and politically. [More…]
But such Territory representatives in the Senate under this Bill are to have full voting rights and could as non-State representatives hold the balance of power in an institution set up to safeguard the interests of the States- a principle embodied in the Constitution without which Federation would not have been accomplished. [More…]
Although provision was made in the Constitution for representation of Territories in the Parliament, our founding fathers did not envisage that such representatives would have voting rights. [More…]
The national Parliament is of a bicameral character- that is, we have members forming a House of Representatives and we have members forming a Senate- and we are merely saying that the people who live in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory are Australians who pay the same taxes and have the same rights as everybody else even though they live in those Territories. [More…]
First the 2 representatives concerned had limited voting rights but finally they took their places in the House of Representatives in the same way as other members from electorates in the Australian States and now they have the same voting rights. [More…]
The question which has arisen as a result of the measures now before the Parliament is whether the appointment of full-blooded Territory senators to the Senate, with all the rights of senators in terms of voting, requires that the people of the Territories should be brought into the compilation of ‘the people of the Commonwealth’ in section 24. [More…]
The safeguarding of the human rights of fugitive persons in Australia sought by a foreign country are protected by the Australian Act. [More…]
Firstly, it is necessary to ensure that extradition from Australia is only afforded in a way which takes into account the basic human rights of the person sought by a foreign country. [More…]
The second reason why I think the Senate is entitled to this material is that it affects the general powers, the privileges and the assumed rights which the Senate has exercised over many years. [More…]
The Seat of Government Acceptance Act 1909-1973 gives the Australian Government paramount rights over the waters of Queanbeyan River and Molonglo River and the right to undertake such construction works as are required for the use of these waters. [More…]
It was recently taken to arbitration, the arbitrator deciding that the doctors had every right to maintain their employeremployee basis and their rights to go to arbitration to protect themselves. [More…]
This type of contract severely limits the rights of a doctor in matters of reappointment. [More…]
The Government is trying to force a contract of this type upon the profession, when what members of the profession are asking for is a fair kind of contract which would give them some rights when the skulduggery which they expect is brought to bear on them in the next few years. [More…]
No one in this country except the right wing extremists of the General Practitioners Society and the League of Rights- frankly, I do not know how to distinguish between those 2 organisations- is opposed to a national health service. [More…]
But today right throughout Australia in every private nursing home there are people- pensioners and the loved ones referred to by Senator Melzer- being kicked out of the homes and being robbed of their rights to receive medical attention because this Government has not the compassion to pay to maintain the private nursing homes. [More…]
Senator Guilfoyle has told us how tragic it is that the rights of the Australian people should be taken away from them in order that they should engage in compulsory health insurance, ls she arguing that compulsory insurance in toto is to be condemned? [More…]
As a result of it, many areas have been extensively rehabilitated; a greater degree of social mix has been introduced to the inner suburbs; and inner suburban communities have been become better organised and more vocal in standing up for their rights against the many forces which threaten their homes. [More…]
It has a great impact on vast numbers of people engaged in the mining industry and on the rights and titles, which they hold, under which they work and under which their businesses can be carried on. [More…]
Any of these rights or titles which countless individual members or our Australian community have acquired in order to mine for any mineral or to search for petroleum can be overridden by the actions of this authority in the way in which I have described. [More…]
So it is not just the abrogation of State power that concerns us; it is the abrogation of the rights and titles which countless individual Australians possess. [More…]
But by and large, the rights to the ownership of minerals which people have under mining laws arises only when the mineral has been extracted. [More…]
So it would seem that the so-called compensation provisions of this Bill may be quite illusory because the Petroleum and Minerals Authority could go in and take over a mining tenement before any mining had been done, and the owner would be prevented from exercising his rights and acquiring ownership of the particular mineral. [More…]
It rides roughshod over considerable numbers of State rights and laws. [More…]
The Government ought to recognise that the rights which the Constitution confers are rights which all parties, whether they are in government or in opposition, ought to protect because they are in due course the only protections in our constitutional democracy which we can rely upon. [More…]
He said, for example, that on two previous occasions the Senate had sent an address to the Governor-General and had put forward a point of view that the Senate’s rights were not being recognised. [More…]
All we have is an argument which seeks to rely upon what I would describe as irrelevant, historical technicalities aimed at persuading the Senate not to take a course which asserts the Senate’s rights. [More…]
It was interesting tonight that there was no opinion, hastily secured, from the Solicitor-General or from the AttorneyGeneral’s Department- no legal opinion about the constitutional rights of the Opposition to move this amendment. [More…]
Your petitioners humbly pray that Part II, section 3, of the proposed Bill of Human Rights, which now reads: [More…]
It could disregard and override the rights of mining tenement holders and other land owners. [More…]
I appreciate the rights of honourable senators, especially those who have come into the Senate since the last time the Bill was debated, to put their views. [More…]
In considering the legislation it also needs to be borne in mind that most non-bank financial institutions are already subject to supervision under State or Territory laws which deal primarily with the rights of borrowers and lenders and the financial stability of companies. [More…]
The work being done in the area of Aborigines and Aboriginal land rights flows essentially from the statement which the previous Prime Minister made on Australia Day 1972. [More…]
The other objections we have is that throughout the Bill there is no provision whatever, as there is in mining codes of the States, for these rights to be applied for at an open hearing in a warden’s court with consideration of argument, recommendation and so forth. [More…]
But let us make our protest that we are not going to sit by and be silent when this Government thinks it can do what it likes without regard to the rights of anybody else. [More…]
The question of whether the Commonwealth or the States has the responsibility within the Australian constitutional framework for the exercise of rights arising or the performance of obligations accepted under the International Convention on the Continental Shelf and under the Convention on the Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone is undecided. [More…]
Questions of the same character exist with respect to the rights and obligations under other international conventions to which Australia is a party. [More…]
But it is generally regarded as an open question whether the Commonwealth may successfully claim that ‘rights’ or ‘powers’ -as distinct from duties or obligations- accruing to Australia under international conventions will entitle it to legislate to give effect to them. [More…]
Whilst the Opposition holds firm to the view that it held in 1973 that there was no reason for the Government to declare the rules and obligations under which the mining code would be proclaimed in relation to exploration and exploitation of off-shore mineral resources, a sizeable number of senators- I take it that they are the 29 senators of the Labor Party- feel that they can ride roughshod over the rights of the States and over the pleas of the Labor Premier of South Australia who feels that the States should be consulted in these matters and that some residual right should be left with the States. [More…]
The Premier feels that discussion should take place with the States on the rights of the existing State mining authorities and that their view should be taken into account. [More…]
-I do not believe that anyone can gainsay this- that State interests, State rights and State responsibilities are clearly involved. [More…]
The provisions of the main Bill, the Minerals (Submerged Lands) Bill 1974, outline the great pressure that the Australian Government intends to bring on the various State mining authorities to see that very quickly the full weight of the Australian Government will be used to take over all the rights, privileges and obligations of every State mining authority in Australia. [More…]
Where conflict existed or where a variation occurred in the mineral rights as set down in this Bill, one of two things would happen. [More…]
I leave aside the rights and wrongs of why that difficulty had arisen. [More…]
For 7 years a dispute has been going on unresolved because there is no ability on the part of the Dominion Government and the provinces to come together on a joint basis which takes account of what are the claimed rights and acknowledged responsibilities of each. [More…]
He spoke about duplicated bureaucracies and the rights of the States. [More…]
It is a denial of the rights of the people. [More…]
It amazes me that he did so after Senator Wright had exercised all his rights as a senator. [More…]
Everybody wants rights but nobody wants duties. [More…]
Contracts entered into before that date will become unenforceable, although a new provision in clause 87 will enable the Court to make consequential adjustments to the rights of parties. [More…]
A new clause 73 has been included to deal specifically with the rights of parties in hirepurchase transactions. [More…]
It will be desirable that the ready enforcement of rights under the legislation is facilitated in this way. [More…]
It is said that the setting-up of the new Court will introduce confusion where none now exists, that Federal law ought to be administered through State courts, as the system of courts to which the citizen ought to be able to look to enforce all his rights irrespective of whether they originate in Federal or State law, that the new Court will be divisive and that it will be over-elaborate and costly. [More…]
It is, I believe, the responsibility of this Parliament to ensure that there are adequate courts, properly staffed and equipped, operating under up-to-date rules of procedure, so that the rights and obligations created under laws made by the Parliament or existing between the citizen and the Australian Government can be adequately and effectively enforced on a uniform basis throughout Australia. [More…]
The rights a citizen has against the Australian Government may thus depend on the State in which he lives, or the court in which he sues. [More…]
The Government does not believe that the existing system, under which there may be such an uneven application throughout Australia of the rights and obligations under laws made by this Parliament or between the citizen and the Australian Government, should be allowed to continue. [More…]
I suggest that a committee of the type which I have proposed on behalf of the Government can also look at the question of quorums and the rights of witnesses. [More…]
He, robustly, impulsively and like a young colt just out of the grass asserted all the rights of the Senate, without limitation, to rebuff an unjustified charge by the Government, although the increases would be part of the Government’s aggregate revenue. [More…]
If the State Planning Authority and the Lands Minister are not in favour of the Council’s action the Council will argue about the rights of the owner of the property, Mrs Woodhouse. [More…]
I concede that she has some rights but I think that the community’s rights are on a par with hers. [More…]
I see that some years ahead the Northern Territory will become a State with full sovereign rights as a State, but not just yet. [More…]
We should recall that it was only by the granting of emergency rights to overseas and local credit lines and by lifting interest rate controls over most of the borrowing for periods of over 5 years that the New Zealand Government avoided a crisis situation. [More…]
I can imagine that such sturdy watchdogs of the rights of the Parliament and of the institutions of this country as Senator Wright will be especially vigilant on that Committee to see that we do not exceed the brief which we are seeking to have conferred on us by this Bill. [More…]
The Agreement which this Bill will ratify has been produced as a result of extensive discussions at both ministerial and official levels and takes account of the interests and rights of all parties. [More…]
I do not propose to go into detail and, if it is so wished, I am happy to table a document prepared by the Education and Welfare Group of the Legislative Research Service of the Parliamentary Library relating to the voting rights of Aborigines in State and Federal elections. [More…]
1 will not weary honourable senators with particulars concerning all the other States, but I asked for a summary of the voting rights in each State, including Victoria, and the rights of Aborigines with respect to the franchise for national elections. [More…]
REQUEST: Further information on Voting Rights for Aborigines. [More…]
Since 1962 Aborigines in Western Australia have had the same voting rights at State Elections as other residents of Western Australia. [More…]
Since 1962 all Aborigines have had the same voting rights as British subjects, except that enrolment and voting is not compulsory. [More…]
I made reference to the fact that Aborigines had not even been looked upon as being human beings to be counted in the total population of Victoria until more recent years, and I referred to the fact that their voting rights were only of recent years in terms of adult franchise, particularly in regard to national elections. [More…]
Is the Minister for Foreign Affairs aware of recent documented allegations made by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry and other responsible authorities concerning the persecution of the Jewish community in Syria, including numerous murders, assaults, religious persecutions, confinement to ghettos and denial of normal human rights in defiance of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights? [More…]
It is only where the statute does not authorise discrimination that we do not allow regulations unduly to trespass on the individual rights of citizens and it is in those circumstances that we would be at liberty to take action. [More…]
Certainly the Regulations and Ordinances Committee requires that regulations be made under the authority of the Act, but what it should do is not specifically spelt out in the principles under which the Regulations and Ordinances Committee operates when it comes to determining whether the rights of people are dependent on an administrative rather than a judicial judgment and what it should do where there is an intrusion into civil liberties, if I may put it in those terms. [More…]
I would think it perfectly in order for the Regulations and Ordinances Committee, notwithstanding the terms of a particular piece of legislation, to judge whether what is proposed in regulations interferes with civil rights or the rights of the citizen. [More…]
Avenues will be available to them to ensure that their rights can be effectively protected in law. [More…]
It says that they are inarticulate, ignorant of their own rights, low in expectations and politically alienated and that they have little or no access to the decision makers. [More…]
I agree that this is one way to make low income earners aware of some of their social rights and the availability of social service facilities. [More…]
I do not want to canvass the rights or wrongs of that decision either; but when the Government took the decision it was aware that there would be repercussions in certain manufacturing industries in Australia, and it was anticipated that the textile industry, in particular, would be affected. [More…]
I have mentioned examples of the denial of citizen rights in the States. [More…]
For instance, there is a total denial of all citizen rights in the Upper House of New South Wales, for which nobody has to vote. [More…]
Equality of political rights is inherent in a truly democratic state. [More…]
Equality of political rights is a matter that must be guaranteed under the law in a democratic society. [More…]
But, Mr Chairman, equality of political rights, equality of voting value and equality of political representation cannot be guaranteed in a situation where electorates which vary in size from less than 4 square miles to almost 900,000 square miles, are required under law to have virtually equal numbers of electors. [More…]
The Labor Party could not care less about the democratic rights of Australian citizens to enjoy equality of representation in this Parliament. [More…]
We of the Australian Country Party would be failing in our duty if we did not fight with all our power to protect the limited rights of country people and to fight to secure for country people something approaching the equality of representation to which they, as Australian citizens, are entitled. [More…]
He says democracy is frail in Australia because one chamber of this Parliament is prepared to exercise its rights which it was guaranteed under the Constitution. [More…]
The Government, mindful of its mandate and responsibility, is determined to ensure that the Australian electoral laws embrace those fundamental principles of human rights and democracy in this nation. [More…]
Having taken the proposal for the Joint Sitting once to the High Court, it has even said it is going to take it there again and so deny the people their democratic rights. [More…]
The Bill gives expression to the democratic principles of equal rights for all people, as opposed to the manipulation of the electoral system for the benefit of political parties. [More…]
It is assumed that electorates will be so drawn as to ensure that the rights of people are put above the convenience of political parties and members thereof. [More…]
The justification for the Senate was the preservation of State rights, not the destruction of votes for city people. [More…]
It is because of a double dissolution caused by senators who are elected on the basis that they will look after State rights. [More…]
What about his rights, his children, their educational facilities? [More…]
Of course, there must be proper Executive power to any Government, but our British, our English idea, in a special sense, has always been a system of balanced rights and divided authority, with many other persons and organised bodies having to be considered besides the Government of the day and the officials they employ . [More…]
These proposed laws do not deal with the rights of political parties; they deal with the rights of our people. [More…]
This right is emphasised in Article 22 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights which states: [More…]
Their representatives in this chamber have full voting rights along with all the other members who meet in it. [More…]
At the instance of the Government the people of the Australian Capital Territory now have 2 members in the House of Representatives enjoying full voting rights. [More…]
In 1970, the then Leader of the Opposition- the present Prime Minister- tried again, out of a recognition of the pretty fundamental and basic fact that a large number of people in the Northern Territory and in the Australian Capital Territory are without their democratic rights. [More…]
In order to stop the passage of our measures, every action must be invoked to prevent the democratic rights of the people being enacted. [More…]
Despite their rights as Australians and their undisputed rights as electors, the people of the Northern Territory have been denied the opportunity to elect representatives to both Houses of this Parliament. [More…]
That occurred on 1 January 1911 and it denied the people of the Northern Territory all electoral rights. [More…]
For a number of years Mr. H. Nelson, father of the present Administrator of the Northern Territory, fought incessantly in this House for full voting rights, because although he was the representative of the Northern Territory he had no voting rights at all. [More…]
But it was not until 1968, after the present Administrator of the Northern Territory, Mr Jock Nelson, had made many a stirring speech in this House in relation to representation for the Northern Territory, full voting rights for its representative and Senate representation, that the honourable member for the Northern Territory in fact received full voting rights. [More…]
We on this side of the Parliament look with great pride to when this vote will be taken, because when the vote is taken we will see a majority of votes- as is needed under the Constitution- in this Joint Sittingto give the people of the Northern Territory the just rights for which they have been fighting since 1911. [More…]
The other argument, of course, is that senators representing the Territories would be sec.tionalists and would be arguing for the rights of the Territories. [More…]
Are they the words of a zealous custodian of States rights or are they the words of a jugular vein politician who is determined to use the Senate merely to reverse the freely expressed will of the people of Australia? [More…]
In moving to diminish the limits of power of the States through the Senate, the Government is taking another bold step to violate State rights by eroding the Senate’s power, influence and prestige. [More…]
The only way that the people of the Austraiian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory can exercise their rights and their duties as free and equal Australians citizens is for them to be represented wherever there are representative institutions, including the Senate. [More…]
Now it comes to political rights. [More…]
It is late in the day, but the decisions we will make this evening will deliver equal political rights to all citizens in Australia, no matter where they live. [More…]
I thought that as the member for the Northern Territory he might have been able to explain to us how it is that when the Opposition approaches the voting rights of those people who are entitled to a vote it says that their electorates should be gerrymandered, and when it comes to the voting entitlements of those people who are not entitled to vote it says they should not be able to vote at all. [More…]
The Piltdown men opposite would tell us that, because a group of politicians amongst whom the Labor Movement was almost totally unrepresented, if not totally unrepresented, almost 80 years ago decided to devise a Constitution whose purpose would be to preserve the property rights of the wealthy citizens of that day, to withstand the scourge of the Peasants’ [More…]
In 1968 he, along with the honourable member for the Australian Capital Territory, finally gained full voting rights. [More…]
Worst of all, its inequity and the way that it neglects so many people in the community indicate that it is inappropriate to a wealthy country which makes some claim to a commitment to respect for human dignity and the rights of people. [More…]
Because of the inherent strengths and weaknesses of human nature, as soon as the rights and incentives of the professional man to practise in a free, competitive society are taken away and he is forced to work in a government machine, creative achievements, ingenious new techniques, break-throughs in knowledge and further explorations of the perplexing problems of mankind cease and we are all reduced to a level of mediocrity. [More…]
In my opinion, a vote against this Bill is a vote against the rights of good health of one million Australians who are uninsured. [More…]
The competitive granting of mineral exploration rights on absurd terms in the name of progress has resulted in the States, in many cases, being allowed to usurp national functions. [More…]
There is only 15 per cent Australian equity in the consortium holding off-shore exploration rights on the North West Continental Shelf of Western Australia, where 142,000 square miles of one of the world ‘s largest potential natural gas areas are held by it- an area beyond the full capacity of even the largest company to intensively explore. [More…]
We have refused applications from it to agree to the transfer of its obligations by ‘farm-out’ to other companies on a 50-50 basis, ignoring the rights of Australian sovereignty. [More…]
It conflicts with the sovereign rights of the States and it confuses existing Commonwealth laws. [More…]
This proposal offends the principles of democratic rights which we believe are so precious to a democratic society, and mean so very much to the spirit and the life of this country. [More…]
The Authority would simply override the rights of the States. [More…]
So far from having been required to cede some of the foreign equity in exchange for these great extensions of mining rights over ore deposits which are among the very best in the world, Hamersley has rather been able, on the strength of these assurances of reserves, to demand and get premiums of about 500 per cent in selling thin slices of the equity to Australian investors. [More…]
The company granted rights by previous governments will have its rights properly protected and preserved but it will not have rights over the future of this nation. [More…]
The Austraiian Labor Party Government refused to continue this abdication of the people’s rights to private, mostly foreign, companies. [More…]
It still believes that it can sell out Australia behind this odious abdication of Australian rights. [More…]
It is manifestly clear, even from the most cursory reading of the Bill, that one of its particular purposes is to seek to override States’ rights of participation in the oil and mineral industry. [More…]
We on this side of the chamber recognise this as a serious precedent that would erode the principle of States’ rights in [More…]
This Bill and this Government disregard State mining legislation and the existing rights under that legislation. [More…]
The Bill seeks to centralise mineral rights under the Commonwealth and ultimately to exclude the States from this field of jurisdiction altogether. [More…]
The Bill ignores State and individual rights. [More…]
The Authority will be able to disregard completely State mining legislation and the existing rights acquired under it by private citizens. [More…]
It will have power to interfere with exploration or mining activities already being lawfully carried out to the extent necessary for the reasonable exercise of the rights and performance of the duties of the Authority. [More…]
This Bill further asserts powers that conflict with the rights and the laws of the States. [More…]
The second stream contained within the Bill relates to consumer protection, a part of the Bill that has been described as a Bill of Rights for Australian consumers. [More…]
In that Bill of Rights are enshrined 4 basic principles. [More…]
The provisions of the Bill in relation to those 4 basic rights are being, and have been, supplemented by Government administrative action designed to protect consumers in an area, or in areas, in which for so many decades they have lacked effective protection despite the passage of the 1965 legislation. [More…]
Other legislation, particularly the divorce legislation and the human rights legislation, has been indicative of the type of important proposed law which has been brought into this House. [More…]
Yet we have heard his argument today and on other days about States’ rights. [More…]
The legislation is not designed to take over State rights. [More…]
Let us go back a little and see what the policies of the Liberal and Country Parties are on individual rights, justice and law reform, consumer affairs and other related matters. [More…]
There are many people right across the political spectrum who are concerned about the rights of this young man, and this is the only matter in which we should be interested. [More…]
I say that very definitely because, if nothing else emerged from what Senator Willesee said, he pointed out that he had to evaluate the future rights of Australian nationals in a foreign country. [More…]
I want to make it clear that it is not because we oppose consumer protection or the introduction of legislation to ensure that the consumer is protected but simply that we wish to safeguard the rights of State governments, which have in mind the diversity of trade practices in their own States when they are able to place before the people whom they serve with legisation the required consumer protection which is already developing so closely throughout Australia. [More…]
Whereas the six million people of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, occupied and unlawfully annexed by the Soviet Union, have been deprived of freedom, Human Rights and civil liberties and are therefore unable to express their will, we the undersigned Australian citizens of Baltic origin humbly petition the Senate to express its moral support to the rights of the Baltic States to freedom and self-determination. [More…]
Whereas the six million people of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, occupied and unlawfully annexed by the Soviet Union, have been deprived of freedom, Human Rights and civil liberties and are therefore unable to express their will, we the undersigned Australian citizens of Baltic origin humbly petition the Senate to express its moral support to the rights of the Baltic States to freedom and self-determination. [More…]
Will the Government assure the Senate that it does not regard Professor Kabalevsky as in any way a disinterested person with regard to human rights and civil liberties? [More…]
It is quite true that the Treaty is unlikely to set out detailed rules and regulations or rights and obligations, as treaties usually do. [More…]
This transfer was held in abeyance awaiting the decision of the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission chaired by Mr Justice Woodward. [More…]
Ensure the following fundamental rights: [More…]
These are all matters in which the consumer must exercise his ability and enjoy his rights. [More…]
It has plenty of powers to advise people about their rights, but as I read the Bill the Commission has not the function of receiving and dealing with individual complaints. [More…]
It is necessary for me to say only that such an ardent advocate for the civil rights of the consumer community and of the trade union community as Mr Justice Frankfurter, in writing his introduction to a book on this subject, very thoughtfully written in 1928 by Berman, said that the book: . [More…]
Industrial strife which interferes with the normal flow of commerce and with the full production of articles and commodities for commerce, can be avoided or substantially minimised if employers, employees, and labour organisations each recognise under law one another’s legitimate rights in their relations with each other, and above all recognise under law that neither party has any right in its relations with any other to engage in acts or practices which jeopardise the public health, safety, or interest. [More…]
It is the purpose and policy of this Act, in order to promote the full flow of commerce, to prescribe the legitimate rights of both employees and employers in their relations affecting commerce, to provide orderly and peaceful procedures for preventing the interference by either with the legitimate rights of the other, to protect the rights of individual employees in their relations with labour organisations whose activities affect commerce, to define and proscribe practices on the part of labour and management which affect commerce and are inimical to the general welfare, and to protect the rights of the public in connection with labour disputes affecting commerce. [More…]
But this supervision, as I see it, would include the delaying of rights. [More…]
It is not satisfactory to say that we can come back here and criticise this clause in the Senate if, in fact, it relates to the exercise of rights, including evidence, hearings and so forth, which have been mentioned in earlier clauses of the Bill. [More…]
People ought to have their rights governed by law and by the independent bodies which the legislation establishes; they should not have their rights affected by political direction, as it may appear politically expedient to do so from time to time. [More…]
But the Opposition is not concerning itself with any of that and I suppose rightly so because one expects that the powers which are given, like all other powers, will be exercised bona fide and for the purposes for which they are given with due regard for the rights of persons affected. [More…]
1 ) A contract in restraint of trade of commerce that was made before the commencement of this sub-section is unenforceable in so far as it confers rights or benefits or imposes duties or obligations on a corporation. [More…]
I ) A contract in restraint of trade or commerce, whether made before or after the commencement of this sub-section, is unenforceable in so far as it confers rights or benefits or imposes duties or obligations on a corporation but nothing in this sub-section renders unenforceable any provision in such a contract that is not in restraint of trade or commerce. [More…]
A contract in restraint of trade or commerce that was made before the commencement of this sub-section is unenforceable in so far as it confers rights or benefits or imposes duties or obligations on a corporation. [More…]
1 ) A contract in restraint of trade or commerce, whether made before or after the commencement of this sub-section, is unenforceable in so far as it confers rights or benefits or imposes duties or obligations on a corporation but nothing in this sub-section renders unenforceable any provision in such a contract that is not in restraint of trade or commerce. [More…]
A monopolist is not prevented from competing as well as he is able- for example, by taking advantage of economies of scale, developing new products or otherwise making full use of such skills as he has or protecting his patent rights in respect of an invention. [More…]
Suppose, for example, a companyI think Senator Wright used this general example- acquires additional machinery because it has a certain power or rights. [More…]
It may have patent rights or it may have purchased the machinery to take advantage of its size in a way which was not readily available to other companies. [More…]
The position therefore is that, as has been said time and again, the inclusion of this Part in the legislation at the moment will lead to confusion, constitutional doubt and probably a denial of some rights which consumers have at present. [More…]
And whereas all such rights, liberties, heritage, advancement and prosperity, etc., are of no avail if our Armed Forces are unprepared or incapable of repelling invasion of our shores or withstanding other military threats. [More…]
And whereas all such rights, liberties, heritage, advancement and prosperity, etc., are of no avail if our armed forces are unprepared or incapable of repelling invasion of our shores or withstanding other military threats, [More…]
The Human Rights Bill and the Racial Discrimination Bill which will be introduced into the Parliament by the Government will, when passed, reinforce Australia’s compliance with the terms of the genocide convention. [More…]
Whereas, it is evident, I think, that it will remove many rights which consumers have at the moment. [More…]
But we say that one should look at each of these things and decide what is gained and what is lost by introducing a general Commonwealth law and thereby obliterating in part the rights which individuals will have, particularly in the small claims tribunal area. [More…]
It will be seen that people have lost rights which they had. [More…]
You may be protected by the law in such cases as where you put your goods into the custody of some person and then receive the little ticket which takes away all your rights. [More…]
The tragedy of it all is that the consumer does not have many rights; mostly, he is operating under deficient laws and there are no satisfactory remedies for him. [More…]
This legislation provides effective rights and effective remedies for the consumer. [More…]
This legislation also has a legal aid provision directed towards assisting consumers so that for the first time they will have effective rights against the corporations, and that is the area with which we are mostly concerned. [More…]
I think it is a tribute to those who have worked so hard in the preparation of this legislation- my own officers and others- that they have developed an extremely good set of laws directed towards assistance to the consumers- effective remedies and the creation of most important rights, acceptable in general to the organised representatives of industry and commerce. [More…]
The only argument one would have against this legislation would be to say: ‘We would prefer not to have some national law; we do not want these rights to be created; we do not want these remedies to be there; we prefer to carry on as we are’. [More…]
What we have done is not to interfere with the rights of those persons as between themselves. [More…]
Where corporations are concerned, we have given new rights and new and effective remedies backed up with the Trade Practices Commission. [More…]
All of this is in accordance with rights which are accepted on all hands as being well drafted and sensible. [More…]
1 ) An Australian citizen who is only temporarily domiciled in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands may retain voting rights in Federal elections, provided that he fulfils the enrolment qualifications specified in section 39 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act, and has retained enrolment for the appropriate Electoral Division. [More…]
Whereas the six million people of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, occupied and unlawfully annexed by the Soviet Union, have been deprived of freedom, human rights and civil liberties and are therefore unable to express their will, we the undersigned Australian citizens of Baltic origin humbly petition the Senate to express its moral support to the rights of the Baltic States to freedom and self-determination. [More…]
And whereas all such rights, liberties, heritage, advancement and prosperity, etc., are of no avail if our Armed Forces are unprepared or incapable of repelling invasion of our shores or withstanding other military threats. [More…]
In the past the Turkish minority on the island has been denied its constitutional rights in many respects. [More…]
Moreover, the TurkishCypriot minority is entitled, as indeed is the Greek-Cypriot majority, to guarantees of security, safety and constitutional rights. [More…]
Irrespective of the rights or wrongs of the use of this mechanism, it is one which I think we all recognise has to be taken into account. [More…]
What action does the Government intend to take to meet such industrial anarchy as exists in Australia and to restore and protect the rights of the public and rank and file union members? [More…]
I do not think that we should permit ourselves to act in such a way as to suggest that the political rights of individuals (as we see them ) are being denied by only one side in the conflict, when we know, or suspect, that by our standards they are being denied by all the parties. [More…]
My final observation is that the infringements of political and individual rights to which you refer are not confined to Vietnam or to Indo China, or indeed to the several other countries listed in the last paragraph of your letter. [More…]
Whereas the six million people of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, occupied and unlawfully annexed by the Soviet Union, have been deprived of freedom, Human Rights and civil liberties and are therefore unable to express their will, we the undersigned Australian citizens of Baltic origin humbly petition the Senate to express its moral support to the rights of the Baltic States to freedom and self-determination. [More…]
Whereas the six million people of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, occupied and unlawfully annexed by the Soviet Union, have been deprived of freedom, human rights and civil liberties and are therefore unable to express their will, we the undersigned Australian citizens of Baltic origin humbly petition the Senate to express its moral support to the rights of the Baltic States to freedom and self-determination. [More…]
in denial of human rights contrary to the rule of law and in order to appease the Government of the U.S.S.R. he organized the surreptitious departure of Georgi Ermolenko from Australia when doubt existed as to whether he was departing under duress and when that issue was being considered by the Supreme Court of Western Australia. [More…]
He has revealed the hollowness of this Government’s proclaimed belief in human rights by taking calculated action which prevented the courts of this country from passing a judgment on whether a person was being held under duress. [More…]
To withhold that information from the Senate is a denial of the promise of open government if not a challenge to due process and the rights of the individual. [More…]
in denial of human rights and contrary to the rule of law and in order to appease the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics he organised the surreptitious departure of Georgi Ermolenko from Australia when doubt existed as to whether he was departing under duress and when that issue was being considered by the Supreme Court of Western Australia. [More…]
There has been a denial of human rights because one of the freedoms which we, in this country, accept and which we seek to extend to other persons in this country who want to exercise the rights of Australians is a freedom of movement and a freedom of choice to say whether one will stay or whether one will leave. [More…]
We do not accept that there was any recognition of the rights of Georgi Ermolenko in the way in which he was spirited out of this country before the question of whether he was being subjected to duress and made to do things against his will was tested in the manner in which we believe these issues ought to be tested in this country. [More…]
The Minister may say it is well within his rights to decline to give that undertaking and of course it is. [More…]
But I would have thought that if there were a spark of concern for human rights and liberty that undertaking would have been given. [More…]
It is a shameful state of affairs, particularly when linked with the recognition of the Baltic states, that we should mould our foreign policy, decide issues of human rights and override the role of the courts in this country simply to curry favour with the Government of the Soviet Union. [More…]
For 30 years this de facto situation has existed without any de jure acknowledgment of the rights of the Soviet Union in relation to these states. [More…]
He then stressed how consistent that attitude was with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
Dealing with the Ermolenko case it talks about the denial of human rights. [More…]
But as I said in the first debate on this matter, I have profound contempt for those other people who jumped on the bandwagon, tried to get the limelight and gave no consideration at all to the human rights of the 1 8-year-old Georgi Ermolenko. [More…]
I would make the same request if an Australian in some other part of the world said that he wanted to go home and I found that a lot of people with no legal rights at all were holding him up. [More…]
I emphasise the words ‘civil liberties - and on fundamental human rights - [More…]
He is referring to the Baltic countries- its own adherence to them and its wish that those rights embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights be extended everywhere. [More…]
Are we now to accept the truth that Government members no longer believe in the question of civil liberties and of fundamental human rights? [More…]
Mr Whitlam stated, inter alia, in an address to the United Nations Association on the occasion of Australia’s celebration of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: [More…]
The Declaration has come to be recognised as one of the enlightened events in modern history and it is a fundamental objective of the Labor Party to ensure that Australia’s policies are soundly based on respect for and on the protection and enhancement of civil liberties and on basic human rights. [More…]
He told us that you believe in realities; never mind about civil liberties and human rights. [More…]
The Soviet Government is aware of the Australian Government’s position in this matter and we will continue to seek opportunities in the United Nations to promote respect for and observance of basic human rights by all members. [More…]
It will be interesting to see when the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Prime Minister go to the meeting of the United Nations whether they will seek to protect the human rights and civil liberties of the peoples of the Baltic states. [More…]
It is opposed, as the Prime Minister himself has admitted, to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which gives no support to the brutal annexation of the Baltic countries by the military forces of the Soviet Union. [More…]
A decision would in any event be ineffective and would merely illustrate the Senate’s ineffectiveness to deal, as it is purporting to deal, with the rights of a Minister, his entitlements or the propriety of his remaining a Minister. [More…]
Whatever the rights or wrongs of it may be, it is not proper or decent to select the Minister for Foreign Affairs in regard to such a matter for which the whole of the Government is responsible. [More…]
Again, whatever the rights or wrongs of the matter may be, it is most improper and it is not decent to suggest that the Minister for Foreign Affairs is deserving of censure because of that or that he ought to resign. [More…]
Whatever the rights or wrongs may be, even if the Opposition were completely justified, there is no justification whatever in respect of the second or third matters- or the first matter. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite speak of human rights, but one of the worst things moved in this Parliament was the proposition put forward by the Opposition during the course of the affair. [More…]
That is a clear denial of the rights which are common to all mankind as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
Today the same honourable senator, who for years has been running around this country as the great propounder of the Declaration of Human Rights, as well as talking as such in this Parliament, has been very embarrassed by what his Government has done about the Georgi Ermolenko affair. [More…]
Really he should be very ashamed of the case he was putting forward if he believes in the Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
The one thing which I should do at the beginning- and I must say that I feel constrained to do it- is to congratulate the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Senator Greenwood) on the very fine feelings for human rights and civil liberties to which he has so recently been converted. [More…]
I find it very interesting that Senator Greenwood, who sent in the Commonwealth Police to arrest demonstrators at the Melbourne University, and who sent the Commonwealth Police to investigate and interrogate members of this Parliament for exercising this freedom of speech which he believes is so essential in the Soviet Union but which at least in the past he did not think was of any value in this country, has today emerged as the champion of human rights, the champion of civil liberties and the man who says that a person should be able to get up and say what he likes whenever he wants to say it and that he should not be interrogated by the police, that he should be free to insert advertisements in newspapers and should be free to demonstrate at the Melbourne University or at the Perth airport or anywhere else. [More…]
It would be an absolutely impossible situation, as Senator Murphy and Senator Willesee have said, for the Australian Government to say: ‘We have got a civil libertarian in our place, Senator Greenwood, who has a very keen sense of the rights of free speech and the free movement of individuals. [More…]
Against this background Labor senators sat last year on the Select Committee on Civil Rights of Migrant Australians and took evidence. [More…]
The first is that in denial of human rights and contrary to the rule of law we did what we did in relation to Ermolenko. [More…]
Let us look at this proposition of the denial of human rights. [More…]
This was given some emphasis by a well known, well authenticated and familiar defender of human rights in the form of a former Attorney-General, Senator Greenwood. [More…]
His standards change when he comes to attempt to make this charge of a denial of human rights stick in the Senate today. [More…]
I suggest that in order to establish the first leg of his argument- namely, that there has been a denial of human rights- this demanding lawyer carries an onus of proof which he has not discharged. [More…]
He has been content with impressions, with hearsay and with matters which by any standards, let alone a lawyer’s standards, fall far short of satisfying the onus of proof that Ermolenko was denied any human rights. [More…]
They are the nations where the concepts of law and order, justice and the rights of free men and freedom of speech are maintained. [More…]
The Opposition is condemning the Minister for Foreign Affairs because he made facilities available to meet the human rights of this individual to travel freely where he wanted to go. [More…]
We on this side of the chamber have lined up in defence of the Government, not on the question of politics but on the question of human rights. [More…]
There is an insulting suggestion on the part of those who moved this motion of condemnation for an alleged breach of human rights. [More…]
in denial of human rights and contrary to the rule of law and in order to appease the Government of the U.S.S.R. he organised the surreptitious departure of Georgi Ermolenko from Australia when doubt existed as to whether he was departing under duress and when that issue was being considered by the Supreme Court of Western Australia. [More…]
The first paragraph of the motion refers to something which I can describe only as a denial of human rights and as events contrary to the rule of law as it applied to Ermolenko. [More…]
On a number of occasions the Government has made its views known on the question of civil liberties and on fundamental human rights, its own adherence to them and its wish that those rights embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights be extended everywhere. [More…]
fundamental objective of the Labor Government to ensure that Australia ‘s policies are soundly based on respect for and on the protection and enhancement of civil liberties and basic human rights’. [More…]
The Soviet Government is aware of the Australian Government’s position in this matter, and we will continue to seek opportunities in the United Nations to promote respect for and observance of basic human rights by all members. [More…]
Yet here in this letter the Prime Minister conveyed to this Council, which represents some 40,000 to 50,000 people in Australia and a whole lot of well wishers beyond, an assurance that the Labor Government would promote respect for and observance of basic human rights by all members of the United Nations. [More…]
There has been mention throughout the day in speeches by Opposition senators- in fact this is included in the motion- of concern about the denial of human rights. [More…]
It seems rather strange to me that Opposition senators raise this matter of human rights only when it concerns the liberty or impinges on the rights of a person from the socalled communist countries or countries of the Left. [More…]
in denial of human rights and contrary to the rule of the law and in order to appease the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics he organised the surreptitious departure if Georgi Ermolenko from Australia when doubt existed as to whether he was departing under duress and when that issue was being considered by the Supreme Court of Western Australia. [More…]
In a vital matter of human rights and of individual freedom we believe that it is completely wrong for a Minister of the Crown to say that in his view a person is not being held under duress and to deny to the courts an opportunity to make that decision. [More…]
Has there been a change in the rights of Australian citizens of Baltic origin in regard either to the carrying of their national flags in Australia or showing Estonia, Lithuania or Latvia as their country of birth when applying for Australian passports or visas to visit other countries? [More…]
The amendments made to the Superannuation Act by Part III of the Bill will extend to these candidates the same superannuation rights and privileges as presently apply to Australian Government employees who resign to contest Federal or State elections. [More…]
The amendments apply the provisions of the Defence (Parliamentary Candidates) Act and the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act to those elections thus giving members of the defence force similar rights to public servants. [More…]
This will mean that at 3 p.m. the Senate will proceed to discuss General Business in the following order: Firstly, the notice of motion by Senator Bonner relating to the rights of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders; secondly, the notice of motion by Senator Primmer for the Senate to take note of the Green Paper on rural policy in Australia; and, thirdly, the notice of motion by Senator Rae for the re-appointment of the Select Committee on Securities and Exchange. [More…]
If the powers were held to be legally valid- we are not concerned with that here- they would override completely all existing rights and titles which have been acquired by persons or companies under State or Territory laws. [More…]
Government from obtaining the right to mine because of the Government ‘s policy in relation to the protection of the rights of Aborigines. [More…]
In fact, as we in the Opposition have already said in a policy which was recently issued by Mr Snedden, we fully accept the recommendations of the Woodward Committee in relation to Aboriginal rights and interests as far as mining is concerned. [More…]
So the Government conceived the idea that the way out of this problem for the Government I suppose it was not such a good way out for the company- was to give Queensland Mines Ltd access to other deposits of uranium which were the subject of exploration by other companies under other titles and rights to explore. [More…]
These extra powers are apparently sought by the Minister for somewhat dubious purposes and they will have the effect of overriding all existing rights that have been acquired under State laws and under the Northern Territory mining laws. [More…]
Mining rights are totally impotent if they are not accompanied by a licence. [More…]
Let me by way of introduction to this consideration remind you, Mr President, that the Senate is not proposing at the moment to legislate in any way which would affect the rights of the parties involved in the litigation. [More…]
The matter then is to see how applicable it is to this particular discussion and whether the discussion which is sought by Senator Bonner of the position relating to the rights to any form of compensation which members of the Aboriginal people of Australia may have is a matter of public interest. [More…]
What the Lord Justice was there saying, in my judgment, is that, if you had such a discussion in a paper of the rights of some pending litigation as is calculated to prejudice the proper trial of the action, that is a serious contempt which will be met with the necessary punishment. [More…]
I do not think it is right to take that statement out of its context and say that anything which happens to amount to or be the equivalent to a discussion of the rights of some party’s case in an action is thereby a contempt. [More…]
If one analyses the court case it seems to me that the plaintiff is really relying upon the existing legal rights. [More…]
I think that Senator Cavanagh, who always has been a staunch upholder of the rights of the Senate, is ill advised to attempt to invoke the sub judice rule before the honourable senator whose motion has been on the notice paper since July is able to make a statement in the context of his motion. [More…]
If it is not inconsistent with fundamental rights and duties, the House should avoid setting itself up as an alternative forum or body of inquiry or permitting its proceedings to interfere in the course of justice. [More…]
Apart from particular matters, such as criminal cases, courts martial, civil cases and matters referred by a legislature to a judicial body, the rule has application to other hearings, inquiries and investigations in which the rights of individuals, or a community group, or the achievement of justice may be prejudiced, and it is the obligation of the Chair to hold the balance between the rights and duties of the House on the one hand and the rights and interests of the citizens on the other. [More…]
If the Minister is so concerned about Aboriginal land rights in Queensland, is he prepared to go to the extent of moving that so much of the Standing Orders be suspended as would prevent my motion, as introduced on Thursday, 19 September 1974, from being fully debated and voted upon? [More…]
The honourable senator made a very emotional speech acknowledging Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
I think that we are in unity to see that the Aborigines get those land rights in Queensland, as Aborigines in every other State of Australia will receive them. [More…]
We shall give to the Aborigines in Queensland- I hope with Senator Bonner’s supportthe same rights as they have in every other State of the Commonwealth. [More…]
The Opposition recognises that the Bills clarify a matter of some doubt in one respect and acknowledge the rights of the Territory of Papua New Guinea at this stage, and certainly when it becomes independent, to exercise full and plenary powers over exploration for mining in its off-shore areas. [More…]
It is a Bill which the Opposition will oppose consistently with the attitude that it has adopted in the past with Bills which deal with amalgamations which do not give reasonable rights to the membership of those organisations to express their views on what should happen. [More…]
But up until 1972, these provisions created problems because of the abuses they gave rise to and because there was an overriding of the rights of the membership. [More…]
But the amendments of 1972 were designed to improve the amalgamation proceedings and to ensure that the rights of the membership of these unions were not overriden by union officials and others who were concerned to have an amalgamation take place. [More…]
The amendments introduced in 1972 were designed to clarify the procedures and to protect the rights of the persons who were amalgamated. [More…]
They are certainly facultative of amalgamation where there is a body which wants to promote an amalgamation but they are certainly not protective of the rights of members of an organisation which is sought to be taken over. [More…]
The provisions which the Government seeks to introduce are provisions which ignore the rights of members of existing organisations. [More…]
They are provisions which permit the rights of the members of organisations to be overridden and I believe, and the Opposition believes, that they will enable a plain and unmistakeable abuse of power to be engaged in by persons who want an amalgamation of unions not for the purposes of improving the lot of the members of the unions but for other particular purposes. [More…]
These omissions would be serious enough in themselves, but an additional provision is now proposed to be included in the Act which goes far beyond even the removal of the safeguards contained in the present Act and actually promotes amalgamation by giving an organisation seeking amalgamation rights over the intended subject for an amalgamation bid if the former organisation can enlist the support of as few as 20 per cent of the membership of the smaller organisation. [More…]
It is unfashionable in some industrial circles to give expression to any view which suggests that ordinary unionists have rights. [More…]
There are many areas in the industrial field where the rights of the membership have to be recognised and given far greater effect and influence than they have had in recent times. [More…]
It is on the basis that this Bill seeks to take away rights which union membership has with respect to amalgamations of their organisations, that the Opposition is adamantly opposed to this provision. [More…]
We will also provide for secret ballots for fundamental alterations to an organisation’s constitution where those alterations would significantly affect the rights of members of the organisation. [More…]
For the defiant workmen do not see themselves primarily as members of a larger political community held together by a common history and by a network of rights, customs, and obligations. [More…]
I say ‘fully fledged’ because the union already had rights in the top echelon of the waterside workers union. [More…]
Just as the public interest is not served by large corporations or, for that matter, small corporations which ignore the rights of consumers, the interests of the environment, the interests of employees or the interests of the national economy, so too there is ample evidence that the other major section of organised power outside the Government, that is the unions, is currently failing adequately to recognise the public interest. [More…]
And whereas the Senate is not only an independent House of Review elected democratically by the people with its own mandate to protect their heritage and constitutional rights, but is the States’ House by which all Australians in their own sovereign states formed long before Federation can bring together ideas and plans and resources of their mutual benefit and advancement, [More…]
Will the Attorney-General advise, in view of those two statements, whether he and /or members of his Department have examined this Bill to ensure that the United Nations Charter on Human and Civilian Rights has not been contravened by any section of the Bill? [More…]
It seems that some of those who contend that the common law will solve all problems and that no question of human rights or civil liberties can possibly arise in Australia will be shocked when they become conversant with the legislation to which the honourable senator refers. [More…]
I will certainly have it examined from the viewpoint of its consistency with the United Nations conventions on political and civil rights. [More…]
It does seem unreasonable that members of the Northern Territory Public Service and the Commonwealth Public Service should not be able to resign from their positions to contest an election and, if they are unsuccessful, to rejoin the Public Service and continue with the same rights as they had before. [More…]
I understand that the position with regard to the members of the Northern Territory Public Service has been acknowledged by an amendment to the Northern Territory Ordinance establishing the Northern Territory Public Service some 10 years ago so that members of that service are entitled to resign, contest an election and, if they are unsuccessful, to come back into the Northern Territory Public Service with no loss of continuity or of rights. [More…]
If the procedure envisaged in this Bill is to be adopted by regulation, then of course there may well be persons who would rely upon the rights which the regulation gives to them. [More…]
Those persons would resign from the Public Service anticipating, under the provisions of the regulation, that they would have certain rights if they were unsuccessful. [More…]
But either House would be inhibited from doing so because it would be affecting adversely the rights which had accrued to individuals who had acted upon the faith of the regulation. [More…]
A Federal government does have certain rights under the Constitution. [More…]
The Federal Minister for Transport (Mr Charles Jones) wanted to control every little detail of the rights of every little local authority in what it was attempting to do for its roads. [More…]
Is there not a prima facie case of contempt of court and does not the Attorney-General have the right and the obligation to uphold the authority of the courts and the rights of people to have access to the courts? [More…]
This year it is demanding a sum that is so far in excess of the sums charged by other football bodies for like rights that the ABC cannot even contemplate meeting its demands. [More…]
Under the approval that I gave under section 62 of the Act the ABC certainly has replay rights of the VFL grand final even though it has not the rights for a direct telecast. [More…]
In respect of his general attitude when answering the earlier question that it is up to the building contractors to complain of contempt, is there not an overriding and paramount responsibility on the Attorney-General to protect the rights of people whose position before the Court may be jeopardised by intimidation and threats. [More…]
The Officers’ Rights’ Declaration Act 1928-1973 and Superannuation Act 1922-1973 will apply to them where appropriate. [More…]
The Bill makes proper provision for the transfer to the Australian Film Commission of the assets, rights, etc., of the Australian Film Development Corporation and also from Film Australia. [More…]
The Committee considered that the Ordinance unduly trespassed on the rights and liberties of citizens in that: (a) it is expressed to be retrospective and to apply to contracts made before the Ordinance; (b) it purports to bind the lessee by a contract to which he may not h../e been a party; (c) it reverses the onus of proof; (d) it ignores the contractual rights of the vendor. [More…]
The Committee considered that it was not proper for an Ordinance to seek to overcome defective contractual arrangements by interfering with the rights of the parties. [More…]
We are exercising our rights and are at liberty to point out the basic fallacies in the Budget of which this is a part and the contradictions and, indeed, the stupidities in many cases of the arguments that are being advanced by the Government in support of these increases in postal and telecommunication charges. [More…]
There is also in the Federal Parliament, as there is in most parliaments, a full inquiry by members of the Opposition and of the Government parties into the affairs generally of individuals so far as that may be within the ordinary civil rights of an individual. [More…]
Initially, it is obvious that there is an invasion of the human rights of members of Parliament. [More…]
The point that my Party is anxious for me to make is that the most important aspect is that in the Senate is an Attorney-General who has declared himself to be a protector of the civil rights of individuals. [More…]
He is bringing in a Human Rights Bill. [More…]
I believe in the privacy of individuals and in the civil rights of individuals. [More…]
He suggested that it was an invasion of the rights and privacy of members of Parliament. [More…]
I think Parliament would have been quite within its rights in not appropriating more money to that department if that department thought it was none of Parliament’s business how that statutory corporation spent the taxpayers’ money. [More…]
Those senators did not exercise their right to be members of an Estimates Committee but did exercise their rights as senators in the Committee of the Whole when the Estimates Committees reported back. [More…]
What is the liability of that office if any person receives incorrect advice or loses certain rights because of its actions? [More…]
Even this evening on the much publicised controversy of the freeway in Sydney- disregarding the rights or the wrongs of that freeway- on television the Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren) was threatening the New South Wales Government with a general cancellation of its road funds because he disagreed with the plan for the freeway development which is now the subject of argument in the State. [More…]
that the taxing of any citizens to propagate or support any religion is contrary to this principle and a violation of human rights. [More…]
Your petitioners humbly pray that Part 1 1, Section 3, of the proposed Bill of Human Rights, which now reads: [More…]
There has been reference to women’s rights. [More…]
He was at the time accompanied by his new-found ally, the Premier of Queensland, who has, I understand, recently embraced the economic doctrines of the League of Rights. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Government proposes to establish a legislative review tribunal to afford rights of appeal to persons against ministerial and administrative decisions where such rights of appeal do not presently exist? [More…]
Will the tribunal’s functions cover the whole range of both substantive and subordinate legislation and operate in all instances where aggrieved persons wish to have their citizen rights preserved and protected? [More…]
I trust that the purchase of rights to the conversion system will assist in the Government’s general policy of trying to ensure that colour television is made available to Australians at the lowest possible price. [More…]
He murmurs that everything will be all rights. [More…]
Will the Minister for Foreign Affairs inform the Senate whether any formal discussions have taken place between either the Prime Minister or himself and any members of the Indonesian Government in respect of any action being taken in Indonesia in the cause of human rights to release political prisoners who, it is widely alleged, have been imprisoned without trial over a number of years? [More…]
Those in charge of the prison system in Queensland should be prepared to face a wide-open public inquiry and all prisoners and others who are prepared to testify should have their rights fully protected. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
According to the Declaration of Human Rights and the Charter of the United Nations, these peoples under communism are entitled to the same freedoms as enjoyed by Australians, including independence and self-determination. [More…]
We beg that all Australian economic ties be severed with these governments until such time as they grant to their peoples the freedoms freely enjoyed by Australians as enshrined in the Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
According to the Declaration of Human Rights and the Charter of the United Nations, these peoples under communism are entitled to the same freedoms as enjoyed by Australians, including independence and self-determination. [More…]
We beg that all Australian economic ties be severed with these governments until such time as they grant to their peoples the freedoms freely enjoyed by Australians as enshrined in the Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
As Yanchep Sun City is 30 miles north of Perth and does not have any industrial activity in the immediate vicinity outside the actual building of the project, does not have a private or public hospital, has no local doctor, no schools and virtually no bus service, will the Attorney-General undertake a complete investigation of the situation to ensure that the rights of the complainants are protected and that misleading information of this nature is discontinued? [More…]
The main purpose of this Bill is to amend certain provisions of the Australian Coastal Shipping Commission Act 1956-1973 in order to alter the name of the Commission; increase the number of Commissioners from five to seven; make specific provision for the appointment of a full-time Chairman of the Commission; to alter the basis on which the Commission is reimbursed for losses in the operation of a shipping service undertaken at the direction of the Minister for Transport; to eliminate an anomaly in the present Act relating to rights and benefits of the Commission’s officers formerly employed in the Australian Public Service. [More…]
This latter sub-section of the Act purports to give officers of the Commission who were formerly employed in the Australian Public Service the same rights and benefits as if they remained in the Public Service. [More…]
These rights and benefits are enjoyed by officers in other statutory authorities, such as Commonwealth Railways. [More…]
It is without meaning for the reason that Public Service rights and benefits are given pursuant to appointments under section 22 only, whereas appointment of officers is authorised only under section 2 1 and 23. [More…]
1 do not want to canvass the rights or wrongs of that decision either; but when the Government took the decision it was aware that there would be repercussions in certain manufacturing industries in Australia, and it was anticipated that the textile industry, in particular, would be affected. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not provide or protect the legal or social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
In view of the public interest in the Bills being introduced in the Tasmanian and South Australian Parliaments at the moment to protect the privacy of individuals, can the Attorney-General clarify for senators the rights of and restrictions on State police in carrying out the practice of telephone tapping? [More…]
These procedures will enable the conditions of eligibility of a Federal organisation of employees to be widened so that it can enrol and represent in the State sphere the members of an associated body without a corresponding widening of the organisation’s representational rights in the Federal sphere. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
I have here another document- and all these things will be made available to a royal commission or to some other suitable type of inquiry at which the rights of the prisoners are protected. [More…]
When he sets up an independent inquiry where the rights of all people are protected he can then have all the information he wants. [More…]
We consider that the proposed legislation does not support the principle laid down by United Nation’s Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which states “The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State”, in that: [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not provide or protect the legal or social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
So the Minister can give directions in relation to the guarantee of repayment of funds, the acquiring of rights to films, the providing of financial assistance to producers, its acting as a trustee, and its accepting gifts. [More…]
We feel that this is an infringement of a person’s rights in the community when he is required to supply such information by the issue of a notice. [More…]
I may say that naturally the information may relate to those things, but Senator Hall’s proposed amendment will not cover the real difficulty of this clause which takes away all the rights of the individual to refuse to disclose matters which, whatever may be the purpose of the Commission, may be of extreme danger to an individual in his business activity. [More…]
It is, I think, an infringement of a great number of rights enjoyed by the citizens of this community when they are forced to disclose ‘any information’. [More…]
I suggest that it is a great breach of the rights of individuals in the community. [More…]
Those films still have rights to them and are paying him dividends even though he no longer is making films. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
It surveys the regulations that relate to certain aspects, such as the rights and liberties of people, whether the subject of legislation or otherwise. [More…]
Whatever might be the thoughts we have about a number of clauses of this Bill- in particular about whether the requirement that conditions which the Parliament lays down can by parliamentary enactment be simply declared to be directory and not mandatory has any effect at all, and if it has, what effect it might be- and notwithstanding our concern about a provision in clause 1 1 which gives to the Commission a power to determine what bodies may represent what unionists in proceedings before the Commission; notwithstanding our concern as to the provisions relating to organisations and associated bodies, how they may be amalgamated or integrated and what might be the rights of members who are dissenting in that area; and notwithstanding the concern we might have as to the scope of the validating provisions, we believe in the absence of complementary legislation they cannot work an injustice. [More…]
I wonder whether the provisions relating to curing invalidity could not be used, at least as a basis for legal argument, which is putting it at its lowest, to frustrate those other provisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act which give members certain rights to see that the rules of the organisation are observed. [More…]
Unions have a job to protect the rights of their members. [More…]
There are enough problems to worry honourable senators opposite arising out of the existence of trade unions and their belief that they should look after their members’ rights- an impression that certainly cuts across what honourable senators opposite have been conveying to us in recent years- so I cannot see why they should be selfsatisfied about letting this additional irritant in trade union affairs go uncured. [More…]
Having said that, it is equally apparent that if a person is suing in accordance with the law of the country in which he is resident in order to enforce what are his rights under the law of that country, he may be met with an application that would seek to defeat his claim and that is that he should rely upon the provisions of an arbitration agreement to which he has entered. [More…]
Frequently it is a matter of concern to persons who sense that they have rights which are being denied because of conduct of the other party and they are not able effectively to enforce the provisions of the agreement to which they have entered. [More…]
It is the fundamental liberty of any citizen who claims the rights of a free people. [More…]
There are always instances which can be demonstrated to establish that rights and freedoms can be misused to achieve objectives opposite to the objectives for which these rights and freedoms are maintained. [More…]
I raise this point because, if any issue is attempted to be raised in the future when we seek to talk about what this Government is failing to do in Tasmania and someone says that we cannot talk about it because a writ has been issued, I regard that viewpoint as fundamental to the rights and liberties of honourable senators to speak their minds in this place. [More…]
But I certainly say that if it is a stop writ and if it is used for the purpose of stifling or attempting to stifle discussion, in those circumstances it is a matter of the fundamental rights of every honourable senator in this place to ensure that freedom of discussion takes priority. [More…]
But I certainly reserve my rights to refer to the Hansard record and to raise this matter again. [More…]
Senator Everett is entirely mistaken if he believes that in any way was Senator Greenwood suggesting that there was not a right to be taken by Senator Everrett or anybody else who wished to take proceedings through the courts and so uphold their rights. [More…]
I ask: Did the motion passed in another place on 13 September 1973 call for a royal commission to include in its terms of reference that the commissioners should have regard to the United Nations declaration on the rights of the child and the sanctity and preservation of human life? [More…]
Why do the terms of reference, published on 21 August 1974 by the Special Miniser of State, confine themselves to matters of sexual practice, abortion and so on and why specifically do they not include the concern for the rights of children and for human life set out in the resolution of the Parliament? [More…]
In making this decision the Government has taken into consideration the fact that South Africa has, for 25 years, by its policy of apartheid, persistently violated the principles of the Charter of the United Nations and of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
Is it proper that the rights of a defenceless visitor to this country or the rights of the many people who want to watch the spectacle should be denied by the licence of a few persons? [More…]
The real answer to this matter is for South Africa to cease to practise policies which have been condemned by the whole world as a violation of human rights and a degradation of the human race. [More…]
One should compare this regrettable practice of harassment with what is being done in South Africa where there is an appalling violation of human rights. [More…]
We are proposing that clause 5 1 , which deals with the needs provision- it provides that maintenance is available only in a situation of need- should be tied more closely to the provision in clause 54 which sets out all the considerations and all the rights which the parties have which should be taken into account in making a maintenance order. [More…]
-Yes, which we might as well look at The Parliament of Australia is given power to make laws under placitum 21 in respect of marriage and under placitum 22 in respect of divorce and matrimonial causes and, in relation thereto, parental rights and the custody and guardianship of infants. [More…]
Up to this stage they have not been able to compete equally with men in the divorce arena, except perhaps as regards their rights to maintenance. [More…]
The United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, article 23(1), with which we have declared ourselves to be in agreement, says that the family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State. [More…]
On these concepts marriage in the Australian society has been built, and from them spring much of the laws which relate to property rights, to testamentary disposition and so on. [More…]
So the people of Australia- you and I, the taxpayershave to realise that, regardless of the rights or wrongs, the Government is saying to the people: [More…]
If one looks at the nature and structure of the family, one can certainly refer to ouselves as being a signatory to the United Nations International Convention on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
This gives the Minister the power to override centuries of common law rights, criminal law appeals, industrial awards and so on. [More…]
There is little or no provision for the protection of the rights of the individual in Western Australia. [More…]
I have drawn these matters to the attention of the Senate in the hope that an examination of the legislation will be made to ensure that the rights of individuals in Western Australia are safeguarded and that the livelihood of residents is not in any jeopardy. [More…]
No State government should renegue or be allowed to renegue on commitments where there has been ratification of the International Labour Organisation convention and the United Nations Charter on Human Rights. [More…]
I ask that the Senate now give consideration to what has happened in Western Australia and to ensure that no such thing will happen in any other State in Australia, and that to the best of our ability here we will ensure that nothing in our Constitution is contravened but that we will, if necessary, go across State borders and ensure that the rights of the people in Western Australia are maintained. [More…]
Mr President, the Council has been asked to review the relationship between the United Nations and South Africa in the light of our alleged violation of the principles of the Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
Senator Coleman told us of the undemocratic legislation cutting across human rights which has been put into operation by a Liberal Government in Western Australia. [More…]
He acknowledges that attitudes contrary to human rights are not correct but says that we should not try to stop them in South Africa because we have them in Australia. [More…]
If we unite and join in support for the Minister for Foreign Affairs we will be striking a blow for democracy throughout Australia and for the human civil rights of citizens. [More…]
And whereas the Senate is not only an independent House of Review elected democratically by the people with its own mandate to protect their heritage and constitutional rights, but is the States ‘ House by which all Australians in their own sovereign States formed long before Federation can bring together ideas and plans and resources for their mutual benefit and advancement, [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said BUI does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
I do not think anybody can challenge the statement that this Government has stood very firmly by the rights of self-determination under the United Nations charter. [More…]
How can we go about arguing and saying that other people should have selfdetermination but that people who have a different coloured skin and who are working for somebody else ought not to have the same rights and privileges as everybody else? [More…]
1 ) In proceedings between the parties to a marriage with existing mie or rights in respect of property, the court may declare the title or rights, if any, that a party has in respect of the property. [More…]
The new wife and her children also have rights and should not be expected to be deprived and forced out to work to provide for the lazy, good for nothing and often neurotic woman whose own ineptitude or greed caused the breakdown of the marriage. [More…]
The incredible network of personal and social responsibilities which derive from the mere fact of a man and a woman joining their lives together for any reasonable length of time necessitates a legal institution to protect those rights and to enforce the duties which undoubtedly flow from a marriage. [More…]
The Government believes that it would be retrogressive to deprive workers of the rights already existing under compensation law to receive payment for the first week in respect of injuries arising at work. [More…]
Other amendments have been made to guarantee rights of appeal against all determinations under the legislation; to give right of access to documents upon which determinations are based; to provide for payment of costs of an appellant, where a tribunal awards costs; and to protect applicants against possible administrative delay. [More…]
Many of the amendments already made and to which I have referred are designed to protect the rights of the citizen in these circumstances. [More…]
Let us have a look at another committee- the so-called Senate Select Committee on the Civil Rights of Migrant Australians- and see how Senator Greenwood and his friends constituted it. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
Would any such payment or assistance endanger their pension rights? [More…]
I ask: Is it not a fact that Ampol Exploration Ltd is completely within its rights in making an application to the Prices Justification Tribunal, which was set up by this Government? [More…]
Is it the intention of the Government and, in particular, of the Minister for Minerals and Energy to browbeat Ampol Exploration Ltd in the manner in which the Minister did yesterday, apparently in order to prevent the company going on with its application and exercising its legal rights? [More…]
I suppose some might take the view that there ought not to be criticism of anyone who exercises his legal rights. [More…]
It is recognised in this Convention that all 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…]
The common law provides no effective remedies against discrimination in the exercise of human rights, whether it be based on race or colour or on other grounds. [More…]
The Bill will thus make it unlawful for a person to do an act involving discrimination based on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin which impairs the enjoyment of fundamental rights and freedoms. [More…]
In Canada, compulsory evidencegathering powers are given to Human Rights Commissions and similar powers are vested in the conciliator established by the New Zealand legislation. [More…]
This Bill represents an important step in the government’s program with respect to human rights. [More…]
The legislation 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…]
That the amendment to the bill recommended by the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee will ensure that the rights of women who play the traditional role in society will be protected, as will the interests of the children. [More…]
That the amendment to the bill recommended by the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee will ensure that the rights of women who play the traditional role in society will be protected, as will the interests of the children. [More…]
As no work is proceeding on the freeway, will the Minister take appropriate action to ensure that the rights of tenants are fully protected? [More…]
That the Senate refrains from the determination of its constitutional rights in respect of the proposed change in the contents of the annual Appropriation Bills and resolves to consider such Bills. [More…]
Your petitioners humbly pray that Pan II, Section 3, of the proposed Bill of Human Rights, which now reads: [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does NOT provide or protect the legal or social rights of Women and Children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
That the amendment to the bill recommended by the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee will ensure that the rights of women who play the traditional role in society will be protected, as will the interest of children [More…]
That we have read the petitions concerning the Family Law Bill and support the Bill as sufficiently protecting the legal and social rights of women and children in the family [More…]
That we have read the petitions concerning the Family Law Bill and support the bill as sufficiently protecting the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
That we have read the petitions concerning the Family Law Bill and support the bill as sufficiently protecting the legal and social rights of women and children in the family [More…]
And whereas all such rights, liberties, heritage, advancement and prosperity, etc., are of no avail if our Armed Forces are unprepared or incapable of repelling invasion of our shores or withstanding our military threats, [More…]
This Bill includes proposed amendments of the Public Service Act and the Officers’ Rights Declaration Act. [More…]
Clause 9 relates to the rights of officers when departments are abolished. [More…]
Provision is also made for further appeals to continue to safeguard the rights of other officers. [More…]
The opportunity has also been taken to include in the BUI certain amendments of the Officers’ Rights Declaration Act. [More…]
That Act was passed in 1928 to preserve the rights of officers who became employees of certain statutory authorities. [More…]
But these same people were not prepared to speak out in his defence when organisations such as the League of Rights were conducting a very vindictive campaign against him in the electorate of Riverina to bring about his defeat because of the humane policies that man was implementing while he was Minister for Immigration. [More…]
Will your Government take any necessary action in the United Nations to ensure that the basic principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights freedom, justice and peace would be applied to our native country Lithuania and other Baltic States? [More…]
On a number of occasions the Government has made its views known on the question of civil liberties and on fundamental human rights, its own adherence to them and its wish that those rights embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights be extended everywhere. [More…]
and on the protection and enhancement or civil liberties and basic human rights’. [More…]
The Soviet Government is aware of the Australian Government’s position in this matter, and we will continue to seek opportunities in the United Nations to promote respect for and observance of basic human rights by all members. [More…]
That the amendment to the bill recommend by the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee will ensure that the rights of women who play the traditional role in society will be protected, as will the interest of children. [More…]
Does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children; [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
And whereas all such rights, liberties, heritage, advancement and prosperity, etc., are of no avail if our Armed Forces are unprepared or incapable of repelling invasion of our shores or withstanding other military threats. [More…]
According to the Declaration of Human Rights and the Charter of the United Nations, these peoples under communism are entitled to the same freedoms as enjoyed by Australians, including independence and self-determination. [More…]
We beg that all Australian economic ties be severed with these governments until such time as they grant to their peoples the freedoms freely enjoyed by Australians as enshrined in the Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
I hold firm views about the necessity for a strong and independent private legal profession that can stand between the Government and the citizens, not least in the fields of human rights, civil liberties and criminal matters generally. [More…]
Before assuming the mantle of upholder of the sovereign rights of the Senate and its committees Senator Greenwood might have been wiser to have checked his own credentials for this role. [More…]
Senator McAuliffe raised some question as to whether the Commission should supply information about tenders it had made or may have made to get the rights to televise rugby league over its networks. [More…]
For this information to be made publicly available is possibly to prejudice the Commission’s negotiating ability when it comes on a particular occasion to negotiate the rights. [More…]
I think Mr Gifford is able to inform the Committee as to the total amount spent on obtaining sporting rights for television performances over the last year without the break-up. [More…]
But whatever the rights and wrongs of the matter, I believe it is not correct to attribute any improper motivation to the Committee. [More…]
I say for those honourable senators who may be listening and for those who are here that the fact is that that is why the Senate was constituted- to protect State rights. [More…]
If ever there were a reason, not to deny Aboriginals this benefit, but to maintain State rights that is why this Bill should be defeated. [More…]
Labor’s policy is essentially land rights and Aboriginal self-determination. [More…]
These Aborigines have the same rights as the honourable senator’s relatives have of purchasing a property and saying that they want to live in the homestead on it. [More…]
The next matter I want to mention relates to the Woodward Land Rights Commission report. [More…]
Aboriginal claims to land rights and to make recommendations on those claims to their governments. [More…]
I have your letter of 28 August, 1974, suggesting that we meet to discuss your Government’s proposal concerning Aboriginals within Queensland as it relates to the Woodward Commission Report on Aboriginal Land Rights. [More…]
That we have read the petitions concerning the Family Law Bill and support the bill as sufficiently protecting the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
If so, does such a small response indicate that earlier rallies of farmers in Victoria may have been motivated by the Liberal Party, the Australian Country Party and the League of Rights and were not in fact gatherings of farmers with genuine grievances towards the Australian Government? [More…]
I might say as further background to this that when we announced that we were going to float this at the United Nations there was at first the feeling that we should keep our hands off because there is always the problem where a country will say that this is interfering with the sovereignty and rights of its own people. [More…]
In order that these entitlements will not be wasted and to add further stimulus to the legislation, the Bill introduces a provision which will enable an organisation which does not intend to take advantage of its rights, to transfer them in whole or in part to another eligible organisation, subject to the approval of the Director-General of Social Services. [More…]
There are also provisions for judicial separation, restitution of conjugal rights, jactitation and annulment of a voidable marriage. [More…]
Is there dignity in clause 5 1 which seeks, at a time when women are being moved more and more to full equality within the law and within society, to set back women’s rights in this community by centuries? [More…]
Let it also be clear that in these other countries, grounds to determine irretrievable breakdown are laid down and there is a recognition of the rights of the spouse who is opposed to the divorce- a quaint idea which in fact the Government measure rejects. [More…]
Our society must provide legal processes to protect the material and moral rights which flow from that ideal. [More…]
Surely no member of the Senate or no member of the community believes that in the horrific situation of a breakdown of marriage both partners have equal resources, equal rights and equal opportunities to resolve their differences, leading ultimately if not to a marriage counsellor at least to the courts for a dissolution of the marriage. [More…]
After all, that denies to Mr Maddison, Mr Lewis and any other member of the Liberal Party in that State equal rights in the ballot for the leadership of the Liberal Party in New South Wales which is to take place in Sydney tomorrow. [More…]
I believe that the Committee felt it was doing the proper thing and it was not dealing inadequately with what were its terms of reference when it made the decision not to call for further submissions or to seek by way of advertisement responses from people who might be interested, but I do know- and this is fundamental to my approach- from the interviews I have received that interested people who were concerned to put forward points of view to this Committee were unaware of the Committee’s composition, were unaware that the Committee was meeting and were therefore unaware of its operations generally and the rights which they had to put matters before it with regard to the clauses of this Bill. [More…]
People may say that those persons were not astute enough to make inquiries, but as far as I personally am concerned I believe them when they say quite genuinely that they were unaware of their rights and of the opportunities which the Committee’s composition afforded to them. [More…]
It denies to honourable senators rights which we ought to be prepared to concede that they have. [More…]
Senator Webster was completely within his rights in being obedient to that ruling of the Senate that was accepted and carried on the voices as to the style and quality of dress that was required. [More…]
This ensured the protection of contributors rights. [More…]
That the amendment to the Bill recommended by the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee will ensure that the rights of women who play the traditional role in society will be protected, as will the interests of the children. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
The said Bill does not protect the legal and social rights of women and children in the family. [More…]
However, with respect to China there is a belief that with the development of mutual understanding and increased trade we can get to a position where we can have reciprocal arrangements between the Chinese shipping company and the Australian National Line on chartering rights. [More…]
Is he the same Sir Reginald Sholl who, in the infamous Sir Richard Stawell Oration in 1970, expressed the view that the anti- Vietnam war movement in the United States of America was a plot by the Jewish supporters of Israel and who, in that oration and at meetings sponsored by the League of Rights, consistently expresses opposition to liberal attitudes generally? [More…]
No government in the history of this country has done more for the rights of pensioners than has this Government, and in fact whatever may be the rate of inflation the rate of pension increases under the Labor Government has been greater than any increases in the consumer price index. [More…]
We have told the staff that they are guaranteed that their promotion rights, and so on, will be protected. [More…]
Is the Minister for Foreign Affairs aware of recent documented allegations made by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry and other responsible authorities concerning the persecution of the Jewish community in Syria, including numerous murders, assaults, religious persecutions, confinement to ghettos and denial of normal human rights in defiance of the United Nations Declarations on Human Rights? [More…]
The Government is always concerned with civil rights matters, both in Australia and other countries. [More…]
In all such cases it has to consider a number of factorsthe difficulty of establishing the accuracy of reports and allegations, the need to avoid undue interference in what other countries may regard as their internal affairs, and what, if anything, can be done to improve the position of those whose civil rights are alleged to have been violated. [More…]
I do not accept, as I have said already, that when these civil rights have been violated, other countries can pass the violations off as internal affairs. [More…]
The conditions under which these Jews must live constitutes a permanent offence to the principles of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
They have no rights such as that of the vote, cannot hold a job in any government office or in Syria’s nationalised sector, to say nothing of the police or armed forces, be it the most insignificant. [More…]
Is it saying, as it said and did in relation to Ampol Petroleum Ltd, that a State government is not entitled to exercise its legal rights and should not be exercising them, should not be appealing to the High Court and challenging legislation which it believes is not constitutionally valid? [More…]
Recently the Minister attempted to browbeat Ampol and to prevent it from exercising its existing and proper legal rights in applying to the Prices Justification Tribunal. [More…]
Ampol into withdrawing its application, the Government at the last minute brought down a regulation to take away rights which the Government itself had created. [More…]
That is how this Minister and this Government regard rights, even those which the Government has created. [More…]
Not only is it an arrogant claim, a claim to prevent people from exercising their legal rights; it is also a completely unreasonable and illogical attitude to take to these important matters. [More…]
What private citizens do if they are litigating in that way about a business or an asset which will be destroyed if it is not properly looked after while the litigation is continuing is to make arrangements for the business to be carried on without prejudice to the litigation, without prejudice to either party’s rights as determined. [More…]
The States are challenging our rights in this area ‘ and so on. [More…]
As I have said, there is every reason why the Government, and the Minister for Minerals and Energy in particular, should agree to the renewal of these permits and then, whatever the outcome of the litigation in the High Court, the respective rights of the Commonwealth Government and the State governments can be adjusted between themselves. [More…]
That is absurd because there is no reason agreements should not be made between the governments to enable this work to be done and the respective rights of the State Government and the Commonwealth Government can then be resolved in the High Court in due course. [More…]
The true position is that unless the Government provides over 100 per cent more than the grant it made last year for each of these areas, it will deprive the States of their true rights. [More…]
Of course that very well respected member of the League of Rights, Mr Gunn, the member for Eyre- I think that he is or has been in the past closely associated with Senator Hall- said: Conscripted’. [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was developed on the Rights of Magna Carta to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement, the communication of knowledge and information. [More…]
And whereas the Australian Commonwealth has adhered to the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights and to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, [More…]
I think the real reason for members of that committee ventilating their feeling is that they are still concerned about their rights in the new enterprise. [More…]
The long title of this Bill is A Bill for an Act relating to Marriage and to Divorce and Matrimonial Causes and, in Relation thereto Parental Rights and the Custody and Guardianship of Infants, and certain other Matters’. [More…]
The Bill incorporates measures dealing with custody, maintenance, declarations on property rights and various other matters which are not necessarily connected with or tied to dissolution including counselling, reconciliation and all sorts of things. [More…]
Section 5 1 of the Constitution states that the Parliament shall have power to make laws in this area with respect to marriage, divorce and matrimonial causes, and in relation thereto, parental rights, and the custody and guardianship of infants. [More…]
A Bill for an Act Relating to Marriage and to Divorce and Matrimonial Causes and, in relation thereto Parental Rights and the Custody and Guardianship of Infants, and certain other Matters. [More…]
The 2 decisions I have mentioned have made it clear that many other similar orders are or questionable validity, and it is most desirable that the doubts that at present exist in relation to the rights of persons affected by such orders be removed. [More…]
These rights are of vital importance to the individuals affected. [More…]
The enforceability of such important rights as these plainly cannot be left in doubt. [More…]
The present Bill will remove the doubts that have arisen by providing that the rights of such persons are to be the same as they would have been if the orders had been validly made- that is, made by a judge of the Supreme Court [More…]
But because we chose in 1959 to call an Act the ‘Matrimonial Causes Act’ it does nothing to define or limit the powers which the Constitution gave to the Commonwealth- namely, the powers over marriage, divorce and matrimonial causes and in relation thereto parental rights and the custody and guardianship of infants. [More…]
In the Marriage Act case in which the High Court considered questions involving the extent of the marriage power Justice Taylor was inclined to give a wide interpretation to the term “marriage’, as was Justice Menzies who said: ‘The power must extend to the mutual rights and the obligations of spouses unless it be that State laws could deprive that marriage, according to Commonwealth law, of any legal significance except for Commonwealth purposes. [More…]
Clearly one is dealing with the mutual rights and obligations arising out of marriage and proceedings for enforcement. [More…]
But the parties do not lose their rights and they do not lose the facility which the lawyer provides for them to put the point of view forward. [More…]
While State Governments could lose some of their right to individual action, I emphasise that these rights would be vested in an interstate body acting in the best interests of all concerned. ‘ [More…]
However, this intended modification to the existing exhaustive preferential voting system is also aimed at allowing electors the maximum degree of choice in exercising their democratic voting rights. [More…]
The Bill provides for the staff of EPIC to be transferred to the new Corporation without loss of their existing rights or privileges. [More…]
The provisions concerning rights of appeal will still apply as regards the base value. [More…]
By way of background, I might explain that voting rights are based on ‘subscriptions’ to IDA. [More…]
By general consensus it had been decided that the additional resources put at IDA’s disposal under the first and second replenishments should not affect existing voting rights. [More…]
This was done by permitting countries to make additional subscriptions- which carry voting rights- to IDA as well as contributions under the third replenishment, the relative proportions between the two varying in each instance so as to produce the overall adjustments in voting rights desired. [More…]
Complex calculations undertaken by the staff of IDA indicate that, of the total amount which Australia is expected to make available to IDA over the next few years, the equivalent of US$590,525- that is $A399,003 calculated on the same basis as before- should take the form of an additional subscription with voting rights. [More…]
Should the Commissioner decline to issue a tax clearance certificate he is to advise the applicant accordingly and the applicant will have rights of formal objection against this refusal. [More…]
In short, there will be rights to independent review of the Commissioner’s decisions under this Bill, as is the case under other legislation administered by the Commissioner. [More…]
Questions must therefore arise as to how far activities which are not determining rights between citizens are an exercise of that judicial power. [More…]
The practice and procedure can vitally affect people’s rights in this area. [More…]
If the power is to be used, we know it must be used in a bona fide manner for the purposes for which it is granted and with due regard to the rights of persons affected by the exercise of the power. [More…]
It would therefore be open for the States to transfer such rights. [More…]
I strongly oppose this amendment, which 1 would not be so churlish as to suggest was dictated or motivated by any thought of centralism, State rights or anything like that. [More…]
We are exercising a federal power which relates to individual citizens in this community and their rights in relation to problems arising with matrimonial dissolutions and the like. [More…]
There this notion of co-operative federalism is an area of legitimate debate but it seems to me that in this area where individual rights are concerned it is not an area of legitimate debate. [More…]
It is my opinion that such a scheme would not succeed and that constitutionally you will not be able to deny the judges their life appointment by inducing them or forcing them to accept appointments by making their pension rights very bad if they do not accept retirement at 65 or 70 years of age. [More…]
the need to protect the rights of children and to promote their welfare: and [More…]
In regard to paragraph (b), the Committee will recall that those words ‘the natural and fundamental group unit of society’ are the ones which appear in the Convention on Civil and Political Rights and also in the Universal Declaration of Rights, and I am sure that their inclusion in this Bill will receive a certain amount of approval throughout the community. [More…]
Later on in respect of clauses 51 and 56 which deal with maintenance of the issue of a marriage this question of the rights of the issue and of responsibility will emerge. [More…]
They would have to look at all the ancient law which has developed under these grounds to determine what their rights will be. [More…]
Another new provision will require the value of benefits received under a stock option or share purchase scheme to be measured at the time of the exercise of the option or on the transfer of the shares rather than as at present, when the rights are acquired. [More…]
Capital expenditure on the development of a mine or oil field, on the provision of community facilities adjacent to a mine or field, or on the purchase of mining rights or information will be deductible henceforth over the estimated life of the mine or field. [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was developed on the Rights ofthe Magna Carta to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free nien and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement, the communication of knowledge and information. [More…]
And whereas the Australian Commonwealth has adhered 10 the United Nations* Universal Declaration of Human Rights and to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
-Is the Leader of the Government in the Senate aware that the Government of the State of Victoria recently invited certain Victorian senators to a Cabinet meeting to discuss so-called State rights constitutional matters? [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to supersede certain provisions of the laws of Queensland that discriminate against Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and deny them basic human rights. [More…]
The United Nations charter is based on the principles of dignity and equality inherent in all human beings and the charter provides that one of the purposes of the United Nations is to promote universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race. [More…]
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the 25th anniversary of which was celebrated on 10 December 1973, proclaims that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights, that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set out in the declaration, without distinction of any kind, in particular as to race. [More…]
For example, the Proclamation of Teheran issued by the International Conference on Human Rights in 1968 observed that the implementation of the principle of non-discrimination, embodied in the United Nations Charter, the Universal Declaration and other instruments constituted a most urgent task of mankind. [More…]
It further stated that gross denials of human rights arising from discrimination on grounds of race outraged the conscience of mankind. [More…]
The 1972 platform of the Labor Party included the proposal that the Australian Parliament should legislate against all forms of discrimination as part of a program to provide equal rights and opportunities for all persons. [More…]
The federal platform of the Liberal Party, as approved by the Federal Council in October 1974, includes proposals for the implementation and enforcement of legislation to promote equality of rights between all Australian citizens and to remove any form of discrimination against Aborigines. [More…]
It does not believe that any group of Australian citizens should be subject to laws that are inconsistent with fundamental rights. [More…]
They are intended only to remove elements of this legislation that are inconsistent with what the Australian Government regards as basic civil rights to be enjoyed by all Australians, without regard to race or colour. [More…]
In addition to the more usual situations, shares conferring rights of occupancy of a flat or home unit used as a matrimonial home will be treated as such property. [More…]
Because the River Murray Waters Act preceded the Officers’ Rights Declaration Act and the Superannuation Act, there have been problems in the application of those Acts to staff of the River Murray Commission. [More…]
I think that anyone who is familiar with what happened when divorce was based on the failure to comply with a decree for restitution of conjugal rights would want to avoid a return to that state of affairs. [More…]
Admittedly, in the situation Senator Murphy mentioned of the old application for restitution of conjugal rights which seemed to be a feature of the New South Wales law for many years- in the more enlightened States it had been abandoned long before the Matrimonial Causes Act 1959- that law recognised that that did happen. [More…]
1 ) In proceedings between the parties to a marriage with respect to existing title or rights in respect of property, the court may declare the title or rights, if any, that a party has in respect ofthe property. [More…]
Under the clause of the Bill as printed, that woman will cease to be entitled to any maintenance and will have no rights in respect of her former husband whatsoever. [More…]
It is a situation which in all justice demands that she should still have some rights to maintenance from her former husband. [More…]
10) Nothing in this Act affects the operation of an agreement sanctioned under paragraph 87 ( 1 ) (k) of the repealed Act or the rights and obligations of a person under such an agreement. [More…]
65a ( I ) Subject to this section, a maintenance agreement may make provision to the effect that the agreement shall opcrate, in relation to the financial matters dealt with in the agreement, in substitution for any rights ofthe parties to the agreement under this Part. [More…]
Nothing in this Act affects the operation of an agree- ment sanctioned under paragraph 87 ( 1 ) (k) ofthe repealed Act or the rights and obligations of a person under such an agreement. [More…]
Proposed new clause 65a contains the second alternative approach to the question of maintenance agreements and it provides that an agreement can operate in substitution for any rights under the Act provided it is approved by the court. [More…]
After sub-clause ( I ) insert the following new sub-clause:- ( I a) In exercising its powers under sub-section ( I ), the court may make an order relieving a party to a marriage from any obligation to perform marital services or render conjugal rights.’ [More…]
It will also include orders relieving a party to a marriage from any obligation to perform marital services or render conjugal rights. [More…]
Where a member of the staff of the Institute was, immediately before his appointment, an officer of the Australian Public Service or a person to whom the Officers’ Rights Declaration Act 1928-1973 applied- [More…]
he retains his existing and accruing rights; [More…]
for the purpose of determining those rights, his service as a member of the staff of the Institute shall be taken into account as if it were service in the Australian Public Service; and [More…]
the Officers’ Rights Declaration Act 1928-1973 applies as if this Act and this section had been specified in the Schedule to that Act. [More…]
Maybe some way can be found of amending its proposals or obtaining some other solution to try to ensure complete preservation of the rights of all Australians. [More…]
Queensland Aborigines; it is for the purpose of giving Aborigines in Queensland the same rights as the white settlers in Queensland; it is for the purpose of giving Aborigines on reserves in Queensland the same rights as Aborigines off reserves in Queensland, and it is in keeping with an obligation we have to a United Nations agreement that we are obliged to proceed with this legislation. [More…]
I refer the Minister to his many attempts to have discussions with the Queensland Minister for Aboriginal and Island Affairs in relation to land rights for Aborigines and other matters such as those raised by Senator Bonner. [More…]
I asked Mr Hewitt to meet me to discuss the Woodward Commission report on land rights of Aboriginals. [More…]
Honourable senators will be aware that the Labor Government recognises Aboriginal rights in land, and moved early in 1973 to set up an Aboriginal Land Rights Commission to inquire into and report on appropriate means to recognise and establish Aboriginal land rights in the Northern Territory in the first instance. [More…]
Although the former Government did not recognise Aboriginal rights in land, it did recognise the need of many Aboriginals living outside reserves for land to use and develop for economic and social purposes. [More…]
Control itself should be exercised only by laws, but within those laws we can still have our rights and our freedoms. [More…]
In having and applying those rights and freedoms we should be able to live within the law and to be protected by the law. [More…]
I do not think for a moment that he would be a man who would abuse that control, but the Minister in charge of this portfolio at present will not always be the Minister in charge of it and it is the responsibility of this Parliament to legislate in such a way that the rights of the people and freedom of speech are protected. [More…]
My job as a member of this Parliament, as a member of this Senate, is to protect the rights and the interests of the people of this country. [More…]
In the process of protecting those rights- I refer to the freedom of speech in this country- I have no alternative but to accept my responsibilities and to oppose this legislation. [More…]
We heard such climatic and dramatic expressions as ‘revolution through mass communications’, ‘tyrannous legislation’, ‘the rights of the people’, ‘freedom of operation for the Press’, ‘the threat of nationalisation’ and other cliches that we have heard from the Opposition over a long period of years. [More…]
There are provisions relating to the abolition of departments and the protection of rights of officers of the Public Service, particularly those who have been provisionally promoted in a department which is abolished. [More…]
The final provisions which I think do not require any real attention because they speak for themselves involve the application of the Officers’ Rights Declaration Act to persons who may take positions in Commonwealth Territories. [More…]
In short there will be rights to independent review of the Commissioner’s decisions under this Bill as is the case under other legislation administered by the Commissioner. [More…]
If we give reserves to the Aborigines on those reserves as an entitlement to land rights the Aborigines have the same right as has any owner of private property to say who goes on or off their reserves. [More…]
The remaining paragraphs relate to judges of the Supreme Court; the preservation of proceedings commenced in that Court before transfer; preservation of rules of court; preservation of certain rights of appeal to the High Court and the preservation of warrants given by the Governor-General under Section 73 (2) in respect of persons sentenced to death. [More…]
The effect of the Bill will be to bring those of the present Judges who were appointed before 1 December 1973, the date on which Papua New Guinea achieved selfGovernment, under the Australian Judges’ Pensions Act, so that their pension rights are guaranteed by Australian legislation. [More…]
I believe that if people have established their rights in a pre-existing situation and if some people have taken advantage of provisions which it was not anticipated they would take advantage of, that is the way the lot should fall. [More…]
I know that it is not the desire of the Government to effect any legislation which might prejudice the rights of any person who may have contrac.tural obligations along the lines Senator Greenwood has indicated, but it is necessary to have these regulations clearly defined. [More…]
Why must we validate situations which have existed in the past in which certain persons have secured certain rights? [More…]
I understand that there are people who have relied upon their rights under the old banking exchange regulations and who have secured judgments or have had judgments entered against them. [More…]
They would find that their rights are taken away. [More…]
Thirdly, we have the position in which proceedings have been taken and, providing the proceedings are on foot at 3 December of this year, those proceedings may be completed and rights will be determined on the basis of the preexisting law- on the basis of what people did or did not do under the earlier banking exchange regulations. [More…]
A guarantor, an insurance company, in those circumstances may well feel that it has adequate redress in the case of a foreign resident or a foreign company by a right of action in the United Kingdom, the United States of America, or some European or Asian country; but if as a result of the Bretton/Woods agreement- the International Monetary Agreements Act- that person cannot enforce his rights in those countries, what we are doing by way of legislation here will prejudice a guarantor, an insurance company, in that position. [More…]
Bjelke-Petersen in terms of individualism and the rights of the individual in terms of new developments in government, he should say so so that everybody in this chamber and everybody listening know where he really stands. [More…]
I think it does not need elaboration as to the rights of senators to have their questions answered and how dependent members of Parliament are for the effective working of our parliamentary system upon being able to obtain information from Ministers in reply to questions on public affairs. [More…]
However, in my opinion the incident vividly illustrates the complete disregard for the rights of individuals that characterises the administration of the Queensland Department of Aboriginal and Island Affairs. [More…]
We ask you to support us in every way to make sure we retain our rights. [More…]
We sincerely hope you will respect our rights and delete from your Bill such clauses referring to entry and residence. [More…]
Will the shadow Minister, who has now become a shadow because he has disappeared from the chamber, and others on his side of the House say that they do not want this sort of legislation to protect the rights of Aboriginal people in Queensland? [More…]
Cease being an agent of Petersen and fight for the rights and freedom of your people. [More…]
The message from Mr Les Stewart of Cherbourg is to Senator Cavanagh, and it is this: ‘If this Bill is passed in its present form the first person to be debarred from visiting Cherbourg under our tribal rights will be Senator Cavanagh’. [More…]
Cease being an agent of Petersen and fight Ibr the rights and freedom of your people. [More…]
Special measures taken for the sole purpose of securing adequate advancement of certain racial or ethnic groups or individuals requiring such protection as may be necessary in order to ensure such groups or individuals equal enjoyment or exercise of human rights and fundamental freedoms shall not be deemed racial discrimination 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…]
As far as I am concerned, as a senator, we have certain rights. [More…]
This Senate has constitutional rights. [More…]
Whether those rights have been acted upon since the creation of the Senate or not does not make any difference. [More…]
I am upholding the rights of the Senate and the rights of a senator. [More…]
There is a proposal which will lead to control by the Minister for Social Security over the health insurance funds in this country; there is a proposal which will increase the subsidies for nursing homes; there are proposals which will correct anomalies with regard to handicapped children’s payments 9nd which will widen the provision with respect to surgical aids and medical aids and applicances; and there is a proposal which provides for an extension of full approval rights for certain friendly society dispensaries. [More…]
The officer is to be afforded a reasonable opportunity to be heard on any issue, but he will not have any voting rights. [More…]
The civil rights of action for issuing unregistered prospectuses, or prospectuses which contain material misstatements or omissions, have been made more effective. [More…]
I am confident that they will cause the industry to function much more efficiently and with better regard for the rights of investors. [More…]
Were these economic policies borrowed from the Australian Country Party’s or National Party’s fraternal organisation in Queensland, the Australian League of Rights? [More…]
Administratively the NCDC can live with these proposals, and at the same time all the rights of Parliament are protected. [More…]
All we are ensuring by this Bill is that an Aboriginal on a reserve has the same rights and privileges as an Aboriginal off a reserve. [More…]
The whole position is that we, as a community, have the responsibility to extend freedoms and human rights to everyone in Australia’. [More…]
Despite what has been said, this is not an election issue and I hope the Opposition will reconsider its attitude and enable us to have unanimity on this legislation which is to ensure the freedom and the rights of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
In the light of the Government’s opposition to that we have been left with only one course of action, that is, to act in the way in which we have been requested to act by the Queensland Aboriginal Advisory Council and by the chairman of most of the Aboriginal councils in the various communities, and oppose the inclusion in the Bill of clauses 6 and 7 which relate to the rights of entry into and residence on reserves in Queensland. [More…]
I think they are acting within their rights. [More…]
I am the person who prevented you from having the rights that I enjoy as a person who does not live on a reserve. [More…]
The very sobering thought is that the public will sacrifice federation and the rights and powers of the States to get what it wants from the Federal Government. [More…]
Leave out all words after ‘That’, insert: the Senate opposes this Bill and is of the opinion that the provisions contained in it should be referred to the Legislative Assembly for the Northern Territory to enable that Assembly to consider ways by which land prices in the Northern Territory should be stabilised, but with a request that any lands acquisition proposals which might be included in legislation to be considered by that Assembly should protect the rights of private land owners and occupiers and be on just terms’. [More…]
The owners have rights which I believe this Parliament should always accord them and indeed which the Constitution itself accords to all residents of States, namely that if a government wants to acquire their land, it is to be acquired on just terms. [More…]
It is not simply a matter of protecting the rights of the landowner. [More…]
Of course he has rights and his rights are not being taken away by this legislation. [More…]
But there are other people in the community who also have rights. [More…]
It brings the staff within the scope of the Officers’ Rights Declaration Act 1928-73 and the Superannuation Act 1922-74. [More…]
Aboriginal Land Rights. [More…]
To withdraw the landing rights of South African Airways in favour of an arrangement with an African Airline and [More…]
The honourable senator also referred to the objectionable attempt by some finance companies to deny consumers the rights that the Parliament has given to them under these laws. [More…]
The companies do not seem to recognise that new rights have been conferred on consumers by this legislation and that the Government intends to see that these rights are made effective. [More…]
If the practice continues it will be necessary to consider an amendment to the legislation to make it an offence to attempt to force consumers to contract away their protection and rights under the Act. [More…]
It is essential that mining companies can move in a predictable environment in which to make decisions and that governments do not leave them (up in the air) as to their rights and obligations. [More…]
After sub-clause (6), insert the following sub-clause: (6a) Any proclamation shall be subject to any rights, licences and permits acquired under the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1967-1973’. [More…]
This amendment requires that the proclamation of an area of land as a national park under clause 7 shall be subject to any rights, licences and permits acquired under the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act. [More…]
If that is the case then, of course, a problem arises in relation to all those rights and licences and permits to explore for and to develop oil or natural gas which have been acquired by various companies under the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act. [More…]
These very important rights have been created. [More…]
It would be very serious if we in this national Parliament were seen to disturb or possibly disturb in any way the rights and titles that are already in existence and which are of such importance to the nation for the reasons I have outlined. [More…]
Therefore, I state that the object of this amendment is to make it quite clear that no power we are giving to the Government under this legislation can in any way disturb those rights and titles which are already in existence under the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act. [More…]
I also support the Opposition in that I would preserve the rights of the States. [More…]
Both in another place and here this afternoon doubts were expressed as to whether there would not be some infringement of so-called States rights and some duplication. [More…]
Initially the rights of these officers will be fully protected because they will remain members of the Australian Public Service. [More…]
The rights of officers to be transferred to the statutory Corporation are covered by the Officers Rights Declaration Act and although this Act does not as it stands fully protect the rights of officers in this situation the Government plans to amend the Act. [More…]
Accordingly it is not intended to absorb the abovementioned staff into the Corporation until such time as the Officers Rights Declaration Act has been amended to deal more appropriately with such a situation. [More…]
Did he promise the Administrative and Clerical Officers Association on 3 May 1974 that he would introduce legislation to implement the recommendations of the Joint Council re action to protect the rights of employees suffering pecuniary loss following departmental restructuring. [More…]
This is a specialist commission which has been established for the purpose not of deciding land rights but of controlling money allocations. [More…]
We all know of the scurrilous propaganda about how we deprived the Gurindji tribe of land rights and everything else and how, over the time, we have left them in Wattie Creek starving. [More…]
The Constitution is ignored and the rights of the people of Queensland, the rights of the people of Papua New Guinea and the rights of the Torres Strait Islanders are just not taken account of in the assertions that our present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) makes about what should be the independence of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
It is a Bill which is designed to ensure the pension rights of the judges of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
It is only proper that, when independence comes, we should evolve a system under which the judges whom Australia has appointed to the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea should be protected in their pension rights and in their futures if they decide to leave Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I think that it indicates the hollowness of the claims to protect civil rights, to protect human rights, which so often come from supporters of the Government that the Government should produce Bills which contain provisions of this character. [More…]
Not knowing the rights or wrongs of the matter I find it even more strange tonight, at a time when there is no possibility of answering the charges which are made in such volume, that the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Senator Greenwood) raised them by innuendo. [More…]
I realise that my greatest opponent in trying to preserve the rights of honourable senators is no longer in the Senate. [More…]
It is further taking away the rights of honourable senators. [More…]
I admit most frankly and most freely that Senator Cavanagh, in the years that I have known him in the Senate, has sought vehemently- perhaps more than any other honourable senator- to maintain the rights of honourable senators. [More…]
We have had great debates on Standing Orders and on the rights and privileges of senators inherent in them. [More…]
It would have been equitable if the Manager of Government Business in the Senate (Senator Douglas McClelland) had said: ‘Let us have the same rights for both. [More…]
Under this proposed standing order the chairman of a committee has to fulfil the rights of paragraph (c). [More…]
It is unfortunate that most of the Senate has to come in and vote without knowledge of the debate that has gone on, but I hope they will not take the attitude of further restricting the rights of senators especially backbenchers. [More…]
We also want to protect the rights of the individual members of a committee who might believe that before the chairman replies to any question he or she, the member of that committee, should be consulted by the chairman. [More…]
The proposed sessional order has been designed to protect the rights of all members of the Senate. [More…]
That is the reason for the proposed standing order which is before the Committee at present.I suggest to honourable senators that if they agree to this proposal they will not find their rights in any way destroyed. [More…]
I am willing to concede to Ministers of State a certain amount of priority and rights in the Senate.I am prepared to concede the rights of governments in the Senate. [More…]
This motion is designed to cut down the rights of members. [More…]
A tendency has grown up during the time I have been in this place to whittle away the rights of honourable senators, particularly of back bench senators, and to whittle away their opportunity to explain in detail what may be a very involved case. [More…]
The only known source of Mr Lynch ‘s conspiratorial view on economic phenomena is the assorted publications of the League of Rights and in particular the paranoic scribblings of its director, Eric D. Butler, Australia ‘s most verbose anti-Semite and author of ‘The International Jew’, Australia’s antiSemite’s bible. [More…]
Of course it is well known that the Country Party in Queensland is barely distinguishable from the League of Rights, but now apparently the virus has infected the upper echelons of the Liberal Party. [More…]
It is surely not unreasonable to describe such an action as an outrage of democracy and a denial of the New South Wales voters’ democratic rights. [More…]
Will they stand up to defend the convention, to defend the agreement between the States, to defend the democratic rights of the New South Wales voters? [More…]
I do not think any State government during that period ever felt that its rights, duties and obligations were at stake or were under attack. [More…]
Senator Withers talked about the threatened attack by the Australian Government on the rights of the States and said that this was a defensive action by the New South Wales Government against the things that the Australian Government is allegedly doing to the States, but what was it that Mr Lewis had to say yesterday? [More…]
We are an elected house of Parliament and we have constitutional rights and responsibilities. [More…]
There has been talk tonight of State rights. [More…]
Who is abrogating the obligation to uphold State rights now? [More…]
Who preaches State rights in this matter? [More…]
Thereafter on a further proclaimed date the Commission ceases to exist and its continuing rights and obligations vest in Australia. [More…]
It also affects the rights of individuals, even their right to remain on their own land, because, as the Minister pointed out, there is a provision here whereby the Commission can order people to leave their own property, albeit only in very particular and serious circumstances. [More…]
Despite the neglect of Aboriginals by the Queensland Government the Australian Government is determined that Aboriginals there will get the same privileges and rights as Aboriginals in the rest of Australia have. [More…]
In my view Senator Hall has already abrogated the conventions of this Senate and the rights of the States by supporting the territorial senators Bill. [More…]
It is a jack booted deprivation of their constitutional rights. [More…]
My re-reading of the debate satisfies me that Senator Withers was making the important point that the way in which the Federal Government of this country has in recent months and years treated the States, the actions by the Government both in regard to the Gair affair and in regard to the interference by constitutional amendment with the States’ rights in regard to the Senate by introducing non-State representatives and also the attacks that have constantly been made on States and the infringement of their powers have left many State leaders in a position where they considerably fear the intentions of this Government, and I think justifiably so. [More…]
The next point I make about the Opposition’s amendment is simply that day after day Opposition senators come into this chamber as defenders of State rights, as they like to call it. [More…]
Is it not time that instead of giving this sort of approval to a convention about State rights they should look as well at State obligations to this chamber? [More…]
If Mr Lewis has a problem which concerns his State honourable senators on the other side of the chamber will be quick to point that out in terms of the rights of New South Wales. [More…]
That is one of the incontrovertible rights of State parliaments. [More…]
While I am talking of the rights of State parliaments, I point out that one of the Tasmanian senators who has contributed to the debate, Senator Everett, thought the issue of State rights being challenged by the Federal Parliament during the last few years to be so important that he joined with other State luminaries in a conference in London for a number of weeks, supported by advisers and the necessary public finance, to defend State rights against the challenge of the Federal authorities. [More…]
No doubt he was concerned about the threats to abolish appeals to the Privy Council, the threats to encroach upon the extra-territorial domain of offshore oil interests and other matters that the States consider are their rights. [More…]
As I have pointed out, the application of this practice is one of the rights that are today, by the unanimous resolution of this Senate, the sole responsibility of the 2 Houses of the Parliament of any particular State voting together. [More…]
Senator Withers simply said that the States are being challenged and their rights are being encroached upon by many Acts of this Parliament, including a number of Acts whose constitutional validity will come before the tribunal to which the ex-senator has been appointed. [More…]
It is a legitimate consideration for the Premier to take into account as to whether the appointment represents a threat to his State rights impelling a very exact compliance with the other State right that he possesses under section 15. [More…]
Will they stand up to defend the convention, to defend the agreement between the States, to defend the democratic rights of the New South Wales voters? [More…]
This situation gives the States no rights of their own in the total revenues which are raised in Australia, despite the fact that the States have been excluded in one case by the Constitution and in another case by policies of the Government and decisions of the High Court from the 2 major sources of public revenue and the 2 sources which would provide the greatest form of growth in public revenue. [More…]
I would have thought that one of the major considerations in this day and age of any town planning proposal would be for the citizens of the community affected to be given adequate rights and opportunities to express their views in regard to the plans. [More…]
When he was running for the Senate he had an article published in one of the subsidiary publications of the League of Rights. [More…]
The Opposition’s shadow Minister, who is a member of the National Party or the Country Party or the League of Rights or something, is known as Katter. [More…]
This Bill allows people tremendous rights. [More…]
I find it rather strange that the Liberal Party should have so much concern about the rights of individuals and the rights of elected representatives. [More…]
It wants the Minister who will be responsible for administering this legislation to surrender his rights- that is what is involved in the amendments- and to vest those rights entirely in an autonomous body. [More…]
We know we have rights in this place to disallow ordinances. [More…]
Will the Citizens’ Council look after the interests of the Aboriginals at Bagot and Kulaluk who have been guaranteed land rights in their areas? [More…]
Since 1900 no attempt had ever been made to resort to them until 1 972 when there was an informal approach by officials from Tasmania and Victoria seeking to know whether there was a possibility of the Government led by Mr McMahon joining with Tasmania in petitioning the Queen to refer to the Privy Council for its advisory opinion certain questions relating to rights to the seabed. [More…]
This was not a question where governments alone would be concerned because matters concerning rights to the seabed so far have come to the High Court for decisiondecisions have been given- not at the instance of the Federal Government or of any State government, but at the instance of private citizens. [More…]
There is provision in a variety of ways for citizens to assert their rights. [More…]
What has been announced to date indicates that the rights of the citizens of Darwin to their property and their land will not be prejudiced except where a dangerous situation exists. [More…]
If under the alibi of absolute urgency the Government seeks to railroad the people’s rights, justice will not be done. [More…]
In a matter of three or six or twelve months, if these powers were exercised, people would say: ‘What are our rights in the matter?’ [More…]
As members of the Opposition are aware, the true principle is that an insurer is subrogated to the rights of his insured. [More…]
Government policy is wrapped up in a promise to give land rights to Aborigines at Bagot. [More…]
It is not possible to affect anybody’s rights under a lease he has been granted. [More…]
It is very pleasing to note that the Minister is having regard to the rights of individuals who could be seriously affected by such overweening powers as would be contained in these clauses if they were not amended in accordance with my motion. [More…]
Because of the level at which he will be required to operate, the need to attract a person of sufficient status and the need for constant liaison between the Darwin Reconstruction Commission and its executive, he should clearly be a member of the board with full voting rights. [More…]
Many people do not know the rights they have. [More…]
The Opposition cannot agree to any of these very important individual rights being taken away by regulation. [More…]
As I have said, it is one which is so important as far as the protection of individual rights is concerned. [More…]
As the sub-clause stands now, it can certainly take away or lessen people ‘s rights existing under the Lands Acquisition Act, subject always, of course, to the provisions of sub-clause (1). [More…]
There would be many other rights that exist under the Lands Acquisition Act which could be taken away if sub-clause (2 ) is carried. [More…]
As it stands at the moment, the Opposition certainly could not agree to sub-clause (2) because it could operate to take away existing rights other than the right that is guaranteed by sub-clause ( 1 ). [More…]
-The Minister uses the word ‘benefit’, and of course the Opposition is concerned that something may harm a citizen ‘s rights. [More…]
We in the Opposition believe that this is but another example of this Government’s attempt to encroach upon the rights and liberties of individuals, organisations and political parties. [More…]
It is rather interesting to note that the registration of political parties and limitations on the rights of individuals to play an active part in politics always arise under socialist governments. [More…]
If we talk about equality and equity between incumbents and challengers, surely if we are to be fair the moment an election is over and a challenger announces himself he should be given the same salary, rights and privileges as the incumbent so he can challenge the incumbent at the next election. [More…]
The said Bill does not provide or protect the legal or social rights of Women and Children in the family. [More…]
I ask: Under what possible principle of equity does the Government justify such a major proposed assault on individual rights to private property? [More…]
Mr President, the passage of this Bill will again emphasise the importance we attach to the exercising by the national Parliament of its sovereign rights over the offshore area in relation to offshore mining activities. [More…]
In the eyes of members of the Opposition, freedom is rights. [More…]
They have no concept of human rights. [More…]
They recognise only property rights. [More…]
At the very least their belief is that property rights must take priority over human rights. [More…]
I defy any member of the Opposition who claims to respect the rights and the liberties of the individual to rationalise the introduction by their Parties of conscription in 1964 and in maintaining it until they were thrown out of office on 2 December 1972. [More…]
I understand that he is an ex-patron of the League of Rights. [More…]
I agree that it is a complete abrogation of State rights. [More…]
This applies to chemists, doctors, the Right to Life Association, the divorce law reform people and people who have spent money in their wisdom to attempt to fight for what they believe to be their rights in this country. [More…]
We will see even the rights and privacy of volunteers or people who would wish to contribute to political parties very seriously eroded if ever a Bill such as this were passed by the Parliament. [More…]
We see opposite a Party that has totally abrogated the rights of members of a fair and democratic society. [More…]
The reason has been the lack of a stable and important middle class, the lack of a significant union movement, the lack of an important group of interested people and many other groups of people with independent rights to contribute and who do contribute to different parties. [More…]
That is giving to them an autonomy which is very much at variance with the claim that we often hear in this place that the Government is bent upon a centralist attitude to take away from the communities at large any rights they may have to initiate and operate these particular functions. [More…]
To my knowledge there have been only 2 judicial investigations into Aboriginal land rights, one by Mr Justice Blackburn at Gove and one more recently by Mr Justice Furnell in a Royal Commission in Western Australia. [More…]
This Australian Government has recognised some rights to land, as will be shown during this debate, and we can see no difficulty in accepting this expression of the Senate’s opinion. [More…]
It must be remembered that this Government was elected on 2 December 1972 and that on 15 December, within the first fortnight of operation of the Government, the Prime Minister issued a Press statement announcing the setting up of a judicial inquiry into the legal recognition of Aboriginal land rights and the appointment of Mr Justice Woodward to conduct the inquiry. [More…]
Mr Justice Woodward’s commission is not concerned with whether rights in land should be granted since the Government has already decided that they shall. [More…]
That was the first Government declaration that they shall have rights to land. [More…]
He has been asked to report on arrangements necessary in the NT to vesting title to Aboriginal reserved land, including rights in minerals and timber, in the Aboriginal groups and communities concerned; procedures for the examination of claims based on traditional rights in the areas outside the reserves or alternative ways of meeting effectively the need of Aboriginal communities outside reserves or land; amendments to legislation necessary to give effect to these recommendations. [More…]
In accordance with Mr Justice Woodward’s decision those who have tribal claims to land or those groups of Aborigines which claim long residential rights to land are now the subject of investigation by the Central Lands Committee and the Northern Lands Committee. [More…]
But Mr Justice Woodward said that it would be improper, while he was conducting an inquiry, for the Government to make arrangements to give land rights to the Gurindji people. [More…]
He said that the Government should not do so until such time as he had investigated the question of how land rights compensation should be paid. [More…]
So, to all intents and purposes, the Gurindji land rights claims have been met and the leasehold property will be given to the Aborigines on 1 July. [More…]
Honourable senators will remember that the keenness for Aboriginal land rights in Queensland is such that the law of Queensland forbids an Aboriginal even to go without permission on to the settlement on which he was bornhis homeland, his tribal land. [More…]
I do not know whether that money could be regarded as compensation for land rights. [More…]
The circular will be withdrawn from distribution immediately and another circular containing wording of which I approve will be issued to inform people who make applications, or are entitled to make applications, for loans of their rights. [More…]
It is true that the Australian Labor Party has always stood for the protection of the rights and the jobs of workers. [More…]
It also stands for the rights and the benefits of the Australian community as a whole. [More…]
In addition, the Fund could be an excellent mechanism through which foreign investors, interested in investing in Australia but not seeking voting rights, could participate in Australian investments without diminishing the degree of Australian control in areas where that might be an important policy consideration. [More…]
We want to uphold the rights of everyone to freedom of artistic expression. [More…]
From the vehement denial of rights to the Australian people I can only assume that the members of both the Liberal Party and the Australian Country Party find that they have a great deal to hide from the Australian people. [More…]
I know that if this legislation were to pass, no doubt on occasions senators would be frightened to exercise their rights in the way they can at the present time. [More…]
He would claim to be a very successful Premier concerned to defend the rights of his State as he sees those rights, and to protect the interests of the citizens of that State. [More…]
That leaves the question of the High Court itself and the view which is put forward that somehow this legislation is an infringement of State rights. [More…]
It may be seen as an infringement of the rights of certain State politicians. [More…]
But as a national Parliament surely we are concerned not with that but with the rights of Australian citizens, and in 1975 we ought to be concerned with that above everything else. [More…]
The great area of the expression of the common law in Australia and the rights and the protection of the citizens will be found to reside in the States, not in a superior court which is proposed in Canberra. [More…]
Is it not a matter of concern to the Government of this nation what the rights of appeal of its citizens should be? [More…]
The first argument that sincere people should advance is one that is governed by self discipline and one to which, by all the proprieties of lifeconstitutional ones not accepted- and the decencies of citizens’ rights, they feel bound to abide by. [More…]
When one comes into a State parliament one feels entitled to exert the rights of the State Parliament as the representative of the citizens of the State in the State sphere. [More…]
When one comes into a Federal Parliament one has other parameters, but they are equally definite and they are denned by one’s constitutional rights. [More…]
The citizens of the States are entitled to enjoy their rights to have access to the State judiciary. [More…]
The second area was the arbitrary powers that appeared to be given to the Commission without any rights of appeal or compensation. [More…]
The text illustrates by various doctrines of finding in the Federal courts a constitutional issue, the doctrine of pre-emption which, as I understand it, means much the same as our occupying the same field for the purpose of a test under section 109 of the Constitution, by the references to constitutional causes and now the underwriting of criminal cases by human rights and, I might say, the undermining of the enforcement of criminal cases by this doctrine, the utter weakness and danger of the system. [More…]
Citing more than half a dozen recent Supreme Court decisions as guidelines, Federal Judge John M. Cannella found that Mr Radich had been deprived of his rights under the First and 1 4th Amendments to the Constitution. [More…]
The Government does not believe that the existing system, under which there may be such an uneven application throughout Australia of the rights and obligations under laws made by this Parliament or between the citizen and the Australian Government, should be allowed to continue. [More…]
Every time a piece of legislation is introduced which has some impingement, be it great or small, on the so-called rights or so-called powers of the States the Opposition raises a cry and opposes the legislation. [More…]
The Government claims that this has important effects on the rights of individuals in that it causes delays and increasing costs, that there are inequitable ways in which judgments are executed and that people’s rights can vary from State to State. [More…]
Fourthly, it should be able to enforce all the law of the land and the citizen should be able to have all his rights determined in one court, whatever the source of the law, whether it be State or Federal law. [More…]
Under this new system people would not be able to have their rights determined in one court irrespective of the origin of the law. [More…]
That court was established, as its name still suggests, as an industrial court of the Commonwealth of Australia, designed to determine the rights and obligations of organisations and individuals involved in industrial matters and industrial disputations. [More…]
What sort of a system of law are we to have where the rights to part of that deposit are to be governed by State laws and the rights to another part of that deposit are to be governed by Federal laws? [More…]
We have even reached the stage where the permits or rights that have been given by previous Federal and State governments under the Petroleum and Submerged Lands Act are now put in doubt because the Minister is taking the attitude that he will not consent to a renewal of these permits until after the High Court makes its decision on the claim of sovereignty. [More…]
the passage of this Bill will again emphasise the importance we attach to the exercising by the national Parliament of its sovereign rights over the off-shore area in relation to off-shore mining activities. [More…]
Why should we perpetuate the problems associated with off-shore rights as between States and Federal institutions, problems that still exist today in the United States of America and Canada? [More…]
For some reason the Opposition parties have taken the view that this is wrong, that this is centralist, that this is socialist and that it takes away from the States their rights. [More…]
In a practical sense, forgetting the States’ rights issue as an overriding one here- I suggest that the development of Australia’s off-shore minerals is of greater importance than the issue of the States’ rights at this time after so many years of dissension about that matter have gone by- the subject really to be discussed tonight is whether the Commonwealth is to have the mechanics of making the Seas and Submerged Lands Bill operate if the High Court should find in its favour. [More…]
The question of whether the Commonwealth or the States has the responsibility within the Australian constitutional framework for the exercise of rights arising or the performance of obligations accepted under the International Convention on the Continental Shelf and under the Convention on the Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone is undecided. [More…]
Questions of the same character exist with respect to the rights and obligations under other international conventions to which Australia is a party. [More…]
But it is generally regarded as an open question whether the Commonwealth may successfully claim that ‘rights’ or ‘powers’- as distinct from duties or obligations- accruing to Australia under international conventions will entitle it to legislate to give effect to them. [More…]
1 look upon our attitude to this legislation not as something which is frustrating the Government but as something by which we are protecting the rights of so much of this country. [More…]
This was the Hall Government- will fight the Government over who should control all underwater mineral rights outside the low water mark. [More…]
As far as I am concerned the people of South Australia sent me to the Senate to protect their rights. [More…]
History will record one thing about Mr Connor and that is that he had the courage to defend Australia’s rights in this matter. [More…]
There are millions of pensioners in this country who count their entitlement to health care under the pensioner medical service as one of their rights. [More…]
They had no rights to full medical care. [More…]
It seems to me that it is based on an opposition of unenlightened conservatism, and this to me is best exemplified by the General Practitioners Society and its offshoot, the Workers Party, and also the League of Rights, all of which seem to be represented here. [More…]
The Government effectively is deleting from the existing law provisions which have been enserted in order to protect the rights of members. [More…]
The purpose of the existing law- and I think it is a matter of credit that the previous Government introduced these laws- is to ensure that the rights of members of trade unions are not overridden by officials who want to enlarge their empires and who seek to do so without regard to what the rank and file membership may think. [More…]
The basic point which characterises the Opposition’s attitude to this Bill is that we have in the existing law provisions which are designed to protect the rights of members and to ensure that amalgamations which take place do take place only in circumstances in which the rights of members are not over-ridden. [More…]
The trade union movement was fighting for the rights of its members long before arbitration and will continue to fight long after arbitration has withered or has been choked or killed by the Opposition here. [More…]
-Will the Minister for Repatriation and Compensation tell the Senate what women’s rights are under the existing repatriation legislation? [More…]
If we had said to the senator who has left this chamber and who was endeavouring to reform society as far as companies are concerned ‘There will not be any mergers of any companies’, what a howl there would have been; we would have been told that we were trespassing on the natural rights of private enterprise. [More…]
Yet, on the other side of the coin, it seems that the rights of trade unions to amalgamate are regarded as leading to Domesday. [More…]
1 will deal with another 2 clauses which deal with the rights of members of trade unions. [More…]
The rights of members are preserved by the requirement of the Bill that a ballot be conducted in the case of each organisation concerned in a proposed amalgamation. [More…]
The rights of members are further protected by proposed section 133 which requires that the rules of organisations be such as to ensure that every financial member of an organisation has a right to vote at any ballot taken for the purpose of submitting a matter to a vote of the members. [More…]
The Senate accepted the assurance of the Government (in order to enable the major features of the legislation to be enacted ) that opportunity would be provided for the Senate in 1974 to assert its rights to cover the position. [More…]
Clause 39 contains a provision which repeals the existing Acts and provides that rights, properties and assets of the existing Corporation shall be taken over together with all the debts, liabilities and obligations of the present Corporation. [More…]
Primarily we were disposed to try to ensure that the Bill did not in any way encroach upon the rights of existing States and State governments in terms of their own legislature and their own sovereign powers over land in terms outlined in this Bill. [More…]
However, the Government regards the Senate’s rejection of the provisions in the Bill relating to the supervision of health insurance organisations as representing a severe setback in the attempt by this Government to establish provisions for the protection of people’s rights. [More…]
Accordingly, there is a duty incumbent upon the Australian Government to ensure the protection of the community’s rights in the operation of those funds. [More…]
It is essential therefore that the Premier of Queensland be encouraged in his statesman-like approach to preserve the rights of the Queensland beef producers. [More…]
The rights of officers to be transferred to the statutory corporation are covered by the Officers’ Rights Declaration Act, and although this Act does not as it stands fully protect the rights of officers in this situation, the Government plans very soon to amend the Act. [More…]
So we do not intend to absorb the above-mentioned staff into the Corporation until such time as the Officers’ Rights Declaration Act has been amended to deal with such a situation in a better way. [More…]
-I undertook to obtain further details in answer to the latter part of a question from Senator Greenwood in the Senate on 4 March about whether the Government, as an elementary exercise in protecting an Australian’s human rights, would refuse to hold the projected talks with the Pathet Lao Minister for the Economy, who is about to visit Australia, until the Pathet Lao have given satisfactory assurances about the welfare and future of Mr Sharman. [More…]
I am indebted to one of my Senate colleagues for having made available to me remarks by a pioneer civil rights activist of America’s black community- a man named Bayard Rustin. [More…]
The officer is to be afforded a reasonable opportunity to be heard on any issue, but he will not have any voting rights. [More…]
The civil rights of action for issuing prospectuses which contain material mis-statements or omissions, have been made more effective. [More…]
I am confident that they will cause the industry to function much more efficiently and with better regard for the rights of investors. [More…]
For a generation and more, Australia shared with her Pacific partners a great delusion about our rights, our interests, our obligations. [More…]
Those who acted for Australia as a government mistook entirely the nature of Australia’s interests and obligations and her rights. [More…]
The Bill represents an attempt by this Government to establish provisions for the protection of the rights of people. [More…]
The Government wants to protect the rights of the community in relation to the operation of these funds. [More…]
Sixthly, the power sought for compulsory acquisition of any land, including the Crown land of a State, is destructive of the federal system of government and a threat to individual rights. [More…]
Will the Minister give to the Senate and to the Australian people some indication of just what our rights and entitlements will be in the future in relation to this basic issue of where and how we live? [More…]
It must be considered a major policy instrument to implement the restructuring of a society in which equal rights to housing, free choice or decisions are seriously endangered. [More…]
When were the said sworn informations and warrants produced to the Senate Select Committee on the Civil Rights of Migrant Australians. [More…]
Copies of the sworn information and warrants were produced on 1 8 July 1 973 to the Senate Select Committee on Civil Rights of Migrant Australians. [More…]
The sworn informations and warrants that had been obtained by the Commonwealth have already been produced to the Senate Select Committee on Civil Rights of Migrant Australians and are available to all Senators. [More…]
The names are: W. B. Butler, Aboriginal community, Port Augusta, South Australia; E. W. and D. Irwin, Western Australia, Quakers -noted for their interest in Aboriginal affairs; D. Squires, State President of the Women’s Service Guild of Western Australia; G. Elphick, President, Council of Aboriginal Women; Tim Aguis, Executive Secretary, Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement; Dick Roughsey, Chairman, Aboriginal Arts Board; the Institute of Narrative and Music of Aborigines and the Adelaide Aboriginal Orchestra- Dr Ellis, I think; Mrs L. Hume, President, Aboriginal Advancement Council of Western Australia; and Ken Colburg, Aboriginal Cultural Co-ordinator. [More…]
-Has the attention of the Minister for the Media been drawn to allegations that the film production company Transalia Productions Pty Ltd, which owns the film and television rights to the story ‘The River Kings’ has had its proposed television series plagiarised by an American company? [More…]
As the story is by an Australian author and is set in Australia and was to be produced by an Australian company, is the Minister prepared to assist the company to establish its rights? [More…]
The people of Vietnam believed our pious wartime propaganda about believing in people’s rights to self determination and self rule. [More…]
The present Government has sat idly by whilst the communist regime, which is the enemy of our style of life, our form of society, our guarantees of freedom and our insistence on the rights of people to work out their own destiny, has come down through the land mass. [More…]
It has been said also that this Bill does not provide sufficient rights of appeal against many of the powers that will exist in the hands of the Corporations and Exchange Commission. [More…]
They are provisions which can take away rights and occupations without providing for adequate appeal. [More…]
I illustrate these things only to show that there have come before Opposition members- I have no doubt they have come before Government members- representations made by people who are concerned, who have rights and who ought to be considered. [More…]
One can look at the question of hearings and the lack of full appeal rights, and wonder why it is that there is so much doubt about clause 40 of the Bill and what rights people coming before the Commission in relation to hearings will have as to whether the hearing will be public or private. [More…]
It is asserted in this Convention that all 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…]
The common law provides few effective remedies against discrimination in the exercise of human rights, whether it is based on race or colour or on any other grounds. [More…]
The Bill will thus make it unlawful for a person to do an act involving discrimination based on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin which impairs the enjoyment of fundamental rights and freedoms. [More…]
In Canada, compulsory evidencegathering powers are given to Human Rights Commissions and similar powers are vested in the Race Relations Conciliator established by New Zealand legislation. [More…]
The Bill represents an important step in the Government’s program with respect to human rights. [More…]
The legislation 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 Government believes that public servants should have the maximum possible freedom to exercise the social and political rights enjoyed by other citizens. [More…]
We believe that there is sufficient evidence from the Committee which has been brought to our attention and which requires action to be taken by the Senate in the manner that is outlined in the motion, and I restate my hope that during the course of the debate on this matter we will keep in mind the very important long-standing traditions of this Senate, that is that we would not be in any way partial in our judgments, that we would consider the rights of individuals in this Senate, and that we would also, and above all, keep in mind the Constitution of this country which we are all obliged to observe. [More…]
But there are clauses in this Bill- clauses which the Government has tried to hide in the fine print of this Bill- that deprive the voter of his rights. [More…]
These are the provisions which challenge the rights of the voter and these are rights that must be preserved always. [More…]
We oppose them because they rob the people of their rights. [More…]
I think people’s essential rights should be safeguarded by such things as this Bill. [More…]
I can see this only as a severe restriction on the rights of all Australian people who travel extensively both within and without Australia. [More…]
This legislation, in its search for speed, does not seem to protect democratic rights, and it is for this reason that we will be opposing sections of the Bill. [More…]
I might mention that following the last election more people came to me complaining about failures at various points in the postal voting system, more of them complained about their postal voting rights not being fully met according to the way they saw the situation, than about any other electoral matter. [More…]
Postal voting is a very important matter but does this Bill extend or reduce the rights of people to cast a postal vote? [More…]
Nothing in the search for speedier results justifies taking away the rights of citizens to vote and to have their votes counted. [More…]
The Government has lost sight of the value of money to poor people, lt has also lost sight of the idea of protecting the rights of every Australian to question the right of a person- whether he be a Liberal voter, a Labor voter, a Country Party voter, an Independent voter, a Liberal Movement voter or an informal voter- to be on the roll. [More…]
Only today it was reported to me by the ABC that it is interested in purchasing exclusive Australian television rights from an Australian film production company which is proposing to produce a series of 16-millimetre colour films about places and events of a contemporary or historic interest in Australia, with a compere to introduce each segment. [More…]
Even my own Party has not accepted it completely, because it is quite wrong when it clutters up certain things and gives undue rights to people in tourist visas as distinct from people who come here as permanent citizens. [More…]
It is an example of what constitutes the rights of an individual under this Government. [More…]
Prima facie there is an infringement of the rights of Mr Pavlovic to have a passport. [More…]
They ought not to be surprised if, now that we are in Opposition we find that instances are occurring where people are being denied what prima facie are their rights, complaint should be made. [More…]
Citizens are entitled to have their rights aired in this place and governments ought to be prepared to respond and to give the reasons. [More…]
Whatever the rights or wrongs of Senator Webster’s position, the question has been raised and there is a doubt, lt has been suggested that this doubt should bc dealt with by the Senate. [More…]
This comes from the Party which talked about one vote one value, and the necessity for everyone to be able to exercise his or her vote and to have his or her rights at the polls. [More…]
I would like the Government and the Minister to express a view on what the Government ‘s attitude is towards the rights of the Seventh Day Adventists community in Australia and the rights of the Jewish community in Australia. [More…]
As far as 1 am concerned everybody in this democracy counts the same and they have the same rights. [More…]
We would be just as entitled to accuse Liberal Party members of being identified with the League of Rights, because a few madmen on the Right seek them out and infiltrate them, as Senator Greenwood is in branding us with the extremists of the Left because a few of them have infiltrated- as I have no doubt they do- the Labor Party. [More…]
I do not wish to debate or to initiate debate on the rights or wrongs of that involvement in this context. [More…]
There is not the slightest degree of dishonesty, impropriety or corruption imputed to him, and that accords with my experience of Senator Webster, whose character, both as a man and as a politician- that is to say, exercising the rights of a politician throughout the time he has been here- has been one of unsurpassed integrity. [More…]
What we decide will vitally affect the rights of an individual to sit here and the rights of his supporters at the election to be represented here by him. [More…]
It is therefore evident that the political system as decreed by Federation has thus far succeeded and this success is due in no small measure, despite Party differences, to the fact that each of the 3 governments has been prepared to acknowledge the rights of each other. [More…]
One of the important set of regulations will be in substitution for the current Officer’s Rights Declaration Act, which is to be amended shortly in its wider application. [More…]
This Bill provides for protection of the rights of officers under all these circumstances. [More…]
The Bill preserves the rights of these officers so that they are not disadvantaged by virtue of being on the unattached list. [More…]
Similarly the rights of staff on leave of absence on vesting day are protected in that the Bill provides that the leave is to be regarded as having been granted by the commission concerned. [More…]
Preservation of all rights of former employees of Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd who became members of the service of the Overseas Telecommunications Commission, is provided for in the Bill. [More…]
The rights include pension, superannuation, retiring allowances and furlough. [More…]
Rights property, assets, duties, liabilities and obligations of the Overseas Telecommunications Commission are transferred to the Australian Telecommunications Commission. [More…]
This Bill provides that the rights and responsibilities of both parties be carried over to the Telecommunications Commission under the Telecommunications Bill. [More…]
I commend the Government for the steps it has taken to ensure that women are treated as human beings with equal rights. [More…]
I refer to maternity leave and people with special rights for special purposes. [More…]
I hope that a lot more information will come to light and that more people will speak out so that these sorts of stupid, petty things can be set to rights. [More…]
The issue facing us today is whether the Minister for Foreign Affairs has told the truth to the Senate or whether he has not told the truth and if the latter is the case whether he should resign and make way for another Minister who will show greater concern for the rights of Parliament and for its traditions. [More…]
I believe that unless this kind of care is taken of the traditions and rights of Parliament we will lose a lot. [More…]
There has been a lot of talk about the war in Vietnam, the history of the war, the rights and the wrongs of the war, and so on. [More…]
During the time that I have been a member of this chamber- I challenge Senator Bunton or anyone else to deny it- I have always stood for the rights of the Parliament first. [More…]
Therefore one must get into those areas and establish for people the opportunity of knowing their rights. [More…]
The Australian Government’s concern with issues of human rights and civil liberties is well known to the Singapore authorities. [More…]
Important State rights were given away by this side of the House when it did not pursue amendments to an education Bill because we would have delayed the passage of it if we had proceeded with the amendments. [More…]
Let him tell the Senate, if he is to justify his position, all about what happened last year and how the States’ rights were given away by a party which spends half of its time talking about States’ rights. [More…]
They are entitled to know their rights and entitlements as citizens. [More…]
But when those people who have the capacity to put their views through the mass media in this country- they are quite within their rights to throw brickbats at us all- at least we ought to know who they are rather than them having a capacity to have anonymity during this period. [More…]
Has the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs heard reports of the activities of the self styled Aboriginal rights leader Charles Perkins, who is now in London? [More…]
-Is the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs aware that the National Country Party has agreed in principle to the recommendations of the Woodward Commission on Aboriginal Land Rights? [More…]
-Yes, Mr President, I have seen the Press reports and it is correct that the National Country Party has adopted the Labor Party policy on Aboriginal land rights and endorses the recommendations of the Woodward Commission on Aboriginal Land Rights. [More…]
Whilst Mr Bjelke-Petersen has said that he will not hand over land rights, I think that as a member of a national Party he must comply with national policy and eventually he will do so. [More…]
I think there has been some relaxation in the Premier’s position in that he is at least in conversation with those who support Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
At one time he would not even permit conversation with anyone who even suggested land rights for Aborigines. [More…]
Another matter which was mentioned by Senator DrakeBrockman I did not entirely follow him- was that in some way this was an abrogation of the rights of the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory. [More…]
Each person whom we are trying to assist should be assisted to get his rights. [More…]
We do not welcome the intrusions which this Bill contains into established individual rights and liberties, and we do not regard the departure from traditional values, departure from the rule of law, departure from trial by jury in the case of criminal offences where there are substantial penalties and the virtual reintroduction of a star chamber system, as desirable innovations in our law. [More…]
It states that any party to the convention shall guarantee the right of everyone, without distinction as to race, colour or national ethnic origin, to equality before the law, notably in the enjoyment of certain specified rights. [More…]
Amongst those rights is the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion and the right to freedom of opinion and expression. [More…]
I suggest to the Senate that in this area of whether or not the Commonwealth has a power to enact a law of this character under the guise that it is a law made with respect to external affairs it should heed what Sir Robert Menzies said when dealing with this issue in a series of articles he wrote last year in connection with the Human Rights Bill. [More…]
1 would like to refer to a couple of the clauses in the Human Rights Bill and which I think are relevant to this debate. [More…]
Part II is entitled ‘Fundamental Rights and Freedoms’. [More…]
Everyone is entitled to the fundamental rights and freedoms as set out in this Part, without any distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. [More…]
It was 1972 before the Equal Rights Amendment Act was finally put to both Houses of the U.S. Parliament. [More…]
It refers to the fundamental human rights, the dignity and rights of a human person and the equal rights of men and women, and of nations large and small. [More…]
In addition, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights refers to the inherent dignity and the equal and inalienable rights of all people. [More…]
For the benefit of honourable senators I have a copy of the relevant section of the charter of the United Nations and also a copy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
The charter of the United Nations and the Declaration of Human Rights expressly recognise our rights and we must not allow legislation such as this to interfere with those inalienable rights. [More…]
The United States of America has a Bill of Rights and that country’s Constitution expressly states that no law shall be passed to interfere with those rights. [More…]
The passage of this Bill would take some fundamental rights away from us, such as the right of free speech, free discussion and publication. [More…]
The covenant recognises some basic fundamental principles, namely, that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. [More…]
Discrimination against the Aborigine in the administration of the criminal law and in the enjoyment of civil, political and technical rights still exists. [More…]
One has only to look at the propaganda from the Rights Committee that operates in the far north coast area of New South Wales and in Queensland to see that that organisation makes racism and discrimination a cornerstone of its policies. [More…]
It will seek to protect the rights of all people in this community, whatever their social, political and ethnic background. [More…]
It can be said that the legal rights of the individual will not be handicapped by the operation of this legislation. [More…]
It is resisting the Australian Government’s endeavour to get land rights for Aborigines. [More…]
The first of those basic principles is that racial discrimination should be proscribed by law and that fundamental rights should be guaranteed without distinction as to race. [More…]
It is the view of the Government and the authors of the Bill that the written expression of rights is an important way of preserving them and of ensuring that they remain preserved and that people have a better opportunity in that circumstance of knowing what are their rights. [More…]
The infringement of those rights would then become much more conspicuous in our community. [More…]
The second principle that I think is inherent in the Bill is that there should be a comprehensive set of legal remedies for the enforcement of rights. [More…]
But the emphasis in the enforcement of those rights is on civil rather than criminal sanctions. [More…]
The third principle contained in the Bill is the emphasis on conciliation machinery for the enforcement of rights. [More…]
So much for the general principles of the Bill, which are, firstly, that for the first time in the history of this country other than in the State of South Australia we have a defined statement of rights; secondly, that there is a comprehensive set of legal remedies for enforcement; thirdly, that there is to be emphasis placed on conciliation; and, fourthly, that there is to be emphasis placed on education and research. [More…]
The success of the Canadian human rights commissions such as the one in Ontario is due partly to the emphasis placed on independence and an impartial approach. [More…]
He is not asked to determine rights in the same sense as his equivalent is required to do under the British Race Relations Act. [More…]
I refer, for example, to the activities of the League of Rights in Victoria and elsewhere and to the activities of the Immigration Control Association which I think forwards to most honourable senators a copy of its publication ‘Viewpoint’. [More…]
This group says that under the Commonwealth Racial Discrimination Bill and Human Rights Bill and the Victorian Avoidance of Discrimination Bill a person who chooses to marry his or her race, ethnic group, nationality, or religion, and not to marry a person of another race, ethnic group, nationality or religion, does an act involving a distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on colour, descent, national or ethnic origin or religion can be prosecuted and could happen under the Racial Discrimination Bill. [More…]
Honourable senators will realise that the text covers a pretty broad base and includes such things as the establishment of an economic zone, the breadth of territorial sea, the right of passage through international straits, rights over the resources of the continental shelf, archipelagos, fisheries, marine pollution, scientific research of the marine environment, and the pressing question of the rights to the resources of the deep sea bed beyond the national jurisdiction. [More…]
My question, which is addressed to the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, follows a question I asked the Minister last Thursday about Aboriginal land rights in Queensland. [More…]
At the time the Minister indicated that the Premier of Queensland might have relaxed his attitude to the land rights question because the Premier’s Party had endorsed the report of the Woodward Commission on Aboriginal Land Rights. [More…]
I now ask the Minister: Has he taken any steps to ascertain whether the approach of the Queensland Premier and the Queensland Government to the question of granting land rights to Aboriginals in Queensland has changed? [More…]
I think it was said, possibly facetiously, last Thursday that the Queensland Premier, who last year would not permit me to speak to his appropriate Minister on the question of Aboriginal land rights, seems to be on speaking terms with someone who believes in the same policy as the one I was advocating insofar as this person still retains membership of the National Country Party of Australia which has adopted the same policy. [More…]
It will permit those intentions to be translated even further into action and it will be yet another example, and a major one at that, of the recognition by this Government of the rights of women in Australian society. [More…]
the preservation of specified existing and accruing rights by a person appointed to the Office of Managing Director, Chief General Manager or full-time Chairman of a Promotions Appeal Board or by a person appointed or deemed to have been appointed as an officer under section 4 1 who was, immediately before he was so appointed, an officer of the Australian Public Service or a person to whom the Officers’ Rights Declaration Act 1928-1973 applied, including provisions modifying and adapting the Public Service Act 1 922- 1 974 for the purpose of enabling such a person to apply for promotion to an office in the Australian Public Service or appeal against a promotion to an office in that Service; [More…]
It has won the national music industry award for the best instrumental performance, and I understand it is bringing in thousands of dollars to the ABC by way of rights. [More…]
I would not know what the arrangements are, but I think it would be terribly important that there be programs of an informational nature to advise ethnic groups of the rights of migrants with regard to legal aid, Medibank and such matters. [More…]
One of the great problems of Australian governments of any political colour has involved trying to make migrant people who do not speak or understand English understand their rights and entitlements. [More…]
Will the Minister also press for greater human rights in the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and keep the Australian public informed about progress of any negotiations? [More…]
-No doubt the honourable senator is aware that on a number of occasions the Australian Government has made known to the Soviet authorities the concern felt in Australia about human rights issues. [More…]
The solution must lie somewhere between the two extremes of prior parliamentary approval of all commitments, and the lack of attention by the Executive to the rights and privileges of the Parliament. [More…]
If we are to offer the normal rights of medical care and treatment to the increasing number of surviving patients with haemophilia, it is quite clear that what is being offered today by the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories is just not enough for the task. [More…]
the amount that should, in his opinion, be taken to be the value of the rights, property and assets vested in the Commission in accordance with section 33 of the Transitional Provisions Act having regard to the values of the assets of the Overseas Telecommunications Commission (Australia) by reference to which the amounts shown in the Balance Sheet of that Commission, as at the date immediately preceding the commencing date, as the values of the assets of the last-mentioned Commission were ascertained. [More…]
My amendment is simply to preserve the existing rights that OTC has within Australia and to ensure that they are preserved notwithstanding the creation of the ATC. [More…]
the preservation of specified existing and accruing rights by a person appointed to the office of Managing Director, Chief General Manager or full-time Chairman of a Promotions Appeal Board or by a person appointed or deemed to have been appointed as an officer under section 41 who was, immediately before he was so appointed, an officer of the Australian Public Service or a person to whom the Officers’ Rights Declaration Act 1928-1973 applied, including provisions modifying and adapting the Public Service Act 1 922- 1 974 for the purpose of enabling such a person to apply for promotion to an office in the Australian Public Service or appeal against a promotion to an office in that Service; [More…]
Where, but for this sub-section, a person who is deemed by this Part to have been appointed to the Service of a Commission would, on the commencing day, be an officer to whom section 6 of the Officers’ Rights Declaration Act 1928-1973 applies- [More…]
b) he continues to retain the existing and accruing rights previously retained by him by virtue of the application of that Act and, in determining those rights- [More…]
on the termination of that leave of absence, he is entitled to be employed in the Service of that Commission at a classification and salary determined by that Commission having regard to the office in the Australian Public Service occupied by him immediately before he became an officer to whom the Officers’ Rights Declaration Act 1928-1973 applied and the period during which that Act applied to him and the period of leave of absence applicable to him under this section. [More…]
After sub-clause (3), insert the following sub-clause:- (3a) Sub-section (3) does not apply to a person who, immediately before the commencing day, was an officer of the Overseas Telecommunications Commission (Australia) and, immediately before he became an officer to whom the Officers’ Rights Declaration Act 1928, or that Act as subsequently amended, applied, was an officer of a Department other than the Postmaster-General’s Department. [More…]
A person to whom this section applies retains the rights, if any, in respect of- [More…]
A relevant Commission in relation to a claim has, by virtue of this sub-section, the like rights, and may exercise the like powers, in relation to the claim, or a determination made in respect of the claim, to which sub-section (3) applies as the rights and powers that are conferred by the Public Service Arbitration Act 1920-1973 on the Public Service Board in relation to the claim or determination. [More…]
It is right and proper that any Bill that affects the rights of individuals, or the rights of States, should be so scrutinised because this Parliament is not a rubber stamp for the whims of the Executive. [More…]
They should not set up creatures which can ostensibly make wide ranging decisions affecting people’s lives, affecting the economy, affecting the rights of the States, independent of the will of the people as expressed by the Parliament. [More…]
Does it mean that some great monster or monolithic body- as was suggested in the debate in the House of Representatives- will be created and will push the States around and take away from them rights which normally would be accorded to them? [More…]
Honourable senators opposite often speak here and in other places about protecting the rights of the taxpayers. [More…]
But we should realise that there is a need in Australia for a national outlook to be adopted and for us to forget this shibboleth of people in various States being subject to different rights and obligations; of people in Queensland not being able to read Playboy’ without being prosecuted, when people in South Australia can read it. [More…]
I believe that we have to take into account the effects which a body such as this may have on existing State rights and State responsibilities. [More…]
There were not to be special rights in interstate trade whereby some State could prejudice another and some States could be disadvantaged. [More…]
Mr Kevin Davis, whom the Melbourne Age’ of 29 April last described as a research officer for a privately funded human rights group named the Human Life Research Foundation and who, during the week, has received some publicity as the secretary of an organisation which calls itself the Committee of Concern for Refugees from Indo-China, has issued a number of statements which were highly critical of the Australian Government. [More…]
He is involving himself in the test bed of electoral questions in visiting a place which is the very origin of change in South Australia, and I believe he ought to accept the public challenge, front up and tell the public of South Australia, and through that confrontation the whole of Australia, why he would deny to some people the rights that others may have. [More…]
He did not deal with the matter of the rights of electors, which I think is the paramount factor in a distribution. [More…]
That is the standard of argument that Senator Withers adopts and that is the reason why I challenge him and his Leader to debate openly and freely with me in South Australia the question of electoral reform so that he can defend the system which he chooses, which suppresses some people ‘s rights in relation to their voting capacity in Australia. [More…]
It has been argued that the provisions are horrendous, too strong, take away the rights of the States, and take away from the motivation of authorities to support co-operation between the States and the Federal Government. [More…]
I would not like to see the Council of the Centre become another place where States rights, States jealousies and CommonwealthState jealousies in particular are thrashed out and thus interfere with the development of the functions of this Centre. [More…]
That the widest possible educational and publicity campaign be undertaken and, in particular among disadvantaged sections of the population, with respect to the Human Rights Bill and the Racial Discrimination Bill, if and when enacted, and the Legal Aid Schemes. [More…]
He praised the Ontario Human Rights Code. [More…]
It appears that some people think Aborigines are so low that they should not be allowed decent elementary rights which we would expect anyone else to receive. [More…]
As a result of our democratic rights, we are a race which is inclined to discriminate. [More…]
It will be an important means of ensuring that the citizen’s rights to the review of administrative decisions develop along with changes in this area of the law. [More…]
For some reason he seems to have this great grief at the existence of a protector of the rights of country people. [More…]
When I refer to an act I add the words that ‘when such an act impairs the enjoyment of fundamental rights and freedoms’. [More…]
I point out that the Bill also provides legal remedies and formal administrative machinery for the enforcement of human rights. [More…]
any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference, based on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin, which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise on an equal footing of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life. [More…]
It means that they retain their own basic identity- they retain thenown characteristics- and integration becomes a 2-way process which quite splendidly, if it is carried through into its ultimate, does not involve the disappearance of the minority institution and does not involve the disappearance of the minority traditions, because integration guarantees the same rights, opportunities and responsibilities to all citizens whatever their group membership. [More…]
Protect the civil liberties of the individual in society including the implementation of civil, political and social rights wherever applicable according to international conventions adopted by Australia, in fields of Commonwealth power or where the adoption of the convention has been approved by the States. [More…]
The existing rights and remedies are costly and difficult to deal with racial discrimination. [More…]
I think the procedure includes no way of removing fortunately- nor does the Convention- that benign discrimination, that ability to assist people who are below the average in their standards of living or in their rights and privileges and whose standard may be brought up under the provisions of this Bill. [More…]
In respect of this matter I would like to read the words of the Director of the Ontario Human Rights Commission who explained what was done in relation to his body’s conciliation approach to racial discrimination. [More…]
The various other parts of this Bill- the protection of legal rights and the education angles which have been mentioned already- are, I think, worthy and, as Senator Davidson pointed out, will have a more long range effect in this community. [More…]
It is for that reason that one of the proposed amendments of the Opposition is designed to divide that task, to let the Commissioner proceed with all speed and with all power to conciliation where possible and then, if that does not succeed, to allow for and to give proper legal aid to persons to enable them to proceed to enforce the rights they then have. [More…]
I was somewhat surprised to find that eventually they were prepared to say that they believed it was more properly a matter of human rights than a matter of racial discrimination in the approach which should be adopted. [More…]
That has been my reservation about this legislation- not in any way in relation to the objective which is attempted to be achieved but to the mode of approach and whether you are not better to view all citizens in Australia as being entitled to certain rights and certain protection by law, whether they are of a particular race, of a particular religion, or of a background or origin which may mark them as a minority group. [More…]
I have always wondered whether our approach may not be better if we were not to emphasise racial discrimination as though it were the only form of discrimination that mattered but rather to concentrate on ensuring the human rights of all Australian citizens in relation to racial discrimination or any other form of discrimination. [More…]
Early in 1973 the former Attorney-General imported American experts to assist in drafting the Bill and in September 1974 he issued a report of an interdepartmental committee proposing the emasculation of the rights proposed under the Bill. [More…]
Throughout this Bill care has been taken to safeguard the rights and responsibilities of user departments and authorities. [More…]
The Minister said also: it will be yet another example, and a major one at that, of the recognition by this Government of the rights of women in Australian society. [More…]
He did not mention the rights of children. [More…]
To take a somewhat gratuitous approach to the rights of women in Australian society during International Women’s Year is perhaps not something that is welcomed by the thoughtful women of the Australian community. [More…]
It is a matter of recognising the rights of children and of every person in society. [More…]
To relate any provision of child care simply to the women in Australian society overlooks the fact that both parents have equal responsibilities in the care of their children and that the children have the fundamental and essential rights which are part of the Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
I think that part of the Declaration of Human Rights which relates to children is very beautifully expressed. [More…]
The Government claims that the establishment of a Children’s Commission is a further recognition by the Government of the rights of women in Australian society. [More…]
Why is it that there is no emphasis at all in clause 5 or elsewhere in the Bill on any concept of the development and protection of children’s rights as such? [More…]
Clause 20 (Rights of public servant appointed as full time member). [More…]
Clause 20 provides that the rights of a public servant appointed as a full time member are to be preserved. [More…]
If a person appointed as a full time member was, immediately before his appointment, an officer of the Australian Public Service or a person to whom the Officers* Rights Declaration Act 1928-1973 applied- [More…]
he retains his existing and accruing rights . [More…]
His rights would be preserved under the law of that State. [More…]
The subject of the rights and wrongs of amalgamation frequently arises. [More…]
But there have been occasions on which malcontents in the trade unions have been egged on by alleged civil rights groups and people who did not know what they were talking about. [More…]
Under Article 5 of the Convention there is an undertaking to guarantee the right of everyone, without distinction as to race, colour, or national or ethnic origin, to equality before the law, notably in the enjoyment of certain specified rights. [More…]
A State Party may at any time declare that it recognises the competence of the Committee 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 this Convention. [More…]
The Australian Government has, however, made known to the Soviet authorities on a number of occasions the concern felt in Australia about human rights issues in the U.S.S.R. [More…]
But amongst historians the grave and enlightened verdict of Hallam, in which he ranks the publicity of judicial proceedings even higher than the rights of Parliament as a guarantee of public security, is not likely to be forgotten. [More…]
Whilst the debate that has ensued may be a touchy matter to some people, I believed that Senator Wright was quite within his rights regarding this question. [More…]
A seminar was held there from 12 to 16 July last year and Andrew Collett, Executive Secretary of the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement, presented a paper in which he referred to a number of cases of complaints brought under the South Australian Act. [More…]
They are powers that can be greatly abused by threatening or qualifying a person’s rights at law. [More…]
It is therefore all the more important that the powers that are given to the Commissioner are powers that do sit easily with people’s rights at law. [More…]
In this context I take the view, and it is the attitude which the Opposition is expressing, that it is an objectionable intrusion upon individual rights and denies a person a privacy to which he ought to be entitled. [More…]
It is said that this constitutes some star chamber system or some invasion of privacy or some invasion of the rights that we have become accustomed to under our system of law, but I draw attention to sub-clause 9 which has been lightly glossed over. [More…]
For those reasons I dispute the proposition that there is any great invasion of cherished democratic rights involved in this clause. [More…]
I am at a loss to understand that there is something altogether novel about this clause- that it is something unknown to our law- which derogates from human rights when, as we have seen, the legislature on so many occasions has judged that there be compulsory evidence gathering powers conferred on various authorities and tribunals. [More…]
Senator Sir MAGNUS CORMACK (Victoria) (2.57)- I intrude in this debate not on the basis of a lawyer but simply as a citizen of this country who has been reared in the traditions and concepts of what are the rights and privileges of the citizen against administrative justice. [More…]
rights were taken away from them in the sense that the King could require them to appear in the manner in which the Star Chamber permitted. [More…]
It is interesting to reflect that it was also in the Human Rights Bill which for a short time appeared on the notice paper of this chamber. [More…]
If what Senator Greenwood alleges happened in respect of the matter that he raised in question time this morning, when we get to the full facts of that matter and if it turns out to have been the sort of invasion of human rights which he suggested in his question- and I should like to know the full facts before reaching that conclusion- I will be as forthright as he in condemning such practices. [More…]
Before a person is entitled to exercise his rights in a court of law, in the manner contemplated by this clause, it is essential that there should have been a conference of the character which I have just mentioned. [More…]
People can rely upon their rights and expect those rights to be upheld as they are in a court of law. [More…]
It is not a general policy point finding expression in every piece of legislation under which rights are conferred. [More…]
We would add that we understand that there is a likelihood of legislation being introduced as a result of the Woodward report in relation to Aboriginal land rights and we will look with considerable interest to that legislation when it comes before the chamber to find out whether a consistent line has been adopted in the drafting of that legislation. [More…]
They have a basic right to live on a community provided they are not interfering with the rights of other people living on the community. [More…]
They were not trying to do anything except convince the government of the day that they needed justice in respect of their tribal land rights, the health of their children, employment opportunities and better health for the community generally. [More…]
One might be the pol.tically partisan sense, that it is a government which does not care very much for the rights of individual citizens. [More…]
I think that Government is as intrusive and as controlling an institution as any of the great corporate institutions in this country and Parliament traditionally is the place where the rights of the individual are expected to be protected. [More…]
I want to remind him that earlier today we were discussing the individual rights and freedoms of citizens, and we have talked about discrimination. [More…]
This struck me as an abuse of the rights of a member of the Opposition and underlines the possibilities of abuse which lie in this amendment. [More…]
Benefits have been gradually improved and in recent years provision has been made for the preservation of superannuation rights on entry into or exit from the scheme and noncontributory units have been introduced to give some relief to members faced with very high contributions in their later years of service. [More…]
They deal with persons whose contributions to the superannuation scheme have been deferred on their becoming eligible members of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits scheme, the preservation of rights provisions as they relate to persons transferring from one scheme to the other and, in accordance with past practice, the ex-officio appointment of the Commissioner for Superannuation, in lieu of the President of the Superannuation Board, as Chairman of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Authority and of the Defence Force Retirement Benefits Board. [More…]
In short, the rights and independence of the Senate will in no way be abrogated by this Bill. [More…]
The Government will do all that is possible to allow the Australian Insurance Staffs’ Federation to cover comparable staff in the AGIC, and to give employment preference in it to the people employed in the insurance industry without prejudice to the rights of employees in existing Australian Government insurance undertakings. [More…]
The Officers’ Rights Declaration Act will apply to those members of the staff of the office who formerly held office, under other statutes or within the Public Service. [More…]
Women will have equal employment rights and opportunities as men. [More…]
To this we should add the recognition of the contribution of the staff of the corporation whose rights, as I have pointed out, will be protected under this Bill. [More…]
Consequently it is planned to have an interim period of about one year commencing on 1 July 1975 when all assets- land, property, rights and interests- and liabilities of the non-metropolitan railways will be vested in the Australian National Railways Commission, as provided for in clause 5. [More…]
Yet the Australian Government was not prepared to assert the rights of the established Government of South Vietnam, a government, may I say, elected in accordance with democratic processes, which could not be said of the Government of North Vietnam which was seeking to overthrow it. [More…]
I make these points only to emphasise what I think is worth emphasising and that is that this Government could not care less about the rights of senators to get answers to questions, about the rights or opportunities of persons who are not of the same mould, persuasion or political thinking as the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
I have risen only to protect my colleague, who was asserting the rights that are embodied in this Senate, and for him to be attacked by another member of his profession who is supposed to be obedient at least to the ethics and qualities that should descend upon all lawyers is a most distasteful experience for me to sit and listen to. [More…]
If only it could be revealed that Senator Greenwood gets up in the Senate and exposes the former Chairman of the Commission of the European Economic Community as a dangerous conservative, even the most addle-Dated recipient of League of Rights literature in the electorate of Maranoa would have doubts about casting a vote for the Opposition at any time in the future. [More…]
In 1973 the Opposition in the Senate said: ‘We stand for the rights of the members of organisations- of trade unions- to have a say in whether their organisations can amalgamate’. [More…]
In doing so it ignores the rights and responsibilities it ought to recognise that the individual members of the trade union movement possess. [More…]
We do not believe that that is a fair or proper recognition of the rights of individual members of unions. [More…]
That is a restriction upon the rights of members. [More…]
Committees of management are given powers which deny the rank and file members their rights if a committee of management decides that it wants to facilitate an amalgamation ballot. [More…]
I have mentioned merely some, but they represent to the Opposition good and substantial reason why we should continue to maintain the existing amalgamation provision in the Conciliation and Arbitration Act and not to accede to a government measure which will create opportunities for abuse and which will deny the rights of individual members. [More…]
We believe that, inarticulate as they may be, there are hosts of union members in this country who rely upon a Senate constituted as this Senate is and prepared to protect the rights of individual members of unions, to continue to protect the individual rights of those union members. [More…]
There are certain rules which must be followed with respect to hearings and certain rights must be acknowledged on the part of persons interested in the Tribunal’s proceedings. [More…]
The Bill, when analysed, is seen to create a new stream of rights for the benefit of the public, and I suggest that that stream will undoubtedly grow in the future both in its breadth and in the nature of the rights it contains. [More…]
The reason for that, as was given over many decades, was that such a system as is embraced within this Bill ran counter to the concept of the rule of law, and the argument went that the rule of law implied the absence of wide discretionary powers in the Government affecting the personal liberty, the private property rights and the freedom of contract of individuals. [More…]
But a change has taken place in recent decades, a change which I suggest has been dictated by political considerations and by a realisation by governments that it is essential to protect the rights of individuals, especially in view of the increasing intrusion of the state into other affairs; that the extremely wide powers often of necessity put on a discretionary basis, and exercised by Ministers and officials, should be subject to proper checks and balances. [More…]
Until the development of a system of reviewing decisions at the administrative level the rights of persons flowed from 2 main sources. [More…]
Firstly, the rights that were conferred on them by statutes- specific rights enforceable in the courts- and secondly, the rights which they were entitled to enjoy by virtue of the common law. [More…]
So it is that we now have a third stream of rights and they are those that I have already referred to in clause 26. [More…]
I therefore suggest that both sides of politics can be proud to see legislation before the Senate which crystallises- that is the point; it crystallises- the granting to the public at large of coherent rights in relation to matters which impinge on their private and their business rights. [More…]
The Parliament will become accustomed to doing it, and I hope that within a comparatively short period this third stream of legal rights which are now being injected into the armoury of the citizen will be regarded as something which is completely automatic. [More…]
Therefore it is desirable that individuals should have some easy way of knowing that they have rights and are not lost in the obscurity of these varying provisions. [More…]
I do not believe that sufficient understanding and appreciation have been given to the rather sweeping rights which are allowed to a Minister. [More…]
But to the extent that the prerogative writs, for all their defects and for all that might be said about their complexities, have always purported to assert or to recognise the rights of the superior courts to control the proceedings of inferior bodies, it is wise that that right should be protected. [More…]
It is an unusual provision because if there are rights to obtain legal aid throughout Australia- at present there are exceptionally general provisions under which legal aid can be obtained- it seems unnecessary to insert a provision in a Bill specifically enabling the AttorneyGeneral to grant legal aid. [More…]
Tradesmen’s Rights Regulation Act [More…]
Tradesmen’s Rights Regulation Act [More…]
The Government believes that these two immediate decisions relating to the report of the Commonwealth Administrative Review Committee will be taken as a tangible demonstration of the significance it attaches to the protection of the rights of individuals at a time when governments exercise extensive powers on their behalf. [More…]
We in our Constitution endeavoured to provide protection of individual rights by creating an entrenched judiciary in the Federal field, lt is well known that we adopted to some degree from America the separation of powers and that that was much influenced by Montesquieu ‘s mistaken interpretation of the English system at the time the American Constitution was penned. [More…]
Up until about 1950 the prevailing view, I suggest, was that only judicial courts could be relied upon to give appropriate protection for individual rights, first of all, as between citizen and citizen and then, as was developed in the first half of this century, as between citizen and the Government. [More…]
But they still remain the ultimate and, in the last resource, the only safeguard of the citizen for his individual rights of liberty, home and property. [More…]
In the resolution that set up this Regulations and Ordinances Committee to supervise subordinate legislation- which, as honourable senators know, just passes over the public servant’s desk and then goes through 2 Ministers for the signature of the Governor-in-Council- the Committee was charged with the function of seeing that regulations do not make the rights and liberties of citizens unduly dependent upon administrative rather than judicial decisions. [More…]
People who will be performing these duties will be dealing with appeals in respect of which it is highly desirable that it be known what are the terms, the length of office and the particular rights which this particular person who is to adjudicate on an appeal will have. [More…]
The exact and precise rights of the office bearer ought to be known by the public. [More…]
This new subclause is made necessary by reason of the fact that in some cases the Schedule confers rights of appeal under regulations. [More…]
We think the 2 amendments we propose will operate to protect the rights of individuals and to secure that the benefits conferred by this legislation can be effectively enjoyed. [More…]
We recognise that there is a problem here, but we think that the Bill as cast goes much too far in giving the Minister the ability to shut out rights of appeal and review. [More…]
Leaving that aside, because it would appear in all the circumstances to be a power which the Tribunal ought to have and which one hopes it will exercise with prudence, there are certain rights which ought to be available but which are not conferred by the provisions of the Bill. [More…]
Where there is a Tribunal which on its own initiative has the power to summon persons to appear before it, those persons ought to be granted certain rights. [More…]
One of the fundamental rights they should have is the right of representation. [More…]
I know, and I think the Senate knows, that one committee went to great pains to protect the rights of persons who appeared before it, but there was controversy and concern as to whether there should be a right of representation. [More…]
The first new sub-clause which the Opposition proposes deals not with a parliamentary committee but with an Administrative Appeals Tribunal which is concerned to give rights to persons who are aggrieved by decisions of Ministers or by certain departmental decisions. [More…]
It is appropriate that if people are called before this Tribunal they should have some rights, and one of the rights we believe they should have is the right of representation. [More…]
I do not believe that when we give powers to tribunals- we are giving enormous powers to tribunals these days- some of these rights should be allowed to be lost. [More…]
1 would suggest that the effect of the amendments, if carried, would be to give a witness before the Administrative Appeals Tribunal greater rights than witnesses in any other court have. [More…]
In my view, no cogent reasons have been advanced why a witness appearing before this Tribunal should have greater rights than a witness appearing before a court. [More…]
I think it would be wrong to start off the exercise of this Tribunal’s jurisdiction by distinguishing between traditionally established rights. [More…]
If such people are summoned I believe that they ought to have rights. [More…]
We note, for example, that in clause 44, sub-clause (4) was omitted so that there are complete rights of appeal available through the prerogative writs if possible difficulties of a character that I mentioned earlier arise. [More…]
It is a Bill to safeguard the rights of the citizens of this country against abuses of power by Ministers and by bureaucrats. [More…]
It has paid due regard to its responsibilities in relation to public interest so far as the economy is concerned and in relation to the rights of the employees. [More…]
It is an agreement between 2 parties each of which has his rights because each is subscribing to it. [More…]
This Bill is simply one small step towards achieving recognition within the Office of Parliamentary Counsel of the rights of members of Parliament other than Ministers. [More…]
I shall make certain that an officer of the Department of Repatriation and Compensation gets in touch with Mr Cheesman to inform him of his rights under the Repatriation Act. [More…]
It is necessary that we should have guidelines to protect the rights of individuals and also guidelines to protect the rights of the various sections of the media. [More…]
From the moment this Government turned its attention to the largely neglected area of television- I stress ‘neglected’ in the sense of the public interest- we have tried to balance the question of reasonable profitability on the part of the commercial operator with job opportunity for the worker and the rights of the viewer. [More…]
You do not find justice, unless you are exceptionally fortunate, in the way that bureaucrats, officials or Ministers decide what the rights of people are. [More…]
Why should the rights of litigants and the procedures which they have to observe differ according to whether they are suing upon or being sued upon matters which arise under Federal laws or under State laws? [More…]
It is said that the present system allows the rights of persons under Federal law to vary from one State to another. [More…]
We want people to feel that if their rights are affected they can go to the courts readily and easily without impediments of distance, confusions of jurisdiction or lack of means. [More…]
It said that that had important effects on the rights of individuals in that it caused delays and increased costs, that there were inequities in the manner of the execution of judgments, and that the rights of people varied from State to State. [More…]
Next, it should be able to enforce all the laws of the land and enable the citizen to have all his rights determined in one court, whatever the source of the law, State or Federal. [More…]
People would not be able to have their rights determined in one court, irrespective of the origin of the law. [More…]
This instance is a further example of the exploitation of Aboriginal people by those involved- the developers, the land sharks and others who ruthlessly cut across the rights of Aboriginal people. [More…]
If an approach is made to the local political representative for assistance in preserving rights and land titles then it does not matter what the political party is. [More…]
I do not know that there is a great deal of responsibility on the Australian Government, but there is a moral responsibility on it to endeavour to negotiate with the New South Wales Government to see that these people get their rights. [More…]
Whether the Aboriginal people were forced on to the island area as a result of the machinations of the white man in past years or whether they had tribal associations with it, it is their land and there is a responsibility on the Australian Government to negotiate, to see that this development project is stopped and to see that the black people in that area get their rights in accordance with the traditions of their tribal customs. [More…]
I hope that the Senate, in particular the Independent senators, will recognise the rights of the smaller political Party and will support the Government motion. [More…]
If we are to exercise these powers effectively there will arise not only the questions of the control of the reefs themselves and of the subsoil of the sea bed but there will also be questions arising as to jurisdiction over the waters themselves, as to the fisheries within them, as to navigation rights and so forth. [More…]
I have no desire now or ever to give anyone cause to say that the Senate is acting in a way which is abrogating the rights of any citizen. [More…]
What steps is the Government taking to protect the legitimate rights of professional groupings of self-employed persons whose right of professional association has been severely limited by the new legislation. [More…]
is there not an over-riding and paramount responsibility on the Attorney-General to protect the rights of people whose position before the Courts may bc jeopardised by intimidation and threats. [More…]
(Transportation Displays International Pty Ltd ) had held concession rights for advertising in Sydney International Terminal. [More…]
The importance of the issue as to whether the Executive can override and withstand the rights of a House of the Parliament to obtain information which it wants is at the core of what we are debating, and that is an issue which Senator Wriedt has by-passed. [More…]
We in the Senate have a challenge before us on this occasion to assert that there are rights which parliamentarians can exercise and, with a sense of responsibility, should exercise as occasion demands. [More…]
If this Parliament, if this Senate, abdicates the functions and the powers and the rights which it possesses to get information in the public interest then it shall be doing a fateful disservice to the institution of Parliament itself. [More…]
But my comment, in case Senator Missen does not understand, is that it is not for the Senate to affirm its rights, privileges and immunities. [More…]
There is no satisfactory conclusion to the question as to where the Loan Council stands and where the State Premiers stand in relation to their rights in regard to the Government’s intention to borrow money from overseas. [More…]
I think it has always been a contention of his- it certainly was contended by Senator Murphy- that the only rights the Senate will ever have are the rights which it asserts, upholds and demands. [More…]
It would be a shameful affair if, simply as the result of a frame-up, a union office bearer were suspended from his office and therefore lost the rights which are conferred by the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Act to have financial assistance to enable him to test in the courts the validity of his suspension. [More…]
I simply ask for the permission of the Senate to have incorporated in Hansard a letter which I sent to the Minister for Services and Property (Mr Daly) regarding facilities in Sydney and the rights of members in relation to access to the photocopy machine at the Sydney office on the twelfth floor of the Australian Government Centre. [More…]
That maxim would be well served by resolute action by the Senate of a kind which will manifest to public officials generally that, in a democracy, the institution of Parliament is still paramount: that Cabinet derives what powers it may have from the Parliament, and not Parliament from the Cabinet; and that Parliament’s rights are, in essence, the rights of the citizen. [More…]
But it was the Opposition in the Senate chamber that brought this chamber into the picture because it recognised that honourable senators have the same rights of investigation as have members of the House of Representatives. [More…]
We remind ourselves that this resolution deals with the powers and rights of the Senate not because we want to seek them for any personal reasons but because we recognise that we have obligations to maintain the position of the Senate as a protector of the people of this country. [More…]
Paragraph 343 of that document deals with the disclosure of documents with reference to courts, but does anyone doubt or challenge that the same rights apply to each of the Houses of Parliament? [More…]
The Senate, acknowledging the well-established practice that counsel may be present during the taking of evidence by Committees of the Senate and that, with the permission of the Chairman, a witness may from time to time consult counsel as to his legal rights, resolves- [More…]
that, if Mr Karidis, as a witness before the Senate, wishes to consult his adviser as to his legal rights on any question asked of him, the witness snail apply to the President for permission so to do. [More…]
This is a breach of this man’s legal rights and privileges and Senator Hall should not be allowed to pursue this matter further merely because he has not got the answers that he wanted. [More…]
I have always recognised and defended the equal rights of all my colleagues. [More…]
I admire Senator Carrick ‘s loyalty to his secretary, but my secretary has rights too. [More…]
I can see some merit in the case that they have put in that I know they are out to protect the individual rights of a senator. [More…]
It occurs to me that there is some justification in what they put in that in the circumstance of a senator coming to this place as an independent and who does not have the support of anyone other than himself, his individual rights need some protection in certain respects. [More…]
Whilst I admit that the proposal for an hour with an extension of half an hour seems reasonable, it does place some limitation on the rights of back benchers. [More…]
copyrights, patent rights, trade marks and other incorporeal property; and [More…]
A community group which acquired a tape in the manner mentioned above would have the copyright and would therefore have the entitlement to any performing rights. [More…]
Initially the land will be held by the Aborigines under a pastoral lease issued under the Crown Lands Ordinance of the Northern Territory; following passage of the proposed Aboriginal Land (Northern Territory) Act, however, it is intended that the pastoral lease will be surrendered and the Gurindji will be given freehold title to the land in accordance with the recommendations of the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission. [More…]
In accordance with the recommendations of the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission, when the land becomes Aboriginal freehold, covenants and conditions will cease to apply. [More…]
In accordance with Government policy, legislation to provide for the development of a National Archives system, and for public rights of access, will be introduced. [More…]
Would it not be a fraud or deception because it would exclude from consideration some of the greatest price increases thereby denying the rights of wage earners who would rely upon indexation and also denying to the public a reliable measure of price increase? [More…]
Mr Chairman, as you have already indicated, when this matter was the subject of discussion yesterday afternoon some consternation was voiced by my colleague Senator Cavanagh, and also by Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson, about honourable senators being deprived of their rights in the event of an answer to a question they had placed on the notice paper being provided to the Clerk by a Minister or by a Minister representing a Minister in another place, with the question and answer then merely being recorded in Hansard without an honourable senator being given an opportunity to have the question and the answer read in the Parliament, if he felt that it should be done in that way. [More…]
Senator Withers, who is not only the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate but also a member of the Standing Orders Committee, and I tended to agree that we should set out to preserve and protect the rights of back bench members of the Parliament, particularly those of a person who is not a member of a political party but who is elected to the Senate as an independent senator. [More…]
Senator Withers and I tended to agree with those 2 senators that the rights of individual senators should be preserved to have the question asked and the answer given orally in this chamber if they strongly felt that that should be done. [More…]
Now Senator Cavanagh and Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson, in their desire to protect the rights of backbench members of this Senate, have suggested that the proposition should be extended to enable a senator by leave - [More…]
As we have been operating a senator has no rights. [More…]
Under this proposition we are saying that under certain circumstances the senator should have some rights. [More…]
It may be said that what is proposed will deny the right of an individual senator and that senators do have rights in this place. [More…]
But senators have rights in the Senate only in accordance with the generality of the will of the Senate although measures of protection are built into the Standing Orders. [More…]
Over the years that 1 have sat in this chamber- I have been here for a short time compared with some other members of the chamber- there has been a continual whittling away of the rights of back benchers to make themselves heard as they ought to be able to make themselves heard in the Parliament. [More…]
I believe the rights of all members of this Parliament, regardless of party, have to be protected if democracy is to be maintained. [More…]
He, like me and Senator Poyser, is concerned at the taking away of the rights of the individual senator. [More…]
It is for the purpose of protecting the rights of the individual senator against the recommendation of the Standing Orders Committee, of which Senator Poyser is a member, that I take the attitude I do. [More…]
I was trying to protect the rights of the individual with, I think, Senator Keeffe ‘s support. [More…]
One is to take away all rights, the second is to give a right if the Senate gives leave and the third is to refer the matter back to the Standing Orders Committee to reconsider its recommendation to take away the liberties and rights from the individual. [More…]
We can take rights away from the individual for the purpose of getting through business. [More…]
This is not the place to discuss this current mania except to emphasise that if the Lords do assert the rights they are entitled to assert, a response that those rights should be immediately curtailed needs to be justified not in terms of what they do, but of why they do it . [More…]
If rights exist which can be used to rectify injustice to prevent the violation of principle and to maintain some of our crumbling structure of liberty, it will be surprising indeed if, in the ultimate, free Englishmen fail to make use of them. [More…]
They described it as socialistic, communistic and against the civil rights of individuals. [More…]
For an insurance company, or anyone else for that matter, to deny women their rights because of that normal maturation process is nothing short of criminal. [More…]
In my estimation the basic role of government in respect to trade, commerce and industry is to provide the legislative framework within which economic activity can operate freely, having due regard to the rights of others and to the provision of such basic utilities as power, water supply, roads and railways which are beyond the capacity of free enterprise to provide. [More…]
A unilateral declaration of independence, if given effect, would be an illegal act which could not itself alter in terms of the law of Papua New Guinea, the authority of the Government of Papua New Guinea over the whole of the territory of Papua New Guinea, or detract from Australia’s international rights and duties under the trusteeship agreement. [More…]
mineral rights. “ [More…]
First, takeovers covered by the 1972 policy measures- that is, takeovers of businesses by means of asset acquisitions and takeovers of mineral rights. [More…]
These comprise company takeovers effected by means of acquisitions of shares other than voting shares; company takeovers effected by means of splitting a large shareholding into small nominee groups where this has the effect of increasing the voting rights attached to the shareholding; business takeovers effected by means of leases or licences over the assets of a business, and business takeovers effected by agreements and arrangements relating to board representation rights and rights to participate in the management or profits of a business. [More…]
If the proposed takeover is judged not to be against the national interest on this basis, the following additional criteria will also be taken into account: Whether, after the takeover, the business concerned could be expected to follow practices consistent with Australia’s interest in matters such as exports, imports, local processing of materials produced, research and development and industrial relations; and whether the takeover would be consistent with the Government’s objectives in relation to such matters as defence, the environment and conservation, urban and regional development and the preservation of Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
But it is really just another example of the Government’s attempt to encroach on the rights and liberties of individuals, organisations or political parties. [More…]
That is another one of those great discretions exercised by these great proponents of free enterprise and the rights of the individual- to the removal of the extra premium charged, subject to a satisfactory medical examination . [More…]
At the time it was one of the issues between the States and the Commonwealth as to whether this was a provision which bound the States and the AttorneyGeneral and Deputy Prime Minister of the day, Dr Evatt, said it was inconceivable that any approach would be made which would seek to ignore the rights of the States and that if such an approach were made it was inconceivable that the British Parliament would act in a way which ignored the States’ rights. [More…]
After protracted proceedings that lasted until 1974 the Public Service Arbitrator found that the Australian Public Service (Fourth Division) Officers ‘ Association had sole rights to represent Parliamentary attendants and since then negotiations on this question have been confined to that body. [More…]
In addition to company takeovers effected by means of the acquisition of voting rights the Bill covers takeovers by means of asset acquisitions and a takeover of mineral rights. [More…]
Basically the 1972 legislation extended only to takeovers of companies which were affected by the acquisition of shares to which voting rights attached. [More…]
By policy decisions and by administrative action over the next 2 years the present Government extended the operation of the Act to takeovers, firstly, of incorporated and unincorporated businesses by means of the acquisition of assets and, secondly, to mineral rights. [More…]
The main argument against retrospectivity is that the rights of third parties could be adversely affected. [More…]
As a consequence third party rights will be protected. [More…]
The Senate is debating a Bill which is described as a Bill for an Act relating to the foreign control of certain business enterprises and of certain rights relating to minerals. [More…]
So we will have an extension of the legislation to cover takeovers by means of asset acquistions, that is, the actual acquiring by purchase or other means of the assets of a business or of mineral rights, the acquiring of shares where the shares do not have voting rights, the coverage of situations where large shareholdings can be split and nominee groups can take over the smaller shareholdings which result where there are leases and licences and arrangements under which rights can be given to persons on boards of companies to participate in the arrangements and profits of a business. [More…]
If the proposed takeover is judged not to be against the national interest on this basis, the following additional criteria will also be taken into account: Whether, after the takeover, the business concerned could be expected to follow practices consistent with Australia’s interest in matters such as exports, imports, local processing of materials produced, research and development and industrial relations; and whether the takeover would be consistent with the Government’s objectives in relation to such matters as defence, the environment and conservation, urban and regional development and the preservation of Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
If it receives the support of all sections of the community and not the knocking sort of attitude that our opponents in this chamber have tried to attach to it, this country will be quickly restored to a state of total prosperity, and the disadvantaged people whom we have set out to assist since we were first elected in December 1972 will not have any of their rights eroded. [More…]
Welfare rights. [More…]
Surely only a Party which waffles about personal freedom and protecting the rights of the individual against the tyranny of the State at the same time as it passes conscription Acts and at two of its [More…]
So I do not know why Mr Fraser specially mentioned Canberra, unless it was to stir up the League of Rights in north Queensland to stimulate the anti-Canberra paranoia which has been cultivated by people like the Premier of Queensland. [More…]
In the course of making his statements in his war of attrition against the rights and freedoms of insurance companies and their employees will the Minister make reference to the use or misuse of the funds of various trade unions to campaign for and provide financial support to the Australian Labor Party against the wishes of large numbers of their members? [More…]
Does the Minister agree that this requirement is a dangerous innovation which infringes the rights of the people concerned and the political freedom of all Australians? [More…]
Every one of us by definition is a consumer from when we get up in the morning and squeeze our toothpaste until we go to bed at night and turn off the lamp, but more often than not we are quite ignorant of our rights and privileges as consumers. [More…]
As he remarked to a Liberal conference, ‘If we are to live in an age where people come to expect rights without obligations, without duty, then we live in an age in which greatness will be denied our country’. [More…]
But it ought also be recognised, because we cannot ignore the clear provisions of the Constitution or the rights of State Parliaments if they choose to assert those rights, that the determination of whom that successor is to be is the prerogative of the State Parliament. [More…]
He ought to be accorded, and I hope will be accorded, all the rights, entitlements and respect which the Standing Orders of this chamber require to be accorded to him. [More…]
I want to say firstly that I should think the last person in this chamber who should talk about the rights of individuals is Senator Greenwood. [More…]
We can all remember how many rights he gave to individuals and to the privacy of individuals when he was the Attorney-General in the days of Vietnam, the Australian Secret Intelligence Organisation, the Croat affair and so on. [More…]
We heard it all debated in this chamber, and Senator Greenwood should be the last person to claim in this chamber that anybody else, in particular any Minister, has been guilty of any lack of consideration of rights. [More…]
As Senator Cavanagh made clear yesterday, the rights are set out in the [More…]
I consider that Baits should stick to the main theme of Baltic rights to independence and not act in such a way as to be publicly identified with, for example, all foreign policies of the U.S.A. or domestic ones of the Union of South Africa simply because those governments are anti-Soviet. [More…]
to encourage respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion, and to encourage recognition of the interdependence of the peoples of the world; and [More…]
The only other option open- there are many illustrations of this- was for Australia itself to ensure that the expatriates who had worked in Papua New Guinea all their lives, some of them having been third generation people, had their pension rights protected. [More…]
I am quite sure that whatever advertisements were placed, it was done properly and in conformity with the rights of the Minister or the Department of Services and Property. [More…]
It should concentrate upon its proper roles of defence and the maintenance of our laws and rights instead of neglecting our defence and attacking our laws and individual rights. [More…]
It should concentrate on its proper roles of defence and the maintenance of law and our rights, instead of neglecting our defence and attacking our laws and our individual rights. [More…]
The Workers Party advocates that Government power should be gradually reduced till the Government is responsible only for the defence of Australia (non-existent at present), for the protection of honest Australians against criminals (at present the police are handicapped by unnecessary laws which restrict individual freedom), and the maintenance of a legal system to protect individual liberty and the rights of individuals. [More…]
Individuals have no rights to own anything at the present time . [More…]
This Government is at present fully committed to policies which are designed completely to erode all those democratic rights which we as a nation fought two major conflicts to preserve. [More…]
The situation prevailing in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands involves a denial of human rights to the indigenous people. [More…]
Mr Clunies Ross has his property rights and, as the fifth generation of a long dynastic line, his influence with the community naturally remains considerable. [More…]
The Government believes that the decisions which have now been taken will provide the basis for developments which will bring the Cocos community to the stage where they will be able to comprehend and enjoy the rights normally enjoyed by Australian citizens. [More…]
I had been left with the distinct impression that if the matter of acquisition had to be determined it might be determined on the basis that no rights exist in Australian Territories. [More…]
But ultimately she did become disorderly, and I believe she was within her rights to do so. [More…]
No one can claim that a Senate or a Parliament is acting undemocratically if it carries out the rights the Constitution gives it. [More…]
I believe the Australian Constitution is in many respects a weight around the neck of a Labor government and that it was introduced to preserve the property rights which existed in the 1890s. [More…]
The Government is now considering what further action it might be able to take, if that intimation is correct, to ensure that this important instrument of direct communication between the Government and the members of the Cocos Malay community is effective so that the members of the Cocos community are not denied their natural, basic and democratic rights. [More…]
Why does this Government regard the denial of human rights of Australian citizens held without trial and without charges being laid against them in communist countries as of secondary importance and the need to avoid giving offence to communist governments as of paramount importance? [More…]
When the Weipa venture was established one of the great claims made at the time on behalf of the then State Government and the mining companies was that the rights of the local Aboriginal people would be totally protected. [More…]
The Minister endeavours to explain by saying that the rights of third parties might be adversely affected. [More…]
As a consequence the Minister claims that third party rights will be protected. [More…]
Surely Senator Martin will not deny the initiatives which this Government has take on behalf of the rights of women. [More…]
So far as my Department, and the statutory bodies for which I am responsible are concerned, various information activities are carried out which provide the Australian people with basic facts concerning their rights and responsibilities. [More…]
Australia acknowledges the legitimate rights of the Palestinians, but our support for the right of Israel to exist within secure and recognised boundaries has also been repeatedly reaffirmed by the Australian Government. [More…]
But what a government did not do was just insist upon its legalistic constitutional rights and build up a storehouse. [More…]
If the Government wants to insist upon its legal rights, it is quite entitled to do so. [More…]
But there is no law compelling the Government to do such a thing, and the Government is quite within its legal rights and its constitutional rights not to proceed under the Electoral Act and resubmit the matters to the Electoral [More…]
It is quite within the Government’s rights to attempt to do it by legislation. [More…]
But I become somewhat sick and tired of being preached at and moralised at as to how we must abide by the conventions when at each and every turn since the Government came to power it has insisted upon its legal rights. [More…]
I do not object to a government insisting upon its legal rights. [More…]
I hope that when that matter comes back before us for implementation the members of the Country Party or the National Party or the League of Rights or whatever they call themselves will take cognisance of it and will not object to it in this chamber. [More…]
Members of the Liberal Party and the Country Party, the League of Rights or whatever the organisation calls itself are very worried about optional preferential voting. [More…]
The Opposition opposes these Bills because it believes that they are unfair to the voting community of Australia and a denial of the rights of the voting people of the Australian community. [More…]
They deny a number of the Australian people their true and proper electoral rights. [More…]
I deplore the fact that the Government is totally disregarding section 57 of the Constitution, thereby taking away from the people their right, their opportunity and their real privilege as far as their voting rights within the Australian community are concerned. [More…]
If we did that, the first person to criticise us would be Senator Webster, who is now using an argument in this House against the Government because of our humanity and our approach to the rights of Aboriginals who are not as yet enrolled and who do not have representation in the Legislative Assembly on a fair and reasonable basis. [More…]
The Country Party has never been in government there since, because guts were shown in relation to the rights of the people of Victoria. [More…]
-Of course, the whole tenor of Senator Carrick ‘s address was a defence of a system which gives unequal rights of voting. [More…]
Let it be clearly established that the Liberal Party has stated in this Parliament, through its spokesman Senator Carrick, that these ethnic minorities have no rights and deserve no consideration from members of Parliament who represent the areas in which they reside. [More…]
In the view of the Liberal Party these ethnic minorities are made up of some sort of sub-human species which are not to be granted the full rights of citizens or indeed any rights at all but are to be used, as my colleague Senator Mulvihill says, as industrial cannon fodder. [More…]
The Italian Foreign Minister has stated that the agreements would define the border, regularise the juridical status of citizens in the area, protect the rights of families who wished to move from one area to another, guarantee the rights of ethnic minorities in the border areas, assure Trieste of possibilities for development and encourage co-operation in a wide range of sectors between Yugoslavia and Italy. [More…]
It can in the world scene pinpoint the fact that a government is acting in this ruthless and unreasonable way, denying freedoms and human rights. [More…]
The Prime Minister of Canada was prepared to come out and publicly condemn or criticise the Government of Yugoslavia and to expect that the rights of Canadian citizens would be upheld. [More…]
It is a great pity also that the Australian Press cannot be relied on to be as outspoken on behalf of Australian citizens as apparently the Canadian Press was outspoken on behalf of Canadian citizens when their freedom and their rights were denied to them in another country. [More…]
It would make a tremendous difference if the Press of this country were concerned about the rights of people that are denied in other countries and were prepared to emblazon that fact in its pages, but one finds that there is virtually no information currently in the Australian Press about Australian citizens who are imprisoned overseas. [More…]
If that is the only way in which one can achieve the rights of citizens then I am afraid there has to be that sort of politics played. [More…]
I believe that so long as a government is tardy in asserting the rights of its citizens it is subject to and ought to be subject to legitimate political challenge. [More…]
What prospects would people have to ensure that their rights would be protected and what sort of a Parliament would this be if, when a voice is sought to be raised on behalf of an individual, we are told to be quiet. [More…]
What of all the others, whose names I will not mention now because I expect and hope that some response will be given by the Ministers of the Crown- the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) and the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Senator Willesee)- to explain whether or not there is a vendetta against Croatian born Australians or an attitude which treats them as second class Australians who are not entitled to the rights which other Australians have. [More…]
In the course of making his statements in his war of attrition against the rights and freedoms of insurance companies and their employees will the Minister make reference to the use or misuse of funds of various trade unions to campaign for and provide financial support to the Australian Labor Party against the wishes of large numbers of their members?’ [More…]
The fact that the Opposition might have a view and the Government might have a view is one thing, but I will certainly not take away the individual rights of individual senators in this place. [More…]
It would not even recover the cost of a hotly contested piece of litigation in which it had secured the rights to this crude oil as against another company which was claiming it. [More…]
But I became convinced that the Senate had a value as a House of review and as a House representing State rights. [More…]
If a States House stands over the democratic rights of people and if the people cannot have their say in that House, there may be a different reflection of the public’s attitude. [More…]
We debated whether Australians by and large should have equal voting rights and whether the vote of a man in the city should have as much value as the vote of a man who lives in the country. [More…]
Australia has been a prosperous country of contented people subscribing to the democratic system which demands freedom, protection of the rights of people, understanding and a national mutual love of people. [More…]
I should say that not only this Government but also the previous Government was fully aware of the problems of the States’ rights in this matter. [More…]
Has he seen a League of Rights pamphlet stating that Russian housewives are buying Australian beef at 9c lb and that the Government has subsidised Union of Soviet Socialist Republics consumers to the extent of $6m? [More…]
Arising from the Government’s decision to appoint a judge to head the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, this Bill ensures that such an appointment of a judge does not affect his tenure of office as a judge, or the salary, allowances and other rights and privileges that he has by virtue of his judicial office. [More…]
There is no such provision in the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act as it now stands and what the Government is proposing is in line with similar provisions which have been passed by this Parliament on other occasions- section 1 3 of the Law Reform Commission Act 1973, for example, enables a judge to be appointed as a commissioner and retain his judicial status and the rights which attach to that status. [More…]
The Bill provides for: the establishment of mobile polling facilities at hospitals and institutions; the retention of franchise rights for persons in the service of the Crown or a public authority outside Australia; a prohibition on sitting Members of other legislatures- including those of the Territoriesfrom nominating at House of Representatives and Senate elections; a declaration relating to a recent change of name and the printing of a former name on the ballot-paper; and a prohibition on the use of offensive or unacceptable names for enrolment and candidature purposes. [More…]
-Does the Leader of the Government in the Senate support the belated acceptance by the Prime Minister that the Senate is acting within its rights under the Constitution in delaying Supply in order to force the House of Representatives to the people? [More…]
If this Prime Minister is allowed to continue his falsehoods, his deceptions and his ravaging of the rights of the people and the Parliament, democracy is indeed ended. [More…]
We are not debating whether the States have rights in this House or anything else. [More…]
If we add to that list the problems created by the behaviour of Parliament itself, the destruction of convention, the defiance of reason, the pursuit of power without concern for the rights or privileges of minorities, then Australians will have little faith in the future of Australian democracy. [More…]
Senator Rae attempted to present this controversy in terms of the States rights argument. [More…]
I do not know what this has to do with States rights when we have a vote- I exclude Senator Bunton and Senator Hall from this because they are Independents- in which the parties are divided on rigid party lines and indeed on which there is ample reason to believe that several members of the Opposition were bludgeoned into submitting themselves to party discipline and vote to defer these Bills against their personal better judgment. [More…]
But the really ludicrous aspect of Senator Rae’s pathetic attempt to present this in terms of a States rights dispute or a States rights argument is that Senator Rae has aligned himself with a course of action the purpose of which is to force a premature election and, the Opposition hopes, bring in a Fraser Government- a Fraser Government which recently announced a new federalism policy. [More…]
But the matters that we are discussing tonight and which have been the subject of this long and sometimes tedious debate are matters which are quite basic to our Constitution, to our parliamentary system and to the rights of the Australian people. [More…]
The Regulations and Ordinances Committee regarded these provisions as an undue infringement of the rights and liberties of the citizen. [More…]
It is interesting that those who claim that the Parliament shall be supreme, those who claim the sovereignty of the Senate, those who express the view that the Senate is a House of review with rights and privileges, are the ones who have themselves surrendered the sovereign rights and given to the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Fraser, the responsibilities which surely should remain in this place. [More…]
That the Prime Minister’s office itself is not identified in the Constitution; that the Governor-General himself is not obliged to ask the majority leader to form a government; nor does the Constitution or any legal decision recognise any rights so far as the Leader of the Opposition is concerned; nor does it recognise the facility known as Cabinet; nor is there any reference to the fact that the High Court has power over and above the Constitution. [More…]
1 think it is in the Constitution that Her Majesty has certain rights to disallow a Bill within a year of its passing both Houses of the Parliament. [More…]
I can well recall how he endeavoured in 1951 to take away the fundamental rights of Australian citizens- he tried to establish the principle that a man was guilty and had to prove he was not guilty. [More…]
We all know the great referendum campaign and the High Court judgments with which the Australian Labor Party was associated to retain democratic rights in this country. [More…]
Mr Fraser has been associated with statements that the minority should not be denied its rights and that he does not want to see these issues determined in the streets. [More…]
Is not the action of the Yugoslav Government an apparent denial of human rights and a ruthless intimidation of a Yugoslav national minority by a calculated injustice to an Australian citizen? [More…]
The computer service will have to take into consideration the report of the Law Reform Commission to ensure that the data which is stored does not contravene our laws on human rights or civil liberties. [More…]
If it is not inconsistent with fundamental rights and duties, the House should avoid setting itself up as an alternative forum or body of inquiry or permit its proceedings to interfere in the course of justice. [More…]
Apart from particular matters, such as criminal cases, courts martial, civil cases and matters referred by a legislature to a judicial body, the rule has application to other hearings, inquiries or investigations in which the rights of individuals or community groups or the achievement of justice may be prejudiced. [More…]
It is the obligation of the Chair to hold the balance between the rights and duties of the House on the one hand and the rights and interests of the citizen on the other. [More…]
Mr Hawke said the ACTU hoped to gain the rights to an allocation of Australian crude oil. [More…]
From as early as December of last year both the respective litigants in a case in the Supreme Court of Victoria had been endeavouring to flog off their respective rights, or what they claimed to be their rights, to this crude at $5 per barrel. [More…]
With the exception of the States’ rights issue the objections are answered by the specific provisions of the legislation or in the explanatory memorandum. [More…]
Putting to one side the particular issue raised by these propositions, I suggest to the Senate that very little will be gained by referring to a committee the hackneyed question of States’ rights. [More…]
I do consider that, whilst there are other matters of grave concern activating us all, there are individuals whose rights ought not to be ignored simply for want of ministerial attention. [More…]
Srecko Rover, a naturalised Australian, would appear to have had all of the rights of Mr Ivan Pavlovic, but for reasons which it never saw fit to publicise the McMahon Government refused him an Australian passport. [More…]
I think that statement was borne out, as some members of the Senate would know, when that famous Senate Select Committee on the Civil Rights of Migrant Australians was appointed. [More…]
It just happens that less than an hour ago in an earlier debate I referred to the education which honourable senators got when they sat on the Senate Select Committee on the Civil Rights of Migrant Australians. [More…]
I think we ought to have regard to that in this place where we are safeguarding democracy where we are exercising our proper rights and responsibilities and where we would be totally negligent were we not to do so. [More…]
The Senate acted absolutely within its rights. [More…]
We have seen the attempt to take away the off-shore rights of the people of the States as is being done in the Northern Territory at this time. [More…]
There is no doubt that the Senate has acted within its rights. [More…]
An equal amount has been said about the Senate having certain powers, authorities, rights and principles by which it may abide. [More…]
It needs to be said again also that the people who put the Constitution together in those early years did not confer these powers, these authorities and rights upon the Senate for nothing. [More…]
It is a question of whether the Party in control does nothing in a given situation or takes its rights, powers and duties into account and does something about that situation. [More…]
In making provision for that basis of democracy, those conventions also provide for the protection of the rights of the Opposition and for the protection of the rights of minority sections in the community. [More…]
By the Constitution the Opposition in the House of Representatives and in this place are provided with rights. [More…]
It will enforce consumers’ rights by examining unsatisfactory trade practices and taking legal action when necessary. [More…]
This Bill provides the greatest step forward so far taken in protecting the rights to which we as consumers and members of the Australian public are entitled. [More…]
It is here to protect the rights of the smaller States. [More…]
Why did the founding fathers- after all, the rights of the States and how the Senate would be constructed were the biggest issues before Federationgive this power to the Senate? [More…]
Nobody really gave a damn whether children had rights or were treated as human beings. [More…]
This Government has come in and given women, as people, rights and dignity. [More…]
If we add to that list the problems created by the behaviour of Parliament itself, the destruction of convention, the defiance of reason, the pursuit of power without concern for the rights or privileges of minorities, then Australians will have little faith in the future of Australian democracy. [More…]
I want to deal with the situation- I will be a little discursive- that is represented by the fact that Senator Wright on this issue, not on a question of State rights or review such as was the purpose of senatorial representation for the States three-quarters of a century ago, has a vote that is worth approximately 13 times that of Senator Carrick. [More…]
I know of no argument before the Supreme Court or of no suggestion by the United States Supreme Court that the position of the Senate in the United States infringes against those Bill of Rights provisions which have given rise to the one vote one value decisions in that court. [More…]
We must bear in mind that those who claim the sovereignty of this place, those who say ‘Hear, hear’ when I speak about the rights of the Senate, fail to appreciate that it was a person other than a senator who made the decision. [More…]
It is in that way that the public at large is involved, and when Ministers regard themselves as so above the other members of the chamber and so above the people of this country that they are not prepared to answer questions on fundamental matters affecting an individual’s rights, then we have the true authoritarianism which stamps the dictatorship. [More…]
The Opposition has its rights in the Parliament. [More…]
No one who believes in Parliament and the rights of Parliament can but deplore the Prime Minister’s arrogant attempt to defy the Parliament and to defy the Constitution. [More…]
So far the Bill has concentrated on supporting the interests of and promoting the rights of travellers- and to a degree principals. [More…]
Part IX seeks to protect the rights of those persons seeking approval to operate as travel agents and those persons already authorised to operate as such, by allowing them the right of appeal to a tribunal. [More…]
That, in the matter of the approval by the Senate of Bills for Supply to the Australian Government, certain decisions and declared intentions of Senators of the parties of the Opposition in Parliament are placing in jeopardy the welfare and basic human rights of those citizens who are aged or disabled and thereby dependent upon pensions payable by the Australian Government. [More…]
Your petitioners are impelled by these facts to call upon all Honourable Senators to forthwith determine as a matter of urgency that approval of the Bills for Supply be no longer delayed in order that the Government shall continue to adequately provide for the welfare rights of Australian citizens. [More…]
As well as that we have introduced the system of having welfare rights officers whose role is to spread as far as possible amongst all residents, including those people who do not speak English, advice as to their rights under the various social welfare laws of Australia. [More…]
This Government does believe that we should have a plural society and what we have done already we admit to be only the first step towards seeing that all of those people who live in this country will be entitled to the rights to which they should be entitled, will be able to receive assistance to which they are entitled and will be able to understand what they are being told through being able to deal with officers who can speak the languages that are of the countries of their origin. [More…]
The Opposition- the Liberal Party- which stands up so often and so vocally for the rights of the Senate has destroyed the function of this House ever again to oppose a money Bill. [More…]
Many of the areas of responsibility, and also the legal rights of the States and the Australian Government are quite clearly defined in some areas and not so clearly defined in others. [More…]
The Standing Committee on Regulations and Ordinances regarded these provisions as unduly infringing the rights and liberties of citizens. [More…]
The Committee regards these proposed amendments of the regulations and by-laws as providing proper limits to the power to open and dispose of mail, and proper safeguards of the rights of the citizen. [More…]
I wish to assure the Senate that in spite of the difficulties of recent weeks, the Committee has continued its work of scrutinising delegated legislation to safeguard the rights and liberties of Australian citizens. [More…]
Our relations with Indonesia are of great importance but not to the point where we will cast aside our commitment to fundamental rights and freedom. [More…]
I refer now to the subject of land rights. [More…]
To be more concise, we must look closely at the intricate issues involved in granting Aboriginal land rights in order to ensure that those rights are not abused by either race and also to ensure that their sole basis is not the overemphasis which is so often placed on theorist ideals. [More…]
I believe that in your capacity as President of the Senate you will lend dignity and honour to the position and you will be at all times an upholder of the rights of Parliament, the rights of the Senate and the rights of honourable senators. [More…]
Each and every member of the Government and of the Opposition- all members of this Parliament- who believe in the principle of parliamentary democracy and the principle that the majority should exercise the rule with the protection of the rights of the minority have to see that the events which took place on 1 1 November last never occur again. [More…]
Will the Minister lay on the Senate table a statement outlining the specific rights of senators to use any facilities of the armed forces? [More…]
People say: ‘To hell with the employers and the employees; what about consumer rights?’ [More…]
I wanted Mr Grassby to force that man to apologise, but Mr Hewitt said: ‘The man has rights and Senator Mulvihill hates industrial officers’. [More…]
From my considerable knowledge of yourself- knowledge which I think extends back to the time before you entered this chamber- I know that you will observe all the decencies and the rights of every senator and that you will impartially carry out your duties. [More…]
I say ‘unresolved’ because I believe, as I think all honourable senators on this side of the chamber maintained throughout the election, that the election was not some type of referendum on the future of the Constitution or of the rights of the Senate. [More…]
But what started out as an exercise in the rights of the Senate became very rapidly a confrontation between Mr Whitlam and the Senate as to whether our powers would persist or be destroyed. [More…]
The election not only provided an endorsement for my Leader, the new Prime Minister, Mr Malcolm Fraser, my colleagues who formed the caretaker ministry and who now form the Cabinet and Government of this country, and the policies of the coalition parties, but also asserted once again that the Senate has a role, rights and a place in our bicameral system, that the legitimacy of our Constitution overrides the wishes of any Prime Minister and that the Governor-General has and can use the reserve powers which are given to him in the Constitution. [More…]
Let us examine some of the false assertions that have been made by the Labor Party about the Twenty-Ninth Parliament and about the rights of governments generally to an unlimited parliamentary term. [More…]
I look to the thirtieth Parliament and to its Senate to carry on this function; to ensure that when we finish here the chamber will still have all its powers of review over legislation, all its powers to hold back hasty legislation, all its powers over the supply of money and all its rights to an independent committee system. [More…]
We are seeing the erosion of the rights and dignity of human beings in this country. [More…]
Discussions have taken place with the Queensland Government since we came to power with a view to constituting the Great Barrier Reef Authority on a basis which would give to Queensland and to the Commonwealth relatively equal rights in its administration. [More…]
But just as the benefits of Labor’s social reform policies were quickly felt in the Territory- for example, in the reduction in the price of land, the establishment of an Australian Legal Aid Office, community health centres, women’s refuges, cheaper loans for home buyers, child care services and land rights for Aboriginals at Wreck Bay, so also the detrimental effects of the present Government’s ill conceived anti-Canberra policy are already causing distress and hardship to people living here in the seat of government. [More…]
I suggest to honourable senators opposite that the rights with which they are so concerned, such as the rights of individuals to pursue independence, to make their own choices and to notch up their own little measures of achievement, are rights which can be exercised only by people who have had the opportunity to acquire skills, knowledge and confidence. [More…]
I come here to represent the people of Queensland, the people who elected me to this chamber, and in representing them I intend at all times to fight for their rights, and I intend especially to fight for the rights of the underprivileged. [More…]
I, with my colleagues from Tasmania I hope, certainly will fight for that State’s rights. [More…]
But that State’s rights depend on a defence of the rights of this House. [More…]
The amendment will give honourable senators an opportunity to indicate whether they regard this House as a house of review and also a States’ rights House. [More…]
Unless he says something that is very abusive about individuals who have become spokesmen in this type of crisis, I think Senator Walsh is perfectly within his rights in expressing the extent of his opinion about them. [More…]
Unfortunately, because valuable minerals are found everybody forgets land rights. [More…]
Land rights are a good thing only while the land has not value to white men, whether it is for mining, agriculture or anything else. [More…]
The Labor Party, the Country Party, the Liberal Party all have in their policies that they support land rights. [More…]
They support land rights only while the land has no value. [More…]
I am not concerned at this point in the debate with anything but land rights, the land and the mining that will take place at Aurukun. [More…]
The Australian Security Intelligence Oranizanon Bill will ensure that the appointment of a judge as Director-General of Security does not affect his tenure of office as a judge, or the salary, allowances and other rights and privileges that he has by virtue of his judicial office. [More…]
Section 13 of the Law Reform Commission Act 1973 similarly enables a judge to be appointed as a commissioner and to retain his judicial status and the rights which attach to that status. [More…]
The Labor Government introduced a scheme that would have given people a chance to go to somebody to find out the truth, to ask, ‘Can they do that to me; what are my rights under the law?’ [More…]
Finally, is the Attorney-General aware that his action is viewed by Australian people as one of the most blatant, arrogant and neo-Gestapo acts of aggression against civil rights since the days of Hitler’s Germany and that the precedent now established should not be repeated? [More…]
I refer to the Senate Select Committee on the Civil Rights of Migrant Australians. [More…]
I say this without any fear or favour: If the Senate Select Committee on Civil Rights of Migrant Australians proved anything it was that both the Commonwealth Police and the New South Wales Police evaluated the Croatian situation far more accurately than did ASIO in its belated evaluation. [More…]
I refer to the inquiry being conducted into Aboriginal rights by Mr Justice Woodward; the inquiry into Norfolk Island by Mr Justice Nimmo; and the maritime inquiry into indemnity payments by Mr Justice Sweeney, who was, according to the Parliamentary Library, also the Chief Justice of Fiji. [More…]
If this does not happen our system will be without one of the great safeguards on which ordinary peoples’ rights depend, especially today having regard to the importance of the industrial field. [More…]
The individual rights in the industrial field are the most important rights to be balanced by the judiciary. [More…]
But I think it has to be said, on the basis of experience during the whole post-war period that it is essential that the person who occupies this important position should be a person trained in the art of the law and a person having some respect for the rights of the ordinary citizen. [More…]
I think it is essential when we are dealing with legislation concerning the Australian Security Intelligence Organization that the civil rights of the individuals are maintained as a vital principle. [More…]
At this very moment the American Government has reached the point where it is endeavouring to democratise the intelligence organisations so far as the rights of the ordinary people of that country are concerned. [More…]
It is interesting to consider the passage of the Freedom of Information Act in America and to consider what that means in terms of the democratic rights of a great many of the activists in the political movements in that country. [More…]
The Central Intelligence Agency engaged in scores of plainly unlawful and improper invasions of constitutional rights during its 28-year history, including domestic breakins, wiretaps, mail openings and data-collection on thousands of Americans, the Rockefeller Commission reported yesterday. [More…]
It is because ASIO indulged in activities which lowered the standing of the intelligence service in the eyes of the Australian people, particularly in the eyes of those Australians who care very much about democracy and the rights of the individual, that an investigation and reform of [More…]
I believe that an Attorney-General doing his job is a guarantee of the protection of the rights of the individual. [More…]
Mr Justice Woodward sat for 2 1 days on the Trade Practices Tribunal in 1975 and for a period of time presided over the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission. [More…]
I say ‘unresolved ‘ because I believe, as I think all honourable senators on this side of the chamber maintained throughout the election, that the election was not some type of referendum on the future of the Constitution or of the rights of the Senate. [More…]
The South Australian Labor Government would be quite within its rights to follow the precedent which has been set by 2 previous Liberal-National Country Party coalition governments. [More…]
Mr Nelson, like his father before him, served as a member for the Northern Territory and fought for voting rights, an elected assembly and Senate representation. [More…]
Consultations must be held with the Public Service associations to ensure not only that the Northern Territory Public Service attracts the best possible people but also that the rights of all public servants are protected. [More…]
It is gratifying to learn that the present Government supports the Land Rights Bill and intends to proceed with it. [More…]
A suggestion has been made that the Land Rights Bill should be enacted by the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly rather than the National Parliament. [More…]
After 75 years of federation, the Senate has evolved as much as a checks and balances house for the nation as it has as a States rights house. [More…]
As standing order 427 on breach of privilege protects a senator against newspaper assault on his civil and parliamentary rights, should not a senator have similar access to the Privileges Committee in the matter of the intrusion of the police and this type of assault on him in exercising his duties and functions as a member of this Parliament? [More…]
No senator or member should be beholden to the executive for his or her rights and entitlements. [More…]
In case it is inferred from a Press statement issued by the Minister shortly after the present Government came into office or from his present statement that the Labor Government in any way was lavish in the manner in which it dealt with the rights and entitlements of parliamentarians, I want to say at the outset that members of this Parliament owe a debt of gratitude to the Minister for Services and Property in the Labor Government, the Hon. [More…]
In our conversations I indicated that I considered myself, as Chief Justice of Australia, free, on your Excellency’s request, to offer you legal advice as to Your Excellency’s constitutional rights and duties in relation to an existing situation which, of its nature, was unlikely to come before the court. [More…]
Governor-General was within his legal rights if he saw fit to dissolve the Ministry and seek an interim Ministry which would secure from the Parliament Supply and advise a general election. [More…]
Having regard to the fact that the new superannuation scheme will not come into operation until 1 July, can further consideration and support be given to that point of view because certainly more retirements will be achieved due to increased superannuation rights? [More…]
To the principle of land rights for the Northern Territory Aboriginals. [More…]
Does this statement imply that the Government is not committed to the principle of land rights for Aboriginals outside the Northern Territory? [More…]
As both Queensland and Western Australia each have bigger populations of Aboriginals than the Northern Territory, does the commitment of land rights for Northern Territory Aboriginals mean only a commitment for a small proportion of Aboriginal people? [More…]
According to Hobbes’ Leviathan a Commonwealth arises as a result of a group of equal and free individuals abdicating some of their rights, powers and freedoms in favour of a single body, in return for certain safeguards which singly they could not provide for themselves. [More…]
In the context of the Australian Commonwealth, the parallel occurred when the individual States abdicated certain of their rights and transferred them to a single separate body, namely the Federal government. [More…]
As well as the changed character of the Senate with respect to its numbers and the average age of honourable senators- perhaps we should not place too much emphasis on those factors- what is true of the Senate, I am quite confident, irrespective of those age groupings and the points of view that individual senators may have in the political spectrum, is that in the future the Senate will continue to show its concern for the protection of individual rights and will seek to ensure that the interests of people in all the States are preserved. [More…]
Whether honourable senators are from the populous States such as New South Wales and Victoria or from the less populous States like Tasmania and my own State of Western Australia, no matter where they come from, or whether those States are close to Canberra or far removed, honourable senators representing the various States and the Territories will still be concerned to protect both the rights of the individual and the rights of the people living within those States or Territories. [More…]
In addition the Government has shown that it is determined to ensure that individual rights in this community are protected. [More…]
It is fair to say also that the Government has indicated its view on that matter in this chamber as the Government has actively promoted and certainly enthusiastically supported the re-creation and maintenance of the Senate committee system, which is perhaps the greatest means for the protection of individual rights that the Parliament possesses. [More…]
We were elected partly because of our commitment to the rights of people within the States. [More…]
With respect to the amendments moved by Senator Harradine and by the Opposition, we on this side of the chamber are of the opinion that the amendments do not take into account the rights of the people within the States. [More…]
It was said by Senator Withers that the Government is of the opinion that the amendments that have been moved firstly by Senator Harradine and now by Senator Brown on behalf of the Opposition do not take into account the rights of the people within the States themselves. [More…]
We are talking about people who, because there has been so much talk about this matter for so long, are well aware of what their rights ought to be. [More…]
There has been a lot of criticism of the Australian Labor Party because of its policy of centralism and because it has taken away the rights of people in the local areas, centralising them in the institution in Canberra. [More…]
They believed that we were practising a form of centralism which took away the rights and opportunities of people in the remoter communities. [More…]
If the Government finds more jobs for people it will not need to place strictures on the individual rights of the person. [More…]
There should be no arbitrary controls over the employment rights of a person. [More…]
I suggest to the Government that, irrespective of the rights of claim, it should not make or attempt to make this type of claim on people who have suffered the misfortune of the loss of their jobs. [More…]
The Aboriginal people have not been given the true rights to which they are entitled. [More…]
As to the problems which the honourable senator raises in regard to Aboriginal land rights in the Northern Territory, that is a matter on which the Government will make a policy decision. [More…]
Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
Will grant land rights over all Aboriginal reserves in Northern Territory. [More…]
Land rights legislation to have top priority immediately after election. [More…]
All aboriginal councils and other interested bodies and persons to be consulted on land rights Bill. [More…]
Bearing that in mind, and being aware of the fact that the Queensland Government has sent its Ombudsman to Aurukun to investigate the rights of the Aborigines there, this afternoon I sent this letter to the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser): [More…]
The prospecting rights were granted on 31 December 1971, although the original agreement was made in 1 968. [More…]
But the Aukurun people were told that they had no right to use the word ‘Aurukun’; the mining company had sole rights to the name. [More…]
Early in the piece a number of people associated in trying to preserve the rights of the Aboriginals. [More…]
In 1973 the Aboriginal council at Aurukun, which had 3 elected members and 2 members appointed by the Department of Aboriginal and Island Affairs, asked Mr Frank Purcell, a Melbourne lawyer, to act for them in their efforts to get land rights. [More…]
In 1975 they asked him to act for them in the negotiation of mineral rights. [More…]
The land rights legislation which the Labor Government tried to establish before Parliament was prorogued in 1975 would have given the people of the Northern Territory the right to own those areas in which there were some tribal ties. [More…]
Idi Amin was accepted there, despite a 63-page report from the International Commission of Jurists detailing his reign of terror in Uganda, his repeated violation of human rights, his expulsion of 50 000 Indians and the mass murder of more than 100 000 of his citizens. [More…]
In 1974 the United Nations approved a charter of the economic rights and duties of states. [More…]
We should stand up for our own rights and achievements. [More…]
Aboriginal Land Rights [More…]
Will grant land rights over all Aboriginal Reserves in Northern Territory. [More…]
Land rights legislation to have top priority immediately after election. [More…]
All Aboriginal councils and other interested bodies and persons to be consulted on Land Rights Bill. [More…]
It is a bit like the land rights problem at Aurukun. [More…]
If that is an example of the organisation that is going on it is not hard to believe that the Government has set out on a concerted effort to deprive the people of their rights, of the grants to which they are entitled and of the ordinary justice that all of us in this community expect and accept. [More…]
We the members of the National Congress of the Aboriginal people and the Torres Strait Islanders, assembled at Canberra, Australia this 10th day of March 1 976, do hereby, as the democratically elected representatives of our people, solemnly and unanimously resolve that we claim for our people the following inalienable rights:- the right to natural justice, the right to self determination as a separate and distinct people, with our own laws and customs, languages culture and heritage, living in our ancient home-land and with the right to a full voice in and influence on our own affairs, the right to be free from the racial oppression and discrimination imposed upon us by the uninvited European people who have invaded our country and imposed their own laws and way of life upon us, the right to preserve in perpetuity for our people the surviving tribal lands reserves and sacred sites in all Australian states and territories, the right to fair and just compensation to our scattered tribes, our detribalised and urban people, for the lands seized from our forefathers, and for the inhuman and violent treatment of our people. [More…]
We the members of the National Congress of the Aboriginal people and the Torres Strait Islanders, assembled at Canberra, Australia this 10th day of March 1976, do hereby, as the democratically elected representatives of our people, solemnly and unanimously resolve that we claim for our people the following inalienable rights: the right to natural justice, the right to self determination as a separate and distinct people, with our own laws and customs, languages culture and heritage, living in our ancient home-land and with the right to a full voice in and influence on our own affairs, the right to be free from the racial oppression and discrimination imposed upon us by the uninvited European people who have invaded our country and imposed their own laws and way of life upon us, the right to preserve in perpetuity for our people the surviving tribal lands reserves and sacred sites in all Australian states and territories, the right to fair and just compensation to our scattered tribes, our detribalised and urban people, for the lands seized from our forefathers, and for the inhuman and violent treatment of our people. [More…]
And we further unanimously resolve: to place our claims before the United Nations and to appeal to all the peoples of the world who believe in freedom and justice for moral and financial support in the fight for our peoples ‘ rights, to call upon the Australian Aboriginal people and the Torres Strait Islanders to unite behind their Congress, and, as never before to fight as one to secure and preserve our ancient heritage, and we announce our resolve, with the support of our people, to build up the strength of the Congress, to conduct the next congress elections in September 1976, and to ensure that the claims of our people for a free and better way of life are pursued vigorously and without fear. [More…]
We want the promise for the land rights too. [More…]
You promised to make that land rights law right away after the election. [More…]
I understand that the Prime Minister has said that as soon as possible the land rights legislation will go through both Houses of the Federal Parliament. [More…]
The purpose of the visits was to seek the opinions of communities on the current controversy over cutbacks in expenditure and Land Rights Legislation. [More…]
The people strongly support the stand which we have taken and have urged us to maintain the demand that Federal Parliament pass the Land Rights Legislation as a matter of priority . [More…]
He was referring to last week’s land rights demonstration in Alice Springs, attended by over 500 Central Australian Aborigines. [More…]
He said Aboriginals were obviously concerned over the Land Rights issue and their views were genuine. [More…]
He failed to tell the people assembled that Mr Viner had notified Mr Perkins by telegram saying the Government was vigorously pursuing the Land Rights matter . [More…]
Senator Bernie Kilgariff today reaffirmed that the Country-Liberal Party was endeavouring to control the introduction of Aboriginal Land Rights legislation through the Legislative Assembly. [More…]
So it was thought necessary to nominate a year to ensure that the basic human rights of women were recognised. [More…]
But they all came from areas concerned for women’s rights, for women’s lives, for women and their children and the sort of lives they had been living. [More…]
Whatever the rights or wrongs of the question and answer may be I believe it is a sign of a very real regard for his ministerial responsibilities for him to do that. [More…]
That is the extent to which a State parliament, with government instigation through its Lower House, went to suppress the rights of individuals in the South Australia community. [More…]
I certainly hope that when the Commonwealth and State Housing Ministers conference takes place there will be a frank interchange of views and a recognition that within the States spheres the States have rights and responsibilities which they should be able to exercise with regard to the money which they are receiving from the Commonwealth. [More…]
The essential difference between the approach which was adopted in 1973 and the approach which will be adopted in the future is that where the States have a role to fulfil and a wish to assert it they will find a Commonwealth government which is prepared to acknowledge their rights and responsibilities. [More…]
Will the Minister advise whether the Northern Land Council will be given additional funds for the rest of this financial year or whether the substantial cuts indicate that the Minister does not support the work of the Council and agrees with the Majority Leader in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, Dr Letts, that it will be redundant when the Legislative Assembly takes over the implementation of the Land Rights Bill? [More…]
The first relates to the rights, functions and duties of the House to protect the rights of ordinary citizens who seek redress from it. [More…]
That was Mr Norman Bray, who swore one of the affidavits- were suspended from his office and therefore lost the rights which are conferred by the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Act to have financial assistance to enable him to test in the courts the validity of his suspension. [More…]
Where is there someone in the Australian Labor Party today who is prepared to stand up and say that that is a travesty of justice and a denial of the rights of ordinary union members? [More…]
I feel that what has happened to Mr Bray, who is a unionist who has been denied his livelihood and his rights of membership and office in his union for what appears to be a frame-up, is a travesty which ought to be investigated. [More…]
There are some members of this chamber who seek to destroy the Standing Orders of the Senate and to put it in a position in which numbers count and individuals have no rights. [More…]
I am assured that they are also being told of their rights and opportunities. [More…]
Their rights and opportunities include being able to apply for other vacant positions throughout the Public Service. [More…]
I am concerned that Senator Sheil obviously does not think that the women in those countries have any rights to determine what methods of birth control will be used. [More…]
They are, firstly, that the regulations and ordinances are in accordance with the statute; secondly, that they do not trespass unduly on personal rights and liberties; thirdly, that they do not unduly make the rights and liberties of citizens dependent upon administrative rather than judicial decisions; and, fourthly, that they are concerned with administrative detail and do not amount to substantive legislation which should be a matter for parliamentary enactment. [More…]
The Committee regards these as unduly infringing the rights and liberties of citizens. [More…]
It is a nation where relationships are built on obligations rather than on rights. [More…]
In this country we keep talking about our rights vis-a-vis one another. [More…]
If so, has he noticed that the article contains an allegation that a newsletter published by the League of Rights advertised the Minister as guest speaker at a dinner of the League of Rights in March 1974? [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…]
Did the Minister attend as guest speaker a dinner of the League of Rights in March 1974 or at any other time? [More…]
I have never attended a dinner of the League of Rights in my life so far as I am aware, but I have attended meetings of a variety of organisations and I have no apology for attending some of them. [More…]
Indeed I know members of the League of Rights who I think are very respectable people. [More…]
The League of Rights in some instances appears to be an extreme organisation, as do the organisations to which the honourable senator who asked the question also belongs. [More…]
I repeat the unqualified assurance given by the Prime Minister and also by me in this Senate on behalf of the Government that the four less populous States which have traditionally achieved equalisation benefits under the Commonwealth Grants Commission, which was set up in 1933 by a Liberal Government, will have their rights preserved in their entirety. [More…]
At the outset I must commend the Leader of the Opposition for asserting for the first time on behalf of the Labor Party a belief in State rights. [More…]
I take it that that is the whole purpose of his saying that he wants me to give him an assurance of the assertion of State rights. [More…]
Preservation of Superannuation Rights [More…]
They deal with persons whose contributions to the superannuation scheme have been deferred on their becoming eligible members of the DFRDB scheme, the preservation of rights provisions as they relate to persons transferring from one scheme to the other and, in accordance with past practice, the ex-officio appointment of the Commissioner for Superannuation, in lieu of the President of the Superannuation Board, as Chairman of the DFRDB Authority and the DFRB Board. [More…]
On 1 October 1958 under the Christmas Island Agreement Act the Island was made an Australian Territory and Australia secured exclusive rights to extract all phosphates and other minerals and to cut timber in, on and from Christmas Island. [More…]
If I am to be prevented from speaking within the time limit that is available to me without a vote of the Senate my rights must be upheld. [More…]
This group concerns itself with issues of human rights. [More…]
Amnesty Internationa] undertakes a large number of activities in support of human rights. [More…]
If I may disgress for one moment, I simply remind the Senate that a year ago an Australian Amnesty International mission went to Indonesia, in respect of which concern had been expressed about the rights of prisoners. [More…]
We went to Indonesia on behalf of Amnesty International to do what we could to advance the cause of human rights. [More…]
We are concerned about human rights in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and last year 90 members of the Parliament forwarded a petition to Mr Kosygin, who was Chairman of the Council of Ministers in Moscow. [More…]
It is an expression of bi-partisan support for the principle of human rights and for the desire that these men should get a fair trial. [More…]
I believe that our support for officers of the Soviet Group of Amnesty International in Moscow is necessary and that it is a proper expression of a world-wide human rights movement and concern for human rights. [More…]
What prompted me to speak in this debate this evening- I am grateful to Senator Baume for informing me that he intended to raise the matter of civil liberties and the rights of people in the adjournment debate this eveningwas the receipt on the table in my Senate room today of a document with the compliments of the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia. [More…]
The order went out to kill the Australians because Australia was taking up the issues about the rights of people. [More…]
Even if it were left to the personal initiative of individual members in this Parliament we were still keeping the Australian flag flying in respect of our desire for the rights of people to be upheld. [More…]
If we take a position of principle that we do not interfere because it is none of our concern, how much more correct are we in demanding that the Indonesians have the same standards in respect of the rights and aspirations of the people of Timor? [More…]
I trunk this Parliament is entitled to know where the Australian Government is getting its information, particularly when we are concernedSenator Baume was correct when he said we are concerned- about political persecution, about oppression, about the rights of people. [More…]
Do not leave it to the bureaucrats and the intelligence gatherers and those who make decisions which affect the rights of others in secretive sorts of ways, where the Parliament and the people of Australia are denied legitimate access to information on the course of events that are taking place. [More…]
Pilots, hostesses and ground workers are fighting for their rights. [More…]
Sir Eric Willis is completely happy with the Fraser Government’s new federalism proposals because he knows very well that if they are implemented his State will be better ofT, Victoria probably will be better off and every other State in Australia, which the self-proclaimed defenders of States rights who populate the Government benches in this Senate say that they are protecting or that they represent, will be worse off. [More…]
I am encouraged to do so by the Senate’s interest in the rights of individuals. [More…]
The player, of course, has his rights. [More…]
The States have specific legislation concerning rights of borrowers and lenders and the stability of building societies, and have the administrative machinery necessary for the execution of their responsibilities. [More…]
Does the delegation intend to make representations to obtain continuing finance for the Northern Territory and the transfer to the Assembly of powers under an Aboriginal Rights Bill. [More…]
Yet, only last week, when I asked again a question concerning the rights of States to go ahead and develop certain economic development programs within their own borders, I was told that there would be no objection to this action, that it would be fine, no trouble at all. [More…]
Are not the national problems in the context of the Commonwealth of Australia the sovereign rights and responsibilities of the States themselves? [More…]
I repeat the unqualified assurance given by the Prime Minister and also by me in this Senate on behalf of the Government that the four less populous States which have traditionally achieved equalisation benefits under the Commonwealth Grants Commission, which was set up in 1933 by a Liberal government, will have their rights preserved in their entirety. [More…]
He put his signature to a document in 1959 relating to constitutional rights. [More…]
Even a conservative like Senator Wright was prepared to put his signature to a document relating to constitutional rights some 17 or 18 years ago. [More…]
Irrespective of the rights and wrongs of what 6 honourable senators on this side of the chamber did last week, they have not been expelled. [More…]
Minister aware that the log consists of 45 different claims, including a demand for 4 hours paid leave for each 40 hours continuous employment, 13 weeks long service leave after 10 years service, voluntary retirement at age 60 with normal retirement rights and benefits, 5 weeks annual leave instead of 4 weeks, and an increase in annual leave loading from 17.5 per cent to 25 per cent? [More…]
As a result of increasing interest in Aboriginal affairs since about 1970 and especially the increased vote for the Department of Aboriginal Affairs with the advent of the Labor Government in 1972-73, organisations were established for the protection of Aboriginal rights and special legal aid and better medical services were provided. [More…]
Whilst I, and perhaps most honourable senators, admire the energy and activism of the pensioners in organising their associations and coming to Canberra in this way, I believe that it should not be necessary for the senior citizens of Australia to have to come to Canberra and demand their rights. [More…]
Why is it that pensioners must still organise and come to lobby in Canberra, to lobby only for their rights and not for anything special or outrageous? [More…]
Mr Clunies Ross has complete landing rights on the Island with his launch and, as I mentioned in my ministerial statement last September, in my opinion the situation prevailing is a denial of basic human rights to the indigenous people there. [More…]
I cannot see any reason why a child who is continuing in fulltime education should have more rights than a young person who decides to take an apprenticeship. [More…]
Again I would suggest that the Government take note of the possible disadvantage which may be suffered by a divorced spouse and, in drawing up regulations to this Bill, find some equitable way of determining the rights of a former wife. [More…]
Another person in that category is the sister-housekeeper of a contributor, who may be just as dependent as a wife but who has no rights at all to a pension once her brother is deceased. [More…]
Those pensioners who already have accrued rights under the old Bill will continue to have their rights under the old Bill. [More…]
My desperation is to think that a mere ark of a vessel for the purpose of continuing existing benefits is made the vehicle whereby to give extended benefits in the case of remarriages after 1 July, and the vehicle to resurrect rights that have become exhausted before 1 July in the case of remarriages that might have taken place many years ago. [More…]
I would imagine that the Senate would have some compassion for and understanding of the plight of the people who live in that country and that the Senate would uphold the rights of the people of East Timor to determine their own affairs. [More…]
Of course this was the reason for the two-pronged attack used by Labor over the last 3 years- language through the bilingual program plus use of both languages on the settlements, in the churches, in discussions, in decision-making and so on; also the Woodward report, leading to the Lands Commission and land rights for Aborigines. [More…]
They are busy with land rights, mineral rights and so on. [More…]
I do not know whether this is another sop in relation to State rights or something of that kind. [More…]
But what I am concerned about- I referred to it earlier- is that perhaps the Minister listens to strange voices which may try to divert him from what I believe is a very sincere purpose, namely, to see that the program which we introduced and which is concerned with the rights, individuality and freedom of expression of every Australian child is carried forward and to insist upon and fight for the development of a program which will help to widen the horizons of every child in this country and which will help to enhance and enrich our greatest resource. [More…]
It is only with that sort of approach, even if the Government is pretty stingy in the Budget, can the Government hope- it is a pious hope indeed to build Malcolm Fraser ‘s new Jerusalem in Australia- to fulfil those pious platitudes that we hear about the rights, the dignity and individuality of every Australian citizen. [More…]
I for one will stand in my place here and criticise the Schools Commission for not providing to government schools in the building and equipment projects and recurrent expenditure section an amount of money which is consistent with the rights of the people of the States to their fair share of expenditure. [More…]
Today many people in Australia are taking an interest in Aborigines and in land rights but 12 years ago the actions we took then on behalf of the Aborigines of the Northern Territory were somewhat novel inasmuch as not very much similar legislation was being enacted by the Australian Government and by the States. [More…]
An Aboriginal, in common with all peoples, recognised that his only means of subsistence lay in the land and that particular rights to the use of land should be recognised and controlled. [More…]
It was largely agreed by witnesses before the Committee who had experience and knowledge in this field that although to the Aboriginal land as such had no significance each community or group had rights to the use of the animals and fruits which existed on certain ill-defined but actually bounded land. [More…]
The settlement of Australia by European people, in every case, represented intrusion upon this system whereby land and rights in land were parcelled out between communities and individuals. [More…]
The depasturing of sheep and cattle, later agriculture, mining, the fencing of boundaries and the construction of roads all represented such a serious interference with the former rights in land which the Aboriginal had enjoyed that his livelihood was inevitably threatened; and quite often he was reduced to a beggarly subsistence depending upon the charity of the European which was derived from the very land from which he had been excluded. [More…]
Mr Dexter was appointed permanent head and Judge Woodward was appointed royal commissioner on land rights. [More…]
Whilst it has been said of me in the Press in some places that I am returning to the old theme of land rights, radical racial minorities and all of those sorts of things, that is far from right. [More…]
The part-Aboriginal person is this person who is much more sophisticated and he has as much right as anybody else to be assisted in relation to his land rights and so on. [More…]
In this case, Australian people with a lawful right were denied the rights of human beings. [More…]
It suggests that an arrangement can be made between a Federal Minister and a state school with the complete omission of any thought being given to the fact that a State government has sovereign rights regarding state schools. [More…]
Those people who were able to join the new scheme on the basis I mentioned- that is, contributions of 5.5 per cent of salary over the period of service- have no rights in that scheme. [More…]
You may recall that during the debate on the relevant retirement benefits Bills in the House of Representatives on 30 May, 1973, 1 mentioned that if any anomalies arose in relation to the rights of widows, I would be pleased to have them examined. [More…]
The original legislation was amended on 9 December 1974 to enable organisations who wished to do so to transfer their rights to other eligible organisations. [More…]
These rights were sought by some organisations and this gave a considerable stimulus to the program and created a demand for grants in respect of hostels that exceeded the number that could be funded in 1975-1976 within the Budget allocation of $40m. [More…]
At the same time these organisations were given an assurance by the previous Government that their rights under the Aged Persons Hostels Act 1972-1974 would be preserved even though the making of grants in respect of their projects had been deferred. [More…]
The Government has decided that to enable an annual program of construction to be undertaken and to ensure that the rights of organisations which have acquired entitlements under the legislation are preserved, there should be an extension of the time within which the erection of a hostel can be commenced. [More…]
An amendment to the existing legislation will give organisations with existing rights 12 months from the date on which a grant is actually approved to plan and commence construction of their hostels. [More…]
The friends of the communists are not genuinely concerned with the rights of the people of East Timor, and the tragedy is that they are using the people of East Timor for their own ideological ends. [More…]
What rights, over and above those usually accorded visitors to Australia, were these officers given in order to carry out their responsibilities in protecting the VicePresident. [More…]
In so doing, the existing rights of the less populous States will be fully protected. [More…]
Clause 45 replaces these outmoded provisions with more equitable procedures for the recovery of loss of public moneys or stores that are under the control of an accounting officer or for the value of stores lost or deficient or damage to stores due to negligence or misconduct as a debt due to the Government, and gives to the Government, and its employees, the rights and protection of the law. [More…]
I preface it by reminding the Minister of recent Government statements that it was proposed to implement, as a matter of priority, legislation granting Aboriginal land rights in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Does the Australian Government no longer consider the Northern Territory land rights legislation as a matter of urgency. [More…]
I am not aware of the timetable with regard to the introduction of the land rights legislation for Aborigines, but I am quite sure that the assumption that the Minister for the Northern Territory and members of the Country Party have combined to wreck the legislation is inaccurate. [More…]
The committee proposes to continue to scrutinise Australian Capital Territory ordinances and to apply to them its other 3 principles, namely, that they should be in accordance with the statute; that they should not trespass unduly on personal rights and liberties; and that they should not unduly make the rights and liberties of citizens dependent upon administrative rather than upon judicial decisions. [More…]
legislation to ensure that they are in accordance with the statute; that they do not trespass unduly on personal rights and liberties; that they do not unduly make the rights and liberties of citizens dependent upon administrative rather than upon judicial decisions. [More…]
There is a widening certainty that the gross national product does not measure health or happiness, dignity, compassion, beauty or delight, and that these are, if not all inalienable rights, at least worthy aspirations. [More…]
lt is all right for a Labor Federal Government to cut special purpose grants but let a Liberal Government exercise its rights to control its own programs and the voices go up. [More…]
In this inanimate, computerised age in which we live there is a greater than ever responsibility on Parliament to act as custodian of the rights of the people so that we can ensure that taxes fall equitably on all sections of the community. [More…]
It is no use having legal rights if you do not know what those rights are, particularly if you are dealing with people who do know what their rights are. [More…]
This morning the Australian Broadcasting Commission and the newspapers reported that Aboriginal land rights legislation had been introduced into the House of Representatives. [More…]
-My understanding is that it is correct that the land rights legislation has been introduced into the House of Representatives. [More…]
Where a company receiving assistance fails to proceed with commercial exploitation of the results of a project, or decides to terminate the research and development program, consideration will be able to be given to the Government acquiring the rights to any results of the research and development that has been undertaken. [More…]
Each OECD country has a quota which determines its maximum financial liability and is the basis for determining its borrowing rights. [More…]
The question of rights of appeal will be taken into account by the responsible Minister. [More…]
There have been arguments amongst cattlemen about the rights and wrongs of the strain 19 vaccination. [More…]
I shall refer to him also the suggestion of delaying any deportation until these people have full knowledge of their rights and have a full understanding and interpretation of what may be given to them. [More…]
The ACTU was concerned to ensure that the rights of all parties on the waterfront were maintained. [More…]
I should like to see the Minister give an assurance to this chamber that the accumulated rights of the workers employed by the ASIA will be preserved- their rights to continued permanent employment. [More…]
If the Government is thinking about chopping out the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority it has a duty to tell the workers employed by that Authority right here and now that their rights to a future will be preserved. [More…]
We have come far beyond the point where anyone can pretend that the denial of rights to minorities, or of basic rights to majorities, is not a matter of international concern. [More…]
This legislation will be passed because facts and logic do not have anything to do with what legislation gets through this chamber, any more than States’ rights do. [More…]
-I remind the Minister representing the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs that the Minister in another place was reported recently as having stated that the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly would be permitted to draft and pass complementary legislation associated with the Federal Government Bill for Aboriginal land rights in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I ask the Minister Can he indicate in what way that tax does not represent precisely the additional taxing rights which will be given to the States? [More…]
If the tax does represent those additional taxing rights, in what way is it likely to differ from subsequent similar taxes which will have to be imposed by the other States in the course of the current Government’s federalist policy? [More…]
A fund that seeks to continue to operate after 1 October must completely surrender to the Minister its rights to establish not only policy but also administrative procedures. [More…]
Because that question is raised in my mind I must ask whether in actual fact it is not a sop to some of the people in the hope that they will not ask for the things that I believe are their rights in the other areas of social services. [More…]
I should have thought that the people who have been so concerned with women’s rights and the role of women in society, as Senator Baume has been, would have remembered the supporting mothers’ benefit which the Labor Government introduced and which for the first time gave mothers a real chance to choose between staying at home and looking after their children or parking them somewhere and going out to work. [More…]
Clearly, as the matter has not been decided at all- I presume the Australian Labor Party does not want me to pre-empt the rights of Premiers to discuss the matter- I cannot and will not make a statement ahead of decisions by the Premiers Conference. [More…]
The legal rights of recipients of special welfare assistance. [More…]
Clause 6 meets the technical requirement arising from the Officers Rights Declaration Act with regard to the Authority Chairman who is an officer of the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]
The clause deems the Chairman to have resigned on the last day ofthe Authority’s existence thus safeguarding his rights as a public servant. [More…]
The tragedy of this issue is that this Government and its spokesmen in this place and, to some extent, in the other place have sought to place this whole question concerning the rights of people in Timor on a basis of who was right and who was wrong. [More…]
At that time we were concerned about maintaining the rights of a properly constituted government. [More…]
If any person in public life acts improperly in respect of the rights of nations or the rights of people, sooner or later he is brought to book. [More…]
One of the first acts of this Australian Government when it was officially elected was to reject the incorporation ofthe Baltic States into the Soviet Union because of the rights of the people. [More…]
There is need for a determined campaign by all Australians- and that means all parties and all senators who have some understanding of the problem- by all those who value liberty and freedom and the rights of people, to see that this grave miscarriage of justice is not ratified and that the incorporation does not take place. [More…]
We have had special sessions of Parliament to determine things of less consequence and significance than the rights of people to determine their own affairs. [More…]
If we have any conscience at all and if we want to rectify the grave miscarriage of justice that is taking place, then I suggest that, although this matter does not affect our national security but does affect the rights of others, the initiative rests with this Government. [More…]
We have heard a great deal from Mr Bjelke-Petersen over the last two or three years about alleged State rights as guaranteed by the Constitution- or Mr Bjelke-Petersen asserts that they are guaranteed by the Constitution. [More…]
It is more than time that we heard something from his colleagues about Federal Government rights as guaranteed by the Constitution. [More…]
Rights as expounded by the Institute for Economic Democracy. [More…]
The Institute is a front for the Australian League of Rights which, among other things has been furiously trying to persuade Queensland dairy farmers for the last 10 or 15 years that they do not have any deep seated economic problems, that all the Queensland dairy farmer needed 15 years ago was a sensible economic management and that if that happened the Queensland dairy farmer would be happy and prosperous for ever more, notwithstanding the low levels of production which are inevitably associated with dairying in areas where temperatures are consistently high. [More…]
One Premier who, I suppose we can say, will support this Government’s proposals for additional State rights will be the Premier of Western Australia, Sir Charles Court, who once again is making it clear that he is seeking a very large sum of money overseas- an overseas loan, mind you! [More…]
It is a right to have referred to the Full Bench the question whether or not a single commissioner should certify that agreement and so add to the agreement the entitlements that come from certification of it; that is to say, entitlement by the members to enforce it in all industrial jurisdictions and other courts as rights enforceable under an award. [More…]
The conception of the Industrial Court since it was created in 1956 is that it has become a magic pudding into which we throw an extra unit when we want a territorial judge, a judge for royal commissions, a judge for Aboriginal rights or a judge for something else. [More…]
Yet, in this legislation although we are being asked to concede the rights of organisations to fix their rules and the terms of office of their officials and to conduct their own ballots, whether by postal ballot or secret ballot- which is the way in which most unions do conduct their ballots- we are also being asked to agree that no union should in the future be able to provide in its rules for a term of office for its officials of more than 4 years. [More…]
We are seeking to establish the individual rights of the trade union member, and to give him the right to express himself clearly at every opportunity. [More…]
-That is an important point to consider when we are seeking to guarantee the rights of people. [More…]
There are arguments based on the rights of small States. [More…]
When we were trying to get three of the branches to federate, they did so on the basis that their rights and the rights of the branches in the smaller States would be protected. [More…]
One member of the Government in another place said, strangely enough, that only the extremists were supporting the rights of unions to choose the federalist system. [More…]
Land Rights, Compensation, National [More…]
Is not the new policy an attack on the sovereignty and rights of States and why was this change of policy not raised first in the Senate, which is supposed to be the States House? [More…]
As far as custody is concerned, the problem of the disputes beyond the reach of the Family Law Act is part of a wider need for uniform State and Territory laws as to custody, including custody and rights of exnuptial children. [More…]
I can assure honourable senators that those of us on the Select Committee on the Civil Rights of Migrant Australians had intimate discussions with Mr Barbour and none of the information given to us got into the Press. [More…]
But amongst historians the grave and enlightened verdict of Hallam, in which he ranks the publicity of judicial proceedings even higher than the rights of Parliament as a guarantee of public security, is not likely to be forgotten. [More…]
I must say frankly that I think these encroachments have taken place by way of judicial procedure in such a way as, insensibly at first, but now culminating in this decision most sensibly, to impair the rights, safety, and freedom of the citizen and the open administration of the law. [More…]
The Labor Government, on the other hand, as far us I cun judge, procrastinated over offshore petroleum development throughout its term of office, preferring instead to engage in disputation with the States on questions of sovereign rights offshore with offshore development languishing in the meantime with the consequence that Australia has yet to produce any LNG. [More…]
The purpose of this Act is to supersede certain provisions of the laws of Queensland that have the effect of discriminating against Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders and denying their basic rights. [More…]
This Act has a more general application to discrimination based on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin, and makes it unlawful for a person to do an act involving racial discrimination which impairs the enjoyment, on an equal footing of fundamental rights and freedoms. [More…]
This Act also contains provision which guarantees equality before the law in the enjoyment of rights without discrimination based on race, and which are designed to supersede State or Commonwealth laws that discriminate on ground of race in relation to the enjoyment or rights. [More…]
That service employs field officers and retains solicitors who can be consulted by any Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander who wishes to enquire about his rights or wishes to take legal action to enforce his rights under the Act. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government has indicated that any arrangements for mining development in the Aurukun Reserve must conform to the Government’s policies in respect of foreign investment in Australia and of the rights of Aboriginal people. [More…]
Has the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs given an assurance to the Mining Industry Council that the Aboriginal land rights legislation ‘need not worry them too much ‘. [More…]
That Parliament ensure that appropriate action in accordance with relevant legislation of the Australian Parliament and the Australian Government ‘s policy in relation to Land Rights, be implemented as soon as possible in order to ensure that- [More…]
Having learned of the unjust and harsh incarceration in Vladimir prison by the Soviet Authorities of a prisoner of conscience of Latvian nationality Gunars Rode, we the undersigned Australian citizens respectfully petition the Australian Senate and through it the Australian Government to use all its diplomatic resources and influence to secure the release of the said prisoner of conscience in order that he may enjoy the human rights as set out in the United Nations Charter, and as agreed to by all signatories of the European Security and Co-operation Conference in Helsinki. [More…]
This petition is submitted because great anxiety is felt for Gunars Rode, as it is known that to obtain the very minimum of the abovementioned human rights, in March of this year he commenced a hunger strike and his fate since then is unknown. [More…]
If so, will the company acquire this land before the Aboriginal Land Rights Bill 1976 is considered in the Parliament? [More…]
We have announced that a major legislative commitment in the early life of this Government will be a measure for the recognition and implementation of Aboriginal land rights in the Northern Territory which the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs expects to introduce today. [More…]
It was at the suggestion of members of Amnesty International headquarters that people who are in a position to do so ought to make visits to those who are struggling in the Soviet Union to obtain human rights and to ensure their enforcement. [More…]
I certainly recommend to other members of the Senate and to people generally that they go and see the situation in that country and particularly to give some solidarity and support to those who are endeavouring legally and openly to proclaim the need for human rights and civil liberties in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I found that there was difficulty of contact, even in Leningrad, because the general position is that those who are involved in human rights groups in the Soviet Union do not have a telephone any longer. [More…]
This is a common feature of those who have taken rather outstanding parts in this human rights struggle in the Soviet Union. [More…]
In Moscow I made contact and also spoke to Dr Sakharov, the Nobel Prize winner who is a leading member and of course an outstanding member of the human rights movement in the Soviet. [More…]
There are 3 particular organisations, one of which is the Human Rights Movement. [More…]
The Human Rights Movement is one group which has worked for years for those people who are victimised. [More…]
They are all involved in a general movement towards freedom and the granting of human rights. [More…]
They are aware, of course, as we all are, that under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights obligations are imposed upon the Soviet Union to carry out and to enforce rights of freedomrights of freedom of movement, rights to leave the country, rights to have a nationality and many other rights. [More…]
These are the normal human rights which we enjoy in this country. [More…]
In some documents I read in the Soviet Union that were produced by the Government on the celebration of its first anniversary, no reference was made to the human rights provisions of the Agreement. [More…]
The Helsinki Agreement, a copy of which I hold in my hand, contains very clear obligations which are headed in Part VII ‘Respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief. [More…]
They call for better communication of written material from one country to another, improvement of tourism, and improvement ofthe rights of people to move from one country to another. [More…]
It is headed: ‘Evaluation of the influence of Conference on Safety and Co-operation in Europe in part relating to human rights in U.S.S.R.- 1 August 1975-1 August 1976’. [More…]
EVALUATION OF THE INFLUENCE OF CONFERENCE ON SAFETY AND CO-OPERATION IN EUROPE IN PART RELATING TO HUMAN RIGHTS IN U.S.S.R. [More…]
Let us remember, however, that there is a close tie between the struggle for human rights and the reinforcement of attempts to create realistic and fundamental guarantees of safety. [More…]
Points in the final Act relating to human rights have been formulated considerably weaker than the similar articles of other international Conventions, for instance the ‘Common Declaration for Human Rights’. [More…]
Obligations of that kind in the Final Act concerned themselves in the main not with the guarantee of the civil and human rights of the individuals, but with the betterment of the government regulations in the sphere of contacts established between countries and convenient to the State (which automatically put the State with the legally confirmed monopoly on fundamental human rights in a better position). [More…]
Nevertheless, Article VII of Division 1 , and other Articles directly relate to the human rights of man. [More…]
The analysis of the appropriate aspects of the internal policy confirms that the Soviet Government does not intend to carry out its international obligations relating to the human rights of man. [More…]
Compatible reaction of a number of internal and international factors, compelled the Soviet Government to better manoeuvre and, at the same time, react more forcefully to the accusations of the breaches of human rights in the U.S.S.R. Let us enumerate some of those factors. [More…]
As distinct from previous declarations which contained obligations relating to the human rights, the Soviet Government this time gave such obligation in exchange for important political concessions from the Western countries. [More…]
Information disseminated on persecution for convictions, the breaches of human rights and on the truthful character of the Soviet democracy on the whole, which continuously is directed towards public opinion by the members of the movement for civil rights in the U.S.S.R., has, it seems, begun to reach the awareness of wide groups of the Western society, and has even shown influence on the tactics applied by some Western political parties.. [More…]
All this taken together, has compelled the Soviet Government, already concerned about the form of their prestige in the West at the end of 1 975 and beginning of 1 976, to make concessions in regard to individuals who are well known abroad and persecuted for their convictions (for greater detail please see next chapter) and to some degree to slowdown the obvious offensive on the human rights of man in the U.S.S.R., which had begun prior to the European Conference, was toned down during the Conference and unfolded immediately after the Conference. [More…]
If the movement for the civil rights in the U.S.S.R. could considerably increase its task in informing the people within the country and to supply information to the West, [More…]
If, at the same time, the Western society refused to accept the existing non-equalitarian interpretation of the principle of non-intervention, and actively supported the movement for human rights in the U.S.S.R., then- [More…]
The Soviet authorities would be compelled to diminish the repressive policy and this, in turn, could manifestly help to realise the democratic rights. [More…]
Trials were held, which gave tough sentences for the social activities to Vladimir Osipov, editor of the Samizdat Journal ‘VECHE’, Sergei Kovalev, member of the activity group for the protection of human rights in the U.S.S.R., also a member of the International Amnesty; to Sergei Soldatov, Kolya Miatik, Mau Kijrend, Artem Juskevitch- members of the Democratic Movement in Estonia, and others. [More…]
The government obviously intended to inflict a powerful blow to the movement for human rights prior to the Conference. [More…]
This was a blow both to the movement for human rights, and the act of frightening the sympathizers, as well as the act of reconnoitering the situation of the public opinion in the West after the Conference. [More…]
However, later compatibly with the attention of the West to human rights problems in the U.S.S.R., this approach has changed. [More…]
He stressed that the Soviet powers regard that ‘the interests of the State stand above the rights of men ‘. [More…]
There is no need to explain such two-faced explanation of the Helsinki Declaration, whose humanitarian Articles are directed towards liberation of emigration policy, which is supported and confirmed by the members of the Helsinki Conference, to act in conjunction with the aims and principles of the Declaration of Human Rights and the pact of civil and political rights in which there is a definite confirmation of every man to leave any country including his own. [More…]
They correctly surmize that the absence of an independent information service creates real difficulties to the movement for civil rights within the U.S.S.R. and leaves that movement without the support of world opinion. [More…]
An effort has been made to deprive the rights of the political prisoners to write. [More…]
One of the sources of scepticism regarding the future of human rights in the U.S.S.R. is the absence of any tendency to bring about a formal conformity between the Soviet laws and the international conventions on human rights to which the Final Act relates in part. [More…]
This directly contradicts Conventions Nos 87, 98 and 111, relating to the rights of association, which have been ratified by the Soviet Union. [More…]
Article 59-64 regulates the order which enables to deprive the parents of the custody right and take from them the child, partly in connection with non-compliance with above mentioned obligations, which is in stark contrast with the text of the Final Act and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
However, the protests stemming from world opinion and the references to the conditions of the Final Act, have shown that it can be used as a support in the struggles of human rights. [More…]
Having regard to this, 1 1 members of the movement for human rights in the U.S.S.R. have, on 12 May, 1 976, created a Group of Co-operation for the Carrying out of the Helsinki Agreement In the following two months, the Group gave to the public and the heads of the governments which have signed the Final Act, five documents containing information relating to the breaches of the humanitarian articles: [More…]
The chairman of the Helsinki group is Dr Jun Orlof, a man of great scientific achievement, a man who, of course because of these human rights activities, now has no job. [More…]
He is also the Acting Secretary of Amnesty in Moscow and a great fighter for human rights. [More…]
Another, A. Ginsburg, is a person well known as a human rights fighter. [More…]
Since the Czechoslovakian invasion in 1 968 when he was arrested he has been placed in a psychiatric hospital, quite wrongly of course, but he was later released, He is a man who has fought consistently for human rights. [More…]
These 9 men have prepared this document in which they set out, among other things, the conclusion that, the Soviet Union does not intend to carry out its international obligations relating to the human rights of man and refer, to Article VII. [More…]
The situation is such that it is necessary for groups like this to get publicity for violation of human rights. [More…]
Threats of action and of punishment are made against people, designed to frighten and drive them away from working for human rights. [More…]
Many of these people lose their employment or are incarcerated in psychiatric hospitals because they believe in human rights. [More…]
The situation prevailing in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands involves a denial of human rights to the indigenous people. [More…]
Mr Clunies Ross has his property rights and, as the fifth generation of a long dynastic line, his influence with the community naturally remains considerable. [More…]
Why therefore bring in a special ordinance with specific restrictions on people’s rights in derogation of the right of the public statute of this country? [More…]
We know that Senator Wright and Senator Cormack have always been interested in preserving the property rights and establishment concerns of people such as Mr Clunies Ross and preserving colonialism and the feudal system. [More…]
We also have to consider the rights of the ordinary people on that Island, rights that have been denied them since 1 827 when the people were first imported into the territory by the Clunies Ross estate. [More…]
It is important to understand that there are no immunities for anybody on a college or university campus and that no student has other than the ordinary rights of the ordinary citizen. [More…]
Is it a fact that research assistants employed on the personal staff of all Ministers in the present Government have recently been granted full travelling rights throughout Australia at government expense? [More…]
If so, was the decision to allow research assistants to travel at government expense on their Ministers’ official business taken as a result of an admission by the Government that its original arrangements for ministerial staffing were inadequate, or is it a prelude to the granting of full travel rights to all research assistants employed by members of Parliament? [More…]
The Committee sees its task to be that of ensuring that ordinances do not trespass unduly on personal rights and liberties. [More…]
The criteria also seek to ensure that ordinances do not make the rights and liberties of citizens unduly dependent upon administrative rather than judicial decisions, and I have yet to hear anybody in this place say that that is a wrong criterion. [More…]
Because of that attitude the Senate, through its Regulations and Ordinances Committee, has protected the freedoms and the rights of all Australian citizens for a long time. [More…]
He is attempting to revive a piece of legislation that in effect amounts to an attack upon the rights of people to own and keep property. [More…]
It is of no use everybody being terribly pious and talking about the role of Senate committees, about the need to have a Senate committee as a watchdog of the people’s rights and liberties- as the Regulations and Ordinances Committee is often referred to- with the necessity to have parliamentary intervention against the always natural desire of the Executive to bypass the normal, standard procedures of Parliament. [More…]
The Regulations and Ordinances Committee has enjoyed an enormous reputation because it has approached problems not caring about the policy contained in the ordinance or in the regulation but being concerned about the rights of individuals as set out in certain criteria. [More…]
We heard something from Senator Withers about rights and liberties. [More…]
There are also the rights and liberties of the people who are living on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands as well as those of Clunies Ross. [More…]
However, as I understand the principles under which that Committee operates, it sees its task as ensuring, firstly, that the rights of property holders are protected against any regulation that might be introduced by any government, irrespective of political persuasion; secondly, that the rights and liberties of citizens are not dependent on administrative rather than judicial decisions; thirdly, that the administrative detail involved in any regulation does not amount to substantive legislation. [More…]
However, if the Regulations and Ordinances Committee does not take into account, for instance, the fact that the rights and liberties of others can be very seriously affected- indeed prejudiced- by the non passage of an ordinance or by the disallowance of an ordinance, I submit on behalf of the Opposition, and I emphasise that I speak on this matter on behalf of the Opposition, that the Senate as a political house has a responsibility to act to ensure that the rights of all citizens and not merely those who possess property are protected. [More…]
The Mission is therefore here to try to get to know the Cocos (Keeling) Islands and its people and to gather the views of the latter on the guiding principles set out in the Charter relating to human rights, in particular, the principle of self-determination, the golden rule of the international community with regard to the future of peoples. [More…]
Even in the halcyon Liberal-Country Party days of Sir Garfield Barwick when he actually drew his salary as a politician, the first trade practices legislation that he introduced- it was fairly toothless legislation- was introduced under the administration of the Attorney-General and his Department, which is a department that, with all the weaknesses it may have, has a strong tradition for being concerned about the administration of legal rights and for asserting its rights in contradistinction to the interests of other departments. [More…]
It brought out a paper on the proceedings of a conference on the rights of a child and progress reports on the Australian Assistance Plan as well as a paper on income security issues. [More…]
In 1974 the legislation was amended to allow transfer of rights to benefits under the Act to other organisations enabling a further expansion of the program. [More…]
Is it true that the Government has appointed Mr David Hay to review and examine submissions from all people in respect of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976. [More…]
I feel sure that I am entitled to assure him that those who have an interest in those matters will have an opportunity to discuss them with the Minister and those concerned with the land rights matter. [More…]
I hasten to affirm that the new arrangements coming into force on 1 October will in no way interfere with the existing rights to repatriation medical and hospital treatment of any class of repatriation beneficiary who currently has entitlement. [More…]
Then he took away the free travel rights that were available to pensioners. [More…]
They also realise that they must fight for the right to fight for so long as that fight is within the law, respectful of the basic rights of others. [More…]
This type of demonstration no longer respects the basic rights of others. [More…]
Mr Hay, as was expressed yesterday in a question asked by Senator Bonner, is also investigating land rights and other matters at this time. [More…]
I ask the Minister: Is this not contrary to the terms of projected Australian Government legislation as set out in the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976? [More…]
He is given a limited discretion not to investigate complaints, on grounds related to, for instance, vexatiousness, lack of interest in a matter complained about, or other rights of appeal to a tribunal or court. [More…]
There is a large group of Aboriginals whom the Government wants to deprive of land rights because it says that they have no traditional claim. [More…]
For the first time the Aborigines had land rights; for the first time we had a bilingual program based on the assumption that for an Aborigine to establish his identity he needs his land, his language and his culture. [More…]
The whole event seemed to show complete disregard for basic rights and privileges under law, normally allowed for people and defendants. [More…]
We told this to the police but they just laughed and told us we had no rights- [More…]
Therefore, I ask: Why has this Government found it necessary to upgrade the status of our diplomatic mission to Chile to that of a full ambassador, in view of the fact that the United Nations has condemned the Chilean regime for its violation of human rights? [More…]
Western Australia, Sir Charles Court’s assertion late last year that 300 sewerage workers would have to be dismissed unless the Federal Government made $3m available, and the State Government’s decision to take away the rights to free travel for pensioners, would he agree that the Government of Western Australia should also be accused of criminal negligence or worse? [More…]
I hope the Government will do something to give Aboriginals their land rights in the way they want them. [More…]
An attempt is being made to force workers and unionists into submission, by increasing unemployment using the theory that if more people are unemployed they will be more meek and mild and will not stand up for their rights. [More…]
Again, in the Patents Act, the administration of which has now passed to the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs, the provision made in section 129 of the Act for the vesting of rights in respect of certain inventions and patents in the AttorneyGeneral has been changed so that the rights will be vested in the Commonwealth, thus avoiding any need for change in the future should ministerial responsibility for the Act change. [More…]
I repeat that it is not an invasion of rights for a citizen to be refused a passport by the present Attorney-General or any other holder of that office if that person has had associations with those engaged in terrorist activities and is not prepared to give an assurance that he will desist from such associations. [More…]
That girl who was brought to see me was active in the Croatian organisation, but she said that she would sooner put up with my arguing with her about the rights of the Croatians than put up with that boss. [More…]
By the time of the Munich talks British officials were running all over the country trying to get shipwrights, boilermakers, caulkers, platers and similar people. [More…]
We would not be a party to anything which would inhibit those rights. [More…]
Of course, had I not been following Senator Bonner in this debate, I could have exercised my rights by making a personal explanation and pointing out to him and the Senate that he had misrepresented me, because I did not get a copy of that report. [More…]
The same sort of indecision is extending into Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
I suggest that this is one area in which the extension of the land rights ought to be looked at as a matter of urgency, but that is not the case. [More…]
It was established as a result of the first action to give land to Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory back in 1970, which, as I indicated before when I gave a brief talk on the matter, was when I was chairman of the particular select committee which recommended that land rights be given to the people of the Northern Territory. [More…]
Protests may achieve some results; but the denial of rights to Aborigines was highlighted in the Minister’s Press release of 18 August, which stated: [More…]
1) How many written submissions have been received by the ‘Hay’ Inquiry in connection with the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976. [More…]
Can the Prime Minister give an assurance that such an inquiry is not designed to prevent Aboriginals from obtaining title to non-traditional land and to allow mining companies to operate on traditional land before the already delayed Land Rights Bill becomes law. [More…]
The special analysis Mr Hay is undertaking is consistent with the commitment given by the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs on 4 June 1976 while introducing the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976. [More…]
While I am aware that some unions may object to this on the ground of cost, is it not an infringement of the rights of individual workers that this is not done? [More…]
This person is asked to fulfil the impartial responsibility of ensuring that the Aborigine or Islander knows and appreciates the import of questions and their answers as well as his legal rights. [More…]
The special need experienced by Aborigines and Islanders in respect of oral and written confessions springs out of a real difficulty they experience when conversing in English; a real ignorance as to their civil rights; a real ignorance of the law, and a different set of social values. [More…]
Not only that but we have commercial television channels in Australia at this time vying to buy the film rights of Alvin Purple. [More…]
On the basis of the sort of publicity which this course of conduct has brought about the commercial channels are seeking the film rights and are investigating the possibility of obtaining the television rights to the Alvin Purple sequence. [More…]
I have in no way any method of judging the rights or wrongs of the program Alvin Purple. [More…]
The Committee considers that these proposed amendments will properly safeguard the rights and liberties of lessees, and put leases back into the civil law where they belong. [More…]
The Commission therefore will have the same rights and obligations under the National Health Act and regulations as other registered organisations. [More…]
What is the full text of the instruction sent to the Interim Aboriginal Land Commissioner, Mr Justice Ward, advising him that hearings of claims by Aboriginals to traditional land in the Northern Territory have been suspended until the Federal Government’s land rights legislation has been passed. [More…]
Representatives of Mount Isa Mines Limited made submissions to me about the proposed land rights legislation prior to the introduction of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976. [More…]
It was indicated that the Company did not wish to press for an early resumption of hearings pending finalisation of the Land Rights Bill. [More…]
The basic decision to defer further hearings of claims by Aboriginals to traditional land in the Northern Territory until after the passage of the Land Rights Bill had been taken by the Government in May in the context of its consideration of the provisions of the BUI. [More…]
Will the Government, in view of this situation, allow the Commissioner to continue sitting until the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill becomes Law. [More…]
As indicated in a press statement of 8 August, the fact that hearings by the Interim Land Commissioner have been suspended until the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill is passed will not jeopardise any claims. [More…]
Did a delegation from the Northern Territory, including representatives from the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, recently meet with the Minister to discuss Aboriginal land rights, with particular regard to the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976. [More…]
On 8 June in Darwin, in company with the Minister for the Northern Territory, I had discussions with the Majority Leader of the Legislative Assembly and his Deputy about the complementary Territory legislation referred to in my second reading speech on the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976. [More…]
No delegation from the Northern Territory, including representatives from the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, has since met me to discuss land rights or the Bill. [More…]
Mr Harry Giese has not been a member of any delegation I have seen on Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
Will he give an assurance that in the transfer of the Tasmanian Government Railways to the Australian Government the rights of railway employees, including the right of choice of superannuation fund, will be preserved? [More…]
The rights, particularly superannuation rights including transferability, of employees is an important matter and, as I am not aware specifically of the date of transfer, I shall seek information in answer to both questions for the honourable senator and let him have that information. [More…]
If so, will the Company acquire this land before the Aboriginal Lands Rights Bill 1976 is considered in Parliament? [More…]
This principle is important: Nobody should take unto himself any more rights than he is willing to give to others. [More…]
Let me make it clear that whoever may be involved in Australia, any citizen of this country who may be involved, will have the rights of freedom of association, the rights of freedom of speech and the rights of access to any campus to express that freedom. [More…]
I am very pleased to have the opportunity of answering this important question asked by Senator Mulvihill, particularly as he is a former colleague of mine on that well known committee, the Senate Select Committee on the Civil Rights of Migrant Australians, to which he refers frequently in the Senate. [More…]
Is this not a significant attempt to protect the rights of individual workers which, with other matters, could be considered by other employers, particularly those with closed shop arrangements with unions, to ensure that union rules and industrial awards appropriately safeguard their employees? [More…]
I was swindled out of my rights for 15 to 20 years. [More…]
I find it quite ironic that it is from the Government that speaks so much about freedom of choice and the rights of the individual that we have this system which locks people into one or other health insurance system. [More…]
It is much more likely that some of the States will decide that there ought to be State courts operating with a full jurisdiction and that they therefore should be able to deal with children whether they be legitimate or illegitimate, deal in cases involving property, whether that property is involved in the marriage or not, and deal with rights to maintenance by illegitimate children so that children are not distinguished in their dealings with the courts. [More…]
Although India has generally supported the Arab position on the Middle East, no one can claim that there has been any interference with the rights of the Jewish inhabitants of India. [More…]
There will be no judicial authority to supervise the validity of consti.tutional amendments insofar as they deal with the basic human rights which have been guaranteed in the past within the Indian Constitution. [More…]
Another very important provision is that in the event of a state of emergency being imposed- either any future state of emergency or the current state of emergencythere will be no recourse to the courts with regard to the preservation of the basic human rights which in the past have been guaranteed within the Indian Constitution, which have been one of the bulwarks of the Indian Constitution and which, I would suggest, has been one of the reasons why in India in the past there has been such tolerance and such harmony, when we consider the difficulties between the various communal groups within that country. [More…]
As has been seen in other countries, once you start off on the road of taking away the constitutional rights of people by whittling down democracy it is usually an unending process. [More…]
When the Constitution of India was drafted, it was perhaps never envisaged that emergency would become a constant feature of the national life and the safeguard against the abuse of emergency powers would be nullified by a systematic erosion of checks and balances provided in the Constitution such as a free press, judicial review and fundamental rights. [More…]
At a time when Amnesty International identifies abuse of basic human rights in 1 12 countries- India is one of those countries- all Australians should be watching the current situation in India. [More…]
The point was made to me that in fact they may be a very small minority in the Soviet Union but also that those who believe in democratic rights are now in a minority in the world. [More…]
This action has deprived our community of certain basic human rights. [More…]
That whereas Vorster ‘s white minority government in the Republic of South Africa continues to deny basic human rights to the Africans, Asians and Coloureds who together form the great majority of the South African people: [More…]
Having learned of the unjust and harsh incarceration in Vladimir prison by the Soviet Authorities of a prisoner of conscience of Latvian nationality Gunars Rode, we the undersigned Australian citizens respectfully petition the Australian Senate and through it the Australian Government to use all its diplomatic resources and influence to secure the release of the said prisoner of conscience in order that he may enjoy the human rights as set out in the United Nations Charter, and as agreed to by all signatories of the European Security and Co-operation Conference in Helsinki. [More…]
This petition is submitted because great anxiety is felt for Gunars Rode, as it is known that to obtain the very minimum of the abovementioned human rights, in March of this year he commenced a hunger strike and his fate since then is unknown. [More…]
On the broader question, will the Government give consideration to having some official Australian presence in Rhodesia in order to ensure that our interests and the interests of a peaceful settlement in that country towards majority rule and protection of minority rights are pursued? [More…]
And further affirms that such discrimination, if practised, would constitute: a violation of rights enunciated by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . [More…]
Is the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister in Federal Affairs aware that, as reported in the Courier-Mail of 30 September 1976, the Queensland Premier, Mr BjelkePetersen, and the Liberal Treasurer, Mr Knox, have agreed to consider asking other State governments to form a joint States’ committee to watch the Federal Government for any infringement of States’ rights. [More…]
If so, what advantages would there be in establishing a States’ rights committee? [More…]
Therefore I am not aware of the suggestion that a joint States’ committee be set up to keep an eye on States’ rights. [More…]
For those who, like the Liberal and National Country Party senators here, believe in States’ rights and federalism, there would be immense benefits. [More…]
I will stand for the rights of my State, although Senator Justin O “Byrne is not here to stand up for the rights of the unemployed in Tasmania. [More…]
I have fought for the rights of the unemployed in my State. [More…]
Employment under the Assembly or within the ACT Administration will be under the terms and conditions of the Public Service Act- this will ensure that public servants moving freely between the Government and the ACT administration will be fully protected in all their rights. [More…]
Senator Knight said that he had been assured by Mr Staley that public servants who chose to serve in the ACT administration would retain the same rights as other public servants. [More…]
Tonight in this chamber I seek a clear assurance from the Minister representing the Minister for the Capital Territory that the statement made by the Government parties during the election campaign and the assurance which I gave on 4 August still stand and that public servants who, because of constitutional change, may be involved in or transfer to the Capital Territory administration will have the same rights and terms and conditions as all other public servants under the Public Service Act. [More…]
Insofar as the basic medical benefits table and the basic hospital benefits table are concerned, a person may transfer from one registered health benefits organisation to another without loss of rights i.e. [More…]
The main features of the legislation provide for subdivision of suitably zoned land, vertically as well as horizontally; conversion of leasehold rights into freehold upon completion of the construction; the creation and issue of individual freehold titles in respect of each strata unit; detailed procedures for application to the Administrator; and the establishment of a body corporate comprising individual unit owners within each block. [More…]
These provisions are in all respects similar to the enactments dealing with the rights and obligations of strata title owners in the States. [More…]
On the other hand, every member of the CSIRO has the same rights as any other employee in statutory authorities or government departments, and that is that if they speak as private citizens their comments must be accepted in that light. [More…]
To the Honourable the President and Members of the Senate in Parliament assembled- The petition of the undersigned respectfully showeth: That the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976, does not satisfy the Aboriginal needs for land in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The removal of all powers to pass land rights legislation from the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, particularly its control over sacred sights, entry permits, control over the seas adjoining Aboriginal land, the fishing rights of non-Aborigines, the right of Aborigines to enter pastoral stations and control of wildlife on Aboriginal land. [More…]
The restoration of all powers vested in land councils and the Land Commissioner in the 1975 Land Rights Bill. [More…]
The task of maintaining the accepted rights of individuals, of protecting individual values, of encouraging individual enterprise and generally promoting the objective of self reliant individuals as indispensable for a self reliant nation is one of tremendous challenge but, if constantly pursued, is one of tremendous satisfaction. [More…]
Yet it was so typical of him that he should have fought his own Party and his own colleagues so strongly to defend the rights of communists to express their viewpoint. [More…]
The petition of the undersigned respectfully showeth: That the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976, does not satisfy the Aboriginal needs for land in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The removal of all powers to pass Land Rights Legislation from the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, particularly its control over sacred sites, entry permits, control over the seas adjoining Aboriginal land, the fishing rights of non-Aborigines, the right of Aborigines to enter pastoral stations and control of wildlife on Aboriginal land. [More…]
The restoration of all powers vested in Land Councils and the Land Commissioner in the 1975 Land Rights Bill. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Transport, refers to the decision by the Government to reject the application by MacRobertson Miller Airline Service to operate charter flights between Port Hedland and Bali on the grounds that the Government believed there would be a call for reciprocal rights to be granted to Indonesia and that a new Qantas Airways Limited service between Perth and Bali would satisfy the demand. [More…]
I ask whether in fact the Indonesian Government requested reciprocal rights if the application for charter flights between Port Hedland and Bali was granted. [More…]
Has the Government reason to believe that Indonesia will not seek reciprocal rights because of the new Qantas service between Perth and Bali? [More…]
It relates to the grant to FILEF- the Federation of Italian Labourers, Emigrants and Families- under the welfare rights program which the Minister has decided to terminate at the end of the year. [More…]
Is he able to tell the Senate whether Ministers of the New South Wales Labor Government have expressed their own views of a federalist nature, favouring, for example, the rights of States in a devolutionary model as against the centralist, socialist model beloved by Mr Whitlam and the Federal Australian Labor Party? [More…]
I preface my question by reminding the Minister that there have been lengthy delays in bringing forward land rights legislation for the Northern Territory. [More…]
If we take 300 people a year from Christmas Island, in a little over 3 years more than 1000 qualified people who are entitled to come to Australia by citizenship rights will have left the island. [More…]
I said that they might be if a pretty broad definition was used but that I doubted whether a tradesmen’s rights committee here would accept them as boilermakers. [More…]
The Queensland Government is considering asking other States to form a joint States’ committee to watch the FraserAnthony Federal Government for any infringement of States’ rights . [More…]
It is undoubtedly tempting, but if State governments have rights to finance because they have responsibilities local government also has rights to finance because it has responsibilities. [More…]
Now he tells us that he and his Party believe in the rights of the 3 arms of government to work together in a cooperative way to develop the public sector. [More…]
In a democracy which respects the rights of individuals and the rule of law it is vital that there should be no suggestion that political pressures can be used to influence the conduct of the police. [More…]
Even if Sir Charles has lapsed I am supremely confident that other loyalist zealots in the hydra-headed Australian League of Rights will vociferously demand that these potential fomentors of revolution be rigorously excluded from this country. [More…]
That the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976, does not satisfy the Aboriginal needs for land in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The removal of all powers to pass land rights legislation from the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, particularly its control over sacred sites, entry permits, seas adjoining Aboriginal land, wildlife and rights of Aboriginals to enter pastoral stations. [More…]
The restoration of all powers vested in Land Councils and the Land Commissioner in the 1 975 Land Rights Bill. [More…]
Can the Minister explain what legal rights trade unionists have in dictating their political beliefs- or more likely those of their irresponsible leaders- to the community of Australia or against the democratically elected Government of Australia? [More…]
We have had a change from the situation of one former Minister being anxious to hive off part of the research activities of CSIRO into his own department and to have the Australian Industry Development Corporation review first every program that came from government research so that in its own governmental way it might be able to take advantage of the patent rights that might flow from such research. [More…]
Honourable senators may be assured that whenever individuals seek specific advice on their rights under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act steps are taken to assist them in every possible way. [More…]
This is supposed to be an area in which everybody has equal rights. [More…]
We will continue to ensure that the provisions of the Act are fully implemented and that people’s rights under it are protected. [More…]
As to the rights of people in this country, I think one of the major actions taken by this Government has been to increase by 25 per cent the legal aid appropriation for this financial year. [More…]
It is the intention of this Government to expand considerably the jurisdiction of that Tribunal in order to give more people rights of appeal against decisions of public servants and Ministers. [More…]
The Government- by expanding the provision of legal aid in particular- is giving Australians the opportunity of exercising those rights which perhaps, in the past, their lack of means has denied them. [More…]
He will continue to do so and this Government will continue to have the most serious regard to the question of civil liberties and to the civil rights of Australians. [More…]
We will pursue and persist with our policies of expanding and improving the rights of all Australians. [More…]
It is all very well to talk about civil liberties in the traditional sense, but an enlargement of civil liberties involves those possibilities on enforcement of rights being made available to a much wider section of the community. [More…]
His unstinting support for TRUE civil liberty and rights for the oppressed, both here and abroad [More…]
Be that as it may, I suggest that the people of Queensland at the next State election will pass judgment on this question of civil rights. [More…]
I listened carefully but could not detect any grave infringement of the civil rights of the people he mentioned. [More…]
Fortunately, the forces of good prevailed in that War and so the fundamental democratic rights of the Western democracies were preserved. [More…]
Because a person is prosecuted legitimately for a breach of the law, that is not an interference with his civil rights. [More…]
Preservation of the individual’s basic human rights, through the sensitive application of the responsibility and obligation of government to: [More…]
What we are talking about is the very grave danger to the rights of individuals in those cases where the power of authority may be abused. [More…]
That is not the issue in the debate, and no honourable senator on this side of the chamber has suggested that the Federal Government has been guilty in this case of any breaches of civil rights. [More…]
But whenever or wherever an authority, which means government, takes actions which violate or appear to violate the legal rights of individuals, then that authority must be exposed, and it must be exposed in every Parliament of the nation. [More…]
Senator Button made reference to the alleged integrity of the Queensland Premier who loves to give the impression to all Queenslanders that he is a fine, upstanding Australian who defends the rights of every individual and who says that everyone in his part of the country has equal rights under the law. [More…]
In other words, Labor and Liberal voters in Queensland are lesser persons and have fewer rights than those people who support the National Party. [More…]
Unions in order to protect the civil rights of unionists who allegedly were subject to fines by their unions over the Medibank strike. [More…]
If in fact the Government is in a position to move with the ACTU in protecting the rights of unionists- I think it should do that- presumably it also has the right to make overtures to the Queensland Government to ensure that the rights of individuals in Queensland are similarly protected. [More…]
We are concerned because we believe that there is evidence to suggest that something has been done in this country which takes away the rights of those individuals who are involved. [More…]
We will always raise them when we consider that a State Government of any political colour has infringed the rights of the individuals who live within the State borders. [More…]
I know there is a grey area between the rights of the States and the rights of the Commonwealth in these matters, but when these things occur that should not preclude debate in this Parliament and exposure of what appears to be an infringement of the rights of ordinary Australians. [More…]
He made it quite clear that the present Government could not be said to have exercised power in violation of civil rights. [More…]
Was it in the human rights legislation? [More…]
I have heard Labor campaigners in Western Australia attack Liberal-Country Party senators for blocking the human rights Bill. [More…]
Once again, we have the clearest possible demonstration that this Government is serious about advancing the individual freedom and the rights of Australians. [More…]
I simply say again: It is a difficult area as is the area of human rights. [More…]
The Labor AttorneyGeneral introduced 3 different Bills dealing with human rights and was still not able to produce a Bill that he was prepared to proceed with in this Parliament. [More…]
Hungary, that basic human rights would be restored and that freedom would again flower in that country. [More…]
In contrast to demands put forward at this time for the re-establishment of political rights, basic human rights of the Hungarian people were violated by the Hungarian Governments before 23 October, especially up to the autumn of 1955, and such violations have been resumed since 4 November. [More…]
What action, if any, is the Department of Aboriginal Affairs taking, either alone or in conjunction with the Queensland Government, to grant land rights to Aboriginals living in Queensland. [More…]
The question of Aboriginal land rights is one of Government policy, rather than departmental action. [More…]
As I said in my second reading speech on the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill on 4 June, I am sure that the progressive legislation introduced by the Commonwealth for the Northern Territory will be studied with interest in the States with respect to their land. [More…]
That the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976, does not satisfy the Aboriginal needs for land in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The removal of all powers to pass Land Rights legislation from the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, particularly its control over sacred sites, entry permits, seas adjoining Aboriginal land, wildlife and rights of Aboriginals to enter pastoral stations. [More…]
The restoration of all powers vested in Land Councils and the Land Commissioner in the 1 975 Land Rights Bill. [More…]
In my opinion the farmers have been misled on this whole issue and I feel that the human and democratic rights of these individuals as well as all Australians are at stake. [More…]
Why then has the government of this State the audacity to deny and ignore our rights to be heard? [More…]
He proceeded to inform or insinuate to the farmers their lack of rights, in actual fact they had very few rights. [More…]
They went on to say if we could prove we had any Aboriginal blood there may well be a case for land rights. [More…]
I am dismayed at these farmers rights or should I say their seemingly lack of rights to be heard. [More…]
After meeting with the farmers the Deputy Parliamentary Commissioner, Mr R. Howatson and Mr C. Ware recommended that representatives of the Mines Department should visit us and explain what mining would do to our area and what were the rights of the residents. [More…]
Mr George Cook told the gathering that people who had Miners Homestead Lease land had virtually no rights when trying to prevent mining. [More…]
He said owners of freehold land did have rights and should receive full value for their land. [More…]
He said mis was his job and our rights to know details of plans envisaged for our area. [More…]
The whole context of the draft drawn by Darra was for Darra Explorations to have full rights to do as they pleased when they pleased with our land and in return we would receive freehold compensation when they wished to mine the land. [More…]
Democratic rights of people [More…]
Our one chance to have our feelings heard had been restricted to Brisbane based departments and politicians who will ultimately make their decision whether to grant a Brisbane based company the rights to destroy land in Central Queensland. [More…]
Again we were made to feel we had no rights to hear the verdict handed down by the Warden. [More…]
Surely this represents a grave threat to democracy when law abiding citizens are given no area for discussion excepting in a court of law at which they have to pay their costs, only to be denied their rights to hear the Magistrate ‘s decision. [More…]
Six landowners are returned soldiers and another spent 12 years in the Royal Australian Navy to fight for the rights of our nation to remain a free country. [More…]
The owners of the mining lease only have the mineral rights. [More…]
It is obvious to all concerned that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), determined that life should not be easy, that those who receive support should be worthy of it as well as in need of it, and steeped in the tradition of the protection of property rights in the community, has been continuously concerning himself, and some may say interfering, with the field of social security. [More…]
I conclude by referring to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which within its list of fundamental freedoms talks about the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community. [More…]
The point he raised was that he was concerned- and I repeat I have been pursuing this over 3 years- that the second wife of a member of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund was denied the pension rights that would have been payable to the first wife. [More…]
If there were eighteen on the Committee at least each department would see that its rights were protected, whether it was fisheries or wildlife or whether it was Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
One more comment I would like to add on the subject of Aboriginal legal service is that we hope to have the land rights legislation passed in this session, and once we do there will be large numbers of very complex legal matters arising from land claims by various Aboriginal communities. [More…]
It has in no way anticipated the special needs will arise from the passage of the Aboriginal land rights legislation. [More…]
It duplicates the normal common law rights of any individual who is interrogated at a police station but also provides some additional rights for Aborigines by requiring that when they are being interrogated they must have present a witness who can sign a statement to the effect that what has been stated is a true and frank confession. [More…]
Give urgent consideration to amendments to the Northern Territory (Land Rights) Bill 1 976 to give effect to: [More…]
The re-introduction of the 1975 Land Rights Bill’s provisions regarding mining. [More…]
That the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976, does not satisfy the Aboriginal needs for land in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The removal of all powers to pass Land Rights Legislation from Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, particularly its control over sacred sites, entry permits, control over the seas adjoining Aboriginal land, the fishing rights of non-Aborigines, the right of Aborigines to enter pastoral stations and control of wildlife on Aboriginal land. [More…]
The restoration of all powers vested in Land Councils and the Land Commissioner in the 1975 Land Rights Bill. [More…]
I do not think that Senator Martin ought to be surprised that such a thing happens because, whilst the Australian Labor Party is long on philosophy about human rights it is pretty short on the practice of them. [More…]
I am quite certain also that the Government, which believes in true human rights, would be prepared to do its utmost to protect members of Parliament against blackmail from outside organisations. [More…]
I am sorry to have to relate that all of the Government Tasmanian senators, who claim on many occasions in this place that this is a State House in which they are prepared to defend the rights of the State they represent- the smallest State in this Commonwealth which sends 10 senators to Canberra to represent its people- voted, when a motion to gag that debate was moved half-way through the normally allotted time, to prevent Opposition senators from presenting a case on behalf of the Tasmanian people, particularly the unemployed people there. [More…]
I will have my say and I will let the people who either listen to the broadcast of the proceedings of this Parliament or read Hansard judge whether what I am saying is rubbish or whether I am trying to defend the rights of the electors of Australia. [More…]
That is the reason I sought your acknowledgement, Mr President, when I rose in my place tonight to defend the rights, powers, authority and integrity of this chamber of which I am a member. [More…]
That the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976, does not satisfy the Aboriginal needs for land in the Northern Territory. [More…]
a ) The removal of all powers to pass Land Rights Legislation from the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, particularly its control over sacred sites, entry permits, control over the seas adjoining Aboriginal land, the fishing rights of non-Aborigines, the right of Aborigines to enter pastoral stations and control of wildlife on Aboriginal land. [More…]
d ) The restoration of all powers vested in Land Councils and the Land Commissioner in the 1975 Land Rights Bill. [More…]
This Government has an obligation to pursue its rights in this respect and also against the officers who allow undue settling in expenses to be paid. [More…]
I believe I am a very ardent supporter of certain current matters affecting Aboriginal welfare and rights; but I am no supporter of rip-offs, because the people who are being ripped off are the Aboriginal people themselves. [More…]
That the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976, does not satisfy the Aboriginal needs for land in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The removal of all powers to pass Land Rights Legislation from Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, particularly its control over sacred sites, entry permits, control over the seas adjoining Aboriginal land, the fishing rights of non-Aborigines, the right of Aborigines to enter pastoral stations and control of wildlife on Aboriginal land. [More…]
The restoration of all powers vested in Lands Councils and the Land Commissioner in the 1975 Land Rights Bill . [More…]
That the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976, does not satisfy the Aboriginal needs for land in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The removal of all powers to pass Land Rights Legislation from Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, particularly its control over sacred sites, entry permits, control over the seas adjoining Aboriginal land, the fishing rights of non-Aborigines, the right of Aborigines to enter pastoralstations and control of wildlife on Aboriginal land. [More…]
The restoration of all powers vested in Land Councils and the Land Commissioner in the 1975 Land Rights Bill. [More…]
That the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976, does not satisfy the Aboriginal needs for land in theNorthern Territory. [More…]
The removal of all powers to pass Land Rights Legislation from the Northern TerritoryLegislative Assembly, particularly its control over sacred sites, entry permits, control over the seas adjoining Aboriginal land, the fishing rights of non-Aborigines, the right of Aborigines to enter pastoral stations and control of wildlife on Aboriginal land. [More…]
The restoration of all powers vested in Lands Councils and the Land Commissioner in the 1 975 Land Rights Bill. [More…]
That the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976, does not satisfy the Aboriginal needs for land in the Nortern Territory. [More…]
The removal of all powers to pass Land Rights Legislation from Nortern Territory Legislative Assembly, particularly its control over sacred sites, entry permits, control overseas adjoining Aboriginal land, the fishing rights of non-Aborigines, the right of Aborigines to enter pastoral stations and control of wildlife on Aboriginal land. [More…]
The restoration of all powers vested in Land Councils and the Land Commissioner in the 1975 Land Rights Bill. [More…]
When I first came into the Senate I was advised that the Senate was a House designed not only to uphold the rights of the States but also to protect smaller communities and the rights of minorities. [More…]
If land rights were ever required the onus would be on this Government to take on the Queensland Government and at least to claim this little reserve of 60 acres. [More…]
The points made by Senator Kilgariff concerning Aboriginal health in the Northern Territory are dead right, and I hope that he adopts the same attitude when the land rights legislation comes into this place. [More…]
It is a very good recording of what he said about land rights which was broadcast over some 27 or 28 radio transceivers throughout the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia. [More…]
Civil liberties groups appear to be the only watchdogs of the rights of individuals in Australia today. [More…]
The liberty and rights of the Mount Larcom farmers are under continual threat by the Queensland Government and by Darra Mining, which is an offshoot of a cement company which controls nearly all Queensland ‘s cement outlets. [More…]
What is the Australian Government going to do to protect the rights of the farmers if this is true? [More…]
That the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976, does not satisfy the Aboriginal needs for land in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The removal of all powers to pass Land Rights Legislation from the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, particularly its control over sacred sites, entry permits, control over the seas adjoining Aboriginal land, the fishing rights of non-Aborigines, the right of Aborigines to enter pastoral stations and control of wildlife on Aboriginal land. [More…]
The restoration of all powers vested in Lands Councils and the Land Commissioner in the 197S Land Rights Bill. [More…]
That the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976, does not satisfy the Aboriginal needs for land in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The removal of all powers to pass Land Rights Legislation from Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, particularly its control over sacred sites, entry permits, control over the seas adjoining Aboriginal land, the fishing rights of non-Aborigines, the right of Aborigines to enter pastoral stations and control of wildlife on Aboriginal land. [More…]
The restoration of all powers vested in Land Councils and the Land Commissioner in the 1975 Land Rights Bill. [More…]
We demand instant release of all illegally imprisoned and exiled orthodox people and clergy and the return of their citizenship rights as stated in the U.S.S.R. Constitution including the right to follow and practice a religious belief and the freedom for leaving the U.S.S.R. travel overseas. [More…]
We also demand the release of our Orthodox Priests W. Romaniuk, M. Fedorak A. Sokolan, B. Zalyvak and many others and restoration of their rights and dignity. [More…]
That whereas this nation through its duly elected Houses of Parliament is deemed to abide by the true aims and principles of the United Nations Chaner and of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
And whereas the peoples and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, amongst others, described as the Captive Nations because they are under the forcible occupation of troops of a foreign power or are compelled to accept a puppet dictatorship under pain of military invasion by the troops of a foreign power should that dictatorship ever be seriously challenged, are indisputably denied these basic human rights. [More…]
So therefore it is a matter of national honour and integrity, of moral and Christian duty, and of international justice and humanity, to publicly and constitutionally acknowledge these basic human rights of the peoples of the Captive Nations, and this is in course of being demonstrated by free peoples and their governments throughout the world being now called upon to treat the whole of 1977 as being ‘International Captive Nations Year’. [More…]
That the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976, satisfy the Aboriginal needs for land in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The removal of all powers to pass Land Rights Legislation from the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, particularly its control over sacred sites, entry permits, control over the seas adjoining Aboriginal land, the fishing rights of non-Aborigines, the right of Aborigines to enter pastoral stations and control of wildlife on Aboriginal land. [More…]
d ) The restoration of all powers vested in Land Councils and the Land Commissioner in the 1975 Land Rights Bill. [More…]
That the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976, does not satisfy the Aboriginal needs for land in the Northern Territory. [More…]
a) The removal of all powers to pass Land Rights Legislation from Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, particularly its control over sacred sites, entry permits, control over the seas adjoining Aboriginal land, the fishing rights of non-Aborigines, the right of Aborigines to enter pastoral stations and control of wildlife on Aboriginal land. [More…]
The restoration of all powers vested in Lands Councils and the Land Commissioner in the 197S Land Rights Bill. [More…]
The basis of this Bill is the very question of the human rights of every unionist. [More…]
The second principle is related to that matter and describes the rights and powers of individual unions to pursue their own objectives in their own way; to ascribe their own rules and to pursue them that way. [More…]
I believe that the rights of the individual worker are absolutely paramount. [More…]
That is a clear example of the approach which the Government adopts in regard to these matters and is at the core of giving rights to individual workers. [More…]
That is at the core of providing rights for individual workers. [More…]
I think Senator Button made the point that because such an officer would not be submitting himself to election, in some way this would detract from the rights of individuals to get their views across to him. [More…]
I believe that that sort of consideration is of basic importance in protecting the rights of individual workers. [More…]
Did the Government reject the application by MacRobertson Miller Airlines to operate charter flights between Port Hedland and Bali on the grounds that the Government believed that there would be a call for reciprocal rights to be granted to Indonesia and that a new Qantas Airways Limited service between Perth and Bali would satisfy the demand. [More…]
Did the Indonesian Government request reciprocal rights if the application for charter flights between Port Hedland and Bali was granted. [More…]
Has the Government reason to believe that Indonesia will not seek reciprocal rights because of the new Qantas service between Perth and Bali. [More…]
The petition of the undersigned respectfully showeth: That the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976 does not satisfy the Aboriginal needs for land in the Northern Territory. [More…]
a ) The removal of all powers to pass Land Rights Legislation from N.T. [More…]
Legislative Assembly, particularly its control over sacred sites, entry permits, control over the seas adjoining Aboriginal land, the fishing rights of non-Aborigines, the right of Aborigines to enter pastoral stations and control of wild life on Aboriginal land. [More…]
The restoration of all powers vested in Lands Councils and the Land Commissioner in the 1975 Land Rights Bill. [More…]
That the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1 976 does not satisfy the Aboriginal needs for land in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The removal of all powers to pass Land Rights Legislation from the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, particularly its control over sacred sites, entry permits, control over the seas adjoining Aboriginal land, the fishing rights of non-Aborigines, the right of Aborigines to enter pastoral stations and control of wildlife on Aboriginal land. [More…]
The restoration of all powers vested in Land Councils and the Land Commissioner in the 1975 Land Rights Bill, [More…]
The Committee was concerned with a number of provisions in the Ordinance relating to the powers of the arbitrator to be appointed under the Ordinance and the rights of persons appearing before the arbitrator or liable to be bound by his decisions. [More…]
I find it disgraceful that such major reversal of the rights of the rank and file unionists can be perpetrated with so little public discussion or criticism. [More…]
Therefore I take the opportunity presented to me in this debate to use the forum of Parliament to spell out the hypocrisy and double dealing of the Government which is embodied in this legislation and the serious attack it constitutes on the democratic rights of the rank and file trade unionists. [More…]
Similarly the amendment introduced during the course of the debate in another place which provided that 15 per cent of the Federal college should not have to face re-election after they are once elected is another way of eroding the rights of rank and file membership. [More…]
In summary, I and other members of the Opposition, are opposing this legislation because it removes the right of the rank and file members of unions to participate directly in ballots for their full time Federal officers because it enables minority factions at present in control of some unions to retain control of those unions against the wishes of the rank and file members, because the legislation was drawn up without proper consultation with the union movement, and because particularly the 15 per cent amendment was introduced with no consultation and is an erosion of the democratic rights of the trade union movement. [More…]
They do not increase the rights of unionists; they reduce them, and they reduce them in a way totally contrary to the claim made so often by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) that every individual unionist shall be able to have a say in the affairs of his or her union. [More…]
It has a total membership of 42 000, and the President, the Deputy President, the Secretary and the Assistant Secretary have full voting rights. [More…]
Plus- President, Deputy President, Secretary; and Assistant Secretary who have full voting rights. [More…]
It is not without significance that in the rule to show cause itself the respondents, and each of them, are called upon to treat and continue to treat the claimant, Norman Bray, as being entitled to all the rights and benefits of membership of The Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia, including the right and benefit of holding the following offices- then they are set out. [More…]
The petition of the undersigned respectfully showeth: That the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976, does not satisfy the Aboriginal needs for land in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The removal of all powers to pass Land Rights Legislation from Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, particularly its control over sacred sites, entry permits, control over the seas adjoining Aboriginal land, the fishing rights of non-Aborigines, the right of Aborigines to enter pastoral stations and control of wildlife on Aboriginal land. [More…]
d ) The restoration of all powers vested in Land Councils and the Land Commissioner in the 1975 Land Rights Bill. [More…]
That the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1 976 does not satisfy the Aboriginal needs for land in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The removal of all powers to pass Land Rights Legislation from Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, particularly its control over sacred sites, entry permits, control over the seas adjoining Aboriginal land, the fishing rights of non-Aborigines the right of Aborigines to enter pastoral stations and control of wildlife on Aboriginal land. [More…]
The restoration of all powers vested in Lands Councils and the Land Commissioner in die 1975 Land Rights Bill . [More…]
Give urgent consideration to amendments to the Northern Territory (Land Rights) Bill 1976 to give effect to: [More…]
The re-introduction of the 1975 Land Rights Bill’s provisions regarding mining. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Social Security a question regarding grants for welfare rights officers. [More…]
Will the decisions be made on the basis of organisations applying for welfare rights officers, or are others, such as Parents Without Partners, to be encouraged by the Minister personally? [More…]
In addition, a number of Bills providing greater opportunities and rights for Aborigines should properly be debated in the next few weeks. [More…]
The intention is to confer jurisdiction on the Court in matters which, if they arose in isolation, might not be matters of federal jurisdiction but which, arising in association with a matter of federal jurisdiction, must be disposed of at the same time as that matter in order that the rights of the parties may be finally determined. [More…]
Overnight he has become- as it were- the champion of federalism and the champion of the rights of freedom of sovereign State governments and local government. [More…]
This applies particularly when we hear honourable senators opposite say that they are the protectors of the States’ rights and that the Senate is a States’ House. [More…]
What was the stand taken by that great defender of States rights, that Labor-hater, the Premier of Queensland, the Honourable Johannes Bjelke-Petersen? [More…]
That the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976, does not satisfy the Aboriginal needs for land in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The removal of all powers to pass land rights legislation from Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, particularly its control over sacred sites, entry permits, control over the seas adjoining Aboriginal land, the fishing rights of non-Aborigines, the right of Aborigines to enter pastoral stations and control of wildlife on Aboriginal land. [More…]
The restoration of all powers vested in Land Councils and the Land Commissioner in the 1973 Land Rights Bill. [More…]
That the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976, does not satisfy the Aboriginal needs for land in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The removal of all powers to pass Land Rights Legislation from the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, particularly its control over sacred sites, entry permits, control over the seas adjoining Aboriginal land, the fishing rights of non-Aborigines, the right of Aborigines to enter pastoral stations and control of wildlife on Aboriginal land. [More…]
d ) The restoration of all powers vested in Land Councils and the Land Commissioner in the 1975 Land Rights Bill. [More…]
That the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976, does not satisfy the Aboriginal needs for land in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The removal of all powers to pass Land Rights Legislation from the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, particularly its control over sacred sites, entry permits, control over the seas adjoining Aboriginal land, the fishing rights of non-Aborigines, the right of Aborigines to enter pastoral stations and control of wildlife on Aboriginal land. [More…]
The restoration of all powers vested in Lands Councils and the Land Commissioner in the 1975 Land Rights Bill. [More…]
That the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976, does not satisfy the Aboriginal needs for land in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The removal of all powers to pass Land Rights Legislation from the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, particularly its control over sacred sites, entry permits, control over the seas adjoining Aboriginal land, the fishing rights of non-Aborigines, the right of Aborigines to enter pastoral stations and control of wildlife on Aboriginal land. [More…]
The restoration of all powers vested in Land Councils and the Land Commissioner in the 1975 Land Rights Bill. [More…]
That the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976, does not satisfy the Aboriginal needs for land in the Northern Territory. [More…]
) The removal of all powers to pass Land Rights Legislation from the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, particularly its control over sacred sites, entry permits, control over the seas adjoining Aboriginal land, the fishing rights of non-Aborigines, the right of Aborigines to enter pastoral stations and control of wildlife on Aboriginal land. [More…]
The restoration of all powers vested in Lands Councils and the Land Commissioner in the 1975 Land Rights Bill. [More…]
Having learned of the unjust and harsh incarceration in Vladimir prison by the Soviet Authorities of a Prisoner of Conscience of Latvian nationality Gunars Rode, we the undersigned Australian citizens respectfully petition the Australian Senate and through it the Australian Government to use all its diplomatic resources and influence to secure the release of the said Prisoner of Conscience in order that he may enjoy the Human Rights as set out in the United Nations Charter, and as agreed to by all signatories of the European Security and Co-operation Conference in Helsinki. [More…]
This petition is submitted because great anxiety is felt for Gunars Rode, as it is known that to obtain the very minimum of the abovementioned Human Rights, in March of this year he commenced a hunger strike and his fate since then is unknown. [More…]
I think that that principle was widely accepted in the Australian community, and accepted with a great deal of relief after the many years of bitterness that had revolved around the question of the rights of nongovernment schools to support by public moneys. [More…]
The rights or wrongs of the situation I leave aside. [More…]
The messages sent through Telecom gave us an impression of a brutalised people continuing to fight for their rights and ideals. [More…]
Are we just to be rubber stamps in this place with no rights and no means to express ourselves or to demand some checks on what aid is being given to Timor? [More…]
That the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976, does not satisfy the Aboriginal needs for land in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The removal of all powers to pass Land Rights Legislation from the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, particularly its control over sacred sites, entry permits, control over the seas adjoining Aboriginal land, the fishing rights of non-Aborigines, the right of Aborigines to enter pastoral stations and control of wildlife on Aboriginal land. [More…]
The restoration of all powers vested in Lands Councils and the Land Commissioner in the 197S Land Rights Bill. [More…]
Give urgent consideration to amendments to the Northern Territory ( Land Rights ) Bill 1 976 to give effect to: [More…]
The re-introduction of the 1975 Land Rights Bill’s provisions regarding mining. [More…]
The Liberal Party platform calls for the vigilant protection of privacy, reputation and those rights threatened by the use of modern surveillance systems and data banks. [More…]
The fault obviously lies with the Government parties, particularly in relation to Bills such as the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill, on which an unknown number of meetings have been held and the Government has tried to reach decisions on amendments. [More…]
He referred to the Aboriginal land rights legislation and the legislation dealing with the Federal Court of Australia. [More…]
I also sheet home the blame to the bureaucracy for the cavalier attitude it appears to adopt towards Parliament, the rights of members of Parliament and the rights of back bench members in particular. [More…]
Surely the Opposition would not say that the Bill which seeks to appoint an ombudsman should be held over until next year or that the legislation dealing with Aboriginal land rights ought to be held over until next year. [More…]
We believe that it is disgraceful that the injured in this country, on the one hand, are not receiving justice and just compensation for theninjuries and that the employers, particularly the small employers, are having to pay out large premiums because of the compensation system based on antiquated ideas and the antiquated method used in establishing people’s rights to compensation. [More…]
My recollection is that in my opening remarks I said that the Opposition did not intend to oppose the second reading of the Bill, but that when we were in the Committee stage the Opposition would oppose clause 4 in relation to the rights of the Commission to advise the Minister on specific expenditures and also in relation to what we considered was a compression of the size of the Commission in clause 6. [More…]
I do not want the Minister to say to me, with a smile, that I am battling for States rights. [More…]
With its land rights Bill the Labor Government implemented almost all the recommendations of the Woodward Committee. [More…]
So in the original legislation to establish a commission of 12 to 19 members recognition of the rights of the States, of local government and of interest groups was the centrepiece. [More…]
While we accept the general proposition and while we accept that there might be advantages in the legislation, we are concerned that in dealing hurriedly with it we might impinge upon the rights of a shipping company or of individuals. [More…]
1 ) Yes, but the Government intends that the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill should be dealt with in the current session of Parliament. [More…]
The freeze’ was applied to areas of rural land specified in the Second Report of the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission. [More…]
That the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976, does not satisfy the Aboriginal needs for land in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The removal of all powers to pass Land Rights Legislation from the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, particularly its control over sacred sites, entry permits, control over the seas adjoining Aboriginal land, the fishing rights of non-Aborigines, the right of Aborigines to enter pastoral stations and control of wildlife on Aboriginal land. [More…]
The restoration of all powers vested in Land Councils and the Land Commissioner in the 1975 Land Rights Bill. [More…]
That the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976, does not satisfy the Aboriginal needs forland in the Northern Territory. [More…]
a ) The removal of all powers to pass Land Rights Legislation from Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, particularly its control over sacred sites, entry permits, control over the seas adjoining Aboriginal land, the fishing rights of non-Aborigines, the right of Aborigines to enter pastoral stations and control of wildlife on Aboriginal land. [More…]
d ) The restoration of all powers vested in Land Councils and the Land Commissioner in the 1975 Land Rights Bill. [More…]
That the securing of land rights by Australian Aborigines, promised by successive governments, is prejudiced by uranium mining. [More…]
Does not the Minister agree that such surveillance is an infringement of the rights of students while studying in Australia? [More…]
The Government’s rhetoric blames the legitimate rights of the trade union movement to obtain wage increases commensurate with inflation for all its problems. [More…]
Give urgent consideration to amendements to the Northern Territory (Land Rights ) Bill 1 976 to give effect to: [More…]
The re-introduction of the 1975 Land Rights Bill’s provisions regarding mining. [More…]
That the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976, does not satisfy the Aboriginal needs for land in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The removal of all powers to pass Land Rights Legislation from Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, particularly its control over sacred sites, entry permits, control over the seas adjoining Aboriginal land, the fishing rights of non-Aborigines the right of Aborigines to enter pastoral stations and control of wildlife on Aboriginal land. [More…]
The restoration of all powers vested in Lands Councils and the Land Commissioner in the 1975 Land Rights Bill . [More…]
I noted also that Senator Gietzelt mentioned the suggestion that the Minister for Primary Industry make reference to the Japanese of Australian fishing rights in the context of Japan’s withdrawal from the importation of a significant amount of beef. [More…]
1 think it is disgraceful that 30 years after the war has finished they are still having these rights denied them. [More…]
That the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1 976, does not satisfy the Aboriginal needs for land in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The removal of all powers to pass land rights legislation from Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, particularly its control over sacred sites, entry permits, control over the seas adjoining Aboriginal land, the fishing rights of non-Aborigines, the right of Aborigines to enter pastoral stations and control of wildlife on Aboriginal land. [More…]
The restoration of all powers vested in Land Councils and the Land Commissioner in the 1975 Land Rights Bill. [More…]
The answer I have to the question is that the appointment of a fourth resident judge to the Northern Territory Supreme Court is associated with the creation of the office of Aboriginal Land Commissioner under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill. [More…]
I am extremely surprised that only my colleague Senator Keeffe who is on the Labor Party side of the Senate has seen fit to enter the debate whereas all the Liberal Party senators, who preach their own independence, who proclaim their own independence, and assert that this chamber is the States’ rights House, cannot be flushed out of their burrows to participate in the debate. [More…]
I suppose we could argue about whether the rights of the person who obtained the original licence for a milk quota should be submerged for the benefit of the State. [More…]
But I say to the Minister that the most important rights that a person has today are the right to hold a passport and the right to obtain citizenship. [More…]
I think that the Ombudsman will have the extremely important job of balancing the rights of big government, which exists today, with those terribly important individual rights that can so easily be swamped in the huge machinations of government. [More…]
They were the first to introduce land rights, as I have mentioned, although Federal action froze the initial moves. [More…]
I believe that the Ombudsman appointed should certainly give very close attention to the rights of Commonwealth employees in this respect. [More…]
In particular I believe this legislation is a welcome and special recognition of the needs and rights of the people of the Capital Territory in the appointment of a Deputy Ombudsman. [More…]
The question will be whether or not rights of appeal to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal can be given in these cases, but as I have said the decision on that is awaiting the Hope report. [More…]
Second, has the Government drawn up contingency plans to protect the Torres Strait Islanders’ interests in the event of a unilateral declaration of sovereignty and sovereign rights by Papua New Guinea in certain areas of the Torres Strait, as Papua New Guinea has suggested during negotiations it might do? [More…]
Given that undeniable and undenied fact I would expect the self-proclaimed disciples of States’ rights who populate the Liberal-Country Party benches in the Senate to vote for this amendment which has been moved by Senator Douglas McClelland. [More…]
It ought to be apparent to everyone that this is a very difficult and complex area and that trying to negotiate with 1200 individuals- it is a little less than that now, because some of them have left the industry already; nevertheless, there are 1000 or more individuals- who have their own interests and rights is a difficult exercise. [More…]
This Bill protects the long service leave rights of persons who were in public employment in Papua New Guinea prior to independence, who worked for the Independent State of Papua New Guinea after independence and who then entered, or in the future enter, Commonwealth employment. [More…]
Clause 3 of the Bill amends Section 47E of the Public Service Act to protect the sick leave rights of persons who were in public employment in Papua New Guinea prior to independence, remain there after independence and then enter Commonwealth employment. [More…]
The BUI Will safeguard the rights of existing officers and employees who are transferred. [More…]
These provisions are designed to protect the rights without inhibiting by legislation the ability of the Northern Territory Public Service Commissioner in his actions in relation to the newly formed service. [More…]
It is proposed that promotion and appeal rights of existing officers wil be continued in substantively the same manner as was provided for staff transferred to the Postal and Telecommunications Commissions and a regulation making power for this purpose is included in the BUI. [More…]
We wil ensure, through legislation such as this BUI and the new Northern Territory Public Service Ordinance, that the rights of officers who enter that service are fully protected. [More…]
In his second reading speech on the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976, my colleague the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) invited constructive comment and suggestions on the content of this most important and complex piece of legislation. [More…]
He stressed, however, that it was not intended that the rights to be established by the legislation should be watered down. [More…]
The creation of these Land Trusts will achieve the primary objective of any land rights scheme which is the vesting, under Australian law, of rights in relation to land which correspond with traditional Aboriginal rights. [More…]
This Bill deals with the recognition of traditional land rights and it is proper that the traditional claims of all groups to land outside the reserves should be assessed by the Commissioner and dealt with according to the procedures laid down in the Bill rather than by the arbitrary decision of any government and this applies equally to the Tanami Desert Wildlife Sanctuary and to the pastoral properties previously mentioned. [More…]
Preservation of Existing Rights [More…]
It is the Government’s intention, as it was Mr Justice Woodward ‘s recommendation, that existing rights inland will be fully protected. [More…]
On introducing the Bill the Minister pointed out that this provision would protect the rights of those holding leases on Aboriginal land, like the mining companies at Gove and Groote Eylandt and the mission at Hermannsburg, while ensuring that the title can pass into Aboriginal hands when the lease expires or when the holder negotiates its surrender and the issue of a new lease from the Land Trust. [More…]
We have decided that this legislation should deal exclusively with traditional land rights. [More…]
We have defined the nature of the Aboriginal land rights we are recognising by vesting title in trusts for the benefit of all those Aborigines with traditional rights to use and occupy that land- a fundamental provision missing in the Labor Government’s Bill. [More…]
It provides guidelines for the kind of laws which should be made by the Territory Assembly to guarantee recognition in those laws of traditional rights. [More…]
I believe that the passage of legislation to grant land rights to Aborigines in the Northern Territory will be a most significant and progressive step in the social and political history of this country. [More…]
It could well be that we could contribute towards the development of an international body which would have sole rights over the movement of all nuclear material. [More…]
It is essential that mining companies can move in a predictable environment in which to make decisions and that governments do not leave them (up in the air) as to their rights and obligations. [More…]
That they cannot begin to have their freedom and independence until all discriminatory laws are abolished and land rights are granted. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that land rights be granted now, on these conditions: [More…]
Immediate ownership rights by tribal groups of land they continue to occupy. [More…]
That Aboriginal lands include total rights to all natural resources, and that present mining and prospecting be suspended until negotiations are held with Aborigines. [More…]
That the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976, does not satisfy the Aboriginal needs for land in the Northern Territory. [More…]
a) The removal of all powers to pass Land Rights Legislation from Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, particularly its control over sacred sites, entry permits, control over the seas adjoining Aboriginal land, the fishing rights of non-Aborigines, the right of Aborigines to enter pastoral stations and control of wildlife on Aboriginal land. [More…]
The restoration of all powers vested in Lands Councils and the Land Commissioner in the 1975 Land Rights Bill . [More…]
He has already made a number of statements in the Parliament and elsewhere about his concern for the protection of rights enjoyed by members of the staff of the Australian Legal Aid Office who elect to transfer to the Legal Aid Commission to be established in Western Australia. [More…]
The Western Australian legislation provides for an agreement to be entered into between the Commonwealth and the State in relation to the transfer of staff who so elect, lt also provides for the retention of existing and accruing rights to the extent provided under the agreement or arrangements. [More…]
Can the Minister explain why a request from Mr Booker to the Board in May of this year for confirmation of his rights under section 72b (4) has not been properly answered? [More…]
Finally, does the Minister agree that the independence and professionalism of Australia’s foreign service depend on the rights of foreign affairs officers under the Act being fully respected? [More…]
That so much of the Standing Orders be suspended as would prevent the questions with regard to the remaining stages for the passage through the Senate of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976, the Aboriginal Councils and Associations Bill 1976 (No. [More…]
Deductions available for capital expenditure on the development of a mine or oil field, on the provision of community facilities adjacent to a mine or field, or on the purchase of mining rights or information, that currently are allowable over the estimated life of the mine or field will, for new expenditures, be allowable on reducing balances, by reference to a maximum life of S years instead of 25 years. [More…]
The extension will permit deductions for exploration expenditure incurred up to 30 June 1978 in pursuance of exploration rights held at the time of Papua New Guinea’s independence. [More…]
Under the previous Act the Government had the constitutional power to pay the grant to married people because it had constitutional rights to give benefits to families. [More…]
However, the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill and the States Grants (Aboriginal Assistance) Bill are in a different category. [More…]
I suggest to the Government with respect that when amendments to these Bills are moved, particularly the amendments to the land rights Bill, it will have an excellent opportunity to restore some of the credibility it has lost over the last 10 days or so. [More…]
It was addressed to the Sydney Land Rights Committee as well as to me and stated: [More…]
Please keep on fighting for the land rights Bill until it becomes law. [More…]
We know you will fight against the iniquitous provisions of Viner ‘s land rights Bill. [More…]
I received a telegram from Monty Pryor of the Townsville Land Rights Committee which states: [More…]
Full support north Queensland Aborigines regards Northern Territory Aboriginal Land Rights Bill. [More…]
I received a telegram from the North Queensland Land Rights Committee in Cairns. [More…]
Good luck Aboriginal and Rights Bill debate. [More…]
Next step land rights Queensland. [More…]
Good luck land rights debate today. [More…]
Support land rights Bill for Aborigines. [More…]
Aboriginal Land Rights. [More…]
Will grant land rights over all aboriginal reserves in Northern Territory. [More…]
Land Rights Legislation to have top priority immediately after election. [More…]
All Aboriginal Councils and other interested bodies and persons to be consulted on Land Rights Bill. [More…]
2 -Aboriginal Land Rights [More…]
Will giam land rights over all aboriginal reserves in Northern Territory. [More…]
Land Rights Legislation to have top priority immediately after election. [More…]
All Aboriginal Councils and other interested bodies and persons to be consulted on Land Rights Bill. [More…]
As we are debating these Bills cognately, if it is satisfactory to the Minister I will deal firstly with the councils and associations Bill, then the loans Bill, and finally with the land rights Bill. [More…]
The local government Act was amended some time ago, and I think it was amended basically to frustrate the then Labor Government from giving land rights to Aboriginal people living in the island areas. [More…]
Early in the Prime Ministership of Mr Gorton, he and Mr Wentworth visited Queensland and told the Queensland Government that they would be doing something about land rights. [More…]
The new Prime Minister, Mr William McMahon, and the new MinisterinCharge of Aboriginal Affairs, Mr Howson, went to Queensland, apologised to the Premier of Queensland and promised that there would be no more trouble with land rights. [More…]
I come now to the Aboriginal Lands Rights (Northern Territory) Bill, which is a most important Bill. [More…]
The land rights campaign is now of many years duration, but this Bill goes only a fraction of the way that we need to go. [More…]
In the document that has been produced here the Government has handed over the rights to sacred sites; it has handed over rights to just about everything else that is dear to Aboriginal people. [More…]
I have in my hand copies of fake documents that have been produced by Pastor Albrecht and a number of people to block the giving of land rights to Aboriginal people. [More…]
Aboriginal veto provisions on mining in Land Rights Bill meaningless until known who already holds exploration leases and terms of Commonwealth agreement with Mount Isa Mines over Borroloola claim are clarified. [More…]
Do not allow the Bill which mocks integrity of Australians in acknowledging Aboriginal rights to land. [More…]
In March 1976 1500 elders and representatives from numerous Northern Territory communities travelled for periods of up to 3 days to Alice Springs to demand rights to their land, and that of course is where my colleagues on the other side of the chamber talked to the Aboriginals, agreed with them, went home and issued a Press statement disagreeing with them. [More…]
On 15 September 1976 Buthugurrulil on behalf of the Gamalangaclan and with the support of the Milingimbi people wrote to the chairman of the Northern Land Council seeking the passing of this Bill and claimed protection for their fishing rights, their dreaming places and their land. [More…]
I would like to see the Government not giving any powers to the Assembly in regards to the Land Rights Bill. [More…]
On 3 November 1976 the Yuendumu Women’s Society sent me a telegram demanding that the Tanami Desert be included in the Bill for land rights. [More…]
The Methodist Church of Australia, the Quaker Race Relations Council, the Presbyterian Church of Australia, the Congregational Union of Australia and the United Church of Australia have all come out in support of full land rights for Aborigines. [More…]
A few weeks ago I wrote to the Trade Practices Commission claiming that an advertisement published by the Australian Mining Industry Council, the content of which was its answer to the Land Rights Bill, was a false advertisement I received from the Commission a reply which stated that it could deal only with certain aspects in trade or commerce. [More…]
Roy Marika, MBE, who is chairman of the Yirrkala Community Council, gave to me on a visit to Yirrkala a list of points which is consistent with the amendments the Opposition proposes to move to the Bill and which he wanted to see incorporated in the original land rights legislation. [More…]
Northern Territory Land Rights Bill [More…]
We want the Land Rights Bill to be passed this year. [More…]
We do not want any mining prospects by any Mining Companies until the Land Rights Bill is passed. [More…]
We want the Land Trust to be divided into two main bodies which are (i) Western Arnhem Land Trust (ii) Eastern Arnhem Land Trust and, therefore do not want just one main Land Trust as stated in the Land Rights Bill in its present form. [More…]
The Senate is considering 3 Bills, but I shall confine my remarks to the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill to which Senator Keeffe devoted about 18 minutes of his speech. [More…]
It is my belief that the Land Rights Bill is an historic Bill and that this is an historic occasion in the Parliament of Australia, because the passage by the Australian Parliament of that Bill is in its way as significant as the referendum result of 1967 in what it promises and means to the Aboriginal people of Australia. [More…]
If we draw those threads together we arrive at the need for the provision of land rights for the Aboriginal people. [More…]
We have had presented from both sides of this Parliament, and from the honourable senator who has given such a mean and ungenerous speech today, land rights Bills and land rights proposals. [More…]
Today we are debating and will pass the first Land Rights Bill in the history of this nation. [More…]
The provision of land rights is part of that response. [More…]
This Bill is not the last word on land rights. [More…]
It is the first step which this nation is taking towards Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
I believe it is hard to over-emphasise the significance or the promise of this piece of legislation which will grant land rights to groups of Aboriginal people- something which the honourable senator who led for the Opposition forgot to mention. [More…]
It will provide the legal framework in which land rights can be granted. [More…]
In case Senator Keeffe has forgotten, clause 68 of this Bill refers to roads on Aboriginal land; clause 69 refers to the protection of sacred sites; clauses 70 and 71 refer to rights of entry and clauses 73 and 74 refer to reciprocal legislation which might be passed by the Northern Territory. [More…]
He said that this Committee would undertake 2 main tasks: Firstly, it would examine the extent to which traditional land owners were able to exercise their rights under this legislation, and surely no one would object to that; secondly, it would examine the adequacy of the complementary legislation proposed by the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]
We promised before the last election that there would be legislation to provide land rights for the Aboriginal people. [More…]
This legislation provides those land rights. [More…]
I shall not read that part of our policy document which contains our promises on land rights, but they are in that document. [More…]
We were aware of the public interest that surrounded land rights legislation. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that the second reading of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill was made in another place on 4 June 1976. [More…]
It contains, in a philosophical sense, the reasons why we believe that land rights are so important, our understanding of the relationship of the indigenous people of Australia with their land and our determination that our legislation should be just and adequate. [More…]
These amendments covered areas including the protection of Aboriginal rights on mining against decisions in the national interest so that any decision would be subject to disallowance by Parliament. [More…]
They contained new clauses on sacred sites and rights of entry. [More…]
We are dealing here with an issue which is one of national conscience as well as being a particular issue involving land rights for the Aboriginal people. [More…]
Land rights will assist one group of those Aborigines to function in a way they want to function and to get a fairer share of what exists in this country. [More…]
It has reintroduced the land rights legislation. [More…]
In the second reading debate let us at least acknowledge that we are moving in a real way towards the provision of land rights and greater justice for the Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I shall listen with interest to hear honourable senators acknowledge- whatever criticisms they might have of the particularities of clauses- that with the passage of this legislation for the first time the Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory will have land rights and that this will be good, new, positive and desirable. [More…]
I believe that this land rights legislation does no more than offer justice in a humanitarian way to the indigenous people of Australia. [More…]
I rise to support my colleague, Senator Keeffe, in the discussion of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill. [More…]
The fine words that have been spoken ring a little hollow when we remember that had it not been for the shameful events of 1 1 November last year this legislation would have by now been enacted and Aboriginal people would have had land rights. [More…]
The rights of the traditional owner are the only rights that are being looked at. [More…]
The concept of Aboriginal land rights is extremely complex. [More…]
I have travelled around the Territory asking Aboriginal people, Aboriginal communities and Aboriginal groups: ‘What do you want me to say about land rights?’ [More…]
This quotation indicates the responsibility and interest of some other groups: lt will be seen, then, that many different clans have rights over a certain piece of land. [More…]
In addition, members of the Wangurri clan, whose country is Cato River in Arnhem Bay, the Wubulkarra clan and others also have rights over this pan of Milingimbi because they all belong to the Mandjikay group of clans which have the fish nuykal’ as their totemic ancestor. [More…]
Question- What was the attitude of the major political parties towards Aboriginal land rights before 1 970? [More…]
Question- Were any official statements made by the Government about land rights before 1970? [More…]
Question- When did changes in political policy on land rights first occur? [More…]
Answer- There is considerable evidence of ‘re-thinking’ in all parties before the 1970s, despite the statement quoted above, but no party formally committed itself to recognition of traditional land rights until the Australian Labor Party, at its Conference in June 1971, pledged itself to grant land rights when it should come to office. [More…]
platform did not, however, specify how land rights would be granted or on what basis- only that these rights would be granted. [More…]
Government was formed in December 1972, the official policy of the coalition parties towards land rights remained unchanged. [More…]
Traditional rights to land were not mentioned, however, and in fact a subsequent statement by the then Minister for the Interior, Mr Ralph Hunt, in February 1972, made it clear that no such rights would be recognised. [More…]
I should like to turn now to a consideration of the role of the Legislative Assembly and of the attitude of the people in the Northern Territory towards the Assembly playing a part in land rights legislation. [More…]
Who does not recognise the traditional land holding rights of the Aboriginal people, who are residents on the land. [More…]
We concur with the view that ‘land rights legislation should not be capable of being affected in any way by Northern Territory ordinances’ … [More…]
Withdraw from the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly powers to make laws over sacred sites, entry permits, fishing rights and control of territorial waters, etc [More…]
They said: ‘Tell the Government and tell the Parliament that as from now it is not our intention actively to pursue amendments to the land rights legislation’. [More…]
The day before they had attended a land rights meeting south of Alice Springs. [More…]
We want to see our land rights in our own land. [More…]
A group of Aboriginal elders, traditional ‘owners’ of land in Central Australia, met in Alice Springs late last week and decided on a last-ditch stand to get the Government to change the whole structure of the proposed Aboriginal Land Rights Legislation. [More…]
The meeting in Alice Springs last week, which lasted about 2Vi days, was not the organised kind such as those called to discuss land rights during the past year or so. [More…]
They took over the meeting for a discussion of the Land Rights Bill, due to be debated in Parliament this month. [More…]
The petition says that they are thankful that the Government intends legislation for Aboriginal land rights in the N.T. [More…]
The petition asked Parliament to ‘show respect for the laws of Aboriginal people and enact land rights legislation which will allow our traditional land laws to operate unhindered’. [More…]
You are going to be given land rights’, to that Aboriginal person that means that he is being recognised for the future as the owner of the land for which he is the representative in that land-holding clan and which has been handed down from his father, his uncle, or whoever. [More…]
While I agree with land rights for Aboriginals, what I am doing and what I have to do- I have said before in other places that I was going to do this- is endeavour to clear up the misunderstanding which exists in relation to the traditional land owner and in relation to the way in which we grant Aboriginal people land rights in a paternal way by imposing upon them this foreign concept. [More…]
The document comprises notes on the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976. [More…]
We hear tonight how great the Labor Party has been in promoting land rights for the Aboriginal people. [More…]
What it actually did in the Northern Territory was to freeze land rights for the Aboriginal people. [More…]
I am merely illustrating that those honourable senators on the other side of the chamber should not get this grandiose idea that they are the only people who have initiated Aboriginal land rights in Australia. [More…]
What it actually did was to freeze land rights in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I now make some remarks on the major piece of legislation before us tonight, the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill. [More…]
If Senator Baume is serious about his interest in establishing the rights of Aboriginal people to secure the land which they properly own, perhaps he will be prepared to support the amendments which will be moved by the Opposition at a later stage to improve the probability that the Aboriginal people will indeed be able to exercise those rights. [More…]
As it stands, the Bill is a great improvement on the Government’s land rights Bill introduced by the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) in another place in June 1976. [More…]
When the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs reintroduced the Bill with 42 amendments there were improvements in 2 areas- the reduction in the rights of the Northern Territory to make ordinances interfering with the rights of Aboriginals over their land, and some slight increase in the negotiating powers of Aboriginal persons with the mining companies. [More…]
That has happened with a number of pieces of legislation, particularly broadcasting, funeral benefits and now Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
Although there have been improvements, those improvements do not provide strongly enough for the rights of Aboriginals over their land. [More…]
The Aboriginal people have no veto rights over the development of areas where exploration licences have been granted in the past. [More…]
However, it does not compensate for the fact that the Aboriginal people will have veto rights only over new licences. [More…]
The Federal Government has failed to accept its full constitutional responsibility, which it gained as a result of the 1967 referendum on Aboriginal rights, to regulate and administer all matters affecting Aboriginal people. [More…]
Although the Bill provides that the Federal Minister for Aboriginal Affairs is to be consulted by the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly when it is introducing ordinances on this matter, we do not consider that that provision for consultation is a guarantee that the views of the Federal Minister will be implemented or that the rights and desires of the Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory will have priority when the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly is proceeding in these matters. [More…]
For example, it will mean that the fringe dwellers of Alice Springs will have to wait a very long time- maybe forever- to get land rights. [More…]
Legislation giving Aboriginals formal rights over reserves is not a complex matter unless minerals come into the question. [More…]
As I have said, I do not speak from great personal knowledge or experience of the Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory, but I am convinced from the correspondence and the personal lobbying that has gone on during the last few months that the Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory are not satisfied that this Bill represents a guarantee that they will be able to exercise the rights over the land that they own. [More…]
In it Mr Anderson, who is an elected representative of the Aboriginal people, points out the many unsatisfactory aspects of the Bill and the ways in which the Bill must be improved if it is to give a guarantee of land rights to the Aboriginal people. [More…]
He also makes some constructive suggestions based on the land rights legislation that has been implemented in Canada. [More…]
With that exception we recognise the reinstatement of those rights. [More…]
I hope that those supporters of the Government who have expressed such strong emotional support for the rights of Aborigines will give action to those sentiments by supporting the amendments which we will be moving solely to improve the rights of Aborigines under this legislation. [More…]
I think it is important that the Australian community sees that on both sides of this Parliament there is a commitment to Aboriginal land rights and that the differences which exist between the Government and the Opposition are differences as to matters which are round the edges and matters of detail, but there are substantial areas of agreement and I do not believe that we serve the country well if we seek to disguise those substantial areas of agreement. [More…]
Senator Robertson, in a very careful and measured speech, a good deal of which I might disagree with but the presentation and content of which left nothing to be desired, set out at some length the particular things that have been done by the Labor Party over the years to advance the cause of land rights. [More…]
I would also like to acknowledge the contribution of Mr Justice Woodward, who was given a commission by the Labor Government in 1973 to report upon the appropriate means to recognise and establish the traditional rights and interests of the Aborigines in and in relation to land and to satisfy in other ways the reasonable aspirations of the Aborigines to rights in or in relation to land. [More…]
I think it would be churlish not to acknowledge once again that the care with which the problem was tackled did a great deal to advance the understanding in the community of the very real need to establish land rights. [More…]
But since Mr Justice Woodward’s report there has been basically no real argument in Australia against the establishment of Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
It is perhaps significant that Mr Ellicott was counsel for the Commonwealth in the Gove land rights case. [More…]
All existing rights of mining and petroleum companies will be preserved by the new legislation- [More…]
That was his draft- ‘all existing rights of rnining and petroleum companies will be preserved’. [More…]
We are passing a law which is to operate in the Northern Territory and I believe that subject to the proper protection of Aboriginal rights it is proper that the people of the Northern Territory should through their Legislative Assembly have some say in the way the law operates in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I draw the attention of the Senate to the fact that specific rights in all these areas of subordinate legislation have been written into the Bill and there are provisions covering many of the major areas of concern. [More…]
Of course he said things favourable to Aboriginals in respect of land rights. [More…]
We have been told that he has worked assiduously through the campaign to have alterations made to the legislation, and now we have reached the stage of taking this memorable action to have before us a Bill which gives land rights to Aborigines. [More…]
Senator Bonner will face the test during the consideration of that Bill of whether he supports the claim of Aboriginals to land rights or whether he supports the proposition put forward by every honourable senator who has spoken from the Government side, namely, that his is the beginning of the right of Aboriginals to claim land. [More…]
We are told that alterations have been made in relation to mining rights. [More…]
I agree that this is an historic occasion because it is the first time that there has been the possibility of the Parliament passing a Bill which, despite all the restrictions that it implies, will give land rights to some people. [More…]
Although it affects only a few Aboriginals in the Northern Territory, this is the first time that legislative recognition has been given to Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
Senator Robertson tonight explained that Aboriginal land rights first appeared on the 1971 Labor Party platform. [More…]
Prior to that we had 2 legal judgments on whether Aboriginals had some legal claim to land rights. [More…]
The other, which was handed down a little later by Mr Justice Foster, I think it was, following the Royal Commission in Western Australia, went into the legal aspects of the claim of Aboriginals to land rights. [More…]
According to those 2 judgments, because of the planting of that flag and the reading of the proclamation, Aboriginals have no legal rights to land in Australia. [More…]
The report which he brought down contains his idea of the best method which can be used within white man’s society to grant land rights, while at the same time giving Aboriginals the maximum opportunity to operate on their own land. [More…]
What was contained in the report was not the Labor Party’s idea about land rights. [More…]
It was not the idea of someone else about land rights. [More…]
We introduced legislation which had the purpose of putting into operation the Woodward recommendations on land rights. [More…]
With all the Government’s attempts to justify its actions on 11 November- Remembrance Day- it has killed the putting into operation of the Woodward report which recommended the giving of land rights to Aboriginals. [More…]
It will be a testing time in which the Chaneys, the Bonners the Baumes and the Kilgariffs will have to show how much they support the rights of Aboriginals to own land or whether they are just mouthing words of support. [More…]
Government supporters and the Minister are on trial as to whether they support Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
He is trying to glorify himself by saying that he moved a motion in regard to Aboriginal land rights in the Northern Territory. [More…]
But would Senator Bonner support the recommendation of the Woodward report that land rights be given to every Aboriginal in the Northern Territory? [More…]
Senator Baume read out an article condemning Australia’s actions towards Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
He quoted from a British publication which said that the British Government was concerned with the neglect of Australian Aboriginal land rights over 140 years ago. [More…]
It took us 140 years to do something about Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
If we proceed at this pace, there will be no tribal Aboriginals by the time we give land rights to Aboriginals. [More…]
Those petitions are signed by people who are dissatisfied with the Government’s approach to Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
They want Aboriginals to be given full land rights. [More…]
The rights of mining companies remain supreme. [More…]
Senator Baume, the first speaker for the Government, did show some compassion for Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
He thought there was some justification for restricting the operation of the Bill but he tried to make out that the Liberal Party was solely responsible for Aboriginal land rights legislation and that it deserved all the praise. [More…]
I said that his campaign that Aboriginal claims for land rights should not be met immediately very much suited the pastoral interests in the Northern Territory. [More…]
There was an attempt to create a division within Aboriginal communities with regard to young and drunken elements controlling land rights. [More…]
Who says that honourable senators opposite come in here and support Aboriginal land rights? [More…]
Although it took a lot of time, we identified one incorporation as an article in the Centralian Advocate condemning this land rights Bill. [More…]
He is one of the authorities on Aboriginal land rights whose material Senator Kilgariff incorporated in Hansard as one of the reasons why we should go easy on this Bill. [More…]
I am just bringing this up to indicate the extent of the campaign to stop Aboriginals getting their just claims to land rights. [More…]
The mining companies have the rights to mine the land. [More…]
If it can be proved that it is beneficial for Aboriginal land rights that some amendments be made, let us be honest and not reject them because they come from a particular side of the chamber. [More…]
I hope that all those who have a genuine interest in the rights of Aboriginals will do so. [More…]
In about the middle of this year the Honourable Ian Viner introduced the land rights Bill into the lower House. [More…]
I would like to quote from the Woodward report, as it sums up why perhaps there will be some suspicions by Aborigines, particularly me- although I hope to be in this chamber for a long time yet and I will be keeping a close watch on what transpires henceforth in relation to this land rights Bill. [More…]
Is the Australian Government prepared to make representations to the U.S.S.R. authorities in support of the representations of so many Australian citizens who are concerned with the treatment of Dr Shtern, in breach of basic human rights? [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and his Government have stated categorically that the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill must be passed by this Parliament this session. [More…]
We do not want to force on other people that which was forced on us, but we do want what is rightfully ours and we want just treatment in whatever is to happen in relation to land rights in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The motion provides that the committee be required to report by 3 1 May 1 977 and that it should have the following terms of reference: Firstly, to examine and report on the operation of the provisions of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 relating to the identification of traditional owners of Aboriginal land and the means of establishing the views of such owners to the satisfaction of the relevant land councils; secondly, the adequacy of provisions of the law of the Northern Territory relating to entry to Aboriginal land, the protection of sacred and significant sites, wildlife conservation and entry to seas adjoining Aboriginal land; and, thirdly, any other matters referred by the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
Then we will be able to examine this Bill and make sure that the spirit of it is carried out, we will be able to examine what the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly is proposing in these very important areas in relation to complementary legislation, we will be able to ensure that the Aboriginal commissions are doing their jobs satisfactorily, that they are the servants of the traditional owners and that they will be working to ensure that the rights of the traditional owners are preserved, and we will be able to exercise an oversight to ensure that the Aboriginal people, that my tribal elders in the Northern Territory, will have their lands and that their lands will be protected. [More…]
I, as the lone Aboriginal voice in this Parliament, together with my colleagues- men like Fred Chaney, Peter Baume, Alan Missen and quite a few others who have shown a great concern in regard to this Bill and who will be supporting me- will be watching very closely the implementation of this land rights Bill to ensure that my people are not deprived of that to which they are rightly and justly entitled. [More…]
I direct myself to the presence of Professor Stanner, a man who has fought for years for land rights for and just treatment of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
At long last some of the Aboriginal people of this country will then receive their just rights. [More…]
This special kinship is the basis of the land rights movement. [More…]
My concern in particular with the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976 is that under clause 73 certain powers are to be given to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]
I hope they will recall what has already happened in Western Australia and what could happen in the Northern Territory if the land rights Bill goes through in its present form. [More…]
Mr Olney said: ‘In our opinion, it is another example of the Court government’s contempt for the rights of ordinary people, particularly when those rights stand in the way of the profits of its wealthy friends. [More…]
If this goes through unchallenged the Trust will lose all credibility, and it will be the finish of our land rights. [More…]
The Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill, which we are debating cognately with 2 others, is to do with Northern Territory land rights. [More…]
Yet now we find that at a time when they are negotiating for mining rights on that very land the State Government nas seen fit to open the land for all and sundry to compete. [More…]
If the Western Australian State Government got applications from 2 people for mining rights at Oombulgurri, one of which was from the Aboriginals who are resident on that land and the other from a large mining company, who do honourable senators think would get the guernsey? [More…]
They are all equally entitled to land rights and they are entitled to the protection of this Government- not by a government that is sitting somewhere up in Darwin when it feels so inclined and has no regular pattern of meetings and really does not have a good deal of feeling for anything other than the vested interests in its particular area. [More…]
If this Bill has any substance, if it has the guts that is necessary to give the people their complete land rights- their true land rights-there would not be any necessity to set up such a committee. [More…]
-Is it better to give them land rights or is it better to deny them land rights for perhaps another 3 months so that they have the benefit of that redrafted legislation when it comes into being or are we to have these amending Bills consistently coming up for review because the legislation is not adequate? [More…]
2) first of all, then to the States Grants (Aboriginal Assistance) Bill, and then I shall deal with the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill. [More…]
I turn now to the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill. [More…]
It is significant because we are now reaching the final stages of the parliamentary process to give effect to what has been a long promise to Aboriginal people in this country that they will have legislation that will give them land rights. [More…]
They understand more closely than many of us what this Bill will mean and the effect it will have on Aboriginals who have such a strong feeling about their traditional rights to the land around them. [More…]
We have decided that this legislation should deal exclusively with traditional land rights. [More…]
We have defined the nature of Aboriginal land rights we are recognising by vesting title in trusts for the benefit of all those Aboriginals with traditional land rights to use and occupy the land in question. [More…]
It provides guidelines for the kind of laws which should be made by the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly to guarantee recognition of traditional rights in those laws. [More…]
The basic rights of Aboriginals to choose whether mining or exploration should take place on their land and on what terms they are effected, are parts of the Bill which should have his attention. [More…]
The central provisions in regard to land rights are all contained in the Bill with which we are now dealing in this Parliament. [More…]
The terms of reference of that Committee will be to examine and report on the operation of provisions of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 relating to the identification of traditional owners of Aboriginal land and the means of establishing the views of such owners to the satisfaction of the relevant land council; the adequacy of provisions of the laws in the Northern Territory relating to entry to Aboriginal land, the protection of sites of significance, wildlife conservation, and entry to seas adjoining Aboriginal land; and any other matters referred to it by the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
I believe that the Joint Parliamentary committee will be a responsible body which may work continually towards the second steps we hope to take with regard to land rights for Aboriginal people. [More…]
With regard to the land rights legislation, an exploration licence alone does not protect from consent. [More…]
I believe that people throughout the length and breadth of Australia have an interest in the proceedings of the Senate today and that they will welcome this first stage in land rights legislation for Aborigines. [More…]
It may be appropriate even to have a vote on those Bills and to clear them from the notice paper before proceeding to the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill because there will be a lengthy Committee debate on that Bill. [More…]
The original impression apparently created was that action was taken by the State Government in order to prevent the then Federal Labor Government from making any moves on land rights. [More…]
However, there is another which I think indicates the attitude of this Government towards the Aboriginals, both in this Bill and in the Land Rights Bill. [More…]
Under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill the Governor-General may proclaim that in the national interest certain minerals on Aboriginal land should be mined. [More…]
On the one hand where an Aboriginal community makes a decision there is provision for disallowance very easily of the result- a bylawof Aborigines having a say in their own affairs, but on the other hand in the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) BDI, where there is a mining interest, although there is a right for a member of Parliament to move for disallowance of the proclamation, there is no provision that it is to be dealt with within 15 days. [More…]
The differences that we are dealing with in these 2 Bills concern the rights of Aboriginal people and mining interests. [More…]
I wish briefly to say, as I said in summarising the debate on the motion for the second reading of the Bill, that the Bill in no way interferes with State rights or responsibilities. [More…]
One cannot talk about democracy or people’s rights or their right to go to law if they are not provided with the means to go to law. [More…]
It was the Government’s intention that all exploration rights be covered in the legislation. [More…]
It has been brought to the Government’s attention that the Bill unless amended would not adequately meet the Government’s commitment to protect existing rights in relation to a 1969 agreeement for mining at Groote Eylandt. [More…]
We covered this in detail yesterday when we pointed out that we would have objections to certain aspects of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill even after these amendments were moved. [More…]
It is one of the things which the Opposition must violently oppose because it distinguishes between the attitude of the Opposition and the attitude of the Government on the question of Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
As I said before, that situation illustrates the difference between the policies of the Liberal and Labor Parties on Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
As I said when introducing the amendments, they are to meet the Government’s commitment to protect existing rights in relation to an agreement of 1969 on mining at Groote Eylandt. [More…]
In other words this now means that the Aboriginal people will be denied the basic aspects associated with their land rights except for a few crumbs the Government will sweep off the table for them. [More…]
So obviously some political manipulation has been going on in relation to the drafting of lands rights legislation. [More…]
So we have one parliamentarian on the Government side of this chamber and the Minister in another House disagreeing on how land rights legislation ought to be implemented. [More…]
As time goes on it will not be Mr Viner who will be implementing the land rights legislation; it will be that party to which Senator Kilgariff belongs, the broken down Country Party of the Northern Territory, which has now changed its name to the LiberalCountry Party or something like that to give it some air of respectability, but it is still made up of all the political horse traders of the past who are out to protect the land for the white minority in the Northern Territory, not for the Aboriginal people. [More…]
I am very satisfied with the great bulk of the amendments which have been made to the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill, which I think have improved it very considerably. [More…]
I hope it will also have in mind the claims, which are another matter of dispute, of need of the land not based on traditional rights but on need. [More…]
In paragraph 274 of the second report of the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission Mr Justice Woodward states: [More…]
I certainly hope that nothing in regard to the passage of this Bill, which deals substantially with traditional land and gives back traditional land which may well relieve a considerable proportion of the difficulties which people who are fringe dwellers and town dwellers may have, will lead to a lack of consideration for those rights, but obviously this is not the Bill that deals with them and this amendment is therefore, I feel, quite inappropriate. [More…]
What we should be doing is facilitating the ability of Aboriginal people, whether they be town dwellers or reserve dwellers, to make land rights claims. [More…]
Certainly it is not land to which they have traditional rights but it is the land on which they have been living, some of them for their whole lifetime- particularly the younger members of the tribes that are living in this way. [More…]
To support these amendments would be to support the spirit of the Woodward report and would enable the fringe dwelling Aboriginal people to have the same legislative rights as people living in traditional areas. [More…]
The Government believes that it is inappropriate, as Senator Bonner has said, to complicate legislation which deals with traditional land rights. [More…]
I think that what His Honour Mr Justice Woodward has provided in his report and what is reflected in this legislation will do all that is required to provide for the traditional ownership rights of Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
It is obvious that these 2 gentlemen have been working against the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill for a very long time because in reply to a question asked by my colleague Senator Robertson on 6 December, recorded at page 2672 of Hansard, an astronomical figure was disclosed as having been spent on travelling by Dr G. A. Letts and Mr B. F. Kilgariff, now Senator Kilgariff. [More…]
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Student Union support you in your land rights debate. [More…]
There are a lot of Aboriginal people in Australia listening to the Senate debating the Land Rights Bill today. [More…]
The fringe dwellers in the Northern Territory are also Aboriginal people in that category, therefore they should have land rights. [More…]
The Opposition said earlier that the Government has prostituted the terms of the original Labor Bill by comparison with the terms of this Bill in such a way that one becomes suspicious of a full stop at the end of every paragraph in case some hidden meaning is included to deprive Aboriginal people of their just rights. [More…]
Perhaps that might have sunk through to the normally fairly sharp witted brain of Senator Baume, which seems to have become rather confused on land rights. [More…]
In common with the one which preceded it and with the next one, this amendment overlooks the fact that the Bill deals exclusively with traditional land rights. [More…]
The amendment is designed to ensure that mining interests with options or other rights must seek consent when land becomes Aboriginal land. [More…]
But there are people in the left wing of the Liberal Party who have a more progressive attitude and who sometimes believe in the rights of people, even minority groups like Aborigines. [More…]
He talked of the rights of people and made somewhat inflammatory statements. [More…]
The rights of people include the dignity of people, and I think that includes our colleagues in this chamber. [More…]
-Yes, but it is not logical to carry on this pretence to protect the rights of someone who has gone before. [More…]
Men who make profound statements in this Senate and expect to be accepted as people who are interested in the cause are now more clearly than ever before faced with the conflict of interest between an applicant for renewal of rights to mine land and the traditional owners of the land. [More…]
We would be writing into the statute a stipulation that the person appointed shall give paramount consideration to the interests of the Aborigines, whereas all that is being arbitrated upon is a claim to an interest by a person who has an existing estate as against the Aboriginal community which claims that it has Aboriginal rights over the land. [More…]
But this appears in a Bill to provide land rights for Aboriginals- their legal entitlements. [More…]
Although the clause provides for renegotiation in sub-clause (2), that too is hamstrung by the reference to sub-clause ( 1 ), which provides that such leases should be ones where the rights and obligations of the parties are as near as practicable the same as those under existing Crown leases. [More…]
This Bill deals with traditional land rights. [More…]
They were set up following the first report of the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission. [More…]
In fact this Bill that the Government has produced on land rights is significant for its very great and grave departures from the Woodward recommendations. [More…]
However, the NACC accepts Prime Minister Whitlam ‘s most historic decision in December 1973, that his government would grant land rights, and as such, the NACC understands and supports the amendments that you as Shadow Minister for Aboriginal Affairs have or will move. [More…]
Whilst it may not provide the ultimate in the protection of the rights of Aborigines at least it does strengthen their case to a very large degree. [More…]
We are making provision in the Bill for giving the Parliament the right to decide on the disallowance of a proclamation which takes away the rights of Aboriginals. [More…]
The 1976 private member’s Bill was introduced in this place by me when it was fairly obvious that the new Government had no intention of introducing any son of legislation at all to grant land rights to Aboriginal people. [More…]
It did not have to wait around and hold up land rights legislation, such as you could call it, for a year. [More…]
What I did say was that the new Government, after its election on 13 December last, showed no indication of bringing on land rights legislation of any sort at any time despite the famous Ellicott promises. [More…]
2) Bill that the power of the House to override a proclamation on Aboriginal rights lapses if the matter is not brought on for discussion after 15 days. [More…]
Sub-section ( IB) gives effect to paragraph 708, sub-paragraphs (x), (xi) and (xii), of Mr Justice Woodward’s recommendations which provide that matters of concern should be given emphasis when mining rights are being negotiated. [More…]
Matters to be negotiated, if the Aborigines concerned are prepared to consider the proposal, would include payments for exploration rights, royalty payments and, perhaps, an equity interest in the venture. [More…]
Throughout this debate the Government has said repeatedly that the Bill deals with traditional land rights and that needs are to be dealt with under Northern Territory law. [More…]
In exercising his rights under sub-section (3), an Aboriginal is not entitled knowingly to disregard any reasonable requirements of the lessee of the pastoral lease in connexion with the bore waters on the land. [More…]
A person who, without just cause, proof of which lies upon the person, prevents or obstructs, or attempts to prevent or obstruct, an Aboriginal from exercising his rights under this section is guilty of an offence against this section punishable, upon conviction, by a fine not exceeding 1,000. [More…]
A penalty can be imposed for preventing or obstructing an Aboriginal from exercising his rights under the clause. [More…]
To give this right, to give this great power, to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly is a denigration of the rights of Aborigines. [More…]
The rights of the pastoralists will be totally preserved and protected- not the rights of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
I suggest that those honourable senators opposite who really want to protect the rights of Aborigines should vote for this amendment and the next three or four amendments because they are at the very crux of the matter. [More…]
The new clause that has been proposed by the Opposition is one on which I would comment that, in line with the decision that some powers be given to the Northern Territory, the Government has considered it appropriate that rights of entry onto pastoral properties should remain a matter for Northern Territory law- the Crown Lands Ordinance. [More…]
In line with the decision that some powers be given to the Northern Territory, it was considered appropriate that rights of entry on to pastoral properties should remain a matter for the Northern Territory. [More…]
During the Committee discussion on the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976, Senator Keeffe referred to problems of which he had been made aware relating to radio reception in central Australia of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
This notice of motion relates to provisions in the Australian Capital Territory Consumer Affairs Ordinance which impinge upon the civil rights and liberties of inhabitants of the Territory. [More…]
This has not proved possible, and I have given notice to preserve the Committee ‘s rights until its inquiries have concluded. [More…]
It was within the rights of members of the Parliament and people in the Canberra community to attend the laying of a wreath on the Stone of Remembrance for the simple reason that it commemorated the participation of Australians in the war against the Japanese in East Timor. [More…]
Will the Minister, in view of the Constitution Alteration (Aboriginals) Referendum having been agreed to in 1967, take appropriate action to protect the rights and property, including the reserves of Aborigines and Islanders in Queensland if the Queensland Government proceeds in this matter. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Social Security received a letter from the NOW Centre in Melbourne protesting about her withdrawal of the welfare rights officer grant from the Federation of Italian Labourers, Emigrants and Families? [More…]
Comprehensive rights of appeal are also proposed in relation to any management initiated redeployment or retirement action that may be taken. [More…]
Aboriginal veto provisions on mining in Land Rights Bill meaningless until known who already holds exploration leases and terms of Commonwealth agreement with Mt Isa Mines over Borroloola claim are clarified. [More…]
Do not allow a Bill which mocks integrity of Australians in acknowledging Aboriginal rights to land. [More…]
Fully support Labor ‘s effort on land rights. [More…]
Clause 70 forbids even Northern Territory legislation to interfere with the rights of mining companies. [More…]
It seems to me to give a real picture of what the Government is trying to do with the land rights Bill. [More…]
It makes a farce of Aboriginal land rights if this sort of entry to land can be made without any reference whatsoever to Aboriginal land councils. [More…]
It does not seem to pay due regard to what a land rights Bill is supposed to do. [More…]
After all, Aborigines may be remote but they would not be granted land rights if they were living in the heart of Melbourne. [More…]
It became more and more obvious during the debate yesterday that land in or near towns or where towns might be would not be included in land rights. [More…]
It is becoming more and more obvious that where mining interests hold sway any land, so long as it is land that nobody wants for any purpose whatsoever, will be made available for land rights. [More…]
If land rights mean anything at all the right at least could be given to the Aboriginal people that Aboriginal land councils may issue permits for entry to Aboriginal reserves. [More…]
It is only in those areas where there are existing rights that the consent provisions do not apply. [More…]
The simple principle that is being followed, as I understand it, is that the Bill does not interfere with those rights that exist now. [More…]
The whole tenor of the Bill is that Aboriginal rights take subject only to those rights which are presently in existence. [More…]
All existing rights of mining and petroleum companies will be preserved by the new legislation . [More…]
There are 3 requirements for effective protection of sites of significance, rights of entry and some of the other matters referred to in the clause. [More…]
At this point in time I am tempted to ask you, Mr Chairman, to set a precedent and allow me to get into the centre of this chamber and do a corroboree because I believe that today I have something to celebrate and that is the final passing of a land rights Bill that will do much for the Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory, those people of whom I am a part. [More…]
I want to pay tribute at this stage to the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, the Honourable Ian Viner, who worked very hard to draft a Bill which will finally bring to the Aboriginal people recognition of their rights in Aboriginal affairs and in land rights. [More…]
The purpose of that amendment again is to try to preserve the rights of Aboriginals. [More…]
It is a Bill which has for the first time put down the acknowledgement and recognition of their rights to traditional land. [More…]
-by leave-I thought that with the defeat of the Opposition’s amendments to the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill the matter would rest. [More…]
Accordingly, the cost price of such property as land, buildings, construction work in progress, shares, other securities and other legal rights, including industrial property such as patents and copyrights, will not be subject to adjustment. [More…]
Both of them, under the terms of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976, will still be subject to ordinances drafted and put into operation by the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]
The Joint Select Committee on Aboriginal Land Rights is to report by the end of May. [More…]
The Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill provides for Aborigines to control the making of roads on Aboriginal land. [More…]
It will be for land councils to exercise powers under the Bill and Northern Territory laws will not affect their rights. [More…]
The Bill does not deal with rights of entry to pastoral properties. [More…]
These are covered in the Northern Territory Crown Lands Ordinance, which guarantees Aboriginal rights of entry and movement on pastoral leases and all pastoral leases carry a reservation in favour of Aborigines. [More…]
There are so many loopholes in the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill that there will be escape clauses everywhere. [More…]
In view of its outright rejection of the amendment, it appears that the rather rude statements that were made earlier today about the setting up of the Joint Select Committee on Aboriginal Land Rights were in fact true. [More…]
I welcome this motion agreeing to the establishment of the Joint Select Committee on Aboriginal Land Rights. [More…]
The Aboriginal Lands Rights (Northern Territory) Bill is a major piece of legislation. [More…]
The Australian Dairy Corporation has asked the Federal Government for the rights to produce and market a softer and more spreadable butter. [More…]
The Chairman of the Corporation, Mr Tony Webster, said yesterday that patent rights to the butter- a blend of butter and vegetable oils- was held jointly by the South Australian and Federal Governments. [More…]
Senator Button took the view that it is a sensible function to place in a quasi judicial tribunal the rights which were held, as well as on some other powers, by the Australian Broadcasting Control Board previously, and that the Tribunal will operate as a quasi judicial body in dealing with licences- the creation and change of licences- and, if necessary, the removal of licences where the rules are not complied with. [More…]
Is it proposing legislation which takes away from the ordinary citizen his very limited rights to attempt to ensure that the standards which he considers to be acceptable are preserved? [More…]
I endorse that principle and express the view that the determination of rights to children in circumstances Uke the present is properly a matter for civil proceedings by the parties concerned. [More…]
Respectfully request that any international boundaries between Australia and Papua be set in such a way that the traditional life style and rights of the Torres Strait Islands people can be continued without interruption and unimpeded. [More…]
What are the rights of a passenger who, having purchased a ticket and believing that he is able to travel on a particular flight, finds that he is off-loaded because of overbooking? [More…]
Of course, the honourable senator’s question is directed, and properly so, to the rights of the traveller in taking out a ticket. [More…]
Nor do I know what the rights of passengers are if, having validly booked and validly turned up at the airport within the required margin of time, they are refused a seat, on the ground that the aircraft is overloaded. [More…]
I know that it is in contrast to what we experienced with regard to the Aboriginal land rights legislation. [More…]
At that time the rights of women to participate in public institutions and public life had suffered a great setback since the early feminist movement because of the Depression of the late 1920s and early 1930s and the subsequent world war. [More…]
(1) For the purposes of this Act, there shall be a Council, to be known as the Broadcasting Council, which, subject to this Act, shall have and may exercise the rights, powers, authorities and functions conferred upon it by this Act and shall be charged with and perform the duties and obligations imposed upon it by this Act. [More…]
The exercise of the rights, powers, authorities or functions, or the performance of the duties or obligations, of the Council shall not be affected by reason only of there being a vacancy in the office of a member. [More…]
I agree with the Minister that one of the jobs we have in front of us is to protect the rights of those officers who are moving to the Northern Territory. [More…]
Rights to apply for promotion also will be available to them. [More…]
That is not to say that they will be guaranteed to get a position, but they will have their rights the same as they have now. [More…]
A number of members of the Opposition wanted to discuss this legislation, but in the interests of trying to complete the session they have surrendered their rights to rise and discuss these matters and have sought the opportunity for me to raise them with the Government. [More…]
The United Nations International Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which came into force for Australia in March, 1976, requires the Australian Government, within two years and wherever compulsory primary education has not been secured, to work out and adopt a plan for its progressive implementation within a reasonable period. [More…]
Respectfully requests that any international boundaries between Australia and Papua be set in such a way that the traditional life style and rights of the Torres Strait Islands people can be continued without interruption and unimpeded. [More…]
Does the Minister acknowledge South Australia’s rights as far as standardisation is concerned? [More…]
A student or any other person on college or university grounds has no more rights than anyone else. [More…]
Is it a fact that the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1966, that it came into operation with the required ratifications in 1976, that it has been ratified by 38 nations and that it has been signed but not ratified by Australia? [More…]
Does the Minister not agree that ratification by Australia would contribute to the international struggle against the widening world threats to basic human rights and personal liberties and against the growing use of torture throughout the world? [More…]
However, I would like to point out to the Senate that the Attorney-General has been giving very close consideration to the question of human rights and has proposed, with the approval of the Government, the establishment of a human rights commission. [More…]
It will be remembered that some effort was made by a previous government to establish a human rights law throughout the nation. [More…]
As I have said, he has proposed the establishment of a human rights commission the object of which would be to look at Commonwealth and State laws to see whether they accord with the principles of that covenant and to make reports to the several governments in Australia on these matters. [More…]
Because of the Government’s recognition of the rights of the States, however, provisions of the 1975 Bill relating to the offshore industry and the International Collision Regulations have been excluded from this Bill. [More…]
The finder may acquire salvage rights under the Navigation Act, the United Kingdom Merchant Shipping Acts, or at common law before the wreck is declared historic. [More…]
As salvage rights or liabilities under the Navigation Act acquired before a wreck is declared historic are to be preserved, clause 26 also makes express provision for this purpose. [More…]
It will be open to a person whose proprietary rights are affected in any way by the operation of the Historic Shipwrecks Act to claim under the compensation provisions of that Act. [More…]
In the second reading speech the Minister spoke about the alleged offender’s rights in respect of prejudice at his trial. [More…]
In fact, the provisions of clause 9 of the Bill give an additional defence to a person and are not actually restricting rights as was perhaps suggested in another place. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to comments by the Director of the Queensland Harbour Boards Association, Mr Bert Field, referred to in an article in the Courier Mail dated 26 November 1976, that the Queensland Government’s decision to grant the Australian National Line only limited intrastate trading rights is farcical, and that the Association will exert further pressure to have the ANL granted unrestricted trading rights; if so, [More…]
b ) what trading rights were being sought by the ANL; [More…]
for what reason has the Queensland Government refused to agree to unrestricted trading rights; [More…]
, to what extent would industry and consumers in Queensland benefit if further intrastate trading is allowed in Queensland for the ANL; and (0 what action is the Australian Government taking to persuade the Queensland Government to agree to unrestricted trading rights for ANL. [More…]
Discussions have taken place between Ministers and between officials when unrestricted trading rights for ANL were sought but rejected. [More…]
The Queensland Government’s subsequent response does not suggest that it could be persuaded to agree to unrestricted trading rights for ANL. [More…]
What reasons have prompted the Government to allocate charter rights on the Western Australia-Bali route to MacRobertson Miller Airline Services, a subsidiary of Ansett Airlines of Australia? [More…]
Then came the dispute over the off-shore rights, and eventually the High Court decision. [More…]
We did not wish to delay the development of these projects, but it was obvious that until the High Court clarified the rights of the Commonwealth and the States in respect of the legislation, there was going to be an atmosphere of uncertainty. [More…]
I presume that Sir Charles Court considered that making noises about the rights of Western Australians in some way would confuse the public in that State. [More…]
While it is in my mind, I invite any Government speaker to nominate during the course of this debate an area in which this Liberal Federal Government would relinquish any of its rights in a way which the Labor Government would not do as a result of the High Court decision. [More…]
I regret that the Parliament should retain such obviously inappropriate language as the word privileges’ in regard to many aspects of its rights and authorities to perform the function of Parliament. [More…]
Some of my colleagues and I were constituted as a Committee of Privileges to consider the rights of the Senate, as one House of the Parliament, to require information in relation to a most important government transaction- leaving aside whether one upholds it or condemns it- so as to enable this House to form a judgment as to what the public interest required. [More…]
In my submission, it would be a gross betrayal of the rights that Parliament has won to exercise supervision, to exercise scrutiny over the conduct of the Executive, if we failed to establish the imperative right of this Parliament to require information from any part of the executive as to public transactions. [More…]
The second matter which was referred to the Committee for consideration and report to the Senate was the means by which the constitutional rights of the Senate to amend proposed laws appropriating revenue or moneys for expenditure on matters other than the ordinary annual services of the Government should be preserved. [More…]
The former Advisory Council of the Australian Capital Territory passed a series of resolutions between 1965 and 1967 seeking voting rights in referendums and the former Northern Territory Legislative Council passed a similar resolution on 1 1 October 1973. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that a proposal to give Territory electors referendum voting rights was included in the Constitution Alteration (Mode of Altering the Constitution) Bill that failed at a referendum in 1974. [More…]
asked to take into consideration amongst other things, the interests of Norfolk Island residents and the historic rights of the Pitcairn settlers. [More…]
However, this raised the question of the legitimate rights of a First Division officer when a commission is abolished or, as would happen under this legislation, when an officer’s service is no longer required. [More…]
So any government contemplating the appointment of such a person can protect that person’s rights against the early termination of his appointment by the provision of such compensation. [More…]
There are provisions in it for the protection of the rights of people who may be appointed outside the procedures which are laid down here. [More…]
Why was a request from Mr Booker to the Public Service Board in May 1976 for confirmation of his rights under section 72b (4) not yet properly answered. [More…]
Does the Minister agree that the independence and professionalism of Australia’s Foreign Service depends upon the rights of Foreign Affairs officers under the Act being fully respected. [More…]
The protection of the rights of Foreign Affairs officers under the Public Service Act is a matter of importance, not only to individual officers but to the efficient functioning of the Foreign Service. [More…]
We deplore atrocities and breaches of human rights wherever they occur and while the Government is not in a position to check or confirm the details of allegations of Fretilin atrocities it is as concerned about them as it is about allegations of Indonesian atrocities. [More…]
She may be aware that Dr Letts, Chief Secretary of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, has made a Press statement in which he said that he has asked the Government to enunciate its attitude on the 2 kilometre limit which will be part of the complementary legislation to the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976. [More…]
I refer to the report headed Privacy and the Therapeutic State’ in the Legal Services Bulletin of October 1976 which claims that the Queensland Mental Health Act 1974 contains 20 provisions which violate the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
What action is the Commonwealth Government taking to protect human rights in such situations? [More…]
However I state again- I am only reiterating what I have already stated recently in the Senate- that the Commonwealth Government has proposed to establish a Human Rights Commission which would deal not only with possible infringements of human rights by Commonwealth laws but also would investigate State laws as well. [More…]
It is proposed that in any case upon which the Commission reports that a law or practice of a Commonwealth or a State is in consistent with the principles contained in any international agreement relating to human rights to which Australia is a party, action to rectify such a deficiency would be referred to the government responsible and it would be invited to have regard to the conflict that may exist. [More…]
But let us take into consideration also the rights of people living in these bigger electorates. [More…]
At the same time, equality of political rights is inherent in a truly democratic State . [More…]
Those people who populate the Liberal and Country Party benches in the Senate, who rant and rave about the power of executive government and the necessity for the Senate, who proclaim that the Senate is the last bastion of the people’s rights against the arbitrary exercise of power by executive government, and who pontificate along these lines, ought to be terribly concerned about the possibilities for abuse which are opened up by this Bill. [More…]
Therefore, I do not believe that the irrational fears that somehow we as the Senate will lose rights or powers will result. [More…]
I can only say that I deplore the attempt to suggest that any activities by the forces of the people of Timor- the forces that were endeavouring to establish the democratic rights of their own form of government- can be equated in any way with the terrible atrocities that have been committed by the Indonesian authorities. [More…]
I believe that it is important for us to remember that Senator Bonner, who spoke as he did, so eloquently, so feelingly and so significantly, is the man who has spearheaded many of the developments in the recognition of Aboriginal rights in Australia. [More…]
I was proud to be a member of that Committee which produced a report that was something of a hallmark in the development of the recognition of Aboriginal rights and of the situation of Aborigines in Australia. [More…]
He is the man who, to a large extent, was responsible for developing the enlightened attitude of the Government Parties in relation to the land rights question, legislation on which was passed late last year. [More…]
I believe there are lessons to be learned from the point of view of the democratic process in relation to the achievement of the rights which people who have been underprivileged and who have at times lost rights would seek to regain by the use of that process. [More…]
Those of us who have sat with Senator Bonner since he first entered the Senate know that he has always campaigned for human rights and human dignity. [More…]
The Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act replaces this Fund with the Aboriginals Benefit Trust Account and provides for the disbursement of royalties on minerals won in Aboriginal land. [More…]
He went on in the preface of his book, all of which should be written in words as clearly to be understood as the Bill of Rights itself and from which, with great restraint, I forbear to quote again, except for this one brief excerpt: [More…]
They said that the danger of the proposal for simultaneous elections, as it was drafted by the then Whitlam Government and as it is now proposed by the Fraser Government, was that it represented a threat to the power of the Senate and also a threat to the powers and rights of the States. [More…]
But the people of Australia will not allow their democratic rights to be taken away. [More…]
We should not ride roughshod over the democratic rights and feelings of the people of Australia. [More…]
If one looks at events in the trade union movement, which Senator Harradine referred to today, one will see examples of the denial of democratic rights. [More…]
He expressed great concern for the rights of the people. [More…]
Senator Wright, in opposing this Bill, far from upholding the rights of the people, seeks to deny the people their most fundamental right, namely the right to vote in a referendum on a proposal to amend the Constitution. [More…]
Senator Walters and others have made great play about the submergence of State rights. [More…]
If they believe, as I hope all honourable senators believe, in the advancement of Australia they should look at the way in which State rights have prevailed and how it has held Australia back. [More…]
Let me take this idea of pandering to State rights a little further. [More…]
Other issues associated with the referenda interfere with States ‘s rights, the rights of people in States and the rights of justices of the High Court. [More…]
That Parliament exercised its rights and chose a Labor man, who had been active in and respected by the Party for many years, to come to this chamber. [More…]
The contentious issues now being considered include a change in the rights of the States, of the rights of people in the States, of the rights of the Senate, of the rights of the High Court, of the rights of the House of Representatives and of the rights of the Prime Minister in calling elections. [More…]
They set out in detail an analysis made by that learned gentleman of the way in which a senator’s rights and responsibilities are exercised, in part, through his election for a term of 6 years. [More…]
What utter nonsense it is for honourable members opposite to talk of introducing a charter of rights or responsibilities when they, by the introduction of Bills of this character, are seeking to destroy those rights and the liberties of individuals. [More…]
I defend the rights and powers of the Senate. [More…]
As Senator Scott pointed out in the debate earlier today, those rights and powers are not affected by this referendum. [More…]
It put forward one called democratic elections, which would have meant that the central government through the Constitution overrode the States’ rights to establish their own electoral systems, and it put forward something which would have created a section 96 situation for local government. [More…]
What do the Senator Wrights, the Senator Raes and those who support them imagine the Senate to be? [More…]
Along with some of my other Tasmanian colleagues he also seems to think that he has some special rights in this place. [More…]
In this way, conservatives are hindered in organising and communicating with one another, and the essential rights of free citizens are destroyed. [More…]
He has accused them of deciding what deserves to go through the mail and has stated that the essential rights of free citizens are destroyed. [More…]
When it happens to Australians, as it happened to the Australian journalists who went on assignments for their organisations to bring to the people of the world the truth about what was happening in East Timor, we have to express our concern that there are people still living in East Timor who are being denied basic human rights. [More…]
The new President of the United States of America has made some outstanding statements about and given outstanding indications of goodwill and interest in human rights in the world. [More…]
He may be able to persuade the Government of Indonesia to comply with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and to allow the International Red Cross to resume humanitarian activities in East Timor. [More…]
Why did Senator Wright and Senator Wood in 1974 and 1975 not try to preserve the rights of those citizens elected to this Parliament at the 1970 elections? [More…]
His sole purpose in not trying to preserve those rights at that time was to unload the Whitlam Government. [More…]
The advice should be accompanied by a Notice of Rights, formTRIl. [More…]
The Board of Review, however, took the view that the lump sum was not paid in consequence of the taxpayer’s retirement but in exchange for giving up part of his pension rights. [More…]
The question relates to a recent statement by the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs that he had seen neither drafting instructions nor the Bill, proposed as complementary legislation to the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act, which was introduced recently into the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly by Dr Goff Letts. [More…]
Did the Minister in his second reading speech on the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill indicate that he would participate with Dr Letts in the preparation of complementary legislation and that acceptance by the Minister of such complementary legislation would be necessary before it was introduced as legislation? [More…]
Can the Minister assure the Senate that there will be no attempt to by-pass the processes of consultation, participation and approval set out when the land rights legislation was debated in this Parliament? [More…]
-Legislation complementary to the Commonwealth’s Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act was introduced into the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly on 3 March. [More…]
It will be recalled that the terms of reference of the Joint Select Committee on Aboriginal Land Rights include examination of Northern Territory legislation and the Commonwealth’s attitude to Northern Territory Bills will be determined, taking into account the views of the Joint Select Committee. [More…]
There are proposals for the protection of individual liberties and human rights against unwarranted intrusions, proposals to strengthen the responsibility of government to citizens. [More…]
I am surprised to think that such a suggestion should be put forward by a government which announced in the speech read by Her Majesty the Queen yesterday that it was its intention to bring down legislation to protect the rights of individuals in the community. [More…]
I refer to the matter raised by Senator Jessop because it is a very insidious attack upon the rights of people who cannot get jobs. [More…]
Of course some of these are in the areas of human rights and definitely in the area of social reform. [More…]
My immediate reply, therefore, is that, unless otherwise determined by the Senate, I shall continue to recognise the status and rights in the Senate of the Territory senators. [More…]
As the Minister himself has pointed out that useful submissions have been made by the NACC on matters of education, health and welfare, employment, language, customs and land rights, can we be advised when it is planned to hold the next meeting of the NACC? [More…]
This tendency to move outwards may be connected with land rights. [More…]
In the course of her Speech Her Majesty spoke of the necessity to protect individual liberties and human rights against unwarranted intrusions and made reference to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, the Commonwealth Ombudsman and pending legislation to come forward this year relating to the Human Rights Commission which is to be established and also to freedom of information. [More…]
I welcome very much the opportunity we will have to consider a Bill to establish a human rights commission. [More…]
Under the Whitlam Government a Bill on human rights was introduced, but after a considerable amount of criticism that Bill left the notice paper at the time of the dissolution of the Parliament and was not restored to the notice paper and proceeded with by that Government. [More…]
Under our international obligations we have a duty to proceed with human rights legislation and to ensure that actions which breach human rights in this country are brought to public notice, that there is a spotlight put on them and that what can be done is done to ensure that those problems are overcome and people do enjoy their rights. [More…]
We must show other and newer countries that it is possible to maintain a democracy and to have full expression of human rights. [More…]
Although at the time I was not in the Parliament I as a member of a legal committee did make a considerable study of the human rights Bills of 1973 and 1974. [More…]
There are problems because this Parliament operates as a legislative body over only certain aspects of life and the State parliaments have considerable powers in areas where human rights also may be affected. [More…]
The Bill at that time endeavoured to sweep aside this distinction and to impose powers which were regarded by State parliaments as an infringement of their rights and responsibilities. [More…]
When this commission is established I hope that it will have considerable power and significance and be able to do a great deal to improve human rights in this country. [More…]
I hope that we will get good legislation in relation to human rights and see the commission operating practically throughout Australia. [More…]
I inform honourable senators that pursuant to the resolution agreed to by both Houses I have received letters from the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition nominating the following members of the House of Representatives to serve on the Joint Committee on Aboriginal Land Rights in the Northern Territory: Mr Beazley, Mr Bryant, Mr Calder, Mr Drummond, Mr Les Johnson, Mr McLean, Mr Ruddock and Mr Wentworth. [More…]
I am sorry that Senator Cavanagh sees the need to make recommendation (3), as contained in the summary on page 1 1 of the report, more definite in order to protect the rights of honourable senators. [More…]
We are dealing with a situation in which, as one of my colleagues on the Committee said, the Senate has from time to time chosen to use the device of having something printed as a paper which is really enabling a book to be produced in the normal way that a textbook is produced with the author enjoying an author’s normal rights to revise right up to the point of final printing. [More…]
It is a matter of defending the rights of the individual in the chamber. [More…]
It will make a great difference to human rights in this place. [More…]
Is the Government prepared to affirm the democratic rights of Mr Jim Dunn to give evidence before a congressional hearing in America? [More…]
We have introduced and passed the first land rights legislation in this nation’s history. [More…]
The list of accomplishments from personal tax indexation to family payments to Aboriginal land rights, referred to in the excellent speech that Senator Baume gave to the Senate, stands as a tremendous record accumulated in a very short time in office. [More…]
My Government is acting to secure individual rights. [More…]
The Administrative Appeals Tribunal is now operating, legislation to appoint a Commonwealth Ombudsman has been passed, the Human Rights Commission will be established and a BUI relating to freedom of information will be placed before the Parliament. [More…]
In the area of industrial relations, one of vital importance to the economic and social well-being of the Australian community, my Government will bring down legislation to protect the rights of individuals and the community, and establish an Industrial Relations Bureau. [More…]
My Government is acting also to protect and expand political rights and strengthen the responsibility and responsiveness of governments to their citizens. [More…]
The Legislative Assembly, as we warned in this chamber when the land rights legislation was being discussed, repudiated the promise it made to the Australian Government and to the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner). [More…]
The people of the top end will, at last, have the same basic democratic rights restored to them that they lost in 1 9 1 1 . [More…]
It took 12 years for the first steps to overcome this removal of normal democratic rights to be made. [More…]
It took until 1968 for that member to be given full voting rights. [More…]
I hope that the rest of Australia will give us the same rights as every other adult Australian has by letting us vote in referendums after May 2 1. [More…]
Apart from the fact that a ‘yes’ vote will do nothing more than restore the rights Territorians once had, there are a number of other reasons why you should vote yes on May 2 1 . [More…]
Denial of the right to vote in referendums is a far greater denial of basic human rights than might first appear. [More…]
The only argument put against extending the full adult franchise to voters in the Territories is a suggestion that State rights might somehow be affected. [More…]
I refer to the Aboriginal land rights legislation. [More…]
It is patently obvious, I believe, that the Indonesian Government is worried that this alleged evidence of atrocities will reinforce criticism in the United States on the human rights issue. [More…]
Now Mr Dunn’s investigations, the preliminary ventilation in the US of his allegations about atrocities in East Timor, and the anxiety in Jakarta that all this may affect US military aid to Indonesia have produced what appears to be an unprecedented invitation for human rights activist Congressman Donald Fraser to visit Timor to see ‘the real situation’. [More…]
In view of the events in East Timor and the Indonesian Government’s audacious attitude to Australia’s ambassador in Indonesia, will the Minister reconsider the decision to provide these vessels and any other form of aid to that country, at least until there is a recognition of basic human rights towards the Timorese by Indonesia? [More…]
Since the first Congress in 1955, successive congresses have made an intensive examination of the problem of crime in modern society and have explored a number of imaginative and practical measures to meet this problem, covering such diverse areas as the integration of crime prevention planning with planning in urban development and education, new forms and dimensions of crime, the economic and social costs of crime, alternatives to imprisonment, the human rights of prisoners and the organisation of research to assist in the formulation of policy to deal with crime. [More…]
He has been a member of the Regional Council for Social Development in Alice Springs and was a member of the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement in Adelaide. [More…]
We are talking about Territory rights whereas at federation the States spoke of State rights. [More…]
My Government is acting also to protect and expand political rights. [More…]
My Government is acting also to protect and expand political rights. [More…]
The evidence is clear in front of us and in front of the land rights group which has received telegrams from the Chairman of the Northern Land Council. [More…]
We are unsure in the Northern Territory about land rights legislation. [More…]
The permit legislation has reverted to a paternalistic approach which does not recognise the rights of the traditional owners. [More…]
I have looked briefly at the areas of incentive and encouragement to the private sector, assistance to the disadvantaged and the poor, improvments in education, unemployment, political rights and individual liberties. [More…]
In the area of industrial relations, one of vital importance to the economic and social well-being of the Australian community, my Government will bring down legislation to protect the rights of individuals and the community, and establish an Industrial Relations Bureau. [More…]
We can also admire the courage and tenacity of the East Timorese people in their struggle for that basic of all human rights- the right of self-determination. [More…]
Both governments have failed to show to the Indonesian people that we, the Australians, care a great deal about human rights, particularly human rights in our region. [More…]
We the undersigned, being members of the Parliament of Australia concerned with basic human rights, applaud the actions taken by you in relation to your defence of prisoners of conscience in the U.S.S.R. and the advocates of freedom of expression, as well as your comments on the recent tragic events in Uganda. [More…]
that it shall comply with the Universal Declaration of human rights, and [More…]
I move this motion for a senate select committee of inquiry into East Timor as a significant contribution that we in the Senate can make to obtain some semblance of human rights and justice for the people of East Timor. [More…]
We have a responsibility as men and women concerned with human rights and justice not to let the situation in East Timor fade. [More…]
Will Australia’s delegation to IGGI be instructed to raise the question of the alleged gross violations of human rights? [More…]
In spite of all the reservations one may well have had about many of the policies that President Carter may have embarked upon, one thing which he has done and which has transformed the whole debate in foreign affairs has been to give new emphasis to human rights. [More…]
One can only hope that President Carter and his Administration will have the courage, the luck and the fortitude to carry through what they have said to be the objective of their Administration, that is, to pursue a policy in support of human rights wherever they may be throughout the world; that they will protest- and justifiably protest- about deprivation of civil liberties in the Soviet Union, in Czechoslovakia or Poland and will take action accordingly, provided it does not crash us into a third world war. [More…]
I hope they will be concerned also about deprivation of civil liberty and human rights in Southern Africa, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay- the last 3 traditional parliamentary democracies, all of which have been destroyed, not by the Left but by the capitalist class- by the extreme Right. [More…]
What has been salutary about President Carter and what he has said so far is that human rights are indivisible. [More…]
It is of no use talking on the one hand about human rights in Czechoslovakia and forgetting about human rights in Chile, as in the same way it is of no use talking about human rights in Chile and forgetting about human rights in Czechoslovakia. [More…]
I think we can see a parallel at the present time- we are yet to know what the United States of America will do about this- in the very vexed situation which exists in what once was Portuguese East Timor, where we find that the rights of the Timorese people have been taken away by the Government of the Republic of Indonesia. [More…]
No doubt many people will say and many critics of Carter have said that he is damaging America’s interests by pursuing this human rights issue; that on the one hand he is damaging relations with the Soviet Union and, on the other hand, he is damaging relations with countries such as South Africa and even, in some more extreme cases, with Rhodesia- countries which apparently are essential to the American military defence. [More…]
India is a country where people could well have been excused because of” their great poverty and difficulties for saying that they would prefer efficiency to civil rights and that they would prefer bread, houses and rice to law courts and habeas corpus. [More…]
For that reason it is very much to our advantage that we press for the same human rights which have been outlined by President Carter. [More…]
I put it to the Senate that the best way of watching Australia’s interests is by seeking to achieve human rights in Timor, Chile, the Soviet Union, China and in every place in the world where they have been denied. [More…]
When he held that portfolio, he was subject to a certain amount of derision by various people in Australia because he advocated, as one of the cornerstones of the United Nations Charter and one of the objectives towards which Australia should work, the preservation of the rights of small states. [More…]
I refer to the preservation of the rights of the small states and the real working of the United Nations Charter so that no country, however big, can set about destroying any other country, however small. [More…]
At the same time, we must make it clear to all that we have friendlier and better relations with those countries which believe in a democratic system and stand for human rights than those which do not. [More…]
There was considerable emphasis in Senator Wheeldon ‘s remarks on the question of human rights. [More…]
In this area, I do not believe that he or any of us would find in this country and in many other countries much opposition to the suggestion that human rights must be promoted wherever they are threatened. [More…]
If there is an area of difference it would seem to me, at least as an individual and perhaps I would assume also as a member of a Government party, it is a shame that human rights should have to be promoted by individual nations; this should be the province of the United Nations. [More…]
If human rights are to be adopted around the world I believe it is the responsibility of appropriate bodies within the United Nations to safeguard those human rights rather than the responsibility of any number of individual nations acting, in many cases, for themselves. [More…]
Finally in relation to Japan there was the threat to withhold fishing rights from Japanese vessels. [More…]
Southern Africa is an area of foreign policy where the issues of human rights are very much in the foreground. [More…]
Again, on the issue of human rights, we ought to make some mention of the need for Australia to develop a coherent and realistic policy to the question of refugees. [More…]
He is a person who is very concerned with human rights. [More…]
On a more general plane, the Government has made clear the importance which it attaches to the promotion of universal respect for human rights. [More…]
In the case of Chile, you will be aware of the support that the Australian Government has given to United Nations’ action to protect human rights. [More…]
At the last session of the General Assembly, Australia helped to draft and supported a resolution calling for the Chilean Government to restore and safeguard basic human rights, to put an end to the practice of arbitrary arrest, torture and other forms of cruel, degrading and inhuman treatment of prisoners and to guarantee the rights of habeas corpus. [More…]
At present there exists an International Labour Office report which states the Uraguay suffers just as much as do other countries from the denial of human rights, including the imprisonment of liberals with a small ‘ 1 ‘ and of active trade unionists. [More…]
With regard to fishing rights we went the other way and asked what the Soviet Union thought. [More…]
Mr Sinclair gave a gutless response in the other place about shipping rights. [More…]
We will grant land rights over all Aboriginal reserves in the Northern Territory and we will help Aborigines to buy land off the reserves. [More…]
Land rights legislation have top priority immediately after election. [More…]
We know what happened with the land rights legislation. [More…]
Did the land rights legislation apply to the Northern Territory, the only area in which the Commonwealth has jurisdiction? [More…]
The Majority Leader, Dr Letts, said this morning that a campaign was being mounted against the Assembly over the complementary Aboriginal Land Rights legislation. [More…]
He accused other political parties of using smokescreen tactics to hide from the public the horrendous effects of the Aboriginal land rights legislation. [More…]
The only way that these people are going to get their land rights legislation is through the activities of governments who care and through the campaigns which can be conducted by Aboriginal groups and friendly white people in the community. [More…]
I am disturbed about what is happening to the complementary Aboriginal land rights legislation, and I have asked the Prime Minister to bring back to this Parliament all of the sensitive matters for which the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly was given responsibility. [More…]
In his final statement he intimated that unless the complementary legislation went through and unless the land rights legislation was pared down it would not be fit for Australia. [More…]
We said that we intended to increase job opportunities for Aborigines, and that we would support Aboriginal land rights legislation. [More…]
The honourable senator who has just spoken on this subject said that we all know what happened with regard to the land rights legislation. [More…]
I think that in that 2 Vi days we found much common ground where we acknowledged the need for Aboriginal land rights legislation. [More…]
I believe that we all welcomed the fact that we had a Bill and subsequently had an Act that would be able to represent what we believed to be the rights of Aborigines. [More…]
During the hearings of the various select committees on which I have accompanied Senator Bonner, as Chairman of the Joint Committee on Aboriginal Land Rights in the Northern Territory or on other matters relating to the Aboriginal people he was received most cordially and recognised as a man of distinction amongst Aboriginal people. [More…]
LETTS DENIES ALP’S LAND RIGHTS CLAIMS [More…]
The Majority Leader, Dr Goff Letts, has denied accusations by Senator Ted Robertson and MHR Mr Les Johnson over the NT complementary legislation on Aboriginal Land Rights. [More…]
Last week Senator Robertson (ALP) a member of the Parliamentary Joint Select Committee on land rights, said ‘ It would have been much better if, before introducing the legislation, Dr Letts had discussed it with the committee and Minister’. [More…]
Mr Johnson is reported to have said that Dr Letts had tried to circumvent the work of the committee by introducing land rights legislation in the NT Legislative Assembly. [More…]
He died at Waverley in Sydney in 1916 and in good Scottish fashion assigned the rights to Advance Australia Fair to the trustees of the Presbyterian Church of Australia. [More…]
In this long search for equality in voting rights in Australia we have reached an advanced stage with the admirable situation in the Federal scheme- we have just passed what I believe is a magnificent redistribution proposal- and we have reached that state in South Australia. [More…]
During the day the competent officer who handles legal aid at the court was able to see the man concerned and, before the day was out, the matter was finalised, he having received sufficient advice and being then able to understand his rights. [More…]
Is it a fact that at the forthcoming meeting to which the Minister referred in his previous answer, one nation, Argentina, will ask that no agreements be entered into on mineral or mining rights in the Antarctic until such time as this matter has been resolved at the next consultative committee meeting? [More…]
Possibly he has a grievance which he has continually referred to in this chamber over a period because of the incorrect information which was given to him by a representative of the Attorney-General (Mr Ellicott) on the rights of certain unions under the amended Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
There are also involved quite serious matters such as the rights and entitlements of journalists to publish material that comes into their possession, and I certainly uphold that right. [More…]
But more important so far as members of Parliament are concerned is the question of the rights and privileges of members of this Parliament. [More…]
It is rank hypocrisy for a Minister in a Government which offers the elixir of new federalism as the panacea for Australia’s economic ills to complain when States exercise their rights which that policy confers upon them. [More…]
Time and time again in this place we have heard Senator Carrick talk about the new federalism policy and the rights of the States. [More…]
Mr President, the Government is committed to the protection and advancement of Australia’s political rights. [More…]
We find, for example, that on the first page the Minister stated: the Government is committed to the protection and advancement of Australian ‘s political rights. ‘ [More…]
But in what way the creation of this Advisory Council affects the rights of Australians is beyond me. [More…]
Possibly it might affect the rights of the States but that again is a matter of opinion. [More…]
How it is supposed to protect and to advance the political rights of Australians I am not sure. [More…]
This may lead, this new administration, with I think a more sensitive concern about human rights, to look into the matter more carefully. [More…]
As one who accepts the responsibility as a member of Amnesty International and as one who has a belief in human rights, I do not accept the proposition that we can ignore breaches of human rights and acts of genocide which are alleged to have taken place in Timor. [More…]
No member of the United Nations can claim that mistreatment of its citizens is solely its own business, because ail signatories to the United Nations Chaner have pledged themselves to observe and respect basic human rights. [More…]
He said America’s ‘historical birthright’ justified its defence of human rights. [More…]
that it shall comply with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and [More…]
Not only do I feel that in regard to the human rights aspect we in Australia need to show some leadership but also I feel that ours is a country which in the past has been noted for the fact that we have been concerned for the rights of others. [More…]
He faced a massive counter-campaign by the Right-to-Life Association and others who would deny the rights of women in these matters. [More…]
Did the State Treaty of May 1955 re-establishing an independent and democratic Austria make it incumbent on that country to protect the Slovenian and Croatian minorities in Carinthia, Burgenland and Styria and to provide them with the rights indispensable to the survival of minorities and their equality in public life? [More…]
Was a United Nations seminar held at Ohrid in 1974, which amongst the other principles adopted, included the following: ‘inseparably connected problems of the abolition of discrimination and promotion and protection of the human rights of national, ethnic and other minorities have a world dimension and significance’? [More…]
14), provides for Austrian nationals belonging to the two minorities to enjoy the same rights on equal terms as all other Austrian nationals (annex A, article 7). [More…]
The principle to which honourable senator refers is conclusion ( 1 ) of the Seminar on the Promotion and Protection of the Human Rights of National, Ethnic and Other Minorities held in Ohrid from 25 June to 8 July 1974. [More…]
The twin problems of the elimination of discrimination and protection of the human rights of national, ethnic and other minorities are of world-wide scope and significance ‘. [More…]
Austrian nationals of the Slovene and Croat minorities in Carinthia, Burgenland and Styria shall enjoy the same rights on equal terms as all other Austrian nationals, including the right to their own organisations, meetings and press in their own language. [More…]
The activity of organisations whose aim is to deprive the Croat or Slovene population of their minority character or rights shall be prohibited. [More…]
Austria undertakes to dissolve all Fascist-type organisations existing on its territory, political, military and paramilitary, and likewise any other organisations carrying on activities hostile to any United Nation or which intend to deprive the people of their democratic rights. [More…]
When reviewing the rights of Territorial Senators to have available to them certain information from electoral rolls, will he consider extending the same courtesy to senators from the States? [More…]
On a more general plane, the Government has made clear the importance which it attaches to the promotion of universal respect for human rights. [More…]
In the case of Chile, you will be aware of the support that the Australian Government has given to United Nations’ action to protect human rights. [More…]
At the last session of the General Assembly , Australia helped to draft and supported a resolution calling for the Chilean Government to restore and safeguard basic human rights, to put an end to the practice of arbitary arrest, torture and other forms of cruel, degrading and inhuman treatment of prisoners and to guarantee the rights of habeas corpus. [More…]
Having been condemned by the United Nations for gross violations of human rights the junta sought to give the impression that prisoners were being released. [More…]
1 ) Did the 30th United Nations General Assembly designate 1981 as the Year of the Disabled following recommendations from a Committee of the United Nations dealing with human rights? [More…]
This proclamation followed the Declaration of the Rights of Disabled Persons which was adopted by the 30th Session of the United Nations General Assembly the previous year. [More…]
In an article headed ‘Aborigines now have land rights but no schools’ Mr John Edwards wrote: [More…]
It can be because of land rights. [More…]
What are the rights of a passenger who, having purchased a ticket and believing that he is able to travel on a particular flight, finds he is off-loaded because of overbooking. [More…]
After all, they pay taxes, they serve in the armed forces, they are entitled to be elected to the Parliament, they are entitled to all the normal civil rights of most Australians. [More…]
As Senator Guilfoyle would know, the incomes of those people say, between the ages of 25 and 35 are lumped together when assessing social security rights of another member of the same family. [More…]
I say that without in any way denying the rights of the South Vietnamese to have some sort of sympathetic consideration. [More…]
Lord Diplock ‘s Committee implied that it was an undue restriction upon their rights to try so to do. [More…]
While we do not in any way disagree with the rights of Australians to serve as mercenaries we are placing restrictions upon the method of their recruitment and the method of their enlistment in that calling. [More…]
I certainly do not question the ideals which have motivated him in his pursuit of the rights and interests of the people of East Timor, / believe that his report is a valuable one. [More…]
Because of Mr Carter’s interest in human rights- a strongly expressed interest- we urged him to take up this matter with Indonesia just as the Australian Government has done on numerous occasions. [More…]
We asked that President Carter urge the Indonesians to comply with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and allow the International Committee of the Red Cross to resume its activities in East Timor. [More…]
This may lead this new administration, with I think a more sensitive concern about Human Rights, to look into the matter more carefully. [More…]
I believe very strongly that we, with other small countries, should show active interest and take an active part in the rights of small countries and in the rights of small nationalities and minorities. [More…]
To review and consider the delegation by Acts of Parliament of administrative or discretionary authority whether by regulation, ministerial orders, instruments in writing or otherwise and how to preserve the power of Parliament to protect the rights and determine the obligations and remedies of individuals. [More…]
I am aware of recent publicity given to claims relating to the rights of people from Pitcairn Island who settled on Norfolk Island in 1856. [More…]
Does the Minister agree that such activities should be closely surveilled to ensure that individual rights are not infringed? [More…]
The matter certainly has very wide implications in relation to privacy rights. [More…]
In attacking the rights of school leavers, the Government has attacked- I suggest it has done so illegally- the largest single group and the fastest growing group in our large unemployed populationour youth. [More…]
We believe it is in contempt of the rights and welfare of the unemployed and in contempt of the legal procedures of this land to conduct government business the way this Government has conducted it. [More…]
These authorities were said by the defendants to support, and by the plaintiff to deny, the view that unemployment benefit is no more than a gratuity, to payment of which the plaintiff can have no rights enforceable at law. [More…]
Equally, say the defendants, the plaintiff has no enforceable rights in relation to the manner in which the Director-General dealt with her claim to unemployment benefit under s. 107. [More…]
It remains only to dispose of the plaintiff’s second claim, which is said to sound in damages for negligence on the part of the defendants in wrongly advising the plaintiff as to her rights. [More…]
This complicated provision is really seeking to preserve for these officers rights which they formerly enjoyed before moving from a State service to a Commonwealth service. [More…]
When officers who have made a career in one function wish to continue, if that function moves, they must be able to do so with no detriment to the existing rights of the officers under schemes which provide for long service leave, superannuation rights or whatever other rights there might be. [More…]
I hope that this is one of a number of measures which will be forthcoming to allow portability of the rights of officers to be safeguarded in every situation of transfer. [More…]
1 suggest to Senator Wriedt that much will depend upon the instructions and guidance given by the Minister to this new Commission as to how the Commission functions to protect the legitimate rights of all branches of postsecondary education. [More…]
We hope that the preoccupation of his Government with States rights and federalism will not be allowed to interfere with or to obstruct development or the implementation of a national strategy. [More…]
In each case they just happened to be the first tertiary institution to ask for the resources and rights to offer those courses. [More…]
There will certainly be no erosion of these rights as a result of amalgamation. [More…]
Is it correct that companies and individuals, particularly in the industrial, pastoral and mining spheres, are indicating reluctance to invest or to continue development in the Northern Territory because of particular issues that are now becoming more apparent since the commencement of the Northern Territory Aboriginal land rights legislation. [More…]
I am advised by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs that we are not aware that companies and individuals, particularly in industry, pastoral and mining spheres, are indicating reluctance to invest or to continue development in the Northern Territory as a result of the Commonwealth Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
Encouragement to union members to shed collective responsibility for the actions of the unions as a whole and hide behind their so-called individual rights’ leads to anarchy and allows the organised pro-communists to use their unions and the union movement as a whole for their own domestic and international purposes. [More…]
The Federal Government has stated that its Bill to amend the Conciliation and Arbitration Act will enforce obligations and protect individual rights. [More…]
In addition it talks about individual rights but the rights of individual members already enshrined in sections 140, 141 and 143 are to be diluted by the intrusion of the Industrial Relations Bureau between individual members and the court. [More…]
Clause 15 of the Bill clothes the Court with dragnet consequential order powers which in spirit, if not in law, go beyond the essence of the judicial power of the ascertainment, declaration and enforcement of existing rights and obligations. [More…]
It had some legitimacy in its origin when the trade unionist was disadvantaged by the law of conspiracy because he joined in this combination to advantage his interest; but then to claim complete immunity from the law as he has in England since 1 906 and increasingly here since 1928 is a proposition that no community can accept, and the assertion of the community’s rights in this respect is in no way inconsistent with co-operation between and co-ordination of all the interests of the community for the purpose of solving the present crisis. [More…]
I think Senator Harradine correctly has shown that there already exists in the legislation ample protection for individual rights in the form of section 140 and section 141, which have been availed of by unionists over the years to protect themselves from any acts of tyranny by union officials. [More…]
But under the guise of protecting individual rights, the legislation which the unions are asked to see as containing nothing sinister encourages people not to join unions. [More…]
It stated that every member of the community has rights and obligations. [More…]
It sought that rights should be protected and that obligations should be met. [More…]
It recognised that the community has rights just as the community has obligations and that an industrial relations framework must be relevant to those rights and obligations. [More…]
Because this Government believes that the Australian people must be protected from the harsh effects of industrial disruption, that the rights of the individual are terribly important but that individuals have responsibilities to carry out, the penalties have been made more realistic. [More…]
The additional powers given to the court are to suspend all or any of the capacities, rights and privileges of an organisation or its members, and to restrict the use of the funds or property of the organisation and to make provision for their control. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to repeal the 1964 legislation which created the Bureau of Roads and I would particularly draw honourable senators ‘ attention to the fact that in conformity with the Government’s policies the rights of officers and employees of the Bureau will be safeguarded. [More…]
The Opposition is seeking no more than the same rights for the new Tertiary Education Commission and also for the 3 councils. [More…]
Both of them were distinguished in their own areas but they both understood 2 things: They understood the existence of the prerogative rights in the conduct of foreign affairs. [More…]
They were concerned at the loss of human rights of their people who are in Timor. [More…]
I believe that when Senator Withers was debating another question involving the rights of individuals in the Senate in September 1974, he stated in relation to Senator Willesee when we were talking about the problems of Timor: [More…]
I believe he has no sensitivity on human rights. [More…]
What has to be stressed is that there is in this chamber, in the Parliament, a sensitivity on human rights which transcends party politics, factions and political attitudes. [More…]
There is a concern for the rights of people and a concern for the rights of the people of East Timor. [More…]
I draw the attention of the Senate to the fact that on 2 occasions a considerable number of members of all political parties in the national Parliament have publicly expressed an attitude about the rights of people in East Timor. [More…]
Surely it is within our province as members of this Parliament, as elected representatives of the Australian people, as citizens as well as humanitarians, as those concerned with the rights of others, to make a determination and, I suggest, a favourable determination on this motion. [More…]
Is the text of the letter from the Premier of Queensland to the Prime Minister relating to Aboriginal land rights in Queensland quoted in the Catholic Leader dated 27 February 1977, the full text of the correspondence concerned. [More…]
How many ex-servicemen from other Allied countries who are now Australian citizens have no repatriation rights in either their own country or Australia. [More…]
Did the Northern Land Council send a telegram to the Prime Minister dated 4 March 1977, criticising the attitude of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly to Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
Did the Coalition Government through the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization select Murphyores as its partner because it was an Australianowned company and held rights to substantial heavy mineral deposits in Central Queensland. [More…]
I am aware that the Trade Practices Commission has examined the proposed Agreement between South Queensland Broadcasting Corporation Pty Ltd.. licensees of radio station 4IP Brisbane, and the Queensland Rugby Football League providing for exclusive broadcasting rights to that station for a period of fi ve years. [More…]
Will the Australian delegation to the InterGovernmental Group on Indonesia be instructed to raise the question of the alleged gross violations of human rights by Indonesia? [More…]
Did the Minister write to the Minister for National Resources indicating his concern that uranium mining in the Northern Territory would be obstructed by the possible national park boundaries and Aboriginal land rights claims? [More…]
When will permanent residence be granted to the Santos family so that it will be able to receive the same rights as other East Timorese refugees now residing in Australia? [More…]
Clause 22 of the Bill continues the Government’s policy of expanding, wherever possible, the jurisdiction of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal in relation to administrative decisions which affect rights or entitlements of persons under Commonwealth legislation. [More…]
Clause 2 1 of the Bill continues the Government’s policy of expanding, wherever possible, the jurisdiction of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal in relation to administrative decisions which affect rights or entitlements of persons under Commonwealth legislation. [More…]
The effect of clause 11 together with clause 13 of the Bill is to continue the Government’s policy of expanding, wherever possible, the jurisdiction of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal in relation to administrative decisions which affect rights or entitlements of persons under Commonwealth legislation. [More…]
The Bill relegates to subordinate legislation or administrative direction matters affecting substantive rights of employees including the scale of compensation, the composition and powers of the appellate tribunal, and the criteria upon which services may be terminated; [More…]
Existing rights of reinstatement in tenured employment are abrogated by the Bill; [More…]
Is the Minister satisfied that members of the community are adequately advised of their legal rights in this and other fields coming within social security responsibility? [More…]
They have expressed concern both within this chamber and to me personally about this and other matters of denial of human rights around the world. [More…]
At about the same time as that statement was made, one issue of the official paper of the ACFOA Education Unit, the Development News Digest- I am using one issue as an example- contained the following articles: Focus on Liberation’, ‘Victory in Timor’ by Chris Santos, ‘Peace in Timor’ by Jill Joliffe, Liberation’ by Germaine Greer, ‘Aid to Liberation Movements’, ‘Arukun Land Rights’ and interviews with a number of people including an article on the end of the Australian Development Assistance Agency. [More…]
In particular, does the Government consider that it is kept sufficiently informed of the activities of the Central Intelligence Agency to the extent that the activities of that body do not in any way interfere with the sovereign rights of the Australian Government? [More…]
As the Minister for Transport is the head of the Australian Government department which has sole responsibility for the allocation of the rights to operate such businesses, will he ensure that where all other things are equal, particularly those involving the terms and conditions of tender for occupancy, the contracts go to companies which are Australian owned and Australian controlled rather than the groups which are owned or controlled overseas? [More…]
The answer to that one is that the rights of officers and employees of the Bureau will be safeguarded. [More…]
Hence, I would be most grateful for the opportunity to discuss this matter with you personally before I go to bat for Mr Aufferber in my own way as a back bencher seeking the final means open to defending the rights of a harrassed and worthy constituent. [More…]
The latter proposal is said by the Government to be necessary to enforce obligations and to protect individual rights. [More…]
Rather than protecting individual rights of union members, they are diluted by the intrusion of the Industrial Relations Bureau between the individual union member and the Court. [More…]
Thus the rights already enshrined in the legislation would be taken away from individual members. [More…]
Under that Act a person whose land is compulsorily acquired has certain rights. [More…]
I have been urging Mr Aufferber to exercise his constitutional rights. [More…]
The question of extension of the Service pension to members of other Commonwealth forces and to other allied veterans to whom Senator Harradine referred in a question earlier does represent in itself an extension of the usual principle that applies between Commonwealth and allied countries regarding veterans’ rights and benefits. [More…]
It will be described by our opponents as being anti-States rights, or socialistic, or by any of the other perjorative expressions that are used to describe the principle of having national guidelines; but we believe that such an attitude is a recognition of the practical realities. [More…]
The Bill relegates to subordinate legislation or administrative direction matters affecting substantive rights of employees including the scale of compensation, the composition and powers of the appellate tribunal, and the criteria upon which services may be terminated; [More…]
Existing rights of reinstatement in tenured employment are abrogated by the Bill; [More…]
Will the Australian Government consider making a request to Pakistan to release these detainees and abide by the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights? [More…]
I do not suggest, nor do I believe, that the Government, or any Australian government, would allow any improper activities which would in any way infringe our sovereign rights to take place in this country by the representatives of any other nation. [More…]
The major provisions concerning the protection of rights and functions of the Boards have been included in legislation. [More…]
The Court may quash or set aside the decision or part of the decision, refer the matter back to the decision-maker for further consideration subject to such directions as the Court thinks fit, make an order declaring the rights of the parties in respect of which the order relates, or direct any of the parties to do or refrain from doing any act or thing where the Court considers this necessary to do justice between the parties. [More…]
Are personnel involved not so much in civil rights matters but in disputes such as that involving nuclear power stations in West Germany? [More…]
If British or North Atlantic Treaty Organisation troops were used what would be their compensation rights? [More…]
The amendment proposed will not, however, withdraw any rights to lodge elections under section 36a in relation to transfers of interests in such property that took place before today. [More…]
Finally a technical amendment is being made in connection with the rights of a tax agent to apply for a review of cancellation of registration as a tax agent. [More…]
We have instituted land rights legislation for Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
We have undertaken to establish a Human Rights Commission to ensure compliance of Federal law with the UN International Covenant on civil and political rights. [More…]
What about Aboriginal land rights in most Australian tribal areas, and in particular Borroloola? [More…]
He was quoted as saying civil rights movement had communist backing. [More…]
It is the Department’s aim to supplement such measures wherever possible with due regard to the rights of other officers. [More…]
The Bill relegates to subordinate legislation or administration direction matters affecting substantive rights of employees including the scale of compensation, the composition and powers of the appellate tribunal and the criteria upon which services may be terminated. [More…]
Existing rights of reinstatement in tenured employment are abrogated by the Bill. [More…]
Were all of these actions taken to ensure that the Aborigines in the area do not lay claim to their legal rights and thus a royalty from the rich McArthur River mine owned by Mount Isa Mines? [More…]
If so, how does the Government reconcile its condoning of these actions in the light of its stated policy on Aboriginal land rights? [More…]
Has the Department taken any steps at all to notify school leavers who registered in November or December 1976 of their rights under the Act, particularly section 107, as confirmed by the result of the High Court challenge. [More…]
Let me say at this stage also that we take heart that the current attempts to reduce the democratic rights of the citizens of the Territories- attempts which are being pursued by 2 Liberal and National Country Party State governments- will not succeed. [More…]
We believe that now there is a clear indication to those making decisions in these matters that the citizens of the Australian States do regard their fellow Australians in the Territories as their equals and do consider that they should have equal political rights. [More…]
He has stood before the people for the rights of this House. [More…]
He knows the Constitution and knows the rights of this House. [More…]
He believes that this House is the protector of the rights not only of the States but also of the minorities in the community. [More…]
They have been proven correct in their belief that the Senate is the protector of the rights of the less populous States. [More…]
They have made it, knowing that the Senate is the protector not only of the rights of the people of the less populous States but of the rights of all the people of Australia in that the Senate is answerable to them, not to the Prime Minister of the day. [More…]
299 concerning Aboriginal land rights complementary legislation, is the Prime Minister aware that the Northern Land Council has publicly circulated copies of its telegram dated 4 March 1977. [More…]
The Government has appointed a Joint Select Committee on Aboriginal Land Rights in the Northern Territory, one of whose functions is to examine and report on the adequacy of provisions of the laws of the Northern Territory relating to entry to Aboriginal land, the protection of sites of significance, wildlife conservation and entry to seas adjoining Aboriginal land. [More…]
These countries will share the priority fishing rights with United States-owned concerns by operating vessels built in the United States of America and flying the American flag. [More…]
Mr Dowd has said that acting in his capacity as President of the Australian section of the International Commission of Jurists, an organisation that is concerned with the rule of law and human rights, he had occasion on an overseas visit to go to Portugal. [More…]
If the Senate is able to exercise its independence, as we have heard on so many occasions that it is- we have seen a great deal of evidence of that in respect of funeral benefits, pension rights, apple and pear stabilisation schemes, and even in respect of the recent referendums- in respect of mundane and parochial questions, if I may call them that, with which some of us feel we may want to be associated in the performance of our public duties, surely in the interests of humanity and in the interests of understanding our responsibilities as citizens to the people of Timor we can exercise that same independence. [More…]
United Nations: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights [More…]
Is it a fact that the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1966, that it came into operation with the required ratifications in 1976, that it has been ratified by 38 nations and that it has been signed but not ratified by Australia? [More…]
Does the Minister not agree that ratification by Australia would contribute to the international struggle against the widening world threats to basic human rights and personal liberties and against the growing use of torture throughout the world? [More…]
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights came into force on 23 March 1976 and has been ratified or acceded to by forty-three States. [More…]
The Covenant provides that each State Party is to ensure, among other things, that any person whose rights or freedoms as recognised in the Covenant are violated shall have an effective remedy. [More…]
The Commonwealth has proposed that a Human Rights Commission be established as a joint Commonwealth-State venture, that would examine and report on allegations of infringements of the rights or freedoms recognised in the Covenant. [More…]
I agree that the ratification by Australia would contribute to international efforts to combat infringements of basic human rights. [More…]
The establishment of a statutory Human Rights Commission will be a significant step forward in that direction. [More…]
Whether that is a common age for retirement or not I do not know, but a public servant is entitled to retire, and has rights under superannuation, from the age of 60. [More…]
He had all his rights to retire. [More…]
When Mr Comans retired, as when anybody else retireseven when we retire on the somewhat lesser pensions than perhaps senior public servants receive- he had certain rights and was entitled to earn income in other ways. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that when people retire they have their rights and they may earn other income. [More…]
When the matter came before the Committee I was not at first particularly disturbed by it because I had always assumed that judges whose daily task is the interpretation of the most abstruse niceties of laws purporting to confer rights and privileges on others would have exercised the utmost punctilio in ensuring that any rights or privileges enjoyed by members of that same court would have a firm statutory base. [More…]
Those students, exercising their rights, can opt to belong or not to belong. [More…]
These amendments will not, however, withdraw any rights to lodge elections under section 36a in relation to transfers of interests in such property if it is established that they took place before 24 May 1977, the day on which the amendments were foreshadowed in the second reading speech. [More…]
It is another step forward in the satisfaction of the rights of those who feel aggrieved by administrative decisions. [More…]
I think it is a terribly important matter that those who might have the right to appeal to the Tribunal under the jurisdiction which it now has should be well informed of the existence of those rights. [More…]
I think that it is not only true in the community generally but also true in the more limited areas of the Tribunal’s application that it is very important that the community is aware of its rights and is able to take advantage of those rights where necessary in circumstances of an appeal. [More…]
The Bills will expand the rights of citizens in their relations with the Government. [More…]
This matter has been discussed by the Administrative Review Council which also is most concerned that people should know the rights they have under this legislation. [More…]
This, of course, is a very clear way of advising people of their rights. [More…]
The giving to members of the option of retaining their State rights is also generally applauded. [More…]
The Government has to recognise that the legitimate rights of citizens should be placed on the same footing as the professed concern of lending institutions to maintain cash flows, quick returns and secure loans if they are interested in coming into the home ownership area. [More…]
It is all part of the uniform process of stage I. I repeat that the aim of the legislation and of the policy is to preserve the rights of the less populous States in the general context in which the Grants Commission has viewed the situation over 43 years, that is, that those States have disabilities which should be recognised and compensated for by way of financial adjustments. [More…]
The Commissioner will be asked to review the history of the services and, having regard to the security of Australia as a nation, the rights and responsibilities of individual persons and future as well as present needs, to make recommendations on the services the people and Government of Australia should have available to them. [More…]
Paragraph 3 of the terms of reference will ensure that the inquiry covers fully the important aspects of the civil rights of individuals as they can be affected by administrative decisions based on or influenced by security reports. [More…]
In the light of past experience, and having regard to the security of Australia as a nation, the rights and responsibilities of individual persons and future as well as present needs, to make recommendations on the intelligence and security services which the nation should have available to it and on the way in which the relevant organisations can most efficiently and effectively serve the interests of the Australian people and Government, with particular reference to: [More…]
They said it was a transgression of civil rights and a lot of other shibboleths were put forward. [More…]
The effect of clauses 8, 9 and 10 of the Bill is to continue the Government’s policy of expanding, wherever possible, the jurisdiction of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal in relation to administrative decisions which affect a person’s rights or entitlements under Commonwealth legislation. [More…]
In that form the Bill was designed to implement certain aspects of the Government’s Industrial Relations policy based upon the fundamental principles that: every member of the community has rights and obligations; those rights must be protected and the obligations met. [More…]
Thus the Bill, as originally presented, provided for: additional protection for the rights of individuals; the establishment of an Industrial Relations Bureau to secure the observance of the Act, regulations and awards; extension of the range of consequences available to the Court for breaches of industrial law. [More…]
The Government is also committed to legislating for the protection for individual rights in the industrial area. [More…]
to advise employers and employees as to their rights and obligations under the said Act. [More…]
The primary functions of the Arbitration Inspectorate are to secure, by voluntary means, the observance of relevant legal requirements and to assist employers and employees to understand and give effect to their rights, duties and obligations in this respect. [More…]
At this point I should also reiterate that the Government is committed to legislating for the protection of individual rights in the industrial relations area. [More…]
In the Minister’s 13 May statement welcoming the acceptance by the ACTU of an Industrial Relations Bureau and the re-constitution of a tripartite consultative council, the Minister stressed that the Government was committed to legislating for the protection of individual rights in the industrial relations area but that it was prepared to review the provisions on these and other matters relating to the operation of the Act contained in the Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Bill laid before the Parliament on 31 March in the light of their further consideration by the new Council. [More…]
All States support the Government’s attitude on this matter and have undertaken to deal with reported cases in order to ensure that patient’s rights are maintained. [More…]
1466 asked by Senator Colston concerning Queensland trading rights for the Australian National Line (Senate Hansard. [More…]
I preface my question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Transport, by reminding the Minister that on 16 February of this year I asked a question without notice about the reasons which prompted the Government to allocate charter rights on the Western Australia-Bali route to MacRobertson Miller Airline Services, a subsidiary of Ansett Airlines of Australia. [More…]
I now ask the Minister again: Is the decision with respect to awarding the charter rights on the Western Australia-Bali route to MacRobertson Miller Airline Services to be taken as a precedent for the allocation of regional air traffic routes to domestic airlines at the expense of the national carrier, Qantas? [More…]
These powers would include rights of entry and inspection for consistency of product or animal against contract specifications, rights to take samples for purposes of analysis, and recommending a method by which disputes relating to product standards arising between overseas buyers and Australian suppliers could be settled. [More…]
I am advised that this provision refers to some sections of the Act or the regulations where the opinion or the belief of a person determines another person ‘s rights. [More…]
With regard to breaches of the law committed by public servants, either by defamation or anything else, I suppose that employees have rights against them and against the Commonwealth, depending on all sorts of interesting legal questions, which would be the subject of litigation. [More…]
A person nominated under sub-section ( I ) or ( 2 ) to attend a meeting of the Council in the place of a member of the Council has, and may exercise, at that meeting all the rights of that member. [More…]
The first part dealt with individual rights, namely, membership of unions and the right to dissent from industrial action. [More…]
This Government believes that obligations have to be met and that the rights of individuals, groups and organisations have to be protected. [More…]
I go on further to recognise that the individual rights and public interests have to be recognised if we are to get some sort of solution to the industrial relations problems. [More…]
The individual rights are being stood down, but only temporarily. [More…]
Following consultation with the National Labour Consultative Council, we will be bringing in the individual rights provisions in the Budget session. [More…]
I stress again that the individual rights of all the employees and employers have not been set aside. [More…]
Once that has been done the legislation will fit in very clearly and closely with Liberal Party policy concerning individual rights and freedoms of our community. [More…]
It is beyond me why the Opposition is so against individual rights and freedoms. [More…]
Senator Walters finally talked about the legislation on individual rights which will be brought into the Parliament in the Budget session. [More…]
Firstly, the Bill contained a series of proposals designed to protect the rights of individual employees and others against unfair actions by employers and organisations. [More…]
What the Government is saying, of course, is that unionists now can opt out of their responsibility to pay their fees, although a majority of the membership will pay their fees to protect their rights. [More…]
With regard to unions trying to improve education, which is something outside the normal rights and conditions which the Government tries to impose on unions, 61 per cent of all people felt that the unions ha ve the right to try to improve education. [More…]
They are an integral part of society and they have rights. [More…]
The Government is also committed to legislating for the protection of individual rights in the Industrial area. [More…]
The ACTU stands ready with our fellow Peak Councilswhose steadfast support in these times we strongly welcome and appreciate- to mobilise its resources to protect the rights of a free Trade Union Movement. [More…]
The mass media are now educating people to speak up for their rights. [More…]
As a trade union member he demanded his rights and went to the Industrial Registrar. [More…]
Encouragement to union members to shed their collective responsibility for the actions of the unions as a whole and to hide behind their so-called individual rights, as was proposed by the original Bill, leads to anarchy and allows the organised pro-communists to use their unions and the union movement as a whole for their own domestic and international purposes. [More…]
When the Government introduced the original Bill in the other place it stated that its intention was to amend the Conciliation and Arbitration Act and that its amendments would enforce obligations and protect individual rights. [More…]
In particular it will provide a focal point for non-English speaking workers to obtain assistance when they are concerned about their rights as employees and union members. [More…]
I emphasise that the Government certainly is maintaining its policies in relation to the protection of the rights of individuals and other matters which were contained in the Bill but which have now been deleted from it. [More…]
The Government is committed to legislating for the protection of individual rights. [More…]
The Government clearly recognises the importance of trade unions and the rights of people and every employee to join a union. [More…]
This Bill has two main purposes: To establish a Commonwealth Legal Aid Commission to operate in conjunction with State and Territorial Legal Aid Commissions, and to provide for the preservation of the rights of staff of the Australian Legal Aid Office who transfer to State and Territorial commissions. [More…]
Part IV of the Bill seeks to preserve the rights of ALAO staff who transfer to State and territorial commissions. [More…]
It does this in two ways: Firstly, by requiring certain minimum terms and conditions to be included in any arrangement for the transfer of ALAO staff; and, secondly, by applying the second tier of the revised officers’ rights declaration scheme to staff transferred. [More…]
The terms and conditions that, under Part IV, must be included in any such arrangement are the basic rights to present salary, leave and superannuation entitlements. [More…]
These are minimum conditions only and, in discussions with staff associations and the States, the Commonwealth will be seeking to have included in any arrangement the preservation of various other rights such as those dealing with allowances, increments and probationary service. [More…]
The second tier of the revised officers’ rights declaration scheme is part of a proposal developed by the Joint Council of the Australian Public Service- a consultative body of staff and management- to replace the existing Officers’ Rights Declaration Act. [More…]
I believe that down the centuries progressive people throughout the world, whether Jewish or non-Jewish, have supported the rights of the Jewish people to a national homeland. [More…]
Certainly it is not in the best interests of free enterprise or the rights of individuals. [More…]
The purpose of the legislation before us is not to ensure free trade and competition, or not primarily to do that, as the Government has claimed; the main purpose of the legislation before us is to curtail severely and unnecessarily the legal rights of trade unions. [More…]
Matters like child care, access to health services and the ability to learn English so that they may know their rights as workers could very well not fit into the exemption defined in sub-section 3. [More…]
Our Government is alert to the rights of the consumer and consumer protection. [More…]
On the one hand we have the consumer rights and on the other hand we have grave unemployment problems which can be solved only by the investment of risk capital, expansion of industry and creation of more employment opportunities. [More…]
It cannot be said that the legislation destroys the rights of the individual, because it protects them. [More…]
The movement did so because of a fear of the monopoly control which would deprive its numerous members of employment rights and so reduce the activities of members in that field. [More…]
Do honourable senators think that organisations will give away their rights that they have built up over the years for the purpose of letting scabs and non-unionists come into the organisations to reap the benefits that the organisations have obtained when these scabs and non-unionists will not pay for improvements and benefits in the future? [More…]
The Association demands its rights under the award to enter the factory. [More…]
One of the great problems of this industry is the relatively high price which is received for whole milk by people who enjoy the supply rights to the milk markets of the capital cities in comparison with what is received by the manufacturing side of the industry. [More…]
They alleged bad faith on the part of some who express concern about human rights. [More…]
The Dunn report asserts that the situation in Timor ‘might well constitute, relatively speaking, the most serious case of contravention of human rights facing the world at this time. ‘ [More…]
Six leading members of the Australian Labor Party write to Representative Donald Fraser of the House International Relations Committee, requesting that he look into charges of human rights violations in East Timor. [More…]
Representative Fraser (Democrat-Minnesota) chairs the House Subcommittee on International Organizations, a panel concerned with human rights issues as they relate to U.S. policy. [More…]
The Asia and Pacific Subcommittee, headed by Rep. Lester Wolff (Democrat-New York) is seen as being less concerned with human rights issues than the Fraser subcommittee. [More…]
According to a cable allegedly leaked by an Australian Foreign Affairs Department source, the feeling is that ‘joint hearings might dissipate, to some extent, the intensity of criticism of Indonesia on human rights violations.’ [More…]
Hamish McDonald, writing in the Australian Financial Review, states that ‘both the Indonesian government and the United States StateDepartment have labored in recent months to keep Indonesia out of the limelight as concern for human rights takes a bigger role in American policy formulation and consideration of aid requests. ‘ [More…]
The petition of the undersigned Meat and Livestock Producers of New South Wales respectfully request that the States House set up a suitable Committee of Review to consider the State rights of Meat and Livestock Producers. [More…]
I refer to an item in the AM program yesterday on the Government’s proposal for the establishment of a Human Rights Commission. [More…]
Australia does not have a Bill of Human Rights and an attempt by the Labor Government to have the UN Human Rights Charter written into Federal legislation was defeated by the Opposition Parties in the Senate. [More…]
I refer to the international Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which, I understand, Australia has signed but not yet ratified. [More…]
As this important international covenant is essential to the Human Rights Commission Bill and as it expresses fundamental civil and political rights, including the right to equality in voting and representation, can the Minister say whether the covenant will be ratified in the near future? [More…]
Secondly, Medibank should employ consumer advocates who will advise and help people to get their rights under Medibank: that they are not forced to have expensive private treatment, or forced to pay cash in advance for consultations, or any other of the pressure tactics of the practitioners of market-place medicine. [More…]
Some of the ‘safeguards’ proposed in the Bill are less than convincing: former Federal public servants are not guaranteed equal rights within the State commissions and the criteria for their read mission to the Commonwealth Service seem unnecessarily narrow. [More…]
But in terms of fundamental rights and in terms of fundamental concepts of equality of opportunity and so on, we believe that access to legal aid is as important as access to medical services. [More…]
It is quite possible that if some State governments in terms of their welfare considerations were to give priority to legal aid and others did not we would arrive at a situation in which a built-in inequality of rights in relation to the capacity of people to obtain legal aid would operate throughout the Commonwealth. [More…]
There will be a legal agreement between the Commonwealth and each State which will set out the terms and conditions and will deal with the rights of the officers. [More…]
So as far as possible the promotion and career rights of the officers will be preserved. [More…]
The Government is concerned to ensure that the rights of the officers are fully safeguarded. [More…]
We also anticipate that there will be long delays in reaching agreements about the transfer of staff, although there is provision for the preservation of some rights of officers who are currently members of the national legal aid service. [More…]
to advise the Attorney-General as to the educational programs that would be effective in promoting an understanding by the public, or by sections of the public that have special needs in this respect, of their rights, powers, privileges and duties under laws in force in Australia. [More…]
Some of the ‘safeguards’ proposed in the Bill are less than convincing: former Federal public servants are not guaranteed equal rights within the State commissions and the criteria for their readmission to the Commonwealth service seem unnecessarily narrow. [More…]
He was speaking on the Commonwealth Legal Aid Commission Bill 1977, which sets up the commission to operate in conjunction with State and territorial commissions, and safeguards the rights of employees transferring from the Commonwealth to the other commissions. [More…]
We also feel that it is most unsatisfactory and unacceptable for provisions concerning the protection of rights of ALAO officers who transfer to State Commissions to be dealt with in a hasty additional part to this Bill, instead of being covered by an amendment to the Officers’ Rights Declaration Act which we understand the Government proposes to introduce and have passed by Parliament during the Budget Session. [More…]
Government at this time gives rise to grave doubt as to whether such mobility, which should include equal access to vacant positions and portability of rights, will be implemented in part or even at all in the foreseeable future. [More…]
In the context of the Government’s determination to proceed with transferring ALAO officers, to the States, at the very minimum Section 21 (3) should be amended to provide for arrangements with a State to provide for equal accessability of ‘eligible persons’ to positions in State Commissions which become vacant, and for portability of all rights from one State Commission to another (including rights at State level). [More…]
The second main aim ofthe legislation relates to the rights of ALAO legal and administrative staff whom it is proposed should be transferred to State and Territorial commissions. [More…]
‘the Bill seeks to preserve (these) rights’ but as Mr Ellicott admits on page 7 of his speech, this object cannot be achieved as the Bill does not deal with the career prospects of ALAO staff which, as previously pointed out. [More…]
The specific provisions ofthe Bill which ‘seek’ to preserve the rights of ALAO staff are extremely detailed and complex and the numerous cross references to provisions ofthe Public Service Act require that both pieces of legislation be read in conjunction to ascertain what is intended. [More…]
The Bill proposes to apply the Officers’ Rights Declaration scheme to transferred ALAO staff notwithstanding that this approach was specifically rejected by CAGEO at its Bi-Ennial Conference earlier this month. [More…]
This unsatisfactory situation would not be rectified by the proposed application of a revised Officers’ Rights Declaration Act to ALAO officers who join the State commissions. [More…]
discussions with the Public Service Board have indicated that a number of particular present rights of individuals might not be able to be carried over to the new Commission e.g. [More…]
taken as a whole, the proposals, which envisage the breakup ofthe present nation-wide legal aid service, and the retention of certain rights by existing officers cannot make up for the demise of that ongoing, broadly based service which involves permanency of employment. [More…]
On all previous occasions when transfers of Commonwealth public servants to the States has taken place, the transferred officers have been offered State public service rights. [More…]
This goes to the very point wc were trying to make in the second reading debate; that is, that it is undesirable that Australians be accorded unequal rights in relation to access to legal aid. [More…]
Does the Minister agree that such activities should be closely surveilled to ensure that individual rights are not infringed? [More…]
The Department of Aboriginal Affairs works closely on such matters with the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations, other Commonwealth and State Departments, and with influential community groups and will continue to do so in order to inform all members ofthe Australian community of their rights and obligations, whether they be informal or as set down in the Racial Discrimination Act, in respect of dealings with members of another race. [More…]
2 ) To the Minister ‘s knowledge have any other Ministers in the Government received, or made, similar submissions, and if they have, was their response similar to his and in line with the Government’s policy on land rights. [More…]
If not, what were the differences in response, and which response reflects this Government ‘s policy on land rights. [More…]
1 received many submissions last year in relation to the Northern Territory Land Rights legislation and some of these expressed concern about the possible effect ofthe legislation on mineral development. [More…]
Can the Minister indicate his Government’s policy on the matters of land rights, and will he indicate whether these recent statements by some of his colleagues are in contradiction to the Federal Government’s policy on land rights. [More…]
See my speeches in the House and public statements on the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act last year and on the commencement of the legislation on 26 January 1977 for details of the Government’s Aboriginal land rights policy. [More…]
No difficulties are expected in placing those public servants who will be exercising their rights under the Officers Rights Declaration Act. [More…]
The Aboriginal Land Fund Commission intends to transfer its interest in the land to the local Aboriginal community which, it is understood, has plans to grow bananas and graze cattle, and perhaps to lease agistment rights, in order to provide income and employment opportunities for the group. [More…]
Apart from the absolute rights of access, ingress, egress, etc., reserved to the Crown, the special lease terms include the following provisions: [More…]
the right to remove timber and forest products, water rights and the right of resumption on six months’ notice are reserved to the Crown; [More…]
The rights of clients ofthe Department of Social Security have been of continuing concern to me and it will be seen that, as a result ofthe initiatives taken during 1976, people who have dealings with my Department will have access, when the proposed regulations become law, to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal whenever the Director-General does not uphold the recommendation of a Social Security Appeals Tribunal. [More…]
Has the Queensland Premier stated that his Government will not co-operate with the proposed Human Rights Commission. [More…]
In my second reading speech on the introduction of the Human Rights Commission Bill I explained that there had been discussions with the States on the subject of the Bill. [More…]
1 ) Has the Minister received applications from Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory requesting that under the Aboriginal land rights legislation other Land Councils be formed in their respective areas. [More…]
The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: (1)1 have received a request submitted on behalf of Aboriginal people of Bathurst and Melville Islands for the setting up of a new Land Council for that area under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
The Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act requires that the members of a land trust shall be appointed by the Minister on a nomination received in response to a request which may be made either to the land council for the area in which the trust is to hold land or. [More…]
Has Mr Giese undertaken any activities, either in the Department’s time or outside of his departmental duties, which could in any way be construed as attempting to undermine Federal Parliament’s land rights legislation , as has been claimed by Mr McGuiness. [More…]
Since that date the people of Soweto and of South Africa in general have continued to protest at the denial of human rights and at the terrible conditions to which they are subjected by the white minority government. [More…]
As the question relates to fundamental rights of the States, I ask the Senate to bear with me because of the length of the question. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that five days earlier the Clerk of the Privy Council informed the Solicitors-General of Queensland and Tasmania by cable that he was instructed to advise that Her Majesty had accepted the advice of her Ministers in the United Kingdom that the petition relating to off-shore mining rights should not be referred to the Judicial Committee? [More…]
The Committee in this Report recommends that the proposals of the Industries Assistance Commission be implemented immediately; that no new water rights be issued in the Riverland until reconstruction is complete and that any conflict of interest between State and Federal government over the area be minimised. [More…]
We are both countries enjoying democratic systems and freely elected government, both strong believers in and upholders of human rights, of traditions of freedom and of the maintenance of free institutions. [More…]
Meanwhile, the Federation of Bank Employees, an affiliate of the General Confederation of Peruvian Workers, had demanded the release of some hundreds of labour leaders arrested following the general strike of 1 9 July and called for the re-establishment of full union rights and the repeal of a government decree which authorises firms to dismiss striking workers. [More…]
Many workers have been dismissed from their jobs, arrested and sentenced by military courts for engaging in union activities and exercising rights conferred upon them by the Constitution, the law and the Conventions of the International Labour Office. [More…]
The exercise of the normal trade union rights, including the right to meet and discuss their affairs freely and the right to strike or take other industrial action, have been largely prohibited, suspended or restricted. [More…]
Do many Aboriginal communities in central Australia not support the present Government policy with regard to education, as was suggested by John Edwards in the article entitled ‘Aborigines now have Land Rights- but no Schools ‘in the National Times dated 7 March 1977; if so, (a) what are the details, and (b) what action, if any, is the Minister taking to investigate the claims made in the newspaper article concerned. [More…]
A decision by the ABC will depend on various factors, including the availability of funds to cover the transmission costs involved; the availability of television rights at a reasonable cost; and the availability of commentaries in the English language. [More…]
Under this scheme exporters and potential exporters may receive grants in respect of eligible expenditure incurred in seeking out and developing overseas markets for goods, services, industrial property rights and know-how which are substantially of Australian origin. [More…]
Since that date the people of Soweto and of South Africa in general have continued to protest at the denial of human rights and at the terrible conditions to which they are subjected by the white minority Government. [More…]
Since that date the people of Soweto and of South Africa in general have continued to protest at the denial of human rights and at the terrible conditions to which they are subjected by the white minority Government. [More…]
Your petitioners ask that the Senate take action to preserve the rights of parents and children. [More…]
-I present the report of the Joint Select Committee on Aboriginal Land Rights in the Northern Territory. [More…]
It is indeed a pleasure, as the lone Aboriginal Federal member of Parliament to table before honourable senators the report of the Joint Select Committee on Aboriginal Land Rights- a committee which I had the honour to chair for most of its inquiries and deliberations. [More…]
Whilst I present this report, which is that of the majority of” the Committee, and naturally I am bound by it- I feel that I would be remiss and failing in my duty towards my people if I did not express my disappointment that the Government saw fit to abdicate its total responsibility to the Aboriginal people and to condone the proposed introduction of complementary legislation dealing with Aboriginal land rights in the Northern Territory by the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]
After it was established in December 1976, the Joint Select Committee on Aboriginal Land Rights in the Northern Territory held 1 1 days of public hearings- eight in the Northern Territory and three in Canberra. [More…]
In clause (A) of its terms of reference the Committee was requested to examine and report on the provisions of the Land Rights Act relating to the identification of traditional owners of Aboriginal land and the means of establishing the views of Aboriginal traditional owners to the satisfaction of the relevant land councils. [More…]
Under the Land Rights Act the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory is empowered to make ordinances in respect of these matters, hence the reciprocal legislation. [More…]
The Committee notes that the Land Rights Act was drawn up so as to preserve existing rights. [More…]
The Committee is aware of the strong desire by Aboriginals to obtain rights over the 2 kilometres area. [More…]
the rights of existing commercial fishing licences to be retained and that new fishing licences be issued only after consultation between the Fisheries Branch of the Department of the Northern Territory and the relevant Land Council; and [More…]
The majority of the Committee believes that the Parliament should maintain a continuing oversight of the administration of the Land Rights Act to ensure that the letter and spirit of the Act has been observed. [More…]
The report accordingly recommends that the Parliament establish a committee to inquire further into the operation of the Lands Rights Act. [More…]
I support the motion moved by Senator Bonner proposing that the Senate take note of the report of the Joint Committee on Aboriginal Land Rights in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Instead of legislating on the whole question of land rights in accordance with the powers which the referendum gave it, this Federal Government is handing some of this responsibility to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]
Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill. [More…]
It must be remembered that the Land Council has only some rights to royalties on Aboriginal land. [More…]
It is putting many impediments in the way of giving effect to its promise of land rights. [More…]
I join with him in thanking Senator Neville Bonner for his chairmanship of the Joint Select Committee on Aboriginal Land Rights in the Northern Territory and in thanking the Committee Secretariat for its contribution. [More…]
The operation of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 has to be looked at in the context of an Act which will have a very considerable effect on all people who live in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I hope that the recommendations we put forward will provide a helpful guide to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly in reaching a solution which, firstly, will guarantee to the Aborigines the traditional access that they have had to the seas and which the Commonwealth Act requires should be preserved to them; secondly, will enable the protection of areas which are of special significance, be they sacred sites or areas close to significant Aboriginal communities; and at the same time will result in a preservation of what I would call the normal Australian recreational rights to use the sea for the total community. [More…]
By Senators presenting reports from CommitteesSenator Bonner to present a report from the Joint Committee on Aboriginal Land Rights in the Northern Territory. [More…]
There were four provisions in the Ordinance which the Committee considered unduly trespassed upon individual rights and liberties [More…]
The Committee has subjected this Ordinance to very close and detailed scrutiny, but it is considered that all laws of this nature ought to be closely scrutinised, particularly from the point of view of protecting individual rights and civil liberties, including Bills which pass through this place and which sometimes are not given the close attention which they ought to have. [More…]
It seems to me that if Her Majesty acted solely on the advice of her Australian Ministers this represents some alteration in the relationship between the States and the Commonwealth and which could adversely affect the rights of the States. [More…]
In June1973 you formally submitted to me as Clerk of the Council a petition from the Government of Tasmania to Her Majesty the Queen relating to offshore mining rights. [More…]
The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: (1), (2) and (3) The Aboriginal Land Commissioner informs me that no land claims have been made to him under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act since his appointment early in April. [More…]
In view of the arrangement for Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory, who wish to make claims under the Aboriginal land rights legislation, to have access to funds, legal assistance, etc., will the Attorney-General also make funds available to those other people and organisations in the Northern Territory who require legal assistance in putting their submissions to the Land Rights Commissioner. [More…]
An individual wishing to put submissions before the Land Rights Commissioner may be provided with legal assistance by the Australian Legal Aid Office if he satisfies the office guidelines as to means and needs and the merits of his case. [More…]
1 ) What reasons have prompted the Government to allocate charter rights on the Western Australia-Bali route to MacRobenson Miller Airline Services, a subsidiary of Ansett Airlines of Australia. [More…]
Accordingly, although contributions to replenishments as opposed to the original subscriptions to the IDA do not carry voting rights, a small proportion of donors’ contributions is counted as a subscription. [More…]
Complex calculations undertaken by the staff of IDA indicate that of the total amount which Australia is expected to make available under the fifth replenishment, an amount of $A2 12,416 should take the form of an additional subscription with voting rights. [More…]
The major rights Australia will enjoy under the Agreement are those stated in Article 6 concerning the organisation and management of the Fund. [More…]
Recognising that the provision of Australian uranium to the world nuclear fuel cycle creates problems relevant to Australian sovereignty, the environment, the economic welfare of our people, and the rights and well being of the Aboriginal people: [More…]
Yet this vehemently anti-uranium union of 95 000 has been discussing with executives of Peko Mines Ltd and Electrolytic Zinc Co. the question of exclusive rights to cover all workers involved in the mining and processing of uranium in the Northern Territory. [More…]
We will abdicate all our rights to it’. [More…]
They recommended that land rights and national parks should be established before any decision to mine is made- not afterwards, picking up the bits piecemeal. [More…]
The public at large will not be fooled on this issue as it was fooled on 1 1 November 1975 when the Liberal and National Country parties usurped the rights of the properly elected government. [More…]
If the other House does not accept its responsibility, our responsibility is to guard the democratic rights and principles of the Australian community. [More…]
The issue is whether the Senate should sit tomorrow to consider a Bill which contains very embracing provisions on the rights of labour, of unions, and members of the Commonwealth Public Service to abide by Public Service regulations or by union directions. [More…]
Has the troop deployment been carried out in anticipation of general or trade union resistance to the new legislation which will seriously restrict the democratic rights of many thousands of persons? [More…]
The worker had no rights. [More…]
Nobody knows the extent to which those powers will affect the worker and the extent to which he might lose his rights under existing laws and usages. [More…]
Legislation of an industrial kind is always designed and construed to protect the interests of the employee; that is to say, the employee normally is provided with rights by legislation. [More…]
What are his rights after he has been told that his employment is terminated? [More…]
Again it is an extraordinary invasion of the rights of employees in this community to provide sloppy legislation like this in relation to a fundamental question like the determination of a contract of employment. [More…]
Under this legislation the act of the employing authority is not subject to any sort of outside judicial assessment of the unilateral exercise of rights by the employer, and that is the distinction. [More…]
For the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs to go on about the Ombudsman, for goodness sake, and about rights at common law being preserved - [More…]
The second thing which the Minister said is that the employees have rights at common law. [More…]
I would have thought that this legislation covers the field in respect of this matter, and it is absolutely ridiculous to say that the employees have rights at common law. [More…]
The Prime Minister on this point is probably more correct than is the Minister when he said that the only rights they might have would be by way of prerogative writ. [More…]
By doing that it has brought in other principles such as the matter of safeguarding the rights of those people handled by clause S. Their interests are not safeguarded as are the interests of people in private employment. [More…]
In saying that, I reiterate, so that there will be no misunderstanding, that I support the thrust of the Bill but I do not support this extraneous grab on the side at people’s rights. [More…]
It will cast the net so broadly that it will place at risk the rights of the vast majority of employees and Public Service departments and instrumentalities. [More…]
Senator Douglas McClelland reminds me of the very serious consequences which flow in the second half of this century, in terms of accrued rights for holidays, long service leave and things of that kind, for employees who are dismissed. [More…]
There is nothing in this Bill that detracts from or diminishes by one iota the rights of any government servant or any employees of a government authority to go to arbitration to have their industrial disputes settled. [More…]
If they carry on their jobs and go to arbitration they have all the advantages, benefits and rights of existing laws and awards. [More…]
I hope that illustrates with sufficient clarity that this Bill is confined to government service and does not detract from the benefits or rights of anybody in the goverment service so long as they carry out their duties. [More…]
He knows, because he was the shadow Postmaster-General, that we legislated to give the Commission employees the same rights and powers as most of the community. [More…]
They will have no rights under their new award. [More…]
In addition, as the honourable senator well knows, there is the question of his rights. [More…]
Executive these powers, that the power resides with the Parliament and that we must protect the rights of the Parliament. [More…]
They want their rights, just as the employers, the manufacturers and the parents of children who go to the high class independent schools, to which this Government sees fit to give extra money, want theirs. [More…]
Therefore, they protect their rights, as do other sections of the community. [More…]
But they are entitled to exercise their rights in an atmosphere of freedom, not under the draconian legislation that is being introduced by means of this Bill. [More…]
We are really debating the rights and responsibilities of Government employees. [More…]
It is worth looking at the basic rights and responsibilities of all employees in Australia as they relate to unions and industrial action. [More…]
Of necessity unions have highly developed rights in Australia. [More…]
Union rights are entrenched and assured in Australia in a way which is virtually unique in the world. [More…]
From my experience in the work force and as a member of a couple of unions and involvement in those unions I suggest that those rights are necessary. [More…]
However, I am less than impressed by the way in which certain unions avail themselves of their rights. [More…]
However these responsibilities have been increasingly abrogated through an immoral exploitation of those rights which are ensured under our system. [More…]
This shows the cynical abuse and cynical exploitation of the workers which takes place through people who do not respect the powers and rights which they have. [More…]
This brings with it particular rights and responsibilities for Public Service unions. [More…]
This brings with it particular responsibilities, such as the responsibility to respect the special need which gives rise to that monopoly and which justifies the special rights. [More…]
Those of us who sat in aircraft on the tarmac at Sydney Airport, in aircraft that had been standing for over an hour with their motors running because the air traffic controllers said that they must do that in Sydney, well remember that far from being some sort of exercise of justified rights, it approached something closer to sadism. [More…]
Finally, the Government has certain rights and responsibilities also. [More…]
We have just heard Senator Martin, speak very passionately about the rights of people who pay for postal services to have their postal services maintained. [More…]
Given the broad sweeping nature of this legislation, I think it makes a mockery of the so-called liberal concern for individual rights we hear so often from the other side. [More…]
Where is the protection of the rights of the individual worker in this legislation? [More…]
Senator Martin raised the matter of the individual rights of rank and file workers being manipulated by union leadership, but I point out to the Senate that in the case of the Redfern Mail Exchange dispute it was the rank and file workers who voted by secret ballot to continue the industrial action against the advice of their leadership, against the advice of their executive. [More…]
I have stated on other occasions that any legislation which affects in a substantive manner the terms and conditions of employment of public servants- such as the early retirement legislation that has been presented in this chamber in the past- should incorporate appeal procedures to safeguard the rights of public servants and other Commonwealth employees. [More…]
I wish to make it clear that I shall act to preserve the legitimate rights of Commonwealth employees should this legislation in any way infringe those proper democratic rights. [More…]
But when an award or a law is introduced to modify common law rights or to take away common law rights, the award or law must be applied. [More…]
We have introduced industrial laws to abridge the law of contract so that an employee has rights under industrial laws and under industrial tribunals. [More…]
The form of petition was evolved in the 1 7th century, and the rights of petitioners and the power of the House to deal with such petitions were laid down by two resolutions of the House of Commons in 1669. [More…]
I hope that the situation can be corrected because it is one of the fundamental rights of people to be able to cast their vote at an election. [More…]
I think that as time goes on- it may not be very many more years before this is the case- we will be involved in a pretty big discussion as to just what rights we have in the Antarctic or whether we have any at all. [More…]
We assert certain rights but they have never been tested. [More…]
However, the cost of acquiring petroleum mining or exploration rights or information will not qualify under the scheme. [More…]
The then Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Les Johnson) said on 16 October 1975 in the second reading speech on the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill that: [More…]
The Northern Land Council was established under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 with the functions of ascertaining and expressing the wishes and opinion of Aboriginals living in its area, of protecting their interests and consulting with and negotiating on behalf of traditional owners. [More…]
Moreover, the Ranger Inquiry’s recommendations have been made on the basis that the Government’s recognition of Aboriginal land rights, through the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act, is, in the Inquiry’s words, ‘a uniquely favourable factor’. [More…]
In taking its decision on uranium mining, the National Park, and Aboriginal land rights, the Government has been guided by the two reports of the Ranger Environmental Inquiry commissioned under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act. [More…]
Consideration will be given to the need to amend the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 so that effect can be given to the proposal by the Northern Land Council, that Aboriginal Land should become part of the national park by leasing to the Director of National Parks and Wildlife. [More…]
The Government accepts the recommendations that consideration be given to providing, by regulations, that mining companies and their contractors answer promptly any request for relevant information respecting their operations made by the Director of National Parks and Wildlife and for him to have appropriate rights of inspection. [More…]
He had property in India and, due to the illness of one of his relatives who had dealings with the property, he and his wife returned to India for the purpose of settling property rights. [More…]
What steps has the Attorney-General taken to implement his commitment of last November that a Commonwealth Human rights Commission would be set up by July of this year. [More…]
What effect will the setting up of a Human Rights Commission have on the operation of the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
What intentions does the Attorney-General have regarding the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which has been signed but not ratified by Australia. [More…]
What will be the size, resources and functions of the Human Rights Commission, if it is established. [More…]
Will the present Commissioner for Community Relations become a member of the Human Rights Commission if it is established. [More…]
8 ) Will the Human Rights Commission, if established be empowered to override discriminatory provisions under existing State laws. [More…]
The Attorney-General introduced the Human Rights Commission Bill in the House of Representatives on 1 June 1977. [More…]
It is intended that the basic administration of the Racial Discrimination Act I97S will come under the Human Rights Commission. [More…]
The Government’s objective in relation to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights is to place Australia in such a position that, having regard to Australian legislation, both Commonwealth and State, Australia will be in a position to ratify the Covenant. [More…]
With the growth over the years of the power of public and private bureaucracies, particular care needs to be taken to protect individual liberties and human rights against unwarranted intrusions. [More…]
My Government is acting to secure individual rights. [More…]
The Administrative Appeals Tribunal is now operating, legislation to appoint a Commonwealth Ombudsman has been passed, the Human Rights Commission will be established and a Bill relating to freedom of information will be placed before the Parliament. [More…]
By way of preface I refer to section 63 of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act which states: [More…]
He asked about a particular section of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act and he quoted from the Act. [More…]
That the underhanded methods used to bring alleged charges against TTLC Secretary Bob Watling and Peter Imlach, the denial to them of their rights and adequate notice, the breaches of ALP rules which have been perpetrated by the Rules Committee and the tribunal are so fundamentally opposed to natural justice and the good name of the Party as to require the firmest challenge. [More…]
No labour council in any State of Australia would be part of any package deal that involved giving away any of the rights of workers to strike. [More…]
The organisation also aims to encourage the development of aircraft design and operations for peaceful purposes; to encourage the development of airways, airports and air navigation facilities for international civil aviation; to meet the needs of the peoples of the world for safe, regular, efficient and economic air transport; to prevent economic waste caused by unreasonable competition; to ensure that the rights of contracting states are fully respected and that every contracting state has a fair opportunity to operate international airlines; to avoid discrimination between contracting states; to promote safety of flight in international air navigation; and, finally, to promote generally the development of all aspects of civil aeronautics [More…]
ICAO also directs its energies to meeting the needs of the world community for safe, reliable, efficient and economic air transport, to prevent waste caused by unnecessary competition and over competition, which is something I want to come back to later, and to ensuring that the rights of member states are fully respected and that they all have an equal opportunity to operate international airlines. [More…]
Parliament has certain rights and privileges in this matter which have been established for centuries. [More…]
The then Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Mr Les Johnson, said on 16 October 1975 in the second reading speech on the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill: [More…]
The Commissioner has indicated that this view of the requirments of the law was settled after detailed discussions with the vehicle industry, but that, in the exercise of the rights conferred on them by the income tax law, some taxpayers dissatisfied with the Commissioner’s ruling are contesting it before a Taxation Board of Review. [More…]
Can the Minister give the Senate an assurance that all divisional returning officers, particularly in New South Wales, will be adequately briefed to the effect that all Commonwealth nationals are eligible for voting rights in Australia after they have resided here for six months? [More…]
We of course recognise the three tier or three sphere form of government- the complementary rights of Federal, State and local government. [More…]
As the Minister said on 16 August, the Australian Government condemns cruel and unnecessary actions wherever they occur and appeals to the Government of Kampuchea to respect international human rights principles. [More…]
The International Organisation SubCommittee of the House International Relations Committee of the United States Congress has been holding hearings into the human rights situation in a number of countries, including Kampuchea. [More…]
The allocation reflects the rights and responsibilities of democratic participation in local territorial affairs and safeguards the national interest in the seat of government and the national capital. [More…]
Every owner of property should have the same rights and the same obligations when the Commonwealth ac- quires their land. [More…]
The Act contains provisions safeguarding owners’ rights. [More…]
Formal processes are laid down for notifying owners of intended acquisition and of the rights and obligations after land has been acquired. [More…]
The Act also lays down the right to fair compensation, rights to arbitration and to assessment of compensation by the courts in cases of disagreement. [More…]
They were therefore subject to Australian laws and rights, including what I regard as the right to freedom of movement, to freedom of speech, to self-determination, to compulsory education, to official legal tender and to comparable conditions of employment including wages and certain standards of health, hygiene and housing. [More…]
Continuing that line of argument, I should like to point out that the criterion of a grant per kilometre of road in Australia may be another method of judging the rights of each State to road funds. [More…]
-Has the Minister representing the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs noted the remark of Mr Justice Toohey in his first report in accordance with the provisions of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act that the Act is not as clear as it might be in regard to the proper construction to be given to section 50 (3) of the Act? [More…]
Equal rights with women when claiming custody of their children. [More…]
I could imagine that person with a brace of young children, in the middle of the night with very little money in her pocket, if she is not an independent working person and if her husband does not provide her with a separate housekeeping allowance, being subjected to all types of indignities, grabbing her children and perhaps a suitcase and trying to find a refuge, a refuge which has been set up in Australia only in the last few years, to enable her to leave a particularly repulsive situation; a refuge where she knows that she can find a shoulder to cry on if that is what she wants; a refuge where she can find medical assistance if that is what she needs; a refuge where she can find a home for her children and for herself until she gets her affairs straightened out; a refuge where her children will be looked after and sent off to the necessary schools; a refuge where she will be able to obtain advice about legal matters; and a refuge where she will be informed of her social security rights and all those things. [More…]
But the Bantus gained great respect for these hardy white men and women who were fiercely honest and prepared to fight to the death for their rights and freedom and, Mr President, they still are. [More…]
At the same time the Soviet Union had top officials there to argue on fishing rights. [More…]
I see nothing wrong with that as part of a bill of rights because the same person receives compensation coverage and inherits a wage system which has been negotiated. [More…]
If we are to ensure that the law means something, whether it be in regard to trade union breaches or whether it be in regard to human rights and the United Nations, we should follow an evenhanded course. [More…]
FRIENDS OF THE THAI PEOPLE IN AUSTRALIA 23 Smith Street, Fitzroy, Victoria 3065, Australia Press Release Dear friends who believe injustice and human rights. [More…]
The Australian Government is, of course, deeply concerned at infringements of human rights wherever they may occur, and believes that in general as a matter of principle, political prisoners ought to be brought to a fair trial with as little delay as possible. [More…]
I question now whether in actual fact we have the right to say or whether we can accept the responsibility for saying that we will provide aid to a country which obviously has no concern and no care for human rights. [More…]
I hope that following the adjournment debate tonight a number of people in this chamber and in the other place will join with me in forwarding to both of those people and to Mr Kurt Waldheim, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, a telegram of protest, imploring the United Nations to ensure that people who are entitled to human rights at all times at least have these shown in the form of a proper trial on Friday of this week. [More…]
They do not accord with human rights as we understand them. [More…]
It met on 30 June under the chairmanship of Mr Donald M. Fraser, who is well known to honourable senators as a leading spokesman for human rights. [More…]
That Committee considered the human rights situation in Thailand and its effect on the policies of the United States Government. [More…]
Northern Land Council to represent the traditional owners and negotiations must- I repeat, must- be between the Northern Land Council and the Commonwealth, as provided in the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
We also have a government that likes to indulge in discussion about the protection of individual rights and liberties and, indeed, a government which has gone so far as to present in the Parliament a Bill for the establishment of what it calls a human rights commission. [More…]
We were told by the then Attorney-General, Mr Ellicott, that the main purpose of the human rights commission would be to investigate and report on the extent to which legislation in Australia conformed with international conventions purporting to protect individual liberties, particularly in the area of freedom from exploitation and so on. [More…]
The State Parties shall undertake to adopt all appropriate measures to ensure to women, married or unmarried, equal rights with men in the field of economic social life and, in particular [More…]
Will the Minister for Foreign Affairs consider making a statement so as to inform the Parliament and the pro- Vietnam lobby of other days of (a) the scale of genocide in the former kingdom of Cambodia, (b) what action noncommunist nations propose to take in the United Nations, and (c) what action the United Nations can be expected to take under the Declaration of Human Rights, (d) Further will the Minister add to his statement a willingness to identify the communist nations which in the past 30 years also have engaged in genocide? [More…]
The question of human rights in Kampuchea is not on the agenda in the United Nations at the moment. [More…]
Honourable senators will be aware of many occasions where there have been violations of human rights in various communist countries. [More…]
In regard to compensation for injury, is the Corporation required to give proper notice to its employees as to their rights, such as is required by Workers Compensation Acts; if so, do the Corporation’s instructions clearly indicate to officers injured on duty (a) that a certain Act applies and ( b ) any restriction of claims by effluxion of time. [More…]
This Act requires that proper notice be given to employees as to their rights and this requirement is followed by the Corporation. [More…]
I refer to the report in the Melbourne Age of 26 September 1977 which details the problems being experienced by Aborigines in Queensland, including infringements of basic human rights. [More…]
Specifically, the Queensland Aborigines Act 1971-1975 and the Torres Strait Islanders Act 1971-1975 and associated regulations limit the rights and freedoms of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in Queensland in comparison with those enjoyed by other Australian citizens. [More…]
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Legal Service, Queensland, can be consulted by any Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander who wishes to inquire about his rights or take legal action to enforce his rights under the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Discriminatory Laws) Act. [More…]
Did the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, in discussions with the Pitjantjatjara Council at Amata on 3 August, undertake to contact the Premiers of Western Australia and South Australia and invite them to join him in passing legislation to provide for uniform land rights? [More…]
Has the Western Australian Premier, or any person representing his Government, indicated an unwillingness to proceed with land rights legislation which provides mineral rights and royalties for Aboriginals? [More…]
In that regard although the Labor Government’s initiatives were thwarted by the Liberal-Country Party Opposition of the day we have not given up the fight for the rights and self-determination of the people of Cocos. [More…]
It is not that we want to ride roughshod over the rights of people. [More…]
In accordance with past practice where members of the judiciary have been appointed to executive offices- for example, the appointment of Mr Justice A. E. Woodward, when a judge of the Australian Industrial Court, to be DirectorGeneral of Security, Sir Owen Dixon, then a Justice of the High Court, to be Australian Minister to the United States and Sir John Latham, while Chief Justice of the High Court, to be Australian Minister to Japan- the Government proposes to introduce legislation to enable Mr Justice Fox to retain his judicial status and the rights which attach to that status while Ambassador-at-Large. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Prime Minister whether he is aware that the Government has made a submission for consideration at the Borroloola land rights hearing which commenced in Darwin recently. [More…]
Is it a fact that the submission is similar to that lodged by Mount Isa Mines Ltd and in direct opposition to the case for land rights made out by the Aborigines concerned? [More…]
I ask the Minister to refresh his memory on an assurance he gave me as to publicising the electoral rights of people from the 35 countries that make up the British Commonwealth of Nations. [More…]
I think that as a result of the question which he has asked, Senator Mulvihill has done a lot of migrants in Australia a great service in alerting them to their electoral rights. [More…]
Equal rights with women when claiming custody of their children. [More…]
On the basis of the petition I have read out, there is a need for an inquiry into the needs and rights of lone fathers. [More…]
Have the Minister, the Government, and interdepartmental committees finished their deliberations on the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry Second Report (Fox Report); if so, when is the Government likely to implement the following recommendation made in the Fox Report; ‘Consideration to be given to the need to amend the Land Rights Act to enable Aboriginal land to be leased to the Director of National Parks and Wildlife for the necessary term.’ [More…]
Have the Minister, the Government and interdepartmental committees finished their deliberations on the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry Second Report (Fox Report); if so, when is the Government likely to implement the following recommendation made in the Fox Report: ‘An opportunity to be given for claims to be made and determined under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act in respect of the land formerly part of Mudginberri and Munmarlary (including Jabiluka). [More…]
Have the Minister, the Government and interdepartmental committee finished their deliberations on the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry Second Report (Fox Report); if so, when is the Government likely to implement the following recommendation made in the Fox Report: The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs to create a Land Trust or Land Trusts under sections 4 and 1 1 ( 1 ) of the Land Rights Act, and the Governor-General to grant the land under section 12. [More…]
Have the Minister, the Government and interdepartmental committees finished their deliberations on the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry Second Report (Fox Report): if so, when is the Government likely to implement the following recommendation made in the Fox Report: ‘Amendments to be made to the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act to enable Aboriginal Land to become pan of a national park, and land rights claims to be made and dealt with notwithstanding that land has become pan of a national park’. [More…]
Have the Minister, the Government, and interdepartmental committees finished their deliberations on the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry Second Report (Fox Report): if so, when is the Government likely to implement the following recommendations made in the Fox Report: ‘Consideration to be given to amendment of the Land Rights Act to enable the land shown on Map 16 within the line edge blue thereon (apart from alienated land within that area and the site of the regional centre) to become the subject of a Land Trust or Trusts ‘. [More…]
Have the Minister, the Government, and interdepartmental committees finished their deliberations on the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry Second Report (Fox Report); if so, when is the Government likely to implement the following recommendation made in the Fox Report: That section 40 ( 1 ) of the Land Rights Act should be amended, so that the prohibition against granting a mining interest without consent will certainly include the common case of mining leases being approved by the administrator, but not formally granted ‘. [More…]
Have the Minister, the Government, and interdepartmental committees finished their deliberations on the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry Second Report (Fox Report); if so, when is the Government likely to implement the following recommendation made in the Fox Report: That consideration be given to amending the Land Rights Act to remove problems associated with the lack of survey of land boundaries which arise when it comes to establishing a Land Trust, and giving registered title to the land. [More…]
Have the Minister, the Government, and interdepartmental committees finished their deliberations on the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry Second Report (Fox Report); if so, when is the Government likely to implement the following recommendation made in the Fox Report: ‘That a decision that mining should proceed at Ranger be taken in conjunction with decisions respecting Aboriginal land rights and the national park’. [More…]
Have the Minister, the Government, and interdepartmental committees finished their deliberations on the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry Second Report (Fox Report); if so, when is the Government likely to implement the following recommendation made in the Fox Report: ‘Once an Aboriginal Land Trust is established which includes the Ranger mining area, negotiations to take place between the Northern Land Council and Ranger respecting the terms and conditions to which section 43 (2) of the Land Rights Act refers.’ [More…]
Have the Minister, the Government and interdepartmental committees finished their deliberations on the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry Second Report (Fox Report); if so, when is the Government likely to implement the following recommendation made in the Fox Report; ‘That the Land Rights Act be amended so as to move the southern boundary of the Ranger Project Area, as delineated in Schedule 2 of the Act, further away from Aboriginal sacred sites.’ [More…]
Did the Queensland Premier state in a This Day Tonight interview on 16 June 1977 that the granting of Aboriginal Land Rights was apartheid. [More…]
Will the Minister undertake to indicate to the Premier and all Australians that the granting of land rights is not apartheid, but a long overdue recognition of the Aborigines’ intimate relationship and ownership of land. [More…]
I refer the honourable senator to my second reading speech on the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 and to statements which I have made subsequently in Parliament and to the media. [More…]
And yet, the Commonwealth, by its Land Rights Act, is accused by some of its detractors of introducing a form of apartheid to Australia, of creating ‘black states’ in the South African sense. [More…]
What we have done in recognising land rights for Aboriginals is to offer the universal freedom of personal liberty and private dignity inherent in Liberalism to Aboriginals so that they may choose their own life styles and live by their own culture and enjoy the same freedoms as all other citizens of Australia. [More…]
The Bill relegates to subordinate legislation or administrative direction matters affecting substantive rights of employees including the scale of compensation, the composition and powers of the appellate tribunal, and the criteria upon which services may be terminated: [More…]
Existing rights of reinstatement in tenured employment was abrogated by the Bill; [More…]
They had no prescriptive rights to put forward names. [More…]
In consideration of the Commonwealth of Australia (hereinafter called ‘the Commonwealth’) paying to me a sum of $ (the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged), being an amount equal to the amount of pension or other benefit which was payable to me on 29 September 1977 under the Social Services Act 1947 and which was paid on my behalf to Queensland Permanent Building Society ( hereinafter called ‘the Society’ pursuant to an authority in that behalf given by me to the Commonwealth, I of hereby assign absolutely to the Commonwealth the sum of $ out of the amount now due or which hereafter may become due to me by the Society ( which said sum is hereinafter called ‘the debt’) and every dividend and sum of money (including any sum payable out of the Permanent Building Societies Contingency Fund established under the Building Societies Act 1886-1976) which may be declared or become due and payable in respect ofthe debt and all other rights which I now have or may hereafter have against the Society in respect thereof. [More…]
Take notice that I of have this day assigned to the Commonwealth of Australia the sum of $ out of the amount now due or which hereafter may become due to me by the Queensland Permanent Building Society (which said sum is hereinafter called ‘the debt’) and every dividend and sum of money (including any sum payable out of the Permanent Building Society Contingency Fund established under the Building Societies Act 1886-1976) which may be declared or become due and payable in respect of the debt and all other rights which I now have or may hereafter have against the Society in respect thereof. [More…]
I had the opportunity yesterday to discuss, in the State of Victoria, with members of both the Monash and Melbourne universities, the subject of land rights and compensation for dispossession. [More…]
They talk about the freedom and rights of people when they can hold up the whole nation and the people to ransom. [More…]
The deprivation of civil rights which we suffer in Queensland affects him in Tasmania. [More…]
This very regulation which limited the rights of people in Queensland is a regulation which Senator Wright, as a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Regulations and Ordinances, would throw out. [More…]
Having regard to the fact that the Groote Eylandt project has been in existence for some years and its position is recognised within the Northern Territory Aboriginal Land Rights Act, is not the action being taken to restrict the movement of Gemco employees in confrontation with the tenor of the legislation? [More…]
-I can inform the honourable senator that the Aboriginal Land Rights Act preserves the existing rights of the Groote Eylandt mining company to recover manganese ore from the island. [More…]
Will the Minister make a statement on this issue in accordance with the Australian Government’s expressed support for human rights internationally? [More…]
If it is not inconsistent with fundamental rights and duties, the House should avoid setting itself up as an alternative forum or body of inquiry or permit its proceedings to interfere in the course of justice. [More…]
Apart from particular matters such as criminal cases, court martials, civil cases and matters referred by a legislature to a judicial body, the rule has application to other hearings, inquiries or investigations in which the rights of individuals or a community group or the achievement of justice may be prejudiced. [More…]
I submit that the rights of a Minister of the Crown, about whom matters have already been alleged so many times and remarks made about valuation and so on, should be protected. [More…]
Should Senator Wriedt be allowed to proceed it will prejudice the rights and justice of people in Victoria. [More…]
Although the situation is far from encouraging to those who believe in human rights and the preservation of world peace, nonetheless there remains at least a chance that the people of South Africa, the white and non-white people together, may yet be able to resolve their differences. [More…]
When they demand freedom for themselves and the rights to preserve their own culture they say that they are entitled to achieve this end by denying to other people who live within the Republic of South Africa the same rights that they want. [More…]
That was said by these honest, sincere people who want to have equality before the law, an equal homeland and equal rights for equal cultures. [More…]
We have to make it clear, I believe, that while on the one hand we support the human rights of all South African citizens, we are not lending our name merely to some propositions being put forward that there ought suddenly to be a violent, bloody overthrow within that country, that there be armed intervention. [More…]
It has been given rights to operate on campus throughout Australia under a condition available to no other travel service. [More…]
Let us make sure they get it with no danger to their rights to travel. [More…]
Students who are brave enough and concerned enough to stand up for their rights in this matter regard several of the activities which the AUS undertakes as being ultra vires its own constitution. [More…]
It seeks to defend the rights of people to assemble in all places. [More…]
Clause 6 of the Bill continues the Government’s policy of expanding, wherever possible, the jurisdiction of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal in relation to administrative decisions which affect rights or entitlements of persons under Commonwealth legislation. [More…]
If there is a prima facie case that we are entitled to receive consideration for extra staff facilities in Canberra- and this has been suggested by the Public Service Board and the Remuneration Tribunal- I submit it ought to be considered by the various authorities that I have referred to including the Minister and in particular the Presiding Officers because it seems to me to be rather strange that the Senate and the members, who after all should be primary consideration of the Parliament, should be denied what I consider to be elementary rights in respect of facilities to enable them to work from this place. [More…]
I, therefore, urge the Minister when he has a chance to examine the debate and, when he looks at the emoluments that are paid to the judicial office holders under this Bill, to look also at the rights of the staff of those office holders who have full travelling rights, proper accommodation and receive all the other benefits that go to public servants. [More…]
I believe that it is time that we, as members of the Parliament, should stand up and say that our staff members should have the same rights and that statutory office holders should not have staff entitlements greater than staff facilities which are available to members of the Parliament. [More…]
I am not suggesting that there should be a contraction of the rights of the staff of office holders dealt with in this Bill. [More…]
The Government is also committed to legislating for the protection of individual rights in the industrial area. [More…]
One of the fundamental tenets of the Government’s industrial relations policy is that each member of the community has both rights and obligations: Those rights must be protected and the obligations must be met. [More…]
It is the principal means of giving legal expression to industrial rights and obligations. [More…]
While it is not, and cannot be, a complete statement of those rights and obligations it certainly is the vehicle which establishes the framework of those rights and obligations by defining the roles and responsibilities of the parties to industrial relations and providing for an expression of the public interest. [More…]
Third, the Bill proposes to enhance the means by which the rights of members of organisations, and the interests of the community, can be better protected through the functioning of the Commission, the Industrial Relations Bureau and the Federal Court. [More…]
Individual Rights [More…]
I have already made general reference to the manner in which unions can erode the industrial rights of individuals. [More…]
However, organisations are meant to protect and enlarge the rights of individuals, and not to undermine their liberties. [More…]
A number of cases in which infringements of the rights of individuals by trade unions have occurred have received attention in recent months. [More…]
suspend all or any of the capacities, rights and privileges of an organisation or any of its members. [More…]
It represents a necessary reshaping of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act to meet changed industrial circumstances and to reassert the rule of the law in expressing or defining industrial rights and obligations Events of recent months and, most particularly, the events of the last few days, have emphasised this is essential in the interests of our community. [More…]
As many Aboriginal people do not fully understand their basic legal rights, the police take advantage of this ignorance. [More…]
They are entitled to the same rights as any other person in this country. [More…]
Senator Keeffe made the statement that I had addressed a land rights meeting in Alice Springs and then for some reason or other I had gone to my home, locked myself in the bathroom and wrote a statement which was contrary to what I said at the meeting. [More…]
Senator Keeffe has said that I, having made the statement that I accepted and supported land rights, went home and wrote an article to the contrary. [More…]
When I was a member of the then Northern Territory Legislative Council, in 1965 or 1966, 1 think it was, before land rights became a popular theme - [More…]
As far as I understand, that was the first move in Australia to bring about land rights for Aboriginal people. [More…]
I think it is rather futile for anybody, let alone Senator Keeffe, to stand up in this place and say that I have supported land rights in public and have then gone and locked myself in the bathroom to write an article to the contrary. [More…]
I understand that there is certainly a right not to join associations in the Declaration of Human Rights issued by the United Nations, to which I thought the Labor Party subscribed without reservation. [More…]
Were the provisions relating to the de-registration of trade unions, the provisions relating to demarcation disputes and the provisions relating to actions under section 141 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, that is, the section dealing with ballots and rights of members- matters covered by this legislationdiscussed in detail at the National Labour Consultative Council? [More…]
The central part of this Bill concerns itself with the operation of those federal unions in the registry using their rights under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act as registered organisations or unions. [More…]
So far from going the whole distance of cancellation of the union’s registration, this Bill, for the first time, gives power to the court on a cancellation application, to suspend the rights, privileges and capacities of the organisation or any of its members under the Act or under any award. [More…]
The court is also given power to make directions as to the exercise of any rights or capacities that have been so suspended and, more importantly, it is given power to make provision for restricting the use of funds or the property of the organisation or a branch of the organisation. [More…]
The Bill does go into other matters dealing with individual rights and demarcation disputes. [More…]
No community that we call civilised can operate to regulate the rights of its units unless the law is administered by tribunals and courts impartially for the benefit of the people, and that, in the industrial situation is a substitution for the economic chaos which is reminiscent of the outlook of a century ago past which Senator Button’s reading has not come. [More…]
The legislation contains the most extensive use of phrases and prescriptions which are designed to limit the rights of the worker to have a free association with his employer. [More…]
I now turn to individual rights. [More…]
On the question of individual rights, it will be interesting to see just whether the Society for Civil Liberties will back our proposals, because it must surely agree that the proposals in this legislation relating to individual rights are essential to this community. [More…]
-That, Senator Georges, is exactly what I am talking about- the rights of this society and the rights of the individuals in this society. [More…]
The rights to work and not to strike are contained in the legislation. [More…]
But more importantly, I believe, is the section of the Bill which gives the right to suspend the rights, privileges and capacities of a member or all members of a union. [More…]
If the Declaration of Human Rights means anything, while it may not force an individual to join a union, it does not mean that there should be power to prevent a person from associating with an organisation with which he wants to associate. [More…]
If the Government is honest with itself as regards freedom of the individual, it must say that it is against human rights for a court to be able to say to a person: ‘You want to belong to that organisation, you want that organisation to protect your rights but we are saying that you cannot belong to the organisation’. [More…]
This policy reflects a fundamental review of the rights and responsibilities of the parties engaged in industrial relations and the demands of the contemporary community. [More…]
There has been a trend in the trade union movement for shop stewards to take over this role, whereby we have the irresponsibility of the few against the rights of the many. [More…]
The essential thrust of this legislation is to preserve the rights of the individual. [More…]
A lot has been said here today about the rights of the individual. [More…]
What about Noel Latham, whose individual right to work is guaranteed, as honourable senators opposite have said, by the Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
What rights does he have? [More…]
What rights did Kratulis, who was sacked from the Tramways Union in Melbourne and blackballed out of the job, have? [More…]
The right to work has a hollow sound unless government is prepared to back it with legislation to protect the rights of individuals in Australia. [More…]
One of the fundamental tenets of the Government ‘s industrial relations policy is that each member of the community has both rights and obligations: Those rights must be protected and the obligations must be met. [More…]
It is true that people have rights and people have obligations. [More…]
Opposition members would be the last to say that they are not entitled to those rights, but we also believe they have an obligation to make their contribution towards securing and sustaining those rates of pay and conditions of work. [More…]
It is fair and reasonable to say that there are rights and obligations. [More…]
It was not concerned about their rights or freedoms. [More…]
The Government has taken it upon itself responsibly to bring in legislation to protect the rights and the freedoms of individuals in this country, and that includes members of the trade unions in this country who at the present time are bring tied down by so many of the radical shop stewards involved in some of the trade unions throughout Australia. [More…]
We have introduced these amendments to the legislation to make sure that the rights of the working men and women of this country will be protected. [More…]
The main one, in my mind, is the emphasis given to individual rights. [More…]
One of the most important areas from the Commonwealth Government’s point of view and from the point of view of the rights of this [More…]
I am not talking about just some sectors but about the broad section of the trade union movement whose members are kept in the dark about the financial and other affairs of the operations of the trade union, and consequently are not able to exercise their proper democratic rights when it comes to electing leaders of the trade unions or taking part in the ordinary affairs of trade unions. [More…]
I have heard unions claim that it is too costly to provide a set of rules, but how can an ordinary member extend his influence and use his democratic rights to the full unless he fully understands what the organisation is about and what the rules are that have been made by the organisation which is controlling him? [More…]
Right at the core of it is the matter of the individual rights of trade unionists. [More…]
What about their individual rights then, Senator Messner? [More…]
In fact the very history of our country is related to the attempts by those who produce the wealth, those who use their hands, to establish fundamental rights to sell their labour for a reasonable rate of pay. [More…]
Yet those are the unions in which the rank and file members have exercised their democratic rights by going on strike, in some cases after having availed themselves of the only opportunity to seek some for of justification and negotiation in respect of the matters before them. [More…]
It is quite clear to me that the Bill is about the preservation of individual rights and is in keeping with the Government’s industrial relations policy which has certain principles. [More…]
One of them is that each member of our community has rights and obligations. [More…]
Individual rights have to be protected, and we intend to see that they will be. [More…]
I turn now to the important matter of Aboriginal land rights, which has some parallel with CSR. [More…]
The Australian Labor” Party when in government attempted to elevate the matter of Aboriginal land rights to a position where it was accepted as part of Australia’s policy towards Aboriginals. [More…]
As a Tasmanian, I almost have to bow my head when I speak of Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
The Government’s predecessors solved the Aboriginal land rights problem in Tasmania by shooting the parents and poisoning the children, obliterating a segment of God’s creation. [More…]
It is the matter of human rights and conscription. [More…]
But they have come to a country in which archaic people, such as those people in Queensland, are legislating to turn the clock back and are refusing to recognise democratic rights which are basic to the Australian way of life. [More…]
I am aware that the need for information on all Government services and the rights of individuals is sometimes lacking as far as migrants are concerned. [More…]
I do not object to an investigation into the subject of human rights providing the investigation relates to the United Nations Declaration and is not selective. [More…]
I have no objection to the investigation covering the Soviet Union providing it is also- and this is an argument which has been put quite often by honourable senators on the Government side- an investigation of human rights in a number of other countries. [More…]
I know that one’s mind begins to boggle when one endeavours to limit the scope of my proposition because where does the violation of human rights end? [More…]
In other words our Committee is now to engage in an investigation of human rights in the Soviet Union in particular. [More…]
For a period we may seem to be concentrating on the problems of human rights and political repression in Eastern European countries and in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I believe that there is an excellent reason for this Committee to examine this matter and human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Amnesty International deals with many different countries but it has concentrated considerably in the last year or two on the appalling situation of human rights not only of Jewish people but also of other religious and national groups in the Soviet Union. [More…]
As Senator Georges pointed out, we ought to be conducting an inquiry into the human rights of many people who live in this country before we go far afield to such places as the Soviet Union. [More…]
Senator Georges, on the prompting of Senator Hall, made reference to the human rights of people in Queensland. [More…]
We know from recent events there that many of the human rights of the citizens of Queensland have been stripped away from them by the Premier of the State, BjelkePetersen. [More…]
He denies the people of Queensland the human rights to which they are entitled as citizens and voters of this country. [More…]
Senator Sir Magnus Cormack, as Chairman of the Committee, has sought leave of the Senate to make a statement regarding the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, sub-committee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I do not know whether he said there would be a further reference to the Committee on human rights in the Soviet Union and a withdrawal of the reference which is now before the Committee as is set out in the Notice Paper-that is, the reference regarding the status of Soviet jewry. [More…]
I do not know whether that reference has now been deleted or whether the Committee will carry on with it and the Committee will have a further reference dealing with this subject about which Senator Cormack spoke, namely, human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
-by leaveSenator Sir Magnus Cormack sought leave to make a statement relating to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, Subcommittee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union under the business heading of presentation of papers. [More…]
I am well aware of allegations that have been made about civil rights and civil liberties in the Soviet Union. [More…]
This Committee could well look at human rights and civil liberties in Iran, South Africa, Pakistan, India, Zimbabwe or Rhodesia, Indonesia, the Philippines, East Timor, West Irian, countries in South America such as Brazil, Argentina and Columbia, Thailand, Queensland as it is at present, and Cambodia. [More…]
-By the interjections, I think the Senate agrees that one does not know where to stop when we get into the field of civil liberties and human rights. [More…]
I wonder what the reaction of this Parliament and this nation would be if the Soviet Union were to conduct an inquiry into the rights of Aborigines in Australia or Queenslanders at the present time in absentia. [More…]
However, for many reasons which are proper to the Committee’s consideration and which it has debated from time to time it came to the conclusion that this was an exclusive area of analysis and examination which should not be confined to the area of Soviet Jewry alone but should relate to the question of minorities inside the Soviet Union in the context of both the Declaration on Human Rights and the Helsinki Accord. [More…]
As long as I am the Chairman of the Committee and Mr Beazley is the Chairman of the Sub-committee I am sure that the rights and proprieties which exist between governments will be protected. [More…]
Will the Minister consider making a protest to the South African Government against this further blow to democracy in that country and denials of human rights? [More…]
Is the Leader of the Government in the Senate aware that the Minister for Primary Industry, Mr Sinclair, suggested that, in retaliation for the Japanese Government’s refusal to increase beef imports into Japan, Australia should toughen its stand on fishing rights within Australian waters? [More…]
One of the reasons why the Australian Labor Party opposes these proposals of the distribution commissioners relates to an event that occurred in the Kimberleys in the by-election for the Western Australian Legislative Council held earlier this year, when it was alleged that a large number of Aborigines were deterred from exercising their voting rights. [More…]
He pointed out also that honourable senators on this side of the chamber and honourable senators on the other side of the chamber were quite within their rights, under the Standing Orders, in speaking to that motion. [More…]
One of the most important features of the amendments made by the Parliament a week or so ago to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, to which I referred earlier, and which Mr Bob Hawke wants us to withdraw, and the Opposition of course opposed, was that of providing protection for individual unionists and widening greatly the scope and availability of individual rights for apprentices such as the honourable senator refers to, so that they may be able to make good their conscientious objection to joining unions. [More…]
I will certainly refer the specific matter raised to the Minister who will, I am sure, see to it that action is taken to protect the rights of such people under that legislation. [More…]
The Committee considers that to restrict the jurisdiction of the Ombudsman is to restrict the rights of the citizen, and that Commonwealth authorities should not be excluded from the Ombudsman’s jurisdiction except for the most cogent reasons. [More…]
The Senate will see from this statement that the Regulations and Ordinances Committee has subjected these three pieces of subordinate legislation to close scrutiny to see whether the rights and liberties of persons are properly safeguarded, and it is hoped that during the new Parliament the operation of this legislation will be reviewed in accordance with the terms of my statement. [More…]
In announcing that decision, the Prime Minister mentioned that the Government would be introducing legislation to enable Mr Justice Fox to retain his judicial status and the rights which attach to that status while he is Ambassador-at-Large. [More…]
I am sure honourable senators will agree that it is appropriate that His Honour should retain his pension rights. [More…]
I think also we should be looking at means of informing migrants and Aboriginals of their voting rights and at means of getting the socially disadvantaged groups on the electoral rolls. [More…]
Consequently, on April 6, 1 9 10, it introduced the following Resolution: “That it is expedient that the House of Lords be disabled by law from rejecting or amending a Money Bill, but that any such limitation by law shall not be taken to diminish or qualify the existing rights and privileges of the House of Commons. [More…]
We are quite within our rights in those circumstances in requesting a reduction of the appropriation of ASIO until such time as a better organisation is set up. [More…]
This Bill proposes an amendment to the income tax law to provide for the reinstatement of an income tax exemption for income derived by bona fide prospectors from the sale, transfer or assignment of rights to mine for gold or any other metal or mineral that is prescribed for the purposes of the exemption. [More…]
Prospectors are encouraged to look for minerals they cannot hope to mme themselves if they know that any income that they will receive from transferring rights to mine their discoveries is not going to be reduced by taxation. [More…]
If the Government believes that sort of malpractice exists in the saleyards why does it not give the Meat and Livestock Corporation the power to break that monopolistic malpractice by giving it full trading rights? [More…]
They did not include the Country Party or the League of Rights . [More…]
The Party did not see fit to cut adrift the League of Rights and the Country Party which he also made some disparaging remarks about which I shall quote later. [More…]
I related to the Senate a while ago how he had voiced very strong objections to the actions of the Liberal Party in ousting the Liberal Movement from under the cover of the Liberal Party but left the League of Rights embraced with the Country Party. [More…]
I would like it to be very clear that I believe that if car parking facilities are to be provided they should be provided underground and that those of us who on occasions may meditate by walking around the shores of Lake Burley Griffin will not have our rights impaired. [More…]
When Mr Whitlam signed the agreement with Peko Mines Ltd it was subject to the findings of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry and the Joint Committee on Aboriginal Land Rights in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I say to him that in view of his opposition to any form of racial discrimination, I hope he will use his good intentions with some of his colleagues in his State who trooped north during the last Western Australian election to confuse the minds of so many Aborigines in the north of Western Australia over their rights to vote. [More…]
The Liberal Party went on to argue that under such a policy the position of the various States would be advantaged and that they would be given greater rights while the States, of course, would be fully protected. [More…]
I refer to the rights of electorate secretaries. [More…]
The Bill will also preserve certain pension rights which His Honour has as Judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
It is designed to enable the appointment of Mr Justice Fox as Ambassador-at-Large, to represent Australia in its endeavours to secure a strengthened nuclear non-proliferation regime, without this appointment impinging on his rights as a judge. [More…]
So there are clear precedents for the provision that is contained in clause 3 (a) of the Bill, namely, that service as AmbassadoratLarge counts as continuation of judicial service and attracts the continuation of the salary rights of a judge. [More…]
The other matter raised by Senator Wright concerned pension rights. [More…]
Therefore, Mr President, although you have ruled according to the letter of the Standing Orders that Senator McLaren is unable to make such a reference, in my view it is a special matter in which you should exercise that extra discretion that should be available to the Presiding Officer to give a senator the same rights as anyone else in the community. [More…]
This has not been done, and any claim that the rights of the Senate are being abridged in any way does not stand up. [More…]
How are the rights of such workers at Gove, which is more of an industrial concept, being preserved? [More…]
That phrase has come to be wholly misunderstood; it refers to stable employment on weekly hiring, with certain rights of dismissal- was adopted from the end of 1967 and which now provides for all regular waterside workers at the major ports to be employed on weekly hiring. [More…]
The AttorneyGeneral would know that a very delicate situation arose in the port of Sydney when the Transport Workers Union of Australia had certain industrial rights in an area in which the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia also had certain industrial rights. [More…]
I mention particularly the very progressive move taken by the Government to exempt income derived from the sale of mining rights. [More…]
This caused genuine hardship to the bona fide prospector who had control of mining rights over areas of land. [More…]
I thought I might impose upon the Minister for Administrative Services (Senator Withers) to clarify the present situation in respect of the voting rights of the 35 countries which constitute the Commonwealth of Nations. [More…]
We are enormously anxious that people know not only about their enrolment rights but also their voting obligations once they have enrolled. [More…]
I know that there is in existence an agreement to pay some compensation to the companies concerned as a result of the Government withdrawing their export rights for the minerals extracted from the sands of Fraser Island. [More…]
‘We strongly acknowledge the role and rights of the Opposition.’ [More…]
Further, will the Minister request the Commonwealth Australian Electoral Officer to take all steps within his power to advise all Australians especially Aboriginal Australians of their rights to enrol and cast a vote for House of Representatives and Senate candidates at the elections next month. [More…]
That would take away the rights of the individual who has chosen to exercise his rights in the Court of Disputed Returns. [More…]
We as Australians are concerned about civil liberties and about the rights which people have in election campaigns - [More…]
She said that apparently she had been branded almost a communists because she has criticised the Premier for his attacks on the rights of anti-uranium campaigners. [More…]
We in turn have a right to expect that Queenslanders and Queensland leaders will respect the democratic rights of persons in their State. [More…]
I hope at the same time that the Queensland Government will recognise that we are making this assistance available as Australian citizens and that it will respect the rights of all Australian citizens during this election period. [More…]
In one sentence, Mr Bjelke-Petersen has injured the rights democrats have fought for centuries to preserve. [More…]
Has the Minister noted the remarks of Mr Justice Toohey in his first report in accordance with the provisions of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976, where he has stated that the Act is not as clear as it might be with regard to the proper construction to be given to section 50 (3) of the Act. [More…]
I ask honourable senators to note those countries, especially in view of the attitude we have taken concerning certain sovereign rights which we believe we have in the Antarctic and which could, in the years ahead, come under increasing challenge. [More…]
The SBS will be empowered to fund its operations by the broadcasting of sponsored programs, by charging for the provision of services and facilities and by the sale of programs and rights or interests in programs. [More…]
We believe firmly that the rights of people under the Social Services Act should be written clearly; that there should be as few discretions as possible in the legislation, and that if there is a need for change it should be done by bringing it to the public and submitting it to the vote in this Parliament. [More…]
We believe, like the Myers inquiry and like the Henderson inquiry, that the rights of the underprivileged in this country should be clearly stated and clearly written down in the laws of this country. [More…]
We deprecate it and we have as a firm commitment a policy to change it so that in fact people have clear rights and know what they are about. [More…]
Whilst the clause is legalising something which the Government did illegally to school leavers last year, although it has claimed that it was within its rights in doing what it did and has maintained by inference that Mr Justice Stephen upheld its actions, Senator Grimes has pointed out that if what the Government did to school leavers last year was legal there is no reason to have this clause placed in the Act. [More…]
The pamphlet is entitled ‘Rights and Legal Information if You’re Unemployed’ and contains advice of great importance to those people who find themselves without a job. [More…]
As already disadvantaged people can be even more seriously disadvantaged by not being aware of their legal rights, what action will be taken to incorporate the information contained in the document into official documents that would be readily available at all Commonwealth Employment Service and Department of Social Security offices? [More…]
As to the question of information for unemployed persons, I am advised that the rights of unemployed persons in relation to the unemployment benefit are set out in advice and documents available to unemployed persons at offices of the Department. [More…]
Under the heading ‘Aboriginal Affairs’ the Government claims credit for Aboriginal land rights legislation. [More…]
It was the Labor Government which originally introduced the land rights Bill. [More…]
He would not allow anyone to attend the Catholic land rights conference held in Charters Towers earlier this year because he said policies that were not consistent with those of the Government would be discussed. [More…]
However, it is a well-known fact that both are associated with the Land Rights Campaign- perhaps it is this that has upset the Premier. [More…]
Also in Western Australia the rights to a great diamond find were given to private enterprise, with no provision for the protection of Aboriginals, although the find was on their land. [More…]
If the employees are to be dismissed because they hold political views different from those of the Queensland Premier, is this not a suppression of freedom of the individual political rights of the two employees? [More…]
Legislation for Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill has still not been implemented and that the so-called complementary legislation has never been carried m the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly? [More…]
Can the Minister inform the Parliament whether this has been a deliberate action by the Government to prevent Aborigines getting land rights until the uranium leases are resolved? [More…]
What action will the Government take before 10 December to implement the land rights policy? [More…]
Is the Minister also aware that as a result of failure to implement land rights, Tipperary Station has mustered up to 3,000 head of cattle from adjacent lands which belong to Aborigines and the owners of Tipperary Station will not negotiate with the traditional owners regarding compensation until such time as legal action is taken by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs? [More…]
Senator Keeffe is well aware that the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill was passed through this Parliament after a lengthy debate in which he and I engaged in a great deal of discussion. [More…]
I refer to the dearth of information available about the internal situation in Kampucheaformerly Cambodia- and especially the reports, now a year old, which detail the massive killings, starvation of the population and many major infringements of human rights being inflicted on the people by the ruling Khmer Rouge. [More…]
Can the Minister provide the Senate with any more recent information on developments in this nation, particularly on the state of infringements of human rights? [More…]
It has been said that one of the most tragic events of recent years has been the absolute cruelty, slaughter and deprivation of human rights and liberties in that country. [More…]
I ask: First, will the Minister for Foreign Affairs instruct the chief of protocol to inform the Diplomatic Corps that accredited members of the Corps have no more rights within the Parliament precincts than any other person except parliamentarians and the servants of Parliament? [More…]
Will all royalties collected by the Government for Minerals and extracted from Aboriginal lands be paid into the Aboriginal Trust Account, as required by section 63 of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976; if so, what was the meaning of the statement in the paper on uranium mining by the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs that The equivalent of a royalty of at least 2Vi per cent will be payable by the Commonwealth Government to the Aboriginal Benefit Trust Account for rnining within the Ranger area’. [More…]
and (2) The honourable senator has interpreted Section 63 of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 incorrectly. [More…]
Section 63 of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act, however, provides for payment by the Crown into the Aboriginal Benefits Trust Accounts of amounts equivalent to royalties which would have been received if raining were carried out under the Northern Territory Mining Ordinance. [More…]
The Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act further provides that, if a higher rate of royalty is prescribed, the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs may determine what proportion of the increase shall be paid into the Trust Account. [More…]
In the case of Ranger where rnining will be carried on under the Atomic Energy Act 1953, the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 provides that the determination of amounts, higher than the royalty rate prescribed by section 63 (5) (a) of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act, will be made jointly by the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and the Minister for National Resources. [More…]
Is the Prime Minister aware that live days earlier the Clerk of the Privy Council informed the Solicitors-General of Queensland and Tasmania by cable that he was instructed to advise that Her Majesty had accepted the advice of her Ministers in the United Kingdom that the petition relating to offshore mining rights should not be referred to the Judicial Committee. [More…]
I inform honourable senators and members that I have decided not to refer to the Privy Council petitions addressed to me by the State of Queensland and the State of Tasmania concerning the rights to the seabed. [More…]
My question which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry is further to the question asked by and answer given to Senator Archer in relation to the proposal by the Labor Government in Tasmania to give Japanese fishing interests special rights to fish in Tasmanian waters on some sort of survey basis. [More…]
Is a proclamation by the Governor-General under section 42 of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 an award covered by Standing Order 66a? [More…]
On a strict reading of the rule, I am of the opinion that it does not apply to proclamations by the Governnor-General of the kind referred to in section 42 of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976. [More…]
Surely those gentlemen and the groups who support them and who are so concerned about the people on whom ASIO have files, should spare a little thought for the three men who were killed- for their rights and for their families. [More…]
In consultation with the States, legislation will be reintroduced to establish a Human Rights Commission. [More…]
My Government welcomes Australia ‘s membership on the UN Human Rights Commission as an opportunity to contribute to the discussion and further development of internationally accepted principles of human rights. [More…]
On 18 December 1972 Australia signed the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
I think that is a matter which ought to concern the Parliament in terms of human rights. [More…]
I say that because I think that what the Premier of Queensland is really saying is: ‘If the Federal Parliament regards it as the right of every Australian citizen to contest Federal elections- to vote in them but, more importantly, to contest them- as far as certain Australians are concerned, I shall take it upon myself to qualify those individual political rights which are accorded to all Australians and the qualifications will be that the right to stand for Parliament is extended to all Australian citizens except teachers employed in Queensland ‘. [More…]
It emphasised that it would ‘continue its efforts to improve the status of women in the Australian society’, that it wished to contribute to the ‘further development of internationally accepted principles of human rights’ and that it would ‘work to improve the quality of education at all levels.’ [More…]
Mr President, I despair of the Federal Government ever acheiving anything at all in either of these areas or in the areas of human rights and quality of education if it continues in this vein. [More…]
The rights of Aborigines and women will never be assured if the Government and other bodies continue to blinker themselves, continue to look at the problem from the wrong end of the telescope so that individuals disappear into the middle distance and injustices and anomalies are treated by talking rather than doing. [More…]
The rights of children to the best education system possible- as distinct from the best education system available- will be similarly glossed over if governments both State and Federal, Liberal and Labor, continue to provide material items and resources in preference to providing human resources. [More…]
My Government will continue to support industrial laws which protect the rights of individual unionists and which contribute to a just and orderly system of industrial relations. [More…]
The Government talks about the rights of individual unionists but everyone knows, as a result of past legislation and the threats now being made against officers of the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations, that the protection of individual unionists really means the promotion of scabs and the protection of non-unionists in Australia. [More…]
This is a program which during the last two years has gone a long way towards designing protection of civil liberties and enhancing individual rights. [More…]
It is proposed to establish a Human Rights Commission. [More…]
Senator Button referred to the fact that it was highly desirable that this country should ratify the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which we signed in 1972. [More…]
The sooner we take it the better, particularly in view of the fact that we are now part of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. [More…]
I regard that as a significant lack of appreciation and lack of consideration of human rights. [More…]
Likewise, I think that the actions in regard to Mr John Sinclair over Fraser Island and his subsequent sufferings are significant depredations of human rights. [More…]
I think it essential that we have to have operating in this country a human rights commission that investigates and draws to the attention of the public any cases of human rights not being properly protected in this country. [More…]
The Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) swept aside the rights of the East Timorese to self-determination when he said: [More…]
It is hard not to feel anger about this whole matter, particularly in view of some of the pious statements made in this Parliament and in parliaments of the world by Australian leaders and others, including public servants, on issues such as human rights. [More…]
As recently as 28 November 1977 the General Assembly of the United Nations carried a resolution on the rights of the peoples of East Timor. [More…]
Perhaps the Government has become so enmeshed in resources diplomacy that the questions of self-determination and human rights have been reduced dramatically in importance. [More…]
Could it be that the timing of this decision to recognise incorporation is linked with the disputes in the Timor Sea concerning the seabed and oil exploration rights? [More…]
Portugal always argued its territorial rights should extend well down into what is essentially the Australian continental shelf. [More…]
Whether the Portuguese would have ever won their demands for the rights to a larger slice of the Australian continental shelf is open to question. [More…]
The scramble for oil has meant a further erosion of support for human rights in our region. [More…]
In consultation with the States, legislation will be reintroduced to establish a Human Rights Commission. [More…]
My Government welcomes Australia ‘s membership on the UN Human Rights Commission as an opportunity to contribute to the discussion and further development of internationally accepted principles of human rights. [More…]
What a way for the Government to commence its term as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Commission, by providing Indonesia with de facto recognition of its takeover in East Timor. [More…]
This decision successfully underlines Australia’s essential lack of commitment to human rights. [More…]
How in the future can the Government claim to be concerned with human rights when the basic human rights of more than 600,000 people fewer than 400 miles from Darwin are so conveniently denied and now ignored? [More…]
Even if one sets that aside, to write off 600,000 people, because we are friends with the country which forcibly annexed them, does real violence to any profession of adherence to the principle of human rights. [More…]
I think there are statutory rights of appeal to persons who hold judicial office. [More…]
I think there are, even at the stage of suspension, statutory rights of appeal to magistrates or other people holding some judicial office. [More…]
We heard fine rhetoric about civil liberties and civil rights. [More…]
Why do we not have legislation to ensure that they have some rights in respect of promotion as well as the same rights as men to be selected for a job? [More…]
I know that child care’ has become another expression which people tune out of their thinking in the same way as they do when one talks about women ‘s rights. [More…]
I intend to refer to some statements that have been made concerning members of my race and the land rights Act introduced by the Government to give the tribal lands back to many of my people in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I think it is appropriate that I should bring up the matter of land rights and some of the statements concerning it at a time when the last member of the Kalkadoon tribe is being laid to rest at Mount Isa in Queensland. [More…]
Racial confrontation, industrial chaos and possible financial ruin were predicted yesterday for the emerging State in the Northern Territory if the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1 977 is not amended. [More…]
If that kind of statement is not going to cause problems in itself when Aborigines are being given their rights by a Federal government for the first time in the history of this country, I do not know what will. [More…]
It seems rather strange that it was followed on Monday, 20 February 1978- only three days later- by an article on the third page of the Brisbane Courier Mail headed in very big, black type: ‘Premier slates mineral rights law for blacks. [More…]
White Australians would be converted to second class citizens unless “mineral rights provisions were removed from aboriginal land legislation, the Premier (Mr Bjelke-Petersen) said last night. [More…]
He said legislation which gave mineral and land rights was pure Alice in Wonderland’ and had been drawn up on a misunderstanding. [More…]
We passed the land rights legislation here in this chamber. [More…]
Are they all radicals, do-gooders and activists because they support Aboriginal land rights in the way they were identified in the Aboriginal land rights legislation introduced into this Parliament and passed by this Senate? [More…]
If the land rights legislation is unaltered, Aboriginal people will have the right of veto over mining on their land, except when the minerals are being mined in the national interest. [More…]
The Premier said it was a denial of basic democratic rights that any group could exclude other people from going anywhere in Australia. [More…]
All that the Aboriginal people are seeking in their land rights claim is the right to determine who shall come on to their lands and into their communities and for what purpose. [More…]
As the elders of the tribes said when I was Chairman of the Select Committee inquiring into Aboriginal land rights in the Northern Territory, they want the right to say who- whether black, white or brindle with green stripes- should come on to their property and who should not. [More…]
Madam Deputy President, 1 think it is appropriate that the Northern Lands Council should be under the chairmanship of a tribal Aborigine- not some Sydney radical or some Melbourne radical but a tribal Aborigine- and made up of tribal men controlling the land rights in the Northern Territory. [More…]
So they are trying to discredit the whole Lands Rights Act, which was passed in December, 1976, after two years of debate in Parliament and in the country under both Labor and Liberal/Country Party Governments. [More…]
The Aboriginal people have so little and it took so long to get so little, yet we have mining companies and a Premier of” a State not in any way recognising land rights for Aboriginal people. [More…]
This Premier will not recognise those rights in any shape or form; even to the extent that when a group of Aboriginal people were endeavouring to buy some crown lease land he stopped that from happening. [More…]
We have a government which talks at great length about individual rights and freedoms, about increasing the freedom of choice, about putting money into people ‘s pockets and enabling people the choice of how that money is spent and so forth. [More…]
Before the quorum was called I was pointing out to the Senate that during the AddressinReply debate speakers representing various political views have developed a theme, namely, the disparity between what the Government is prepared to say about individual freedoms and rights and what the Government is prepared to do. [More…]
Senator Bonner made the point with great passion and from the heart and from personal experience that despite what has been said and, indeed, despite legislation which has been passed in this chamber with respect to land rights for Aborigines, those land rights have not yet been implemented. [More…]
The Aboriginal people are still living in disgraceful poverty and ill-health and the very rights which we assumed we guaranteed by passing the land rights legislation are under attack by representatives of the mining industry, more particularly the multinational mining interests which are so anxious to use Australia as a quarry regardless of the wishes of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
I think it is very disturbing for those of us engaged in parliamentary life to realise that we can come here representing our electorates and our States and see legislation with which all honourable senators agree- I think that was the case with the Aboriginal land rights legislationpassed through the Parliament yet other more powerful institutions than the Parliament, which are not answerable to anybody and certainly not to anybody in Australia, are able to deflect and distort our wishes as expressed in the land rights legislation. [More…]
I congratulate Senator Bonner, as a supporter of the Government, for rising and reminding the Government that the land rights legislation has not been implemented. [More…]
I hope his words today will stiffen the resolve of Government members to resist the lobbying of the Mining Industries Forum and other selfinterested bodies and to persist with the good intentions which they all expressed at the time when the land rights legislation was introduced. [More…]
While I am on this theme of individual freedoms and the importance of basic democratic rights to us in the Parliament I shall mention briefly the situation of broadcasting in this country. [More…]
It provided that in future there would be no special provision in relation to tuberculosis but it made provisions for considerable protection of existing rights. [More…]
As a result of the review which the Government has undertaken, it has been decided that further steps must be taken to fulfill its responsibility to safeguard our society while protecting the individual rights and liberties of all Australians. [More…]
The overall balancing of the interests of security and the rights of private citizens. [More…]
Belgium, Japan and South Africa do not recognise any claims, while the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics have reserved their rights. [More…]
It is interesting to note that this is the first time the United States and the USSR have agreed to any mutual inspection rights. [More…]
We need to establish a commission to review the functions and nature of the Constitution, which was framed before many of the developments of the 20th century- such as industrialisation, the need for increased Government participation in the economy, guaranteed employment, the rights of trade unionists, basic human rights, civil liberties and the role of political parties within the governmental systembecame as important as they are today. [More…]
One of the other priorities referred to in the Speech was to protect and enhance the rights and civil liberties of every Australian’, whilst another was ‘to secure the defence of our nation and act as a positive force for world peace’. [More…]
A job and a living wage are basic rights of every school leaver. [More…]
One of the priorities set out in the GovernorGeneral’s Speech, according to the drafting of the Government, is the protection and enhancement of the rights and civil liberties of every Australian, and that is an important matter to which I will refer in a few moments in relation to Queensland. [More…]
In consultation with the States, legislation will be reintroduced to establish a Human Rights Commission. [More…]
My Government - said the Governor-General on behalf of the Prime Minister- welcomes Australia’s membership on the UN Human Rights Commission as an opportunity to contribute to the discussion and further development of internationally accepted principles of human rights. [More…]
The first paragraph of the section dealing with civil rights and political reform stated: [More…]
My Government will cany out a continuing program of law reform, particularly with a view to protecting civil liberties and enhancing individual rights. [More…]
Constant vigilance is required to ensure that the rights of individual citizens are not eroded or ignored. [More…]
That is where the Premier reigns supreme.A few days ago- and Senator Bonner made some reference to this- the Mining Industry Council was very caustic about the land rights legislation in the Northern Territory. [More…]
In Queensland, of course, there are no land rights at all. [More…]
In the Northern Territory on paper there are land rights; in practice there are none, but eventually this Government may get around to implementing some. [More…]
White Australians would be converted to second class citizens unless mineral rights provisions were removed from Aboriginal land legislation, the Premier (Mr BjelkePetersen) said last night. [More…]
He said legislation which gave mineral and land rights was pure Alice in Wonderland’, and had been drawn up on a misunderstanding. [More…]
The Premier said mineral rights had been included in land rights legislation because they were written into the Woodward Commission terms of reference as a fait accompli. [More…]
The Premier said the mineral rights idea, never questioned or debated, was based on the fact that American Indians controlled minerals under their traditional land. [More…]
Mr Bjelke-Petersen said the actions of the Northern Land Council in the Northern Territory over uranium showed the stupidity of granting mineral rights. [More…]
I do not think that Australians are so careless of their rights in a democracy that they objected to having to vote again. [More…]
He will be aware that the Commonwealth Law Reform Commission, under the chairmanship of Mr Justice Kirby, has been considering reform of the law of defamation and the desirability of introducing legislation specifically creating legally enforceable rights to privacy in certain areas of human behaviour. [More…]
Will the Minister ensure that field officers tell the unemployed of these rights so that people who are wrongly taken off benefits are not left for many weeks without other income? [More…]
They try to keep a balance in that no-man’s land between the employers’ demands and the employees’ rights. [More…]
I think one of the most important events which has taken place over recent years, however little it may so far have accomplished, has been the statement by the President of the United States of America shortly after his election that in future the United States Administration would not look merely at the national interests of the United States of America in assessing its relations with foreign countries but would also look at the human rights of citizens within foreign countries. [More…]
There is no doubt that however difficult it may have been and however little may appear to have been accomplished, the very fact that the President of the most powerful country in the world once again drew attention to the lack of human rights in so many countries and said that the foreign policy of such a mighty country would have as its objective achieving human rights for people in a number of different countries is a significant change from what we have been used to in the recent history of the world. [More…]
However little may have been accomplished he has turned the clock back in a desirable way, back to an era when leading statesmen in Western countries were concerned about the human rights of people in the most scattered parts of the globe. [More…]
One of the ingredients making up the formulation of British foreign policy, not only under Gladstone but even earlier under the more conservative Palmerston, was directed to the achievement of or the endeavour to achieve human rights for people, for victims of the slave trade, people suffering under the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Czarist empire. [More…]
As I understand it, in the past members of the present Government, the Prime Minister, Mr Malcolm Fraser, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock), have said that they support this policy and the extension of human rights throughout the world. [More…]
I repeat, not one word was said on human rights in the Governor-General ‘s Speech. [More…]
The Governor-General’s Speech contained many features relating to priorities, economic policies, rural communities, social policies, civil rights, environment and the sciences and all these matters will find expression in the various legislative measures that will be brought forward in this session and discussed. [More…]
We are lectured by Government supporters that we should forget the past and concern ourselves with the future, that we should never raise again the infamy of 1 1 November 1 975 and that we should not speak in the Parliament or elsewhere about the deceptive roleleaving aside the rights or wrongs of the matterwhich the former Governor-General played during that period. [More…]
But in view of the volume of comment on the Bill and because a number of other Bills introduced last year by my predecessor also have been the subject of a great deal of commentI refer to the freedom of information legislation and the Human Rights Commission Bill- it has not been possible to process the legislation to the stage where I am in a position to make to the Government any further recommendations in regard to the legislation. [More…]
As the Senate will be aware from the Governor-General’s Speech, the Government has given high priority to that area, as well as to the re-introduction of the Human Rights Commission Bill. [More…]
Will the Government undertake that in seeking to expand market opportunities for Australian beef producers it will not create further difficulties for Australian fishermen, particularly fishermen from New South Wales, by using their rights to fish in Australian waters as a trade-off arrangement? [More…]
This discussion raises in my mind some questions in relation to Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
This provision is to protect one’s rights more strongly in criminal proceedings than might be thought necessary in civil proceedings. [More…]
The mere fact that in that section the defendant is a body corporate should make no difference to its rights in a matter which is analagous to a criminal proceeding. [More…]
If this is analagous to criminal proceedings, as we feel it ought to be under the relevant section of the Trade Practices Act, it seems to me that bodies corporate have the same rights as individuals in regard to any matters which are considered criminal or semi-criminal. [More…]
At present, however, the vast majority of people have to forego their democratic rights when they clock on at work in the morning- and only resume them when they clock off at night. [More…]
In particular, we are examining the questions of the delegation of powers from the Public Service Board to individual departments, delegation from Permanent Heads to employees within departments, and ways of removing opportunities for any discriminatory practises to be taken against employees exercising what should be their democratic rights. [More…]
We will also be looking at access to information, statutory minimum rights for shop stewards, and the extension of on-the-job facilities for shop stewards. [More…]
We might think back to the fantastic number of amendments which came from both sides of the chamber when the Northern Territory (Aboriginal Land Rights) Bill was debated. [More…]
Surely this situation could have been avoided if we had been able to get together beforehand and talk about what would be a desirable Bill in terms of land rights. [More…]
Honourable senators on both sides of the chamber agree that the rights of the traditional owners must be paramount. [More…]
In this debate much has been said about the civil liberties and rights of Australian citizens, but there is one paramount right that must be restored. [More…]
We will set out to ensure that the social and economic rights of the Australian people are preserved and protected from a government which, we suggest, has already shown its ignorance of the problems and its arrogance in relation to the solutions to those problems. [More…]
It is dedicated to the promotion of peace, human rights and the mutual understanding of people. [More…]
He has shown a comprehensive understanding of and sympathy for the Antarctic on matters ranging from exploration and scientific research to voting rights for those serving in the Antarctic. [More…]
It referred to innovations in the field of human rights and civil liberties, the establishment of a human rights commission and to freedom of information legislation which I hope will be given priority. [More…]
It is clearly our responsibility that their democratic rights are protected. [More…]
If it had not been for the resignation of Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin and her vacancy, and if he had not had the guts to stand up for his rights and if he had not had the support of the Labor Party he would not be here at present. [More…]
Everybody talks about his privileges and rights; nobody talks about his obligations and duties. [More…]
Although members in this place may have certain privileges which were instituted and have been guaranteed by the Bill of Rights for almost 300 years and for which I will fight as much as anybody, they are the privileges which pertain to the rights of members of this Parliament and not everywhere else. [More…]
Because we have certain privileges in this chamber conferred by the Bill of Rights we also have obligations to make certain that the employees in this place are not blown up by lunatics. [More…]
I would have thought that, being a member who claims to be a good unionist and believer in the protection of the rights of employees Senator Georges would have had some sense of obligation to do what he could to ensure that employees are properly protected when they are innocently going about their business. [More…]
As I recall the parliaments that came after the Restoration and certainly after the Glorious Revolution of 1688, they passed a number of very great Bills- the Habeas Corpus Act, the Bill of Rights and certain great parliamentary measures- which brought about so many of our freedoms today. [More…]
Will the Minister say whether the Government is considering any form of trade-off, whereby Australian fishing rights would be given in exchange for the sale of some other Australian product such as beef? [More…]
I think that honourable senators’ rights should be preserved without the imposition of that sort of financial penalty. [More…]
I would ask you, Mr President, since you are charged with the honour and duty of ensuring that the rights of individual senators are preserved, and also the Leader of the Government in the Senate and the Leader of the Opposition, to give consideration to the matters that I have raised. [More…]
Having regard to what I said earlier this day about the rights of smaller parties, the other point to remember is that we are placing some restriction on the ability of the smaller parties to contribute to this process. [More…]
I would not go so far as to suggest that an individual senator should submit a matter for discussion in his own right without having the support of other senators but I think that by requiring four senators to support in writing a matter proposed for discussion it could restrict the rights of the minority point of view. [More…]
If we believe in democracy and in the rights of people, although I certainly do not believe in proportional representation I tell you that now- while we have this situation we must accept it. [More…]
-I regard this move as a very severe restriction of the rights of individual senators. [More…]
I did not realise I was opening a Pandora’s Box when I suggested that the requirement that a senator obtain the written support of at least four other senators imposed an undue restriction upon the rights of honourable senators. [More…]
Is it not a fact that sub-clause (3) of clause 10 ensures that the extra rights provided in subclause (2) for people to be charged, arrested and remanded do not prevent the discharge of an accused if he is kept for more than a reasonable time? [More…]
Clause 22 of the Bill continues the Government’s policy of expanding, wherever possible, the jurisdiction of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal in relation to administrative decisions which affect rights or entitlements of persons under Commonwealth legislation. [More…]
Conducted an undercover effort to discredit civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King Jr that involved blackmail, bugging and intimidation. [More…]
My Government will carry out a continuing program of law reform, particularly with a view to protecting civil liberties and enhancing individual rights. [More…]
Constant vigilance is required to ensure that the rights of individual citizens are not eroded or ignored. [More…]
I believe that this is an attack on the civil rights of individuals in South Australia. [More…]
I am certainly in favour of security and the protection of individual rights. [More…]
As honourable senators will be aware, the Government has not yet devolved law-making responsibilities and rights on the local Legislative Assembly. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs concerning the United Nations Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
-I am informed that Australia has signed the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
Ratification of the Covenant would be desirable, particularly in the light of Australia’s election to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. [More…]
The matter has already been discussed with the States in the context of the Commonwealth’s proposals to establish an Australian human rights commission. [More…]
It is true to say that the Commonwealth has full rights to water resources within its mainland Territories, namely the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory, but under the Constitution it has no rights in respect of the water resources of the various States. [More…]
Your Government has behaved in a way which has caused great disquiet among many feverently anti-Communist Australians who have a basic commitment to fundamental human rights in a democratic community. [More…]
I do not want to go into details concerning its contents, and it is not the kind of petition than can be tabled in the Senate, but it contains a number of references to the hopes which these people had in the Australian Government as, to use their words, uncompromising defenders of human rights- a charitable view of the Australian Government that I have not been able to share, but it is their opinion. [More…]
We feel that you, by being uncompromising defenders of Human Rights, might be able to help us in obtaining a positive and just solution which will put an end to our anguish and suffering. [More…]
For example, in November 1976 the land rights legislation was passed by this chamber. [More…]
That legislation recognised the moral and legal rights of Aborigines to their traditional lands, but what has the Government of Queensland done? [More…]
It is ironic that such a blatant abuse of ministerial discretion should have been announced on Australia Day, and only two months after the land rights legislation had been passed. [More…]
I would hope that the Australian Government would see fit now to take the action necessary to enforce moral and legal rights for Aborigines in Australia. [More…]
The Government has the authority to act and should act quickly and firmly to ensure that Aboriginal people are not subject to actions by State governments anywhere in Australia that encroach on their inalienable rights to determine their own future or that weakens their hold on the land that remains to them. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to recent statements of the Queensland Premier that moves for land rights in the States, as implemented in the Northern Territory, could lead to a black takeover backed by Communist countries? [More…]
Will the Government take steps to implement Aboriginal land rights throughout Australia, or will the Government continue to defer to the States which prefer to subject Aboriginal rights to mineral exploitation? [More…]
In it the Australian Mining Industry Council set out why it is absolutely essential that the Aboriginal land rights legislation should be amended. [More…]
I stress that point because it has been indicated to me in I think a friendly manner that I am one of those senators who comes into this place and supports the concept of State rights, State obligations, or call them what we will. [More…]
We had a look at the subordinate legislation for the land rights legislation. [More…]
It is very easy to decide in the abstract that Aborigines are to have certain rights. [More…]
When those rights run into what are regarded as the rights of other people the equation becomes much more difficult. [More…]
Will the Federal Government intervene against Bjelke or condone by inaction the further repression of Aboriginal rights? [More…]
They urge that the Federal Government take steps to prevent the actions of the Queensland Government in whatever way it possibly can- be it legally or constitutionallybecause they believe that the Federal Government not only has those legal and constitutional rights but also has a moral responsibility to support the Aboriginal people. [More…]
Senator Gietzelt is asking the Government to protect the rights of the people at Aurukun and Mornington Island and, indeed, indirectly to protect the Aboriginal people in the whole of Queensland in this matter. [More…]
We are asking the Government to use this Parliament’s powers to protect these rights- powers given to it in the Constitution; powers that even a Statesrighter such as Senator Chaney admits are there. [More…]
Ever since I have been in this Parliament, Aurukun in particular and North Queensland in general, have been the subject of controversy at various times- because of the attitude of the Queensland Government, and its Premier in particular, concerning the rights of the people who live in that area. [More…]
A small group of Aboriginals is trying to defend its rights over both the Queensland Government and the mining companies which wish to exploit that area. [More…]
Those of us who were on the land rights committee, as we called the committee, saw some of the work being done in the Territory last year when we watched a videotape recording of one of the committee ‘s hearings at Batchelor. [More…]
This seems most unusual during a time when we had the great discussion on land rights, when there was perhaps a renewed interest in Aboriginal affairs on the part of the Government, and when there was a need for much more of what I call ‘action research’ by the Institute to guide the Government in its deliberations. [More…]
The Senate is a States’ House, but we give away our rights under this Bill and allow the Minister to spend money at his pleasure or at his discretion in agreement with the State concerned. [More…]
They are post facto so that there is no question of threatening the approval or challenging the rights of the States. [More…]
Does the Minister believe that we could reactivate the Senate Select Committee on the Civil Rights of Migrant Australians, of which Senator Townley was chairman, or could the appropriate Estimates Committee ask some probing questions on the subject? [More…]
Clause 22 of the Bill continues the Government’s policy of expanding, wherever possible, the jurisdiction of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal in relation to administrative decisions which affect rights or entitlements of persons under Commonwealth legislation. [More…]
Notwithstanding the need to ensure that proper protection is afforded to the defence forces, I feel certain I speak for all members of the Parliament when I say that we would not wish to see things done which perhaps unreasonably impose on the rights of the individual. [More…]
We know that in all matters relating to defence certain rights must be foregone. [More…]
As we well know, that Committee will certainly look very hard at whether the rights of the individual have in any way been upset by arbitrary decisions, whether there is retrospectivity or whether there has been undue intrusion. [More…]
I would like answered the specific question as to the rights honourable senators may exercise under Standing Order 36AB ( 10). [More…]
We have been elected to this place by the people of our various States, and the minute we start taking away the rights of individual senators this institution will start to disintegrate. [More…]
As I understand the traditions of Parliament, the rights and privileges of members of parliament are peculiarly matters for the Parliament to consider and there should not be an infringement of those rights and privileges- whatever that infringement might be- without proper consultation and discussion with the members of parliament. [More…]
Members of parliament cannot delegate that function of determining their rights and privileges to a committee; for example, the Joint House Committee, which in no way is specifically empowered by its charter to deal with matters which might involve the rights and privileges of members of parliament as distinct from the physical conditions in which members of parliament work. [More…]
It impinges on the rights of members in some respects; it certainly impinges on their rights if they are not consulted about it. [More…]
In our view this matter affects the rights and privileges of members. [More…]
For that reason this matter can be seen to affect the rights and privileges of members of Parliament and we would have sought much greater elaboration of the statement. [More…]
To that extent, some action is welcomed but it is felt that the sort of action which has been taken in a rather ad hoc way without proper consultation may be seen to affect the rights and privileges of members of Parliament. [More…]
We have to be careful that when we decide that we must face reality we ensure people ‘s rights and liberties are not infringed. [More…]
In the circumstances, the Institute concentrated its interest and resources on subjects such as armed robbery and white collar crime, human rights, criminal investigation and the techniques of criminological research. [More…]
It came to me as a great surprise that a citizen just at the point of arrest seems to loose all his or her rights. [More…]
It was puzzling for me to be there for the first time and see that the magistrates court was not in a sense a court of justice, a place of neutrality where the rights of the person arrested or charged were protected by the prosecutor. [More…]
I may be quaint in my view but I would have thought that the offender’s rights need to be protected by the magistrates court. [More…]
If we are to have an enlightened system of justice in this country- I believe that the work of this Institute may be leading to that objective- we must do all those things which ensure that the offender’s rights are in no way jeopardised, even if that may result in a guilty person escaping justice [More…]
With respect, sir, I think I should be allowed to make this interim observation: The recommendation of the Senate Standing Committee on Standing Orders was that the previous system be discontinued but that the rights of honourable senators be protected. [More…]
His rights would be protected. [More…]
However, many honourable senators will agree with the sentiments expressed by Senator Button when he led for the Opposition when he said that as he understood the traditions of Parliament, the rights and privileges of members of Parliament are peculiarly matters for the Parliament to consider and there should not be an infringement of those rights and privileges- whatever that infringement might be- without proper consultation and discussion with the members of Parliament’. [More…]
We are not to be prevented from getting to Canberra, from getting into this place or from exercising our rights within this place as members of Parliament. [More…]
It would simply ensure that all members of Parliament were satisfied that the Parliament, as well as its Presiding Officers, was able to ensure that none of our traditional rights and privileges was in any way being infringed. [More…]
It is not a matter of privileges or rights or anything else. [More…]
I am not so much concerned with the so-called privileges and rights of members of parliament as they affect me, provided I am able to work efficiently and provided I have proper access to the Parliament, to have freedom of speech and access to the people whom I am supposed to represent. [More…]
A precedent has been set whereby, in future, an Executive which may have compliant presiding officers in this place can extend the security measures and interfere with the functioning of this Parliament and with the so-called rights and privileges of the Parliament on the pretext that it is protecting the members of the Parliament or that it is protecting the staff of the members of Parliament. [More…]
In considering the appropriate means the Committee could look at the privilege aspects of this matter to see where the implementation of these procedures could impinge upon the proper rights of members of parliament, and, even more importantly, the proper rights of members of the public to have full access to their members. [More…]
In my opinion, that is of great importance but, likewise, security is of great concern, because within that freedom we are able to exercise our rights and perform our duties as members of parliament. [More…]
I think a number of us have expressed reservations about the details, and we believe that it would be wise if security matters were looked at by the Privileges Committee also- the Committee which is responsible to the Parliament to ensure that the rights and privileges of its members and of the public are preserved. [More…]
Whatever steps are taken, I doubt that we can say with any degree of certainty that the building could be completely and utterly protected unless we were to withdraw the rights of citizens to visit this place. [More…]
Whilst some strongly held views have been expressed about some of those issues, the point has never been reached where the rights of those citizens, to represent themselves in this place and in various ways through members of political parties, have been affected because we have seen fit to take the sorts of steps which have now been taken. [More…]
I hope that some of the more senior members of the Government who have been concerned about the use of arbitrary power and the rights of Parliament express wherever they can the need to preserve, as far as is practicable, the rights of members of parliament and the rights of citizens to assemble and to present a point of view. [More…]
I imagine that, first and foremost, the principle that has existed since Cromwell’s time of the citizens having free and unfettered rights to the King’s Hall and to their members of Parliament must be preserved at all costs. [More…]
I personally am prepared to support it because I think it will give to a Committee of the Parliament an opportunity to put into effect the basic aims of protecting not only the Parliament but also the rights and privileges of members. [More…]
It is extraordinary that members of the Liberal Party, who profess to be champions of the individual, so easily accept decisions to limit the rights of individuals in this place. [More…]
We should not give up our own rights lightly. [More…]
A lot has been said in this debate about the powers and rights of Presiding Officers. [More…]
Further, is it true that the draft contains no technical definition of safety standards or procedures and gives the Minister extensive reserve powers over individual and collective civil rights? [More…]
In the past the Australian Government has been proud of the attitude it has taken in relation to human rights. [More…]
As recently as May 1968, the International Conference on Human Rights at Tehran adopted a proclamation which included the following article: [More…]
Massive denials of human rights, arising out of aggression or any armed conflict with their tragic consequences, and resulting in untold human misery, engender reactions which could engulf the world in ever growing hostilities. [More…]
They were silent on the rights of the Timorese. [More…]
Human rights is the other issue. [More…]
Many of the communist countries in the United Nations have a record, in relation to self-determination and human rights which, to say the least, is murky. [More…]
It is the countries whose record in regard to selfdetermination and human rights is poor. [More…]
What is this nonsense from the Opposition about self-determination and human rights? [More…]
The Australian Labor Party, this great defender of human rights and self-determination, bowed to the Soviet Union and recognised its sovereignty over the Baltic states. [More…]
reaffirmed the necessity of urgently moving towards a just settlement of the problem on the basis of the relevant resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly and Security Council and the recognition of the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people. [More…]
If we espouse the rights of the individual, human rights and all these sorts of things I would suggest we should be done with a debate of this type in this chamber. [More…]
He expressed those double standards last year when he spoke at the United Nations on the occasion of Australia’s election to the Human Rights Commission. [More…]
Australia takes its human rights obligations seriously. [More…]
Our election to the United Nations Human Rights Commission in May of this year gives us an additional reason for doing so. [More…]
He then went on with a great deal of rhetoric about the need to recognise the rights of all human beings. [More…]
A decisive decision could have been made at that time if we were concerned with the principles of self-determination, if we were concerned with the human rights of the people of Timor. [More…]
We can all debate what is happening in various other parts of the world and matters which are offensive to us in terms of their violation of human rights, standards of proper medical care and things of that kind on the basis of some reasonable assumption about the facts because of the presence of outside observers, the Press or teams from the United Nations from which there is an independent source of information. [More…]
Indonesia put up some specious claim that it had inherited the rights from the Dutch to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
As Senator Bonner will tell honourable senators, it is reasonable to say that the Aboriginals, in their justifiable land rights campaign, are probably seeking to play one national park service against another. [More…]
It is within the rights of an honourable senator to move for the adjournment of the debate at that stage. [More…]
Now, only 1 1 years after, we have to consider one of the most important aspects of the rights of Aborigines. [More…]
His Government has become nothing less than a corrupt, undemocratic, power-hungry Government which is pursuing in a wide range of areas policies which show a general distaste for the democratic rights of Queenslanders, many of which were won over a long period of years. [More…]
He has already ranted and raved about the creation of a black State in Queensland if Federal policies on land rights are implemented there. [More…]
Any rational observer could only admit that the operation of the Queensland Aboriginal Act is nothing but a breach of the United Nations Convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Labour Organisation conventions. [More…]
The Land Rights Act of 1976- almost 200 years later- recognised that the European occupation of this country took place and that we have an obligation to the Aboriginal people to grant them the areas upon which they have traditionally lived. [More…]
We now want to repay- I doubt that we will ever repay it allsome small part of that debt by establishing land rights for the people who own this continent. [More…]
There is no doubt that many honourable senators would agree with the policy of the Liberal and National Country Parties on Aboriginal affairs with respect to the principle of selfmanagement, land rights, additional funds and self-sufficiency. [More…]
I agree with the policy of the Government on Aboriginal land rights in as much as we recognise that fundamental to the Aborigines’ sense of aboriginality is their affinity with one another and their affinity with the land. [More…]
Many of the provisions of the Land Rights Act provide nothing more than a type of condition which pertains to ordinary ownership of property that any person may have. [More…]
I have no doubt about the type of action pursued by the Queensland Government, such as the ludicrous and disgusting Aurukun Associates Act which greedily undermines the rights of the Aurukun Aborigines to share in the decisionmaking in relation to rnining in that area or to receive just compensation for the mining in their tribal area. [More…]
Since it came to office 2% years ago the Fraser Government has concluded a series of arrangements with the Queensland Premier which have had the effect of denying Queensland Aborigines and Islanders the basic rights which are enjoyed by Aborigines resident in other States. [More…]
Aboriginal rights in Queensland is the Aboriginal Land Fund Commission, but the Government now proposes, it is suggested, to abolish the Commission simply because it is implementing Government policies. [More…]
For instance, section 70 ( 1 ) of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 states: [More…]
These fundamental points in this legislationthe failure to explicitly set aside land for Aborigines; the abject failure to give Aborigines and Islanders full rights to exclude from entering the community individuals and groups whom they may feel to be detrimental to the community; the failure of the by-laws to cover Europeans generally or adequately and the rather complicated procedure in relation to the enactment of by-laws -are similar to many of the more paternalistic overtones of the Queensland legislation. [More…]
The rights of those groups - [More…]
Secondly, it is about tribal land rights which are, of course, significant in relation to the outstations. [More…]
This strategy appears closely similar to the ‘Land Rights’ philosophies conceived through a commission given Mr Justice Woodward . [More…]
We would be grateful if you will spell out for us what the Government’s policy is on the rights of Aborigines to return to live on their traditional lands currently held as reserves. [More…]
Rights Council, which is a very active body of people close to the scene of dispute at Aurukun and Mornington Island. [More…]
Aborigines will lose heart in Federal Government if legislation does not include land rights and abolition of the Queensland Acts. [More…]
That telegram was signed by Mick Miller on behalf of the North Queensland Land Council; Peter Noble of the Cairns Land Rights Committee; Eric Kooila of the Aurukun Land Rights Committee; Lawrence Gugong, Mornington Island Land Council Delegate; Esme Hudson, Woompra-Muralug Housing Society; Sandra Levers, the Wu Chopperen Medical Association; Clarry Grogan, Mona Mona Co-operative Society; Enoch Tranby, Far North Queensland All Blacks Sports Foundation; Marjorie Willmett Clump Point Co-operative; Rosina Tournese Mapoon Council; Joyce Hall, Weipa Land Rights Committee; Robert Smallwood, Yarrabah Land Rights Committee; Ted Bowen, Hopevale Reserve; Harry Daphne, Kowanyama Land Rights Committee and Mervyn Akee [More…]
The Bill in itself is a sell-out of the rights of Aborigines. [More…]
In turn the Federal Government announced that it would step in to protect the rights of the Aborigines. [More…]
I refer to what happened a considerable time ago in this place when the Northern Territory (Land Rights) Bill was introduced after many traumas within the Government parties. [More…]
In 1975 the Labor Party following upon its election promise introduced a land rights Bill for the Northern Territory. [More…]
It was subsequently felt that this would become a pattern for land rights in each of the States. [More…]
We all remember Mr Ellicott ‘s promise made in late November 1975 when he said that land rights would be given to the Aborigines and that their position would be much easier under a Liberal-Country Party Government than it was under the Labor Government. [More…]
It was late in 1976 before a land rights Bill of any sort came before the Parliament. [More…]
Those pressures caused the draft land rights legislation to be watered down several times before we finally saw it in either chamber of this Parliament. [More…]
The final watering down left four or five of the most sensitive parts of the land rights legislation to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]
A redrafting of the complementary legislation then took place but for all effective purposes the people of the Northern Territory still do not have the land rights to which they are entitled in spite of the muttering of the Premier of Queensland that 45 per cent of the land in the Northern Territory is owned by Aborigines. [More…]
It would provide also for land rights. [More…]
We say it is entirely wrong to give a right- in this case mineral rights- to one section of the community when no other section has a similar right. ‘ [More…]
We are not talking about States rights; we are not talking about the Commonwealth Government taking over the communities in Queensland. [More…]
What we are talking about is human rights and human dignity. [More…]
We were all concerned for the rights of the people of Aurukun and Mornington Island. [More…]
I thank them for the content of the debate at that time because they, as I am today, were concerned for the people and the rights of the people. [More…]
They want the land, they want the mineral rights, they want everything. [More…]
All we ask is to have the same rights as every other Australian citizen. [More…]
It gives no land rights to the people of Aurukun. [More…]
The Bill provides only those rights which the normal councils have. [More…]
I suppose if one looks at the question from a human rights situation one realises that Aborigines are entitled to their rights but I think all sections of the community would realise that alcohol has been one of the destroyers of the Aboriginal race. [More…]
One of the reasons why I and the members of my party in Queensland support this measure is that it does not transgress States’ rights. [More…]
States’ rights are being preserved. [More…]
It is one of the strengths of this legislation that it does not go across the borders of what a State might assume to be its own internal rights. [More…]
So the Bill does not transgress any of the States ‘ own rights. [More…]
I would not support it at all if it encompassed land rights. [More…]
I think that we will have a problem in the long term with land rights in respect of the Northern Territory, as they are under the present Commonwealth legislation. [More…]
This Bill does not concern land rights in Queensland. [More…]
The same situation applies under the land rights legislation in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The Uniting Church looks at the situation in no light other than it is a case of human rights, and the Aboriginal people should be treated as they deserve to be treated. [More…]
Where is the great vision we heard about when land rights were discussed in this place in the last session? [More…]
At present in the Northern Territory the Aboriginal land rights complementary and consequential legislation is being presented. [More…]
The bid by Aboriginals for recognition of land rights probably first became public when the Yirrkala people presented a petition on bark to the Federal Parliament on 28 August, 1 963 in which they specified grievances against mining on their land and in which they sought recognition of their deep attachment to their land. [More…]
In recognising land rights we will ensure: [More…]
That they have the same rights as any other owner to determine who enters their land whether the person is Aborigine or non-Aborigine, [More…]
But where is evidence of any recognition of rights for Queensland Aboriginals in the Bill that is in front of us at the moment? [More…]
There is no suggestion- this must be very demoralising for the Aboriginal people- that land rights might come. [More…]
It does not matter how big it is, it is the home of the Aboriginal people who should have the same rights that we have in our homes, such as the right to deny entry to people, be subject to the same obligation to allow certain people to come in. [More…]
Let us have the same sort of rights that the owners of such properties have. [More…]
I would not deny, and I have mentioned it in this place before when discussing land rights, that more is needed to be done in this regard because of the special situation of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
Senator Bonner said that he would not enter upon any question of State rights and Federal responsibilities. [More…]
As honourable senators know, that was a matter of great contention in the debates on the 1975 Aboriginal land rights legislation. [More…]
Today I have not had the time to analyse the reconciliation between the provisions of that legislation as to rights of entry with the provision in this Bill. [More…]
Aboriginals have the same rights as other Australian citizens to determine what is best for them. [More…]
Has the Queensland Government infringed United Nations and International Labour Organisations conventions regarding the rights of indigenous people in respect of their traditional land, particularly the right to be consulted? [More…]
Are their land rights, their heritage, to be concerns of this Government? [More…]
Or is our paternalism to cover only the real aim of this Bill- the mineral rights, and for whom? [More…]
Will we be called back next week for urgent sittings to get through legislation to protect the rights of those Western Australian people? [More…]
I know there are people on the other side who deny that these people have rights as the original owners of this country, but let us not forget that our race bashed them, burnt them, raped them, murdered them, tortured them, poisoned them, starved them, cheated them, denied them education- it still does- denied them good health- it still does- and destroyed or commercialised their places of religion. [More…]
From a legal, if not a moral, point they have some rights to the Australian land and they have more rights to that land than most of us have. [More…]
Industry calls their claim to some land rights ‘unauthorised totalitarian control’. [More…]
Industry maintains that it has the right to water, to gravel, to timber, to port facilities regardless of what rights the Aboriginals claim. [More…]
This Bill does not stop industry claiming those rights. [More…]
The Premier of Queensland believes- I believe that the Federal Government believes- that industry has those rights and that Aboriginal people have no right to deny industry. [More…]
enjoying the same rights and privileges, accepting the same responsibilities, observing the same customs and influenced by the same beliefs, hopes and loyalties as other Australians. [More…]
I draw the attention of the Minister to an article in the Melbourne Age which stated that Australia had abstained from a United Nations Human Rights Commission vote which declared that Israel was guilty of war crimes and supported Palestine Liberation Organisation military action to gain its objectives, while the United States, Canada and Britain voted against the resolution. [More…]
It is nice of the Uniting Church to say that people should have their democratic rights. [More…]
That is right; let them have their democratic rights. [More…]
But people who often talk about democratic rights are not the best at practising this philosophy. [More…]
These are the people who talk about standing up for democratic rights. [More…]
These are the people who talk about standing up for democratic rights. [More…]
How can we take notice of the Uniting Church when it comes out with this sort of talk, that it is standing up for democratic rights? [More…]
Honourable senators know as well as I do that many of the people who are squawking and yelling about Aboriginal rights are not full blood Aboriginals. [More…]
In fact, the Opposition has had limited time to consider the legislation and how it will affect other legislation, future relationships between the Australian Government and the Queensland Government and the rights of the people at Aurukun. [More…]
This would also assist the introduction of legislation to make provision for carrying out our Party’s policy and the recommendation of Mr Justice Woodward; that is, the provision of proper land rights for Aboriginals. [More…]
I say also, in contradiction to my colleague who sits next to me, Senator Wood, that I reject very firmly the suggestion that land rights is some form of apartheid. [More…]
What we have in Australia is a system of choice, a system under which Aborigines are for the first time being given property rights. [More…]
Like other property owners, they are entitled to exercise those rights. [More…]
The first is the area of States rights and the second is that the Bill does not go far enough. [More…]
As far as States rights are concerned, I have already referred to the 1967 referendum which clearly imposes on the Commonwealth responsibilities in this field. [More…]
One other very important matter I think needs to be in our minds at this time, and that is that we are looking not just at State rights but also at a situation in which we depend upon State services. [More…]
We have to see whether we can provide the services in a way that does not affect the rights of the councils or the Aborigines on the reserves. [More…]
It confers on Aboriginal communities no more rights than are possessed by any other Australian landholder although it does offer real power to those communities which, surely, is important. [More…]
There could be some constitutional doubt about this matter and the second proposed sub-clause is unnecessary since the Aboriginal rights are already protected under the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Discriminatory Laws) Act. [More…]
Mr Justice Woodward, the Chairman of the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission, said in his report: [More…]
I do not have time to refer to the editorials in the Age or the Sydney Morning Herald about this whole question of title to Aboriginal lands, but notwithstanding the trepidation the Australian Government has about land rights, I find it rather unusual that a member of the Labor Party should be calling upon the Government to apply its own policy which was expressly established in its Aboriginal program. [More…]
The Government accepts the principle of land rights but this legislation does not fully cover those eventualities. [More…]
These petitions are from people at Aurukun, Kowanyama and Mornington Island and they request that the Federal Government recognise land rights in the States such as Queensland in a similar manner to the recognition of land rights in the Northern Territory, that is, to enact an Aboriginal Land Rights Act for Queensland’. [More…]
So, starting with the Woodward Commission and going right through to the present day, there has been an appreciation by the Aborigines of the need for land rights to be recognised as an essential right. [More…]
This legislation regarding land rights for Aboriginal traditional areas and their normal rights pertaining to other members of the community does not satisfy Aboriginal wishes. [More…]
Whilst this is not the time or the place to have a long discussion on land rights or the acquisition of land, it is appropriate to say that what is suggested by the Opposition is that councils which are not corporate bodies should be vested with land. [More…]
What action has been taken by the Government to develop ‘a national philosophy which mobilises public opinion to recognise the discrimination suffered by the handicapped in our midst; a philosophy which motivates employers, trade unionists, the man in the street to play a role in overcoming barriers which continue to deny the handicapped many of the fundamental human rights’, in view of the Minister’s speech at Manila, in January 1978, concerning legislation for the handicapped in Australia, and the Minister’s reference to services for ‘severely disabled persons of working age ‘. [More…]
and my own Department are also observing closely the progress being made in South Australia by the Committee of Inquiry headed by Justice Bright, which is presently examining the rights of handicapped people. [More…]
The abovementioned steps are, of course, preliminary ones only in the Government’s efforts to motivate people to play a role in overcoming barriers which continue to deny the handicapped many fundamental human rights. [More…]
That the Federal Government recognise land rights in the States, such as Queensland, in a similar manner to the recognition of land rights in the Northern Territory i.e. [More…]
enact an Aboriginal Land Rights Act for Queensland; [More…]
Aboriginal Land Rights in Queensland [More…]
That the Federal Government recognise land rights in the States, such as Queensland, in a similar manner to the recognition of land rights in the Northern Territory i.e. [More…]
enact an Aboriginal Land Rights Act for Queensland; [More…]
Can the Minister inform the Senate what steps the Federal Government now intends to take to preserve the rights and the dignity of the Aboriginal people in the two communities now known as Mornington Island and Aurukun? [More…]
I am not able to comment on the options that are presently being examined by the Commonwealth Government, but I am able to assure the honourable senator that the rights of the Aborigines as outlined in the Senate last Friday will be foremost in the mind of the Commonwealth Government as it examines the options and as it discusses these matters with the Queensland Government tomorrow. [More…]
I would not like to see any progression in the Parliament to procedures which lessen our rights. [More…]
One of the matters that it should look to in that regard is to assert its own rights to keep those two qualities exclusively. [More…]
The point I make about that original assessment of $120 a week is that the judge is commanded by the Family Law Act, in fixing alimony, to take into account any superannuation rights either accrued or accruing to either spouse. [More…]
It is this possibility of obtaining relatively speedy no-fault divorces under the Family Law Act 1 975 that nas created the problem affecting superannuation rights of divorced wives as dependants under the Superannuation Act 1976 ( C,h). [More…]
The approach in the Superannuation Act is inconsistent with the general principle of the law of civilised nations of respect for vested rights. [More…]
Our provision of foreign language speaking welfare workers, interpreters and welfare rights officers has been notoriously inadequate in the past in relation to dealing with migrants, especially when compared with the situation in some overseas countries. [More…]
We have the telephone interpreter services, a welfare rights program and dual handset telephones on counter areas in our offices throughout Australia. [More…]
Is there any truth in the article in yesterday’s Sydney Morning Herald stating that unemployed people soon will have extended rights of appeal against their benefits being terminated, suspended, altered or postponed? [More…]
It is the instruction in the Department that beneficiaries should be made aware of their rights of appeal. [More…]
But if it refers to rights of appeal which will become available under the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, I can give information with regard to that matter. [More…]
I expect that negotiations on this matter, as required by Section 44 of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act, will be resumed shortly. [More…]
For the first time a government has looked at the rights of the Aboriginal people to do the things they want to do. [More…]
The whole thrust of his policies over recent years has been to paint Canberra as an evil source of power to portray himself as the protector of the rights of people. [More…]
It must be recognised that, in this power conflict between the rights of the Queensland Premier to determine the lifestyle of Aborigines in Queensland and the determination of this Government and this Parliament to free them from that influence and to give them the rights of self-determination and self-management, the Aborigines have become the meat in the sandwich. [More…]
I accept the urgency plea that was made by the Government, Senator Bonner and other honourable senators on Friday for the need to respond to the wishes of the people of Aurukun and Mornington Island and to pass the legislation to give them protection and an assurance that their rights were to be protected. [More…]
We have a position now in which Queensland Aborigines on two missions are hesitant about their rights and are unable to evaluate them. [More…]
They must be very uncertain about their rights, even with respect to this legislation. [More…]
Paternalism still operates to the detriment of the rights of the Aborigines. [More…]
The Aborigines have restricted democratic rights. [More…]
There is no doubt that the States have certain constitutional rights and certain capacities to be difficult. [More…]
The reference of this matter to a committee will in no way limit the rights of and opportunities for people to put submissions to the Committee and to say whatever they believe is relevant, particularly under paragraph (c) of the motion in respect of the constitutionality, comprehensiveness, consistency and effectiveness of the legislation. [More…]
I would hope that they would do so because if their genuine concern is a matter of State rights and if they really believe that the Constitution does not confer on the Commonwealth the power which the Commonwealth has assumed in passing this legislation they really ought to put it publicly and not wait until the next move in this rather unsavory game of chess, or whatever it is that we seem to be engaged in at the moment, in which of course the Aboriginal people are the pawns. [More…]
It certainly gives the coastal country involved sovereign rights over the living resources of the seabed but it also confers upon that country an obligation to admit foreign vessels to exploit, in a controlled way, the resources of that area if the home nation cannot or will not utilise those areas. [More…]
The rights and responsibilities involved in the 320 kilometre territorial waters legislation are going to figure very prominently. [More…]
Too often only the rights and possible advantages have been taken into account. [More…]
In the context of that agreement, the Queensland Government plans to grant to each local government authority a special lease of the area to secure the preservation of the people’s traditional rights and the use and occupancy of the land. [More…]
Can the Minister inform the Parliament whether it will be possible for the Australian Government to fund a case on behalf of Aborigines and their title to land rights in Queensland to the International Court of Justice? [More…]
If so, would the Minister, in view of Australia’s membership and continuing substantial financial support for the ILO, ensure through our representatives on that body that the ILO would investigate and act positively in favour of Soviet workers’ rights and interests? [More…]
The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs has already stated publicly that if the proposed legislation and the lease arrangements which will be legislated for by the Queensland Government are not satisfactory to the Commonwealth, the Commonweatlh will use its constitutional powers of acquisition in order to ensure that the rights and interests of the people of the two communities are fully protected. [More…]
I state again for the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs that if the agreement which was reached yesterday does not produce legislation which is acceptable to the Commonwealth after consultation with the two communities, the Commonwealth will then use its powers of acquisition to ensure that the rights and interests of the people are fully protected. [More…]
In the context of that agreement, the Queensland Government plans to grant to each local government authority a special lease of the area, to secure the preservation of the people ‘s traditional rights, use and occupancy of the land. [More…]
On the one hand we uphold this principle of freedom and the rights of the statutory authorities and yet, as all honourable senators will know, this Parliament- I think, rightly- is seeking more and more the right to probe. [More…]
Generally the Government has supported the view that the rights of taxpayers under existing legislation should not be altered retrospectively. [More…]
The termination of this Authority under the terms of the original Act enhances the risk that those cargoes, along with other cargoes, increasingly will become subject to the influence of the monopoly obstruction of the union that by the statute is still given not merely preference in the industry but monopoly rights in the industry. [More…]
Generally speaking severance pay in America has always been much more liberal and it pertains to many matters, including pension rights. [More…]
Consultation with the two communities has always been in the forefront of the Federal Government’s approach to this matter, inasmuch as we are seeking to protect the rights of the people of those communities to determine the way in which they shall live in the future. [More…]
The anxiety that the establishment of separate local Government bodies might be in the Government’s mind and that it might lead to what has variously been described as separate development, the creation of semi-autonomous Aboriginal entities, and/or an encroachment on State rights under the federal system has occasionally been expressed. [More…]
Will the Government fulfil its promise to Aboriginals on land rights and bring in legislation to acquire Queensland Aboriginal settlements, in order to overcome the decision of the Privy Council in the case of the Aurukun mining rights, and to enable Aboriginal residents to have a say in the control of Aboriginal settlements. [More…]
The 1975 policy statement of the coalition parties indicated that the parties recognise “the rights of Aborigines to the lands located within the reserves in the Northern Territory” and included a commitment “to make lands available, either by grant or through the provision of funds, to tribal Aboriginals living on or near their traditional areas which are not on reserves and to detribalised Aboriginals in rural or urban areas”. [More…]
As the Commonwealth Government is responsible under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act to negotiate agreement with the Aboriginal Northern Land Council and as it is a partner in the Ranger project, what action is being taken to resolve the existing problems and to bring about the commencement of work? [More…]
As the honourable senator would know, the Aboriginal land rights legislation requires that there be agreement between the Northern Land Council and the Commonwealth on the Ranger project. [More…]
Mr Twigg is, however, a member of the Australian Community Health Civil Rights Association and has made representations to a number of Commonwealth and State authorities seeking the banning of certain herbicides. [More…]
Allegations were also made that people were not informed of their rights. [More…]
As I understand it, Mr Hayden made a comment that there was a blatant abuse of civil rights. [More…]
The evidence presented in court will show that there was no abuse of civil rights and that each offender was treated in accordance with his rights at law. [More…]
But one would have thought that the Senate was within its rights and the Opposition was within its rights, in expressing an opinion such as the one embodied in our amendment. [More…]
I ask the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister in Federal Affairs whether he is aware of the statement made by the Victorian Premier that neither his Minister for Federal Affairs dealing with federal affairs nor the Victorian Government was consulted in the drawing up of the three Bills relating to uranium mining and that the legislation intrudes on State rights, is unconstitutional and centralist. [More…]
I think the focal point of Senator Gietzelt’s question was: What is the Commonwealth Government’s view on State rights? [More…]
It is signed by Monty Pryor, the President of the Land Rights Committee. [More…]
Today Mr Petersen criticizes Mr Fraser for creating a privileged group with similar rights denied to other Australians when talking of Aurukun, but he then proceeds to create the same situation with the Iwasaki Company. [More…]
The Bill contains an agreement, referred to as the franchise agreement, between the company and the State, which sets out the obligations and rights of both parties. [More…]
One of the major needs in education is to extend the rights of parents within the system. [More…]
In view of the announcement by the Chairman of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights at its 34th session that measures have been taken, in confidential session, in respect of nine countries including Indonesia, what action did the Australian delegation undertake to ensure a full investigation of the human rights situation in Indonesia where tens of thousands of political detainees, mostly held without trial for up to 12 years, are still being held under conditions of extreme hardship? [More…]
I am advised by my colleague that on 10 March 1978 the Chairman of the 1978 session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights announced that the Commission, in closed session, had given consideration to allegations of human rights violations in nine countries. [More…]
In making his announcement, the Chairman of the Commission said that the resolution of the Economic and Social Council for Asia and the Pacific, which establishes the procedures for closed session consideration of human rights situations, provides that all actions envisaged for the implementation of the resolution by the Human Rights Commission or its Sub-Commission shall remain confidential until the Commission may decide to make recommendations to the ECOSOC. [More…]
The Aboriginal Land Commissioner has reported to the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs his recommendations on the claim under the Land Rights Act. [More…]
Policy considerations surrounding the publication of reports of the Land Commissioner before a decision is made by the Minister under the Land Rights Act are also being considered and will be announced when the Minister announces his decision on the Borroloola case. [More…]
Is this not a rebuff to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Peacock, who early last year said that he expected the Indonesian Government to recognise the rights of the International Red Cross? [More…]
Clause 13 confers on the Director appropriate rights of inspection and access to information whilst respecting the confidentiality of information where necessary. [More…]
Certain provisions in the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Bill, the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill and the Environment Protection (Northern Territory Supreme Court) Bill are related to this Bill. [More…]
This Bill is intended to give effect to the Government’s decisions on the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry as far as they affect Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that by virtue of Section 11 (2) of the Aboriginal Land Rights Act, the Ranger Inquiry was enabled to enquire into and report on Aboriginal land claims in the Alligator Rivers region effectively as if it were the Aboriginal Land Commissioner. [More…]
The Minister announced in his statement on 25 August last year that the decision to negotiate the purchase of Mudginberry and Munmarlary pastoral leases meant that these areas would become available to form part of the National Park and that the traditional land claims to these areas could be heard in accordance with provisions of the Land Rights Act and recommendations submitted by the Aboriginal Land Commissioner. [More…]
Depending upon the recommendation of the Aboriginal Land Commissioner and the Minister’s consideration of his report, there will be opportunity for this land to become Aboriginal land within the meaning of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
The Inquiry recommended in chapter 14 that the Land Rights Act be amended so as to move the southern boundary of the Ranger project area as delineated in Schedule 2 of the Act further away from the Aboriginal sacred sites. [More…]
The effects of this practice were not taken into account in the Aboriginal Land Rights (NT) Act 1976. [More…]
The Inquiry, by Recommendation 14.2, recommended that section 40 ( 1 ) of the Land Rights Act should be amended so that the prohibition against granting a mining interest without consent should certainly include the common case of mining leases being approved by the Administrator, but not formally granted. [More…]
It has already been announced that the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act will be amended to provide for the Director of National Parks and Wildlife to have appropriate rights of inspection and information. [More…]
This Bill seeks similar rights for the Northern Land Council as recommended by the Inquiry at Recommendation 18.2 (s). [More…]
As I have already indicated, the opportunity is being taken to seek some further amendments to the Aboriginal Land Rights Act. [More…]
The principal Act provides for the closing of the Aborigines Benefits Trust Fund which was established under Section 21 of the Northern Territory Administration Act and for it to be replaced by an Aboriginals Benefit Trust Account to be established under Section 63 of the Land Rights Act. [More…]
Honourable senators will be aware that the Aboriginal Land Rights Act provides for the creation of additional Land Councils under certain circumstances. [More…]
In the Minister’s second reading speech to the Land Rights Act in 1976, he said that the Government believed that the Act would allow and encourage Aboriginals in the Northern Territory to give full expression to the affinity with land that characterised their traditional society and gave a unique quality to their lives. [More…]
We are aware that moves by Aboriginal people to assert their rights as provided by the Aboriginal Land Rights Act have caused some people to become wary and even fearful of the new situation which now prevails. [More…]
The Aboriginal Land Rights Act is a unique and historical piece of legislation. [More…]
The amendments which are now being placed before the House are designed to give further effect to the Government’s policies in relation to Aboriginal land rights and to allow Aboriginals (as the Minister said in his statement to the House on 25 August last year) as owners of their land, to follow their own lifestyles on their own land to the extent that they choose, to participate in and influence the course of development of and on their traditional land, and to take advantage of the full range of opportunities which development may open up to them. [More…]
Is it a fact that under the Northern Territory Aboriginal Land Rights Act any pastoral lease purchased by an Aboriginal or Aboriginal group can, on application during the currency of the lease, be changed to Aboriginal land at the expiration of the pastoral lease? [More…]
If such an application is made, does not the subject land become land held under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act and, in effect, become completely outside the authority of the Northern Territory Government? [More…]
Section 50 ( 1 ) (a) of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act is relevant. [More…]
Complementary legislation is being dealt with by the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, consistent with the provisions of section 73 of the Act and the findings of the Joint Parliamentary Select Committee on Aboriginal Land Rights, under the chairmanship of Senator Bonner. [More…]
The first matter to which I refer is that relating to the violation of the human rights of parliamentarians. [More…]
1 ) Has the Armenian question been raised in the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, of which Australia is again a member. [More…]
1 ) Australia rejoined the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in 1 978 after an absence of some years. [More…]
The reverse is equally true, so the rigidity of a polarisation of State rights or a centralist attitude must be wrong. [More…]
I have now received a letter from Mr Jacob Moller, Chief, Communications Unit, Division of Human Rights, phrased in these terms: [More…]
The next line talks about the various subsections of the Economic and Social Council and 1 (XXIV) of the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, a summary of your communication will be included in a confidential list of communications which will be submitted to the Commission on Human Rights and to the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities. [More…]
Welcomes the decision of the Commission of Human Rights to give annual consideration to the item entitled “Question of the violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including policies or racial discrimination and segregation and of apartheid, in all countries, with particular reference to colonial and other dependent countries and territories,” without prejudice to the functions and powers of organs already in existence or which may be established within the framework of measures of implementation included in international covenants and conventions on the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms, and concurs with the requests for assistance addressed to the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities and to the Secretary-General; [More…]
All Aboriginals outside Queensland already have these rights. [More…]
That Aboriginal lands include total rights to all natural resources, and that present mining and prospecting be suspended until negotiations are held with Aboriginals. [More…]
In a letter to the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Mr Ian Viner, the Chairman of the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace, Bishop W. Murray, has expressed the Commission’s support for the rights of the Aboriginal and Islander people to self-determination, and to direct ownership of their tribal lands. [More…]
The Commission further stated that Governments must secure these rights, by special legislation if necessary. [More…]
In the event of any State Government being unwilling or unable to adequately guarantee the rights of the Aboriginal and Islander peoples to self-determination, the Australian Government should not hesitate to use its constitutional powers in the manner and to the extent desired by those peoples. [More…]
The Commission resolution arose from its concern about the recent events relating to the Aboriginal and Islander peoples at Aurukun and Mornington Island, and allegations that the Queensland Government may be preparing to permit mining in defiance of the peoples’ rights to consider the proposal and determine the matter for themselves, in the absence of a demonstrated competing right arising from the common good. [More…]
The Victorian Aborigines Advancement League questions the ability and sincerity of the Federal Government in coming to a satisfactory agreement with the Aurukun and Mornington Island communities on the question of the land rights and self management. [More…]
We also suggest that the Federal Government being unable to reach a satisfactory agreement with the Aboriginal people of Australia on the question of land rights and self-management bring indigenous experts from Papua New Guinea or American Indian Community to act as mediator between the Government and Aboriginal people of Australia on the question of land rights compensation and self-management. [More…]
He spoke for a large group of people and indicated that the Aborigines wanted land rights and nothing less than that. [More…]
The legislation will take away a lot of the rights which the Aborigines rather dubiously hold now under the present legislation. [More…]
To suggest that the Federal Government is attempting to take away the rights of the Aborigines in those communities is quite contrary to the whole movement being made by the Federal Government to ensure that the right of self-determination of those two communities is assured. [More…]
In the context of that agreement, the Queensland Government plans to gram to each local government authority a special lease of the area, to secure the preservation of the people ‘s traditional rights, use and occupancy of the land. [More…]
Just as important, the people’s traditional rights to the use and occupancy of the land are to be preserved under a special lease, the terms of which are once again to be a matter for mutual agreement. [More…]
I think the concluding statement that he made with regard to the intention of the Federal Government to deny to the Aboriginal people their rights shows that he has no wish to work with this Government to achieve those rights. [More…]
The agreement provided for security of tenure in a long term lease, guaranteeing Aborigines traditional land rights and securing their right to the use and occupation of the land. [More…]
When the land was reserved the Aboriginals had few legal rights and, as demonstrated, the reservations were likely to be revoked at any time by the Queensland Government. [More…]
As leaseholders under this agreement of 1 1 April they will have property rights and the terms of the leases must be satisfactory to the Commonwealth after consultation with the communities. [More…]
I made a speech on land rights some little time ago. [More…]
I hope that the Queensland Government will listen to the Federal Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and have the clauses changed so that the Bill is acceptable to the people and so that the people will not be denied their fundamental rights. [More…]
It is quite clear that the policy of this Government is one of self-management, self-determination and land rights. [More…]
The promises that were made were for self-management, self-determination and land rights. [More…]
I drew attention to the fact that the obligations and the promises were in three areas -self-management, self-determination and land rights. [More…]
It is no secret that I believe that land rights is the key issue in this matter as it is the key issue in a number of other matters dealing with Aboriginal people. [More…]
Without quoting, I simply refer honourable senators to the speeches made in this place and in other places at the time the land rights legislation was introduced. [More…]
If it was, nobody could be so naive as to believe that a Queensland premier of the sort we have at the moment has the rights of these people at heart. [More…]
Then perhaps they would have some rights and someone would listen to them. [More…]
To get the rights, the Queensland Government has vilified the Presbyterian Church, the Aboriginal people, the Federal Government. [More…]
But it is my personal view that ultimately land rights will be needed. [More…]
It is fitting and proper that the Senate should be debating the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Bill which deals with the very important issue of land rights in Territories which are under Commonwealth control. [More…]
During this session, the Parliament has spent a considerable amount of time on discussions about the responsibilities of the Federal Government as they relate to land rights and the rights of Aborigines in Queensland. [More…]
It must be said that with the passage of time, during the last decade or so, the question of Aboriginal land rights has become a very important issue in the thinking and the consciousness of Aborigines. [More…]
It seems to us that the question of land rights has become almost a predominant issue in their thinking. [More…]
We hope that the Senate will regard the amendments as genuine attempts to realise the objectives of those people who support the rights of Aborigines to land rights, to realise the objectives which the Government set itself in the original legislation and to realise the objectives of the Party that I represent. [More…]
Some people might even be prepared to say that the whole question of land rights in Australia is in somewhat of a schemozzle at the moment. [More…]
They want some action taken on land rights. [More…]
In some respects it represents an abridgment of land rights. [More…]
They were the basis upon which the original land rights legislation was enacted. [More…]
That is the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act- that in establishing a Land Trust it ought to be sufficient to describe in general terms the beneficiaries of the land held by the Land Trust. [More…]
Clearly, this and other amendments contained in this amending Bill merely seek to rectify situations that would have held up the full implementation of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act of 1976. [More…]
I am prepared to pay some tribute to the Government for the alacrity with which it has recognised the deficiency in the original legislation and to commend it for the progress that it has taken on this matter to see that land rights are given to Aborigines. [More…]
Of course, when one looks at the definitions in other Acts dealing with land rights and Aborigines, whether it be the Queensland Act or our own Acts, one finds that in the minds of Aborigines, land represents premises. [More…]
So when we talk about land rights we are talking about a definition which goes much further than that which might superficially be the opinion of the general community. [More…]
The Aboriginal Land Rights Act is a unique and historical piece of legislation. [More…]
We are in a period where Aborigines want selfdetermination, self-management and land rights. [More…]
The Minister went on to say that a further aspect of the Government’s policy in relation to Aboriginal land rights is to allow Aborigines ‘as owners of their land, to follow their own lifestyles on their own land to me extent that they choose, to participate in and influence the course of development of and on their traditional land, and to take advantage of the full range of opportunities which development may open up to them ‘. [More…]
That puts a limitation upon the rights of Aboriginals to determine their own affairs and to have access to their own land. [More…]
So much for land rights. [More…]
We are arguing about a Bill which seeks to change the existing 1976 legislation and to remove the provision for free and open decision making in respect of land rights and all that flows from that. [More…]
So land rights are affected by this amending legislation. [More…]
Whether it wants the land for a park, for mining, for a town or for some other public purpose, when that point is reached white priority takes over from the rights of Aborigines to title as expressed in the land rights concept. [More…]
I can foresee, certainly not in the lifetime of any member of this Parliament, a steady erosion of land rights, of titles, as society develops and as civilisation requires land for this or that purpose. [More…]
That will act as an impediment to the whole principle of land rights. [More…]
The rights which in the 1976 legislation rested with the Aborigines may now be given to the Director of the National Parks and Wildlife Service, and I would feel much asssured if the Minister for once would have discussions with the land council first and with the mining interests last. [More…]
I imagine that there is an overwhelming acceptance in this Parliament of the principles that Aboriginal land rights are sacrosanct, that we do owe them something in return for the persecution of the last couple of centuries and that we do owe them some loyalty. [More…]
It seems to me that that is a harsh and tyrannical penalty to be imposed on a land council or those associated with the defence of the rights of Aboriginals in the land rights movement. [More…]
It is intimidatory and acts in a way that will prevent the free flow of information which is essential if we are to realise the objective of land rights for Aborigines. [More…]
Firstly we are told that Aborigines are to be granted land rights over certain areas, but then they must lease them to the Director of the National Parks and Wildlife Service. [More…]
That is a restriction of the democratic rights and liberties of the Aboriginal people, who must be affected by such empowering and overpowering restrictions, to understand and comprehend what is going to happen to their regions and to their land. [More…]
I am sure that if honourable senators were to give their attention to this proposal they would see that it has nothing to do with Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
In those two matters it would appear that the principles underlying the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act have been undermined, and I think the Opposition is entitled to ask why such provisions have been placed in the legislation. [More…]
In that regard, it is apparent that in certain aspects of the amending legislation the Government is saying that the promotion of the processing, mining and exporting of uranium should take precedence over justice, land rights and the very principles of self-determination for the Aborigines. [More…]
It is my purpose to argue, therefore, that the rights of the Aborigines should take precedence over any supposed urgency of promoting a package of uranium Bills. [More…]
We would argue that the sacrificing of the rights of Aborigines which could come about as a result of this amending legislation puts their rights at the altar of uranium mining and export. [More…]
It is a difficult Bill to debate in a speech on the motion for the second reading, in a sense, because it is not a Bill which sets new directions for Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
He has expressed concern about the fact that the Bill represents an erosion of the principles established in the original Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
In my view, this Bill quite clearly extends the rights which were granted under the Aboriginal land rights legislation and it removes some of the problems which were not foreseen at the time that legislation was passed. [More…]
This legislation in fact represents an extension of Aboriginal land rights beyond those granted in 1 976. [More…]
On page 204 of that report it is pointed out by the Fox inquiry that it regarded the wishes of Aborigines for land rights in the area as of prime importance in any consideration of the establishment of a national park. [More…]
What I see as the real importance of this Bill is that it amounts to a confirmation of the principles which the Government espoused in 1976 when it promoted the land rights legislation in this Parliament and saw that legislation passed through this Parliament. [More…]
They do not suggest that we should alter that legislation in the way in which we are altering it now but that it should be altered in a way which would substantially diminish the rights of Aborigines in those areas. [More…]
We are aware that moves by Aboriginal people to assert their rights as provided by the Aboriginal Lands Rights Act have caused some people to become wary and even fearful of the new situation which now prevails. [More…]
The Aboriginal Land Rights Act is a unique and historical piece of legislation. [More…]
They have been pushed back whenever it met the commercial, social and economic convenience of the rest of the population The significant aspect of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill which was passed in 1976- now the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act- is that it represents a stop to that process which has gone on throughout European settlement in this country. [More…]
I welcome the Minister’s affirmation that people dealing with areas which are subject to Aboriginal rights now have to accept that Aborigines do have rights in these matters and that they have to be accommodated accordingly. [More…]
I shall refer now to some of the opposition which has arisen over recent months to the Aboriginal Land Rights Act, and I shall make some comments on it. [More…]
When we passed the land rights law we set out quite clearly, specifically and expressly in that law that the ownership of minerals remained with the Crown. [More…]
What we did, however, was to give the Aboriginal people, the owners, extensive rights to the surface which meant that persons seeking the minerals could take them subject to the greater right of the Aborigines to surface use and to surface enjoyment. [More…]
I cannot speak for the rest of the colonies- I come from the colony of Western Australia- but I would like the Senate to know that, from the earliest colonial days in Western Australia, land which was alienated from the Crown carried mineral rights. [More…]
I must say that in the case of most of that land the mineral rights have reverted to the Crown under legislation which was enacted in the 1960s or 1970s- whenever it was that the railway company reverted to the Crown. [More…]
So there has been a resumption of mineral rights in those cases. [More…]
The Australian Mining Industry Council should bear that in mind when it puts out such pamphlets, distributes them to members of Parliament and makes statements suggesting that there is something peculiar about the rights which are being granted to Aborigines in this case. [More…]
I see a very clear parallel between the protection of farmers in Western Australia and the protection which is being given to Aborigines under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
The real point of what I have been trying to say in the last 10 minutes is simply that, under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act we have given considerable rights to the Aboriginal owners of land. [More…]
The fact is that some owners have to be considered and their rights have to be taken into account. [More…]
The participants will have to sit down and work out what those rights are worth commercially in a trading situation. [More…]
In this legislation, as in the existing Aboriginal Land Rights Act. [More…]
For that reason I commend the matter to the Government for further attention in the hope that we might have a further debate on the land rights legislation next year, unfortunate as that might seem to some honourable senators. [More…]
I commend the Bill and I await with interest the Committee stage where I think it will be demonstrated that the fear expressed by Senator Gietzelt that this Bill reduces the rights of Aborigines rather than enhancing and protecting them is in fact groundless. [More…]
I think that we ought to know that the Australian Mining Industry Council has conducted a fairly vicious campaign over a long period of time against the granting of land rights to Aborigines in the Northern Territory, or, for that matter, anywhere else. [More…]
A second point made by Senator Chaney related to the 1 976 legislation on land rights. [More…]
I remind Senator Chaney that the alterations suggested by the Opposition during the lengthy debate on the land rights Bills in the other place would not, in most instances, have seriously upset the Government if it had accepted them. [More…]
The legislation deals with matters which were delegated to the Local Legislative Assembly by the Federal Parliament when it passed the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976. [More…]
The Complementary Legislation ‘package deal’ consists of ten draft Ordinances designed to bring Territory law into line with the new policies reflected in the Federal Land Rights Act. [More…]
Regardless of what might happen in relation to the current package of Bills, a whole number of things can still go astray because of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act of 1976 and the complementary legislation that is expected. [More…]
I rise to indicate my support for the Bill to amend the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976. [More…]
I was Chairman of the Joint Select Committee on Aboriginal Land Rights in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I think I have made the point in this place on many occasions that I see land rights as being vital to the Aboriginal people. [More…]
The Government is committed to land rights. [More…]
1 remind honourable senators of some of the emotional speeches made by the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) and some honourable senators in the debate on the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill. [More…]
I remind honourable senators of the public statements and statements to the land councils that have been made over the last two years by the Minister and of the speeches that have been made on the campaign trail, all supporting the proposition of land rights. [More…]
But I stress that it should be full land rights not land rights when it suits the Government. [More…]
I will not canvass the material that I presented before in the land rights debate and in other debates but I would like to read an extract from Land Rights Discussions- Milingimbi and Nan.galala’ which was reported by Beulah Lowe. [More…]
This does not mean, however, that this particular clan has exclusive rights to their clan territory. [More…]
Even though the members of this clan are regarded as the land owners, there are other clans who also have certain rights over the land. [More…]
So I reiterate the point which has been made by Senator Bonner already that there is a clear indication that the Aborigines fully understand the situation regarding land rights, and they are well aware- if I can use that phrase- of what they believe. [More…]
As far as I am concerned and as far as the Aboriginal people are concerned, this is completely objectionable and opposed to the principles of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
I thank the Senate for the debate on the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Bill 1978. [More…]
The Bill also rectifies administrative deficiencies in the original legislation, the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
That very point to which Senator Durack was then drawing attention is at the core of the current arguments which the Government is having with the States in respect of State rights. [More…]
That seems to be basically the same argument which people supporting State rights are using against the Government today. [More…]
If the powers were held to be legally valid- we are not concerned with that here- they would override completely all existing rights and titles which have been acquired by persons or companies under State or Territory laws. [More…]
So this Liberal Party, which said three and a half years ago that it was a terrible thing for the Federal Government to attempt to proclaim rights over minerals other than uranium, is now introducing an amending Bill to do precisely that. [More…]
The principal Act asserts sweeping rights over property, State laws and individual liberties. [More…]
I think that is the same wording as a section of the Constitution but presumably, since it was repeated in this Act, the Government of the day wished to make it perfectly clear that this preempted virtually all States ‘ rights over mining. [More…]
May I observe in passing that those State Premiers who recently have purported to show some concern about alleged States ‘ rights have been a bit tardy. [More…]
If they had wanted to protest against the infringement of States’ rights or, more importantly in my view, the gross and scandalous infringements of the rights of the individual and the denial of the most fundamental principles of AngloAustralian jurisprudence, they should have started protesting 25 years ago about the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]
I fully support that stance and in doing so I know that at least I am doing something to safeguard the rights of future citizens of Australia. [More…]
This package of legislation deals, as I said, with amendments to the Atomic Energy Act, with aspects of the environment in the Alligator Rivers region where the mines are situated, and with Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
He said nothing during the whole of his speech to assure the people of Australia that there is an obligation on his Government to be able to present a clear cut case that the mining in and the proliferation of uranium from this country have been cleared by our scientists so that not only this generation, including the people who will be engaged in the physical act of mining and transporting uranium and eventually treating it, but also the generations to follow will have an assurance that their interests and rights are protected. [More…]
Secondly, the Fox Commission of Inquiry said that there might be conflict between Aboriginal land rights and the provisions of this Act. [More…]
When I say that this legislation offends against civil rights- a matter in which Senator Jessop has now lost interest- I want to remind people like Senator Jessop of statements about this matter of civil liberties which were made in the Governor-General’s Speech earlier this year. [More…]
My Government will carry out a continuing programme of law reform, particularly with a view to protecting civil liberties and enhancing individual rights. [More…]
Constant vigilance is required to ensure that the rights of individual citizens are not eroded or ignored. [More…]
They are always sensitive about intrusion into fields that they consider involve the rights of the States. [More…]
We regard it as quite undesirable that legislation, which could potentially be used against States’ rights and civil liberties in unspecified circumstances, should be passed. [More…]
It will do nothing to protect the health and wellbeing of Aborigines any more than it will safeguard their land rights. [More…]
But apart from the legal rights to land there is also the unique relationship of the land and of the Aboriginals to their land. [More…]
We are here to discuss the safeguards for the ecology, Aboriginal land rights and other issues. [More…]
The Committee regarded a number of provisions in this by-law as unduly interfering with individual rights and liberties. [More…]
The Committee is of the opinion that the amendments which the Minister has promised to make will properly safeguard the rights and liberties of individuals. [More…]
For the sake of greedy mining companies the Government is prepared to use the most repressive provisions that have ever been known in Australia, lt is prepared to deny ordinary industrial rights to workers in unions and associations that are part of the industry. [More…]
It is prepared to deny basic civil rights to people because of this extraordinary industry. [More…]
The Government does not care that the Marcos regime, with which it is making bilateral arrangements, has already demonstrated total disregard not only for the protests of people of the Philippines who live near the reactor site but also for the democratic and constitutional rights of the entire population of that nation. [More…]
By conducting uranium mining under this Act, the Government has the power to deny the ordinary industrial rights of workers and unions associated with the mining, handling and transportation of uranium. [More…]
One is the fact that the States are disturbed about what they believe to be an infringement of their rights, and the other is that the legislation itself is restrictive and repressive. [More…]
The Codes Bill, as published, would substantially infringe the rights of the states. [More…]
For boycotting or threatening to boycott such projects, or for publishing about or advocating the boycotting or threatening boycott of such projects, the penalties are up to a year in jail and a $10,000 fine, h could have an impact on press freedom as well as the rights of trade unions, workers and other citizens. [More…]
Treaties, whether on fishing rights or nuclear energy, are undertaken for political expediency only. [More…]
In essence, however, through the two Bills before us now, there is an unjustifiable attempt by the Federal Government to ride roughshod over the rights of States and individuals alike. [More…]
Whilst on the one hand mouthing pious sentiments about the need for consultation between State and Federal governments before codes are proclaimed or enforced, the Government has so worded the clauses of the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill and the amendments to the Atomic Energy Act that, in fact, the States have no rights at all. [More…]
These are two of the most anti-States rights clauses ever put forward by a Federal government. [More…]
What the Government is trying to do by way of this legislation is reprehensible environmentally, as far as States’ and individual rights are concerned, and presents very real prospects of health hazards not only to those people working in the mining and processing operations but also to anyone likely to come in contact with accidental or deliberate radiation now or in the future. [More…]
We have looked for a treaty settlement which will have the capacity to adapt to changing circumstances on matters of day-to-day significance while at the same time retaining a durable certainty about the distribution and nature of the rights of the parties concerned. [More…]
Thus, while there has been preoccupation with the Torres Strait as an area of special significance to both countries, the question of delimitation of seabed and fishing rights throughout the whole area running some 1,200 miles from the Arafura Sea to the Coral Sea has also been of major importance. [More…]
Generally, the Government has supported the view that the rights of taxpayers under existing legislation should not be altered retrospectively. [More…]
One reimbursement technique is for the shareholders concerned to put broadly equivalent funds into the company, for example, by subscribing for redeemable preference shares that, after payment of a once-and-for-all dividend, carry virtually no rights. [More…]
The Bill appears to leave intact the Northern Territory mining ordinance and the rights acquired under it. [More…]
One would have thought that there would have been much greater consultation with the States on these matters because clearly clause 14 in its present form is unworkable in terms of the rights of a citizen of a State. [More…]
The term honourable senators’ seems to me to suggest that in being honourable, as we describe ourselves, we might have a degree of consistency in the sorts of attitudes we adopt towards the rights of the States and the rights of other governments in relation to the legislation we are considering. [More…]
These extra powers are apparently sought by the Minister Tor somewhat dubious purposes and they will have the effect of overriding all existing rights that have been acquired under the State laws and under the Northern Territory mining laws. [More…]
I refer to the recent parody of a trial finalised in Moscow on 19 May 1978, when the famous Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights defender, Yuri Orlov, was sentenced to seven years in a labour camp and live years of internal exile on trumped up charges of anti-Soviet agitation and slander. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that Yuri Orlov has been a leader of the Helsinki monitoring group, active in exposing the failure of the Soviet Union to comply with its human rights commitments under the Helsinki Pact? [More…]
Is the Commonwealth Government prepared to give urgent consideration to the proposals now made by British and American human rights groups for the boycotting of the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow? [More…]
Failing that, is the Government prepared to express its abhorrence of this denial of human rights to an eminent Soviet citizen and to take positive actions on it as a member of the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations? [More…]
I further inform the honourable senator that my colleague has communicated the Government’s concern about human rights to the Soviet authorities and will continue to do so. [More…]
The legislation still offers the Aboriginal people of Aurukun and Mornington Island no security, no substantial role in determining their own future, and no land rights. [More…]
They were a total sell out of all the rights and aspirations of Aboriginal people not only in Queensland but also around Australia. [More…]
Mr Porter finished his remarks for the night by saying that, as far as he was concerned, his Government did not subscribe to the land rights policies to which the Federal Government subscribed. [More…]
This matter will never be resolved until Aboriginal land rights are recognised by this Government. [More…]
Concern is expressed that the by-laws will not permit the Local Authorities to extend the scope of Clause 23 to allow additional classes of people to have entry rights to the shires. [More…]
This it is submitted is a departure from the rights of a Local Authority whereby an Inspector employed by the Local Authority carries out his duties without the control of a member of the Police force. [More…]
Since then there has been much public debate about this matter and we have received firm assurances on the part of the Commonwealth Government of its determination that our rights would be protected and that nothing would be done by it without prior and full consultation with both our peoples. [More…]
We are not asking for any preferential rights over other Queenslanders and Australians. [More…]
We are extremely disappointed in it: it does not give us self-management; it does not give us full land rights. [More…]
the shires will now have power to deal with the land in the lease in the same way as other local government authorities in Queensland subject to the approval of the Governor in Council, this means that shire councils will be able to sublet and subdivide the leased land, as well as acquire interests in land outside the lease, shires will be able to appoint Aboriginal police, subject to the approval of the Minister for Police, the Bill has now been amended to secure to the communities the same rights to use timber, and to quarry materials as other local government authorities. [More…]
The recognition of the rights of some tribal clans and reserve communities in the Northern Territory can be satisfied by granting title to their traditional areas of land. [More…]
For others, alternative forms of land and housing ‘rights’ need to be negotiated and the means for doing this are considered in later sections of this policy statement. [More…]
Then the policy statement went on to make eight points in recognising the land rights. [More…]
The Senate would know, and in particular Senator Keeffe would know because I believe he led for the Opposition on the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill, that we have already put into effect that policy in regard to land rights in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The debate in the Senate on the legislation for land rights in the Northern Territory was an important and detailed debate. [More…]
Some people have watched with interest- even suspicionthe statements which have been made by the Government on its intentions to legislate Tor land rights. [More…]
Some people have expressed surprise that a Liberal-Country Party government should have made the decision to grant land rights to Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Securing land rights to Aboriginals in the Northern Territory is a significant expression of this objective. [More…]
It is an objective that will be pursued in a way consonant with the rights of other Australians. [More…]
I say that that was an important debate because it was the first time that legislation which gave inalienable rights to Aborigines on their traditional land had been passed by the Commonwealth Parliament. [More…]
It ought to be said that, although there has been much comment from the present Opposition about this matter, it did not achieve legislation which gave land rights to Aborigines during its term of government. [More…]
If we are talking about Aborigines of the Aurukun and Mornington Island communities at present, we ought to say that despite the fact that much rhetoric may have been heard from the Opposition about Queensland, it did not have the courage or the capacity to use its powers to do anything about rights for Aborigines, particularly land rights, in that State. [More…]
This Government has achieved by legislation which was passed through the Senate and the House of Representatives land rights for Aborigines. [More…]
The Government has given effect to its election policy statement with regard to Aboriginal land rights, first by legislating and secondly by providing money to the Aboriginal Land Fund Commission for the purchase of land outside reserves. [More…]
If we are to widen the discussion to the inalienable land rights that we would wish to see within the States for Aboriginal people we need to look at the position in several States where there are Aboriginal land trusts. [More…]
If we are to talk about the intention of some Aborigines to seek further action by the Commonwealth Government perhaps we need to look at South Australia where Aborigines have indicated to the Commonwealth Government that they are not satisfied with the action by the State Government on land rights and where certain actions have been taken in that respect. [More…]
Looking at the position in South Australia we can place on record that Commonwealth and State Ministers, because more than one State was involved, examined the request of Aborigines for further land rights at meetings of the Australian Aboriginal Affairs Council and appointed joint working parties to advise on possible collaboration that can be achieved among State governments and between State governments and the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
These are matters that show that, in dealing with land rights where State governments are involved, cooperation, consultation and collaboration are sometimes necessary. [More…]
It would seem to us that what Aborigines are seeking now in the States is legislation that gives them rights similar to what has been achieved for them in the Northern Territory by this Government. [More…]
What has not been stated but ought to be stated is that the agreement which was achieved on 1 1 April did make progress with regard to the rights of” the Aboriginal people to the land and the tenure of the land. [More…]
Under this agreement the Aborigines will obtain secure tenure of the former reserves under a long term lease guaranteeing their traditional rights and securing their right to the use and occupation of the land. [More…]
When the land was a reserve- this was the former positionthe Aborigines had few legal rights and the reserves, as was demonstrated, were liable to be revoked at any time by the Queensland Government. [More…]
Under the new agreement and under the new Queensland legislation the Aborigines will be leaseholders and will have property rights. [More…]
That is the position with regard to the policy of the Government on land rights for Aborigines and to state that policy in any other way overlooks completely not only the policy which has been clearly stated but also the actions which have been taken by the Government since it was elected in 1975. [More…]
The agreement with the Queensland Government is a denial of the rights of the Aurukun people and a denial of the rights of the Aboriginal people whether they are at Aurukun, Mornington Island or anywhere else. [More…]
It does not really understand the Aboriginal people and it does not really understand what Aboriginal land rights mean to the Aboriginal people. [More…]
Apparently it does not really understand that there is a very close affinity between Aboriginals and the land- and that needs to be understood when we are talking about land rights. [More…]
They do not understand this complicated, this confused legislation on land rights to the Aurukun people which was passed in the early hours of the morning by the Queensland Government. [More…]
The Aboriginal people have an understanding of land rights that this Government, and in particular the Queensland Government, fail to understand. [More…]
He represents exactly what the Queensland Government wants: A denial of the rights of the Aboriginal people to their own land. [More…]
Only one government stands out against the rights of the Aboriginal people at the present time as regards land rights and that is the Queensland Government. [More…]
The land rights system was introduced in the Northern Territory following the Woodward report and following the passing of the legislation by the Parliament. [More…]
The first body in Australia to take action to give land rights to the Aboriginal people was the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]
I have indicated previously that under a particular clause of the Crown Lands Ordinance of the Territory, land rights for Aboriginal people were introduced. [More…]
When the Labor Government was dismissed on 11 November 1975, the honourable member for Hughes, Mr Les Johnson, was discussing a land rights Bill for the Northern Territory in the other place. [More…]
That land rights Bill was more generous to Aborigines in the Northern Territory than the one introduced by the Government and for which it claims credit for giving Aborigines land rights. [More…]
The Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) has already detailed and clearly declared to the Senate what is the Government’s land rights policy. [More…]
The issue in Queensland has not been an issue of land rights; it has been an issue of management. [More…]
All the action that has taken place to protect the communities of Aurukun and Mornington Island, to preserve their rights and to give them a chance to function has come from the Malcolm Frasers, the Doug Anthonys, the Peter Nixons, the Ian Viners and the Neville Bonners. [More…]
Securing land rights to Aborigines in the Northern Territory is a significant expression of this objective. [More…]
It is an objective that will be pursued in a way consonant with the rights of other Australians. [More…]
Let me look at the question of land rights, which allegedly is what this debate is all about. [More…]
That report, in a bipartisan fashion, sets out a number of principles on land rights, expressing views from both sides of the chamber- most of which subsequently were incorporated in legislation. [More…]
If honourable senators want to go further and ask about interest in land rights, what about the Bonner motion of 20 February 1 975 which was offered to the Australian Senate by Senator Neville Bonner and was passed unanimously! [More…]
Who passed the first land rights legislation? [More…]
That is where the land rights legislation came from- the Fraser Government. [More…]
Hugh Stretton ‘s prime example was the great redistribution of wealth that came through home ownership in the Menzies era and it could equally be applied to matters such as land rights, an area in which this Government has. [More…]
It is the Fraser Government which put land rights legislation into reality in the Northern Territory. [More…]
It is the Fraser Government which fought for the rights of Aborigines in Queensland. [More…]
We had one some time ago when the present Government opposed land rights, and Senator Peter Baume has drawn attention to this. [More…]
Honourable senators may care to go back to read what was said in the Senate at that time when the present Government opposed the land rights legislation introduced by Labor. [More…]
Critical observers in looking at the GovernorGeneral’s Speech on that occasion of course would have seen that the management of the affairs of Aborigines in effect includes land rights because we cannot have one without the other. [More…]
The fourth declaration was when the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) introduced his Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill. [More…]
I do not quite know what land rights have to do with the opening of a library. [More…]
Land rights represent a pinnacle of success for those who have fought for social change in the Australian community with respect to Aboriginals, the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Mr Viner, said yesterday. [More…]
Mr Viner said that the Northern Territory Land Rights Bill, presently before Parliament, ‘uniquely provides the first example of Australian domestic law expressly recognising Aboriginal cultural values, and implicit in that, the Aborigines’ customary law. [More…]
I think Australians will come to realise the passage by the Commonwealth Parliament of the Aboriginal Land Rights Bill will mark a great turning point in social change of attitudes towards the Aboriginal people. [More…]
He said they would also spell out guidelines for Northern Territory Legislative Assembly laws stipulating recognition of traditional Aboriginal rights. [More…]
Of course there was a slight sting in the tail for he added that they would not require Aboriginal consent for grants for further mining interests when applications for leases on land which became Aboriginal land under the Act had been made between the freeze imposed in December 1972 pending discussion on land rights and the introduction of the Bill on 4 June. [More…]
Every time there has been some sort of challenge to the land rights legislation there has been yet another declaration of policy. [More…]
Obviously, we are asking for a clear declaration of policy- which one of these six, seven, eight, or nine statements we are to believe outlines the Government’s policy on land rights. [More…]
A fortnight ago, on 1 1 May, in our debate on the land rights legislation we stressed the problem faced by the Aboriginal people when their men of high degree- their law men- do not keep faith. [More…]
It is clear to the Aboriginal people what is meant by the term ‘land rights’. [More…]
We do not have to reiterate the need for land rights for the Aboriginal people and the problems faced by the Aboriginal people who have been dispossessed of their land. [More…]
It is clear to them that the Minister and his colleagues said that they were to have land rights and all the features which go with land rights. [More…]
This was supported by the fact that government groups visited settlements and asked the people what they wanted, whether they wanted the land rights legislation to be passed in the Northern Territory or passed in Canberra. [More…]
All the questions which were put at that time supported the proposition that land rights would be given. [More…]
It was clear to the Aboriginal people that land rights for Aborigines means exactly that and does not mean land rights for a select group. [More…]
The Minister’s statement was explicit; it made it clear to the Aboriginal people what land rights are about. [More…]
After all, self-management is a part of the land rights issue. [More…]
If people obtain rights to land they obtain tenure to land. [More…]
I make it clear again that land rights and permits are interrelated. [More…]
If people have land rights they have the authority to deny some people access to their land. [More…]
I shall read from a copy of a statement made by Mr Wiyandiji Nunggula, one of the tribal leaders of the Allawa tribe, which was sent to me during the time of our previous discussion on land rights. [More…]
Who does not recognise the traditional land holding rights of the Aboriginal people, who are residents on the land. [More…]
If the land Bill is put to the Legislative Assembly the holding rights to our land will be passed to the white pastoralists and we, the Aboriginal people of the N.T, will be left with meaningless promises or maybe, if we are lucky, we will be left with a few small isolated plots of land which will not be enough to produce market gardens or breed livestock, if the tribes concerned so desire, as part of our self-management. [More…]
Concerning mineral rights we believe that Aborigines should be approached, that tribes should be approached, before any mining or resource developments take place on their tribal lands and that they should first be part of the decisionmaking processes. [More…]
These people are concerned about mining because they fear that the granting of land rights will not mean what they think the term means. [More…]
They have been told by the Minister and by people in the Government that ‘land rights’ means a certain thing, that it means the right to land. [More…]
Recognition of the rights of some tribal clans and reserve communities in the Northern Territory can be satisfied by granting title to their traditional areas of land . [More…]
For others, alternative forms of land and housing ‘rights’ need to be negotiated . [More…]
There can be no doubt that we have legislated- something that the Labor Government failed to do- for Aboriginal Land Rights in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Let me quote from the second reading speech of the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner), on 4 June 1976 when the Aboriginal Land Rights Bill was before the House of Representatives. [More…]
If I could make some general comments in the brief time remaining to me, I would say first that to hear Opposition supporters one would believe that spending more money, and giving more Aboriginal land rights, are the only solutions to the Aboriginal problem in Australia. [More…]
Money is not a solution and, although land is important to Aboriginals, land rights are not the solution either. [More…]
Is it any wonder that the Labor Party is still saying that the only way to solve the land rights problem is to acquire all the land. [More…]
He is a younger South Australian senator who in this chamber persistently upholds the rights of State governments other than his own, and has made a number of contributions to debates on this subject. [More…]
We on this side of the House are concerned about the rights of the States. [More…]
I think that this legislation is an indication of the Federal Government trying to reduce the power and the rights of the States and it is an attempt to build the Federal Parliament into a much greater structure at the expense of the States. [More…]
1 feel that this chamber owes its existence to the fact that the States would not accept the setting up of a Commonwealth Parliament until such time as it included a chamber in which they had equal voting rights, as is the situation in the Senate. [More…]
that they do not trespass unduly on personal rights and liberties; [More…]
that they do not unduly make the rights and liberties of citizens dependent upon administrative and not upon judicial decisions; [More…]
An alternative for Ranger left open by the Land Rights Act is an authority to mine under the Atomic Energy Act 1953. [More…]
I noticed an article this morning in the Melbourne Age by Mr Tony Walker, the Canberra correspondent, headed Uranium Law Threatens Civil Rights’ in which he made many points in respect of this matter. [More…]
This proposed legislaton raises many serious and fundamental questions, not only about uranium and related nuclear acitivies, but also about the established rights and responsibilities of the States in a number of areas. [More…]
Knowing the deep scrutiny that it has given to regulations, and to protecting rights and liberties, the points that have been brought out by Senators Wright and Missen have left me with the feeling that a lot more should be put into this legislation than one now finds there. [More…]
The Government clearly intends to proceed with the mining of uranium regardless of the consequences to health, the environment, the Aboriginal people and their aspirations for land rights, civil liberties and world peace and security. [More…]
Of the five Bills, one gives modified and unsatisfactory land rights to Northern Territory Aboriginals- modified by the requirements of mining, and unsatisfactory for that reason. [More…]
Miners demands will supersede Aboriginal land rights and the preservation of sacred places. [More…]
On the other hand, the Australian Labor Party, the Opposition, has several major objectives in this matter: Firstly, the prevention of mining; secondly the securing of Aboriginal land rights in an unqualified manner; thirdly, the protection of the environment; and, fourthly, the protection of the health of this community. [More…]
Yet a further unsatisfactory aspect of the Bill is that the rights of the supervisory scientist in clause 29 override the provision in the Aboriginal Lands Act 1976 which prohibits a person from entering or remaining on Aboriginal land except for the purposes of that Act. [More…]
The general issue relates to such fundamental matters as the rights of individuals to belong or not belong to a particular organisation or association and to contribute or not contribute to an organisation’s actions and policies, thereby supporting it directly or indirectly or to make the decision if they wish not to do so. [More…]
They relate to the role and rights of the university within our community. [More…]
Under the Northern Territory Aboriginal Land Rights Act has an arbitrator yet been appointed to review disputes? [More…]
Commissioner, in his report for the year ended 30 June 1977, commented that a number of questions had arisen in regard to the operation of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1 976 and the carrying out of his functions. [More…]
After the definition of ‘appointed member of the Committee’ or ‘appointed member’, insert the following definition: “appropriate Aboriginal Land Council” means such Aboriginal Land Council established under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 as the Minister declares by instrument under his hand to be the Aboriginal Land Council responsible for the Alligator Rivers Region for the purposes of this Act; ‘. [More…]
The Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill deals with an area which will be almost exclusively Aboriginal land under the provisions of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
Yet the tribal Aboriginal owners of the land have been relegated to a position of half the importance of the Legislative Assembly, which has very little control over land which has been conceded to be Aboriginal land under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
This is completely foreign to the intention of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
The situation with regard to the legislation that is complementary to the Aboriginal Land Rights Act is that details of that legislation have been circulated among the Aboriginal people. [More…]
The Legislative Assembly’s proposals for complementary legislation to the Aboriginal Land Rights Act were rejected outright by the Northern Territory Land Council with the result that numerous amendments were suggested to the Legislative Assembly. [More…]
But if I knew my rights and if this Parliament had protected them properly, I would know that when I got that notice I need not answer it because to answer it would incriminate me. [More…]
It seems to me that it would be in breach of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act, which gives the tribal elders the right to say who enters their property. [More…]
He upholds the principle of overriding public interest more than his Government upheld the overriding public interest in the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
It has been argued in this chamber that the rights of the public applying to other land do not apply to land that has been granted to Aborigines under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
The intention of the Government was to override public interest and to give greater consideration to Aboriginals but we are breaking down the principles embodied in the Aboriginals Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act by taking into consideration public interest and allowing someone to invade their property and to search their houses. [More…]
My attention has been directed to a similar provision in the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Bill under which land councils are given the same kind of rights and authority to take such action as is the Supervising Scientist. [More…]
In the ordinary situation of weighing up the matter and the fact that the provision had been used before in the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Bill it seems that that ought to be a satisfactory explanation. [More…]
I accept that, but it seems to me that for the first time there has been a breach of the land rights legislation under which tribal Aboriginals were supreme. [More…]
There has developed in this chamber a rather vigilant regard for the rights of property so that other officials usually are required before they enforce a right of entry to get a justice’s warrant, a warrant authorising search which a justice should give only on a prima facie case of reasonable evidence that the entry is required to establish a prima facie offence. [More…]
I point out to Senator Cavanagh that the requirement to go before the judge is a much greater protection to the right of property than we usually accord to ordinary property rights which can be trespassed upon when there is a reasonable suspicion of an offence having been committed simply upon the obtaining of a warrant from a justice of the peace who has listened to an ex parte statement or seen an affidavit. [More…]
We promised that under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
I believe that the offending clause of this Bill is 29 (2) which provides that notwithstanding section 70 ( 1 ) of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act except in the performance of function under this Act or otherwise in accordance with the Act or a law of the Northern Territory a person shall not enter or remain on Aboriginal land. [More…]
I have not studied this matter but I do not believe that the granting of land rights gives an absolute exemption to Aborigines against the ordinary running of the bulk of our ordinary Australian laws. [More…]
1 am now advised that under section 70 of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act except in the performance of function under this Act or otherwise in accordance with this Act or a law of the Northern Territory a person shall not enter or remain on Aboriginal land. [More…]
The Government was forced to give them some benefits in the form of land rights but there is no attempt to recognise them. [More…]
Out of this legislation I want to see the rights of Aboriginals preserved in respect of land that we have given to them. [More…]
I am not trying to give them exclusive rights over that land. [More…]
However, it took a Labor government to give Aboriginals land rights. [More…]
As has been said often in this place, legislation to give Aborigines land rights was introduced into the Parliament on 1 1 November 1975 when the Labor Government was unceremoniously sacked. [More…]
AH that Senator Cavanagh is seeking in speaking to this amendment is to ensure that the Aborigines of the Northern Territory are given the full recognition and the same rights as the white community. [More…]
It is our view that the administration of Aboriginal land should be carried out under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1 976. [More…]
The Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Act provides for the appointment of an arbitrator if Aboriginals do not agree to the leasing of their land. [More…]
This Act is an infringement of human rights and civil liberties. [More…]
The Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Act makes provision for an arbitrator to be appointed but the Aboriginals are concerned because section 7(2) of the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act states: [More…]
Much of what Senator Cavanagh has said relates not to this Bill but to the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Bill which is now a statue. [More…]
The wishes of Aboriginals with land rights in the areas are of prime importance in any consideration of the establishment of a national park. [More…]
I cannot see how I am confusing this with the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
Proposed paragraph (aa) is in the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Amendment Bill, not in the Land Rights Act. [More…]
How on earth anyone can say it is in the Land Rights Act is beyond me. [More…]
There were some things that I would have said on the amendments to the Land Rights Act if I had had the opportunity, but this is the one that definitely gives the power. [More…]
After sub-section (2) of proposed section 8c, insert the following new sub-section: (2a) A township shall not be established or developed by the Director on Aboriginal land except after consultation with the Aboriginal Land Council established under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1 976 for the area in which the land is situated. [More…]
As my colleague, Senator Cavanagh, has established in his contribution on the previous amendment, we are asserting here the supremacy of the Aboriginals land rights claim over any other claims or developments that shall be made in that area. [More…]
by adding at the end thereof the following subsections: “(3) The Director may, for the purposes of Part II of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976, surrender to the Commonwealth any interest held by him in respect of land within a park or reserve within the Region. [More…]
The import of this amendment is that under the Government’s National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Amendment Bill the Director may, for the purposes of Part II of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act, surrender to the Commonwealth any interest held by him in respect of land within a park or reserve within the Region. [More…]
The proposed amendment would require the Director to relinquish to the Commonwealth any interest held by him in land in a park within the Region for the purposes of Part II of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
The requirement would also apply even if no land rights claim were made. [More…]
If a land rights claim were upheld and the Director refused to surrender his interest in land within a park the Minister could use this power of direction. [More…]
Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976, surrender to the Commonwealth any interest held by him in respect of land within a park or reserve within the Region. [More…]
Under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1 976, after the Aboriginals have established their traditional right to the land the Commissioner, Mr Justice Toohey, can recommend to the Minister that the land should be acquired for the Aboriginals. [More…]
After paragraph (a), insert the following paragraph: (aa) by inserting in sub-section (3) “(including the Territory Commission and the Chairman of an Aboriginal Land Council established under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976) “after “person”;’. [More…]
After paragraph (f), insert the following paragraph: (fa) by inserting in sub-section (II) “(including the Territory Commission and the Chairman of an Aboriginal Land Council established under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976)” after “person”: and’. [More…]
These amendments follow the general philosophy of this evenings Government amendments and include the Territory Commission and the Chairman of an Aboriginal Land Council established under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976. [More…]
if the park, reserve or conservation zone is also wholly or partly within an area for which an Aboriginal Land Council has been established under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976, the Chairman of the Council. ‘ [More…]
Certain provisions in this Bill override the provisions of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act and we believe that that is a breaking of faith with the Aboriginal communities in this area which have gone to so much trouble and have been so co-operative as to agree to have certain parts of Aboriginal land incorporated in the national park. [More…]
In the second Fox Report Mr Justice Fox said that national park demands had equal rights with mining and pastoral needs. [More…]
During the Kennedy era, the United States had a problem about the rights of negroes to enter universities in the southern states. [More…]
It is essential that mining companies can move in a predictable environment in which to make decisions and that governments do not leave them (up in the air) as to their rights and obligations. [More…]
The question of Aboriginal land rights extends beyond the concept of the Kakadu National Park, phases one and two. [More…]
There is the question of the use of the Cobourg Peninsula which, I know is bound up with the question of the ultimate control of Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
Often the local member has led the agitation, citing the United Nations Bill of Rights, when in fact it is only a thinly veiled attempt to cause erosion. [More…]
In regard to the earlier legislation they said: What about the effect of mining rights on the farmer on his land?’ [More…]
I cannot expect that people who could laugh at something as boorish as that would be very worried about Aboriginal rights to the land, how they live or where they live. [More…]
Following the discussions in Darwin, the Government is pleased to say that there is agreement on the way in which the parks should be managed, respecting the rights and responsibilities of both the Northern Territory Executive and the Northern Land Council. [More…]
The rights and interests of Aborigines are recognised in arrangements that may be made under these proposed new sub-clauses by providing that such arrangements shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of any law, including of course the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act, or with any agreement between the Commonwealth and an Aboriginal land council. [More…]
Honourable senators will appreciate that the land comprising Stage 1 of the Kakadu National Park is to be granted to Aborigines under the provisions of the Aboriginal Land Rights Act. [More…]
In particular, are they now satisfied that their rights have been fully protected? [More…]
The scheme also covers a wide range of export goods, including manufactured goods, some bulk farm and agricultural products, services provided overseas and the sale of industrial rights and property which are of substantially Australian origin. [More…]
I ask: What rights of appeal are available to citizens who feel aggrieved by decisions of Telecom Australia? [More…]
The second part, consular protection, arises from the international practice of sovereign states recognising an obligation to protect the civil and legal rights of their citizens when abroad. [More…]
We must ensure that an Australian arrested overseas knows his rights under local law and how to obtain legal assistance if he wishes it. [More…]
A reading of these will show that, while the coastal state has sovereign rights over the living resources of the zone, it has, in turn, certain obligations with respect to management of the resources in that zone. [More…]
It is designed to facilitate majority rule, certainly, but it also aims to protect the rights of minority groups. [More…]
That atleast acknowledged the existence and rights of individuals and groups elected by the people to represent them and their interests but not belonging to what are referred to as the major parties. [More…]
Let me put the rights of minority groups aside. [More…]
The Opposition believes that already there are adequate safeguards for individual rights in court procedures. [More…]
We believe this clause makes an unnecessary and unwarranted intrusion into those rights if in the administration of those lands we are really interested in Aboriginal land rights and Aboriginal priorities. [More…]
The Parliamentary counsel has advised that the amendment is necessary as printed because the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Bill will require the relevant Aboriginal land trusts in the region to enter into leases with the director of National Parks and Wildlife. [More…]
An arrangement under this section shall not be inconsistent with any law or with any agreement between the Commonwealth and an Aboriginal Land Council established by the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 or between the Director and any such Land Council. [More…]
) An arrangement under this section shall not be inconsistent with any law or with any agreement between the Commonwealth and an Aboriginal Land Council established by the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 or between the Director and any such Land Council. [More…]
But what the Minister does not explain is that sub-clause (5) offers no protection of the rights of Aboriginals. [More…]
5 ) An arrangement under this section shall not be inconsistent with any law or with any agreement between the Commonwealth and an Aboriginal Land Council established by the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) /lc/ 1976 . [More…]
Of course the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act gives the land to Aboriginals. [More…]
It seems to me that Senator Kilgariff continues to disregard the rights of the Aboriginals in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Whilst I admit that I am not a legal man, these provisions may be necessary in accordance with constitutional rights, but if they are necessary we have to admit that the Commonwealth Government cannot protect the environment from uranium mining unless we first get a uniform code of agreement which all States will observe. [More…]
Having regard to the complex legal and social evidence which is produced before Aboriginal land rights inquiries, will the Minister consider the granting of financial assistance to, for example, chambers of commerce, tourist boards, fishing co-operatives, and private individualsthe man in the street- to enable them to put their case in the best possible manner? [More…]
Is this what land rights legislation is all about? [More…]
Is this in line with the land rights legislation put through Parliament in the last session? [More…]
Again the Aboriginal people have some justification for feeling that the rights of the European people- the European rights, if honourable senators wish to use that phrasewere given undue weight. [More…]
Some honourable senators on the other side of the chamber will remember the discussions that were held into land rights by the Joint Committee on Aboriginal Land Rights in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Perhaps we may have to look at the requirements of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
I see that as the purpose of the land rights legislation in relation to unalienated Crown land. [More…]
As we have said in this place several times, surely land rights must imply the right of the Aboriginals to deny or to grant access, it must give the Aboriginals the right of discussions with the mining company to decide whether these sorts of easements will be allowed. [More…]
They are both keen to see that the Aboriginals get their rights. [More…]
I have a horrible feeling- Senator McLaren in his own inimitable style touched on this matterthat we have not heard the real truth about the land rights dispute in which Senator Bonner has been hinting that all is not well. [More…]
-The purpose of the insertion of new Part IVa relates in a sense to a judicial and constitutional point which is simply this: Assuming the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill 1978 is passed and proclaimed, the Commonwealth Government will be given paramount rights over the mining of uranium. [More…]
The question which concerns the Opposition is the method of enforcement of those rights. [More…]
Proposed new Part IVA provides for the enforcement of those rights and remedies to be available in the Federal Court of Australia. [More…]
I suppose one could summarise the purpose of the proposed amendment by saying that the Bill as presently drafted does not acknowledge the existence of a Federal Court of Australia and its function as a Federal court in relation to Commonwealth legislation and the enforcement of rights under Commonwealth legislation. [More…]
The result of the new Part IVA being adopted would be that there would be at least the certainty of uniformity of application of Federal law in the Federal Court and that citizens would have right of redress in that court rather than having to seek any rights or remedies which they might conceive that they have under this legislation rather than having to pursue those rights or remedies in a court of a State. [More…]
The amendment does not go to the fundamentals of the legislation but it is important from the Opposition’s point of view and, in a sense, we would have thought that it would have commended itself to the Government in terms of securing some degree of uniformity of remedy of rights under this legislation. [More…]
I must rely on my legal advisers who tell me that the regulations do not provide for rights to seek damages. [More…]
On the motion for the third reading I wish to introduce a factor which may not have been considered, merely, that the Atomic Energy Energy Amendment Bill clearly contravenes Article 14 (II) of the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights of the United Nations, which states: [More…]
Quite clearly, it contravenes Article 14 (II) of the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights which states: [More…]
Further, the use of section 44 of the Atomic Energy Act which relates to communication of restricted information with intent to prejudice defence, contravenes Articles 18, 19 and 21 of the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights, which deal with freedom of speech and assembly. [More…]
On the one hand, the Covenant proclaims these basic rights of speech and freedom, whilst, on the other hand, the Atomic Energy Act as it is applied to Ranger would impose a penalty of 20 years imprisonment for a person communicating certain aspects of the Ranger development to the public. [More…]
It is an inappropriate course of action for the Government to adopt, particularly as it intends to ratify the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights and to introduce legislation establishing a human rights commission. [More…]
The regulation does not specify any reappointment rights if an officer resigns to contest an election. [More…]
If a constitutional change is made, it may still be necessary to alter some existing legislation or regulations which unnecessarily fetter the rights of public servants to stand for election. [More…]
Armed with comments from others it may be possible for me to work towards the goal of providing public servants with the same rights to offer themselves for election as are enjoyed by their fellow Australians. [More…]
If it is not inconsistent with fundamental rights and duties, the House should avoid setting itself up as an alternative forum or body of inquiry or permit its proceedings to interfere in the course of justice. [More…]
Apart from particular matters such as criminal cases, courts martial, civil cases and matters referred by a legislature to a judicial body, the rule has application to other hearings, inquiries or investigations in which the rights of individuals or a community group or the achievement of justice may be prejudiced. [More…]
It is the obligation of the Chair to hold the balance between the rights and duties of the House on the one hand and the rights and interest of the citizen on the other. [More…]
The Review found that migrants are often placed at a disadvantage by their ignorance of their rights, entitlements and obligations in Australian society. [More…]
The Government will be taking action in the area of the law to protect migrants’ rights in criminal investigations and in voting, and to improve information on such aspects as the legal system generally and family law. [More…]
That Ukraine, a nation of some 50 million people, is deprived of those national and individual rights and human freedoms which are deemed sacred in Australia. [More…]
Those who have the courage to speak out in defence of national and human rights in Ukraine are dealt with by the Moscow government in a manner which is abhorrent to every freedom minded Australian. [More…]
There is a particular case of a woman named Grace Gorman, a temporary employee, who has been sacked after four years employment in the ABC with no rights of appeal even though she has contributed to the superannuation fund during this time. [More…]
It is important to bear this in mind when we are talking about the Constitutional Convention, when we are talking about safeguards, when we are talking about the role of the Senate, when we are talking about the Senate as a States House, when we are talking about the compact that was originally agreed to when people surrendered their rights to be independent and were brought together as one Australian nation. [More…]
But they did not say: ‘We will simply surrender all our rights, all our future to wherever the numbers may be in some featherbedded industrial centres’. [More…]
In the end Iwasaki did give in but conditions are still reported to include ‘neglection of workers rights’. [More…]
EXTRACTS FROM A CHRONICLE OF CURRENT EVENTS JOURNAL OF THE SOVIET HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT, PUBLISHED BY AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL [More…]
In his foreign policy statement to Parliament on 9 May, the Minister for Foreign Affairs expressed the Government ‘s support for all attempts to find peaceful solutions to the problems in southern Africa based on the principles of majority rule and human rights for all. [More…]
They provide for the protection of basic rights for all, on a non-discriminatory basis, through a Bill of Rights. [More…]
I do not think there has been a greater exponent of the rights of the Parliament than Senator Sir Magnus Cormack, in the various important functions which he has performed, including the office which you, Mr President, now hold. [More…]
Senator Wheeldon referred to his strength in upholding the rights of Parliament. [More…]
There has been no greater supporter and defender of the rights of the Parliament over the executive than Senator Sir Magnus Cormack. [More…]
When any dispute has arisen about the committees he has always strenuously and successfully upheld the rights of the Parliament. [More…]
Gold will no longer be the Fund ‘s numeraire or unit of account for expressing the values of currencies used in Fund transactions and of the Fund ‘s special drawing rights. [More…]
It is well understood, however, that this will be an evolutionary process; the second amendment explicitly requires that special drawing rights may only be allocated if there is a global need to supplement the existing stock of reserve assets, and in such a manner as will avoid exacerbating excess demand and world inflation. [More…]
The increase in Australia’s quota involves enlargement of Australia’s potential drawing rights from the fund which are available for use at a time of balance of payments need. [More…]
I commend this Bill to the Senate and draw the attention of honourable senators to the desirability of early approval of the Bill in order to enable the Treasurer to exercise the proposed increased voting rights for Australia at the next regular elections of executive directors of the Fund and the Bank in September. [More…]
I now return to deal with Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
The things that have happened over the last few weeks- I propose to go into more detail shortly- indicate quite clearly that the Federal Government ought to use its legislative powers now to take over both of these settlements and to give full land rights to the people there. [More…]
They ought to go into the record to show the type of people with whom we have to deal in the great struggle for land rights for Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in Queensland. [More…]
Senator Bonner claimed in the course of the interview that all the amendments to the Local Government (Land Rights) Bill- ‘land rights’ is a misnomer of course- had not been accepted. [More…]
The situation, of course, is that once the local government areas are operating effectively the Councils in both areas will have no rights at all. [More…]
This is why I say that the Australian Government has proved as spineless as the Queensland Government in providing land rights for people in those areas. [More…]
The campaign for land rights for Aborigines is widespread in spite of what we may have heard in recent statements coming out of the Northern Territory and from the National Party Government of Queensland. [More…]
The Council believes that the best means of ensuring this freedom of choice throughout the Commonwealth is to ensure land and other rights for Aboriginal people through legislation parallel to that already enacted or at present proposed by the Commonwealth for the Northern Territory. [More…]
The Institute expressed grave concern that in the absence of such legislation the rights of Aboriginal people will not be respected. [More…]
It called on all State governments to legislate for such Aboriginal land and other rights. [More…]
The fact that the Aboriginal and other delegates, many of whom are well known in the academic world, saw fit to produce a statement of that nature indicates quite clearly that there is wide-ranging support for land rights for Aborigines. [More…]
A few days ago the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Mr Viner, made much noise about the granting of land rights for the people of Borrooloola. [More…]
The granting of these small areas of land in the Borrooloola area is a travesty of the spirit of the legislative details set out in the Northern Territory Land Rights Act. [More…]
Mr Viner said that the decision announced today was an historic one for the Northern Territory Aboriginals and was evidence that the government’s undertakings expressed in the Land Rights Act were being honoured. [More…]
The whole question of land rights in the Northern Territory is being totally distorted. [More…]
The North Queensland Land Rights Committee, which is assuming a role of very great importance in the current land rights struggle, made these remarks in relation to the Aurukun takeover: [More…]
1 ) land rights [More…]
My wife was able to contact a local official of the Catholic Land Rights Movement who immediately procured a vehicle, went out and picked up the elderly gentleman, and was able to obtain first aid for him. [More…]
I read with interest the Hansard report (24.5.78) of the discussion initiated by you in the Senate on the subject of Aboriginal Land Rights. [More…]
The Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, under its present majority control, will not bring in the type of complementary legislation that is needed to back up properly the land rights legislation that went through this Parliament in 1976. [More…]
For all effective purposes, there are still no land rights for Aborigines in Australia today, with the exception of minor freehold areas and leasehold areas that have been purchased on their behalf. [More…]
I make this final appeal to the Minister and to the Government which he represents, that the Aboriginal land rights legislation which we passed a few weeks ago be now implemented, that the areas of Mornington Island and Aurukun be taken over and that the people on both settlements be allowed to exercise selfdetermination and manage the areas as they want to, knowing that they have title to that land which, under the Queensland legislation, is being stolen from them. [More…]
The second item related to the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
Another item referred to in the letter was the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights commemoration involving an amount of $15,000. [More…]
The other item was ‘ UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights- Commemoration $15,000’. [More…]
Australia was a foundation member of the UN Commission on Human Rights in 1946. [More…]
I hear members of the Opposition in this place say, with confounded impertinence, that this is a rubber stamp, when they have no rights in government to exercise a different point of view, and I become almost sick in my stomach to listen to them. [More…]
Commutation will not, however, affect the rights of the contributor’s widow or widower to an annuity. [More…]
For example, what Professor Mathews argues is that the States, by reducing their taxation themselves, have opted not to take independence, that they want the State rights but not the federalism, and that the fact that they have reduced their taxation has lowered the amount of money available to them. [More…]
It is a paradox of Australian federalism that the States are vocally insisting on States’ rights in every respect except one, the right to financial independence. [More…]
All that Professor Mathews is saying is summed up in his comment that it is a paradox of Australian federalism that the States are vocal in insisting on States rights in every respect except one- the right to financial independence. [More…]
Those people who advise him ought to look at the Declaration of Human Rights which calls upon the signatories, including Australia, to do exactly what we are doing, that is, to provide equal education in government and nongovernment schools. [More…]
It will give some retirement benefit rights to those who leave the Commonwealth Parliament. [More…]
That means that people who come into Parliament together -into the House of Representatives and the Senatewould therefore not tend to have the same rights of voluntary retirement. [More…]
The amendment proposes to clarify clause 9 to the extent that it gives to senators equivalent rights to the rights of members of the House of Representatives for the same responsibilities. [More…]
Can the Minister assure the Senate, firstly, that no government department, agent or instrumentality will, in any manner, be involved with the National Front in the fulfilment of these aims; secondly, that the Commissioner for Community Relations will maintain a constant check on the Front’s activities to ensure that it does not breach the Racial Discrimination Act 1975; and, thirdly, that the National Front will not be allowed to violate the conditions outlined in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination, both of which have been ratified by Australia? [More…]
They display the same type of hypocrisy with respect to this principle of retrospectivity that they apply to human rights. [More…]
Anyone who has anything to do with advising people on their rights under the existing law is said to be a bad man and someone with whom people should not have anything to do. [More…]
I do not think anyone advising people as to their rights will object to a government stating, when it has the majority that this Government has in both Houses, that legislation will be introduced and be operative from a certain date which is specifies. [More…]
The rights of the taxpayer are safeguarded by [More…]
Our platform provides that the rights of the taxpayers are safeguarded by a number of principles. [More…]
It interfered with rights. [More…]
Any general meeting declaring a dividend may on the recommendation of the Board resolve that such dividend be paid wholly or in part by the distribution of specific assets and in particular of paid-up shares debentures or debenture stock of the company or paid-up shares debentures or debenture stock of any other company or in any one or more of such ways: any general meeting may on the recommendation aforesaid resolve that any moneys investments or other assets forming part of the undivided profits of the Company standing to the credit of a reserve account or in the hands of the company and available for dividend or representing premiums received on the issue of shares and standing to the credit of the share premium account be capitalized and distributed amongst the members in accordance with their rights on the footing that they become entitled thereto as capital and that all or any part of such capitalized fund be applied on behalf of the members in paying up in full any unissued shares of the company and that such unissued shares so fully paid be distributed accordingly amongst the members in the proportion in which they are entitled to receive dividends and be accepted by them in full satisfaction of their interests in the said capitalized sum. [More…]
For the purpose of giving effect to any resolution under this Article the Board may settle any difficulty which may arise in regard to the distribution as they think expedient and in particular may issue fractional certificates and may fix the value for distribution of any specific assets and may determine that cash payments shall be made to any members upon the footing of the value so fixed or that fractions of less value than one dollar may be disregarded in order to adjust the rights of all parties and may vest any such cash or specific assets in trustees upon such trusts for the persons entitled to the dividend or capitalized fund as may seem expedient to the Board. [More…]
It is a vigilant committee which looks at regulations and ordinances to see that the rights and liberties of people are not unduly trespassed upon and ensures that what should be legislation does not come under the cover of regulations and ordinances. [More…]
The Committee is concerned with the preservation of the very basic rights of the individual. [More…]
As guardians of those rights, Senators generally regard these matters very dearly. [More…]
The work which the Chairman has done in this period in discussing matters and ensuring that the result is suitable to the Government and to the people of this country and protects their rights is important. [More…]
I must also emphasise that in drafting this legislation the Government has been very sensitive to the need to avoid undue interference with the exercise of the rights of individuals. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to provide for mining companies in the Alligator Rivers Region to retain their current rights as far as ownership of and access to existing improvements constructed by them when the land on which the facilities have been erected becomes Aboriginal land. [More…]
I stress that the Bill merely confirms the present position of the companies but settles any doubts about their legal rights. [More…]
It was the intention of the original Act to protect the existing rights of people who had a prior interest in Aboriginal land, as recommended by [More…]
Mr Justice Woodward in his Royal Commission report on Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
The Government accepts the need to avoid any argument over this issue, and is particularly mindful of the commitment of the then Labor Government, to guarantee ownership rights of Ranger. [More…]
It is therefore proposed that the Aboriginal Land Rights Act should be amended to ensure that the companies are given rights of access and ownership of facilities erected to date by them. [More…]
At Federation, the citizens of the Northern Territory, as residents of the State of South Australia, enjoyed the same political rights as other Commonwealth citizens. [More…]
Because of the requirements of the Constitution, those political rights were removed in 1910 when the Territory was transferred from South Australia and accorded the status of a Commonwealth Territory. [More…]
In a very real sense, the constitutional history of the Northern Territory since that date reflects the endeavours of the people of the Territory to regain the rights which they lost in 1 9 10. [More…]
2) 1978, the Ombudsman Amendment Bill 1978, the Lands Acquisition Amendment Bill 1978, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Amendment Bill 1978, the Remuneration Tribunals Amendment Bill 1978, and the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Bill (No. [More…]
However, the Bill provides that regulations may be made conferring rights of appeal to the Tribunal in respect of decisions made under Territory laws that will continue to be administered by the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
However, the Bill provides that regulations may be made conferring rights of review by the Federal Court of decisions made under Northern Territory laws that will continue to be administered by the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Bill (No. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to ensure that the Aboriginal Land Rights Act will continue to apply when the Northern Territory achieves self-government on 1 July 1978. [More…]
The Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act has therefore been amended to ensure that Aboriginal claims to unalienated Crown land made in pursuance of section 50 of the Act can still be made and determined. [More…]
A similar amendment will ensure that mining royalties payable under the provisions of the Aboriginal Land Rights Act for mining on Aboriginal land continue to flow to the Aboriginals Benefit Trust Account. [More…]
This is a simple but important Bill which will assure the Aboriginal people that the commitments entered into by the Government through the Aboriginal Land Rights Act will continue after self-government for the Northern Territory. [More…]
The Government is conscious of the importance which Aboriginals in the Northern Territory attach to the Aboriginal Land Rights Act and the opportunity which it affords to Aboriginals to lay claim to their traditional lands. [More…]
The present amendments make it clear that the Aboriginal land rights legislation will continue to operate after self-government is achieved. [More…]
Notwithstanding some diversity of viewpoints, Aborigines with one voice are asserting the right to- self-management; land rights; additional funds; self-sufficiency. [More…]
In recognising land rights we will ensure: [More…]
Western Australia, States which appear to be suffering from a persecution complex and the belief that the Federal Government is forever trying to undermine their State rights. [More…]
It was said quite clearly by the Deputy Premier of Queensland last Sunday night on television- it was said at the Liberal Party State conference earlier in the day- that there was a clear division between the policies of the Queensland Government and the Federal Government in relation to land rights and to the way in which Aborigines should be treated. [More…]
Presumably, by this procedure, States’ rights hawks here and in the other place could ensure that not States rights were imperilled by a rapacious and greedy Federal Government. [More…]
We think that that is an unnecessary curtailment of the rights of the Aboriginal people to form an Aboriginal council even though a local government exists in the area. [More…]
When we debated the Aboriginal Councils and Associations Bill 1976, the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill 1976 and the recent legislation in relation to Queensland whereby the Federal Government was going to be the big, bold boy and march in and look after the affairs of Aborigines, we suggested a number of amendments. [More…]
They do not, because one night when the moon went down the State Government took away their rights to the land. [More…]
There is nothing that I have said in the past that is inconsistent with what the Commonwealth Government is aiming to do today, that is, to do what the Declaration on Human Rights under the United Nations Charter suggests is fundamental to all. [More…]
I refer the AttorneyGeneral to the Human Rights Commission Bill which was introduced during the last Parliament and which has not yet been reintroduced. [More…]
The Human Rights Commission Bill was introduced into the Parliament about this time last year by my predecessor, for the purpose of lying on the table so that comments could be received from a wide range of people and organisations interested in its provisions. [More…]
Does not the human rights legislation flow from an international agreement? [More…]
The position is that there is an international covenant on civil and political rights. [More…]
The Bill seeks to provide that the Human Rights Commission should operate in relation to the law of the Commonwealth with regard to the provisions of this covenant. [More…]
The reason for the problem is that many of the areas of jurisdiction contained in the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights are traditionally matters which come within the power and the province of the States. [More…]
In fact it says that the rights of taxpayers are safeguarded by ensuring that taxation adjustments do not have retrospective effect. [More…]
This is an abrogation of this Parliament’s rights and ought to be eschewed at all opportunities by members of parliament. [More…]
Public servants right from the word go- and there are large numbers of them in the Northern Territory- have been concerned about the transfer of rights, about their seniority and about what will happen to them after 1 July. [More…]
The principle lying behind it seems to be a little like that of the Government some time ago to land rights for the Aboriginal people; that is, that the Aboriginal people can have the bits that we do not want. [More…]
One can learn from the history of these pioneering giants who did so much for the Territory in those days, the various ways in which they produced, by continual battling with the Federal Government, a situation in which their rights were recognised and by degrees, they enjoyed increasing constitutional change. [More…]
In 1923, for the first time, the House of Representatives included an honourable member from the Northern Territory, without voting rights. [More…]
In 1 959 limited voting rights were granted to the member for the Northern Territory in the House of Representatives. [More…]
In 1968 full voting rights were given to the member for the Northern Territory in the House of Representatives. [More…]
It was quite wrong that those Australians who lived in the Northern Territory were denied the political rights that the rest of the people of Australia had. [More…]
Of course I am talking about Aboriginal land rights, on which there has been agreement. [More…]
One of these relates to the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Bill. [More…]
In a particular circumstance under the Aboriginal land rights legislation a report is required to be made to the Minister responsible in this area. [More…]
I have a letter dated 24 May this year relating to Aboriginal land rights in the Territory. [More…]
I wish to draw the attention of the Committee to Section 50 ( 1) of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) [More…]
I ask that the Committee review this matter which I believe is both necessary and desirable in the interests of the Northern Territory and to comply with the intentions of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976. [More…]
They are rights. [More…]
Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Bill (No. [More…]
I have spoken in this place on land rights on many occasions and I will not speak on that subject at length tonight. [More…]
The Northern Territory, under the provisions of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act, will have to pay a lease fee for the land. [More…]
That the Federal Government recognise Land Rights in the States, such as Queensland in a similar manner to the recognition of Land Rights in the Northern Territory, that is enact an Aboriginal Land Rights Act for Queensland; [More…]
I note in passing the Attorney-General’s answers yesterday in regard to another Bill, the Human Rights Commission Bill. [More…]
We said that we would be proceeding with the Human Rights Commission. [More…]
Will the Minister undertake to investigate whether some action by the Commonwealth Government is possible to ensure that Mr Farrell ‘s rights are appropriately safeguarded? [More…]
If it is not inconsistent with fundamental rights and duties, the House should avoid setting itself up as an alternative forum or body of inquiry or permit its proceedings to interfere in the course of justice. [More…]
Senator James McClelland, that man who believes he is a lawyer with a social conscience, who speaks to us on human rights, does not believe in the simple,” just attitude that a’ judge is appointed to discover the facts and to draw inferences. [More…]
I have heard the Australian Labor Party members in this Parliament talk day after day about their socalled human rights, the so-called decent things. [More…]
Opposition members talk a lot about human rights but they do not believe in them. [More…]
The rights of a naturalising company would be withdrawn should it not adhere to the agreed understandings. [More…]
Broadly these are: Senators and members; the other levels of government in Australia: individuals, groups and organisations who seek information to allow them properly to pursue their legitimate interests- for example, those seeking to press claims to benefits, rights, or other entitlements individuals and groups representing a particular section of society seeking legitimately to advocate their particular views with respect to matters of government policy: the media: and persons undertaking academic research. [More…]
In line with its recognition and overall concern that a member of the community may better protect his individual rights, the Government has already been active in ensuring that, when legislation was passed to establish an external review system, the citizen’s opportunities for access to information were buttressed. [More…]
This Bill, together with the Archives Bill, which is the responsibility of my colleague the Minister for Home Affairs (Mr Ellicott), will establish for members of the public legally enforceable rights of access to information in documentary form held by Ministers and government agencies except where an overriding interest may require confidentiality to be maintained. [More…]
At the same time that a broad philosophy of ‘freedom of information’ is enacted into law, it is necessary to protect certain equally important rights of privacy with respect to certain information in Government files, such as medical and personnel records. [More…]
The Archives Bill, which the Government is introducing to regulate the archival collections of the Commonwealth, will deal with rights of access to documents more than 30 years old. [More…]
Now that the Archives is to be established on a statutory basis, with rights of access to be defined, it is appropriate that the Archives be entitled to receive this material. [More…]
These require that the origins, development, organisation, functions, activities and methods of Government agencies be adequately recorded and that information safeguarding the rights and entitlements of individuals and organisations be preserved. [More…]
If Parliament is to give away those rights it is really giving away some of the most fundamental principles that we have. [More…]
The purpose of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Bill (No. [More…]
2) 1978, as stated in the second reading speech of the Minister for Science (Senator Webster), is to provide for mining companies in the Alligator Rivers Region to retain their current rights on the ownership of and access to existing improvements constructed by them when the land on which the facilities have been erected becomes Aboriginal land. [More…]
We have heard a great deal of rhetoric from the Minister for Education over the last couple of years about the rights of the States and how this legislation is based on cooperative federalism or the new federalism, as he calls it. [More…]
The Minister stated in his second reading speech that this is not a remarkable or unusual decision, that it is similar to the practice followed in the private sector for employers to have these rights with respect to recruitment and promotion and that in fact this legislation makes clear what has been the traditionally accepted practice since 1922. [More…]
Nothing in this sub-clause shall limit the employer’s rights under paragraph (iii) of sub-clause (a) hereof. [More…]
This Committee became a guardian of true civil rights before civil liberties became a fashionable part of the political vocabulary. [More…]
Is this not a rebuff to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Peacock, who early last year said that he expected the Indonesian Government to recognise the rights of the International Red Cross? [More…]
Ltd (reproduction rights) $60; Indexer$3 10. [More…]
The Electoral Office has also prepared a small leaflet setting out the rights and responsibilities of citizens for enrolment and voting. [More…]
That the majority of Australian citizens formerly of Yugoslavia are greatly disturbed by the much talked about proposal of terminating landing rights in Australia for the Yugoslav Airline JAT which would, if eventuated, greatly disturb present convenient and easy travel between Australia and Yugoslavia. [More…]
That the majority of Australian Citizens formerly of Yugoslavia are greatly disturbed by the much talked about proposal of terminating landing rights in Australia for the Yugoslav Airline J.A.T. [More…]
Once again the Senate is being asked to consider the problems that have been with us during 1978 concerning the rights of the people of Aurukun and Mornington Island. [More…]
What is happening in these communities is that in the appointment of Aboriginal councils and in the way in which they are operating there is a denial of human rights. [More…]
According to those who have been appointed by the Queensland Government to administer the affairs of these communities the Aboriginals have no rights. [More…]
We have- and correctly so- in our parties and as citizens exercised our right to express a concern for human rights all over the world. [More…]
Many of us have taken a strong view that human rights should be denied to no one whether by a government of the Left or a government of the Right. [More…]
Certainly we ought to be asserting that fundamental principle when it comes to our own indigenous people who without any question have been denied those rights since white civilisation came to this continent almost 200 years ago. [More…]
Today the civil rights of [More…]
Certainly no one could disagree with the premise that those civil rights are threatened very much by the arbitrary and contemptuous action that has been taken by the Queensland Government. [More…]
Unless we guarantee the people of Aurukun and Mornington Island the same rights, privileges and protection as any other group of citizens no other group of citizens, black or white, can feel safe. [More…]
They seek land rights. [More…]
Where better can we give them land rights with full sympathy and understanding than in areas such as Aurukun and Mornington? [More…]
Where better can we give them those rights so they can frustrate those who seek to exploit Aboriginal land to the disadvantage of the Aborigines and to destroy the environment in which they live. [More…]
If the people are not to receive the rights they seek- perhaps under the law they might receive the rights- this Parliament must act quickly without any further delay. [More…]
They have the rights and privileges of every other Australian. [More…]
Rights and responsibilities go hand in hand. [More…]
If it is a case of royalties versus human rights, I think that the members of this chamber in this Parliament in Canberra should be the first to rise up and say: ‘As far as we are concerned the human rights of those individuals on those settlements are absolutely paramount’. [More…]
The first and possibly the most significant in historical terms is the run down of gold as a reserve asset in the international monetary system and consequently a greater reliance on the International Monetary Fund drawing rights. [More…]
Although the attempts to establish more firmly the special drawing rights as a reserve currency, it will be difficult to convince the traditional Western trading nations that the dollar should not remain as the major commercial and reserve currency. [More…]
The other is that the assumption is wrong and inflation will continue at unacceptably high rates and therefore it is better to rely upon the special drawing rights as the basis for international reserves. [More…]
There is no guarantee that the shift towards the Special Drawing Rights and away from the pure dollar as a reserve currency will work. [More…]
Australia to conform with its obligations and rights as a member of the International Monetary Fund under the Second Amendment to the Fund ‘s Articles of Agreement; [More…]
The Fund’s Articles of Agreement were amended for the first time in 1969, when the special drawing rights scheme was established. [More…]
The Principal Act requires revision and updating in the light of the amended Articles, particularly in respect of payments to and receipts by the Fund and other transactions between the Fund and Australia in special drawing rights and other currencies. [More…]
However, I put it to the Committee that at no time should the rights of the Opposition be in any way limited. [More…]
I recognise that because of the nature of joint committees a similar provision for the rights of Independents and minority senators, or indeed for any named group of senators to nominate, is not appropriate in those circumstances. [More…]
I feel also that members of parliament perhaps should have some rights of participation in the joint committees, without having the right to vote. [More…]
We cannot call it a States’ rights House, lt is not a States’ rights House and it has not been since 1901 because we have divided frequently on party lines. [More…]
I do not think it is too late tonight to add an amendment to the current proposition which would have the effect of giving a senator the same rights on a legislative and general purpose standing committee as he has on an Estimates committee. [More…]
As the possession of a passport and the right to travel are widely recognised as fundamental personal rights, I ask the Minister: Can he give details of why the passport has been confiscated? [More…]
Therefore, one is entitled to say that, whilst Mr Nixon presents a rather glossy report, he is the Minister in charge of civil aviation and he ought to concede to the public at large and certainly to members of the Opposition their obligations, rights and responsibilities to raise matters when they are properly put before them. [More…]
We do not want those rights interfered with by anybody. [More…]
Their rights to preserve their cultural identity also has to be recognised. [More…]
This legislation does not in any way detract from those important fundamental rights within our community. [More…]
There is certainly no intention on the part of the Government to interfere in the exercise of the important rights of individuals within our community. [More…]
When there is a difficulty such as this I think it has to be stated emphatically that the effort to overcome it should not detract in any way from the individual rights of the members of any community and certainly should not detract from their right to run social, sporting and cultural clubs. [More…]
Yet the International Bill of Human Rights, Article IS, states: [More…]
How ironical to see Belgrade providing haven for the most recent Conference on Human Rights. [More…]
It seems strange that in Australia, where all citizens enjoy their rights to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, and have freedom of opinion and expression, and freedom of affiliation, that citizens of Yugoslav origins have their rights interfered with by the Consular officials of another country. [More…]
I would commend to honourable senators who might be interested a perusal of some of the proceedings before the Senate Select Committee on the Civil Rights of Migrant Australians, as it was called. [More…]
The Government has also very much in mind the need to protect the rights of individuals, especially in relation to freedom of expression. [More…]
But I do think that, because of the way the courts operate and by virtue of the provisions I have outlined, there is ample scope to protect persons from any really hasty or unwarranted intrusion onto their premises or into their rights or liberties. [More…]
Instead we talked about the rights of the Israelis and the Palestinians and other things that had occurred in the Middle East. [More…]
We recognise the rights of small countries to independence and their right to establish their own type of society. [More…]
I had occasion to observe at the time of the Premiers Conference that in the Seas and Submerged Lands Case, the complete sovereign power and rights of the Commonwealth Parliament over off-shore areas of Australia, that is from low water mark outwards, was affirmed. [More…]
Clause 8 of the Bill continues the Government’s policy of expanding, wherever possible, the jurisdiction of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal in relation to administrative decisions which affect the rights or entitlements of persons under Commonwealth legislation. [More…]
Beyond that, we believe that the strength, productivity and morale of a democracy depend perhaps more than is realised on the rights of citizens themselves to initiate legislation, even if this right is perhaps not exercised very often. [More…]
What is needed from government I believe is a generous gesture towards these people and indeed towards the whole society, increasing both its rights and its responsibilities towards deciding the circumstances of our future. [More…]
I do not wish at this stage to enter into a debate on the rights and wrongs of that situation, although I do believe it is fundamentally wrong. [More…]
The Government has also deplored the trials and sentencing of other courageous men and women associated with the human rights movement in the Soviet Union. [More…]
However, as far as the Government is concerned, we are conscious of the fact that the 1 980 Moscow Olympics will bring large numbers of athletes and other visitors from all over the world, thereby exposing the Soviet Union to greater contact with liberal values and standards of political rights. [More…]
That we beseech the Australian Government to condemn the unjust persecution of human rights compaigners in the USSR, and that we bring to your attention the inhuman treatment of the prominent member of the Ukrainian group monitoring the implementation of the Helsinki Agreement, Lev Lukyanenko who was released in 1 976 after serving 1 S years of imprisonment and now has received a repeated sentence for his support of human rights in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. [More…]
That the majority of Australian citizens formerly of Yugoslavia are greatly disturbed by the much talked about proposal of terminating landing rights in Australia for the Yugoslav airline J.A.T. [More…]
In view of those factors, I ask the Minister: As the United Nations prepares to focus the world’s attention on the rights of children with the International Year of the Child, what is Australia doing to ensure that its brain damaged children are given every opportunity to full recovery? [More…]
Basic questions of human rights and majority rule are involved. [More…]
At the present moment it is unusual to have a system of government in the world which embraces the idea of a loyal Opposition- a system whereby the majority has the power to make the laws, but recognises the rights of minorities to dissent in practical ways which do not involve violence. [More…]
If this House does have a useful role to play in the legislative process, it does not lie in menacing or threatening a properly elected government with the power of life or death based on some spurious conception of the Senate’s position as a defender of States’ rights or federalism or the more recently fashionable notion that it is a last resort defender of the national interest against the Huns and Visigoths of the lower House. [More…]
I received an invitation from the Tasmanian Committee for Human Rights in the Soviet Union to speak at a protest meeting organised for last Sunday afternoon. [More…]
During the course of my remarks I made it quite clear that I was not going to engage in an anti-Soviet harangue, that I was concerned about human rights in all countries of the world, including the Soviet Union, and that I was opposed to any moves to stop the 1980 Olympic Games being held in Moscow. [More…]
Motions were then moved at the meeting concerning the position of human rights in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
A motion was put to the meeting which in general terms condemned suppression of human rights in the USSR. [More…]
In terms of the government to which Australia aspires, it has a government which is very democratic, very conscious of human rights and so on. [More…]
I also raise in this context the question of human rights in the Philippines. [More…]
The Conference acknowledged that State and society have a duty to assist the family in fulfilling its manifold tasks: however, they believed that, in principle, the State should not challenge the basic rights of parents to educate their children. [More…]
This meeting declares that the systematic suspension of basic human rights by the Communist Regime in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe is an offense against the whole of humanity. [More…]
We urge the organising committee to make contact with others throughout Tasmania and the rest of Australia and campaign on the slogan ‘No Moscow Games Without Human Rights’. [More…]
I repeat that what I am trying to get at is that, if there is an attempt to beat the gun to start the operations of one of the other proposed uranium mines, excluding Ranger, because of litigation flowing from the considerations of the Aboriginal land rights committee, decisions may be made which get away from the recommendations of the Fox report. [More…]
As Senator Wriedt will appreciate, she is a very intelligent person who over the years has been involved in monitoring of human rights following the Helsinki Accords. [More…]
Senator Wriedt detailed his belief that a boycott of the Moscow Olympic Games would not be in the interests of the resolution of the human rights question in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I refer, for example, to the second resolution which resolved that the committee- that is the Tasmanian Committee- write to the Government seeking its assurance that in the interests of democracy and of the suffering people concerned, it effectively raise at the United Nations and the International Labour Organisation on the human rights committee the systematic suppression of human rights by the communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union and the foreign domination and alien subjugation by the Soviet Union of the Baltic States. [More…]
Presumably the group that was formed in the Parliament on Tuesday has the same general thrust, that is to say, to work to ensure that there are no Moscow Games without human rights. [More…]
The situation in the Soviet Union is simply that there is complete totalitarian control by the State over the people and the denial of human rights in the Soviet Union is systematic to the communist system there and indeed in any communist system. [More…]
Because of an increase in superannuation payments due to cost of living increases a great many pensioners now find that they are no longer eligible for a Pensioner’s Medical Entitlement Card and as a result have to pay prescription fees to chemists, as well as losing all rights to many concessions granted by State governments. [More…]
I was told that the reason for this was quite simple: It is expensive to procure television rights for films and the ABC budget did not permit the rights for many films to be acquired during the year. [More…]
The suggestion has been made that we should investigate the possibility of the ABC procuring or endeavouring to procure rights for films to be shown in country areas only. [More…]
I am not sure what saving would accrue to the ABC in royalty rights if it purchased the right to show films only in non-metropolitan areas, but I think it is a matter that certainly should be investigated. [More…]
I intend to raise it myself directly with the West Australian management at the next meeting of the Advisory Committee; but, given that the meeting will not be held for some time and that other commitments may preclude my attending anyway, I have decided to raise the matter tonight in the hope that the ABC management will at least investigate the possibility of securing film rights at lower cost for telecasting in non-metropolitan areas and also will have another look at what I and, I think, most other people on both sides of the House clearly agree is the obligation of the ABC to provide decent television viewing to people in the non-metropolitan areas who do not have the option of switching to another channel. [More…]
I do not want to canvass the rights and wrongs of that case at this stage. [More…]
It concerns human rights. [More…]
In recent months the world Press has been full of the question of human rights. [More…]
In fact, I have two matters on my plate on the same subject of human rights. [More…]
I am reluctant at this stage to bring on the other matter which deals with human rights in South Africa because I want to do some further checking on the information. [More…]
We write to bring to the attention of your organisation the fact that the Lee Kuan Yew government in Singapore has lately intensified its oppression and ill-treatment of political detainees, and to appeal for moral support for the struggle for justice and human rights of political detainees in Singapore. [More…]
It is incredible that the Lee Kuan Yew government in Singapore has sought to pose as an advocate of human rights before the world body when it has blatantly trampled upon the most elementary concept of human rights in its own country. [More…]
We, the families and relatives of all political detainees in Singapore appeal to you and your organisation to take rapid and concrete steps to ensure that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights will have meaning and substance in Singapore. [More…]
We call on all those who genuinely believe in justice and human rights to lend their support to the campaign for the immediate and unconditional release of all political detainees in Singapore. [More…]
1 ) What action is taken to investigate applicants to ensure they are deemed Aboriginal in each of the following areas in accordance with the relevant Act: (a) Aboriginal housing; (b) Aboriginal housing loans with 2 per cent interest rate; (c) Aboriginal Loans Commission loans for private and business purposes; (d) Land Rights claims under the Federal Act; (e) Federal Act; (e) medical treatment in regard to fares, aircharter, etc. [More…]
Traditional land claims under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act are made by or on behalf of groups of Aboriginals in accordance with the provisions of the Act which does not establish any racial qualifications but requires that a particular relationship in accordance with Aboriginal tradition be established. [More…]
What action has the Department of Administrative Services, or the Government as a whole, taken to: (a) ensure that Australian Aboriginals are made aware of their rights and obligation to vote at elections; and (b) to encourage Aboriginals to register as voters. [More…]
At the recent Antarctic Convention in Buenos Aires did the Australian representative insist that any agreement concerning the exploitation of a 200-mile off-shore zone in Antarctica would have to recognise Australia’s sovereign rights in the area? [More…]
In other words, has the Government now decided to claim sovereign rights in the 200-mile off-shore area of Australia ‘s Antarctic Territory? [More…]
Indeed, my Government has conveyed to every State Premier its views and a request that the States themselves might, as Victoria and Western Australia have done, take action to provide for such a freedom which, after all, is inherent in the Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations Charter and which therefore ought to be acceptable to all. [More…]
The Commonwealth believes that, consistent with the rights of institutions to maintain their academic freedoms, they should demonstrate their responsibilities to maintain the democratic freedom of the individuals within those institutions, because those individuals in the institutions should be as free as other individuals. [More…]
In view of the Liberal Party senators’ craven acceptance of the dictates of the member for Wannon, when the latter by fiat gave them their new leader and deputy, can the Leader of the Government in the Senate assure the Senate that it will hear no more cant or humbug from Liberal senators about States’ rights or their sturdy independence? [More…]
The Committee recommends two full-time positions be added to the existing pilot Welfare Rights Program administered by the Department of Social Security. [More…]
It is envisaged that these officers would be fulfilling a welfare rights role with a main aim being to increase the effectiveness of the Islanders ‘ access to normal social welfare processes. [More…]
working on behalf of Islanders to ensure effective use of social welfare opportunities; community development to assist the Islanders to achieve self-help; and research into extent of disadvantage, adequacy and effectiveness of existing programs and the effect of the welfare rights intervention. [More…]
The Department of Finance noted, however, that the Welfare Rights Program is approaching the end of its pilot stage and is currently undergoing evaluation. [More…]
The Committee is of the opinion that the provision of the two Welfare Rights Officers would enable support and guidance to be given at the local level and so strengthen the purpose and effectiveness of the Islander communities in a more realistic way than providing funds to the national organisation. [More…]
Clearly, the Senate was set up originally for the first of the upper House purposes I outlinedthe defence of the rights and privileges of the previously independent colonies. [More…]
In fact, we take it that the Aborigines in those places should not receive rights over and above those given to any other Australian. [More…]
I suggest that perhaps we ought to offer to the Aurukun and Mornington Island people the same rights and privileges as we have given to Mr Iwasaki. [More…]
The Liberal objective is to establish and maintain a society in which individuals can develop their own personalities in their own way, always subject to the rights of others. [More…]
In this country liberalism has been identified with every broad movement based on ‘equality of political rights without reference to creed’ and ‘equality of legal rights without consideration of wealth’ . [More…]
Nothing would so effectually counteract the mischiefs occasioned by Mr Paine ‘s Rights of Man, as a general knowledge of the real rights of man. [More…]
What these rights are it is not my business at present to explain; but there is one right which man has generally been thought to posses, which I am confident he neither does nor can possess- [More…]
I am considering protesting to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights over the violation of human rights in your home State of Victoria in New South Wales and now in Canberra. [More…]
As you know compulsory unionism violates the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
I was astounded at your silence during the case of Barbara Biggs right in your own backyard in Melbourne particularly in view of your public statements about so-called violations of human rights at Aurukun and Mornington Island in Queensland. [More…]
Barbara Biggs’ rights were grossly violated despite a legal certificate of exemption and her treatment at the hands of the unions disgusted the nation. [More…]
The first is this: For the Queensland Premier to adopt a high moral tone on any question of human rights and to accuse anyone else of publicity seeking hyprocrisy in any context whatsoever is to demonstrate a capacity for sheer gall and effrontery which is unrivalled, I suggest, in the experience of any member of this chamber, as hardened as this chamber undoubtedly is to demonstrations of those qualities. [More…]
Indeed, it is fast assuming the standing even of an international scandal which is deeply embarrassing both to the nation as a whole in international forums and even to the present Federal Government, not itself notoriously sensitive on matters of civil rights. [More…]
The United Nations Human Rights Commission, which Mr Bjelke-Petersen has had the temerity to call in aid on his own behalf, would, I suggest, be only too delighted to have an opportunity to scrutinise the state of liberty in Mr Bjelke-Petersen ‘s own backyard and to consider not only the treatment of Aborigines in Aurukun and Mornington Island, which the Premier himself concedes to be at least controversial, but also the systematic denigration of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders generally in that State which is embodied in the legislation of that State which purports to govern the affairs of those people. [More…]
Above all, I suggest that the United Nations Human Rights Commission would be delighted to have, and would welcome with open arms, an opportunity to scrutinise against the international standards of the covenants and documents on human rights that symbolic centrepiece of everything that is most intolerable and offensive to democratic principles in that State. [More…]
They are to be highly commended for their actions in standing up for their rights. [More…]
In general terms, the Australian Government always has been vocal in asserting that democratic rights should be maintained and that people should not be arrested without charge or detained without charge. [More…]
-Just prior to the adjournment of this debate on Tuesday evening I was speaking on the matter of human rights and had completed reading into Hansard a letter from friends and relatives of political detainees in Singapore. [More…]
I had mentioned earlier that I had some information relative to what I believed to be a lack of human rights in South Africa, but that I was conducting inquiries to try to establish the truth or otherwise thereof; also, that because of changing events, the information I had was some two or three months old and I wanted to bring it up to date. [More…]
I do not want to say much more about the matter, but I relate those facts because I believe, as I said on Tuesday, when I began to discuss this matter, a one-sided approach has been taken by this Parliament, and perhaps by many people in this nation who seem to believe that there is a lack of human rights in only one country of the world. [More…]
It does seem a pity that the sub-committee of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence was not given a wider reference in relation to human rights than the single reference of human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Today I received a letter from the Quakers Society of New South Wales asking that the Government take over that land in Queensland and whether I would declare my position on the Government ‘s intentions with regard to the demand for recognition of land rights of Aborigines at Aurukun and Mornington Island. [More…]
The book deals with the land rights of Aborigines. [More…]
Since the introduction of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act Mr Viner has been handing out land titles to Aboriginal land trusts; but there is dissatisfaction in Aboriginal communities throughout the whole of Australia. [More…]
Therefore we must introduce a land rights Bill for Aborigines throughout Australia. [More…]
Even with the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act we found that Mr Justice Toohey was not overgenerous in respect of Borroloola. [More…]
He was speaking at a human rights seminar in Adelaide. [More…]
It all goes back to the land, that is why land rights are so important to us. [More…]
Aboriginals were excluded because it was thought that they were entitled to the same laws and rights as Australians. [More…]
We have passed the Northern Territory Land Rights Bill but it could have been passed at any time after South Australia handed over the Northern Territory to the Commonwealth. [More…]
We had jurisdiction over the Territory and could have brought in land rights legislation in respect of it long before 1 967. [More…]
The ownership of the land or any of the assets or facilities established on it to be retained by Iwasaki Sangyo or held by Australian-resident interests- unless prior Federal Government approval is obtained for any proposal to: transfer ownership of; grant rights of user over; or mortgage any part of the land or the assets/ facilities referred to above to other foreign interests. [More…]
There is little or no chance of exercising this Government’s rights under such watered down conditions because the company will do as it likes. [More…]
The healthy commercial effect of reducing the Crown to the same status as other unsecured creditors in this respect was commented on by the Commercial Law Committee of the Law Council of Australia, which expressed the view that the reduction of the Crown to the same status as ordinary creditors would improve standards of commercial morality and observance of the law by corporations and their officers and this must flow from more vigilant protection by ordinary creditors of their legal rights. [More…]
Then it was, as the Minister for the Northern Territory, Mr Adermann, said in his second reading speech on the Northern Territory (Self-Government) Bill on 1 1 May of this year, that the people of the Territory lost the political rights which they enjoyed in common with other Commonwealth citizens. [More…]
In a very real sense, the constitutional history of the Northern Territory since that date reflects the endeavours of the people of the Territory to regain the rights which they lost in 1910’. [More…]
The first step to representation in the federal parliament came in 1922; today, and since 1968, Northern Territory members of the House of Representatives have full and unconfined voting rights, and since 1974 there have been two Senators from the Territory. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs, concerns the commemoration of the thirtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the part that Australia will play in this important event. [More…]
The Prime Minister announced on 20 July that the Commonwealth Government was in the process of implementing a program to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
Australia’s support for the principles set out in the Declaration is clearly on record, and the Government wishes, by its participation in the anniversary program, to reaffirm its commitment to the human rights standards which the international community has aspired to uphold for the past 30 years. [More…]
Rights, privacy, the opportunity for companionship- even of the opposite sexrights to legal aid and employment are matters raised by homeless men who were asked in the various surveys to talk about their various situations. [More…]
We should recognise these rights and do what we can to protect the rights of people in these institutions rather than consider them in the narrow manner in which we have tended to do in the past. [More…]
Understanding from welfare agencies and even banks and medical services can be a big factor in building up selfrespect in these people, as can the establishment of a rights program to lessen the sort of authoritarian structure that we have used to deal with these people in the past. [More…]
But a rights program and an improved staffing program perhaps should have a higher priority in the next phase of the scheme. [More…]
It may even be that we, and the Minister, should consider the appointment of a welfare rights officer for homeless persons, not necessarily attached to particular organisations as such people tend to be, say, in the ethnic communities, but appointed in one of the major cities to take up cases and make recommendations to the Department of Social Security and others on positive ways of helping these people to find a more satisfying place in the community. [More…]
In doing that, he admitted tacitly an intention to sabotage the Australian wool industry by surrendering its comparative advantage, or what could be called its patent rights to overseas competitors. [More…]
It also stresses that Australian woolgrowers who have suffered the ups and downs of the industry in the past have a right to know these facts and to decide on the rights and wrongs of the issue by a referendum. [More…]
The young people, because of their situation, do not want to appear as troublemakers and cop it sweet rather than demand their rights. [More…]
Support for such a country by a government which joins in the hysteria about human rights in the Soviet Union can only be described as hypocritical in the extreme. [More…]
Equality of political rights without reference to creed, and equality of legal rights without consideration of wealth or quality, are insisted upon. [More…]
Even now there are elements in Australia seeking to replace the government of men by the administration of things, a trend to which we in Parliament have contributed by unthinkingly vesting power over people in non-elected bodies and corporations and by seeking to rely upon ombudsmen and tribunals to protect the rights of individuals when in fact it is we who should be making the decisions and we who should be providing the protection. [More…]
It is about time that the rights and justices which we so correctly demand for the oppressed in Russia or Chile are no longer denied to our own Aboriginal people. [More…]
It is about time our tolerance and maturity reached such a position that we recognised the rights of gay people or other minority groups to live their lives according to their own dictates so long as they do not trespass upon the rights of others. [More…]
While I was chairman of the Joint Select Committee on Aboriginal Land Rights in the Northern Territory I had the opportunity of travelling around the Northern Territory and meeting many of the tribal elders and many people within the Northern Territory, hearing evidence concerning the land rights legislation which was introduced in this chamber some time ago. [More…]
The Government was determined that that Bill would go through this chamber, that the Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory would be given their land rights and that their claims to their traditional lands would be acceded to under that Bill. [More…]
He had the full support and confidence of the Aboriginal people with whom he was dealing under the land rights legislation. [More…]
He is one of the most prominent Aborigines in the whole of Australia today not only because he is chairman of the Northern Land Council but also because of the way he has conducted himself, the way he has endeavoured to bring about solutions to the problems of land rights and the way he has handled the problems of his people in the Northern Territory. [More…]
If these people destroy this young man’s credibility then they will destroy the credibility of Aborigines in their fight for what I believe they are rightly and justly entitled to, and that is their land rights. [More…]
The Government introduced into this chamber land rights legislation which was supported by all people. [More…]
I do not want to canvass the rights or the wrongs of the mining and export of uranium, but should he be someone more pliable to those who want to prevent uranium mining in the Northern Territory and those who want to destroy the credibility of Aboriginal people by saying that we cannot negotiate with the Aboriginal people because they do not understand and therefore we have to take over control and show them what is good for them? [More…]
I believe that we should be looking at this situation much more closely to determine whose idea it is to discredit and destroy one of the finest Australians in Australia today, a man who has done so much to bring about a solution to the problems in the Northern Territory and at the same time protect the rights of his people and preserve their culture, which is as rich as any culture in the world. [More…]
We also welcome the recognition in the Camp David agreements of the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, including their right to participate in the determination of their own future. [More…]
I also used my rights as a senator to sit in on some of the hearings and I visited the Riverland with the Committee. [More…]
Nasution ‘s right of free movement under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is safeguarded? [More…]
What precedents are there for this infringement of personal rights? [More…]
I understand from reports that within the next fortnight there will be a meeting of all the tribal elders responsible for the tribal lands which have been granted to them under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
I am concerned at an apparent campaign against European based airlines aimed at disallowing them landing rights in Australia. [More…]
It seems to me that a rumour has been floated about the closing down of landing rights to test public reaction. [More…]
I believe that the present Government has offered it landing rights for one DC 10 aircraft a week whereas JAT wants landing rights for two planes. [More…]
I want to say that the Government has acted in a way in which the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill was originally drafted and proposed to allow the Aborigines to negotiate on the terms and conditions. [More…]
That in itself is another point on which I differ with the Deputy Prime Minister because in this chamber and in the other place while the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill was receiving passage, the Opposition moved many amendments- almost 30 amendments as a matter of fact- to try to bring the legislation back to the draft 1975 Bill that the Labor Party which was in government at that time lodged in both Houses of the Parliament. [More…]
The Government introduced into this chamber land rights legislation which was supported by all people. [More…]
It was not supported by the Australian Labor Party and it was not supported by people who believe in civil liberties and the Aboriginal cause of land rights. [More…]
So I respectfully say that more than half of the people of this country- the people in those groups that I have mentioned- did not support the land rights legislation that came into this chamber. [More…]
I do not want to canvass the rights or the wrongs of the mining and export of uranium, but should he - [More…]
We further strongly support your Council’s efforts to win land rights for Aboriginal peoples in the Northern Territory. [More…]
In spite of the report on the Warlpiri and Kartangarurru-Kurintji land claim, that was presented in this chamber today, there are still people in the Northern Territory who have not received justice from the watered down land rights legislation. [More…]
But we must write to you because signing and accepting the agreement would cause problems for land rights all over Australia. [More…]
A signed agreement will make the Government want to break more promises on Aboriginal land rights in Australia. [More…]
The Government will think that Aboriginals do not want to fight for their rights, and will want to build other mines in the Northern Territory, particularly Jabiluka. [More…]
A signed agreement would make it easier for the Government and newspapers to say that traditional owners want mining on their lands; they will keep on saying that Aboriginals only want money and this would make problems for Aboriginals who are seeking land rights elsewhere in the country. [More…]
Surely we deserve more than a low 0.5 per cent extra following all the work on Aboriginal land rights done over the last 15 years. [More…]
It would appear to me that it would be much better for the person to be told his rights. [More…]
Then, perhaps, if the writer of the letter thought that a discussion would be in order he should say so after stating the person’s rights. [More…]
Would Australia oppose any such move in the light of Indonesia ‘s poor record on human rights or would Mr Prai be fed to the lions as were the people of East Timor? [More…]
The main purpose is to adhere to the principle enshrined in the Declaration of Human Rights that there should be freedom of choice and freedom of action and that no one should be compelled to sponsor or to back causes which are obnoxious to him. [More…]
Will the Attorney-General confer with his colleague the Minister for Social Security on ways of giving greater opportunity for such people to gain their rights as many, as the Ombudsman says, are terrified by the thought of taking on the Commonwealth? [More…]
The Library is the servant of Parliament but cannot exercise the rights and privileges which are the prerogative of honourable senators and members. [More…]
AH of the regulations and ordinances referred to have provisions which are unsatisfactory in their effect on individual rights and liberties, and this has been recognised by various Ministers in their various undertakings. [More…]
It could be remedied and the rights of defendants could be preserved to a much greater extent simply by amending another ordinance, the Court of Petty Sessions Ordinance, so as to allow a defendant in these circumstances to file a notice on oath of any such defence on which he proposed to rely and so that the prosecution could, before actually proceeding to take the matter to trial, in fact consider the terms of the defence in question and not put the defendant at risk of having to rely on such a defence in order to extricate himself at trial. [More…]
For far too long the Executive has taken advantage of the Committee’s courtesy on these matters and has behaved with complete indifference not only to the Committee and the Parliament which it represents but also to the rights of the people who are affected by these matters. [More…]
The Bill makes appropriate provisions preserving existing rights to appeal to the High Court under the taxation legislation and to preserve the jurisdiction of the High Court in respect of proceedings instituted in the High Court at the date on which the relevant provisions of the Bill are brought into operation. [More…]
Clauses 125-128 of the Bill provide for the High Court to remit pending proceedings or proceedings arising out of rights of appeal accrued at the date the Bill comes into operation to a State or Territory Supreme Court having jurisdiction in that proceeding. [More…]
But he would make no comment about the civil liberties and rights that were being taken away from the people of Western Australia, and rights that were being taken away from the Aboriginal people of Western Australia. [More…]
The provision of statutory protection for trade marks used in respect of goods has assisted the traders involved by providing sufficiently easily enforceable proprietorial rights to discourage unfair trading. [More…]
In the absence of statutory protection such businesses have been forced to rely on their common law rights based on the reputation achieved by their marks. [More…]
The ownership of inventions, trade marks and designs creates important monopoly rights recognised to a greater or lesser degree in most countries of the world. [More…]
Laws in Australia have in the past tended to concentrate on the narrow legal issues of the regulation and grant of those monopoly rights. [More…]
There are some obviously good things in the Bill as it presently stands, especially its quite explicit commitment to the immediate general release of those departmental manuals and guideline documents which govern the exercise of so many discretions which directly affect the rights and obligations of citizens. [More…]
It is possible to produce good tough freedom of information legislation which will balance the rights and interests of the community generally against the necessary demands of government, and I am confident that this is what will be recommended by the Committee. [More…]
Some time ago- in fact more than a century ago- when John Stuart Mill was writing about the rights and responsibilities of the individual, he wrote that the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over a member of a civilised community against his will is to prevent harm to others. [More…]
I was slightly surprised to find that on the subject of women’s rights I ranked below my Queensland colleague, Senator Glen Sheil and others. [More…]
What is the Government’s attitude to the method of human rights diplomacy, currently being debated in the United States of America legislature, which applies pressure to a Government in relation to the treatment of individual citizens? [More…]
What alternative strategies for improvement in human rights negotiations is the Australian Government prepared to undertake? [More…]
and (2) There has been an on-going debate in the United States Congress on the conduct of human rights diplomacy. [More…]
In his statement to the House of Representatives of 9 May 1978, the Minister for Foreign Affairs outlined the Australian Government ‘s approach to human rights, including the question- under close study in the United States Congress- of attaching human rights criteria to decisions on the eligibility of governments for loans from international financial institutions. [More…]
The Minister also outlined the Government’s approach to human rights questions in his statement before the United Nations General Assembly in September 1977. [More…]
The Government is firmly on record in promoting the human rights standards as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and in the defence of the integrity of the rights of the individual. [More…]
The Government supports international discussion of problems which may lie in the way of reconciling these standards and rights with other valid areas of concern to governments, including international peace and order, and national cohesion. [More…]
The Government believes that it is important to promote all aspects of the human rights debate. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Social Security: Did an interdepartmental committee of inquiry on the disadvantage of South Sea Islanders living in Australia recommend employment by the Department of Social Security of two additional welfare rights officers to give support and guidance to South Sea Islanders living in Australia? [More…]
Any other course of action should be repugnant to anybody who believes in the rights and responsibilities of democratic government. [More…]
The terms are not, as I said at the outset, the rights or wrongs of abortion clinics. [More…]
While not being unreasonably resistant to change, we owe it to future generations to examine carefully proposals which may be said to alter our constitutional rights and objectives in the name of ‘progress’. [More…]
New federalism, by assigning to the federal and State parliaments certain defined rights and responsibilities, has set the stage for the long haul back. [More…]
The Government has consistently made known its view on breaches of human rights of this type in South Africa. [More…]
This is a matter for the Queensland Government which of course, has the right to appoint, to transfer or even to dismiss Queensland public servants subject to normal rights of appeal and conditions of employment. [More…]
It is true that some people, most of them on the Labor side of politics, care more about stopping uranium mining or changing the Government in Darwin or Canberra than they do about Aborigines or land rights. [More…]
It is true that some people, most of them on the Labor side of politics, care more about stopping uranium mining or changing the Government in Darwin or Canberra than they do about Aborigines or land rights. [More…]
I refer to an article in the West Australian of 16 September relating to the possible formation of a national human rights commission. [More…]
Recognising that the Minister has said, according to that newspaper report, that he has held talks with all States, will he now advise me with whom those talks were held in Western Australia, how many meetings have been held and whether the establishment of a federal human rights commission will require complementary State legislation? [More…]
Can the Attorney-General give some indication when legislation to establish a human rights commission will be introduced? [More…]
-The statement to which Senator Coleman has referred was, I think, a report of a speech that I made at about that time in relation to the question of the establishment of a human rights commission for Australia. [More…]
The position is that earlier this year a Deputy Secretary in my Department, Mr Bailey, was given the task of conducting discussions with officers in the States about the possibility of their participation in a human rights commission which would be a co-operative arrangement between the Commonwealth and the States. [More…]
The Senate will recall that my predecessor introduced a Bill to set up a human rights commission which would have been confined to the Commonwealth area. [More…]
As to the rights of a Federal Minister or a member of Parliament to grant holidays for primary schools, I will look that up and will let honourable senators know. [More…]
What does the Commonwealth Government intend to do to protect the rights of Barnard Bros or any business enterprise, which is, by its actions, taking a public interest stand against the irresponsible actions of one trade union? [More…]
However, if he is a 1914 War veteran, an ex-prisoner-of-war or a service pensioner who qualifies for fringe benefits, he will retain full free medical treatment rights. [More…]
It is true that some people, most of them on the Labor side of politics, care more about stopping uranium mining or changing the Government in Darwin or Canberra than they do about Aborigines or land rights. [More…]
Whatever smooth talk you might get from our critics to try to convince you that we did not make such offers in good faith, I will continue to assure you of our moral support and our intentions when we return to Government to strengthen Land Rights legislation in favour of Aborigines, as we tried to in parliament in 1975 and 1976 despite a hostile Senate and later losing our Government majority. [More…]
All of my contacts with Bob Collins, Neville Perkins, Jack Doolan, Jon Isaacs, and other Labor members of the Legislative Assembly has led me to the conclusion that they share my view and that of our Party policy: that Aboriginal land rights should override mining and conservation interests and that our political opponents do not as a rule agree with this. [More…]
I see as the first priority for my own shadow portfolio the fight for land rights. [More…]
I heard Mr Yunupingu tell the Northern Land Counsellors words to the following effect: ‘If we don’t sign the agreement, Mr Fraser the Prime Minister has told me he has power to block the Aboriginal Land Rights Act, and that he will stop the funds for our outstation ‘.Mr Yunupingu also said that Mr Fraser would take the Land Councils away from the Aboriginal people if we do not agree to the mining going ahead. [More…]
A lot of the counsellors including myself had attended a meeting 3 or 4 weeks earlier at Galiwinku on Elcho Island, when we resolved that no agreement would be signed in respect of the Ranger Mine at Jabiru until such time as the question of Sea Rights and Fishing Rights had been sorted out with the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
Mr Yunupingu said that we couldn ‘t discuss the matter now and there was no hope that we could discuss the question of sea rights before the Ranger Agreement had been settled. [More…]
At no stage, to my knowledge, has the Northern Land Council consulted with the Goulburn Island community on the Agreement as is required by paragraphs A and B in subsection 3 of section 23 of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976, and I respectfully seek the relief set out in the Originating Summons. [More…]
It is still trying to get the agreement signed without full consultation according to section 23 (3) of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
This Government has torn up the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act and thrown it down the drain. [More…]
Senator Keeffe stood here tonight and gave us a tirade on how he was so concerned for Aborigines and their rights. [More…]
I emphasise the words ‘most of them on the Labor side of polities’- care more about stopping uranium mining or changing the Government in Darwin or Canberra than they do about Aborigines or land rights. [More…]
He wanted me to discuss with him the land rights Bill and many of its clauses because he was a little concerned about the steps that the Northern Land Council was taking. [More…]
The white man has the last say over Aboriginal land rights because the Government has the power to either put in an arbitrator or use the national interest clause. [More…]
Therefore, rights for transit are secured either by bilateral government agreement or by arrangements made by the airlines or governments concerned. [More…]
I could not think of anything more abominable in terms of human freedom than to forget about the rights of individuals to freedom of choice. [More…]
In Australia today there are cases of people being denied freedom of choice-, which is part of the very freedoms that are in the Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
Should the Australian Government not take all necessary action to protect Australian citizens and legitimate travellers from brutal intimidation and prejudice which flout the provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? [More…]
As I understand the situation, Qantas has landing rights in Syria. [More…]
Any arrangements relating to flights over airspace of a foreign country or any landing rights in a foreign country are on a government to government basis because Qantas is a government airline. [More…]
Do we have a Transport Minister of Cabinet rank ascribing the term ‘normal ‘ to the operations of our government airline which can undertake such a monstrous alienation of human rights with a foreign country without reference to the Government? [More…]
I hope that further action will be taken and that the strongest possible protest will be sent on behalf of the Australian people against this outrage of human rights. [More…]
Rights for transit are therefore secured either by a lateral government agreement or by arrangements made by the airlines or governments concerned. [More…]
I am not specifying them as I believe the rights of any other resident of Australia or any other person are as good as those of an Australian citizen but I think it shows just how abject we have become when we include our own citizens, including our own Governor-General, among those people whom we would not carry on Qantas on a flight which would stop in Damascus. [More…]
We rarely have the opportunity in the Senate to debate issues which relate in any way to questions of religious tolerance or the rights of religious minorities. [More…]
It may be argued that every other Arab nation may refuse landing rights to Qantas. [More…]
It may be argued that a failure to maintain landing rights in the Middle East would incur additional costs due to longer routes and higher air rates. [More…]
With a view to the creation of stability and well-being which are necessary for peaceful and friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, the United Nations shall promote: [More…]
and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion. [More…]
We find that a country over which we have overflight rights has imposed certain conditions. [More…]
It would be thought that in the twentieth century we would have reached a higher level of human tolerance, but it seems that we still live in an age in which a person ‘s religion is a criterion on which his human rights are determined. [More…]
After all, Qantas, as a statutory corporation, is responsible to the Minister and it ought to be responsible to the Minister in respect of any decisions it makes which have implications in terms of human rights or international affairs. [More…]
If the Minister is indicating the correct position in that statement, if Qantas in fact has regarded this as part of its normal commercial operations, then Qantas, as a responsible statutory corporation, has not seen the implications, in terms of human rights and international affairs, of the decision which it apparently has made. [More…]
Despite the fact that a nation might be an adherent of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights or a signatory of the United Nations Covenant on Civil and Political Rights as Syria is, one can accept that countries should decide what happens within their borders. [More…]
However, as Senator Baume has mentioned, the one fundamental human right that is mentioned in our Constitution- we do not have a Bill of Rights- is the right to religious freedom and the unacceptability of discrimination on grounds of religion or faith. [More…]
Dasmascus to London and thereby, I believe, contravening what is seen in our Constitution and in our society through our adherence to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, for example, as a fundamental right. [More…]
I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate: Has Australia as yet ratified the United Nations Convention on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was decided upon some three years ago? [More…]
The very purpose of consumer organisations, agencies and legislation surely is because business has failed properly to recognise the rights of such consumers. [More…]
I hope that the Government will look seriously at the provisions in this Act which give such discretions to the Director-General so that in future people will have their statutory rights under the legislation clearly written out; so that they will have their right to appeal clearly written out in statute. [More…]
Veterans are more concerned with medical care and attention with some concessions than for a monetary pay-off which appears to be so devised as if to deprive them of their eligible rights. [More…]
As it has been publicly denied by Mr Campbell, the general manager of Channel 10, that John Martins has any shareholdings in Channel 10, and stated that the company has had no contact with the station with respect to the advertisement to which the Attorney-General has referred, and also as this subject was raised in the context of a Commonwealth inquiry into the renewing of television licences, will the Attorney-General examine the matter and inform the Senate how the rights of people can be protected in these circumstances? [More…]
In this report the Committee makes a recommendation of disallowance on the ground that one provision in the regulations trespasses unduly on individual rights and liberties. [More…]
May we avoid the kind of disgraceful debate of 30 years ago which did nothing more than attempt to blackguard Sir David Rivett who was then head of CSIRO and who, as honourable senators know, was virtually destroyed by the events of the time because he stood up for the rights of scientists to publish their results. [More…]
They are rapidly becoming increasingly so as activity on the Australian coastal margin increases through industry, shipping, waste disposal and recreation, and as international developments, such as those of the United Nations’ Conference on the Law of the Sea, lead Australia to increased responsibilities, rights and opportunities in the marine area. [More…]
The CSIRO then obtains a benefit from holding the patent rights. [More…]
Indeed, one could well imagine that that particular provision could be said to be taking away the rights that the Minister has today. [More…]
I wish very briefly to make an appeal to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) to forge much closer links between the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs special reports section and State authorities in regard to the practice of some solicitors in Sydney who appear to be misleading people who are in Australia on tourist visas about their alleged rights to have the visas converted to permanent residency. [More…]
Payments made by the Australian Broadcasting Commission for rights and facilities to the 1976 Olympic Games were shared equally with the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations and the net cost to the Commission was $2 1 5 , 1 3 1 . [More…]
The Australian Broadcasting Commission was unsuccessful in its attempt to obtain television rights for the 1 980 Olympic Games in Moscow. [More…]
As such flights would most probably require reciprocal rights to be granted to the New Zealand Government and as, to my knowledge, the only suitable aircraft for such flights that are owned by New Zealand are DC8 aircraft, will the Minister say what alterations will need to be made at Hobart airport so that DC8 aircraft will be able to land and take-off with reasonable loads, and what navigational and other services would have to be altered or upgraded for that airport to meet the standards laid down by the International Civil Aviation Organisation? [More…]
I claim that the Commission collectively has not insisted strongly enough on exercising its statutory rights. [More…]
Senator Ryan during her speech said the Commission had not insisted on its rights. [More…]
The general allegation that the present Commission has not insisted on its rights, that it is not representative and that it will not stand up to the Government is an allegation which has not been supported by any factual presentation by Senator Ryan. [More…]
The document is what one might describe as a package deal whereby there is a giving with one hand of a small increase in relation to the minimum disposable income and a taking away with the other of what I would regard as important legal rights. [More…]
Many Medibank officers do not have the protection which other public servants have under the Officers Rights Declaration Act. [More…]
The section goes on to say that the Minister can take disciplinary action by refusing certain rights. [More…]
It is a protective clause; it is certainly not one that introduces any restraint or restriction on a person’s rights to have medical insurance under the legislation. [More…]
Under Austrian rule the Slovenes, despite periods of Germanisation had gradually established cultural and political rights for themselves within the province of Carniola which was overwhelmingly Slovene in its national composition. [More…]
I draw to the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs the publication of a pamphlet entitled ‘Declaration of the Rights of the Child- a present for you from a Palestinian child ‘. [More…]
The Agency will assist in the development of land that has already been acquired for Aboriginals; the development of land granted under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act of the Northern Territory; and the stimulation of Aboriginal business enterprises throughout Australia. [More…]
The point that the Opposition makes is that in setting up this agency the rights of the Aboriginal people to participate and to decide their own affairs should be fully recognised. [More…]
We are dealing with the rights of the individual and matters such as expense and inconvenience should never be given consideration when the liberty and good name of the individual is at stake. [More…]
Without land rights the Australian Aborigines were destined to die, the leader of the Queensland’s Mornington Island people, Mr Larry Lanely, said at an international seminar in Adelaide yesterday. [More…]
To deny Aborigines access to their cultural base of the land was to deny basic human rights, he said. [More…]
It all goes back to the land: that is why land rights are so important to us. [More…]
If these are facts, is the Minister satisfied that what has been called an historic document truly represents the wishes of the Aboriginal people involved and meets the requirements of section 23 of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act? [More…]
For the information of honourable senators I present an agreement under section 44 of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 between the Commonwealth of Australia and the Northern Land Council, together with the text of a statement by the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs ( Mr Viner). [More…]
One has to ask a number of questions about it, including whether the provisions of section 23 of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act have been complied with and whether the determination of the Supreme Court which, as I recall it, says that it is essential for the Government to be involved in proper and adequate consultation. [More…]
It was also said in the other place that this was interfering with the consultative rights of the traditional land owners. [More…]
Yet the evidence that is now coming to the fore would seem to indicate that Mr Viner has in fact interfered with those very rights. [More…]
If, in fact, there has not been consultation, if this Government has misjudged the views of the Australian people and if it has taken steps which do not allow a proper understanding by the Aboriginal communities of what is taking place in the Northern Territory in respect of the Ranger agreement, we will reserve our rights as a future government not to honour those obligations. [More…]
The second one was a clear indication that the Aborigines want their own land rights. [More…]
If Aborigines cannot have land rights and everything that goes with them, then obviously they have to be given something in the interim that will work. [More…]
They want land rights and the right to run their own affairs. [More…]
That on the 10th December 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which declares that, ‘Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in the Declaration . [More…]
Australia, as a Member State of the United Nations, is pledged to achieve observance of Human Rights and Freedoms. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Post and Telecommunications aware that Channel 7 and Channel 9 in Queensland were successful recently in getting broadcasting rights for international sporting functions in football and tennis, and cricket respectively? [More…]
As a result they have gone into this field and have tended to purchase the rights to international events to the exclusion of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
That has resulted in the sort of situation which has been outlined in Senator Martin’s question whereby commercial organisations which do not have total national coverage have exclusive rights to a program. [More…]
However, to my mind legal aid is one of the most important areas because it guarantees- it should guarantee- that the citizen has equal rights before the law. [More…]
It was through efforts last week to have the recent football test between Australia and England televised to Western areas that 1 learned that the ABC’s attitude is now that, to use their own words- they are not going to get the commercial stations off the hook regarding telecasts of sporting functions- when they have been granted sole television rights. [More…]
Even though Commercial Enterprise has captured the sole television rights to these events, and we speak of Channels 7 (Football) and 9 (Tennis and Cricket), these stations have offered their consent; to allow the Commission to beam such programmes into the Inland areas, not serviced by them, and it is the considered opinion of this Council that the Commission should accept the offer gratefully and sincerely. [More…]
Can anything be done to protect the rights of Australian authors against the abuse of photocopying facilities outlined by Dr Wright? [More…]
-This is not a debate about the rights or wrongs, the morality or immorality, or even the legality or illegality of abortion. [More…]
It is also a proposition which no doubt will be somewhat befuddling to all but about 10 of my 2,000 recent correspondents on this subject who have leapt into the fray on the assumption that the debate is about the rights and wrongs of abortion as such. [More…]
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of the Child applies not only to the born but also to the unborn child. [More…]
Surely those people who believe in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights would not be pulled away from the Declaration of the Rights of the Child. [More…]
She pleaded with me that just as no pro-abortionist should force anybody to have an abortion, what are the rights of the anti-abortionists to force a woman to carry a child against her wishes when there are legal alternatives? [More…]
I think that we can look forward to his being a staunch and intrepid fighter for the rights of that State. [More…]
One of the things that was certainly recommended unanimously in that report was that matters of this nature or, as we put it, legislation of a particular territory which is socially innovative or affects fundamental rights and liberties of the kind referred to in certain paragraphs of the report should be done by ordinance. [More…]
This issue surely affects the rights of the women of the Capital Territory. [More…]
I am confounded to know what rights senators from Victoria, New South Wales or Western Australia have to support a government which says to the people of the Australian Capital Territory: ‘We do not give a damn about what your elected representatives said after a 90-day survey. [More…]
I would take it that abortion clinics for abortions performed lawfully are the kind of answer to which they were looking to protect the needs of those who have to have major gynaecological surgery in the major hospitals and whose rights to admission are adversely affected by an insistence that all terminations take place, first trimester abortions particularly, unnecessarily in the operating theatres of major hospitals. [More…]
The Parliament in its wisdom established the Assembly in 1974 and gave to that body certain advisory rights in the belief that it would act in that capacity and be responsible to the Minister of the day. [More…]
Thirdly, and perhaps the most important of all, it is an action which, if supported, will give women even greater freedom for it is an extension of women ‘s rights to have control over their own bodies. [More…]
Others have dealt with it as if it were a question of self-government and the democratic rights of the people of the Capital Territory. [More…]
I believe that Senator Ryan, in presenting this matter to the Senate, based her argments very clearly on the question of selfgovernmentthe rights of the Legislative Assembly and its role in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
If it is a matter of democratic rights, selfgovernment and the role of the Assembly, surely the suggestion is that this Senate is going to have to deal with these other issues when governments do not take the advice of the Legislative Assembly. [More…]
I would like to go back to the question of Senator Ryan’s statement that this matter involves basic democratic rights. [More…]
Senator Ryan has made the point- it is a fair point as far as it goes- that this is a matter of selfgovernment and democratic rights. [More…]
In addition, Senator Ryan based the substance of her motion for disallowance on the question of self-government, on the democratic rights of the citizens of the Capital Territory. [More…]
It seems to me that the argument about self-government and democratic rights simply does not stand up. [More…]
In my view it is not about self-government and it is not about the democratic rights of the citizens of the Australian Capital Territory; it is about abortion. [More…]
I believe that the argument is specious and that to try to debate the matter as a matter of self-government or democratic rights really is to avoid the most fundamental issue that is at stake, that is, the question of abortion law. [More…]
I believe that Senator Knight has given a very clear exposition of the rights of the Assembly as against the rights of the Commonwealth Government and the pending referendum to be held in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
If one accepts that proposition, then the Opposition’s argument regarding the rights of the living cannot be reconciled. [More…]
I wish to discuss the rights of the people in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
But any consideration being given to it would be only in relation to any future matters which would arise under various Acts of the Parliament, and no such consideration would be referring in any way to retrospective legislation concerning the rights of people which are being litigated in the courts. [More…]
The scheme is to cover exports of manufactured goods, some bulk farm and agricultural products, services provided overseas, value added industrial services provided in Australia performed on overseas owned items subsequently re-exported, and the sale of industrial property rights and know-how that are of substantially Australian origin. [More…]
Clause 21 of the Bill continues the Government’s policy of expanding, wherever possible, the jurisdiction of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal in relation to administrative decisions which affect the rights or entitlements of persons under Commonwealth legislation. [More…]
When we spoke in this Parliament before on the rights of pensioners I warned, and I warn the people again, about this Government. [More…]
I think it is a scandalous situation when this House of the Parliament is elected by the people to represent the States, all of us elected by the people within the States come to this Parliament and elect a President to be the custodian of the Senate ‘s rights, he goes cap in hand to the Executive Government in a bid to carry out the administrative functions, roles and procedures of Parliament, and the Executive Government or the President- whichever one it may be- goes to the Public Service Board for an increase in staff so that the Parliament, but particularly the Senate, may carry out its work effectively, and we are told that because of Government policy, because of staff ceilings imposed by the Government in June, this Senate, this House of the Parliament of Australia, is deprived of proper staff representation. [More…]
Human Rights in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [More…]
Lithuania, a nation of over 3 million people, is deprived of human freedom and those national and individual rights which are deemed sacred in Australia today. [More…]
In 1940, Lithuania was occupied by the USSR in coalition with Hitler Nazi Germany, Lithuania, with a history of seven centuries as an identifiable State and also twenty-three years as a modern republic, now represents a compelling case study of the violation of human rights by the Soviet Occupation Regime. [More…]
Those who have the courage to speak out in defence of national and human rights in Lithuania are dealt with by the Moscow government in a manner which is abhorrent to every freedom-minded person in Australia. [More…]
This activity of electoral education- the development of programs designed to assist people to give meaningful effect to their rights and obligations under the electoral law- is one to which I would like to refer now. [More…]
Honourable senators may have seen already the very simple information pamphlet which the Electoral Office has produced and which describes clearly and succinctly the electoral rights and responsibilities of those in the community who are entitled and obliged to enrol and to vote. [More…]
The major parts of the Bill concern, firstly, the rights of officers of the Australian Public Service who move to other areas of Commonwealth employment and, secondly, the disciplinary provisions applicable to Public Service Act staff. [More…]
I turn now to those parts of the Bill- primarily the proposed new Part IV of the Public Service Act- which relate to the rights of officers of the Australian Public Service who move to other areas of Commonwealth employment. [More…]
The Government’s intention is that the provisions in this Bill should assist officers to gain appropriate experience outside the Public Service properthat is to say, the central Public Service- without loss of their Public Service rights. [More…]
This entitlement, however, will not be at the expense of the rights of officers who remain in the Public Service. [More…]
This part of the Bill is based on the report of a sub-committee of the Joint Council set up to review the Officer’s Rights Declaration Act, an Act which currently specifies the rights of staff who move from the Public Service to some other area of Commonwealth employment. [More…]
Public Service, with the preservation of all of the rights normally applied to staff on leave without pay. [More…]
It provides that these officers sever their direct connection with the Public Service, but retain certain specified rights such as the right to apply for transfer and promotion to Public Service positions in accordance with the normal merit procedures set out in the Public Service Act. [More…]
In addition, the Joint Council recommended that where officers are transferred out of the Public Service to an independently staffed authority as a result of the transfer of functions to that authority, the second tier should apply to cover the Public Service rights of transferred officers. [More…]
The Government’s policy is that, from the commencing day of the new scheme, the present Officer’s Rights Declaration Act will no longer be available in relation to officers of the Public Service who take up employment with Commonwealth authorities after that date. [More…]
Greater emphasis is placed on specification of the rights of persons against whom disciplinary action is taken, including such matters as right of reply to charges, entitlements to reasons for decisions, extension of appeal rights to cover all formal disciplinary action, and provisions enabling findings to be reviewed when new evidence comes to light. [More…]
There will, however, be appeal rights. [More…]
It is in stark contrast to our debate last Thursday when we were debating the rights of the unborn child. [More…]
If it is not inconsistent with fundamental rights and duties, the House should avoid setting itself up as an alternative forum or body of inquiry or permit its proceedings to interfere in the course of justice. [More…]
In view of the Minister’s answer to Senator Martin’s question last week about the Australian Broadcasting Commission transmitting sporting events from commercial channels to Western Queensland and the implication in his answer that it would cost the ABC money to buy the rights to some of these programs, I ask: Should not all sections of the Australian community be treated equally and therefore should not funds be distributed so that equal access to the various forms of the media can be provided for all the people of Australia? [More…]
I think it should be made very clear, in case departmental officers have that idea, that there are many decisions of the Senate on the subject of the rights of the Senate to call to account statutory corporations for their use of public funds. [More…]
There have been sorts of disputes between several of the councils in that region on the rights of some ratepayers to use one tip and not another. [More…]
Government would be with the electors in South Australia if the rights to that road were diminished. [More…]
Possibly, the rights of the people in the Northern Territory could be sacrificed as they return only one member and two senators to the Federal Parliament. [More…]
The point of these remarks, without labouring it too much, is to seek the assurance of the Minister that the rights of all staff will be looked at very carefully before any decisions are made. [More…]
In an earlier letter that he had received from the Authority, the same authority which said he had missed the deadline, the Authority apologised profusely for its slowness in responding to his initial correspondence in which he sought to clarify his rights. [More…]
In her letter she states that there is evidence that shareholders are now being deprived of their rights by arrangements between directors of associated companies- arrangements designed to milk off the assets of one company to the benefit of another company, and in the end for the benefit of the directors concerned. [More…]
Due to the Government’s restricted economic policies, commercial stations have captured the televising rights for major sporting events. [More…]
In my capacity as the President of the Queensland Rugby League and as a member of the Australian Rugby League we considered tenders from the commercial stations for exclusive commercial rights to televise rugby league in this nation. [More…]
We believe that the Commission has a policy that when it misses out on the rights to televise it will not become mendicants of second rate stations by picking up the tab for country people. [More…]
When money is provided to secure the rights for national replay of events that occur in Sydney and Melbourne, some regard should be had for the people in whose areas these replays will be telecast. [More…]
Substantial sums of money may be paid to people in Sydney to secure national television rights, but if we say: No, you cannot show it unless some recognition of needs in our area is accorded us’, and the response is: ‘We have already paid’, a difficulty arises. [More…]
On page 14, under the heading of ‘Sporting Rights’ the report states: [More…]
The rising cost of rights to provide coverage of major sporting events on television continues to concern the Commission. [More…]
For this reason, the ABC’s ability to secure the rights to televise major national and international sporting events to an Australia-wide audience is at growing risk. [More…]
The effect of this progress is that the ABC is subject in, for instance, the case of the 1978 Wimbledon tennis championships, to criticism for not televising events in some States and many country areas not covered by the commercial television networks when they purchase exclusive Australian rights. [More…]
I assume that the phrase: ‘To preserve the ABC’s ability to televise the major sporting events on an Australia-wide basis’ means that because of the restricted budget that has been made available by this Government to the Australian Broadcasting Commission, it is unable to compete with commercial television stations in submitting tenders for exclusive Australian rights to televise these national sporting events. [More…]
The responsibility has fallen upon the staff to take action, not in defence of their rights but in defence of the institution and to seek to continue to provide the Australian people with an adequate television and radio network. [More…]
I regard it as a valuable situation in which now the educators in the Territory, including myself as the responsible Minister, must go back to our drawing boards and see where the rights and wrongs, the strengths and the weaknesses, of the system exist. [More…]
The Committee considered that this regulation unduly trespassed upon the rights and liberties of the citizen by not providing the defence of reasonable excuse or some other similar safeguard in relation to the offences under the regulation. [More…]
The Committee considered that this power, vested in the Commission, which effects the rights of subscribers, ought to be subject to some form of review. [More…]
The Committee considers that this amendment properly safeguards the rights of subscribers. [More…]
The second point that I want to raise is that there is a potential for some considerable conflict between the diamond explorers in the Kimberleys and the rights of the Aboriginal people in that area. [More…]
I believe, as I said, that the Federal Parliament cannot be insensitive to the fact that the Aboriginal people in that area have certain rights which must be protected. [More…]
The Senate should be aware that we may well be faced with a conflict between the rights of the traditional Aboriginal people in the area, the mining companies and the Western Australian Government. [More…]
In terms of your professed policy of Aboriginal self-management, your decision to cease funding the only Aboriginal organization undertaking a research and development role in housing remote Aborigines throughout Australia appears to be a denial of the rights of Aborigines to decide their own priorities and the ways they want to give expression to them and, thus, practice self-management. [More…]
He was transferred to the land rights section of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs under Mr Malone. [More…]
The Minister has received a letter dated 20 October 1 976 from Modules of Australia and New Zealand Pty Ltd of 1 75 Lawrence Street, Wodonga, drawing attention to a modular building method for which the Company holds sole Australian rights. [More…]
Human Rights in the USSR [More…]
Since Viktoras Petkus, and the group he is a member of, conducted their activities openly, believing that the Soviet constitution granted them some rights not only in word but also in fact, this severe punishment is a blatant denial of human rights recognised even by the Soviet constitution. [More…]
We ask the Australian Government to make representations to the United Nations to adopt a resolution condemning Soviet violations of human rights, and to request the Soviet Government to release the unjustly incarcerated Viktoras Petkus. [More…]
There are obvious rights of copyright owners. [More…]
Territory entitled ‘Self-Sufficiency (With Land Rights)’. [More…]
The amendment will not apply in respect of assessments yet to be raised in respect of earlier years and it will not apply to assessments already raised in respect ofthe 1977-78 and prior years where the taxpayer’s rights are protected by way of objection or appeal to a court. [More…]
We delegate to the AMLC, a statutory corporation, the right to raise certain levies subject, of course, to the proviso that the Minister has some rights in that area, too. [More…]
I do not want again to canvass the rights and wrongs of that because we did that at some length last week. [More…]
It is the procedural provision relating to rights of appeal to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. [More…]
Human Rights in the USSR [More…]
We the undersigned being residents of Groote Eylandt support Section 2 on Entry to Seas adjoining Aboriginal Land of the Report by the Joint Select Committee into Aboriginal Land Rights for the following reasons: [More…]
Support the recommendations of the Joint Select Committee into Aboriginal Land Rights in respect of Section 2 of those recommendations. [More…]
Some of the unemployed people who are attempting to organise their own groups in order to achieve their rights and to inform their colleagues of their rights are being castigated as acting politically. [More…]
In respect of 1 978-79 the two major airlines have agreed to waive their rights under clause 8 of the 1961 Agreement and to permit a 15 per cent increase in air navigation charges for this year. [More…]
By the end of World War II all European countries, and some South American countries, had introduced basic rights to maternity leave benefits and employment security. [More…]
I note that the Government, which is so fond of talking abouts rights for women and support for families, has not supported the ACTU case. [More…]
Some of the rights which have been emphasised in this legislation are regarded as rights at natural law and are not necessarily incorporated in legislation of this kind. [More…]
I refer to the right to reply to charges, the right to be given reasons for decisions, the extension of appeal rights to embrace all formal disciplinary action and provisions which will enable findings to be reviewed if and when new evidence is brought to bear on the facts in dispute. [More…]
In the first instance these extended some travel rights to staff of members of Parliament, and latterly recommended to the Government that some additional 20 staff members be provided for the shadow ministers so as to remove, at least to some extent, the inequities and imbalance that existed as between shadow ministers and those who hold ministerial portfolios. [More…]
The Senate talks about its rights, but it did not even have a chance to pass judgment on this matter. [More…]
He acknowledged in this speech that you, Mr President, and Mr Speaker have particular rights in this area and I suppose it is only fair to say that you also have particular problems in this area. [More…]
In order to take appropriate account of requirements for security of tenure, and in addition, the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act, the recent agreement with the Northern Land Council in respect of Ranger, and the Memorandum of Understanding, the resulting provisions in this Bill are somewhat involved. [More…]
Sub-section (2) provides that the existing NLC Agreement must be extended, or a new agreement under section 44 of the Land Rights Act entered into, before the entitlement of a new authority becomes effective. [More…]
b ) Goals of the Working Party will be: to develop a charter of rights and responsibilities; to disseminate this charter appropriately; to monitor developments towards achieving this; to call a further conference (say in 12 months) to report progress. [More…]
For example, the working party will look at the development of a charter of rights and responsibilities; it will attempt to disseminate this charter in an appropriate way; it will monitor developments towards achieving the objectives set out in the charter; and it will pursue the objective of calling a further conference. [More…]
AboriginalLand Rights [More…]
Bearing in mind the fact that Australia may well find it necessary on many occasions to establish such relations with countries of whose governments, and the practices of whose governments, it does not approve, will the Government, in considering the establishment of any such relations with Democratic Kampuchea bear in mind the quite spectacular deprivation of human rights that appears to be taking place in that country and weigh it carefully in the balance against any gain that may be achieved by Australia in establishing such relations before proceeding further with the course which some have predicted that the Government has now embarked upon. [More…]
These two reports are being tabled simultaneously because their central recommendation is the same, namely, that a joint parliamentary committee, to be called the ‘joint committee on scrutiny of Bills’, should be established to maintain a watching brief on all Bills introduced into the Parliament so as to highlight those provisions which have an impact on persons either by interfering with their rights or by subjecting them to undue delegations of power. [More…]
In assessing the need for such a committee we noted that many Bills come before the Parliament which contain provisions that: Significantly interfere with personal rights and liberties; delegate powers which, arguably, should not be delegated at all; delegate powers to affect rights, liberties and obligations without providing an opportunity for the exercise of those powers to be reviewed either by the Parliament itself or by an independent body; or delegate powers to impose obligations without any clearly defined guidance as to who is to impose them, upon whom and in which circumstances. [More…]
trespass unduly on personal rights and liberties [More…]
make rights, liberties and obligations unduly dependent upon insufficiently denned administrative powers or non-reviewable administrative decisions; or [More…]
We believe that, if our substantial recommendations are drafted, the new joint committee on scrutiny of Bills will add a valuable facility in ensuring the real control by Parliament over legislation which may endanger the rights and liberties of the subject or create undue delegations of power. [More…]
All too often there are such provisions which, as Senator Missen has said, trespass unduly on individual rights and liberties or which amount to undue delegations of parliamentary authority in one or other of the ways Senator Missen outlined. [More…]
What the Senate may need to be told, and what the Committee tries to set out in this report, is that a large number of legislative alternatives are available to the Commonwealth should it be minded to act more positively and effectively than it has in the past to protect the rights, interests, cultures and lifestyles not only of the Aurukun and Mornington Island communities but of all the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander reserve communities in Queensland. [More…]
Our conclusion in respect of that particular power is that it is such as to fully enable the Commonwealth to act in any conceivable way that it might wish to in conferring self-management rights on Aborigines and Tones Strait Islanders in Queensland. [More…]
Fourthly, what we do in the report is to list a series of alternative courses of legislative action in which the Commonwealth could constitutionally engage so as to secure effective self-management rights for Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in Queensland. [More…]
Senator Missen in his remarks has identified in detail what some of those options are and there is no need for me to repeat them, except to say that they cover the whole canvas, from modes of control falling short of proprietary rights, through various kinds of familiar proprietary rights, including freehold and leasehold acquisitions, to various other forms of lesser proprietary rights which can indeed be created by statute should the Commonwealth choose to so do. [More…]
I hope that one of the major contributions of the report in this respect will be to untangle in people’s minds the almost universal confusion which seems to apply with respect to mineral rights. [More…]
What the report does is to explain- I hope in such a way that even Senator Melzer will be able to appreciate it- the nature and diversity of these rights, how they are capable of being conferred in various degrees, and how indeed the cost of acquiring them will vary in accordance with just what degree of mineral rights is sought to be secured. [More…]
Delegates from many different countries asked, for instance, for recognition of the United Nations Declaration of Rights to SelfDetermination, larger and more comprehensive programs of education on contraception and more committal to the allocation of resources to overcome the overwhelming social and economic problems that lead to abortion. [More…]
In so far as importations prior to that date are concerned, the Bill makes provision to preserve the rights which importers may have had as at that date to seek in the courts or the Administrative Appeals Tribunal recovery of duty ‘paid under protest’ pursuant to section 167 of the principal Act or to seek a refund of duty pursuant to regulations made for the purposes of section 163 of the Act. [More…]
This preservation of rights is contained in clause 4 of the Bill. [More…]
The scheme aims to encourage Australian exporters to seek out and develop overseas markets for products, services, industrial property rights and know-how which are substantially of Australian origin. [More…]
In the case of earnings derived from eligible industrial property rights or know-how, a lesser amount of $10,000 has been determined. [More…]
With this handicap they find themselves in a country in which they cannot even understand the language let alone the industrial laws and their legal rights as employees. [More…]
The package included legislation which dealt with the Kakadu National Park; legislation which dealt with the rights of Aboriginals; and legislation which dealt very heavily with environmental aspects. [More…]
So, under the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act, ordinary civil rights of protest, whether by withdrawal of labour- after all we are not yet a conscripted slave society- or by normal peaceful practical measures of dissent, such as circulating a pamphlet, marching in a street or giving a speech- all these non-violent means of protest which ought to be positively encouraged in a demoracy- may lead one to be convicted. [More…]
Where an application is made under sub-section ( 1 ), the Minister administering the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 shall endeavour to obtain, not later than one year before the expiration of the mining period, the extension of the agreement referred to in paragraph (a) - [More…]
It is extraordinary how, before the agreement with the Aboriginal people was signed, we heard comments about Aborigines having too many rights, about apartheid in reversal and about the interests of the white people of Australia being sacrificed in the interests of the Aborigines. [More…]
There must be, in an agreement, clauses whereby interest can be assigned and there can be rights of renewal. [More…]
While the matters subject to direction are specified in the Bill as a clear indication of the Government’s intention to preserve contributors rights, it is hoped that organisations will administer their rules in a manner which will result in the activation of the Ministerial powers of direction only being required in exceptional circumstances. [More…]
The first relates to the new section 14 where it is provided that a grant will not be payable unless the amount of export earnings in the year in which the grant is made exceeds $25,000 or, if the whole of that amount consists of payment for the sale of disposable industrial property rights or eligible knowhow, $10,000. [More…]
As an illustration, if a person had $10,000 worth of industrial property rights plus $1 for another item over and above that, he could lose the whole entitlement because it was not related strictly to the $ 10,000. [More…]
Where a person, other than an approved body, received, or became entitled to receive, grants in respect of eligible expenditure incurred by him during any 3 or more grant years preceding a particular grant year, a grant is not payable to him in respect of eligible expenditure incurred by him during that grant year unless the amount of his export earnings in that grant year exceeds $23,000 or, if the whole of that amount consist of consideration for the disposal of eligible industrial property rights or eligible know-how, $10,000. [More…]
This procedure also was followed in respect of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
In the case of an Act such as the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act, which requires a proclamation by the Governor-General to be laid before this House, we have the right to disallow that proclamation, but the Government has the right to adjourn discussion until 15 days have elapsed and because the Senate has not disallowed it within 15 days the proclamation is valid. [More…]
The members of such a committee possibly would be more knowledgeable and have more concern for the civil rights of individuals. [More…]
Freedom of Trade Union activity in Peru is ensured under the ‘Social Guarantees’ provisions of the 1933 Constitution (Article 62) together with the right of collective bargaining (Article 43 ) and the prohibition of labour contracts which restrict the rights of workers (Article 44). [More…]
The Red Army is the symbol of the power that is keeping formerly free people under subjugation, and its presence enables blatant violation of Human Rights to be perpetrated. [More…]
The Red Army is the main instrument in keeping formally free people under subjugation, and its presence enables blatant violations of Human Rights to be perpetrated. [More…]
The Australian National University Amendment Bill 1978 is designed to protect the rights of individual students by ensuring that they are not compelled as a condition of enrolment to join an organisation of students and that fees provided are not used for purposes which are not directly related to theninterests as students. [More…]
Clause 22 of the Bill continues the Government’s policy of expanding, wherever possible, the jurisdiction of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal in relation to administrative decisions which affect the rights or entitlements of persons under Commonwealth legislation. [More…]
people who feel that their rights are being affected by the activities of others in secondary boycott situations. [More…]
As a Government, we support strongly the conciliation and arbitration process in settling disputes, but we also have an obligation to have on the statute books laws adequate to protect the rights of individuals and of the community against what in many cases are the thoroughly indefensible actions of irresponsible unions and union leaders. [More…]
Those provisions of the Trade Practices Act are available as defences under the provision that we seek to assert, and preserve the rights of trade unions and trade unionists. [More…]
Other aspects of the scheme which require clarification relate to supposed mandatory requirements for the payment of royalties to the Commonwealth, and for the acquisition of the rights to grant-assisted research and development when a company decides to terminate a project. [More…]
Is under any acknowledgement of allegiance, obedience, or adherence to a foreign power, or is a subject or a citizen or entitled to the rights or privileges of a subject or a citizen of a foreign power or (ii.) [More…]
I thank the Leader of the Opposition (Senator Wriedt) and the Opposition Whip for their courtesies and helpfulness and, indeed, the pursuit of their own rights and issues, which I respect. [More…]
Fishing Rights in 200-mile Zone (Question No. [More…]
What is the mechanism by which applications for fishing rights within Australia’s new 200 mile limit are dealt with. [More…]
How many applications have been made for such rights, and how many have been approved. [More…]
I think that he possessed a rare quality insofar as, whilst he was a member of a political party, he gave some recognition to the rights of others to present a point of view. [More…]
I ask the AttorneyGeneral whether his attention has been drawn to Mr Brown’s statement that the manner in which the Crown had conducted its case represented a fundamental denial of the defendants’ rights and, in particular, his contention that the defendants ‘stood in the same uninformed position’ regarding charges against them as they had 10 months ago, when first charged. [More…]
However, provisions of the Aboriginal land rights Acts, particularly section 3 sub-section 6, apply to Crown land which is held in the right of the Northern Territory, so claims can be made by Aboriginal traditional owners in respect of unalienated Crown land held in the right of the Northern Territory. [More…]
The whole implication of a land rights policy is compensatory. [More…]
It was appointed when the then Federal Government made a promise to provide $4m for ten years- a total of about $50m- for the purchase of land other than land that is acquired under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
At the same time, in relation to purchases in the Northern Territory, the Minister directed that: The purchases already made are likely to entail administrative and financial responsibilities for my Department for some time, and I think that it is desirable, in the light of the recommendations of the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission, that for the future purchases in the Northern Territory should be made as a general rule only on the basis of an examination of needs and claims by the Interim Land Commissioner, or the Land Commissioner if and when appointed. [More…]
What steps and procedures are followed by Telecom Australia in finding alternative employment for retrenched Telephonists in fulfilment of point 1 of the 1974 Guidelines for Redundancy in Australian Government Employment which states that ‘Every effort should be made to ensure that, as far as possible, redundant employees are re-absorbed into employment without financial loss to them and with full protection of the rights they have obtained as a result of their previous employment ‘. [More…]
An authority to prospect does not include rights to mine. [More…]
student and researching the child and law in Queensland; has published and presented papers on rights of the child, emotional needs of young children and care of sick children; President, Association for the Welfare of Children in Hospital, Queensland; member, sub-committee on co-ordination of Pediatric Services, Queensland Pediatric Advisory Committee; member, sub-committee revising legislation in Queensland for handicapped children, Queensland Special Education Department; member, Women Lawyers’ Association, U.N. Association Human Rights Committee, Federation of University Women. [More…]
Human Rights in the USSR [More…]
Lithuania, a nation of over 3 million people, is deprived of human freedom and those national and individual rights which are deemed sacred in Australia today. [More…]
Lithuania, with a history of seven centuries as an indentifiable State and also twenty-three years as a modern republic, now represents a compelling case study of the violation of human rights by the Soviet Occupation Regime. [More…]
Those who have the courage to speak out in defence of national and human rights in Lithuania are dealt with by the Moscow government in a manner which is abhorrent to every freedom- minded person in Australia. [More…]
Is it true that Mr Justice Staples, following his extended tour overseas, has recently produced a report recommending quite substantial changes in human rights law, which report the Commonwealth has refused to make public or, indeed, to produce on request to meetings of the FederalState Standing Committee of AttorneysGeneral? [More…]
After he returned to Australia and just before the meeting of the Standing Committee of Attorneys-General in Hobart in January, he wrote me a letter in which he set out a number of his views on the way in which Australia should deal with matters of human rights and in which he indicated that he thought that we ought to be looking at the European method of attacking the problem rather than at the international covenant. [More…]
I have listened to and read speeches in the Senate and in the House of Representatives delivered by members of parliament who were seeking genuinely and sincerely to uphold the rights of the Parliament. [More…]
I feel that we want less emphasis on welfare in this area and more emphasis on people’s rights. [More…]
For that purpose, there is no requirement of reciprocal rights in the foreign country in respect of Australian judgments. [More…]
Whether at common law or under the State or Territory legislation, the recognition and enforcement rights for foreign judgments are not unlimited. [More…]
Of course, that epitomises the approach which has been taken by conservative governments in the post-war years, namely, that the private sector should be given unfettered rights to funds and resources in this country. [More…]
Although these vary from State to State, visiting Federal Parliamentarians have no rights to grant holidays. [More…]
Of course, it is true that the relocation assistance scheme was designed to meet these problems, and the publication of the rights that people have under that scheme is usually given prominence. [More…]
In the past there have been many examples which demonstrate just how unprofitable it is to take sides in a conflict where there are rights and wrongs on both sides. [More…]
The substantive law may differ from State to State but there is no good reason why every Australian should not be able to have his rights and duties whether derived from Federal or State law determined in the one court as part of a system which all Australians share. [More…]
Indeed, the only serious objection which has been made to this uniform court proposal as an ultimate objective worth pursuing, apart from the predictable irrational and emotional States rights squawkings from the present Queensland and Western Australian governments, is that this goal, in practice, is perceived to be quite unattainable and should therefore, however attractive it might be in theory, be completely abandoned in favour of the hard headed realism which is, apparently we are to believe, embodied in the present legislation now before us. [More…]
The Committee scrutinises regulations and ordinances and other delegated legislation which is made under Acts of the Parliament and which is subject to disallowance, to ensure that: Firstly they are in accordance with the statute; secondly, they do not trespass unduly on personal rights and liberties; thirdly, they do not unduly make the rights and liberties of citizens dependent upon administrative rather than upon judicial decisions; and, fourthly, they are concerned with administrative detail and do not amount to substantive legislation which should be a matter for parliamentary enactment. [More…]
The Australian Capital Territory Consumer Affairs Ordinance is of particular concern to the Committee as the provisions objected to in the Ordinance were regarded by the Committee as fundamental breaches of individual rights and liberties and of the power of the courts, and it should be a matter of grave concern to the Senate that the undertaking given in August 1977 has still not been carried out. [More…]
All of the regulations and ordinances referred to have provisions which are unsatisfactory in their effect on individual rights and liberties, and this has been recognised by various Ministers in their various undertakings. [More…]
Senator Missen has pointed out that, to the knowledge of the Minister and the Committee, regulations which infringe the civil rights of the individual have been in existence for three years. [More…]
A great deal of work has been done by the Federal Government, by State governments and by the voluntary organisations in this country to make it a fitting year of celebration in recognition of the rights of children and of our responsibilities to them. [More…]
I hope that the media will give their support, as they have done previously, to the efforts of the governments and the people of this country to draw attention in this year to the needs and rights of children and our responsibilities to them, and to see that it is a year that is enjoyed by children in whatever way they are able to enjoy it. [More…]
Dijoud, also announced that British and French experts would soon arrive in the New Hebrides to assist with the drafting of a constitution which is to embody principles such as proportional representation, protection of minority rights and bilingualism. [More…]
None of the parties respects the human rights of its own people. [More…]
There is scant, if any, respect for human rights in the Soviet Union, or in China, or in Vietnam or in the previous and, I should imagine, present regimes in Cambodia. [More…]
I do not believe that any government that does not respect the human rights of its own citizens is going to respect the human rights of the citizens of any other country any more. [More…]
These countries do not respect the human rights of other countries. [More…]
It is of no use to say that it is just one form of terrorism; that there are also other forms such as depriving people of their voting rights and sending police into settlements. [More…]
Merely carrying resolutions condemning apartheid, singling one country out for its deprivation of human rights while doing nothing whatsoever about Uganda, for example, smacks of humbug. [More…]
We have to make it clear that, whether or not we like the economic policy or the tariff policy of a country or whether a country has nationalised oil or denationalised oil, provided it is a democratic country which has some respect for human rights it is a country with which the ought to be aligned. [More…]
We can have such a treaty arrangement but at the same time we should make it clear that we deplore the deprivation of human rights which may take place within that country. [More…]
In my view, we ought to be putting forward the proposition that the ideology to which we subscribe is an ideology of democracy, of human rights. [More…]
Senator Wheeldon spoke first about human rights and democracy. [More…]
The statement put down by the Government is a statement on human rights and democracy and how Australia sees the world situation. [More…]
lt seemed fairly obvious to many members of the Labor Party back in the early sixties- I cannot recall the date- that when a low frequency radio station was being installed at North West Cape in Western Australia we were selling out our rights, our heritage and our freedom to move in any global conflict. [More…]
But I do not believe that we can expect to live behind that barricade, or whatever it might be termed, while human rights are suppressed by any regime in our area. [More…]
He also has the responsibility to protect the rights of the Territorians. [More…]
I hope that the members of the Standing Orders Committee when next they meet will look at the rights of senators to frame a question in the way that they think it ought to be framed when, in the view of the senator concerned, the words used are not improper or unbecoming. [More…]
There was some publicity about this general area some time ago in a newspaper and I had to issue a statement, which no doubt the honourable senator saw, about the Government’s attitude to the Aboriginal Land Rights Act. [More…]
Certainly there should be no question of any undue pressure on any community which is seeking to advance its application for land rights before the Land Rights Commissioner. [More…]
And yesterday, Mr Bjelke-Petersen confirmed reports that the Queensland Government was negotiating with the Commonwealth to be given back its rights of control over at least limited areas of the coastal seabed, with the possibility of future oil drilling in mind. [More…]
However since this Government came to office the Premiers of Queensland and Western Australia have insisted on taking a very hard line on States’ rights. [More…]
I have never argued about his rights as an individual to have interests of that sort. [More…]
But, in order to preserve the rights of both competitors and the public, the Bill limits the initial term of a petty patent to 12 months from the date of grant. [More…]
Inventors will now have the same rights. [More…]
‘Inconsistencies in present law give neither oil companies nor the people a clear idea of what their rights and responsibilities are when spills occur. [More…]
In that case a young girl was deprived of her rights. [More…]
I raised this matter during the consideration of the Aboriginal land rights legislation. [More…]
Whilst we support actively the introduction of efficiency audits, we believe that the individual rights of civil servants who may be affected by the new provisions should be secured and therefore agree with the appeal provisions which exist in this legislation. [More…]
The basic problem with which each report sought to deal was the way- regrettably it has been an all too common feature of our proceedings- in which Bills that come into the Parliament contain provisions which impinge in various ways upon the rights and liberties of the subject or, on the other hand, have the characteristic of amounting to a potentially excessive and unreasonable or inappropriate delegation of Parliament’s authority. [More…]
The function of the committee would be to scrutinise Bills and report to Parliament about whether the text thereof, expressly or otherwise, did one of three things: First, trespassed unduly on personal rights and liberties; secondly, made rights, liberties and obligations unduly dependent upon insufficiently-denned administrative powers, or non-reviewable administrative decisions; or, thirdly, inappropriately delegated legislative powers or insufficiently subjected its exercise to parliamentary scrutiny. [More…]
It can be shown, as it has been at times, that certain legislation does not meet the requirements of human rights and civil liberties- the rights of individuals generally. [More…]
But because the attention of the Regulations and Ordinances Committee is drawn to such shortcomings by outside legal advisers there is no such deprivation of rights passing through as a regulation. [More…]
However, such breaches of human rights slip through in legislation simply because we have not the benefit of outside counsel. [More…]
I refer to the importance of ensuring that in the legislative process there is adequate protection of civil liberties and the rights of the individual. [More…]
It believed that the only way of ensuring that a Bill which has not yet come to this chamber will be considered from the point of view of the protection of the rights of the individual, of the civil liberties in our society, was to have a joint committee and to have the Bill go before that committee at an early stage. [More…]
The fact is that, since the time when by force the existing rights of the people of Eritrea were taken away, they have fought, and had a great deal of success, to maintain their right to selfdevelopment But the situation has been that in that period of years there has been tremendous unhappiness, death and destruction in that country. [More…]
They are proceeding not only in an attempt to defeat and take away the rights of these people but also to cause genocide. [More…]
It is clear from the evidence before me that they wish to destroy the people in that country and do not wish them to have a government of their own, a language of their own, or powers and rights of their own. [More…]
Although there were serious violations of human rights in Ethiopia under the Haile Selassie Government, under the Provisional Military Government there has developed since 1974 a consistent pattern of gross violations of fundamental human rights. [More…]
Rights to self-government surely are to be acknowledged when one speaks of an autonomous unit, but the Eritrean flag was dishonoured and banned. [More…]
Can he assure me that this anomaly will be corrected so that these women will be given their democratic rights to cast their votes in all future elections? [More…]
I ask the Minister whether, in view of the Queensland Government’s arbitrary decision to ban the social education course known as the Social Education Materials Project, including its component The Consumer in Society’, from the curriculum of Queensland schools, he would consider making available in all Queensland schools a copy of the book produced for the Trade Practices Commission entitled Shoppers Rights- A Guide Book to Consumers’ Problems. [More…]
We are prepared to work out with the ASEAN countries the extent of capacity required to cope with the expected traffic demands and to provide some additional landing rights to ASEAN airlines. [More…]
Under that scheme, a taxpayer obtains a loan of $ 1000, promptly pays $700 as a pre-payment of interest, and they buys back, or has an associate buy back, the rights in the loan for $370. [More…]
So we are not in the sort of position in which the proprietary rights of a citizen are being put under some sort of permanent threat which is secure from subsequent challenge. [More…]
I shall not say that I am correct in respect to all cases, but I hope Senator Chaney realises that they were fears that there may be in this Bill something injurious to those applying for patent rights in that a person may have his product patented by someone else. [More…]
I know that there are some members of the Liberal Party of Australia- I do not think any members of the Australian Labor Party- who have waged a concerted campaign to get back on Russia for its alienation of the civil rights of the Jewish people in that country. [More…]
If we want to teach the Russians, the Soviets, some son of lesson and to tell them that they are violating the human rights of people of the Jewish faith, let us call a trade embargo against Russia. [More…]
One of the things that is most disheartening at those conferences is the pathetic insistence of State Ministers and State public servants on sovereignty of the States, on States’ rights. [More…]
While sitting as the Federal Minister convening a meeting of State Ministers I have been disgusted- I use that strong word on purpose- after presenting an unanswerable case on the question of why the States should do something on oil, forestry and off-shore rights, to see the reaction of the State Ministers. [More…]
None of us can forget that that pathetic interest- that obsession- with State rights was one of the main elements that defeated, crucified, destroyed one of the greatest parliamentarians this Parliament has known in the past 20 years, namely, John Gorton. [More…]
But the real sting was in the States rights issue. [More…]
They would get together and say: ‘We must not let this power go to the Commonwealth because it is an intrusion of States rights’. [More…]
It did not matter a damn what was good for the people or for the country as long as the precious States rights were not infringed. [More…]
The document contains a resume of rhetorical statements and platitudes to which we have heard most Government speakers make reference in their remarks about achieving human rights, peace and stability. [More…]
I think that that even-handed approach is much more in tune with the reality of the problems that exist in that region than the pious sorts of statements which are expressed in the document which says nothing, which sticks to platitudes, and which ignores the historical development and the fears that exist in the minds of many of the countries of the world as a result of their development and progress towards establishing a society in which the rights of people shall be paramount. [More…]
Finally, I would like to say only this: All those progressives, all those people who continuously speak about human beings and human rights, all those people who so recently marched in the streets protesting about the cruelty of war- any war- have forgotten that wars are still going on in which the same people, the same human beings, are being killed. [More…]
We get all worked up about this issue, but the fact is that after China exercised its rights over a boundary dispute with India it retreated. [More…]
Long before the USSR influence in the Middle East, the Armenians seemed to be a people who were always getting trampled on and denied their rights by other groups. [More…]
At the moment I do not care to go into the details of the rights and wrongs of the situation in Vietnam as Senator Georges has done tonight. [More…]
In this situation I believe it is unfortunate that so many members of this Parliament still see the proper basis of our foreign relationships as being whether the country we are considering is communist or pro-communist rather than whether it observes human rights and basic human freedoms. [More…]
This perception, I believe, has led us to the excessively pro-Chinese stance that Senator Georges spoke about and to the claim that we should not be critical of the abuse of human rights or human freedoms in countries such as South Korea or Indonesia for fear of upsetting trade with those countries. [More…]
We should make our voice heard in world affairs and establish our credentials as a pro-democratic country in favour of human rights, human freedom and the right of people to selfdetermination. [More…]
We should express disapproval of countries which abuse human rights and freedoms and we should express disapproval of those who interfere with the right to selfdetermination for others or intervene in the affairs of others directly. [More…]
We should disapprove of the use of tanks and guns to deprive people of their political rights and their freedom, whether it occurs in Prague, Tehran, Suweto, Chile or anywhere else. [More…]
We must disapprove of the banning of journalists in Africa and the deprivation of human rights everywhere. [More…]
We can express forcefully disapproval of the deprivation of human rights, of torture, of racial discrimination or of exploitation of man by man in any country, and we should do so. [More…]
We should try to be perceived in the world as being in favour of democracy, human rights and human freedom, and where we see those things abused we should oppose it and express our opposition. [More…]
We can do so without interfering in the internal affairs of others; we can do so without interfering with the national rights of others. [More…]
Senator Kilgariff said that the statement of the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) was all about human rights and democracy. [More…]
It appears to me that when it comes to human rights our decisions are based entirely on economic principles. [More…]
I draw this parallel to illustrate the double standards that are adopted on human rights. [More…]
It certainly appears to be a question of economics, not of human rights. [More…]
Would the AttorneyGeneral agree that when family law legislation was debated in this chamber, heavy stress was laid on the need to remove the strains which had been associated with divorce jurisdiction in the past, with particular reference to the rights of children? [More…]
Is the Minister taking any steps in relation to this matter to protect the rights of the Aboriginal people who have made a number of claims and are still to make a number of claims? [More…]
I think honourable senators would be aware that under the Aborigi-nal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act Aboriginals claiming traditional ownership of land may lodge claims over vacant Crown land. [More…]
This is a matter of considerable significance to any potential Aboriginal claimants because the land can be removed from the operation of the land rights Act by this action. [More…]
I point out that in the fishing industry, another primary industry, the Government is moving ahead with a great expectation that when Australia’s fishing rights are extended to the 200-mile limit the fishermen of Australia will be ready to take advantage of that extension. [More…]
The Northern Territory Government yesterday reaffirmed its intention not to register title deeds to land handed to Aborigines under the Federal Government’s Land Rights Act. [More…]
Mr Everingham said it was not his Government’s intention to frustrate or impede the operation of the Land Rights Act. [More…]
Here I raise questions of safety and appropriateness as well as the question of land rights and the environment. [More…]
Where is the Government’s policy of concern for the implementation of legislation to defend the rights of Aborigines to their land which has been so much debated in Parliament in recent years. [More…]
It is a world in which the rights of citizens, the rights of minority groups, the rights of any organisation and any element in society are subdued by military force and, most importantly, a world in which there is no question of dissent, no check, as occurs in our society, on what might be going on so that once those countries have a nuclear power industry it will be impossible for the outside world, much less their own people, to know or influence just what is going on in those places. [More…]
Of course, we again come to the matter of land rights. [More…]
The Bill in no way interferes with the substantive rights of those who have access to the provisions of the two Acts. [More…]
For example, the rights of unsuccessful appellants to seek reopening of their cases by presentation of further evidence, and the right of appellants to have access to information in the records relating to their case were inserted in the 1929 Act. [More…]
While incorporating these present-day principles for the review of administrative decisions, the Bill seeks to retain the best elements of the existing system- in particular those elements which confer upon applicants special rights and privileges. [More…]
The Tribunal will be empowered to hear and dispose of those applications without the need for the applicant himself to take any action to preserve his rights. [More…]
But I also emphasise that the essential principles of the Repatriation Appeals System- those that have protected appellants and conferred upon them rights to ensure that every opportunity is given to them to achieve justice- are being retained. [More…]
For example, in the case of a loan, the scheme involves the taxpayer obtaining a loan, repaying part of it as a pre-payment of interest and then buying back or having a nominee buy back the rights to the loan for the residue together with a small amount of effective interest, or, as some might call it, the lender’s reward for participating in the scheme. [More…]
I simply wanted him to be informed that Queensland citizens do have rights and that a police officer has no right to enter into unlawful physical contact. [More…]
I am a little sick and tired of the way in which this Government is treating the rights of members of the Parliament. [More…]
That was a fortnight ago The rights of Australian citizens were involved. [More…]
Frankly, we on this side of the chamber are getting a bit sick and tired of the way in which this Government is treating the rights and entitlements of members of Parliament. [More…]
I refer the honourable senator to section 43 of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act which indicates that there are limitations on my ability to approve an agreement. [More…]
The statutory procedures for notification of security assessments and for rights of appeal in large part implement the recommendations of Mr Justice Hope. [More…]
They therefore represent one of the most important steps taken in this Parliament for many years directed to the protection of the rights of individuals. [More…]
The legislation that I am today introducing represents a balance between the needs of the nation for a strong, reliable and highly efficient security service and the need to preserve our individual rights and freedoms. [More…]
It will equip ASIO with the powers essential for those tasks and at the same time provide safeguards for the rights of individuals and the continuation of our democratic institutions. [More…]
We are all very much aware that the New Zealand industry retained for itself for a much longer period its traditional rights in the United Kingdom. [More…]
A cynic might say that the Australian national overseas has few rights. [More…]
Because in this matter residents have the same rights as the nationals; or, putting the emphasis the other way, nationals have no advantage in being Australian nationals in this matter. [More…]
I am concerned, as no doubt Senator Bonner and other honourable senators are, that the rights of the Aboriginal people be safeguarded. [More…]
Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act restricts a claim to unalienated Crown land and specifically excludes areas within town boundaries. [More…]
The action cuts right across the intent of the Northern Territory land rights legislation. [More…]
I call on the Federal Government to press its rights, to carry out the recommendations of the joint committee which put down its report last year and to take a stance on this issue to protect the rights of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
The Government has a clear responsibility in this matter, given to it by the 1967 referendum and the passage of the land rights legislation in this Parliament. [More…]
I am further informed that it is the intention of ANR, no doubt at the behest of the Government- I am not blaming Mr Dyason because I have a lot of faith in him, fighting as he does for the rights of the railways, trying to upgrade the railways and to maintain work for railway workers- further down the track, between Murray Bridge and Mount Gambier in particular, to squeeze in administration services and train control. [More…]
Last December under the eyes of this Governmentand the Minister did not find out until two days ago- thousands of hectares of land were declared to be inside town sites in order to defeat the provisions of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
He said in Canberra that he had been in touch with the Northern Territory Government over its gazettal of land for future urban expansion because of its potential effect on Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
The Minister said that the Commonwealth has a vital interest in what the Territory Government is doing because its actions can affect the rights of individuals under the legislation. [More…]
In the light of all the above allegations of racial discrimination on the part of the Queensland Government, I would draw attention to the fundamental freedoms and human rights which Australia guarantees to its citizens. [More…]
Article 5 lists the following fundamental freedoms and human rights: [More…]
In compliance with the fundamental obligations laid down in article 2 of this Convention, States Parties undertake to prohibit and to eliminate racial discrimination in all its forms and to guarantee the right of everyone, without distinction as to race, colour, or national or ethnic origin, to equality before the law, notably in the enjoyment of the following rights: [More…]
I think that we have reached the second reading stage with a Bill which in our Territories will protect the rights of individuals at the point of arrest and during the period for which they are apprehended until they reach the court. [More…]
In Queensland we have fought for the rights of individuals and minority groups. [More…]
Article 5 deals with fundamental freedoms and human rights. [More…]
It is frequently contended in matters brought to my office that fundamental freedoms and human rights of Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders in the State of Queensland are limited or restricted or denied by the Queensland Government in its administration of Aboriginal and Islander Affairs. [More…]
In addition I have to report upon deficiencies in Commonwealth legislation, principally the Racial Discrimination Act 1975, in achieving even a proper inquiry into matters associated with the exercise of fundamental freedoms and human rights for all racial groups in Queensland. [More…]
The next item on the Notice Paper deals with human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
into associated with the exercise of fundamental freedoms and human rights for all racial groups in Queensland. [More…]
These remarks can be related to any debate in this place on human rights, whether here or anywhere else. [More…]
In this report there is evidence that the Commissioner approached the Queensland authorities with complaints of blatant discrimination, restriction of freedom, restriction of rights, but the Queensland Government did not respond or reply. [More…]
He carries out a responsibility given to us under the referendum for the protection of the rights and freedoms of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
That the Senate believes that the unjustly imprisoned members and affiliates of the Soviet Helsinki group should be granted their freedom and allowed to pursue their lawful activities on behalf of basic human rights without further harassment, and that the Prime Minister and the Minister for Foreign Affairs should express at every suitable opportunity and in the strongest terms the opposition of Australia to the imprisonment of members of the Helsinki group. [More…]
I remind the Senate of the significance both to human rights within the Soviet Union and to world peace and prosperity of this particular issue and these particular men. [More…]
Shcharansky was also the link between Soviet Jews who wanted to leave the country and human rights advocates who wanted to reform their society. [More…]
In Principle VII signatory States of the Final Act recognised that individuals have the right to note and act upon their rights and duties in the field of human rights and fundamental freedoms. [More…]
Though the indictments did not mention the Helsinki monitoring groups as such, action against these people appears to be related to their activities in monitoring the implementation of the provisions of the Final Act and drawing attention to instances of non-implementation of human rights provisions. [More…]
The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights which is specifically endorsed in Principle VII of the Final Act recognises the right of all individuals to leave and return to their country. [More…]
Indeed, one recalls the many thousands of people who have been subjected to loss of human rights simply because they chose to note or attempted to note the infringements by the Soviet Union of human rights. [More…]
Petkus ‘s only crime was to draw the attention of the authorities to documented cases of gross violation of the human rights clauses of the Helsinki Agreement. [More…]
In addition, other human rights violations occur against those who are attempting to ensure their rights as free trade unionists- a matter which is close to my field of activity. [More…]
The letter hopes that the ILO ‘will take measures to avoid involving the organisation in a dubious political campaign and which could gravely prejudice the activity of the organisation in the effective defence of the interests and rights of workers’. [More…]
The Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence SubCommittee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union which was chaired by Senator John Wheeldon had before it on 14 April 1978 a person named Leonid Plyushch. [More…]
I consider a political campaign for the rights of trade unions independent of the Soviet Government to be one of the chief priorities for the present day. [More…]
To return to the Helsinki group and the associated denials of what we regarded as the minimum of rights and freedom of association and freedom of speech, one asks why the KGB operates to quash any sign by anyone to exert his rights. [More…]
Mr Peacock appealed to the Soviet leadership to demonstrate a greater sensitivity to the widespread concern for guarantees of fundamental human rights evident in today’s world. [More…]
On 20 July 1978 the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) issued a statement on the program for the observance of the thirtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, six days after Shcharansky was sentenced. [More…]
Mr Fraser observed that this anniversary comes at a time when there is growing international recognition of the importance of fundamental human rights. [More…]
The world-wide outcry in recent days against the trials of Soviet dissidents, and the harsh sentences imposed on them, is a clear demonstration of this and serves to bring home the importance of doing all we can to promote understanding of, and adherence to, the principles expressed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
We in Australia, he said, have a record on human rights we can be justly proud of and over the years successive Australian governments have actively contributed to the work of the United Nations in the promotion and protection of internationally recognised human rights. [More…]
Australia commenced a three-year term on the UN Commission on Human Rights at the beginning of this year. [More…]
The Government has also deplored the trials and sentencing of other courageous men and women associated with the human rights movement in the Soviet Union. [More…]
However, as far as the Government is concerned, we are conscious of the fact that the 1980 Moscow Olympics will bring large numbers of athletes and other visitors from all over the world, thereby exposing the Soviet Union to greater contact with liberal values and standards of political rights. [More…]
Could I suggest that we take up the statement made by the Prime Minister on 20 July 1978 when, after discussing the Orlov trial, he noted that Australia commenced a three-year term on the United Nations Commission on Human Rights at the beginning of this year. [More…]
Could I suggest that the Australian representative on the United Nations Commission on Human Rights pursue the issues that have been raised and pursue them vigorously. [More…]
Unless something like this is done, unless the free world stands up against the blatant breach of agreements and fundamental human rights, then not only will these men be forgotten, but also we will be digging our own graves. [More…]
The new security arrangements have proved to be an intrusion into the rights of parliamentarians to carry out their duties without interference. [More…]
I am not critical of the fact that the Presiding Officers stood up to the Prime Minister; I think that that was the right decision for them to take in protection of our rights. [More…]
I am a member of the Joint House Committee, but I find I have no rights on that Committee, except in an advisory capacity. [More…]
It is like the deal that was made at the time the land rights legislation was being drafted. [More…]
That is why the 1976 land rights legislation was not produced in this chamber according to the schedule that had been marked down by the Government. [More…]
We discussed a number of issues which have been bedevilling the land rights situation in the Northern Territory. [More…]
We talk about self-management and about the rights and the freedom of people. [More…]
But how can one consult with people who will not consult, people who will not stand by their words, people who will continue to ride roughshod over other people and who will deny people their human rights; rights to do the things that they want to do within the framework of the laws of this land. [More…]
It is noted also, according to a statement from the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair) dated 6 March this year that the Japanese firms involved in this project are the same firms that were granted rights in another squid feasibility project. [More…]
We are very concerned about the rights of the States, but we are also concerned about the rights of informed people to be able constructively to contribute to their government, of minority groups to make their own contribution, and of private members of parliament to make theirs. [More…]
All that is sought is an internal management change, which in no way affects the rights or privileges of the Senate. [More…]
What attracted me in the remarks of Senator MacGibbon was his concern for the rights of the individual. [More…]
If he has a particular interest in this matter he should just recently, as a Queensland senator, have been moved to consider the rights of one individual in particular. [More…]
If I sensed his attitude correctly, I believe that he is interested in the rights of individuals and of minorities. [More…]
I am not concerned about myself or about any group with which I am associated in the campaign in Queensland to establish some sort of understanding of the need for the rights of individuals. [More…]
Therefore, since the Leader of the Government in the Senate is here, I ask him- and perhaps at some future time I may be able to ask him other questions- what action is to be taken by the Federal Government to ensure that the rights of an individual are protected against such harassment. [More…]
There is much to be done in Queensland and much needs to be changed if the basic rights of individuals with which the Liberals are so much concerned, are to be protected. [More…]
It will serve as a basic safeguard to human rights. [More…]
I come now to what Dean Barber refers to as the basic human rights of individuals at the point of arrest before they have been taken to a court and before they have been proven guilty. [More…]
From my experience once one is arrested one has no rights. [More…]
One may be in a watch house and treated as though one has no rights at all. [More…]
I have merely entered this debate to ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Carrick) who is in the chamber whether he is satisfied that his concept of federalism was intended to reach a position in which the States should become so sovereign, so separate and so different in the application of human rights that we can condone, ignore or be indifferent to what has happened in Queensland. [More…]
Perhaps he could respond and say that the human rights legislation which the Government intends to introduce will make it impossible for any government in Australia to treat an individual as the Queensland Government has treated Michael Egan. [More…]
The question of how financial contributions and voting rights will be allocated to individual countries is not covered by the present agreement and is a matter for further consideration by government. [More…]
We are concerned that such charges should be proceeded with in such a manner that the rights of citizens are protected and that no section of the community is singled out for special treatment. [More…]
In this case the people have little grasp of our system of justice and law; many have a very poor grasp of English; some of them in fact are illiterate in their own language; they are certainly ignorant of their rights under our laws. [More…]
A magistrate said yesterday the Crown had been guilty of a fundamental denial of the defendants’ rights’ in its handling of fraud conspiracy charges against Greeks. [More…]
The manner in which the Crown had presented its case was ‘a fundamental denial of the defendants’ rights’ as the prosecution had not been specific in any individual charges. [More…]
That is not so- we are endeavouring to help people to obtain their rights and justice. [More…]
Questions have been asked about whether people were informed of their rights; whether warrants had been issued; whether those warrants had been used; how an alleged conspiracy of this size in one small section of Sydney involving similar diseases could have escaped detection by the Department for so long, allegedly since 1971; and about assurances by the Social Security Department, the Commonwealth Police and others to the Minister in reply to questions such as the ones I have raised. [More…]
The Archbishop and I both said that the Greek community and the Commonwealth Government have a mutual concern to ensure that the rights of individuals are protected and that justice is done. [More…]
It has been estimated by a Greek welfare rights officer, Angela Manson, as reported in the Melbourne Age as recently as 31 January this year, that about 800 people who have never been charged have been treated as suspects merely because they were patients of the six doctors charged in this case. [More…]
We are not seeking an inquiry into the rights or wrongs of those people who were alleged to have been involved in fraudulent claims for social security benefits but the way in which this Government has handled this whole question and the way in which the senior officers of the Commonwealth Police have handled it. [More…]
She is a woman, and in this period when women’s rights are receiving a great deal of extra attention from the Parliament and from senators individually, we do not feel we want to criticise her because of who she is. [More…]
They have their legal rights which they have been exercising and will continue to exercise, and I am sure that the administration of justice in this country is well able to cope with the situation without the aid of the Opposition. [More…]
It should not be for us to interfere with the rights of the community or to sit in pre-judgment of matters which are before courts and will there be considered. [More…]
In fact, we successfully negotiated a different agreement with the Americans which ensured that Australia’s rights were safeguarded and, above all, that any intentions on the part of the United States Government to alter that base would be conveyed to the Australian Government before action was taken. [More…]
particularly with a view to protecting civil liberties and enhancing individual rights. [More…]
Constant vigilance is required to ensure that the rights of individual citizens are not eroded or ignored. [More…]
Obviously, some limitations are needed within any such framework to balance out the equally valid and important need to protect civil liberties and the rights of individuals. [More…]
depriving persons of their civil rights under the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States; or [More…]
It is impossible within a democratic framework of government to protect those liberties and rights which are essential to our continued survival without some vigilance and some care directed to informing ourselves about the activities of those who would, by illegal or illicit and violent means subvert those liberties and overthrow those freedoms. [More…]
Of course the achievement of the desirable twin objective of political accountability and operational autonomy is always difficult, but a balance is required between the needs of the nation for a strong, reliable and highly efficient security service and the need to preserve our individual rights and freedoms. [More…]
As many well known car manufacturers are reported to be negotiating for the rights to use this cerium filter on their cars, will the Minister make inquiries to find what the facts are? [More…]
The land claim to which this report refers is the third to be heard by the Aboriginal Land Commissioner in accordance with the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 and the first which I have presented since my appointment as Minister for Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
The Aboriginal Land Rights Act provides the means for Aboriginals to make traditional land claims to unalienated Crown land in the Northern Territory. [More…]
It seems strange that the original owners of the land, notwithstanding their occupation and use of the land over hundreds and thousands of years, have to go before a tribunal set up by the usurpers of the land in order to establish their rights thereto. [More…]
I recognise that we are not in a strong moral position to say that because such land is Crown land we have prior rights over those who were the original land owners. [More…]
In fact, its motive is to destroy the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
Among the things the mining industry suggests is that Mr Justice Toohey, when making decisions, recognises that the Act compels him to give more favourable consideration to Aboriginal ownership rights than to the rights of other sections of the community. [More…]
He gave two islands to the Aboriginals, an area in common, but refused their rights apparently because the mining interests wanted to build a deep sea port for the shipment of uranium. [More…]
The Aboriginals are getting a poor deal from the Aboriginal Land Rights Act. [More…]
The Committee refers to Parliament’s powers under the definition of special laws and questions whether Parliament is restricted from making particular laws for one race of people which may be contrary to the rights given in law to another race of people. [More…]
The then Minister replied that this was courting a challenge in the courts and possibly we would be acting illegally because we were exercising rights over property which did not belong to us. [More…]
It could merely be a matter of acquiring timber rights, mineral rights or something of that nature, or it could be an acquisition without mineral rights, but we must acquire the property and pay just terms for the amount of control that we acquire. [More…]
The denial of fundamental human rights to any group in a society diminishes that society. [More…]
The Aurukun and Mornington Island communities are continuing to struggle for land rights and self-management. [More…]
In November 1978, all the Aboriginal community at Aurukun signed a petition calling on the Commonwealth Government to grant land rights and self-management by acquiring their tribal lands. [More…]
The appeal is from the people at Aurukun and is no less and no more than what they require, their land rights. [More…]
This is a breach of the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. [More…]
The Queensland Government has breached human rights against the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
Traditional rights of preservation of fishing and hunting grounds have not be secured. [More…]
Vicky Kippin once addressed a north Queensland lands rights conference. [More…]
One is prompted therefore to ask why, despite the debates and despite the assurances and the admissions in this place by members of the Government parties that they missed the boat when we were discussing this matter on the last day of March 1978 and that they should have supported the amendment then moved by the Opposition- one that would have circumvented the mischievous and blatant actions taken by that way-out Government in Queensland and would have protected the rights of the people at Aurukun and Mornington Island- the Government has not acted. [More…]
He is that great individual who believes in democratic rights in al! [More…]
We have talked about the rights of the people at Aurukun and Mornington Island and they have made pleas to us, presented petitions to us and made statements through their own representatives. [More…]
Are we not now confronted with this latest blatant disregard of human rights, where a white man, a European, is being permitted by the Queensland Government to stand for a position of management over those who shall make up the shire council? [More…]
On Palm Island, and in other areas the names of which are not particularly well known to meYarrabah for example- there has been the same sort of manipulation, and attitudes are adopted by the so-called Queensland Government that make a mockery of any sort of democratic processes and of any sort of protection of the rights of the people of the black communities in the 1 7 or 1 8 reserves that go to make up the areas of our particular responsibilities. [More…]
Will the Minister in his dual role as Leader of the Government in the Senate and as a senator for New South Wales insist on protecting and preserving the sovereign rights of the Government of that State, particularly its right to make its own decisions, and the fiscal rights and entitlements of the people of New South Wales? [More…]
-Is the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs aware of the plans of the South Australian Government to introduce a land rights Bill that will involve the giving of about 32 per cent of the northern part of South Australia to the Pitjantjatjara Aboriginal people as phase one of a program to extend land rights ultimately over about 50 per cent of the State? [More…]
I am aware of the South Australian Government’s proposal to legislate for land rights in that State. [More…]
Further, will the Minister comment on the possibility that the threats made by the Treasurer to reduce funds for New South Wales constitute an attack on States ‘ rights and threaten to undermine the relative harmony of State-Federal financial arrangements? [More…]
The attack on State rights would come if one State in a maverick fashion were to incite inflation in Australia and destroy or weaken the purchasing power of people in other States and, also, of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Indeed, if the direct action of the Wran Government were to exacerbate inflation and, for example, weaken the purchasing power of pensions, it is not State rights that are affected. [More…]
In view of the points I have mentioned, I believe that the Australian Capital Territory should have a seat, a full voice and full rights on the Council. [More…]
Their rights to test and inquire into government thinking is a vital part of our democratic process. [More…]
But I would be happier to know the circumstances under which that can be done so that individual rights are not unduly infringed. [More…]
But are people’s rights protected? [More…]
Is the Minister aware that cutbacks already approved by him and his predecessor, Mr Viner, during the current financial year have proved to be disastrous for Aboriginal programs in housing, employment, land rights and land development, education, legal problems and health and in the latter case are the cause of a dramatic rise in Aboriginal infant mortality? [More…]
I have a passionate belief in civil liberty and a determination that I shall not allow those rights to disappear in cases where that can be avoided. [More…]
There is complete protection of the individual’s rights. [More…]
We know that in present times human rights campaigners have been undertaking more than a moderate amount of lobbying. [More…]
The essential part of my terms of reference is: ‘in the light of past experience, and having regard to the security of Australia as a nation, the rights and responsibilities of individual persons and future as well as present needs, to make recommendations on the intelligence and security services which the nation should have available to it and on the way in which the relevant organisations can most efficiently and effectively serve the interests of the Australian people and Government . [More…]
Might I suggest to the people who do show some concern, particularly about human rights, that in looking at Mr Justice Hope ‘s report and looking at the legislation that has been introduced one does find some variation. [More…]
I, like all of my colleagues who spoke earlier in this debate, am one of those who believe that the internal security of the nation should be fully and completely protected but that it is paramount that at all times the political rights and civil liberties of the ordinary man and woman in the Australian community have to be protected. [More…]
A security service engaged in the photographing, phone-tapping and shadowing of people exercising their normal political rights and responsibilities as citizens of this country is not merely abusing the purpose for which the service was set up; it is a chill breath of the police state. [More…]
Until our amendments are written into the legislation that is now before the chamber or until the present legislation is withdrawn and redrafted to contain the provisions set out in our amendments, the Labor movement will not be satisfied that the political rights and civil liberties of the Australian people are protected by the legislation. [More…]
Defendants are reminded of their rights of appeal to a General Meeting of the Branch, to the Federal Executive of the Union or to the Council of the Union. [More…]
Explain that without unions no one will be prepared to fight for their rights. [More…]
It refuses to recognise the proper rights and the proper roles of an Opposition in the Westminster system. [More…]
The work of the Conference reflected such important issues as disarmament, the Middle East situation, international terrorism, the fixing of fair prices for primary commodities, colonialism, and the International Year of the Child, and of special interest to parliamentarians is the report on the ‘Violation of Human Rights of Parliamentarians’. [More…]
Although practice and procedure is naturally regarded as being less important than substantive matters of law, rules of court can be very important because of the way in which they can effect the exercise of significant rights. [More…]
Every organisation will also contain people who, before acquiring pension rights, decide to quit, whether out of dissatisfaction or because of the attraction of alternative employment, or for any of dozens of other possible reasons. [More…]
Compare that with what happened in 1973, when a select committee to inquire into the civil rights of migrant Australians was established by a combined vote of Liberal Party senators, Country Party senators and Democratic Labor Party senators. [More…]
I suggest that the activities of the Labor Government concerning security and the protection of the civil liberties and rights of the ordinary citizens of Australia were second to none. [More…]
A security service engaged in the photographing, phone-tapping and shadowing of people exercising their normal political rights and responsibilities as citizens of this country is not merely abusing the purpose for which the service was set up; it is a chill breath of the police state. [More…]
Everyone seems to regret the necessity for such an agency to breach civil liberties or human rights. [More…]
Everyone is of the opinion that we should minimise as much as possible the intrusion into civil rights of this agency in its operations. [More…]
So why are we giving up our civil rights, about which everyone seems to be concerned? [More…]
that they do not trespass unduly on personal rights and liberties; [More…]
that they do not unduly make the rights and liberties of citizens dependent upon administrative rather than upon judicial decisions; and [More…]
The Committee has adopted the practice of not objecting to administrative decisions affecting the rights and liberties of citizens if there are adequate means for the review of the merits of those decisions by an independent tribunal. [More…]
In 1 932 the system of review of administrative decisions by independent administrative tribunals, as distinct from the courts, had not been developed to any great extent, and it was therefore appropriate for the Committee to insist upon ‘judicial decisions’ on matters affecting important rights of the citizen. [More…]
that it does not trespass unduly on personal rights and liberties; [More…]
that it does not unduly make the rights and liberties of citizens dependent upon administrative decisions which are not subject to review of their merits by a judicial or other independent tribunal; and [More…]
The original formulation of this criterion is that the regulations and ordinances in question do not unduly make the rights and liberties of citizens dependent upon administrative rather than upon judicial decisions. [More…]
The proposed new criterion (c) is that delegated legislation does not unduly make the rights and liberties of citizens dependent upon administrative decisions which are not subject to review of their merits by a judicial or other independent tribunal. [More…]
Given that situation, the Committee as a result was always anxious, in years gone by, to ensure that whenever the rights and liberties of the subject were in any significant way affected by administrative decisions there was a clear line of judicial redress, or at least a requirement in the delegated legislation that the decision in question be based, so far as possible, on an objectively ascertainable and, therefore, testable matter of fact rather than simply on matters of administrative opinion. [More…]
The Declaration of Rights of the Child which was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 20 November 1959 was designed to provide that nations recognise that children as well as adults have rights. [More…]
We have heard the long debates in this chamber and in other parts of the world on many occasions in recent years and the great indignation about the violation of human rights in various countries. [More…]
But always those rights are concerned with adults and not, as a rule, with children. [More…]
The child shall enjoy all the rights set forth in this Declaration. [More…]
All children, without any exception whatsoever, shall be entitled to these rights. [More…]
Children have the same rights, I would assume, as any other person. [More…]
For example, the honourable senator would expect the same rights as anybody else under the law to be protected against assault or being struck by me or anybody else. [More…]
The argument is about a number of practices far more severe than the one judged by the European Court of Human Rights to be degrading, practices which the Government of this State - [More…]
Reference has been made to the decision of the European Court of Human Rights over which there was considerable controversy in Britain. [More…]
That court ruled that birching constitutes degrading treatment and is contrary to the European Convention of Human Rights. [More…]
To come to Senator Puplick ‘s interjection about the decision in the case of the European Court of Human Rights applying to adults, four of the States of Australia and the Territories have abolished corporal punishment for adults. [More…]
That, I believe is the beginning of what will be a move in our own country towards ensuring that the rights of children are protected in the same way as the rights of adults are protected. [More…]
A member of a state, an enfranchised inhabitant of a country, as opposed to an alien; in the United States of America a person, native or naturalised, who has the privilege of voting for public offices, and is entitled to protection in exercising of private rights. [More…]
Therefore nationality has nothing to do with the rights of a citizen as such. [More…]
The recommendation did not attempt to affect their rights. [More…]
It is up to this Government and future Australian governments to recognise those difficulties and to defend very vigorously the rights of Australian citizens, whether other people think they have dual citizenship or not, and to come to agreement both with those conglomerations of nations which have reached some agreement on this and with individual nations whose former citizens are now citizens of Australia. [More…]
It is also a matter of gratification to the Government that the agreement which was made with the Queensland Government in April 1978 has reached the point where we now have elected shire councils with statutory rights and with leases to the original land areas of Aurukun and Mornington Island. [More…]
Does this mean that the Department is now completely tied in with the Northern Territory uranium miners and that the land rights policy enunciated a few days ago by the Mining Council is now the policy - [More…]
I ask the Minister whether the land rights policy enunciated a few days ago by the Mining Council and set out as a working or suggestion paper is likely to become the policy of his Department in relation to Aboriginal land rights and also the social aspects associated with Aborigines. [More…]
When it has been up for debate over recent times there has been a reaffirmation of policy both by me on behalf of the Government and by the Prime Minister who expressed the commitment to the basic principles of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
I would like to say that I remain open at any time to discuss with anybody who is interested in land rights the operations of the land rights Act. [More…]
But I and the Government remain committed to the principles of the land rights legislation. [More…]
The International Year of the Child is a year that is designated by the United Nations for celebration with regard to our responsibilities to our children and their rights. [More…]
In keeping with the Government’s commitment to civil rights and administrative justice, this Bill seeks to provide a proper legislative basis for passport policy and a clear legislative framework for the exercise of ministerial discretion, which must continue to be an essential element in the administration of this difficult area. [More…]
Australia has signified its recognition of this right by endorsement of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. [More…]
In the not too distant past, it was argued that the need to carry a passport was an infringement of basic rights. [More…]
This imposes on the Government a responsibility to ensure, as far as it can, that passports are not issued to persons likely to threaten the national security and public order of another country, or the rights and welfare of its citizens. [More…]
I am aware that this policy has caused inconvenience and even distress on some occasions, but it has been found necessary to retain it as a practical means of protecting the financial rights of a spouse or former spouse. [More…]
However, in recognition of the Government’s policy relating to human rights and the view that the Passports Act should neither be used as an extension of the judicial system nor be expected to impose any more restraint on an individual than a court would be prepared to impose, this practice will be discontinued. [More…]
In brief, these are, with certain exceptions, persons who are not married and who have not reached the age of 1 8 years, unless the consent of persons having custodial rights has been obtained; persons in respect of whom the authorised officer has reason to believe that there is in force a warrant for arrest issued in Australia; persons whom the authorised officer has reason to believe are required to remain in Australia under a court order, or under a condition of parole or of recognisance, surety or bail bond; persons who owe money to the Commonwealth as a result of circumstances arising from previous overseas travel; persons whom the authorised officer believes already to be in possession or control of an Australian passport in force- unless there are special reasons- and persons in respect of whom the Minister has decided that issue of a passport would threaten security or welfare in another country. [More…]
We know of the disagreement between the two political parties about having the minimum of infringement upon the civil rights of the individual. [More…]
As I have mentioned, while we could excuse some interference in the civil rights of individuals for security reasons, any breach of State or Commonwealth law that is discovered and which carries a penalty of three years, whether for security or any other reasons, has to be reported to the State with a view to prosecution. [More…]
The operation of ASIO under this legislation does not even come close to the implementation of this Government’s own political philosophy on individual rights and responsibilities. [More…]
The Liberal Party vigorously advocates individual liberty and the fundamental rights of freedom of speech, organisation, assembly, procession, religion and non-violent dissent. [More…]
Controls over the free actions of the individual are to be avoided unless there is clear evidence that the similar rights of others and the protection of the community require the imposition of controls. [More…]
There are special safeguards within the Constitution to protect the rights of the individual. [More…]
There are organisations concerned with civil liberties and the protection of the democratic rights of the people. [More…]
That report shows that in the States in which Labor governments have taken steps to protect the civil rights of people and the right of legitimate political activity, groups of up to 100,000 people at certain times have had their names included and their activities noted in dossiers. [More…]
There is no reason to suggest that people who march next Friday and Saturday in various cities of the Commonwealth constitute any sort of threat to the civil rights or security of this country, yet that is where ASIO agents will be. [More…]
One would have thought that they would have been as concerned as we are to protect the rights and civil liberties of the people of Australia. [More…]
Mr Justice Hope has recognised ‘that a balance between the rights of individual persons and the preservation of the security of Australia as a nation is no simple or easy thing to achieve ‘. [More…]
This legislation is a fair and proper balance between the national interest and civil rights. [More…]
One would think therefore that legislation as important as this, with so many consequences for the quality and type of intelligence that governments must receive and of such widespread consequence for individual rights, would warrant lengthy and considerable public debate. [More…]
I have had representations from a number of civil rights groups and individual citizens concerned about aspects of the legislation. [More…]
Of course it is wrong to suspend people without pay, without any defined rights whatsoever. [More…]
It has been more of a radical group than a political party, operating on the fringe of society in search of causes and seeking to attract recruits on the basis of its support for various issues- aboriginal land rights, green bans, gay lib, women’s affairs, etc. [More…]
Indeed, it would be funny if it were not for the fact that people’s careers, rights to citizenship and even basic human rights are being threatened by this sort of idiocy. [More…]
Has the Government a clear view of the status of the Uluru National Park land in relation to the ability of local Aboriginal communities to seek, by way of a land rights application, the exclusive use of the area by those communities? [More…]
If not, does it follow that Western Australians seeking to pursue their legal rights must await the availability of a judge who has to travel from one of the eastern States? [More…]
Considering that every person has the right freely to hold and to express his convictions and the obligation to extend a like freedom to others, the objects of Amnesty International shall be to secure throughout the world the observance of the provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, by: [More…]
I will not canvass the rights and wrongs of the case but I think it is important that we look at the decision of the High Court of Pakistan which, by a four to three vote, rejected the appeal against the death sentence. [More…]
The failure of the Government to reply countering the false and self interest campaign of the Mining Industry seeking to defeat the Aboriginal (NT) Land Rights legislation and the agreement reached between the Chief Minister of the Northern Territory and the Federal Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and the Chairman of Northern Land Council te impose restrictions on Aboriginal Control of Aboriginal Lands granted under the Aboriginal (NT) Lands Act’. [More…]
The failure of the Government to reply countering the false and self interest campaign of the Mining Industry seeking to defeat the Aboriginal (NT) Land Rights legislation and the agreement reached between the Chief Minister of the Northern Territory and the Federal Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and the Chairman of Northern Land Council to impose restrictions on Aboriginal Control of Aboriginal Lands granted under the Aboriginal (NT) Lands Act’. [More…]
It believes that the operation of the Aboriginal Land Rights (NT) Act causes some inconvenience to its desire to rape the country and gain mineral rights for the profit of its shareholders. [More…]
The statement concerning the Aboriginal Land Rights (NT) Act is not correct in detail. [More…]
Aboriginals have had a hard struggle to obtain land rights and are endeavouring to keep those land rights. [More…]
They can justify their claim to these land rights to the Australian people. [More…]
It is wrong to suggest, as the mining industry has done, that the land rights legislation gives land to Aboriginals to the detriment of other citizens of the Commonwealth. [More…]
The land rights legislation included Schedules 1 and 2 which named certain land as Aboriginal land. [More…]
This resulted from Mr Justice Woodward ‘s inquiry into the land rights of Aboriginals. [More…]
Nevertheless, under that legislation no other land can be granted to Aboriginals until such time as the Northern Territory Aboriginal Land Commissioner has determined that the Aboriginals have established traditional rights to the land. [More…]
The Commissioner reports to the Minister after taking into consideration the claim of the tribal Aboriginals, the number of Aboriginals involved, the justification of their case and the rights of any other people who may have an interest in the land. [More…]
The original Aboriginal land rights Bill introduced by the Labor Government has been greatly watered down. [More…]
So, encroachment upon Aboriginal land rights is increasing day by day. [More…]
oppose the right of the Commissioner to consider the Aboriginals’ claim for land rights in the Ayers Rock area. [More…]
No notice has been taken of the rights of Aboriginals to decide who enters their land. [More…]
We see again the Government’s support for land rights: It is opposing the claim of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
Land rights: ‘Worse than Hitler’. [More…]
Even Hitler, after he occupied Poland, Czechoslovakia and France left the property rights of those people unimpaired. ‘ [More…]
The Federal Government, too, has shown it rates the interests of mining companies ahead of its stated commitment to restore land rights to Aboriginal communities,’ Dr Coombs said. [More…]
Since late 1978 the Council has been preparing a further discussion paper on Aboriginal land rights legislation for presentation to the Federal, South Australian and Northern Territory Governments and for release to the public generally. [More…]
The Council does not disagree with the basic intent of current land rights legislation but questions the direction it is presently taking. [More…]
It is obvious that the rights of others and the national and State interests are given far from adequate consideration. [More…]
Further on in the document the Council points to the decision made by Mr Justice Toohey when, in considering Borroloola, he sets out the conditions that he thinks he must take into consideration as Aboriginal Land Commissioner under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act. [More…]
There were other users and others with rights. [More…]
I think the Minister told us, when putting down the statement, that all Aboriginals have barter rights. [More…]
He suggested that each group has something that the other wants and if the Aboriginals were to barter their rights they might do a better deal than that given to them by the Land Commissioner. [More…]
Senator Chaney has requested the Northern Territory Government to use the existing provisions of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act to obtain land for such purposes. [More…]
The only section I can see in the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act relating to the compulsory acquisition of* land is section 67, which states: [More…]
He is reaching agreement with Aboriginals without discussing with the traditional owners the taking away of the rights that the Aboriginal people now have. [More…]
The first is that the Government has failed to counter a campaign by the mining industry which is seeking to defeat the land rights legislation. [More…]
The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Senator Fred Chaney, said today he was considering a paper on the Aboriginal Land Rights legislation released yesterday by the Australian Mining Industry Council. [More…]
The paper seeks amendments to the Aboriginal Land Rights (NT) Act. [More…]
Senator Chaney drew attention to his statement of 24 January 1 979 in which he emphasised that there would be no change to the general principles of the Land Rights Act. [More…]
The legislation derives directly from the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Land Rights conducted by Mr Justice A. E. Woodward in 1973 and 1974 which were accepted by all major political parties ‘, the Minister said. [More…]
Honourable senators will remember that in January there was a front page story in the Australian newspaper which suggested that there would be a substantial revision of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act to reduce the protection against mining on Aboriginal land. [More…]
I remind the Senate that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in a Press conference on that day or the following day reiterated the Government’s support for the principles of the land rights legislation. [More…]
I think it is important to see what AMIC has done as part of the on-going debate in Australia on the question of land rights which is still a live issue. [More…]
Aboriginals are still seeking land rights in some States additional to those given to them by the State governments which have constitutional control over the land. [More…]
It is important that the public debate should proceed in a way which increases the opportunities and possibilities for Aboriginal people to obtain additional land rights. [More…]
It could be asked how far we ought to go in involving ourselves in the public debate on land rights, both Commonwealth and State. [More…]
Contrary to what has been said in the Senate about the failure of the Government to reply to campaigns, the Government has been trying to explain to the Australian public what land rights are about and why they ought to be advanced. [More…]
I refer honourable senators to the pamphlet which was issued by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, my Department, on the Aboriginal land rights legislation. [More…]
I draw the Senate’s attention to certain fact sheets on Aboriginal land rights issued by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
in taking account of the Aboriginal ‘s deep spiritual attachment to the land and recognising their prior occupation of the Australian continent over a period of more than 40,000 years, the Aboriginal Land Rights (NT) Act gives Aboriginals the right to refuse prospecting or mining on their land if they do not want it. [More…]
I draw the attention of all honourable senators to a background paper on land rights for Australian Aboriginals in the Northern Territory produced by the Australian Information Service and distributed to the media in Australia and overseas. [More…]
They go into the whole area of land rights and all the difficult areas which have caused public concern and opposition to land rights. [More…]
I also advise the Senate that the departmental publication Aboriginal News which is currently being prepared and which deals with land rights will be distributedinJune. [More…]
I table those papers and offer them to honourable senators as some indication of the Government ‘s concern that we should be able to get the idea and principles of land rights across to the general public. [More…]
They are a practical means of countering the anti-land rights campaigns which certainly are mounted by people such as those in the mining industry. [More…]
In regard to land rights we have had near unanimity in the Parliament. [More…]
I suggest to honourable senators opposite that if we wish to promote Aboriginal land rights further in this country we should deal with the matter as positively as possible and not simply say: ‘Look at the Government selling out land rights.’ [More…]
I have told the Senate about the public action of this Government in regard to land rights. [More…]
Earlier this week I spent about 1 hours with senior participants in AMIC discussing the land rights legislation. [More…]
Let me say that my public message has always included the element which I should mention to the Senate, namely, that if anyone comes forward and tells me that something is not working or cannot work in the Aboriginal land rights legislation, I will be ready to examine the matter. [More…]
I submit that the members of the public ought to know this Government’s position on the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act in light of the public statements the Government has made. [More…]
The Senate will be aware that recently public surveys showed that a majority of the Australian people support the concept of land rights and Aboriginal people having a control over mining on Aboriginal reserves. [More…]
I will now deal with the second part of the motion which suggests that in some way I have made a deal which reduces or imposes restrictions on Aboriginal control of Aboriginal lands granted under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
Finally, we met together and tried to deal with some of these problems that have been bedevilling not only the operation of land rights in the Northern Territory but also community relations as a whole in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I give notice to the Senate that I will try to deal with the problems of land rights and Aboriginals in a co-operative way seeking agreement between parties whenever that is possible. [More…]
I am pleased to say that after days of discussions in the Northern Territory, it became apparent that agreement was possible in a number of respects- agreement in a way which did not diminish the rights of the Aboriginal people but which removed some of the thorns which have been getting in the path of progress. [More…]
I did not have the power to commit the Government to amend the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
This arrangement is intended to preserve the existing rights of the parties. [More…]
In other words we sought and achieved a solution which did not change the legal rights of the Aboriginal owners or the legal position of anybody else. [More…]
The Government has made this arrangement with those parties in the belief not only that it can do so without affecting the legal rights of the Aboriginal people but also that it will enable the parties to talk together and to arrive at arrangements that will be suitable to them all. [More…]
This agreement will give them an opportunity to do that without having lost the legal rights that they had before it was entered into. [More…]
I have told it that at this stage I do not wish to contemplate an amendment to that section; that it should use the existing provisions of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act to obtain land for such purposes. [More…]
The Government’s commitment to the basic principles of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act is clear. [More…]
We have tried to get out the story of land rights and, in the interests of the Aboriginal people and of the general community, we will continue to do so. [More…]
The Commonwealth has prepared deeds of grant to land trusts in respect of the land described in Schedule 1 of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
This arrangement is intended to preserve the existing rights of the parties. [More…]
Senator Chaney has requested the Northern Territory Government to use the existing provisions of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act to obtain land for such purposes. [More…]
This motion refers to what we believe to be the Government’s silence about the scurrilous and sustained attack that is being orchestrated by the Australian Mining Industry Council for the purpose of undermining Aboriginals’ rights to their own land. [More…]
He has made one statement, that of 20 January 1979, restating the Government’s position as to land rights, but he has also made a statement since the publication of the Australian Mining Industry Council’s statement. [More…]
therefore believes that the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act should be made the subject of an immediate review. [More…]
I submit that part of the responsibilities and obligations of the Opposition, of the Labor Party, is to monitor what is happening in respect of land rights and, in fact, to keep the Government on its toes. [More…]
Our concern is that this sustained campaign is designed to achieve modification of both the land rights legislation and the administration of it- modifications which, if adopted, would totally undermine the rights of Aborigines to administer and own their traditional land. [More…]
Whilst the land rights legislation may be regarded as having the support of the Opposition, and of being a step forward, it falls far short of what was recommended in the Woodward report. [More…]
We accept the fact that when the original Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill was introduced in this place on 6 December 1 976 the Government, through its Minister at the time, made a number of commitments. [More…]
Yet the Council says in its statement that when the mining of minerals is involved the right to enjoy the surface of the land may sometimes have to give way to the rights of the community as a whole. [More…]
There is a very serious conflict of interests between the Aborigines and the AMIC over the land rights legislation. [More…]
As we well know, the development of the campaign and the legislative processes that have flowed from it have been the result of the evolution in attitudes that has taken place in the Parliament itself and throughout Australia, but there are very powerful influences in this country that still do not accept the view of this Parliament insofar as land rights are concerned. [More…]
It suggests that it is an expression of apartheid; that the current land rights legislation is designed specifically to achieve this end. [More…]
We know that every time a Lang Hancock, a Sir Charles Court or a Bjelke-Petersen opens his mouth on questions of land rights, minerals or mining that person receives 10 times more publicity than any members of this national Parliament, other than perhaps the leaders of the respective parties. [More…]
I am pleased, and I know that the Opposition also is pleased, to have the assurance of the Minister that, so far as he is concerned, he will seek to defend the administration of the legislation and the rights of the Aboriginal people to get title to land in the Northern Territory. [More…]
In fact, I believe that we are acting correctly and conscientiously in protecting the rights of the Aboriginal communities in our country. [More…]
The rights of Aboriginals seems to be the subject of continual debate in this place. [More…]
If it is not raising matters concerning Aboriginal settlements in Queensland it is talking about the land rights of Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
What we have to do is to ensure that the land rights legislation which has been enacted by the Parliament- irrespective of whether the Government is right or wrong in our eyes or your eyes- is carried out for the benefit of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
I have always regarded Aboriginals as being Australians with all the rights and privileges of Australians, and with the responsibilities that go with the citizenship of this country. [More…]
Senator Chaney has stated that any projected amendments to land rights legislation will not alter the real text and consideration of that legislation; it is to facilitate the workings of that legislation, particularly the negotiations between mining companies and Aboriginal land councils. [More…]
On 23 March 1978 the Australian Mining Industry Council issued a publication entitled ‘The Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) ActMatters of Serious Concern to the Mining Industry’. [More…]
I refer in particular to an article headed Powers that Be- Chaney answers the land rights critics: make the system work’. [More…]
In early March, when the Australian Mining Industry Council produced its discussion paper attacking Federal and South Australian Aboriginal land rights legislation, the Federal Department of Aboriginal Affairs prepared a draft response to be issued in the Minister’s name. [More…]
It was a significant addition in view of the recent claims that Senator Chaney and the Federal Government are planning to water down the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
Naturally adjustments have to be made to a very comprehensive and important piece of legislation such as the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act to ensure that it works in the way in which the Government wishes it to work. [More…]
We know full well from practice and from the way that the legislation has been applied that the Government is honouring the Aboriginal land rights legislation. [More…]
The land rights Bill introduced by the Labor Government contained absolutely no provision for negotiation and consultation between the Aboriginal people and Ranger Uranium Mines. [More…]
The Commissioner has heard many Aboriginal land rights cases. [More…]
It is a question of the law as it applies to the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
But when we sought information from the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) about our sovereign rights in the Australian Antarctic Territory, some ambiguity arose. [More…]
Edward H. Levi, the United States Attorney-General, to the United States House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, Sub-committee on Civil and Constitutional Rights, in February 1976. [More…]
Does the Government seriously suggest that that is protecting the civil rights and liberties of the Australian people? [More…]
In effect what the Government is saying is that the democratic rights and liberties will be placed in jeopardy of every person who belongs to the Australian Council of Trade Unions or to an environmental organisation that may decide to do something about the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland and so involve itself in a challenge to the view expressed by the Queensland Government that the reef ought to be mined. [More…]
He now seeks to give them exactly the same rights to interpret the future intention of people. [More…]
No government can claim to be representing the public interest, the rights of people, to be protecting the democratic rights of assembly, and the free expression of opinion and public and political activity, if it insists upon maintaining the word ultimately’ in clause 5 ( 1) (a). [More…]
The figures are for the years 1975 to 1976 and they relate to the purchasing power of the Australian dollar in terms of special drawing rights as calculated by the International Monetary Fund on a mix of worldwide currencies. [More…]
There has been no action in breach of the land freeze instituted in 1976 to hold further alienation of Crown land pending preparation of Aboriginal land claims in the Northern Territory under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
Has the Attorney-General seen the speech of his colleague, Mr Ellicott, to the International Year of the Child Conference in Canberra on 17 March in which Mr Ellicott drew attention to the desirable protections to the legal rights of children which would be accomplished if the Criminal Investigation Bill were to be enacted? [More…]
Is the Minister embarrassed by these continued laudatory public references by Mr Ellicott to this Bill, which was, of course, introduced by Mr Ellicott two years ago and which has since, like the Human Rights Commission Bill and so much else, disappeared subsequently completely from sight? [More…]
When will the Criminal Investigation Bill and the Human Rights Commission Bill be reintroduced into this Parliament? [More…]
As far as the human rights legislation is concerned, I am surprised that Senator Evans has raised this matter again because I have said over and over again in answers to questions and statements that it was set aside to enable me to have discussions with the States, that those discussions had taken place over 12 months or more and that finally the States decided that they would not join in a national commission, as a result of which the Commonwealth will be proceeding with legislation confined to Commonwealth Acts and practices. [More…]
With regard to the Australian Capital Territory Consumer Affairs Ordinance, the Committee received an undertaking on 17 August 1977 to amend provisions which seriously trespass on individual rights and liberties and the fact that those amendments have not yet been made reveals an inordinate delay. [More…]
We think that the points embraced in proposed new clause 7a are properly matters dealt with together so that a member of the public concerned about what rights the Opposition has, or persons other than the Minister and the Director-General have, in relation to this legislation can see it in one clause of the Bill. [More…]
The Australian Democrats, to whom such things are brought, have many cases on our records where people have felt- perhaps wrongly, perhaps unjustifiably- that they have not pursued their rights adequately because they felt they were unhappy about it, that they could be pressured and that somehow they must not run foul of the police. [More…]
I have some doubts about whether the people who have been reported to their employer or prospective employer by the Director-General of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization or its agents have rights under this Bill to appeal. [More…]
Indeed, as I said in my second reading speech, in relation to the Opposition amendment extending the rights of appeal to assessments given to a State authority, the Director-General is proposing that in future in the rare cases where he may give a security assessment to a State about a State official, such an assessment should be given through a Commonwealth agency so as to preserve the right of appeal. [More…]
(1) Notwithstanding anything in section 19, the Organization shall not provide any information to the Police Force or an authority of a State, which will be used, or could be used as a security assessment, unless the Minister has, by writing under his hand, delivered to the Director-General, that he is satisfied that appeal rights in relation to the furnishing of adverse or qualified security assessments equivalent to the rights conferred by this Act apply in that State. [More…]
It may be that within the State there are no appeal rights against an adverse assessment. [More…]
The ramifications of the absence from the Bill of any provision like the Opposition’s amendment are quite extraordinary because we, as a Commonwealth Parliament, are taking steps to ensure as far as we can- and this has been the spirit of the discussion in this chamber- that the rights of individuals are protected as much as possible by this legislation. [More…]
We have a difference of opinion about how far we have to go in order to protect the rights of individuals. [More…]
They would see it as an interference with their rights in these matters; it would be seen as the Commonwealth bearing down. [More…]
The vetting information on a State officer would be supplied only in the form of an assessment to a Commonwealth Department for transmission to the State body in such a way as to ensure that the State officer had appeal rights under the existing Bill. [More…]
The Government will make sure that the provisions, which we will not be getting on to this afternoon, will be adequate to ensure that in those cases, if it is done in that way, appeal rights will be preserved. [More…]
What he is concerned about is that any information of that sort- any security assessment or what is called ‘vetting information’ in the organisation- which may be given to a State in respect of a State officer should attract the same rights as the same type of security assessment given to a Commonwealth department, a Commonwealth contractor or an employee of a Commonwealth contractor. [More…]
All I am talking about, and all I thought we were talking about, is security assessments given in relation to a particular State officer, similar to the security assessments which are governed by Part IV of the Bill and about which there are rights of appeal. [More…]
A land use strategy plan involving the granting of Aboriginal land rights to substantial areas, which the Aborigines themselves had indicated they would then lease to be managed as a national park for the nation, was seen as central to the inquiry’s report. [More…]
Mr Justice Woodward in the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission report of 1974 indicated that he could see no reason why areas should not be both owned as Aboriginal land and declared as national park. [More…]
My Government sees self-management as the means by which the fundamental rights of Aboriginals can be encouraged. [More…]
I suggest to honourable senators opposite that if we wish to promote Aboriginal land rights further in this country we should deal with the matter as positively as possible and not simply say; ‘Look at the Government selling out land rights’. [More…]
The Committee also notes the Aboriginal Councils and Associations Act 1976 as an example of Commonwealth legislation operating in a positive way short of conferring proprietary rights; in this case, by making institutional mechanisms available to Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders for use in the management of their affairs. [More…]
It has also been requested by the Yarrabah Council to negotiate secure tenure of land on the same basis as that provided under the Commonwealth Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
In the period since then I have talked to many people associated with the land rights organisation of Queensland, including representatives of both the communities referred to in the amendment. [More…]
The denial of fundamental human rights to any group in a society diminishes that society. [More…]
I will not go into all the rhetoric concerning leases, land rights and the whole box and dice. [More…]
I would have preferred the Aboriginal people at both communities to receive land rights similar to those granted by the Federal Government in the Northern Territory, but because of State sovereignty and that type of thing this was not possible without the Commonwealth Government waving the big waddy, nulla nulla or whatever one like to call it, hitting the State Government over the head and saying that it would take over the land. [More…]
Fourthly what we do in the report is to list a series of alternative courses of legislative action in which the Commonwealth could constitutionally engage so as to secure effective self-management rights for Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in Queensland. [More…]
Australia will, of course, not vote for any resolutions in international forums that are condemnatory of the new treaty and it will continue to hope that a solution to the Middle East dispute, based on the principles of UN Resolution 242 and the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, can be achieved. [More…]
I particularly remember him for the way in which he always stood in the Cabinet, in the confines of the Parliamentary Labor Party and in the Parliament itself for the protectionist policies of the Australian Labor Party and for the rights of the workers of Australia. [More…]
The basis of that undertaking was that, although the Acts Interpretation Act prohibits retrospective regulations prejudicing persons’ rights or imposing liabilities, retrospective regulations involving the payment of sums of money with long periods of retrospectivity should more properly be made in the form of substantive legislation so as to allow Parliament to review the need for the retrospective expenditure. [More…]
Aboriginal Land Rights in the Northern Territory (Question No. [More…]
What action does the Federal Government intend to take, following the Minister’s discussions during the weekend of 17-18 March 1979 with members ofthe Northern Territory Government, to protect the rights of Aboriginal people and uphold the intent ofthe Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976. both of which have been put in jeopardy by the Northern Territory Government’s action in extending the boundaries of Darwin, Katherine, Alice Springs and Borroloola. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the Trade Practices Commission invalidated agreements in 1977 between the Queensland Rugby League, radio station 4IP and TVQ Channel 0 for exclusive commercial rights- the emphasis being on ‘commercial ‘-for a five-year period because a period longer than one year would not be in the public interest? [More…]
However, what surprised me more than anything else about the New South Wales legislation was the fact that matters of such importance and such sensitivity, which affect in such a major way the rights of individuals, particularly in litigation, should have been rushed through the New South Wales Parliament and passed in one sitting day. [More…]
-On 27 March Senator Jessop asked me a question about the proposals of the South Australian Government to legislate for certain land rights in South Australia. [More…]
The proposal expressed in the Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Bill 1978 is to vest in fee simple in the Pitjantjatjara people, as a corporate body, the North- West Reserve and the pastoral blocks of Mimili, Ernabella, Indulkana and Kenmore Park. [More…]
As I indicated in my answer on 27 March, following the passage of our Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976, the Commonwealth has encouraged the States to provide similar land rights for Aboriginal people. [More…]
The Pitjantjatjara people have been particularly interested in acquiring land rights to traditional land extending across the South Australian, Western Australian and Northern Territory borders. [More…]
A joint Commonwealth-State working party of senior officials has met several times since 1977 to discuss Pitjantjatjara land rights and associated matters. [More…]
The proposed South Australian legislation arose from the report of the State Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Working Party which was established in March 1977. [More…]
As you would bc aware the bureau was set up to protect the rights of the individual against the powerful organisations of cither unions or industry. [More…]
That is just above the vote that the League of Rights and its ilk acquire in those areas. [More…]
I certainly hope that no anomaly, such as the completely unnecessary inclusion of those three rabidly Liberal or Liberal and League of Rights shires in the Kalgoorlie electorate, is repeated in the redistribution which is about to take place in Western Australia. [More…]
It will be remembered that the amendment has the effect of requiring that before the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation may communicate any information to a State, or particularly to the special branch of a State police force, the Commonwealth must be satisfied that that State has established an appeal system of its own which is comparable in all respects to the appellate system established by this legislation and which has at least as much efficacy as the Commonwealth appeals system has in protecting the rights of people involved. [More…]
If that is not the case, it should not be communicated by ASIO unless the Commonwealth is absolutely satisfied that there exists within the State’s own apparatus a proper appeal system of a kind which fully protects the rights and liberties of the individuals so concerned. [More…]
As I have said, the Director-General has indicated that doing that through a Commonwealth agency would ensure that there were appeal rights in respect of that situation just as there are appeal rights in respect of security assessments which would ordinarily go to Commonwealth agencies. [More…]
I have now drafted amendments to clauses 34 and 38 which will provide for that as a matter of law; it will be done in that way so that appeal rights will be preserved. [More…]
He had a good record until the time he thought, as a result of his conscience, that he had a right and possibly a duty to protest against the visitor from Malaysia who was not extending civil rights to the people in that country. [More…]
Therefore it is more than probable that the granting of land rights, with the spiritual satisfaction that that would confer, together with adequate standards of education, employment and housing, with their concomitant social security, are necessary adjuncts to medical treatment. [More…]
Had land rights, housing and employment been given with drinking rights, results might have been less disastrous. [More…]
Of course, they do not have the same rights and privileges as members of a State parliament. [More…]
-Has the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry seen reports claiming that II of 14 Western Australian, Victorian and New South Wales meatworks exporting meat to the Middle East are not killing animals according to Moslem rights? [More…]
For instance, it was traditionally held that a three-mile limit was associated with the rights of the State. [More…]
The honourable senator would know that following a Premiers Conference held some 12 months ago, negotiations were to take place between Premiers and Attorneys-General about the return to the States of certain rights over the seas and submerged lands which are associated with the adjacent State. [More…]
Constitutionally, the States have rights over seas and submerged lands adjacent to them. [More…]
For instance, it was traditionally held that a three-mile limit was associated with the rights of the State. [More…]
The applicants have certain rights under existing legislation and something has to be done about them. [More…]
We do not have a great deal of confidence that if the Government passes authority on to the Director-General it will be a good thing from the point of view of legitimate political activity and the civil rights and liberties of people. [More…]
The Minister in fact will be acting as a custodian of human rights and civil liberties. [More…]
All the established procedures upon which our country’s rights have been enshrined- I refer to existing rights to enter premises, to search them, to inspect them, to remove documents, to break and enter, virtuallyare going to be - [More…]
In defending that point of view, he has the audacity to attack the integrity of Opposition speakers and to suggest that we are not concerned about the rights of individuals or communities or the security of the country despite the fact that we have gone to extraordinary steps in trying to play a positive role in this discussion. [More…]
I The does not accept it then let him make way for somebody else, because in the pursuance of clauses 23, 24 and 25, the Government is breaking a considerable amount of new ground in the whole area of democratic rights in this country. [More…]
In fact, the amendments that we seek to move are designed overall to protect the rights of the individual. [More…]
It is concerned about the rights of the individual. [More…]
We have been concerned with the rights of the individual and have been in the forefront of issues concerning the right to vote, freedom of expression and the right of assembly. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party Government which held office between 1972 and 1975 was concerned about a Bill of rights. [More…]
This Government has had three years in which to introduce its Bill of rights. [More…]
He drew the Committee’s attention to the kinds of incidents which affect the rights of people. [More…]
We think that the use of such devices should be curtailed so that the rights of all people, whether they are part of an organisation or family or are present at a meeting place, are protected. [More…]
Following the debate that continued in this chamber today and which has been going on for some time on the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Bill I would like to raise a matter which to me constitutes a gross infringement of human rights by a government department. [More…]
He said he was looking for male items of clothing but there were no such articles to be found, he was very rude in his manner and I would like to know what rights a woman has against this sort of activity or is it correct for an officer of this type to walk into another’s home without a warrant. [More…]
These people do not know their rights. [More…]
It is the people who are in receipt of those benefits who do not know their rights. [More…]
We all know of separate cases where officers of the Department of Social Security have done certain things that may not be in the interests of human rights or civil rights. [More…]
That, of course, was in respect of drilling rights on the Barrier Reef. [More…]
Are sales of meat now to become a factor in determining Australia’s attitude to the violation of human rights? [More…]
The Senate will be aware that the Minister for Primary Industry has said that these feasibility fishing programs are of short duration, and are entered into without commitment to future fishing rights for the proponents. [More…]
In the light of the fact that there is litigation pending on this matter, I do not want to go too much into the rights and wrongs of it. [More…]
The Government is not only abrogating people’s democratic rights but also it is depriving the Senate of the value it may have received from the contribution of Senator Mcintosh. [More…]
The matter that has been the subject of some debate over the last three-quarters of an hour concerns the rights of honourable senators to speak. [More…]
Nevertheless, it is necessary to allow the Whips to come to some agreement so that the rights of other honourable senators not involved in the debate on this legislation will not be diminished in any way. [More…]
Indeed, as I said in my second reading speech, in relation to the Opposition amendment extending the rights of appeal to assessments given to a State authority, the Director-General is proposing that in future in the rare cases where he may give a security assessment to a State about a State official, such an assessment should be given through a Commonwealth agency so as to preserve the right of appeal. [More…]
The position is that on 5 April there was a good deal of debate here about the problem of rights of appeal where a security assessment was given in relation to a State employee or the employee of an authority of a State. [More…]
I appreciate that if the Attorney-General is minded to take the point that Commonwealth contractors and employees of Commonwealth contractors are to some extent caught within the description of prescribed administrative action, employees of Commonwealth contractors accordingly would retain their appeal rights, as the Bill is now drawn. [More…]
I appreciate that the definition which applies at the moment in the Bill is a fairly wide-ranging one and preserves a wide range of appeal rights. [More…]
We must have regard to the fact that what we are talking about here, the rights of appeal, are in respect of that type of security assessment. [More…]
The result following inexorably from that is that he then has no rights of appeal at all. [More…]
It is a fact that according to his case either ASIO would stand aside and maybe let a man who is a wellknown, well-documented spy of serious proportions be employed by the Commonwealth Government in a sensitive situation, or ASIO might be able to take necessary action under a clause which is not meant to apply to that situation at all, namely, one under which it might be able to take action of a temporary kind pending the satisfaction of these rights under the Act. [More…]
Suffice it to say that the College will observe the normal rules in relation, firstly, to assisting the police in their proper duties and, secondly, to protecting individuals’ rights. [More…]
Any students who may have been approached by the police will have their rights strictly preserved, as would any ordinary citizen in this country. [More…]
As I read the report, the view was that the granting of powers and of proprietorial rights to the States was a bit dicky. [More…]
That the use ofSection 5 1 (38) be supported by appropriate amendment of the Seas and Submerged Lands Act and the vesting of proprietorial rights in the States in respect of the adjacent seabed in the territorial sea. [More…]
In coming to any arrangement in relation to a joint authority, the Commonwealth is giving away power, rights and responsibility or sharing it with other people. [More…]
In considering the material that has been tabled today, the Committee sought to formulate recommendations which were feasible and practicable, which could be implemented by the Government and the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal without encroaching on the rights of the licencees of television stations to make profits and to have a very high degree of freedom in their choice of programming. [More…]
I am not happy about seeing the rights of individual senators trodden on by the Government, particularly when the Government has not consulted me- it may have consulted its own senators- about this attempt to ride roughshod over my rights and to take advantage of the Standing Orders not to have my motion debated when it is due to be debated. [More…]
Since I have been a member of this Parliament, I have always protested about and opposed any encroachment upon the rights of individuals and back bench members. [More…]
Among their few rights is the arrangement one night a week to debate General Business. [More…]
Although an essential part of the operations of the Parliament is to approve or disapprove government legislation, nevertheless the rights of individuals have to be considered and nothing should encroach upon or reduce those rights. [More…]
Of course, this new assessment will then carry with it the appeal rights. [More…]
The point which the Opposition is making is consistent with the point which we have made continuously throughout this debate that if information is to be communicated- we acknowledge the fact that there are occasions on which it will be necessary to do so- and if that information is likely to be or is capable of being used in such a way as to prejudice any individual, the individual who is so prejudiced must have rights of appeal. [More…]
It just expands the scope of this clause in a way which brings it within a wider range of information than is presently encompassed and accordingly allows a wider number of people to have rights of appeal than those presently provided for. [More…]
-I would have thought that those words in fact may only mean that some other person on behalf of the person whose rights are being adjudicated upon may have been the mute witness. [More…]
That is the only reason why what would be considered his normal rights are restricted. [More…]
I think we must admit that if it is essential for security, some restrictions should be imposed by clause 56 and rights established under the British system of court hearings cannot apply. [More…]
I suppose a prosecutor has rights as well as a defendant. [More…]
But in a sense, if one casts these things in terms of functions and perception of functions, the Attorney-General, as principal law officer of the country, is seen, in the sorts of situations I have described, as the person who is most unlikely in the whole of Australia to give sympathetic consideration, and to be the person who should be concerned with the determination of an individual subject’s rights. [More…]
They seek to replace that procedure with the situation where a citizen aggrieved has the opportunity to go to a person in the community who is seen as a protector of the rights of the individual to ask him to take action on his behalf to set the process in train, to determine whether an adverse security assessment has been made, whether it adversely affects the citizen and so on and to follow the procedures which are set out in detail in amendment No. [More…]
Apart from being able to withhold from individuals the fact that they have an adverse security assessment, this provision puts in the hands of the Minister a fairly considerable power in relation to the civil rights and liberties of individual citizens. [More…]
I am therefore thrown back very largely on the sort of situation to which Senator Button referred- I think with some degree of disquiet- that is, that to a large extent the rights, reputation, liberty and perhaps even the future career prospects of individual Australian citizens will be in large part determined by the personal attitude of whoever happens to be the Attorney-General. [More…]
These new rights are available under this legislation. [More…]
It is also, I might add, a serious matter for the civil liberties and rights of the individuals whose names have been published and whose addresses have been published- and published in a way that I think is damaging both to their personal reputation and to their personal privacy and security. [More…]
No doubt we will hear from the Church of Scientology, the League of Rights and all sorts of organisations which we may or may not wish to take seriously. [More…]
I tell the Government that no approach has yet been made to the Australian Broadcasting Commission regarding the rights of the Commission to televise those cricket tests outside the normal area of viewing. [More…]
The Channel 9 network, which has now obtained the rights to televise the cricket tests, is still trying to sell its programs to the regional commercial stations. [More…]
We cannot ignore the fact that there have been serious abrogations of human rights as a result of Indonesia’s takeover in that region. [More…]
Relations Bureau to protect the rights of those union members who have refused to strike? [More…]
1 ) Is the Northern Territory Government continuing to adopt a program of avoiding the provisions of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 by re-zoning land at will. [More…]
Of course, there are legal aid services in the Northern Territory which ought to be able to ensure that those people receive their legal rights. [More…]
I will follow up the matters and make sure that, if the situation is as indicated by Senator Keeffe, the legal rights of the people concerned are being pursued. [More…]
The other matter to which I wish to refer at this stage is that because of our commitment to the rights of individuals being guaranteed, as against those of the State- which commitment has been expressed in a great many pieces of legislation which have come before the Senate- we feel that if we are to reflect our rhetoric in this place this legislation relating to Norfolk Island should be a model piece of legislation in terms of the imposition of a system of government on the people. [More…]
We say that there should be a bill of rights for the people of Norfolk Island and that, having regard to the historical context of Norfolk Island to which I referred earlier, the bill of rights should reflect and recognise the unique relationship to the island of Pitcairn Islanders, or Pitcairners, as a section of the Norfolk Island people. [More…]
that a Bill of Rights for Norfolk Islanders be included in the Bill, ensuring, in particular, the recognition of the island as the historical homeland of the Pitcairners and the protection of their remaining rights; [More…]
On February 3rd the weekly ‘Norfolk Islander’ carried an anonymous letter which urged readers to value their heritage, stand up for their rights, and resist the passage of the Norfolk Island Bill. [More…]
I suggest that perhaps it is no coincidence that the Minister responsible for the introduction of the Norfolk Island Bill in this Parliament, with all the authoritarian apparatus it contains, with all the insensitivity it demonstrates towards democratic rights and freedoms, is none other than that same Minister, who is now in a different portfolio, Mr R. J. Ellicott. [More…]
The administration of these provisions has not been fully effective because they do not provide an adequate legal framework nor do they contain protection of the rights of staff against arbitrary action. [More…]
These procedures and principles together with the appeal provisions to which I will refer shortly will offer the protection to the rights of individual officers which does not exist under the Public Service Act. [More…]
Now that they are finally about to receive rights that all other Australians have had throughout the history of this country- that is, land rights, ownership and control of their landthey are to be grudgingly compensated by this legislation for having those rights infringed. [More…]
We therefore say that this tax ought not to be imposed upon Aborigines in order that they may have in peace the paltry amount that they are to receive as only part com.penstion for the injustice their race, their culture and their rights have suffered over the last two centuries. [More…]
But we want the rights to develop it and we will pay you compensation’. [More…]
1 ) When were the conditions applying to superannuation rights of Qantas employees, referred to in the answer to Senate Question No. [More…]
Will he say whether the Government would be prepared to extend the provisions of its land rights legislation to cover the Australian Capital Territory as well as the Northern Territory, which it covers currently, in order to provide a mechanism whereby the Wreck Bay Aboriginal community could make a land claim? [More…]
The honourable senator asks whether the Government will consider extending the land rights legislation to the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Before retirement can take place, alternative employment opportunities must be thoroughly explored and all staff have rights of appeal to an independent tribunal against decisions taken under the legislation. [More…]
The Bill does not affect the disciplinary provisions of the Public Service Act, and modifies the other provisions mentioned which have been described in the past as being of too summary a nature, by providing a more extensive range of appeal rights available to staff affected, and by setting out more clearly the framework within which decisions are taken. [More…]
The doubts that have arisen are legal, technical matters and the Government feels that Mr Justice Fox’s rights should not be left in any doubt. [More…]
The position was quite clear under the 1977 Act in relation to his original term of appointment and the amendments will merely put beyond question that those rights continue to apply, and have continued to apply, in relation to the extensions of his term that have already taken place and to any future extension that may be approved by the Governor-General. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to clarify the intention of some sections of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976. [More…]
The agreement involved the amendment of the Aboriginal Land Rights Act in order that roads over which the public had a right of way would not need to be specifically identified in a deed of grant prior to the registration of that deed. [More…]
Their struggle for land rights and access to land is based on land being paramount to their culture and to their way of life. [More…]
Yet there has not been one word of protest by those people who are constantly talking of their concern for the rights of Aborigines. [More…]
This Bill is to apply in land rights situations, in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I would like to know whether a deal was made because it is significant that Mr Viner very smartly vacated the position of Minister for Aboriginal Affairs after he had successfully handed out his silver, gilt or tin pens, whatever they were, at the signing of the famous land rights deal. [More…]
If that is within the spirit of the Northern Territory Aboriginal land rights, the land rights legislation is what we in the Opposition said it was right from the start when it was passed through this Parliament in 1976, namely, that it is a phoney piece of legislation. [More…]
If that payment were made in the ordinary course of business to a person other than an Aboriginal as described in the Aboriginal Land Rights Act and in this Bill, we would expect that that royalty would be both taxable in the hands of the recipient and a deduction in the hands of the payer. [More…]
As I understand it, Mr Justice Woodward made clear in his original recommendations in respect of Aboriginal land rights that in his opinion the amounts paid ought to be taxable. [More…]
It was said that their rights are protected by the land rights legislation. [More…]
Certainly, the land rights legislation did not apply in the time of the Nabalco and Gemco negotiations. [More…]
This money is spent on preparing claims for presentation to the Land Rights Commissioner. [More…]
A good deal of money is necessary to enable the Northern Land Council, the Central Land Council and now the Bathurst Island Land Council to prepare their cases for presentation to the Land Rights Commissioner. [More…]
One could possibly say the same about the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
If we look at the basis of payment and the contract that this Government has with the Aborigines we find that the payment defined in the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act has a different meaning from that which might be found in the dictionary, or any artificial meaning to be found in some other Act. [More…]
That compensation included a promise of land rights to Aboriginals in relation to their tribal lands. [More…]
Today we are debating another Bill which seeks to amend the Aboriginal Land Rights Act to permit the Government to accept some of the recommendations of the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission. [More…]
Despite the Aboriginals having the rights of ownership and justification for having control of the land, the Government is now amending the Act and it is saying that those areas of land which are not required by it can be given to the Aboriginals. [More…]
The Government funded land councils long before the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act was passed. [More…]
He stated that the Government now finds it necessary to take back an assurance it gave Aboriginals in relation to land rights legislation in order to reduce its deficit. [More…]
The Aboriginal land rights legislation deals with mining on land which is acknowledged by the Government to be Aboriginal land. [More…]
It cannot be said that this Parliament has never granted in the Aboriginal Land Rights Act the power for Aboriginals to reach agreement for any reason other than the payment of compensation for disturbing their land. [More…]
This upsets the whole basis of the power we gave Aboriginal communities under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act to reach a satisfactory agreement. [More…]
We in this Parliament are faced with the position that we have deprived Aboriginals of the rights they were given under the Aboriginal land rights legislation. [More…]
This draft instrument includes sections which would seek to define a journalist, to establish journalists’ duties and rights, to create an international Press council and to establish sanctions against misconduct by journalists. [More…]
In the face of what might have been thought to be a mild statement but was in reality a provocative one, we can merely respond that we will do our best to comply with the program, but do not wish in any way to concede any of our rights of debate. [More…]
Section 68 of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 relates to royalties. [More…]
any payment made on or after 1 July 1979 that is of the kind referred to in sub-section ( 1 ) or (2 ) of section 44 of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) 1976. [More…]
an Aboriginal Land Council established by or under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976; [More…]
The Minister did not give me a satisfactory answer whether at the negotiations for mining rights and at the signing of the respective agreements the Aboriginal people had been told that this tax would be imposed on any of their royalties. [More…]
When the land rights legislation was introduced in 1976 we were critical of it and we said that many responsibilities would be given away to the Northern Territory Government. [More…]
If anybody has been despicable it has been the Minister, for attempting to defend an indefensible policy of his Government, that of cutting back expenditure on Aboriginal affairs, health, welfare and education, and in regard to land and mining rights. [More…]
That is the sort of broad statement that is being made about the Aboriginal land rights legislation in the Northern Territory which is quite misleading. [More…]
There are specific mineral projects and in particular projects where rights have accrued prior to the passage of this legislation in respect of which it is quite true to say that the Aboriginal land owners are not given the right to veto mining; the only thing they are given is a right to extract an agreement and in the default of an agreement, to go to arbitration. [More…]
But in the generality of cases- in the cases where mining is to occur in the future and there are no vested rights- the legislation in the Northern Territory gives the Aboriginal owners the right to veto mining development. [More…]
I do not think that it would be fair to say that the totality of the income received by Aboriginals is compensatory in a legal sense, because the Aboriginal Lands Rights (Northern Territory) Act specifically does not limit the agreements which Aboriginals are entitled to negotiate to obtain compensation for the loss of surface rights to land. [More…]
In general State mining Acts require that compensation should relate to the loss of surface rights, loss of surface use and so on. [More…]
As Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, I would be most unhappy to see written into the land rights legislation the provision which has been sought by the mining companies- which in fact was not accepted by the Government- that in some way Aboriginals should be limited to that compensation element to which Senator Robertson referred. [More…]
As I have already indicated my understanding of the matter is that those arrangements pre-dated the legislative arrangements that we now have, and that that community, represented by the missions that were involved with it, negotiated arrangements with Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd having obtained the mineral rights to Groote Eylandt by taking out leases or exploration rights under the Northern Territory mining ordinances. [More…]
I can only point to the legislation which has ensured that Aboriginal communities will be gaining access to funds which will be totally within their control, through the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act, and through arrangements which exist under that Act, to give the lie to Senator Robertson’s suggestions. [More…]
-Senator Mulvihill raises a matter which has had vexed problems over many years, namely, the whole question of Federal and State unions and their competitive rights and demarcations. [More…]
They have to advise women on their legal rights, their rights to pensions and allowances, what they can do about housing and schools and what they must do about the care of their children. [More…]
Information is also given concerning legal aid rights and financial support to which they are entitled in respect of custody and property matters of which they may not be aware. [More…]
Our overseas debts incurred under this Government now exceed our total overseas cash gold reserves and drawing rights. [More…]
Irrespective of our individual views about the rights and wrongs of the matter, I suggest that for the sake of the whole operation of this place the Government, in a moment of compassion, support the motion and allow the Privileges Committee to consider this matter. [More…]
It cannot afford not to be associated with looking after the rights and needs of the needy people in the Australian community. [More…]
When this legislation was passed and Mr Linehan and his industrial troubleshooters were appointed we thought that, quite apart from the capacity of trade unions to defend their rights, some of the functions of the Bureau would be to weed out these sorts of people. [More…]
What action does the Australian Government intend to take on these two matters to bring them to the attention of some appropriate international forum such as the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, of which Australia is a member? [More…]
The Great Barrier Reef area represents only a small fraction of the region over which petroleum exploration rights are being considered the Queensland Minister for Mines and Energy, Mr Camm, said yesterday. [More…]
I am not going to canvass the rights and wrongs of the Vietnam war. [More…]
A subsidiary point is that a refugee permanently resettled in a third country is no longer endangered or homeless and consequently cannot be regarded as having the same rights to being resettled yet again. [More…]
In the case of Miss Helia Allebi, the letter of 7 March from the Home Office makes it abundantly clear that she now enjoys the rights of permanent residence in the United Kingdom. [More…]
Mr Justice Matthews of the industrial court said in his judgment: ‘Awards have the force of law and confer material and significant rights on employees entitled to the benefit of them. [More…]
I do not think that by regulation the governor-in-council has plainly expressed the necessary intention, and the regulation is capable of being, and in my opinion should bc, read as preserving rights of Aborigines employed outside a reserve and as a direction to employers other than those who employ Aborigines on a reserve. [More…]
ACB chairman Bob Parish announced at a news conference that Publishing and Broadcasting Sports Pty Ltd. a Kerry Packer company, had been granted exclusive rights for a ten-year term to promote cricket organised by the ACB [More…]
Mr Parish said that television rights for the first three years of the agreement had been granted to Mr Packer’s Channel Nine network which for the past two years has televised world series cricket. [More…]
It is made quite clear that people in Western Australia, in north Queensland and in a lot of the far western areas of New South Wales will not be able to see the test cricket when it is broadcast because, as the News Release points out, the exclusive rights for a three year period have been granted to Mr Packer’s Channel Nine. [More…]
Confirmation of fishing rights in territorial waters for local inhabitants of the islands of Aubusi, Boigu, Dauan, Kaumag, Moimi and Saibai, which have been retained by Australia under the treaty. [More…]
Although the new standing order containing this procedure has not yet been adopted by the Senate, the Committee considered that it ought to follow the procedure on this occasion so as to preserve the rights of all senators. [More…]
He has before him all the detailed answers, but when we exercise our rights and obligations to question the Government about its policies- reflecting concern felt throughout Australia about its intentions, because in so many other areas of policy its statements have been blown high- we are subjected to a number of personal abuses, and the implication that the intentions of the Government are pure but those ofthe Opposition are impure. [More…]
Was the housekeeper within his rights in protesting against the lighting of a fire in the rose garden? [More…]
The Crimes (Amendment) Bill attempted to remove one of the most sacred rights that people in democratic systems have, that is, the right of trial by jury. [More…]
The latest edition of the platform, constitution and rules of the Australian Labor Party under the heading of ‘law reform and civil rights’ says that the Australian Labor Party is committed to: [More…]
Indeed, it is potentially more destructive of civil rights, justice and democracy than many other laws and activities that the Attorney-General is so ready to attack. [More…]
Nothing is said about rights to the ownership of the land or about the areas in which people live. [More…]
They are restrained from preventing the Aboriginals exercising their legal rights under the Crown Land Ordinance, namely that within 2 kilometres of the homestead they have a right to bc on the land, to use natural water, to take or kill natural animals and vegetation, and to use educational, medical and similar facilities. [More…]
Surely our original settlers have more rights than to be kicked off their land by foreign companies. [More…]
The suspension took effect from July 1976 and applied also to claims to traditional Aboriginal land, pending the passing of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
Only traditional claims lodged under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 are affected by the recent extension of town boundaries. [More…]
10) In particular, will the Minister, if necessary, amend the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 to provide for: (a) needs claims, as appeared in Clause S of Land Rights Bill introduced by the Labor Government in 197S; and (b) a legislative basis for the abovementioned freeze until such time as all possible Aboriginal claims to land in the Northern Territory are both lodged and processed by the Aboriginal Land Commissioner. [More…]
The second Report of the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission in April 1974 recommended that 21 specific areas of vacant Crown land should not be alienated before 1976 in order to allow Aboriginals time to formulate any claims they might wish to make to those lands (paragraph 181 (ii)). [More…]
Does this agreement and earlier ones between the Board and PBL Sports have these effects: to give Packer Channel 9 exclusive rights to televise cricket for the next three years; and to give Mr Packer rights to promote cricket for the next 10 years? [More…]
In future will other television stations be able to tender for rights to televise cricket in the knowledge that their bids will be fairly considered? [More…]
As to whether the agreement provides exclusive rights to broadcast cricket over three years, my understanding is that that is the position. [More…]
In these circumstances infringing copying can take place without the knowledge of the copyright owner who, from a practical standpoint, is unable to enforce his rights. [More…]
On the other hand, as copyright is in the nature of a monopoly, the law should ensure, as far as possible, that the rights conferred are not abused and that study, research and education are not unduly hampered. [More…]
The Committee pointed out that the rights of the copyright owner have never been absolute in the sense that no dealing at all with his work could ever take place without his consent. [More…]
His appointment was an executive act, and this legislation is designed simply to preserve his rights as a judge during the period of his appointment. [More…]
The trade will continue to flourish while the law protects the property rights of traffickers derived from these profits. [More…]
It is a retrograde step, in what is supposed to be a democratic system, that the rights of a properly and democratically elected body to make decisions with regard to local community organisations should have been taken away arbitrarily and placed in the hands of the Minister himself. [More…]
These provisions were based on a precedent contained in section 42 of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976. [More…]
As the Prime Minister has failed to answer my question on notice dealing with the transfer of functions to the States, it becomes clearer and clearer that this Government, in spite of its protestations of support for States’ rights, is possessed with the desire to hold onto the powers it has. [More…]
Discussions I have had with them on a number of issues, ranging from land rights, which we have talked about in this place before, right through to a number of other areas, suggest that they do not want control of the situation to be in Northern Territory Government hands. [More…]
where, under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976, an Aboriginal Land Council has, or Aboriginal Land Councils have, been established Tor any area or areas wholly or partly within the Park- the Director has consulted with, and had regard to the views of, the Chairman of that Council or of each of those Councils, as the case may be. [More…]
Proposed new section 8D (3) (b) states: where, under the Aboriginal Land Rights ( Northern Territory) Act 1976, an Aboriginal Land Council has, or Aboriginal Land Councils have, been established for any area or areas wholly or partly within the Park- the Director has consulted with, and had regard to the views of, the Chairman of that Council or of each of those Councils, as the case may bc, in relation to the issue of the licence. [More…]
On the plan of the National Park the area that is reserved for the town of Jabiru is described as an area in fee simple within the National Park and outside the area in relation to which the Aborigines were granted land rights. [More…]
It is not just a matter of Senator Keeffe ‘s rights. [More…]
Be that as it may, I put primarily to the Senate, not so much the case of Senator Keeffe although his rights must be protected, that it is on record now that such action warrants dismissal from this chamber. [More…]
Further, has the Minister or Officers of his Department discussed this matter with the Department of Foreign Affairs in view of the implications of the case for Australia’s reputation in the field of human rights, and particularly in view of our relations with member nations of the Association of South East Asian Nations? [More…]
The reason we have done so is not only the Federal Government’s clear right but also its obligation, pursuant to the 1967 referendum, to protect the rights of Aborigines. [More…]
If the Western Australian Bill ultimately becomes an Act we will expect this Government to accept its obligations to protect the electoral rights of Aborigines in Western Australia. [More…]
We are asserting that the Commonwealth Government is not accepting its responsibilities pursuant to the 1967 referendum if it fails to protect the electoral rights of Aborigines. [More…]
That is the purpose of this motion: The Opposition is seeking an assurance from this Government that, having been given the power and the obligation to protect the rights of Aborigines, it at least guarantees- if necessary by an Act of the Federal Parliament pre-empting the Western Australian Act, if and when that is passed- the rights of Aborigines to vote at elections in Western Australia. [More…]
I emphasise that it is part of the general view of the Government that not only Aboriginals but also other disadvantaged people in the community- disadvantaged in the sense that they are less able than others to take advantage of the electoral laws which exist to safeguard their rights to vote- should be assisted in regard to this matter. [More…]
I think I can say it is important to establish the commonality as well as the differences in these areas, and that the general thrust of this would be supported by the Opposition which has made it clear in bringing forward this motion- indeed even in Senator Walsh’s speech- that it is concerned about the electoral rights of Aboriginals. [More…]
I am sure the Opposition would join me in expressing concern about the electoral rights of others. [More…]
There is proof that the Commonwealth Government wishes to deprive Aboriginals of their voting rights’. [More…]
It is important for the Parliament to exercise its rights, whether it suits the government of the day or not. [More…]
The Parliament has its rights. [More…]
I believe that there is a need for a response from the Government which indicates that it, as the shareholder, on behalf of the people of Australia, will insist on the shareholders’ rights in relation to a company in getting some sort of answer from Qantas as to what is happening. [More…]
We are concerned that a statutory framework should be established concerning the rights of public servants so that a clear definition can be given on the processes for determining services for which staff are engaged, tenure or conditions of employment and the appeal processes. [More…]
The first is that the scope of the appeal rights set out in the legislation is very limited indeed. [More…]
First of all, even if that is the result of conferring appeal rights in the way in which the Opposition suggests that they ought to be conferred- it is by no means clear that in practice it will work that way- the Opposition still would persist with that point because we say that a procedure of that kind may just be the price which has to be paid for both the appearance and the reality of a just, fair and equitable appellate system. [More…]
What this Bill does is give public servants in these categories more rights than they had before. [More…]
Mr President, you and those honourable senators who are on the Parliamentary Library Committee and on other committees associated with the operation of this Parliament know as well as I do how jealously we regard our rights; that is, the rights of this Parliament- a body of representative persons directly elected by the people of Australia- against the intrusions of the Executive Government. [More…]
It sought to undermine the rights of members of the Public Service. [More…]
It places an onus on management to seek to redeploy staff wherever possible as a primary obligation, and it provides more satisfactory and extensive safeguards and appeal rights for all. [More…]
Yesterday the 53rd congress of the ACT branch of the RSL called upon the Government to amend the Bill so as to preserve the rights of ex servicemen in redeployment or retirement on invalidity grounds. [More…]
The motion passed by the congress laid particular stress on the preservation of the pension and superannuation rights of war veteran public servants. [More…]
The Government takes advantage of suitable opportunities to make known its concern in appropriate international organisations, such as the Commission on Human Rights, of which Australia is currently a member. [More…]
conducted their activities openly, believing that the Soviet constitution granted them some rights not only in word but also in fact, this severe punishment is a blatant denial of human rights recognised even by the Soviet constitution. [More…]
We ask the Australian Government to make representations to the United Nations to adopt a resolution condemning Soviet violations of human rights, and to request the Soviet Government to release the unjustly incarcerated Viktoras Petkus. [More…]
953 of 24 October, Senator Robertson asked whether the Australian Broadcasting Commission had been offered television rights by a commercial channel for coverage of certain rugby league test matches. [More…]
I also put it to you that if senators jealously guard the rights of the Parliament against the intrusion of the Executive Government, then they must thoroughly examine the provisions of this Bill- in particular, clause 28. [More…]
Mr President, I put it to you that you have a responsibility to protect the rights of Parliament in this matter. [More…]
On the merits of that right of appeal it might be said, as indeed it has been said by the Government, that to give such a right of appeal to an individual at that level of the decision-making process is quite inappropriate; that what are involved are, after all- I think the Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs, Mr Viner, used these words at some stage in the second reading debate or the debate at the Committee stage in the House of Representatives- policy considerations and not questions which really go to the rights or obligations of particular individuals. [More…]
The unions and employees likely to be affected by this legislation take the point that, if their appeal rights are confined simply to the question of whether a particular employee is a riper candidate than some other employee for getting his marching orders once an excess in staff decision has been made, then that right of appeal is likely to be rather empty indeed. [More…]
the rights of and methods for appeal against the declaration. [More…]
We want that declaration to include full details of the declaration made and the reasons for it, the date from which the redeployment declaration is to be effective and the rights of and method for appeal against the declaration. [More…]
During the Committee stage of the debate in the House of Representatives the Minister referred to some of these; for instance, the date of effect of a declaration under section 9, the need to notify the employee who is declared of the rights and methods of appeal and the reasons for issue of a declaration which, of course, is the subject of this amendment. [More…]
Instead of making those simple modifications to improve the Act so that it could operate in the interests of the public without intruding on the rights of public employees, the Government has chosen to draft legislation which will spell the end of a critical, creative Public Service. [More…]
This Bill does not affect the disciplinary provisions of the Public Service Act and modifies the other provisions, which in the past have been described as being too summary, by providing a range of appeal rights available to staff affected and by setting out more clearly the framework within which such decisions are taken. [More…]
If someone is retired under this legislation, as under existing legislation, on the ground of invalidity, that person is eligible for full superannuation rights as set out in the Superannuation Act of 1976. [More…]
I am advised by the Minister that although the Bill leaves a number of aspects to be covered by the regulations of procedures and criteria statements, during the Committee stages of the debate in the House of Representatives, Mr Viner, referred to some of these, such as the date of effect of a declaration under clause 9 (1) (b) (ii) and the need to notify the employee, who is declared, of the rights and methods of appeal and the reasons for issue of the declaration. [More…]
The only section which I can find which is out of step because it does not give the right of disallowance if Parliament will not discuss the matter is in relation to the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Act. [More…]
I remind him that a Bill to amend the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act which is before the House permits him to amend any section of the Principal Act. [More…]
the creation of rights of appeal in relation to transfers, promotions, discipline, demotions, retirements and dismissals; [More…]
Specifically left out of the legislation are provisions which safeguard certain rights and obligations of members of the police force to complain about any change in their status, whether it be up or down. [More…]
The Commonwealth Police Officers Association has expressed fears about this denial of officers’ rights. [More…]
Similarly, the rights of police officers are under attack. [More…]
The direction will safeguard the rights to privacy of individuals. [More…]
Secondly, there is a failure in this legislation- a manifest failure, on its face- to create proper rights of appeal with respect to transfers, promotions and demotions, retirements and dismissals and, indeed, disciplinary procedures generally. [More…]
I enter this debate largely on the basis of the experience I had with the very illustrious Senate Select Committee on Civil Rights of Migrant Australians which was chaired by Senator Townley. [More…]
We are proud of our democratic rights but the line between licence and liberty is very fine indeed. [More…]
He well knows the unpleasant job I had on the Townley committee which investigated the civil rights of migrant Australians. [More…]
With respect to the second point made in the Opposition’s amendment, the rights of appeal available to officers under the new legislation are the equivalent of those available to them under the present legislation. [More…]
There is no diminution of appeal rights under this legislation. [More…]
What action does the Australian Government intend to take on these two matters to bring them to the attention of some appropriate international forum such as the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, of which Australia is a member? [More…]
It has been aware for some time of cases of serious human rights violations in Argentina and on various occasions the Argentine authorities have been informed at a senior level of Australia’s concern with fundamental human freedoms. [More…]
As a member of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights Australia participated in consideration under confidential procedures of the question of disappeared persons in Argentina at the 35th Session ofthe Commission held in Geneva February-March 1979. [More…]
I have seen reports that a small number of human rights activists and dissidents have been detained (and released ) under these provisions in recent weeks. [More…]
The Government is not considering bringing this second matter before the United Nations Human Rights Commission. [More…]
It would be much more proper if honourable senators opposite applied that principle to the civil liberties and rights of the individual. [More…]
If standards in terms of the ordinary rights of the citizen are being infringed, they are not being infringed by those on this side of the chamber. [More…]
There was a Declaration of Rights of the Child in 1959 and since that time many members of the United Nations have been urging the setting aside of a special year during which particular attention could be given to the situation of children. [More…]
The decision to have an International Year of the Child was taken at the Thirty-first Session of the United Nations General Assembly on 2 1 December 1976 and the year 1979 was chosen as it is the 20th anniversary of the Declaration of Rights of the Child. [More…]
I refer to a recent statement by the President of the Australian Capital Territory Branch of the Returned Services League and a resolution passed at a meeting of that branch expressing concern with respect to some provisions of the Commonwealth Employees (Redeployment and Retirement) Act as it relates to superannuation rights, invalid pensions and the possibility that any war compensation might be deducted from such pension rights. [More…]
In speaking very briefly to the motion, I take the opportunity to raise again in this chamber the apparent inability of the Government to make a decision on its policy concerning sovereign rights and the 200-mile off-shore area of the Antarctic. [More…]
The appeal provisions are provided under clause 40 and I will be speaking perhaps at slightly greater length to that clause, lt is the object of this legislation not to vary the appeal rights which at present exist for the Commonwealth Police Force and the Australian Capital Territory Police Force. [More…]
The regulations may make provision for and in relation to the preservation of such rights as are specified in the regulations by a police officer who is appointed to be a full-time Chairman of Promotions Appeal Boards under this Act and for and in relation to the appointment of such a police officer to a position in the Australian Federal Police upon the termination of his appointment under this section otherwise than upon the ground of his misconduct or after his having attained the age for retirement from the Australian Federal Police. [More…]
In other words, there is no proposition in this Bill to change the appelate rights of policemen as they exist at present. [More…]
The first amendment relates to questions concerning rights of appeal. [More…]
The Opposition believes that not only an association as here provided should have rights of appeal, but also a member aggrieved by a decision under clause 38 or clause 39. [More…]
This amendment would have the effect of giving appeal rights to the Arbitral Tribunal in respect of retirements and dismissals, which is not presently the case. [More…]
I think the reason why there should be appeal rights in these areas has been sufficiently canvassed in earlier debate. [More…]
The object of these amendments is to make it possible clearly in a way that is not possible perhaps at the moment for an employee of the association in question to have representative rights before the Arbitrary Tribunal. [More…]
“(3) The provisions of this Division, in so far as they confer rights on persons with respect to action taken by a police officer- [More…]
( I ) The appointment of a person as a member, or the service of a person as a member, does not affect his tenure of a judicial office or office under an Act or his rank, title, status, precedence, salary, annual or other allowances or other rights or privileges as the holder of a judicial office or office under an Act and, for all purposes, his service as a member of the Tribunal shall be taken to be service as the holder of his judicial office or other office. [More…]
Our defence requirements, therefore, are to protect our extended economic zone- and our fishing and seabed rights- to prevent migration occurring by force and not in accordance with our wishes and to deny occupation of any resource areas to invading forces. [More…]
Aboriginal Land Rights in Northern Territory (Question No. [More…]
The extension of town boundaries has had the effect of preventing some Aboriginal land claims under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976. [More…]
Similarly, employees who have been with a company for a long time but who have served for less time than the period needed to accrue absolute rights to payment of long service leave often feel themselves financially bound to remain with the one employer for fear of forfeiting those rights to long service leave entitlements. [More…]
The rights and entitlements of judges to long leave are set out in administrative arrangements which have been in existence for some years. [More…]
But I do emphasise that those entitlements of the judges are really, in a sense, accrued rights in that all the judges have been appointed on the basis of their receiving those rights. [More…]
They know on appointment that those entitlements are part of the rights which they will have. [More…]
What I really want to emphasise is that these are rights and entitlements on the basis of which the vast majority of the judges of Federal courts have been appointed. [More…]
Land, public and private (including internal waters but excluding Aboriginal land rights); [More…]
(b) All projects have been approved for a maximum of two years and are reviewed annually with no commitment to any exclusive or preferential rights in any fishery that may develop. [More…]
The case made for strengthening Australia’s internal security is convincing enough, but this does not mean that the sensitive area of civil liberties and individual rights can in any way be ignored. [More…]
There is an important matter of judgment for members of Parliament as to whether they believe that vesting that power in the hands of various officers of the Commonwealth but now requiring that a warrant should be of a judicial character before it is issued, is adequately balanced with the safeguards which we believe necessary for the protection of the rights of individuals. [More…]
Of course, not only will telephones be subject to certain procedures which will deny rights to citizens, but also we will have our mail opened if we fall within a category or classification determined by those who consider they have the right to take that step. [More…]
I am not so sure that any justification has been presented by the Government for those extraordinary steps of breaking and entering and infringing the rights of citizens. [More…]
If we examine the experiences of other countries- I think we have had some examples of this in recent times- we will see grave breaches of human rights, of the rights of citizens and of the rights of proper procedures and practices in the United States of America by the Central Intelligence Agency. [More…]
We have seen it happen also in France and, of course, we have seen it recently in the disturbances in Iran, where intelligence agencies not only have breached human rights but in fact also have been involved in torture, murder and violence concerning the rights of citizens to engage in what have now been established clearly by the new regime to be legitimate political activities. [More…]
We ask that the AttorneyGeneral shall be required to make an annual report to Parliament, particularly in relation to infringements on human rights and civil liberties which are inherent in these three pieces of legislation. [More…]
Listening devices are such that now there is absolutely no control possible for the exercise of any reasonable protection over the rights of people. [More…]
It may not be to the liking or to the taste of the existing Director-General to contemplate having a brother judge- that is, the Parliament- double checking him and looking over his shoulder if we were really to exercise our rights and obligations and, I believe, our responsibilities. [More…]
But we are concerned that it should not in any way abridge the rights of the individual if he is involved in legitimate political activity. [More…]
The point I am making tonight is that the Senate might contemplate this Bill, conduct an erudite debate on the protection of civil rights and dot the i’s and cross the t’s But do not let any honourable senator believe that the drug problem is helped even slightly by the introduction of this legislation tonight. [More…]
The lazy person from Murray Bridge who sits espousing centralism is in this place with the responsibility, which he ignores, to espouse the deventralist and regional rights of his State. [More…]
The Government sees its policy as being central to the issue of the rights and liberties of citizens of Australia. [More…]
Centralism became popular in the late 1960s after a number of events involving the rights of State governments to impose personal income tax in the late 1 960s. [More…]
However, this Government considers that as these actions affect property and the rights of individuals it is most desirable that where practicable the appropriate powers should be set out in specific legislation. [More…]
I have been concerned for some time that the Senate has a right to disallow a declaration made under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act when the question of national interest is involved in mining on Aboriginal land. [More…]
Whether a determination made under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act is a regulation, ordinance or other instrument which is of a legislative character I do not know. [More…]
If any of my legal friends could inform me of any declaration under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act that would be a declaration of national interest, we could decide the matter. [More…]
But the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act does not contain that provision in relation to a declaration of national interest. [More…]
The rights of honourable senators are still there. [More…]
They clearly do not lay down particular rights and obligations of people in the normal sense of the word. [More…]
The Committee is limited mainly to looking at questions of civil liberties and at the rights of individuals and whether they have been interfered with. [More…]
If one is being strictly narrow and technical, one can say that we can still legislate- we could have an Act of Parliament for that matter- to create rights, obligations and duties with respect to particular designated individuals and not being applicable to the community at large. [More…]
It is only since coming up against outside influences such as the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act which I mentioned that I have met with difficulties. [More…]
Is a declaration under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act one of a legislative character? [More…]
Honourable senators will know my long history of continually opposing the taking away of rights of members of Parliament, especially back benchers in this chamber. [More…]
I have seen the encroachment upon these rights of honourable senators ever since. [More…]
There appears to be some desire to take away the rights of senators in respect of speaking time. [More…]
No rights exist in this place in isolation. [More…]
The rights that people have on urgency motions or matters of public importance are often exercised at the expense of the rights of other honourable senators to take part in other debates which they think are important. [More…]
We are not looking at an absolute right; we are looking at how we balance up the rights of different honourable senators to make the best use of the time available in this place to the greatest benefit of everyone. [More…]
The Standing Orders Committee believes that honourable senators will be better served by the proposed Standing Order which is before us and and that we will, in fact, not be giving up our rights but will be enhancing them in other areas. [More…]
I know Senator Cavanagh objects strongly to this because he believes that an attack upon debating time is an attack upon the rights of senators. [More…]
The question of the rights of individual senators is involved with matters of public importance. [More…]
But we are still concerned about the balance which we have discussed in relation to other legislation between the necessities of law enforcement and a consideration of individual rights. [More…]
Even under the new evaluation system there is still some doubt about that in our tradesmen’s rights committees in the capital cities and in other areas, but this is not the time to belabour the other aspects of this issue. [More…]
I think it is much too late, after 14 years, to talk about the legal rights of the Crown in Rhodesia- much too late indeed. [More…]
But even if one does pay some cognisance to those legal rights of the Crown, they are not the only issues involved. [More…]
Surely the whole debate that has been going on throughout the world about what has happened in Rhodesia is not an argument about the rights of the Crown and the powers of the Parliament of Southern Rhodesia as constituted in 1 965. [More…]
First of all, in dealing with an issue which is supposed to be related to the fundamental rights of democracy, we find that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), visits the military dictator of Nigeria, apparently in order to obtain his approval. [More…]
For that reason, when we do find a country in which substantial advances have been made in order to give majority rule to the people of that country, with whatever limitations there may be to protect the rights of a hitherto dominant minority, that in itself should have been a major factor in the considerations of those Western countries which were present at the Commonwealth conference. [More…]
Many people down the years have praised Mrs Suzman as being an outstanding opponent of apartheid and an outstanding advocate of the rights of non-white people in South Africa. [More…]
The policy of the Progressive Federal Party does not provide even for voting rights for all black adult citizens, lt provides for a restricted franchise; it provides for a situation whereby, under its plans for the proposed South African Senate, all the racial groups within South Africa- the blacks, the whites, the coloureds and the Asians- have a power of veto which is much greater than the limited powers that the white minority in Zimbabwe has preserved in the Constitution under which its is now functioning. [More…]
The finder may acquire salvage rights under the Navigation Act, the United Kingdom Merchant Shipping Acts, or at common law, before the wreck is declared historic. [More…]
As salvage rights or liabilities under the Navigation Act acquired before a wreck is declared historic are to be preserved, the Bill also makes express provision for this purpose. [More…]
It may be one that is justified by the horrific nature of the trade that we are talking about, but the onus of defending that justification rests very much upon the Government, given the unprecedented character of the incursions upon what hitherto have been regarded as the rights of individuals. [More…]
The debate is taken up my maniacs from the League of Rights and from the Festival of Light and the children are kept in blissful ignorance until they reach the age of puberty when we adults say to them: ‘There is this horrible drug problem out there’. [More…]
-On 7 March 1979, (Hansard, pages 554 and 555) Senator Jessop asked me, as Minister representing the Minister for Health, a question without notice concerning the South Austraiian Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee’s Report on the financial management of the Hospitals Department and allegations therein of salaried doctors under private practice rights exceeding their income entitlements. [More…]
The South Australian Minister of Health has provided the following reply: “In its report on the financial management of the Hospitals Department in South Australia, the Public Accounts Committee of the SA Parliament made a number of observations about arrangements controlling the exercise of the rights of private practice by salaried medical specialists in State hospitals. [More…]
It has been suggested to the States that they introduce systems whereby the hospital would be able to audit services provided and revenue generated under private practice rights. [More…]
1 would assure the honourable senator that the question of control over salaried doctors ‘ private practice rights is one which will continue to be pursued by the Commonwealth. [More…]
That on the 10th December 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which declares that, Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in the Declaration. [More…]
Australia, as a Member State of the United Nations, is pledged to achieve observance of Human Rights and Freedoms. [More…]
It should be noted also that any such sale would have no effect whatever on the obligations the Commonwealth has entered into in its agreement with the Northern Land Council under section 44 of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
Yesterday Senator Carrick, perfectly properly, raised this matter and gave his views on the subject, views which have certainly been a matter of much discussion and concern, because every citizen of this country has rights in respect of defamation actions and other questions which should not be prejudiced or suppressed by action of this Senate unless some important matter concerning the government of this country, in which such action must be taken, has arisen. [More…]
The reality is that the tabling in this Senate, or the incorporation in Hansard, of material so presented cannot in any way prejudice rights of action of Mr Urbanchich or anyone else, which have already accrued. [More…]
There are further points to be considered, such as the damage the incorporation of these documents can do to the rights and interests of the person concerned, the effect that it may have on his rights in relation to the inquiry which is being undertaken at the moment and which affects positions which he holds, and the effect that it may have in relation to his rights to damages in relation to any publication which has already taken place. [More…]
Section 6, dealing with the assignment of rights, stated: [More…]
The concessionaire shall not assign or sell any privileges or rights arising under this authority or sub-let any part or parts of the business, except that he may appoint persons as his agent on franchise for the purpose of conducting the business at any of the airports. [More…]
The concessionaire shall not assign or sell any privileges or rights arising under the authority - [More…]
In the case of the second request, irrespective of individual rights there is a government right to see that no false information has been given by people who are seeking Australian citizenship and who might have had peculiar wartime associations. [More…]
In accordance with the Government’s concern for human rights, will the Minister also urge the Government to call on the Malaysian Government to conduct a full investigation into the claims of torture and ill-treatment of detainees? [More…]
The Tribunal was given unqualified assurances by the applicant’s solicitors and counsel that Mr Gordon had no control over the Trust and indeed had given over all but a few rights to the Trust. [More…]
The Tribunal was given unqualified assurances by the applicant ‘s solicitors and counsel that Mr Gordon had no control over the Trust and indeed had given over all but a few rights to the Trust. [More…]
I could see that if it was handled with sensitivity and care, a move to reduce the range of drugs available could be undertaken without abridging the rights of anyone. [More…]
The Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs recommended that the Government consider proposals to publicise the rights of the citizen to appeal against administrative decisions. [More…]
1 think that this Administrative Law Handbook will be valuable because one of the problems referred to the Committee, and to the Regulations and Ordinances Committee, is the problem of people knowing their rights and knowing that they have certain entitlements. [More…]
It also gives them rights. [More…]
But it does not do enough to tell people their rights and therefore there are people in the community who suffer inconvenience and hardship. [More…]
Very often they are people who are not well educated, or are poor or ill, and they are not in a position to easily find out their rights. [More…]
Such a handbook will be helpful in telling them their rights. [More…]
Recognising that the disadvantaged are not singled out solely because of economic reasons and that their disadvantage results from members of society regarding them as outcasts, a solution could be to integrate them into society, to enable them to have the same rights and freedoms as everyone else. [More…]
I have referred to some of the important issues with respect to the protection of the rights of individuals who may be involved in these organisations, but there are many other issues that have to be taken into account. [More…]
In expressing concern about these organisations in this Parliament I think it is important that we take into account and equally concern ourselves for the rights of people who may want to participate in some of these organisations. [More…]
Also we must look closely at questions such as the basic freedoms that are involved and the rights of people to participate in alternative lifestyles or organisations which others may find less attractive. [More…]
-Can the Minister representing the Prime Minister outline the effects that would flow to Australian industry and its competitiveness and to industrial harmony from any implementation of the Australian Labor Party’s Adelaide decision to repeal all penalties for strikes against arbitral decisions of the Commission or a conciliation committee and the prohibition of action by the Commission to insert or register clauses in awards or agreements excluding the rights of workers to resort to industrial action’? [More…]
To my knowledge offenders are making considerable use of those rights. [More…]
1 say that by way of preface because there is an unfortunate tendency in this community to believe that anyone who takes actions to defend their rights must be doing so for political reasons. [More…]
I hope this will encourage other people who haven’t got any education to go to a lawyer and find out what their rights are. [More…]
I suggest that it is a sorry state of affairs if people in this country have to do that sort of thing to receive their rights under the social services legislation. [More…]
They frequently have no knowledge of how to do so and how they can approach the Australian Legal Aid Office in order to receive their rights under the social service legislation. [More…]
I understand that the meeting in Perth was attended by some members of the League of Rights and of the Immigration Control Association who identified themselves as such and were vocal in expressing their views against Asian migrants and refugees. [More…]
So, there was a whole bureaucracy of social welfare workers who needed to go out and find more clients, to tell people what their rights were as opposed to getting people off welfare, which should have been the policy. [More…]
I am pleased that industry in South Australia has been prepared to stand up for its rights. [More…]
The granting of long term pulp wood- rights in Tasmania is conditional upon the construction of pulp mills, if feasibility studies justify the projects. [More…]
The rights of individuals in industrial relations have been protected. [More…]
At their Adelaide Conference, the Labor Party committed an ALP Government to repeal immediately ‘all penalties for strikes against arbitral decisions of the Commission or a conciliation committee and the prohibition of action by the Commission to insert or register clauses in awards or agreements excluding the rights of workers to resort to industrial action’. [More…]
The Labor Party has also given a commitment to recognise ‘the rights of unions to regulate their own affairs in a democratic way free from Government and judicial interference . [More…]
Under a Labor Government, unions would be positively encouraged to trample over the rights of individual workers with a genuine conscientious objection to union membership or to engaging in industrial action. [More…]
The Government will have no part of policies which grant any section of the community extraordinary, unjustifiable privileges which can be used to deny others their legitimate rights. [More…]
In its Declaration of the Rights of the Child, which I will seek shortly to incorporate in Hansard, the United Nations challenges us to improve the lot of children wherever they may be, without regard to geographical or social barriers. [More…]
As I want to demonstrate, the rights of our children in various ways are by no means guaranteed by the sort of society we have operating in Australia at the moment. [More…]
There are three million children under 12 years of age in Australia, and it is concerning their rights that I wish to speak tonight, at least in part. [More…]
I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard the Declaration of the Rights of the Child as promulgated by the United Nations. [More…]
DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD [More…]
Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter, reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, and in the dignity and worth of the human person and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom. [More…]
Whereas the United Nations has, in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaimed that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth therein, without distinction of any kind such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property binh or other status. [More…]
Whereas the need for such special safeguards has been stated in the Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child of 1924 and recognised in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the statutes of specialised agencies and international organisations concerned with the welfare of children. [More…]
Proclaims this Declaration of the Rights of the Child to the end that he may have a happy childhood and enjoy for his own good and for the good of society the rights and freedoms herein set forth and calls upon parents, upon men and women as individuals and upon voluntary organisations, local authorities and national governments to recognise these rights and strive for their observance by legislative and other measures progressively taken in accordance with the following principles. [More…]
The child shall enjoy all the rights set forth in this Declaration. [More…]
All children without any exception whatsoever shall be entitled to these rights, without distinction or discrimination on account of race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status, whether of himself or of his family. [More…]
I hope to take some areas from that Declaration of the Rights of the Child and describe practical concrete constructive steps which ought to be taken in order to secure some of those rights on behalf of these children. [More…]
We have to secure their rights; they are inherent in them of course, but the most obvious fact about children is their dependence on us as adults to create the sort of society in which they can grow to maturity as loving and mature human beings. [More…]
I intend to take this United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child, which was adopted by the United Nations on 20 November 1959, and, looking at some of the 10 principles there outlined, reflect on the situation in Australia. [More…]
The United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child states that a child is entitled as of right to a situation of moral and emotional security. [More…]
One can think- perhaps we have been blessed in our families- that this is not applicable to an affluent and easy going society like Australia and that those rights do not need to be fought for and secured on behalf of our children; but, in fact, they do. [More…]
The preamble to this Declaration of the Rights of the Child says, amongst other things: . [More…]
As I have been encouraged to continue, I refer honourable senators to Principle 3 of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, which states: [More…]
Perhaps that is not a bad thing really because who are we to preach to those other countries if we have not remedied situations in which children effectively are deprived of their rights within Australia? [More…]
We need to leave a mark on our statute books, in our laws, in our administrative arrangements, in our very practicable, constructive, concrete encouragement of voluntary organisations, whereby the rights of children as outlined in the United Nations Declaration are indeed secured. [More…]
He pinned his argument to the details of the United Nations Declaration of the rights of the Child. [More…]
What progress has been made in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands towards providing the inhabitants with the rights and responsibilities of Australian citizenship, in particular as regards wage rates, health, education and welfare. [More…]
The Red Army is the main instrument in keeping formally free people under subjugation, and its presence enables blatant violations of Human Rights to be perpetrated. [More…]
The Red Army is the main instrument in keeping formally free people under subjugation, and its presence enables blatant violations of Human Rights to be perpetrated. [More…]
Is it true that landing rights into Melbourne were granted in principle to Thai International Airlines on 1 April this year? [More…]
Is the Minister able to say why it was not allowed to proceed with its landing rights? [More…]
The Committee drew attention to the danger of this type of clause and to the fact that the Executive government ought not to be allowed a free hand to modify an Act by regulation, thus depriving the elected members of Parliament of their rights. [More…]
I think that we are being mean and unkind if we treat people in that way and if people such as Senator Cavanagh, Senator Harradine, Senator Mason and I do not defend the rights of the people who receive those payments to receive justice. [More…]
Porter strongly condemned the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and said, ‘If Yarrabah gets what you’re asking for award wages, self government and land rights then all the other reserves will want the same’. [More…]
What rights have we to impose our views on them? [More…]
It was designed merely to explain the rights of the people under the Czechoslovakian constitution and is the subject of some fury from the Government in Czechoslovakia. [More…]
The Committee was formed in April 1978 by signatories to Charter 77 and, until the time its members were arrested, had issued 1 13 statements on human rights violations in Czechoslovakia. [More…]
It is of the opinion that their detention infringes the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which Czechoslovakia ratified in 1975. [More…]
Their offence had been to distribute leaflets reminding people of their constitutional rights not to vote or to vote by secret ballot. [More…]
In the last 18 months VONS has produced many statements documenting judicial proceedings against members of the Human Rights Movement. [More…]
If I may say so, from this article there appear to be other aspects of the situation which are very significant and indicate breaches of rights under both the International Covenant and the Helsinki Agreement rights which under the latter agreement, the Czechoslovakian State acknowledged, as it was obliged to do. [More…]
Therein it guaranteed human rights and the right of its citizens to move around and to express themselves clearly. [More…]
For all of these reasons we ought to raise our voices in protest against the attempt to deprive people of their rights. [More…]
I became aware of this matter because of material which was forwarded to by by the Australian Committee for Human Rights in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe which has among its honorary members a number of members of this Federal Parliament including Senator Tate and myself from the Senate and Mr Hodgman, Mr Ruddock and Mr Simon from another place. [More…]
The Australian Committee for Human Rights in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe is worried, as we are worried, by the dissidents trial in Czechoslovakia, and has sought to provide information which it hopes will go to the Australian people and will bring this matter to full public attention. [More…]
I think that the day is past where the denial of human rights can go very long undetected. [More…]
One of the things that Amnesty International, and groups like Amnesty, can do, is to make sure that we can spread out as far as and as wide as we can the systematic torture and deprivation of human rights that is going on around the world. [More…]
In fact, the trial was delayed because the Government of Czechoslovakia is sensitive to the very bad publicity which is attracting to it for what is quite remarkable repression and denial of rights. [More…]
I think that we should make known to the representatives of the Government of Czechoslovakia that members of this Parliament are watching very closely what transpires in that country and will be watching very closely for reports of trials and for what happens to this little group of people whose only crime was that they stood up for the rights which they should enjoy and for the rights which all their fellow citizens should enjoy. [More…]
That on the 10th December 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declarationof Human Rights which declares that, Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in the Declaration. [More…]
Australia, as a Member Stateof the United Nations, is pledged to achieve observanceof Human Rights and Freedoms. [More…]
I refer to comments made on the radio program AM yesterday by the Premier of Queensland to the effect, as I understand it, that Senator Bonner is promoting land rights for militant black people rather than good black people and that such action is dividing Australia into a black man’s country and a white man’s country. [More…]
Can the Minister say whether such statements are correct, particularly as they relate to the Federal Government’s Aboriginal land rights legislation? [More…]
I was very well served by the people of Yarrabah who last January wrote to the Commonwealth Government and requested that it enter into discussions with the Queensland Government aimed at establishing land rights or secure tenure over their land. [More…]
-Many honourable senators will recall that when the land rights legislation was passed in 1976, it provided that the law governing permits to enter Aboriginal land would be dealt with under Northern Territory law and not under the land rights legislation direct. [More…]
They are limited to a maximum of two years and will not entitle either foreign or Australian participants in them to any exclusive or preferential rights in any fishery that may develop. [More…]
Apart from certain direct financial benefits, such as access fees, which will flow to the community from the AFZ, the Government anticipates that other benefits will flow, for example, to the Australian fishing industry as it increases its share of the total allowable catch; to the fish processing industry, which may handle a portion of the foreign catch as well as the expected increase in domestic production; and to traders and local authorities in ports to which licensed foreign boats are granted entry rights. [More…]
Upon the enactment of the Constitution, any rights or powers which the former colonies might have had in the territorial sca, sea bed and air space or in the Continental Shelf and incline became vested in the Commonwealth. [More…]
The rights over them are vested in and exercisable by the Government of Australia on behalf of all the people of Australia. [More…]
The Committee considers that the power of the Minister to refuse entry to the Territory is potentially a power which could seriously inhibit the rights of the citizen and of the Parliament. [More…]
Its use places Commonwealth Government employees in direct conflict with the Government as it circumvents the arbitration tribunals and denies appeal rights. [More…]
The International Labour Organisation has condemned the Provisions of the Act as being incompatible with the rights of organised labour in a free society. [More…]
We are not debating the rights and wrongs of the regimes which have fought for power and control in Kampuchea. [More…]
The Red Army is the main instrument in keeping formerly free people under subjugation, and its presence enables blatant violations of Human Rights to be perpetrated. [More…]
- Its use places Commonwealth Government employees in direct conflict with the Government as it circumvents the arbitration tribunals and denies appeal rights. [More…]
- The International Labour Organisation has condemned the Provisions of the Act as being incompatible with the rights of organised labour in a free society. [More…]
With regard to the second point raised by the honourable senator, I can confirm that the Dutch Airline, KLM, has been granted rights to operate through Perth, but that at this stage the Government has not been advised as to when the airline intends to take up this option. [More…]
By way of preface, I remind the Minister that some weeks ago I asked him whether he would refer to the Trade Practices Consultative Committee, a Committee that advises him on the Trade Practices Act, the question of the Channel 9 network being granted exclusive rights for three years to televise cricket. [More…]
The matter is of extreme importance to people in country areas who are being denied by this Government the right to see replays of major sporting events because exclusive rights have been given to commercial stations whose beams do not reach their area. [More…]
The business sheet shows that it was originally the intention of the Government to table this report and the comments of Mr Justice Staples concerning human rights. [More…]
Then later this day the Senate is to debate the Human Rights Commission Bill and the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill. [More…]
The Department (of Aboriginal Affairs) is concerned with the rights of Aboriginals to retain their own languages, culture and traditions, their right to manage their own affairs and their rights in land. [More…]
In practice, such rights are daily negated on the Queensland Aboriginal Reserves, which are managed by white staff appointed by the Queensland Government, and where the land is owned, not by Aboriginal communities, but by the State Government. [More…]
-On 21 February 1979 Senator Evans asked me a question without notice concerning the tabling of material I had recently received from Mr Justice Staples concerning human rights. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that Mr Justice Staples travelled overseas in July 1 977 at the request of the Government to examine and report on practices, procedures and laws that other countries use for the protection of human rights. [More…]
The judge returned to Australia in late 1978 and on 15 January 1979 sent me a letter and a summary of suggestions concerning human rights legislation. [More…]
As I have not received anything further, and in view of the fact that the Senate will soon be debating the Human Rights Commission Bill, I consider it appropriate to table this material. [More…]
October 1977- The Canadian Concept of Human Rights, A Handbook for Australian Legislators, Volume 1- the ideas; Volume 2- the activity. [More…]
I do not see that as imposing any limitation on the rights of the Queensland Government or, indeed, of this Government; I see it merely as an earnest of the desire of Australians to protect what is a world asset which is in our hands for protection. [More…]
He finally came back to the only country in which anyone had done anything for him with respect to human rights. [More…]
The Australian fishing zone, which is 200 miles in extent, will provide protection for Australia’s fishing rights. [More…]
One of the obligations to the declaration of the zone is that we will have to sell or negotiate with other countries for the rights or resources we are not using. [More…]
Any country that declares a 200-mile fishing zone gains rights and also accepts responsibilities. [More…]
One of those rights is access to the fish resources and one of its responsibilities, to the world at large, is to preserve and manage those resources intelligently. [More…]
No understanding has been reached with the States that would have the effect of denying persons those rights. [More…]
b) Set up a Senate Standing Committee to conduct a public inquiry into the ways and means of supporting and strengthening family life and providing adequate protection for children from physical and sexual abuse before us well as after birth in accordance with the UNO Declaration of the Rights of the Child as part of Australia ‘s support for the Year of the Child. [More…]
Will the Minister assure the Senate that the Government will fully protect Tasmania’s traditional rights in this area? [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and concerns current delays in the Mereenie oil field negotiations which the Magellan Petroleum Co. claims have been caused by the Central Land Council seeking appeal procedures under the Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
Has the Central Land Council called for the appointment of an arbitrator, as provided for under the Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act? [More…]
As I was saying, the Acting Treasurer said yesterday that the Government’s approval was without prejudice to the rights of the Government to exercise control over the export of uranium. [More…]
Surely I have certain rights here still. [More…]
I am not being given any rights at all to counter that vile accusation and you, Mr President, are ruling that I can draw attention only to the fact that this accusation has been made. [More…]
We have debated matters here until 3 a.m. or 4 a.m., but they have been positive and important matters which concerned the rights of individuals and of nations. [More…]
I mention that because there is some controversy in some areas about the need to identify Aboriginality in certain circumstances, and it raises difficult questions about the rights of individuals and whether the information has been gained for a purpose which is beneficial or oppressive. [More…]
This land claim was the fourth to be heard by the Commissioner under the provisions of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976. [More…]
Although we may have some misgivings perhaps about the Act or feel that the Act does not go sufficiently in the direction of redressing the vexed problem of land rights in Australia, it appears from the Minister’s statement that the Commissioner has acted with a degree of compassion, has applied some integrity to his obligations and has taken into consideration some of the moral factors which Aboriginal land claims have presented to him. [More…]
Unfortunately from time to time some differences have been expressed between what we regard as our obligations with respect to land rights in the Northern Territory and the perhaps more short-sighted and subjective views that have been expressed by the Northern Territory Government which perhaps looks at development and its narrow perspectives somewhat in contradiction to the stated strategies which have been followed by the national Parliament on an all party basis. [More…]
This Government is concerned about the rights of individuals. [More…]
We have already acted to protect the rights of individuals in relation to industrial organisations. [More…]
Registration under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act confers very significant rights and privileges upon an organisation. [More…]
Where the Full Bench makes a declaration the Governor-General may within six months direct the Registrar to cancel the organisation’s registration or make orders suspending the rights, privileges or capacities of the organisation or giving directions as to the exercise of any of its rights, privileges or capacities or for restricting the use of its funds or property to ensure observance of the order. [More…]
They would be used only where these rights, fundamental to any democracy, are threatened. [More…]
If any group acts in a way which puts these rights at risk, then they cannot expect the community to continue granting them the privileges to which they would otherwise be entitled. [More…]
He recognised that this matter was a difficult one and involved the infringement of certain rights. [More…]
The broad intention of this aspect of the Bill is to ensure that an unmarried minor is not issued with a passport without steps having been taken to protect the rights of the child and the rights of persons who have custody or guardianship of or access to the child. [More…]
This would ensure that for the majority of Australians who are not concerned with this issue, their travelling rights around the world would not be restricted in any way as a result of passport policy. [More…]
That, of course, imposes on any Australian government a responsibility to ensure, to the extent that it can, that passports will not be issued to persons who may, in one way or another, threaten the security, national integrity or public order of another country, or the rights of that country’s citizens. [More…]
It can readily be argued- I would agree- that it raises real questions as to the rights of Australians when another country says to an Australian citizen that he must have a certain item of information on his passport or a visa will not be issued to him to return to that country. [More…]
Whilst it relates to the rights of an Australian citizen seeking to travel it equally relates to the rights of other countries, their governments and people, to which an Australian citizen is seeking entry. [More…]
For that reason I believe a good deal more work needs to be done on this matter at a time when a whole range of human rights issues is before the United Nations, for example, and in the minds of a lot of people around the world for a lot of very good reasons. [More…]
The Ministers said the prevention of child removal was a complex matter involving questions of jurisdiction, dual nationality, citizenship, freedom of travel and rights of the child. [More…]
It is well known that in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, adopted by the United Nations in December of that year, article 13 (2) states: . [More…]
We need to be assured that to the greatest extent possible the freedom to move abroad, which has been recognised internationally in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in our own tradition since the promulgation of Magna Carta in 1215, is fully recognised in our community. [More…]
Whilst protecting the rights of people to travel overseas, we have to acknowledge that Australia has responsibilities to other nations of the international community. [More…]
I think that this is an important piece of legislation which moves greatly towards what we would all wish to see- a protection of basic human rights. [More…]
Also involved are international responsibilities, the protection of human rights which extend beyond what people might regard as the right to obtain a passport and the human problems which I have mentioned. [More…]
Incidentally, we are not told how long it will take for that signatory status to come about, but knowing Australia’s track record in regard to the ratification of international treaties- a most unhappy one in any context in which State rights and interests have been perceived to be involved, as no doubt they will be in this area- one wonders just how long this situation will continue to obtain. [More…]
Running through the matters raised in the debate, initially I heard Senator Tate, and latterly Senator Evans, mention the question of human rights. [More…]
The Government needs no reminder, either by way of theory or practice, of the importance of human rights. [More…]
Individual rights must always be subject to the rights of others. [More…]
Rights are qualified in any society, not to restrict the individual but indeed to widen his rights. [More…]
In the whole debate on human liberty over the centuries liberty, subject to the rights of others, has been a profound qualification. [More…]
We have signified our recognition of that in the declaration of human rights. [More…]
The Opposition recognised that there were certain limitations on that because those limitations are necessary in the declaration of the rights of others. [More…]
That is what the rights of a society are all about. [More…]
This imposes on the Government a responsibility to ensure, as far as it can, that passports are not issued to persons likely to threaten the national security and public order of another country, or the rights and welfare of its citizens. [More…]
So we can see that, in determining the concept of human rights and human liberty, the right to travel is recognised. [More…]
The freedom of the individual is recognised, but it is qualified, as it must always be, within our own society and within our own nation as subject to the rights of others as we see them- the rights of the spouse, the rights of the child, the rights of the law in terms of breaches of the law- and subject to international rights and obligations. [More…]
So it is quite impossible to approach any piece of legislation in terms of what would be licence, not human rights, and there is a vast difference between those two things. [More…]
I have referred to the discussion by Senator Tate on human rights. [More…]
It is a document which confers upon the individual certain rights under certain circumstances. [More…]
This raises a question as to the rights of Australians in that context, because that situation occurs in Australia. [More…]
What I said was that we subscribe fully to the notion of the freedom of the individual, but that we recognise that under the rule of law, which Senator Tate understands, that freedom is subject to the rights of others. [More…]
When I say that there is no appeals provision in the present legislation, I am saying that the environment in relation to the rights of the subject, the rights of the citizen, has changed considerably in the last few years as a result of legislation of the previous Government and of this Government. [More…]
These changes strongly reflect the basic intention of the Government, which has been to place the whole decision process on a public legislated basis and to embody the greatest possible protection of the rights of citizens in the legislation. [More…]
An agreement has been reached between the two nations that the rights of the indigenous people in the area should be protected; that their rights to Australian citizenship should not in any way be affected; that there should be a common zone of interest to the Papua New Guineans and the Torres Strait Islanders; and that the area is of importance to both peoples and should be protected for their common use. [More…]
I am trying to say that the report seems to have arrived at the only solution for the area- recognition of the rights of Papua New Guinea and the protection of the peoples and the environment. [More…]
The court took the view that it was highly undesirable that there should be a void in regard to rights and made a different decision. [More…]
They are items that I had hoped to raise when the amendments to the Northern Territory land rights Bill came before the chamber, but the Bill has been withdrawn once or twice and I am not sure that we will be seeing it during the course of this session. [More…]
This goes back to 1978 when the Borroloola land rights claim was granted in a very depleted sort of way. [More…]
As a result of the land rights judgment there, MIM will finish up with a deep water port, just as Nabalco has at Nhulunbuy, and it will have access to the sea over Aboriginal lands through Tawalla and Bing Bong stations. [More…]
Even Bing Bong station, about which we talked in this chamber when the land rights judgment was brought down, is Aboriginal country. [More…]
It was applied for in 1976 under the Land Rights Act and the claim was heard in 1 978, but most of the requests were rejected. [More…]
The areas which will be most affected, of course, are international straits, many of which are so narrow that the extension of territorial seas to 12 miles would have the effect of converting these waters to territorial seas and thus restricting passage rights through them. [More…]
If so, what are the rights of contributors to ascertain their financial position? [More…]
The trust deed does not contain any provisions concerning members’ rights of access to information. [More…]
I am referring to Butler of the League of Rights. [More…]
A simple information pamphlet written in English and nine other languages and describing clearly and succinctly electoral rights and responsibilities has been produced and is widely distributed Colourful, eye catching posters highlighting enrolment qualifications and requirements are displayed in schools and public offices throughout the Commonwealth. [More…]
Use has also been made of radio and press advertisements to inform 1 8 year olds, persons who have changed their residential address and the ethnic communities of their electoral rights and responsibilities. [More…]
Australia has joined other nations in condemning the excesses of the Pol Pot administration and will continue to make its position clear on the question of the massive violation of human rights which this regime perpetrated. [More…]
In accordance with the Government’s concern for human rights, will the Minister also urge the Government to call on the Malaysian Government to conduct a full investigation into the claims of torture and illtreatment of detainees? [More…]
I would only add, at this stage, that the Australian Government views reports of violations of human rights, wherever they occur, as matters for concern. [More…]
Successive Governments have reiterated Australia’s attachment to the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the international community is well aware of our concern to see international standards respected. [More…]
It will, however, be clear that many Governments see reports in violations of human rights as amounting to interference of their internal affairs. [More…]
I can inform the Senate that, as a result of the tabling of this report and the problems that were revealed by that action, I have been giving consideration to the general question of the handling of the reports of quasi-judicial investigators and investigations to see whether any guidelines can be established to give proper protection to individuals’ rights and to see the impact such reports may have on a person in defending himself against allegations that are made in other proceedings which may or may not take place. [More…]
He also asked whether the agreement gives exclusive rights to the negotiating countrythat is, Japan. [More…]
I do not think it gives exclusive rights by any means to the Japanese. [More…]
It deals with the recent utterances of senior Ministers of the Thatcher Government in which they have accused overseas visitors of sponging and of being bludgers- a word which I do not use- in relation to the British health system and even employment rights, as though they are going to put the cleaners through everybody. [More…]
As the concept of the British Commonwealth is used sometimes to allow Commonwealth nationals to get early voting rights and other things here, I wonder whether we could alert our High Commissioner to the need to have close consultations with the British Government to ensure that it realises that, whilst British citizens have rights, citizens of other Commonwealth countries also have them. [More…]
-Will the AttorneyGeneral tell the Senate whether he has received from Amnesty International, the United Nations Associations, civil liberties organisations and other bodies submissions in connection with the Human Rights Commission Bill and the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill which have not yet been debated in the Senate? [More…]
I have received comments and correspondence in relation to the Human Rights Commission Bill and I have no doubt that bodies such as Amnesty International and the United Nations Association will comment on the Bill if they have not already done so. [More…]
the power to suspend, to the extent specified in the order, any of the rights, privileges or capacities of the organization or of all or any of its members, as such members, under this Act or any other Act . [More…]
It will not only mean control of the trade union but also will make sure that the person involved can be inhibited from working, and their property and rights within the union controlled. [More…]
It is obvious that the Commission considers that the position of consultation imperils the rights and the effectiveness of a commissioner. [More…]
I do not think there would be many in Australia who would dispute the fact that the role of government is, through legislation, to protect the rights of the individual and of the community at large. [More…]
Democracy is about the rights of every individual in Australia. [More…]
No organisation, group of people or individual can conduct his affairs or way of life without regard to the rights of other Australians. [More…]
Every resident of Australia, simply by being a resident, has rights and privileges and at the same time, obligations and responsibilities. [More…]
As J was saying before Senator Cavanagh interrupted me by calling a quorum, all Australians, because they are residents of Australia, have rights and privileges. [More…]
They choose to think that their rights and privileges are paramount. [More…]
There is a fine line between the rights of a person to protest about some government decision that they object to and the rights and privileges of people in the community to be able to go about their normal day’s work while they are objecting and protesting. [More…]
This legislation before the chamber tonight is further evidence that my Government is prepared to fight for the rights of the individual and the rights of the Australian people to be able to go about their way of life- I quote from the legislation- free of any: substantial adverse effect on their safety, health and welfare. [More…]
Let us have a look at the policy of the Labor Government when it comes to fighting for or looking at the rights of the people of Australia when they are put at risk by irresponsible communist led unions in this country. [More…]
One of the major amendments, even though Senator Cavanagh thinks it is not a major amendment, also endeavours to protect the rights of Australians. [More…]
Those lesser penalties include the cancelling of the rights, privileges or capacities of the union concerned, or the restriction of the use of organisation funds or properties. [More…]
Furthermore, a choice is given to the Government either to cancel registration or to set at nought the rights of a particular employee. [More…]
By stripping a man of his civil rights, he becomes to that extent an outlaw. [More…]
Whether or not the jurisdiction is left in our hands by the High Court, which of us in any event would want to be like the judges in pre-war Germany who simply acted out their office in a train of events that culminated in legal conclusions that ‘Jews’ and ‘Communists’ were no longer full citizens entitled to rely on rights previously accumulated, that is to say, were persons who could be struck down by a mere executive act. [More…]
It happened with the introduction of the Commonwealth Employees (Employment Provisions) Act which introduced into the public sector arena provisions for stand-down, suspension and dismissal of employees engaging in any form of industrial action without any significant safeguards to their rights. [More…]
It happened earlier this year with the enactment and proclamation of the Commonwealth Employees (Redeployment and Retirement) Act, making provision, as it does, for the compulsory retirement and redeployment of public sector employees in circumstances where their rights and privileges are hopelessly without safeguards. [More…]
We tend to accept those rights fairly lightly because we have always had them, but the Aboriginal people have not. [More…]
It has had only limited success, however, because the Western Australian Government is firmly opposed to Aboriginal land rights over the area and believes that exploration should go ahead. [More…]
These include: Two migration amendment Bills; overseas student Bills; the Local Government (Personal Income Tax Sharing) Amendment Bill; capital assistance for the States; the Homeless Persons Assistance Amendment Bill; the social security-repatriation package; a sales tax exemption Bill; the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Bill; the National Labour Consultative Council Amendment Bill; and the Remuneration Tribunals Amendment Bill. [More…]
All I will say is that there ought not to be any attempt to truncate debate on the program that is before us and to take away members’ rights, otherwise the co-operative arrangement between both sides of the chamber will start to break down and leave will not be granted as easily. [More…]
It is a matter which concerns and affects the rights of close on half a million people in this country who I believe have been affected unjustly. [More…]
I suggest that this Government is taking away one of the few rights of back bench members of this Parliament to express themselves and to propose motions to the Parliament during the general General Business period. [More…]
Because we as members of the Parliament have to stand up for our rights in this place, I am delighted to know that the Leader of the Opposition (Senator Wriedt) has indicated that the Opposition will strenuously oppose the Government’s proposals. [More…]
The government of the day, once this declaration has been made, can unilaterally restrict the rights of any individual member of that union, any group of members or the membership of the union as a whole. [More…]
Mr Gyngell of the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal regards his obligation to deal with broadcasting matters expeditiously as justifying his limiting the time for cross-examination by the parties before him, denying rights of reply, and God knows what else. [More…]
Employers in this and other industries are increasingly likely in such situations to sack people, who thus lose their rights and accrued benefits. [More…]
I appeal to the Government to recognise that only one person will have rights and responsibilities imposed upon him by that proposed new section- Sir John Moore. [More…]
There has not been a session of this Parliament since the Fraser Government came to power in which we have not had legislation designed in some way or another to restrict the legitimate rights of the workers of this country and of the trade union movement. [More…]
In 1974 and 1975 honourable senators heard of the need for the Senate to review legislation, to act as a house of review, and to protect the rights of the States. [More…]
Likewise, of course, in respect to the Human Rights Commission Bill. [More…]
That Bill has not yet been debated by us but it contains a provision that the States should be consulted before extending the range of options open to the Human Rights Commission. [More…]
The Government can make an order which includes the power to suspend any of the rights, privileges or capacities of the organisation or all or any of its members. [More…]
It allows an order to be made dealing with the rights of members. [More…]
It could include wages and I suppose it could include superannuation rights in certain circumstances. [More…]
But now, with this unprecedented situation in the country where a former President of the Court, a justice, 25 commissioners and, the final climax, President Sir John Moore have expressed opposition to the Bill, I think the time is opportune to refer to the document which is entitled ‘The Protection of Trade Union Rights: Twenty Years Work by the Committee on Freedom of Association.’ [More…]
The Committee not only protects the rights of association of trade unionists but also protects the rights of associations of employers. [More…]
87 guarantees to all workers and employers, without distinction whatsoever and without previous authorisation, the right to establish and join organisations of their own choosing; these organisations are to have the right to draw up their constitutions and rules, to elect their representatives in full freedom, to organise their administration and activities and to formulate their programmes, without interference by the public authorities; they shall have the right to form federations and confederations, and to affiliate with international organisations of workers and employers; these rights also apply to federations and confederations; the acquisition of legal personality by organisations may not be made subject to conditions restricting the exercise of these rights; in exercising them workers and employers and their respective organisations must respect the law of the land- [More…]
If it does this, it does it at its own risk, in which case it would be not only on its own way to destruction but also it would in effect destroy the rights of all of us in Australia, all of us who are individual workers and want to do our jobs and get on with it. [More…]
This state of affairs is the product of a Fraser dominated Executive which has usurped the rights and the powers of the Parliament and is prepared to bludgeon through legislation such as this to patch up the Government’s decadent collapsing capitalist ethic. [More…]
Freezing funds, sanctions, deregistration, suspending benefits, and suspending rights and privileges may appear to be a strong weapon to use. [More…]
I would like to know whether anyone on the Government side would deregister the Walsh companies or the Sinclair Pastoral Company and deprive its employees or its shareholders of their rights- not Pygmalion likely. [More…]
There are honourable senators on the Government side of the chamber who are noted for their concern for civil rights. [More…]
This deregistration proposal affects the civil rights of every unionist. [More…]
It can deprive him of his industrial rights and his rights to an award. [More…]
I give the Government a warning: The unionists will stand up for those rights. [More…]
I am quite serious when I say that the attitude of this Government is testing to the limit the people of this country who produce the goods, who produce the wealth, who have rights, and who have an entitlement to share in the technological age. [More…]
The minister has the power, under certain prescribed pro forma, to take control of the unions and to affect the rights of members. [More…]
The Minister says that if anything happens these men have their rights at common law. [More…]
With the way things are going and with the introduction of rotten legislation that takes away people’s rights, it will have to be designed like a pillbox. [More…]
It takes away all the rights of people. [More…]
If a man is a bit militant and he sticks up for his rights, he is immediately tabbed a militant member of the community and, in lots of cases, a communist. [More…]
The rights of employees under that award are provided for within the award, and machinery procedures under the award can be utilised in order to cover such matters. [More…]
If an employee is justified in not working because there is a question of safety and the employer is in breach of his duty, then the employee would have his common law rights. [More…]
In view of the decision of the High Court in the Communist Party case, I should have thought that any Attorney-General would have to do a lot of explaining to this Senate to show why Australian citizens and Australian organisations should be stripped of their rights- indeed, completely extinguished- by the dictates of Cabinet without reference to any criteria argued before an independent tribunal. [More…]
I hope that whatever we contemplate here in a genuine tightening up on the cheats in no way inhibits the rights of the Minister, the trade unions, ethnic associations or church groups to raise the case of a person who comes here as a tourist and, while he is in Australia, something happens in his homeland to create a different situation. [More…]
I would like a specific assurance that the Bill will in no way inhibit the rights of a member of a trade union, an ethnic group or anyone else to utilise the functions of the Committee on the Determination of Refugee Status in the case of people such as the woman from Iran, or a tourist from any other country where a civil war breaks out overnight or a coup d’etat takes place. [More…]
The Minister has asked why, when the person had been here only a month, he did not then say that he was from a South American country which completely negated democratic rights? [More…]
Surely we have a greater interest in human rights? [More…]
1 ) What action has been taken to introduce legislation for the protection of plant breeders ‘ rights in Australia. [More…]
Will any action taken ensure that free availability of genetic material for breeding purposes is not inhibited while protecting legitimate commercial rights. [More…]
The Government has agreed to introduce a plant variety rights scheme into Australia for the benefit of Australian agriculture generally. [More…]
With respect to some of these difficulties, the Government has made it clear on a number of occasions, both through the Prime Minister and through me, that it affirms the principles behind the land rights legislation in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Now that the show trials of the six signatories to the Charter 77 human rights manifesto have proceeded, what has been the Government’s response to the speeches made in the Senate on 1 9 September on that subject, and has the Government made any public statement whatsoever or does it intend to join with the protests that have come already from many Western European countries and from the head of the European Parliament? [More…]
As a result, the Canberra branches of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, the United Nations Association of Australia and the Human Rights Council will jointly sponsor a seminar on arms control on 30 October. [More…]
Whatever the rights and wrongs of the particular issue, the circumstances demonstrate that unless the level of distrust between nations is lowered, even minor matters can lead to another outbreak in the arms race. [More…]
We could talk at great length about the rights and wrongs of those who claim that there is a lack of surveillance and proper supervision of each of the major powers to this extent. [More…]
They affect not only the pensioners but also the rights of people who, because of strikes, are out of work or who, for all sorts of reasons, have had to leave their employment. [More…]
We have certain rights in this place. [More…]
The burden of the editorial was to denigrate a very fair system established by the Government to balance the rights of individual doctors and of the community at large. [More…]
This place is becoming a Government House with no rights for individual politicians at all. [More…]
All of those activities are entirely within the rights of an Opposition, and we have not complained but I point out to people such as Senator Chipp who wish to take part in the debate that whenever that kind of delay is imposed their rights as senators are abridged. [More…]
If the Government begins to frustrate and to provoke, individual senators will begin to stand upon their rights. [More…]
I point out to the Government and particularly to Senator Peter Baume that, when an Opposition feels that its rights are being whittled away and that it is not getting a fair go in its presentation of matters to the Parliament, it has not only a right but also a responsibility on behalf of the section of the Australian people whom it represents to adopt the attitude of opposition to motions of this nature. [More…]
We have our rights under the provisions of the 1977 amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act’. [More…]
Having been deregistered, put out of work and classified as one taking part in an industrial action, these people not only lose their rights in the community but also are deprived of their rights to sustenance under the Social Services Act. [More…]
Proposed new sub-section (8)(b) covers up minute loopholes in people ‘s rights. [More…]
So bit by bit whatever rights men had as free men under the concept that is applicable to Western society- the right to organise into trade unions; all the things that have been treasured in the past- are being closed down. [More…]
I am still waiting on the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) for some clarification of the rights which the person never sought to exercise until he reached 57 years of age. [More…]
Yet is has been made quite clear in ministerial statements that a student who believes that if he is required to return to his home country he will be subject to some form of political persecution and discrimination has the same rights to apply to the Committee on the Determination of Refugee Status to have his case considered and to be one of the exceptions that would be made. [More…]
What action is proposed by the Government in relation to Amnesty International’s request to have included in the European Convention of Human Rights the principle that any person who is, under the national legislation of his country, liable for conscription into his country’s armed forces, may, on the grounds of conscience or profound conviction arising from ethical, moral, humanitarian, philosophical or similar motives: [More…]
Its use places Commonwealth Government employees in direct conflict with the Government as it circumvents the arbitration tribunals and denies appeal rights. [More…]
The International Labour Organisation has condemned the Provisions of the Act as being incompatible with the rights of organised labour in a free society. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Post and Telecommunications aware that it has become a standard practice of large professional sporting bodies in Australia to demand large sums of money, which may be regarded as unearned income, for exclusive television rights to sporting events? [More…]
Is the Minister also aware that because of this practice many thousands of people who have little opportunity to watch these events live because of remoteness are excluded from watching them on television if the successful tenderer for television rights has limited telecasting facilities? [More…]
I understand some comment has been made in Tasmania relating to a restriction of fishing rights. [More…]
However, there is some argument relating to the actual rights within the various zones which have been declared. [More…]
The subject matter of freedom of information concerns not only the rights of individuals but the whole structure and machinery of modern Australian government. [More…]
We also recommend provision for rights of consultation and action by the States in relation to the proposed release, by the Commonwealth, of certain confidential information supplied by a State; (0 One area of major criticism related to the system of conclusive certificates for Cabinet and Executive Council documents. [More…]
I draw attention to our various recommendations on access, on manuals and directories and the regular updating of them, on the availability of the internal law of agencies, on the need for informative freedom of information handbooks explaining rights and procedures, on language requirements and ready availability. [More…]
One further point of Senator Missen ‘s statement with which I shall deal briefly relates to public access, on page 8 of the report, and this question of delegation downwards as much as possible of rights to grant information. [More…]
We had the welfare rights officer program. [More…]
The words used by the staff of the Sydney office were: ‘The welfare rights program is dead’. [More…]
The ethnic welfare rights officers were first transferred to the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs from the Department of Social Security. [More…]
Those who are performing duties which are better fitted to Public Service employment who are not qualified or suitable for appointment as police officers would remain in Public Service Act positions and retain normal Public Service rights. [More…]
Most of all, they want land rights. [More…]
The Essential Services Act takes away the democratic rights of trade unionists. [More…]
It is a world in which they do not have equal rights to education, employment, health services or even the restrictive freedoms that other Queenslanders have. [More…]
Queensland Department of Aboriginal and Islander Advancement is prepared to negate totally all of the ambitions for Aborigines and Islanders in that State in their claims for land rights, equal wages or award wages- in fact, even in their claims to be recognised as human beings. [More…]
One of the claims is that until such time as the Aborigines and Islanders of Queensland are given land rights and equality within the community- until those two rotten Acts are abolished- they will never be free and there will never be happiness amongst the Aboriginal communities. [More…]
Only a royal commission, a Senate select committee or some other type of public hearing where the rights of witnesses are fully protected will ever expose the terrible things that are going on. [More…]
The Yarrabah people want their land rights. [More…]
Consequently we respectfully request the Minister to try to negotiate with the Queensland Government on behalf of the Yarrabah council a form of land tenure for the Yarrabah community council similar to that legislated for Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, with the addition of timber rights. [More…]
I would say, as I have said before, that what happens at Yarrabah is obviously going to be significant to any of the Aboriginal communities in Queensland which might seek to advance their rights of management, and so on, and the tenure of their land, and hence it is understandable that both governments have been approaching this matter with considerable care. [More…]
I would like to quote a few of the relevant paragraphs because I think that they sit perfectly well with the policy of this Government insofar as it relates to the rights of Aboriginals to manage their own affairs free of interference. [More…]
That is one of the bases for my belief that the objectives of the two governments can be married; that we can maintain the fundamental objectives of Commonwealth policy, which are concerned with the rights of Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders to have greater responsibility for their own affairs- complete responsibility if that- is what they want; self-management, if that is the word one wants to use, in the way in which the Commonwealth has always expressed its policy. [More…]
What has to be appreciated by the Senate and by public opinion in our country is that there exists within Government, as a result of advice that is proffered to it by the Department of Foreign Affairs, a belief that our relationships with Indonesia are more important, are paramount, to the rights of people. [More…]
It does not matter whether it is the Aborigines in Australia who want political and land rights or the people in Timor, Namibia, Rhodesia or South Africa; it is part of the pattern of people struggling for the right to determine their own affairs. [More…]
What disregard for human rights! [More…]
The principle by which all governments should operate is that the rights of people are more important than the rights of nations in their relationships that flow from those rights. [More…]
The rights of people to survive and the rights of people to be recognised as people are surely an obligation on every one of us. [More…]
We should insist upon our rights. [More…]
We should say to the Indonesian Government that if it is not prepared to act properly in this matter, if it is not prepared to apply the standards of decent human rights, then the relationship betwen our country and that country is at risk. [More…]
1 ) What is the situation in regard to applications under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 by Aboriginal organisations for land on a needs basis, within Northern Territory town boundaries. [More…]
1 ) The Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act does not provide for applications for land for Aboriginal organisations within town boundaries. [More…]
Take action in relation to the requirement under section 34(a) of the Public Service Act 1922 that permanent public servants be British subjects, because it adversely affects the rights of many members of Australia’s ethnic communities and limits the number of people in the workforce available to enter the Public Service as permanent employees; and [More…]
Is it the ABC’s policy not to take up replays of major sporting events when it has been an unsuccessful tenderer for the exclusive rights to coverage? [More…]
I do not think it is true to say, however, that some problems do not exist when a body which has insufficient facilities to provide coverage all round Australia has exclusive rights. [More…]
What can be said is that from the Bureau experience there would appear to be a very high incidence of breaches and maybe employee rights are not as secure as may be thought. [More…]
I ask the Minister: How can the Government justify this continuing situation while it brings into the Parliament very drastic regulations and provisions in relation to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act which restrict the rights of employees? [More…]
At the same time, they need to be watched very carefully to ensure that the rights of individual Aboriginals are protected so that they have the normal rights which are afforded to people when they are taken before courts and so that they know what laws are being imposed in the Aboriginal communities. [More…]
-Yesterday Senator Maunsell asked a question without notice concerning the grant by sporting bodies throughout Australia of exclusive television rights, and the matter was raised again in Question Time today by Senator McAuliffe. [More…]
It is also true that commercial television networks have in recent years become more conscious of the commercial advantage in securing exclusive television rights to major sporting events. [More…]
It requires co-operation between the organisations which grant the rights, the commercial networks which secure the rights and, of course, the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that a similar situation obtained last year when Air Navigation Charges were increased and the two airlines agreed to waive their rights under clause 8 of the 1961 Agreement and to permit a 15 per cent increase in ANCs for that year. [More…]
I am pleased to say that the two major airlines have again agreed to waive their rights to permit the 25 per cent increase proposed by the Government this year. [More…]
because one must remember the great occasions in the past when men and women fought for great rights. [More…]
Will the Minister also inform the Senate what rights the Commissioner of Taxation has to acquire such information? [More…]
When I think of the use of the words national interest’ in an Act such as the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act I believe that we are talking about something of a rather different nature and quality from the point raised by the honourable senator. [More…]
What fees are being paid to Australia for fishing rights by Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Russia? [More…]
Will the Attorney-General tell the Senate whether he has received from Amnesty International, the United Nations Associations, civil liberties organisations and other bodies submissions in connection with the Human Rights Commission Bill and the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill which have not yet been debated in the Senate? [More…]
Australian membership of the Forum Fisheries Agency or the proposed broader based agency will not involve any derogation of our sovereign rights in respect of the living resources of the zone. [More…]
that we continue to have sovereign rights over highly migratory species such as tunas within Australia’s 200-mile zone. [More…]
We must show an active interest in the rights of small countries and the rights of minorities of other countries. [More…]
I have found that those who would complain about such a motion’s harming our relationships with Indonesia will support vigorously the right of this Parliament to investigate the abuse of civil rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
But as a parliament or a nation we cannot allow our relationships with Indonesia or with anyone else to affect our rights and duties as parliamentarians and as humanitarians to report to the people of this community, to present to the people of this community, our concern about what is happening on our doorstep, to speak up for the people of East Timor and to request that something be done. [More…]
-I present the report and transcript of the evidence from the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on its inquiry into human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
It is an inquiry into the situation regarding the human rights of the people of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Status of Soviet Jewry- whether or not Jews in the Soviet Union are the victims of adverse discrimination in citizenship, in rights to religious practice, in rights to publish, communicate, travel, emigrate and organise. [More…]
After some discussion the sub-committee came to the opinion that this was too narrow a frame of reference; that the question of human rights within the Soviet Union went beyond the situation solely of the Jewish people although they did have particular problems. [More…]
Human rights in the Soviet Union bearing in mind Australia ‘s support for the principles contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Final Act of the Helsinki Agreement. [More…]
Why is it that we should be looking at human rights within the Soviet Union, a country with which Australia has diplomatic and in many respects friendly relations? [More…]
We believe it is important that the Australian Parliament and the Australian people should be informed on the situation of human rights in the Soviet Union, for two major reasons. [More…]
With regard to the other super power, the United States of America, nobody I think is going to argue that there have not been and still are deprivations of human rights within that country from time to time, as there are in all other countries. [More…]
No country has a record free of any blemish in the sphere of human rights- no country whatsoever- and we are not saying that that is the case. [More…]
But I do say that however critical any one may be of the United States of America and its policies and practices, we do not need to have an inquiry into that country in order to find out what is the situation with regard to human rights within the United States of America. [More…]
We can read about the position of human rights in the United States of [More…]
We can listen to their own radio service, the Voice of America, and we will hear the Reverend Jesse Jackson and all sorts of other people talking about the situation of the Wilmington Ten and various deprivations of human rights within that country. [More…]
One cannot learn from listening to Radio Moscow what is the situation inside the Soviet Union with regard to human rights. [More…]
It has commented at various forums on the conditions of Australian Aborigines; it has commented about what are alleged to be the brutalities and denials of civil rights by the United [More…]
An additional reason why I believe it is important that we should be examining the situation with regard to human rights within the Soviet Union is that the Soviet Union is a party to the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe which was dealt with in Helsinki in 1975. [More…]
The participating States will respect human rights and fundamental freedoms including the freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief, for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion. [More…]
They will promote and encourage the effective exercise of civil, political, economic, social, cultural and other rights and freedoms all of which derive from the inherent dignity of the human person and are essential for his free and full development. [More…]
Imagine what would happen if we came down with a six page report saying that we had looked at the matter and that the situation of human rights in the Soviet Union is unsatisfactory? [More…]
-Before the suspension of the sitting of the Senate, I was dealing with some of the objections which were raised in the minority report of Mr Armitage, Dr Blewett and Mr Scholes, concerning the nature of the inquiry conducted by the Sub-Committee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union of the Joint Committee of Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]
Among the people who took part were: Mr Ramsey Clark, a former Attorney-General of the United States of America, not generally regarded as the spearhead of the John Birch Society; Lord Lloyd of Hampstead, Professor of Law at the University of London, a Labour life peer; the President of the French Criminal Court; the President of the Paris Bar; the VicePresident of the French League of Human Rights; the Professor of Law at the University Rene Descartes; Monsieur Gaston Monnerville, a former President of the French Senate, a leading French left wing politician and a resistance leader during the Second World War; a professor of law from the University of Mexico, Spanish by birth, a refugee from Franco’s Spain; from Great Britain, the Rt Hon. [More…]
that Soviet Jews wishing to leave the Soviet Union had been consistently subjected to harassment and other forms of maltreatment and that their human rights had been denied, Soviet law and procedure infringed, and unwarranted punishments inflicted. [More…]
They included: The Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church of Australia, the Latvian Relief Society of Australia, the Ukranian Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, Victorian Division, the Latvian Federation of Australia and New Zealand, the Russian Orthodox Brotherhood of Australia and the Executive Council of Australian Jewry. [More…]
We are all familiar with people and organisations in Australia who have warm, friendly feelings about the Soviet Union and who believe that it is a pack of lies to suggest that there is any infringement of human rights there. [More…]
Not only did they not come from the Soviet Embassy; not one person, not one single, solitary soul, was prepared to come before the Sub-Committee and say one word of praise or commendation or excuse about the record of the Soviet Union with regard to human rights. [More…]
He was another man who, because he was prepared to speak out on the rights of the Latvian national minority, of Latvian culture and of the Latvian language, found himself placed in the most awful situations which he described to us, which can be found in the transcript of evidence and which have now made it necessary for him to leave his own country of Latvia which he never wanted to leave and to which he wants to return. [More…]
If someone believes that he has been falsely or improperly unemployed, there is no court to which he can go to direct some functionary to find him employment or to secure any of the other human rights which purport to be guaranteed by the Constitution. [More…]
By a curious coincidence- it is funny how antiSemites seem to say exactly the same thing from whichever direction they come- the Australian League of Rights was circulating at the same time a document in which it said that this apparently very versatile banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb and Co. financed the Russian Revolution in 1917! [More…]
We make a further recommendation, that is, that there should be established by the Australian Parliament a permanent committee on human rights. [More…]
It is certainly the view of the Sub-Committee that whatever the virtues may be of inquiring into human rights in the Soviet Union- I believe it was probably more important than any other similar inquiry- we would be hypocrites if we were to inquire into human rights only in the Soviet Union and not in other countries. [More…]
We all know that gross deprivations of human rights are taking place in countries throughout the worldserious deprivations of human rights- in Chile, in Bolivia and in Uganda. [More…]
All over the world there are countries in which there are deprivations of human rights. [More…]
There are deprivations of human rights in our country- of course there are- in the United States and in Great Britain. [More…]
In all of them there are deprivations of human rights. [More…]
If some government is infringing the human rights of its citzens, that is a fact which ought to be known to all because a country which denies human rights to its own citizens is not going to respect the human rights of the citizens of any other country. [More…]
If, in the 1930s, politicians in countries such as Britain, France, the United States and Australia had paid a little more attention to the deprivations of human rights inside Germany, Italy and Spain and if they had seen the sorts of things that Hitler and Mussolini were doing to their own people, rather than looking at some of these governments as any other governments with which to have ordinary intergovernmental relations, they may well have been much better aware of what was likely to happen to them. [More…]
In any case, if we believe that the preservation of human rights is a virtue, this is somebody we should not be afraid of upsetting somebody about. [More…]
Nobody who needs to trade with us is going to stop trading with us because we have said something about their deprivation of human rights. [More…]
What we say about human rights will not make the slightest difference one way or the other. [More…]
In any event, one way to assist in securing the spread of human rights to all the citizens of this planet is for the citizens in other countries to be aware of it. [More…]
The amendments proposed do not, in any way, take away or reduce the rights of existing invalidity pensioners. [More…]
To treat the patent system as a mere aggregation of individual private rights is to ignore its capability for contributing to national economic development. [More…]
Take, for instance, one of the Bills for which I have particular responsibility, the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill, which was presented to this Parliament on 24 May. [More…]
It may be that circumstances justify some curtailment of the rights of honourable senators, but the Government should see whether it can accommodate issues such as the one to which I have just referred. [More…]
With an acknowledgment that there must be some curtailment of the rights of members in order to get business through at some time, cannot party leaders get together and say: ‘What can we do to sort this out? [More…]
I have always regarded Senator Bonner as a champion of human rights, of human values, and as a man who will speak up for the oppressed and for the minority groups. [More…]
Senator Wheeldon just made a magnificent speech denouncing the alienation of human rights in the Soviet Union and Government senators were saying: ‘Hear, hear’. [More…]
For the last hour and a quarter the Opposition has taken up time that could have been spent in very useful debate, for instance, on the Human Rights Commission Bill and other measures. [More…]
The legislation is an unhappy compromise fashioned out of federalism and trying to walk on the eggshell-strewn path between politicians who want a forceful armory to honour human rights and those who don’t want any legislation at all. [More…]
Perhaps the most succinct editorial comment on the legislation, taking into account both the Human Rights Commission Bill and the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill however came from the Canberra Times on 29 September, when the following statement was made: [More…]
It is easy to see why this new Human Rights Commission, despite its superficial attractions, will do little or nothing to advance the cause of human rights in this country. [More…]
The first is to enable Australia to be seen internationally as doing something about human rights, but without the Government having to actually, in practice, do anything at all to improve the local situation. [More…]
The sheer hypocrisy of these two Bills, their cosmetic quality at best and their contemptuous disregard for effective protections for human rights at worst is, and can be, very readily demonstrated by looking a little more closely at what they contain. [More…]
The Human Rights Commission Bill establishes a Human Rights Commission consisting of a chairman who, one is led to understand, will probably be a judge acting part time. [More…]
The Commission will be able to investigate complaints or inquire into matters on its own initiative relating to breaches of human rights by the Commonwealth by or within a Territory. [More…]
It will also be able to report generally on the effectiveness of existing Commonwealth and Territory law and it will be given a general mandate to ‘promote understanding and acceptance’ and also to undertake and co-ordinate ‘research and education programs in relations to human rights’. [More…]
The Government did not succeed, as apparently it hoped it would when it withdrew the previous Human Rights Commission Bill introduced by Mr Ellicott in 1 977, in getting the States to agree to participate directly in the Commission. [More…]
the performance on a joint basis of functions relating to the promotion of the observance of human rights in that State or Territory; [More…]
on behalf of the Commonwealth of functions (including functions of the Commission) relating to the promotion of the observance of human rights. [More…]
The Bill goes on to define ‘human rights’ for the purposes of the legislation as meaning the rights and freedoms recognised in the International Covenant on Civil and Political rights and any other declared international instrument to the extent to which that international instrument is applicable in Australia. [More…]
One interesting and important clause in the Bill is clause 9 (2) which recognises the necessity, in certain circumstances, for affirmative action or benign discrimination; the clause in question provides that an enactment or practice should not be regarded as offensive to human rights if it is: . [More…]
solely for the purpose of securing adequate advancement of particular persons or groups of persons in order to enable them to enjoy or exercise human rights equally with other persons. [More…]
The first is that the Bill does nothing to actually change the law in any of areas such as police powers, freedom of assembly, voting rights and all the rest of them, where civil rights are very obviously in need of specific legal protection. [More…]
It is true that in a number of areas like racial discrimination and also the protection of privacy effective investigative and conciliatory machinery can be as important in practice and perhaps even more important than the creation of formal rights enforceable through the courts. [More…]
In bringing forward this legislation the Fraser Government has explicitly rejected, for the umpteenth time, the idea of an Australian Bill of Rights which would- I will talk about the concept of the Bill of Rights later on- specifically incorporate into the substantive law, some of these crucial rights and protections. [More…]
The reality is that in this legislation the Fraser Government has opted for a Human Rights Commission without this substantive backup and the result will be little more than an exercise in cosmetics, unless and until the law is given that fundamental change of direction that is needed. [More…]
But the reality is that the most flagrant breaches of human rights are perpetrated, and perpetrated regularly, at the State level. [More…]
In the Bill there is provision for future cooperative human rights action between the Commonwealth and particular States in agreed areas. [More…]
I take the view and the Opposition takes the view that here, as elsewhere in this whole human rights area, the Commonwealth should gather up its courage and legislate under the external affairs power- section 5 1 (xxix) of the Constitution- in such a way as to extend its jurisdiction in human rights matters over the States. [More…]
The third criticism is that the Bill tries to have things both ways so far as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights is concerned. [More…]
In the first place the definition of the term human rights’ in the Bill is squarely related to the contents of the Covenant, and that is a good way, on the face of it, for opening up a wide range of human rights topics to be brought within the umbrella of the Commission to the extent that the Covenant covers, as it does, just about everything in the realm of civil and political rights, from slavery to privacy. [More…]
Freedom of assembly, to take one example in making the point, is denned in Article 21 of the Covenant- the Covenant is conveniently incorporated in the Human Rights Commission Bill by way of a schedule- as being legitimately subject to restrictions: . [More…]
in the interests of national security or public safety, public order (ordre public), the protection of public health or morals or the protection of the rights and freedoms of others. [More…]
It may well be some considerable time before the Australian Government gets round to ratifying the Civil and Political Rights Covenant, let alone the optional protocol to that Covenant which would allow individual human rights grievances to be aired in an international forum. [More…]
It seems to me now, as it seemed for a number of years- I believe also to Senator Missen, who is nodding his head- that there ought not be any excuse any longer, if indeed there has ever been any excuse, for Australia delaying the ratification of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
It will be remembered that we were first promised ratification of the Covenant in 1973- seven years after its adoption by the United Nations- to coincide with the twentyfifth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
We were then promised ratification, it may be remembered, in 1978 to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
Until he tells me that my understanding- I communicate it to the Senate- is that the new Human Rights Commission will have a total staff of no more than about 10, leaving aside Mr Grassby ‘s staff of a similar number who will be amalgamated into the new Commission. [More…]
It seems that exactly the same considerations will be applicable to the even broader range of functions now proposed to be vested in the Human Rights Commission. [More…]
The real test of the Government’s commitment to anything more than a shopwindow approach to human rights will come when it reveals the contents of its purse. [More…]
One other test, of course, of the sincerity of the Government’s approach to the protection of human rights and to giving some viable status and character to the new Commission will be the way in which it approaches the staffing of the Commission and whether it mans it with personnel of capacity, credibility and energy. [More…]
The Opposition’s general attitude to the Human Rights Commission Bill, the first of the duo before us, is, then, that it is a wholly inadequate solution to the problem of the protection of human rights in the country. [More…]
What is needed, in the Opposition’s viewpoint and I hope also from the viewpoint of a number of Government senators, is a piece of legislation which creates not just machinery for the discussion and promotion in a very abstract sense of human rights in this country but a means for people to enforce their rights. [More…]
What we want and what we need is a recognition in Australian law that the kinds of rights which are specified in the International Covenant are part of Australian law and can be relied upon when they are breached and threatened either in the private or public sector, as they so often have been in the past and in current circumstances. [More…]
What we need is a situation in which those rights are enjoyed, not just in the Australian Capital Territory or as a matter of Commonwealth law, but where it really matters- in the States, around the country. [More…]
We want a situation in which there is effective machinery for the enforcement of those rights- but not just on paper. [More…]
By an effective enforcement machinery- I will spell this out again in a little more detail later on- I do not mean simply the courts; I mean also certainly the kind of conciliatory machinery which has proven itself to be so appropriate for the resolution of a great number of particular kinds of human rights problems. [More…]
I mean an enforcement machinery which is an appropriate blend and balance of soft conciliatory measures and mechanisms on the one hand, but on the other, lying behind that, an iron fist- a court sanction, with the possibility of proceedings perhaps being initiated by the human rights agency in question. [More…]
Specific adoption in judicially enforceable form of the rights specified in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights along the lines of the 1973 Human Rights Bill. [More…]
The Commissioner for Community Relations, Mr Grassby, is left by this Bill with little more than his title and a number of functions which he may or may not be allowed to exercise at the discretion of the Human Rights Commission of which he is not to be a member. [More…]
They are frightening volumes in many ways but they are an important educative mechanism, an important reform mechanism in the Australian civil rights climate. [More…]
The Victorian Government is prepared to spend more than three times the annual budget that the Grassby Community Relations Commission gets for a whole year to maintain its on-going program of investigations, conciliation, education, research and promotion of human rights right around Australia. [More…]
In the first place, the object of the Bill is said to be the rationalistion of human rights machinery- that is certainly not something which is objectionable to the Opposition in principle- and as a result the amalagation of the Community Relations Commission into the Human Rights Commission. [More…]
Again that is something that might not in principle be objectionable, but the difficulty, the obvious anomaly, is that there is not provision in the legislation for the Community Relations Commissioner to be one of the commissioners of the Human Rights Commission; nor, as I understand it, is there any intention whatsover on the part of the Government, without specifically mentioning it in the text of the legislation, to employ Mr Grassby as one of the new Human Rights commissioners. [More…]
In the performance of a function on behalf of the Human Rights Commission, the Commissioner is subject to the directions of the Human Rights Commission. [More…]
It will be very interesting to see, for example, whether Mr Grassby will continue to be allowed to exercise his own judgment in relation to such matters as the issuing of court certificates in the Archer River affair, which honourable senators will recall involved the Queensland Government’s refusal to transfer land rights leases to an Aboriginal community. [More…]
Thirdly, although it appears on the face of the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill that there is nothing in it to directly stop complaints of racial discrimination wherever arising, including Queensland, being channeled directly to Mr Grassby, as they have been in the past, the Opposition believes that one must take into account the potential effect of clause 1 1 (1) (b) of the Human Rights Commission Bill, which has an effect, and which would make it possible for the Commonwealth to delegate completely to a State any function relating to the promotion of the observance of human rights, ‘including functions of the Commission’. [More…]
The fifth point is this: The powers vested in the Commissioner for Community Relations by the 1 975 Act in relation to the appointment of local concilation committees and the central Community Relations Council-not that that has ever been established- are now stripped from him and vested in the Human Rights Commission. [More…]
In future his work is to be reported simply as one part of the larger annual report of the Human Rights Commission. [More…]
Let me conclude, at some length still, by indicating a little more constructively perhaps than I have hitherto what is the Australian Labor Party’s attitude to an appropriate solution to these human rights problems. [More…]
Let me start by saying, because it is necessarily a central theme in this package of legislation and in particular that part of it which concerns the Community Relations Commissioner, that we do not object to the better and more effective co-ordination of human rights machinery in this country. [More…]
There is a case, in the interests of avoiding confusion in the public mind and in maximising the efficiency with which rights can be protected in these areas, for all these various bodies to be integrated into a single organisational structure. [More…]
At the Federal level, to dismantle the Community Relations Commission, at the moment an effective and viable operation, and to incorporate it into this ragtag and bobtail new creation of the Human Rights Commission, would be a travesty of any such objective. [More…]
I do not mind personally whether ultimately those two committees are integrated into an effective organisation of a national sweeping human rights law enforcement kind. [More…]
But what one is concerned about, and I am delighted to get a denial, if that is what has just emerged from the Attorney’s lips, is that there may be some residual lingering temptation, once this new machinery is established, to rationalise’, to ‘clear the boards’, and to vest this particular function in the Human Rights Commission. [More…]
At the State and Territorial level, when one moves beyond the purely Federal scene, the Government acknowledges, and has acknowledged by its actions over the last two or three years, that there is a case for trying to weld together the various existing State and Federal human rights agencies into some kind of coherent form of organisation, and the Bill, I suppose it must be acknowledged, does create the framework for further development on a co-operative federalist basis in that particular respect. [More…]
But experience so far surely should have persuaded the Government, and certainly persuaded Mr Bailey, as the Government’s main adviser in this area, that cooperative federalism, here as elsewhere, is destined to be an abject failure, and that there is no prospect of getting effective, inegrated acrosstheboard machinery unless the Commonwealth itself takes the initiative and exercises that constitutional power which it almost certainly in my belief at least has available to it under the external affairs power, and enacts its own human rights legislation. [More…]
The centrepiece of the legislation, in the Opposition ‘s opinion, should be a national human rights Bill. [More…]
It is this kind of legislation one model- not the only one- for which presently exists in the ill-fated Human Rights Bill of 1973 which we suggest ought to be the re-written form of this legislation. [More…]
It is to the creation of that kind of more effective piece of national human rights machinery that our second reading amendment is directed. [More…]
I repeat the terms of that amendment which are that the present Human Rights Commission Bill be withdrawn and redrafted to provide for: [More…]
Specific adoption in judicially enforceable form of the rights specified in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights along the lines of- [More…]
It will be noted that it does not say ‘in identical terms ‘ to- the 1973 Human Rights Bill. [More…]
It may be appropriate for the record, without endeavouring to traverse in any way the whole sorry history of the 1973 Human Rights Bill and the storm of ill-understood reaction that it created - [More…]
It came from the complacent, mostly conservative lawyers, who saw no need for any Bill of rights. [More…]
Then there were the sceptics, mostly journalists and other lawyers, who saw a need for a Bill of rights but doubted that that one would work. [More…]
There were the old fashioned Parliament men, if I can so describe them, like Jim Killen, who were against what they perceived to be an encroachment by the judiciary on the rights, prerogatives and preserves of the democratically elected representatives of the Parliament. [More…]
The largest category of all, if not the most significant in their opposition, were the suspicious, mostly clerics, who saw the whole thing as a kind of gigantic fiddle aimed at denying them their rights. [More…]
I shudder at the thought of any repetition, but the risks of creating that kind of opposition have to be taken on and overcome by any government which is concerned to get a rational mechanism for the enforcement of human rights in this country. [More…]
The kind of model that the Australian Labor Party is committed to in this respect is a national Bill of rights. [More…]
Putting it simply, a Bill of rights is a document which identifies fundamental rights and freedom and requires that they be respected and perhaps sets out some mechanism for their enforcement. [More…]
We acknowledge that it is appropriate and possible for such a Bill of rights to be introduced not only at the national level but also at the State level. [More…]
Party in Queensland thought the concept of a Bill of rights- understandably enough in that State- was an admirable one. [More…]
We make the point and will make the point throughout this debate that the real problem of human rights is at the State level and that we are only touching the tip of the iceberg if we operate at the Commonwealth level. [More…]
At the national level a Bill of rights could take the form of something that was incorporated in the Constitution itself. [More…]
But pending the achievement of that millennium we would regard it as appropriate and desirable that a Bill of rights be incorporated into national legislation, along the lines of the 1973 Human Rights Bill. [More…]
We believe it appropriate, if that legislation is to be worthy and deserving of the name, that it actually set out in specific detail the particular rights which are being protected and give them some stature, some legal force. [More…]
The kinds of rights that would be appropriate to deal with are essentially those canvassed and covered within the Civil and Political Rights Covenant. [More…]
I do not think it is appropriate, although some people do, to talk about a Bill of rights as appropriately containing references to the right to clean air, a basic income, health care and so on. [More…]
Rather, I think it is appropriate to talk, when one is giving civil liberties legislative form, in terms of traditional civil and political rights, which do not depend on the mobilisation of large financial resources for their realisation, but simply depend on the attitudes, actions and good faith of governments. [More…]
A lot can be said, but this is not the time or place to do so, about the kind of language in which it would be proper to couch such a national Bill of rights. [More…]
It is possible- there are ample precedents in other countries for both ways of doing it- to use either very broad and general language or on the other hand very precise, meticulous language which is elaborately concerned to specify the exceptions and exemptions to the particular basic rights in question. [More…]
My personal view would be to favour, at least so far as the statement of the basic rights themselves is concerned, relatively short, simple and elegant language, that being important not so much from the point of view of ease of judicial or other interpretations but because of the crucial imagination-capturing and educative role that such legislation would necessarily have to play. [More…]
I would not go quite as far as the United States in that respect nor perhaps even adopt the precise language used in the 1973 Human Rights Bill in expressing rights. [More…]
But I do think it is possible, within the kinds of parameters I have indicated, to produce statements of rights in terms which are both succinct and sufficiently meaningful legally to be capable of application and practice, but which are not hopelessly offputting to the ordinary layman or average reader. [More…]
I do not accept for one moment the age old criticism about Bills of rights that some danger is involved in specifying and listing particular rights because by doing so we exclude the possibility of the continuing enjoyment of other rights which may have been accidentally or inadvertently omitted from the list. [More…]
The simple technical solution is the insertion of a clause, called technically a ‘non-derogation clause’, in a Bill of rights which simply says that the enjoyment of any of the rights here set out does not in any way derogate from the existence of such other rights, whatever they may be, which have hitherto been recognised. [More…]
So far as the enforcement of a national Bill of rights of the kind that I am urging is concerned, it is important, I think, that there be some role by way of enforcement given to the courts, both to make declarations that particular laws or Executive acts are in breach of the Bill of rights’ guarantees and to apply standards in matters where they are otherwise lacking, for example, the criminal law enforcement area. [More…]
I know of their likely tendency, in the Australian environment, to approach a Bill of rights with the same degree of application as they would approach a dog Act or a tax Act. [More…]
The final point to be made about the concept of a Bill of rights is a very important one, namely, that it is not in any view- certainly it is not in our view- a universal panacea. [More…]
It is not the only approach one should adopt to human rights. [More…]
It is not a substitute for other more specific, more piecemeal solutions to particular human rights problems in the privacy area, the sexual and racial discrimination area, the criminal investigation area and other areas as well. [More…]
If it were to be enacted in the way in which I have suggested and in the way in which it is encouraged to be enacted by the amendment which the Opposition has moved to the motion for the second reading of the Bill, we would be a hell of a lot further down the track in the protection of human rights than we are at the moment with the two Bills which are before us. [More…]
If the present Bills represented a genuine effort to take a step along the way towards the creation of effective human rights machinery in Australia, one could and would do nothing but applaud this new legislation. [More…]
The Human Rights Commission Bill and the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill, which are connected pieces of legislation, have been in gestation for quite a long time. [More…]
Human Rights Commission in this country. [More…]
I think that we can make alterations to the Human Rights Commission Bill which will turn the proposed Commission into an organisation which can be effective, but I do not see any way in which we can deal with the other Bill, the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill, which has been criticised so vehemently by Senator Evans this afternoon. [More…]
I believe that what is fundamental is that it is no good relying on common law to defend and promote civil rights, human rights, in this country- one might say in any country. [More…]
Undoubtedly, for hundreds of years- more particularly, in the past 100 years- legislation has been needed to ensure the protection of human rights in the democratic countries. [More…]
The Bill of Rights of 1688, which was a settlement from which a number of our rights and parliamentary liberties have come, was a matter of legislation and not a matter of common law. [More…]
In fact the common law was very busy upholding slavery and the rights of slave owners. [More…]
Likewise, it is necessary that these international covenants should receive that type of consideration and be used to defend the human rights of the people. [More…]
I refer to a speech entitled ‘Human Rights: The Challenge for Law Reform’ which was recently delivered by His Honour Mr Justice Kirby as the Turner memorial lecture. [More…]
The Founding Fathers, when they settled the Australian Constitution, agreed by a small majority not to include a Bill of Rights, after the American model. [More…]
Such ‘rights’ as were mentioned in the Constitution (section 92 apart) have received scant attention and circumscribed interpretation. [More…]
So there has not really been very much experience in Australia of human rights being protected by the courts. [More…]
Of course, I say in response to Senator Evans that where I leave him is that I do not see a justification for a bill of rights. [More…]
I am probably one of those lawyers of whom he was somewhat critical and who in 1973 investigated the need for a bill of rights and were not satisfied that there was such a need. [More…]
If we had a Bill of rights we would be dependent again on the interpretation of judges. [More…]
I do not see a Bill of rights as a solution to our problem. [More…]
One of the most authoritative things said about this was in an article entitled ‘Human Rights, the Common Law and Australia’s International Obligations’ by Professor Alex Castles. [More…]
The common law has therefore not fared well as a course of basic principles and rules on the protection of rights and freedom. [More…]
The number of cases where action has been required by Ombudsmen has exposed the relative ineffectiveness of our traditional means for dealing with human rights matters. [More…]
I say to those of my colleagues who have a feeling that somehow the cosy common law is sufficient to look after our rights and will do something about them that it has not been proved so. [More…]
As a lawyer who believes in the tradition and desirability of the rule of law and the use of the courts, I say that it is quite false to rely upon the common law to defend human rights. [More…]
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, of course, set out the series of rights which were then thought to be sound, which I think are still substantially sound today and which are basic to the rights of human beings. [More…]
First, the rights in the Economic, Social and Cultural International Covenant have been adopted by many countries; and we as a nation have signed and ratified that covenant. [More…]
The other covenant which is central to the Bill is the Civil and Political Rights International Covenant which has been signed by us but which, as has been pointed out already, we have not yet ratified. [More…]
One reason we ought to ratify it is that we have been elected to the United Nations Human Rights Commission. [More…]
Even if our rights are in a reasonable condition, we, as a nation serving on that Commission, should go ahead and ratify this Covenant. [More…]
But we have yet to do anything very substantial in the general area of human rights covered by this Bill. [More…]
Protect the civil liberties of the individual in society including the implementation of civil, political and social rights wherever applicable according to international conventions adopted by Australia, in fields of Commonwealth power or where the adoption of the convention has been approved by the States. [More…]
We have before us a proposal for a Human Rights Commission. [More…]
I do not think the alternative which, for example, Senator Evans advocates, of a Bill of rights, is applicable in this country at this time. [More…]
It may be that if we fail to set up a suitable Human Rights Commission, and if it is not effective, then we may have to consider adopting something like that course. [More…]
Senator Evans said that he could see no positive harm coming from having a Bill of rights. [More…]
One remembers the enormous amount of disputation that occurred in 1973 when Senator Murphy brought down a Bill designed to create a Bill of rights. [More…]
No one knows just how the courts would have interpreted parts of that Bill of rights, or what we would have had. [More…]
They have found at times that human rights, civil rights, have been badly protected. [More…]
Of more major importance- an aspect that Senator Evans tended to dismisswas that the States and others were extremely frightened by that concept of a Bill of rights. [More…]
They could see their laws being overridden, their rights being taken away from them. [More…]
Probably their fears were exaggerated, but I think they were real and resulted in a situation in which one could have a conflict between human rights as one principle and federalism as another. [More…]
I say let us take this course of establishing a Human Rights Commission, a body which will investigate and do many other things, and will tell us a lot more about human rights in this country. [More…]
It has long been a policy of Amnesty International to support the establishment of a Human Rights Commission in this country and to press for the ratification of the international covenant itself, but if the present Bill were passed unamended, the Government would lay itself open to a serious charge of hypocrisy. [More…]
By Senator Alan Missen on the terms of the 1979 Human Rights Commission Bill and Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill (As introduced in the Senate on 25 September 1 979) [More…]
The Human Rights Commission Bill creates a Commission designed to ‘protect and promote the observance of human rights throughout Australia within the limits of Commonwealth power’. [More…]
It will investigate Commonwealth laws, and acts and practices under Commonwealth laws, and report on the extent to which they fail to comply with the human rights described in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1966 (which Australia has signed but not yet ratified). [More…]
The Bill differs in some degree from the 1977 Human Rights Commission Bill (which lapsed on dissolution of the Parliament), particularly in its provisions for involving States and State authorities in the performance of the functions. [More…]
Grassby) to the Human Rights Commission while preserving only the Commissioner’s investigating and conciliatory powers. [More…]
Clauses of the Human Rights Commission Bill ( 1979) [More…]
The Bill does not permit the Commission to investigate any breaches of human rights under State laws. [More…]
As probably 95 per cent of breaches take place under State laws (which cover most areas of the criminal law, police, personal rights, et cetera), the Commission will be dealing with a mere fragment of the relevant laws, acts and practices covered by the Covenant. [More…]
It was pointed out by Amnesty International and other bodies making representations under the 1977 Bill (where this also appeared), that it should not be necessary to establish any ‘sufficient interest’ when a person or body is complaining of breaches of human rights. [More…]
Clause 1 1 makes provision for ‘the Minister’ (presumably the Attorney-General) to make an arrangement with a State Minister (including Northern Territory) to perform Commonwealth functions or functions of the Commission relating to the promotion of the observance of human rights’. [More…]
However, as there is danger that some complainants or witnesses (especially employees) may suffer victimisation because they give evidence supporting a human rights complaint, some restricted power should be given to the Commission to enable the anonymity of such complainants or witnesses to be preserved in necessary cases. [More…]
Clause 16 (0 Enforcement of Human Rights. [More…]
But individuals who may breach human rights (an employer, a Union or a publican for example) may be determined on a course of discrimination and in no way susceptible to public or governmental pressure. [More…]
The balance seems to have swung sharply against the complainant who wants to prosecute a human rights violation. [More…]
At the very least there should be provisions in the Bill requiring reports to be considered by appropriate Parliamentary Committees and /or prosecutions launched where breaches of law involving human rights are shown. [More…]
If the Government will not prosecute, the right of an individual to prosecute for breach of human rights should be specifically affirmed. [More…]
It places the Commissioner under the complete control of the Human Rights Commission without making him a member of that Commission. [More…]
Clause 7 of the Human Rights Commission Bill provides for a Commission of 5 to 9 members. [More…]
The Commissioner for Community Relations, who already has specific responsibilities in the area of racial discrimination, is not named as a Human Rights Commissioner and it is clear to me that he will not be appointed to such a position. [More…]
There is indeed a case for amalgamating the operations concerning racial discrimination with other human rights (as the Galbally Report recommends), but not by downgrading the existing working operations of the Racial Discrimination Act and debarring its Commissioner from the policy determinations of the Commission. [More…]
It is to be observed also that, even in his limited remaining functions, the Commissioner acts ‘subject to the directions of the Human Rights Commission’ (Clause 5). [More…]
On the other hand, the Commission’s powers in all other human rights areas are to be severely restricted as I have demonstrated above. [More…]
The case for establishing machinery to secure or encourage compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights is strong, but the machinery must be such that it is not condemned as ‘window dressing’. [More…]
The Government is right to reject the arguments of those who would draw back from ratification of the Covenant and rely on existing common law remedies which have never satisfactorily covered the field of human rights in this country. [More…]
We have protected individual rights and reformed outdated laws. [More…]
We will establish a Human Rights Commission to expand that protection further and we will bring in freedon of information laws.’ [More…]
The Government’s obligation is surely to create a Commission that is no less effective than had already been proposed under the 1977 Human Rights Commission Bill. [More…]
The Government has rightly rejected the other option of establishing a Bill of Rights at this stage in our development. [More…]
Either a Bill of Rights incorporated in the Constitution or as simple legislation would be difficult to achieve. [More…]
Such a Bill of Rights would face vehement State objections, as Senator Murphy found in 1973, if it endeavoured to change or override State laws. [More…]
Moreover, the introduction of a Bill of Rights could encourage the use of the federalism argument as an excuse for non-compliance with human rights obligations. [More…]
I believe Australia should ratify the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights now and there is no real impediment to that course. [More…]
It seems to me that if we are going to have a Commission which looks into human rights and violations in Australia, it must be in a position to examine the various aspects of those laws. [More…]
The amendments which I propose in regard to civil rights procedures and which I set out in detail, give teeth to this particular Bill. [More…]
Why should one, in dealing with human rights, have to show that interest? [More…]
I say that the final and major weakness in the Human Rights Commission Bill is the fact that it stops at a report. [More…]
It has been proved that there is a breach of human rights and there it stops. [More…]
The Bill will turn the operation into part of the works of the Human Rights Commission. [More…]
The Committee expresses its concern that the Human Rights Commission Bill and the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill, which are currently before Federal Parliament, would reduce the chance for such activities as those in Queensland to be documented and brought to the attention of the public. [More…]
Most of the functions of the present Commissioner for Community Relations are to be transferred to the Human Rights Commission. [More…]
That word ‘direction’ has a wide meaning, covering, whatever direction the Human Rights Commission may choose to give. [More…]
It is not that he should dominate the Human Rights Commission as one Commissioner but as a Commissioner of Community Relations he will be an employee. [More…]
He may get a little niche in the report that is written by the Human Rights Commission. [More…]
When one looks at the situation in New Zealand, one finds that the Race Relations Commissioner, Mr H. L. Dansey, is a Human Rights Commissioner. [More…]
In New Zealand one man deals with race relations- a very important part of human rights in New Zealand- yet at the same time he is a commissioner. [More…]
I pointed out that quite curiously there is such a difference between what we are proposing to do in Australia where Dr Grassby, the Commissioner for Community Relations, is not to be a member of the Human Rights Commission, and the position in New Zealand where the Race Relations Commmissioner, Mr H. L. Dansey, is of course a Human Rights Commissioner. [More…]
I fear that, if he is submerged in the Human Rights Commission, they will die away. [More…]
I believe that if we take the office of the Commissioner for Community Relations, which has a certain amount of power, and put it into a Human Rights Commission, which on its present base is relatively weak, we will weaken the operation of the Commissioner. [More…]
I am certainly not satisfied that it is proposed to have sufficient staff to cover the whole operation of the Human Rights Commission plus the area of racial discrimination, and that the staff will in any way be even as adequate as is presently existent for the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]
I am certainly not going to support any Bill which has that weakening effect of losing the present operation of the Commissioner for Community Relations in a relatively powerless Human Rights Commission. [More…]
The Commissioner for Community Relations is brought under the direction of the Human Rights Commission without being made a member of the Commission, and is therefore debarred from any part in the policy-making of the Commission. [More…]
In conclusion I say that we must surely ensure no cosmetic approach to human rights generally. [More…]
As Chairman of the Parliamentary Amnesty group, I am concerned that we should have the same genuine approach to human rights in this country that we have in relation to human rights in other countries. [More…]
We should be concerned with the sufferings of people who have defended human rights in that country. [More…]
We will lose the real achievements which we made against racial discrimination if we merely submerge operations of the Commissioner for Community Relations in the Human Rights Commission. [More…]
I cannot support the Australian Labor Party’s amendment because I do not believe that the way of a Bill of Rights is the right one; nor do I believe in the head-on fight that it might well develop with the States. [More…]
I have defended for many years the concept that we ought to have a Human Rights Commission and that this is the right way to go, but only if such a Commission has within its powers the ability to carry out a really genuine compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
I will, if I fail, support a limitation to the Human Rights Commission Bill. [More…]
I hope that they will not- as I have sensed with some of them- take the opportunity of putting aside the Bill and saying: ‘I do not know about human rights. [More…]
Let us take human rights seriously in this country and ensure that we produce Bills of which we can be proud. [More…]
The Human Rights Commission Bill 1979 and the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill 1979 are being debated together. [More…]
We understand that the Human Rights Commission Bill and the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill will be before the Senate in the immediate future. [More…]
Whilst recognising the neatness of bringing all the human rights mechanisms under one Commission, we submit that these Bills, if passed, will make almost totally ineffective the operation of the Racial Discrimination Act (1975). [More…]
Here I want to interpolate to say that it is amazing that the Australian Government firstly, should have introduced amendments to the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill 1979, and, secondly, should have introduced the Human Rights Commission Bill 1979 at this particular point in our history. [More…]
The Commissioner for Community Relations is brought under the direction of the Human Rights Commission without being made a member of the Commission, and is therefore debarred from any part of the policy-making of the Commission. [More…]
The powers of the proposed Human Rights Commission are very limited. [More…]
It has no power to investigate the violation of human rights under State legislation, and this is where most violations are currently occurring. [More…]
Indeed it appears that the legislation is particularly designed to prevent the Commonwealth Government coming into any conflict with a State government over a possible human rights infringement under State legislation. [More…]
I suppose the land rights legislation is a typical example. [More…]
When the land rights legislation was going through this chamber in late November or early December 1976, we moved some 30-odd amendments, all of which were rejected by people on that side of the chamber. [More…]
I think from memory there were something like 26 divisions where everybody on the other side of the chamber had to stand up and be counted to show where he stood on Aboriginal land rights legislation. [More…]
The excuse that was used at the time was that complementary legislation would be enacted within the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly and this would dovetail with the land rights legislation which was put into law by both chambers of the Federal Parliament. [More…]
In practice, of course, this did not work out, so that first of all there was an argument about how far off the coastline around the tribal areas the water would remain the property of those people who for years had exercised their rights to use that water. [More…]
We submit that for the Parliament to proceed to pass the Human Rights Commission Bill while amending the Racial Discrimination Act in the way proposed, will serve to prove to the world that the Human Rights Commission Bill is just a piece of window dressing. [More…]
Specific adoption in judicially enforceable form of the rights specified in the International Covenant on Civil and Political rights along the lines of the 1973 Human Rights Bill. [More…]
Let me refer to the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill which took a tortuous passage of almost a year before finally being introduced into both chambers of the Parliament. [More…]
This Government very abjectly caved in during the course of the year after the Northern Territory land rights legislation came law. [More…]
Through the Chair, I ask Senator Kilgariff about his attendance at a meeting of a large crowd of Aboriginals at Alice Springs who were protesting because they wanted land rights. [More…]
He agreed publicly with them that they required land rights and he said that he would do everything possible to assist them. [More…]
If that happens, the Opposition intends to move a whole number of amendments in the Committee stage of the Human Rights Commission Bill 1 979. [More…]
That brings me back to an interjection made by Senator Kilgariff when he asked why we do not do something about land rights in Queensland. [More…]
When the land rights legislation was manipulated by the uranium mining companies to reach an agreement which was less than fair to most of the Aborigines in the uranium provinces of the Northern Territory garrulous statements were made by honourable senators on the other side of the chamber about what a fair deal it was. [More…]
Under the Land Rights Act, mining project developers are required to negotiate suitable agreements with the NLC for projects on aboriginal land. [More…]
I find it hard to believe that the government is not already considering the use of the arbitration provisions in the Land Rights Act if it appears that an NLC refusal to negotiate would halt work on the Ranger project. [More…]
Such a strategy would, on the one hand, allow the NLC chairman to preserve his role as an articulate spokesman for the aboriginal point of view, by continuing to speak out against the dangers of mining, while on the other hand not doing irreparable damage to the NLC’s position in a possible arbitration proceeding, when and if the government decides to invoke the arbitration provisions of the Land Rights Act [More…]
I suppose that all honourable senators have received a copy of that very fine piece of publishing put out recently by the League of Rights which urged that the Vietnamese be sent home, that no more blacks be let into Australia and that Australia be kept white and pure! [More…]
That is the sort of thing that has been distributed by the League of Rights. [More…]
I understand the League of Rights is a subsidiary of the National Party, or maybe the National Party is a subsidiary of the League of Rights. [More…]
Racial prejudice has led to infringements of human rights and restrictions of fundamental freedoms as spelt out in the International Covenant on which the Act is based. [More…]
Claims have been made that the Commonwealth is not empowered to legislate in the field of human rights and fundamental freedoms. [More…]
If these measures, as proposed to be amended, are carried through in their entirety, we will have left no laws with any teeth for the protection of the rights of minorities, particularly the coloured minorities, of this nation. [More…]
I rise to address my remarks to the Human Rights Commission Bill and, to a much lesser extent, the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill. [More…]
Human rights, and respect for human rights, are in fact a precondition of democracy and a precondition of the rule of law. [More…]
In fact, it is the respect for individual human beings and individual human rights that makes democracy possible and the rule of law an achievable aim of civilised societies. [More…]
In some ways the one thing that has not been clearly presented in this debate is an answer to the fundamental question why it is that human rights ought to be an issue, why it is that the legislative protection of human rights ought to be a matter of concern, not simply to the Australian Parliament but to any democratic parliament and to any democratic citizen. [More…]
I have researched the history of a number of debates that took place in Europe in the post-war period at a time when the nations of Europe were coming to grips with the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. [More…]
I was saying that one of the things we ought to do is to have some indication of the arguments that have been clearly presented about the need for human rights legislation in some form or other. [More…]
I turn to a debate which occurred in the European Consultative Assembly in August 1949 which was discussing the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. [More…]
In this struggle, I have always felt that we lacked a clearly defined charter which set out unambiguously the rights which we democrats guarantee to our people. [More…]
It ought to be recalled that democracy, civil liberties and human rights are a fragile flower. [More…]
In the publication prepared for the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom by Peter Wallington and Jeremy McBride entitled ‘Civil Liberties and a Bill of Rights’, this was clearly spelled out. [More…]
In advocating a Bill of rights in the British system the authors said: [More…]
The main argument for a Bill of Rights rests on an assessment of the present state of civil liberties in Britain. [More…]
What is needed is an explanation of rights which are universally acknowledged to exist both in the individual and the State, and some guidance of what these rights are and what is to happen when there is a conflict of interest . [More…]
The debate over rights as an issue is one that I think legitimately could detain this Senate for a few moments. [More…]
The issue of rights is an issue which has been debated in political philosophy as long as there has been debate on political philosophy. [More…]
Plato, in his discussion of rights, said simply something along these lines: Philosopher Kings are possessed of the ability to determine what is the ideal for which we should all strive; therefore, they have the right to impose upon others conformity to their will. [More…]
It was not until a later stage, until Aristotle and Cicero started trying to formulate some sort of conception of natural rights, that is, rights inherent in every human being, rights without which the definition of the term ‘human being’ ceased to have any meaning. [More…]
One of the great rennaissance philosophers, Delia Mirandola, writing in I486 attempted to come to grips with this definition of right and asserting the political principles of rights from what he saw as a theological base, in relation to the description of mankind, wrote as follows: [More…]
This idea of attempting to make some definition of what it is that the term ‘rights’ means, what it is we are talking about when we are talking about rights, is what we have to come to grips with in understanding whether a debate about human rights and human rights legislation has a particular place in Australia today. [More…]
We have known, for instance, that assertions of rights have been fundamentally important principles in determining the course of history. [More…]
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. [More…]
They were making a statement about rights, about an attitude towards human beings and about an attitude towards the position of the human being in society which is fundamental to the democratic process. [More…]
It does not deter me from saying that I think, in determining what we mean by rights, will take us a long way towards determining our attitude to human rights legislation as such. [More…]
Undoubtedly, the most perceptive critic or the most perceptive writer on the question of rights during the course of development of this idea among the English speaking people was Edmund Burke. [More…]
He had a great deal to say on the question of rights and he was particularly concerned to try to balance what I believe this Bill is a first tentative step in balancing. [More…]
A legislative framework to provide for the protection of human rights based upon the belief that simply stating that rights exist and hoping that somebody else at some other time will act to protect them is, in fact, an insufficient way of securing those rights. [More…]
He particularly talked about the pretended rights of man in one of his works. [More…]
The pretended rights of man which have made this havoc - [More…]
He was referring to the French revolution- cannot be the rights of the people. [More…]
For to be a people and to have these rights are things incompatible. [More…]
He was trying to make the point that we do ourselves no great service in simply making assertions that rights exist and then expecting that we can build a whole edifice upon that. [More…]
On this vein the classic basis of people stating that Bills of Rights ought to be written and ought to present the answer to all these problems- that is not a point of view that I hold- was stated by Jeremy Bentham. [More…]
In talking about the written Bill of Rights and why he rejected it, he said: [More…]
There are no such things as natural rights- no such things as natural rights opposed to, in contradistinction to legal . [More…]
Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetoric nonsense- nonsense upon stilts. [More…]
If we are to come to grips effectively with these problems, we will have to do so by a more precise definition of what we mean by rights, a more precise definition of those rights that we expect to be protected by and a more precise definition about how we expect those rights to be protected. [More…]
It is equally important to distinguish between rights and needs. [More…]
The simple assertion that certain things are needed is not the same as the assertion that one has rights to a certain thing. [More…]
This leads us to the situation in which two alternative approaches, are presented to the way in which human rights can be secured. [More…]
It is said that either one can rely exclusively upon the operation of the common law and the common law will provide the protection of one’s rights, or that one can go to the other extreme and have a written Bill of rights and a written Bill of rights will be sufficient. [More…]
I believe that neither of those is an effective solution; neither of those brings us to the position of providing an adequate protection of the rights of the Australian people in the 1 980s and beyond. [More…]
For instance, many people who believe that the common law is quite sufficient to provide for all one’s purposes, say: ‘We have the Magna Carta, we have the Bill of Rights, we have habeas corpus and all the law that goes with those and that is sufficient’. [More…]
The Bill of Rights is essentially a protection not for the rights of citizens but for the rights of members of parliament. [More…]
Apart from the qualifications about the elections of parliament, the Bill of Rights is a statement about the powers of parliament. [More…]
These foundation documents asserted existing rights and claimed their Royal recognition. [More…]
Those instruments were not sources of individual rights. [More…]
For instance, Lord Hailsham, the current Lord Chancellor, has written in his latest book about a need for a Bill of rights because he fears the elective dictatorship of parliament. [More…]
Mrs Thatcher has gone on record as supporting the need for a Bill of rights. [More…]
He went on to say that he sees: no reason why a curb should not be placed on Parliament herself when the issue is one of human rights. [More…]
Finally, Sir Norman Anderson again presenting a Hamlyn Lecture entitled ‘Liberty, Law and Justice’ was at great pains to spend part of his discussion on illustrating why he believed the state of the common law in Great Britain was such as to require, in that country, the enactment of a Bill of rights. [More…]
I have said previously that I do not support the concept of a Bill of rights. [More…]
I think this part of my argument demonstrates that the proposition that people can rely upon the operations of the common law, leave it to judges, to tradition, to history and to the good sense of people in the community simply does not exist when there are pressures- the pressures against blacks, the pressures against Vietnamese refugees, the pressures of unemployment or anything else- because one of the first things that is sacrificed when those sorts of conditions prevail are the human rights of other people and essentially the human rights of voiceless and defenceless minorities. [More…]
I wish to say something about the Bill of Rights debate in Australia. [More…]
Any supporter of a bill of rights who retains his objectivity must concede that there are difficulties and uncertainties surrounding this method of protecting fundamental rights. [More…]
But such difficulties as there may prove to be with a bill are as nothing compared with those involved right now in getting parliaments and the courts to recognise the importance of these rights, and to go on respecting them in practice. [More…]
It is hard to imagine that a bill of rights would make no difference. [More…]
Frankly, if that is the best that can be adduced for a Bill of rights I think that it still requires us to view that matter with some degree of scepticism. [More…]
It will be recalled that when the Law Reform Commission legislation was first being debated in this place Senator Greenwood on this side introduced a proposal to require the Law Reform Commission to ascertain whether legislation that came before it for consideration was in fact compatible with the articles of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
I think there is some novelty in the provision relating to the articles of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
I was saying that one of the reasons for my not supporting the idea of a Bill of Rights is the extent to which it makes the rights of individual citizens dependent not just upon the views of the judiciary but upon the views of the particular judges of the day. [More…]
If one could be assured that there was some degree of continuity, that rights once defined and laid down by the judiciary were to remain without change one would have a little more confidence in a Bill of rights. [More…]
Frankly, I am not impressed with the idea of making the fundamental human rights of Australian citizens dependent upon what the judiciary says will vary from time to time, as time unfolds, and as circumstances and conditions alter because I do not want human rights in Australia to be dependent upon time and circumstance. [More…]
Who would have thought that the equal protection clause in Article 14 dealing the voting rights could be held in 1926 in Fergus v. Marks as being purely a political issue and by the time it had come round to 1964 in Reynolds v. Sim it was found that the American Supreme Court said: [More…]
Yet recent decisions even this year, by the American Supreme Court in cases such as Hutchinson v. Proxmire or the Progressive Case have made it clear that the courts are now prepared to erect barriers to investigative journalism or that the right of public trial specified in Article 6 should have been in July of this year defined by the American Supreme Court in a case involving De Pasquale to say that the public has no constitution right to attend criminal trials; or that the American Constitution should have been found so deficient in its legal interpretation to require it to be altered on no less than four separate occasions- in 1 870, 1920, 1964 and 1971- to try to secure voting rights for all adult Americans over the age of 1 8. [More…]
We know that in Australia the debate whether Australia should have a Bill of rights is one that preoccupied the Founding Fathers of the Australian Constitution. [More…]
The Convention did, however, discuss almost to the end the most celebrated of American ‘rights’, and there were more reasons for discarding or diluting them than an unshakeable faith in parliamentary democracy. [More…]
It has been said that there were three fundamental rights written into the Australian Constitution. [More…]
Those three rights have turned out to be fairly illusory protections in the Australian Constitution. [More…]
Section 117 appears to have done precious little to secure the rights of Aboriginal citizens of Australia who happen to be resident in the States of Queensland and Western Australia and in the Northern Territory. [More…]
We are therefore brought to a situation in which adopting the International Convenant on Civil and Political Rights appears to be a weak middle ground between these two extremes. [More…]
If one looks at Article 4 one finds that there is one form of limitation on fundamental rights. [More…]
Those rights can be abrogated provided that such measures are not inconsistent with other obligations under international law and do not involve discrimination solely on the ground of race, colour, sex, language or social origin. [More…]
The above-mentioned rights shall not be subject to any restrictions except those which are provided by law, are necessary to protect national security, public order . [More…]
public health or morals or the rights and freedoms of others, and are consistent with the other rights recognized in the present Covenant. [More…]
Freedom to manifest one’s religion or beliefs may be subject only to such limitations as are prescribed by law and are necessary to protect public safety, order, health, or morals or the fundamental rights and freedoms of others. [More…]
I regret that we have not sought to use the test of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms which I consider to be a much more powerful and much more appropriate document in current circumstances. [More…]
I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard the text of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and the protocols attached to it. [More…]
The Australian section of the International Commission of Jurists is deeply concerned at the inadequacy of the Human Rights Commission Bill at present before the Australian Senate. [More…]
Governments are the greatest violators of human rights and in the Australian Federal system the overwhelming majority of these violations occur under State law. [More…]
People want to come into this Parliament and say that a Human Rights Commission designed to investigate and report upon breaches of human rights should have this great swag of State legislation- I have qouted in relation to only four parts, namely, offences against Articles 9, 11, 14 and 17 of the Convention which we are now putting into this Bill- not subject to the investigation of the Commission. [More…]
What sort of bona fides does this represent by a government that says that it is prepared to have a commission to investigate breaches of human rights provided the breaches of human rights are not those flagrantly, blatantly and continually undertaken under State legislation? [More…]
It is for that reason that I will certainly be voting for the amendments foreshadowed by Senator Missen to extend the scope of the investigations of the Human Rights Commission to look at those activities undertaken by the States which constitute ongoing and flagrant breaches of human rights in Australia. [More…]
There have been suggestions that a Bill of Rights which is enforceable in the courts should be developed for Australia. [More…]
I say to the Attorney-General that much as I am one who admires the federal system and federal principles, if a decision has to be made between the principles of federalism and the principles of human rights, I do not think the principles of federalism are worth a brass razoo. [More…]
If that is to be used as the feeble and facile argument to say that the human rights of citizens in Australia are less important than the attachment to a political ideology regarded as federalism, it is an argument that I am not prepared to wear in any circumstances. [More…]
The criticism that Senator Missen has made in a critique which is now part of his speech in Hansard under the heading ‘clause 16 (f): ‘Enforcement of Human Rights’ is an area which bears further study by all honourable senators. [More…]
One would hope one would plead with the AttorneyGeneral, that, having this report before him now and having before him a report from the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs- which seeks in terms of the Sankey judgment and other matters to argue as precisely as it can argue on those pages against the system of conclusive Ministerial certificatesunless he expects the members of the Consitutional and Legal Affairs Committee and other members of the Senate not to believe that this report is being treated with monumental contempt, he will make some sort of attempt to come to grips with the question of whether conclusive certificates, which this Committee recommends, ought to be subject to a number of qualifications and appeals which should not appear in the Freedom of Information Bill or the Archives Bill and, equally should not appear in the Human Rights Commission Bill. [More…]
One concerns the constitutional power of the Federal Parliament to enact human rights legislation. [More…]
In a speech which the former Attorney-General- (Quorum formed) I was saying that there was some debate as to whether the Commonwealth possesses the constitutional power to enact human rights legislation which might have any effect whatsoever upon the States. [More…]
Leaving aside the serious doubts which I share as to the power of the Federal Parliament to legislate on the matter for the whole of Australia (there would appear to be no constitutional difficulty associated with the Commonwealth and each State legislating for Bills of Rights in their respective areas of responsibility), there are other difficulties which I see. [More…]
For instance, I would be grateful if the Attorney-General would inform me in his reply to the second reading debate whether it is the intention of the Australian Government, when proceeding to ratification, to ratify also the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political rights adopted by resolution 2200 (XXI) at the General Assembly on 16 December 1966. [More…]
It provides for a human rights committee to be set up in consequence of Part IV of the covenant which appears as the Schedule to the Bill. [More…]
A State Party to the Covenant that becomes a party to the present Protocol recognises the competence of the Committee to receive and to consider communications from individuals subject to its jurisdiction, claiming to be victims of a violation by that State Party of any of the rights set forth in the Covenant. [More…]
OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS [More…]
Considering that in order further to achieve the purposes of the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Covenant’) and the implementation of its provisions it would be appropriate to enable the Human [More…]
Rights Committee set up in part IV of the Covenant (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Committee’) to receive and consider, as provided in the present Protocol, communications from individuals claiming to be victims of violations of any of the rights set forth in the Covenant. [More…]
A State Party to the Covenant that becomes a parry to the present Protocol recognises the competence of the Committee to receive and consider communications from individuals subject to its jurisdiction, claiming to be victims of a violation by that State Party of any of the rights set forth in the Covenant. [More…]
Subject to the provision of article 1, individuals claiming that any of their rights enumerated in the Convenant have been violated and who have exhausted all available domestic remedies may submit a written communication to the Committee for consideration. [More…]
I wonder whether the Government will have the courage also to ratify the optional protocol which it seems to me would allow individuals to appeal to the human rights committee set up as a consequence of Part IV of the principal Covenant in order to receive complaints from individuals about acts of discrimination by State parties which take place as far as they are concerned. [More…]
I say that there is a demonstrable need for the legal protection of human rights which are all too subject to the whim of the majority of the day, to the most base and ignorant predjuices of the day and the situations where minorities receive as limited an amount of protection from majorities as can possibly be eked out by the inadequate measures that we have at the moment. [More…]
I dislike Bills of rights as a fundamental solution to this matter. [More…]
Finally I say that this Parliament has no role which is legitimate if it is not the role of protecting the rights of individuals and representing them. [More…]
It has no more important role than the role that it plays in debating legislation like human rights and racial discrimination legislation. [More…]
I believe that it is a first step which governments, as they progressively realise their responsibilities and as they change to get themselves more and more into line with the views that the majority of the people in this community hold, will be able to build upon this piece of legislation to ensure that the protection of human rights and civil liberties is recognised as being a significant role which the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia has to play. [More…]
We, as the elected representatives of the Australian people, are involved in creating for the first time an Act relating to human rights. [More…]
The Human Rights Commission Bill will become law perhaps with some slight amendments. [More…]
Therefore, unlike some projects which have been in this Parliament on previous occasions to do with human rights, this legislation has a particular import and we have to approach it with some gravity and even goodwill. [More…]
On a first glance one would say that this Bill is part of that world wide enterprise that has had particular force since the Second World War when nations in reaction to the Nazi and the general Axis tyrannies decided that documents needed to be drafted which set forth as clearly as possible that human beings had certain human rights which should be respected by whatever form of government had control of their country, be it a Communist socalled dictatorship of the proletariat or a Western democratic model. [More…]
It is not exactly deceptive but one is led to have suspicions about the real commitment of this Government to the securing of human rights within Australia. [More…]
To put it briefly, when reading the Bill one finds that the Bill specifically disables the proposed Human Rights Commission from dealing with those very areas that Senator Puplick outlined, namely those coming within State jurisdictions, where breaches of human rights most commonly and notoriously occur within this nation. [More…]
Where the Act concerns itself with rights it in no way secures them on behalf of individuals by providing appropriate and effective remedies to ensure that they are really rights and not merely privileges enjoyed at the grant and the whim of the majority for the time being. [More…]
Even the preamble speaks of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights having been opened for signature on 19 December 1 966 and of having come into force. [More…]
This morning Senator Wheeldon, in the presentation of a report, as a citizen of Australia was able to talk about the violation of human rights in Russia because since the Second World War the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has been moved, however reluctantly, by the international movement of which I spoke, to go to Helsinki and to say to other nation states: ‘Human rights, though affecting individuals within our jurisdiction, are of sufficient international concern that we will bind ourselves to respect them’. [More…]
An overall assessment of the legislation currently proceeding through Parliament must conclude that it is not strong enough to bring the human rights situation in Australia into line with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
In that report we, as a parliamentary committee, in a bipartisan, unanimous resolution, recommended that a parliamentary committee should be established to maintain a watching brief on all Bills introduced into the Parliament to highlight the provisions which had an impact on persons, either by interfering with their rights or by subjecting them to the exercise of undue delegations of power. [More…]
We reasoned that, having been alerted by such a committee to a deficiency, danger or jeopardy in a proposed piece of legislation, the Parliament, with that recommendation of the committee before it, could make a judgment on whether to proceed with the Bill as drafted on the basis of countervailing considerations or whether to accept the recommendation of the committee that the Bill should be withdrawn in that it did, as the committee judged, put into jeopardy the human rights of an individual. [More…]
If the Government refuses in the course of a year to come into the Parliament and say: Yes, we agree that a parliamentary committee should have Bills before it in order to inform the Parliament, before it passes those Bills into law, that those Bills might place in jeopardy a human right’, what confidence can we have that the Government will put before the proposed Commission Bills, or even enactments, which may have such a dangerous effect on human rights in Australia? [More…]
I must say that I regret that this Bill in no way, despite its pretensions, falls into the general movement for the protection of human rights which has swept the world since the Second World War. [More…]
I suppose that the major deficiency is that there is a lack of remedy for the rights which are outlined as the concern of the Australian community and which are to come within the jurisdiction of the proposed Commission. [More…]
Chief Justice Holt, a great chief justice, born in 1642, Chief Justice at the age of 23 years, Chief Justice for 41 years- not some woolly-minded academic- a man who was harsh on treason and sedition but who held out against the prosecution of witches, who adopted a liberal construction on statutes compelling church attendance, a man who was concerned with human rights and who used his unparallelled position as Chief Justice for 41 years to secure them, said of that elementary maxim: ‘Whenever the common law gives a right it also gives a remedy’. [More…]
There is no doubt that this Bill is totally deficient according to the traditions of our rule of law when, in setting out rights, it fails to provide adequate and effective remedies such as were contained in the Human Rights Bill put down in this place in 1973 by the then Senator Murphy. [More…]
That is a very salutary and effective means of preventing, for example, an abuse of human rights which should be enjoyed while a criminal investigation is under way by the police force. [More…]
When Senator Puplick was speaking, as he did for some time, on the history of the human spirit in trying to secure human rights, he mentioned in particular the experience of the European community after the Second World War as something which appealed to him in its fruition in the European covenant. [More…]
Lord Hailsham, coming from a different common law tradition distinct from the civil law tradition of those whom Senator Puplick quoted earlier, stated, according to Senator Puplick, that there is a need for any statement concerning human rights to include what is to happen when there is a conflict between the rights of the community in general and the rights of the individual. [More…]
This point is very important because Senator Puplick and Senator Missen too, I think were at pains to emphasise that we want to talk about rights which inhere in the individual despite the will of the majority for the time being. [More…]
It exists where the rights of minorities to dissent by way of verbal expression and even by way of practice, as long as it is nonviolent, are ensured. [More…]
In article 2, clause 2- and this is perhaps why it has not been ratified- it requires the Government to adopt such legislative or other measures as may be necessary to give effect to the rights recognised in the Covenant. [More…]
The Government is required to give effect to the rights recognised. [More…]
Here a confusion, I must say, entered the remarks of both Senator Missen and Senator Puplick because, in saying that a judicially enforceable Bill of rights is perhaps not the immediate answer to Australia’s situation, I agree only in a sense of that expression, namely, that the judges should not be given as their basic raw material a Bill of rights which is drafted so widely, so ambiguously, as to allow them the freedom of interpretation which was the concern of both Senator Missen and Senator Puplick. [More…]
That is quite different from the proposition I am putting that one needs a judicial Bill of rights or list of human rights in the sense that, once they are denned with as great a precision as is possible by the elected representatives, an independent and impartial tribunal, a judiciary, ought to be given the power to enforce them. [More…]
What this Government has failed to do is to go through the hard exercise of developing a list of human rights appropriate to the Australian situation, detailed as unambiguously as possible, and then to say to the judiciary: ‘We have done our part as elected representatives in identifying the rights necessary for Australians in a democratic society; you develop the remedies and apply them, whether by way of injunction, direction, damages or whatever’. [More…]
Therefore, I would say that, given that understanding, perhaps both Senators Missen and Puplick could agree that a judicially enforceable Bill of rights, tightly drafted and perhaps of greater length than the traditionally rhetorical Bills of rights which grace so many modern constitutions, should be judicially enforceable. [More…]
If the Government is not relying on the external affairs power for the provision of this Bill- I will give the reasons why I do not think it needs to- why has it neglected to do this difficult task of compiling an indigenous list of human rights? [More…]
There is no need for it, if it is not attempting to reach the States, to rely on an international covenant on human and political rights. [More…]
If there had been some attempt to bring the States within the purview of the Commission, I could understand why there has been no attempt to take on the hard constitutional question whether we could have judicially enforceable rights which could be won when at variance or inconsistent with State laws. [More…]
But since that enterprise is not undertaken by this Bill, I cannot really see any excuse for the Government’s not providing effective legal remedies for violations of human rights, even as measured by the international covenant. [More…]
As I said in my opening remarks, the Bill deliberately disables itself from dealing with that area of greatest and most constant violation of human rights within Australia, namely, within the State jurisdictions. [More…]
I turn now to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
Unfortunately the covenant, despite the fact that it arises out of the holocaust of the Second World War, bears all the marks of compromise and ambiguity which will occur when nations with different forms of government, different social systems, some totalitarian and some democratic, get together and try to formulate rights which can be won by citizens against governments. [More…]
There is none of that tension and none of that overcoming of a situation of oppression which, for example, characterises the United States Bill of Rights. [More…]
For that reason one constantly finds certain very destructive riders which will negate the rights which are granted. [More…]
Freedom to manifest one’s religion or beliefs may be subject only to such limitations as are prescribed by law and are necessary to protect public safety, order, health, or morals or the fundamental rights and freedoms of others. [More…]
That is a very wide provision which is at variance with the human rights that are said to be guaranteed. [More…]
Does the Government of Australia have any evidence of such breaches of human rights by the Government of Romania along these lines? [More…]
The Minister for Foreign Affairs advises that the Soviet Union and governments in Eastern Europe, including Romania’s, continue to deny fundamental civil and political rights to their citizens and that minorities often suffer most in this respect. [More…]
Australia deplores the continued denial of human rights to the people of Eastern Europe generally. [More…]
Our views have been made abundantly clear to the Governments of those countries where human rights violations occur. [More…]
The Government of Australia shall, in the exercise of its sovereign rights in respect of the living resources within the Australian fishing zone, determine annually, subject to adjustment when necessary to meet unforeseen circumstances. [More…]
-In my notable speech to the Senate last Thursday on the Human Rights Commission Bill 1979 and the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill 1979-1 will be concluding my speech with only a few short remarks- I pointed out the basis of my grave misgivings concerning the Government’s good faith even in presenting this human rights legislation to this Parliament. [More…]
I remarked that, on the face of it, it appeared to be in harmony with the movement to secure human rights which had swept the world, particularly after the Second World War in reaction to the excesses of the totalitarian regimes in Germany and Japan. [More…]
I noted that the movement had embraced countries as diverse as the democracies of Western Europe and the totalitarian dictatorships of the proletariat of Eastern Europe and that in all cases the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights had served as a criterion by which government action in this field could be judged. [More…]
I think that on Thursday I indicated to the Senate why it was unfortunate that the Australian Government had not proceeded beyond that Covenant as the basis for the work of the Human Rights Commission as outlined in this Bill. [More…]
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights being, as it is, the product of consultations between governments and bearing none of the marks of having been generated in a crucible of conflict between the oppressed and a government of totalitarian complexion or the marks which characterise the United States Bill of Rights, for example, which did emerge from people who felt themselves to be oppressed, it is not surprising that the so-called rights said to be secured are, in fact, constantly modified and eaten away by exceptions in favour of government regulation on grounds as vague as public health or morals. [More…]
Given the fact that the Government is not attempting to reach into the States’ sphere, is not attempting to use any special constitutional power, such as the external affairs power, in order to reach into State jurisdictions, which is where most breaches of human rights in Australia occur, it is unfortunate that the Government did not take the opportunity to set itself the very difficult task of defining for its own laws and territories those human rights which ought to be secured without the sort of modifications and reservations which are expressed in the International Covenant which is taken now as the document of criteria of the Human Rights Commission. [More…]
It is a fact, as has been pointed out by honourable senators, that most violations of human rights- perhaps up to 95 per cent, according to documents circulated by Senator Missen- occur within State jurisdictions and have to do with freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, the rights that one has when a criminal investigation is carried out by the police, and that type of situation. [More…]
The second weakness, as I have pointed out, is that there are no judicially enforceable remedies to secure the rights- -ubi jus, ibi remedium; where there is a right there is a remedy. [More…]
Chief Justice Holt, who at the age of 23 years ascended to the bench and who was on the bench for 42 years, very strongly opposed the persecution of witches and very strongly tried to modify the effects of those laws which required compulsory attendance in certain churches and denied rights to members of other, even Christian, communions. [More…]
For example, the human rights legislation which was introduced by the then Senator Murphy went further with certain judicial and effective remedies, such as preventing evidence obtained in contravention of a Bill of Rights being effectively used in a court. [More…]
That is a very salutory way of ensuring that in the course of a criminal investigation the police do not abuse the human rights of those who are involved in the investigation. [More…]
Why have we not in this chamber had a token of good faith from the Government before the presentation of this Bill whereby it says to the world community: We will be bound by the International Covenant on Political and Civil Rights’. [More…]
It is amazing that on the very day that this Bill was introduced, Senator Wheeldon, on behalf of an Australian parliamentary committee, was able to criticise the breach of human rights within the Soviet Union which his committee, the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, concluded had occurred. [More…]
We see it as a matter of international and legitimate concern that we secure and respect the human rights of persons within the USSR’. [More…]
Why has the Australian Government not gone into the world community and bound itself internationally to the observance of the human rights which it has given the Commission by this Bill as the criterion for its operation? [More…]
I might perhaps say for completeness of this part of the Hansard record that I believe that Senator Puplick and Senator Missen, in their remarks on the judicial enforceability of a Bill of Rights, were directing their remarks only to the need, with which I agree, to have a list of human rights which is sufficiently precise, comprehensive and free of ambiguity that it amounts to a direction by the elected representatives of the people to the courts that these are the rights to be secured. [More…]
It ought not to be left to the courts to have the freedom to interpret very widely and vaguely drawn expressions of human rights which might be compatible with some philosophical treatise expressing the yearnings of the human spirit that were dwelt on by Senator Puplick for the greater part of his speech. [More…]
What we need is an Australian government, or an Australian parliament, which is prepared to say that we are the elected representatives of the people and that these are the rights which ought to be secured, as appropriate to the Australian context. [More…]
If that were the case we would have human rights legislation which would receive the full support of this side of the chamber. [More…]
I thought that the elected representatives should be in some way made more responsible for securing any particular human right which is said by the Human Rights Commission to have been violated. [More…]
All I am saying is that in order to secure the human rights with which this Bill is concerned, it may be necessary to provide financial support for those who wish to appear before the Commission and to fight for the right to be recognised. [More…]
It goes no further than a cosmetic fulfilling of the Government’s election promise to secure human rights within Australia. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition, Mr Hayden, has made it abundantly clear, as indeed does the Australian Labor Party’s platform adopted recently at its 33rd national conference in Adelaide, that we would produce and introduce into the Australian Parliament a Bill of rights which would be effective and would reach into the whole of each Australian jurisdiction in which rights might be violated. [More…]
In other words, it would regard, as I think Senator Puplick put most eloquently, rights as being an inherent attribute of being fortunate to the resident within the Australian democracy and that State boundaries and State jurisdictions and the accident of birth and the accident of residence should play no part in the question of whether an Australian resident is entitled to vindication in an impartial court of his rights. [More…]
Both those elements are important to any Australian Labor Party view on the protection of human rights in Australia. [More…]
Human rights should reach into all State jurisdictions and should be judicially enforceable. [More…]
Because this Bill fails lamentably to meet those requirements which are the only requirements which will secure human rights in Australia, the Opposition maintains its total opposition to the Bill as introduced. [More…]
I join the debate on the Human Rights Commission Bill 1 979 and the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill 1979. [More…]
Whilst I see the need for a human rights Act, I feel that the Government, if it is not prepared to accept its responsibilities and to carry out in full the provisions of the United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, is just whistling in the dark. [More…]
In most of these cases, particularly where racial discrimination or breaches of human rights occur, it is the most unfortunate people, economically, educationally and in other ways, who would not have the wherewithal to be able to carry out that kind of prosecution. [More…]
If this Government is to establish the necessary machinery to enforce the human rights of people in our nation, it must be, I believe, forthright and incorporate the very spirit of the International Covenant, and not merely enact some milk-sop legislation as we see now which pays only lip service to the principles. [More…]
It will not deceive neighbouring developing nations whose lack of human rights we in this country too freely, too often and too quickly criticise. [More…]
If the Government cannot set up a commission which will have the necessary teeth to ensure human rights, the proposed Human Rights Commission will be just another useless bureaucracy. [More…]
I believe that the very essence of human rights is, in the final analysis, the understanding of another’s point of view and the awareness of another’s culture and customs. [More…]
I suppose that that is what human rights are all about- giving a fair go. [More…]
That would be a way of overcoming some of the racial prejudices which exist and the lack of human rights in certain areas. [More…]
The greatest weakness in the Bill, as I said earlier, is that it does not ratify the International Covenant on Civil and Political rights of 1966. [More…]
The Bill provides no real machinery to investigate the great majority of violations of human rights in Australia. [More…]
I believe that that provision emasculates the proposed Commission because, as has been said here time and time again, most breaches of human rights occur under State laws. [More…]
I believe that the areas which will fall within the province of the Commonwealth will be negligible, as presently State laws cover most of the areas in which breaches of human rights and discrimination occur. [More…]
From my reading of the Bill, the Commission will have no power to initiate reports when human rights violations occur; it will have to await a request by the Minister. [More…]
I believe that the requirements under clause 10 (4) (f) that a complainant must have sufficient interest in the subject matter of a complaint to initiate that complaint will preclude complaints being made by human rights organisations throughout the country, such as Amnesty International. [More…]
It should not be necessary for a person or body to establish sufficient interest when breaches of human rights are involved. [More…]
Clause 1 1 makes provision for the Minister to arrange with a Minister of a State or the Northern Territory to perform Commonwealth functions or functions of the proposed Commission relating to the promotion and observance of human rights. [More…]
I believe that such a provision is completely unacceptable if we are to have fair dinkum legislation in relation to human rights and racial discrimination. [More…]
The Attorney-General (Senator Durack) remarked in his second reading speech that the Commission would not need enforcement powers of the type vested in the courts and that sanctions of a legal kind ‘may even provide antagonism ‘-antagonism, mind you- ‘rather than a spirit of co-operation which is so central in matters of reciprocal rights and obligations’. [More…]
If someone is being discriminated against, if someone is suffering because of a denial of human rights, and he takes strong steps against the person concerned, he will antagonise that person! [More…]
What about the person who is suffering because of denial of human rights? [More…]
There are many other ratbag organisations which flout all the principles of human rights. [More…]
I believe that in both these pieces of legislation there should be provision for prosecutions for breaches of human rights, regardless of the kind of discrimination there may be against a person or persons. [More…]
The Senate, in debating the issues of racial discrimination and human rights, is really beginning to concern itself about democracy and about the interpretation of democracy as it is applied. [More…]
The demand for legislation to deal with racial discrimination and human rights is synonymous with demands that are being made in many countries in the world. [More…]
The yardstick that has been applied in almost every country is that there should be a respect for human rights. [More…]
It has been elevated to a much more important principle as far as the rights of citizens are concerned. [More…]
One can go back in time and recall the Bill of Rights and the United Nations Covenants, all of which embodied the concept of the rights of the individual. [More…]
Despite all of those pronouncements of the past by various countries there is still need to examine human rights more closely and to legislate in order to guarantee them. [More…]
Democracy requires respect for human rights, as it requires acceptance of the rule of law. [More…]
One is reminded of the oft-used phrase, the tyranny of the majority, the situation in which the majority rides rough-shod over the rights of the minority. [More…]
So when we speak of human rights we must examine a wider application than merely the rights of an individual. [More…]
Individuals come together and then, collectively, their rights are affected by the way in which society operates, the way in which parliament operates, the way in which organisations operate, when the rights of individuals are neither clearly denned nor respected. [More…]
The rules, traditions and processes of our society operate against the rights of the individual, against minority groups in the community. [More…]
Therefore, one cannot say that a black, a migrant or a disadvantaged person has the same rights as has a Lang Hancock, a Fairfax, a Murdoch, a Norman Young or many of the others in places of high importance in the industrial and commercial centres of our society. [More…]
I am not suggesting that Australia is any different from any other country, because I think what we have witnessed in recent times is this tremendous world movement towards human rights and against discrimination, and the struggle of the Third World countries to be recognised in the same way as other countries, the realisation that the superpowers should not have the sort of powers that they have to make decisions over life and death, peace and war. [More…]
The Government has of recent times taken a very public and, I believe, a very pious stand on human rights. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Fraser) and the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) trip all around the world, Mr Fraser at Lusaka and Mr Peacock at the United Nations, preaching the cause of human rights. [More…]
It is a very good objective that we should put our case for human rights, wherever we may be. [More…]
But we must be concerned about the human rights of people wherever they are- not only a lack of human rights in Czechoslovakia or Kampuchea, but also in Timor. [More…]
I find it quite hypocritical of some members of the Government parties whose prinicipal interest is to concern themselves with human rights in one particular group of countries and not concern themselves about human rights in other countries. [More…]
Like peace, human rights are indivisible. [More…]
How can our Government talk about human rights and preach human rights to other countries when we have such a blatant abuse of human rights in our own country. [More…]
They put it to Senator Murphy and me that we should come down on a Friday night to have a look at what happens in the pubs around Redfern, and that they should show us exactly how the law operates in terms of discrimination against the human rights of blacks. [More…]
We are still not satisfied with the way in which this Government has approached the problem in Queensland, particularly in relation to Aurukun and Mornington Island, or that the rights of the Aborigines there have been properly recognised and the obligations of the Federal Government accepted. [More…]
They have been denied the basic rights of selfmanagement and self-government. [More…]
It is a form of discrimination, and yet this legislation does nothing to overcome the obstinacy and the refusal of State governments to come into line on the question of human rights and against racial discrimination. [More…]
Subsequently we have seen this Government move to a position where it takes the view that there should be no relationship with governments that practise that type of violation of human rights. [More…]
So while the Opposition recognises the tentative step that this Government has taken in this legislation, we nevertheless feel that it is purely a first step in a very long march towards an understanding of human rights and ending racial discrimination. [More…]
A close look at this Bill reveals that the proposed Commission will have little practical power to guarantee human rights or to ensure that existing laws are brought into line with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which the Australian Government is on record as saying that it proposes to ratify this year. [More…]
We are concerned about those areas where there is most blatantly a need for legislation and for protection of human rights. [More…]
We know that 95 per cent of human rights violations take place in the States. [More…]
The Commission goes on to single out the limited jurisdiction of the proposed Human Rights Commission for particular criticism. [More…]
The powers of the proposed Human Rights Commission are very limited. [More…]
It has no power to investigate the violation of human rights under State legislation, and this is where most violations are currently occurring. [More…]
Indeed it appears that the legislation is particularly designed to prevent the Commonwealth Government coming into any conflict with a State Government over a possible human rights infringement under State legislation. [More…]
May even provoke antagonism rather than the spirit of cooperation which is so essential in matters of reciprocal rights and obligations. [More…]
The Attorney-General seems to believe that all violations of human rights are committed by a mistake, or happened unnecessarily, that one has only to point out to the violators the error of their ways and they will desist. [More…]
We say that most violations of human rights are committed with a deliberate and malicious intent and that no amount of persuasion and argument will deter the offenders. [More…]
To suggest that we should enact legislation at the Commonwealth level without following it through right down the line in a way that makes the practising of discrimination and denial of human rights an offence is to forsake our responsibilities. [More…]
Is it suggested that an equal fight, an equal struggle, is being waged in this case and that she has the same rights as the management of Ansett? [More…]
We have to fight for the principle of equality and the rights of the individual. [More…]
All the unfavourable publicity that goes with that deters other people from exercising their democratic rights. [More…]
So, when we talk about human rights we are not just talking about some nebulous, airy-fairy pieinthesky; we are talking about a fundamental aspect of the way society ought to operate. [More…]
Clause 10 (4) (f) states that the Human Rights Commission may decide against an inquiry if ‘the complainant does not have a sufficient interest in the subject-matter of the complaint.’. [More…]
On the other hand, an inspector of police, or a person holding some other senior position, or some unknown person, as happened in the case of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization Amendment Bill introduced by this Government, is given the right to sit in judgment upon his fellow citizens and determine the rights and wrongs of his actions. [More…]
This legislation will be no more than a moral decision by this Parliament to establish some broad principles about what should be the human rights of individuals in our country. [More…]
We have an obligation to define the areas of discrimination and the areas in which human rights are threatened and prejudiced as a result of the way our society operates. [More…]
All of us, whatever political party we belong to and whatever label may be pinned upon us, have an obligation to see that we carry out our responsibilities and that the States ultimately pass the sort of legislation that makes ratification of covenants on civil and political rights not just a stamp on a piece of paper. [More…]
This step is being taken to bring about a realisation in the Australian community that all people, as stated by so many international decision-making bodies, such as the United Nations in its Universal Declaration of Human Rights and so on, are born equal. [More…]
Apart from the Attorney-General (Senator Durack), I am the eighth senator to speak- there have been four speakers from the Opposition side and four from the Government benches- and so far everyone except the Attorney-General has criticised the Human Rights Commission Bill 1 979 and the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill 1 979. [More…]
As a matter of fact, I get the impression that no one, including the Attorney-General, likes the Human Rights Commission Bill very much. [More…]
The best that its supporters can find to say for it is that we need it so that we can ratify the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of 1 966 and that although it will not make a significant difference to human rights in Australia, most of which are governed by State legislation anyway, the present Bill is as far as we can reasonably go under our federal structure. [More…]
As I have said, the relevant United Nations covenant is the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
I think that it is partly because we tend to assume that we have an impeccable system of legal protection for human rights which is second to none in the world. [More…]
We think of our legal protections for the human rights of Australians as a happy blend between British justice and the Australian ‘fair go ‘. [More…]
That is not to say that we are significantly worse than most countries in the protection of human rights- far from it. [More…]
For our present purposes, the most important is Article 2 under which, if we ratify the Covenant, we should commit ourselves to taking the necessary steps in accordance with our constitutional processes to give effect to the requirements and rights recognised in the Covenant. [More…]
Firstly, I should like to deal with some of the rights laid down in the Covenant, some of which we may have difficulty in meeting. [More…]
Article 2, for instance, would commit us to ensuring that everyone enjoys the rights laid down without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. [More…]
Article 3 of the Covenant provides for equal rights for men and women. [More…]
I do not want to go through all the rights which are contained in the first 27 Articles of the Covenant. [More…]
On the whole, the rights outlined in the Covenant are well established in this country, although we do have some surprising shortcomings. [More…]
Governments are the great infringers of human rights, whether by action or by inaction. [More…]
The United States Bill of Rights was imposed by the community- perhaps more accurately, by an articulate minority of the community- on the Government. [More…]
The above-mentioned rights shall not be subject to any restrictions except those which are provided by law, are necessary to protect national security, public order - [More…]
It continues: public health or morals or the rights and freedoms of others . [More…]
That is a very severe restriction on the rights established in paragraph 1 . [More…]
Prescribed by law in Iran, perhaps- and are necessary to protect public safety, order, health, or morals or the fundamental rights and freedoms of others. [More…]
There are, as I am sure honourable senators can see, very serious defects and very substantial grounds by which administrative procedures can limit the rights of the Covenant. [More…]
It is a fairly good document, I think one could say, but it is in no sense a perfect declaration of human rights. [More…]
Who would give much for human rights in Iran today? [More…]
Only a few days ago in this chamber we heard a report on the state of civil rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
All of them are countries which are notorious for their ignoring of human rights. [More…]
Moreover, as a member of the international community in good standing and also as a recently elected member of the United Nations Human Rights Commission, it is very embarrassing for us not to have ratified a covenant on human rights. [More…]
As I pointed out earlier, this involves us in taking effective steps- not just steps for show- to ensure that the United Nations rights are effective here both federally and in the States- throughout the federation- without any exemptions or exceptions. [More…]
The Human Rights Commission Bill is the third attempt to give legislative effect to this responsibility. [More…]
The first was the Human Rights Bill, introduced in 1973 by Attorney-General Murphy, with his customary panache and sloppy administration. [More…]
The concept behind this Bill was to produce an Australian Bill of rights which embodies the rights laid down in the United Nations Covenant. [More…]
The provisions of the Human Rights Bill would have overridden inconsistent provisions in Commonwealth, State and Territory laws. [More…]
The Bill also provided for the appointment of a human rights commissioner whose function would be to investigate infringements of the guaranteed freedoms and conciliate them if he could. [More…]
I do not want to digress to the question of whether a Bill of Rights would improve or worsen our civil and political rights. [More…]
I think we should have a Bill of Rights, provided it is adequately entrenched in the Constitution so that the rights cannot be taken away at the whim of a single parliament. [More…]
With the current world-wide concern about human rights, there is little doubt that the United Nations Covenant would meet this requirement. [More…]
To my mind, the fundamental defect of the Murphy approach was that a Bill of Rights based on the United Nations Covenant would quite possibly be constitutional, under the external affairs power, but it would be in many ways less than our present rights. [More…]
But attempts to extend the provisions in the Bill to cover the rights we have and should have would probably be unconstitutional. [More…]
Senator Missen has pointed out some substantial procedural defects in the present Bill: The lack of any enforcement power by the Human Rights Commission; the power given to the Minister to by-pass the Commission and give its power to the States; the possible conflict of the revised Freedom of Information Bill which I thought dealt very effectively with the undesirability of conclusive certificates by Ministers; and the undesirable introduction in the Human Rights Commission Bill of the legal concept of standing to preclude people without sufficient interest from making a complaint. [More…]
Like its predecessor, the present Bill avoids the Bill of Rights approach. [More…]
Instead, a Human Rights Commission is to be set up to draw the attention of the Government and Parliament to areas where action seems necessary to make our civil and political rights effective- draw the attention, not take action. [More…]
Surely we should be able to cooperate effectively in this matter of human rights. [More…]
After all, as has been pointed out by Justice Kirby, despite the great differences of history, culture and language, European countries have been able to produce a European Convention on Human Rights and the Council of Europe has produced more than 100 conventions on such diverse subjects as extradition, the legal status of migrant workers, transplantation laws and suppression of terrorism. [More…]
Even if joint Commonwealth-State organisations are set up, they will not necessarily deal with the civil and political rights of State laws. [More…]
For how long would this failure be compatible with our responsibility under the Covenant to take the necessary steps to give effect to the rights recognised in the Covenant in all parts of the Federation without any limitations or exceptions? [More…]
We have the power to override the States to make these rights effective. [More…]
But when a State is abusing civil or political rights or is refusing to have examined whether it is abusing them, I believe this Parliament has a right and a duty to act. [More…]
If the Attorney-General is willing to give this assurance I am prepared to support the broad thrust of this Bill as an honest and potentially effective means of improving our civil and political rights and of meeting our obligations under the United Nations Covenant. [More…]
I understand that Senator Lewis will be moving an amendment to make the Human Rights Commission Bill sunset legislation. [More…]
To withdraw formally from the UN Covenant on human rights that we had ratified would be acutely embarrassing internationally; but to continue when we were not meeting its obligations would be in some ways even worse. [More…]
Before we pass this Bill which is openly intended to enable the Government to ratify the UN Civil and Political Rights Covenant- if the amendments moved by Senator Missen and Senator Evans are accepted that would be made explicit- we must be sure that the Government is prepared if necessary to use its constitutional power within a reasonable time to ensure that the Bill is effective in all parts of the Federation without any limitations or exceptions. [More…]
Without an unequivocal assurance to this effect from the Attorney-General, the Human Rights Commission Bill had better not be passed, and I shall vote accordingly. [More…]
The Australian Democrats are very disappointed with the Human Rights Commission Bill. [More…]
We disagree with one of Senator Missen ‘s arguments and agree with an argument put by Senator Evans concerning a Bill of rights. [More…]
For many years I have agreed with Senator Missen who asked: Does the Bill of rights really produce something that is constructive, real and helpful to human freedoms? [More…]
But the more important objection I had to a Bill of rights was that one could argue that what was contained in a Bill of rights was the right of a citizen. [More…]
If some need arose for the preservation of a human right because historical events had changed and certain aspects were not catered for in the Bill of rights, there would be no protection for the individual because of the change of circumstances. [More…]
While fulfilling the non-political role of his position he virtually said that there should be no need for a Bill of rights if certain criteria were being met. [More…]
In fact, the adopted policy of the Australian Democrats is for the introduction of a Bill of rights. [More…]
One of the criteria which Mr Justice Kirby mentioned was that we do not need a Bill of rights if the electorate is informed and active. [More…]
The second criterion, as I remember what Mr Justice Kirby said, was that a Bill of rights was needed if politicians voted on issues and not according to party direction. [More…]
I do not say this in order to make a point against Senator Puplick, but at the conclusion of his hour-long speech the other night he issued a rather historic admonition to the Senate- that it is the role and the responsibility of this Parliament to debate and vote on violations of human rights wherever they occur. [More…]
On that very day, in the morning, he voted against this Parliament, this chamber, voting on the violation of the human rights of human beings in Timor. [More…]
The main reason we are unhappy and disappointed with the Bill is that it does not contain powers to enforce respect for human rights, or to change any law found to be in contravention of human rights, or to prosecute any person found to be violating human rights. [More…]
That to me is anathema to preserving human rights. [More…]
If we are to preserve human rights or to prevent violations of human rights, the whole subject must be taken out of the political arena. [More…]
For example, if the subject of a complaint is a Commonwealth Act- for instance, the Act relating to the powers of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and its violation of someone’s rights- it would be equivalent to appealing against the AttorneyGeneral to the Attorney-General. [More…]
My stating that points up the absurdity of the legislation when it purports to be a protector of human rights. [More…]
I will not go into that issue because Senator Missen, Senator Evans and almost every other speaker have stated that the Bill is not applicable to 95 per cent of potential breaches of human rights. [More…]
Where are breaches of human rights taking place today? [More…]
That constitutes a massive infringement of civil liberties and of civil rights. [More…]
If human rights legislation cannot deal with such cases, what on earth is it for? [More…]
Worse still, the Minister can make arrangements for a State or Northern Territory Minister to peform the functions of the Human Rights Commission. [More…]
The cognate Bill, the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill, can be seen as a comment on the thinking behind the Human Rights Commission Bill. [More…]
The enforcement of this Act will be greatly reduced by subjecting the Commissioner for Community Relations to the direction of the Human Rights Commission and by depriving him of staff. [More…]
The Human Rights Commission is to be responsible for the very worthy functions of research, education, promoting respect for rights, et cetera, but what use is it if it is not provided with staff? [More…]
For the record I want to read into Hansard- on which note I shall conclude- the frightening number of right wing racial organisations in Australia right now which propagate racial prejudice with the help of massive resources of money from unknown sources and against which this Human Rights Commission will be virtually powerless. [More…]
They include: The National Socialist Party of Australia; the White Christians League; the Hungarist Movement- the World Association of National Socialist Hungarians; and the Australian League of Rights and its related bodies such as the Christian Institute for Individual Freedom. [More…]
These creatures in the League of Rights who give out this garbage disseminating anti-semitism and racism always seem to invoke the name of Christianity somewhere along the line. [More…]
In answer to Senator Sheil’s specific objection I would say that in our imperfect society there is an unanswerable case for preventing organisations such as the League of Rights and all these other twisted people from, say, taking advertisements during children’s hour on television saying: ‘You must hate Negroes, Jews, Muslims, Catholics or whatever’. [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…]
The Second Front- Jennifer McCallum, Melbourne; the National Front; the Australian National Alliance- ‘Audacity’; the National Resistance- ‘Advance’; the Divine People Movement, Sydney; the Campaign Against Illegal Immigrants, Perth; Awake Australians Campaign to Help Save South Africa; Zimmunism; Rights for Whites- that is a cute one; and One Law for All. [More…]
We agree that the Human Rights Commission Bill is edentulous and that the amendments to the Racial Discrimination Act will emasculate it. [More…]
Another thing on which I think we could all agree is that the biggest violators of human rights are governments. [More…]
A report on human rights in the Soviet Union was brought in just recently. [More…]
In fact just today the Inter-Parliamentary Union brought out its report on the infringement of the human rights of politicians in several countries in Central and South America. [More…]
We may look at India, at almost any country of Africa, at Romania, Iran, the Middle East and find that human rights are being violated by governments, which are the biggest infringers. [More…]
We can also agree, as has been said today and as was said last week, that human rights are indivisible and should be the same for men and women, black and white, child and adult, whatever one’s race, religion or social or national origin may be. [More…]
I have noticed that although for more than 30 years we have had the United Nations and its agencies cranking out human rights declarations and convenants they have not once actually defined the term ‘rights’. [More…]
At times descriptive definitions have appeared in the various declarations- as in the international covenant on civil and political rights- but there has not been an actual definition of rights. [More…]
Until we arrive at such a definition I do not see how we can have human rights that apply equally to every person on earth. [More…]
If we are to define rights in that way, we may start with one that is absolutely fundamental to us all. [More…]
Other rights would spring from that right, for example, the right to property and to liberty. [More…]
All people possess rights by virtue of their nature. [More…]
Its provision would infringe the rights of someone else, who would have to provide the care and those of yet another person who would have to foot the bill. [More…]
I am concerned particularly that under the Human Rights Commission Bill the Minister is given permission to bring forward other international instruments on human rights. [More…]
There is also the work of the European Human Rights Commission. [More…]
In other words, the work of the Human Rights Commission could grow like a cauliflower. [More…]
This year we have celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the International Year of the Child and of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of the Child. [More…]
In regard to those rights in particular, recently I ran into trouble in trying to explain to people just what was involved in granting rights to all- in this case to children. [More…]
The United Nations Declaration claims ten rights for children. [More…]
They have, it claims, the right to affection, love and understanding; to adequate nutrition, medical care and free education; to full opportunity for play and recreation; to a name and nationality; to special care if handicapped; to be the first to receive relief in times of disaster; to learn to be a useful member of society; to develop individual abilities; to be brought up in a spirit of peace and universal brotherhood; and to enjoy all of those rights regardless of race, religion, colour, sex and national or social origin. [More…]
They should not be written into law as a right, which infringes other people’s rights because they would have to provide, say, the affection, love and understanding; the nutrition, medical care and education. [More…]
Having the rights to full opportunity to partake of play and recreation is also a dicey proposition. [More…]
The right to a name and nationality can be granted because it does not infringe any one else’s rights. [More…]
I see that as infringing somebody else ‘s rights. [More…]
That right can be granted because it does not infringe the rights of anyone else. [More…]
The tenth suggested right is the right to enjoy all of the foregoing rights irrespective of race, religion, colour, creed and national or social origin. [More…]
That implies that all of the other proposals are to be considered rights, which is not correct, so the tenth proposition is also, in my book, not a right. [More…]
Before I discuss the Bill I would like to consider human rights in another perspective. [More…]
In fact, if a government does not handle its human rights correctly it can wind up having civil wars and revolution. [More…]
One has only to consider the great civil wars and revolutions of history to note that they were all fought over human rights. [More…]
Britain had a blood-curdling civil war over the rights of the sovereign, the parliament and the people. [More…]
Many years later it had a civil war over human rights. [More…]
Such momentous events should make us examine very carefully the origin, nature and implementation of human rights. [More…]
Since the beginning of time people have sought the good life, liberty and human rights. [More…]
As we rose above the law of the jungle and gave powers to parliament our rights were curtailed. [More…]
The early Jews, Christians and Moslems valued obedience to the law, both human and divine, above individual rights. [More…]
In other words, written constitutions did not guarantee political rights to anybody. [More…]
But Magna Carta was no declaration of human rights at all; Magna Carta really established the significance of charters in our legal processes. [More…]
In fact, taxation is one of the root causes of the demand for human rights in our society today. [More…]
But even after Magna Carta, it took people a long time to realise that liberty was an essential element in civilisation, and it was not until Charles I assented to the Petition of Rights that the idea of government by deliberation became feasible. [More…]
The Bill of Rights was to object to enforced loans, to the enforced billeting of soldiers on the people, and wrongful arrest. [More…]
But it was here that we had individual liberty ranged against the rights of Parliament and the absolute sovereignty of the King. [More…]
For some time international law has been recognised as a means of determining human rights. [More…]
That does not mean to say that the rights do not exist. [More…]
The rights were recognised as a common law that was independent of parliaments. [More…]
all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. [More…]
It was not until the American Civil War, years later, that all men were created equal and endowed with those rights, but they got them. [More…]
Any government which can alter its constitution unilaterally is a government of tyranny, and I think human rights are justifiable if they are confined to the agreed amenities which the government is to provide for the people. [More…]
Since the Second World War human rights have been bursting out of the United Nations without any questioning of their viability in international law, or without questioning their conflict with the sovereignty of different states. [More…]
There was the United States Declaration of Independence, and then its Constitution, and then the ten amendments which was actually the United States Bill of Rights. [More…]
I should like to look at those ten amendments which came from the Bill of Rights. [More…]
Ninth was that the rights conferred by the Constitution were not to inhibit the rights of other people. [More…]
That is an important one, and I do not think that effectively that part of the Bill of Rights is used in the United States. [More…]
After the American civil war those rights were extended to the Negroes and people of other races and colours. [More…]
It was not until 1 920 that all those rights were extended to women in the United States of America. [More…]
The rights were of a practical kind and arose from the experience of the people in the United States itself. [More…]
The validity of the rights was determined by the people’s interest. [More…]
That there was a declaration obviously by no means implied that people could enjoy the rights so named. [More…]
Recently created states are using the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights in their constitutions. [More…]
On top of all that, once one defines human rights, governments maintain they are all the rights one has and that anything else is not a right. [More…]
This in itself is a restriction of human rights. [More…]
Some articles in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights are actually in conflict with laws of member countries. [More…]
Article 55 of the Charter binds all members to the principle of equal rights, self-determination of peoples, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, religion, sex or language. [More…]
The Charter says nothing about how these laws or human rights are to be implemented. [More…]
Under Article 39 the Security Council will intervene only if the defiance of human rights is a threat to world peace or constitutes an act of aggression. [More…]
The Declaration of Human Rights is couched in ambiguous terms partly because it was meant to be a set of guiding principles and not laws. [More…]
To remedy that and to beef up human rights, the United Nations passed four other declarations and convenants. [More…]
The third was the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in 1966. [More…]
Again in 1966 we had this current Covenant that we are moving to ratify, the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
The emphasis now is on armaments, political and human rights and material assistance given to terrorists in the guise of liberators. [More…]
1 think it is the decline in the democratic systems that has been the most momentous event in our time and the clamour for voting rights is not going to stop that. [More…]
Turning to the Bill itself, I will summarise what we have rights to. [More…]
There are certain ways by which governments can give us rights. [More…]
Their Government can then pass laws to effectively rob them of those rights. [More…]
All over we have heard complaints that each one of these rights is controlled by provisos. [More…]
On the other hand, the United States of America entrenched a Bill of Rights into its Constitution. [More…]
It said that no law shall be passed to infringe those rights. [More…]
An international body has created a whole lot of human rights and has then imposed them on a country that is a signatory to its charter. [More…]
It wants to improve its image in the world, to be a leader, to show that Australia is aware of human rights. [More…]
A conference will be held next July in Luxembourg and I am sure that it will be announced there that we are moving right along with this human rights legislation. [More…]
All the definitions of the rights that are in this Covenant are qualified by the proviso that one does not break any law. [More…]
This course of action is partly as a reult of severe constitutional question marks over the Federal Government’s powers to legislate to protect and enforce human rights as well as the Government’s belief that the guaranteeing of these rights does not require a Bill of Rights and the accompanying judicial powers of enforcement, believing instead that the present law adequately protects these rights and that Parliament is the more appropriate body to ensure the continued protection of these rights. [More…]
After 1 5 months of negotiation the States have not agreed in any substantial way to this Human Rights Commission. [More…]
I rise to support the Human Rights Commision Bill 1 979 and the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill 1 979. [More…]
The legislation is exposed and in this way our rights are protected. [More…]
Of course, if there are infringements on human rights in Australia, the probabilities are that they will be from State legislation. [More…]
I hope that many people will change their minds about the Human Rights Commission. [More…]
In the circumstances, as revealed by this debate, someone who has had the strength of purpose and interest in the subject to listen to it all or read all about it may well forgive the Government if it decided that it would not proceed with its attempt to take some steps to enhance the observance of human rights in Australia. [More…]
That is why the Government believes that this measureeven though it was hoped that it would have a wider application in Australia than it does have- is still worth while pursuing; to establish, if we can get the support of this Parliament, a Human Rights Commission and to continue to support the principle and related activity in the years ahead in the hope that, as time progresses, we will be able to add to those efforts now being made to give the Commission a wider role than it is accorded in this legislation. [More…]
The subject of human rights is very much a question of respect for one’s neighbour, for the other fellow. [More…]
As it is a subject which is of that character, the strength of the protection of human rights is very much a question of attitude of mind and commitment to a principle of respect for the other fellow; for the individual as such. [More…]
Because it is a subject of that kind the strength of the human rights movement in any country depends in the end on education, on promotion of those principles and on the philosophy of people. [More…]
Of course, the method by which this attitude of mind of community members is effected and its success are traditional within the community and are determined certainly to a very great extent by the resolution people have to ensure that these rights are protected, and by the institutions that have developed in any particular community to protect them. [More…]
Anybody who has studied the history of government and of law is well aware of the fact that over the millennia of his existence man has made attempts- some successful and some not so successful- to improve his lot and the lot of his fellow men, as well as the rights of his fellow men. [More…]
It is not by any means a coincidence that the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights should have been developed in 1948. [More…]
In the wake of peace and the development of the United Nations, we then had a very strong worldwide belief that there was a need to set down and enshrine in some international document the principles which were thought to be the basic principles of human rights. [More…]
Those principles were able to be set down in 1948 because through the development of democratic societies, parliamentary democracies and of countries with a live commitment to and experience of what we call the rule of law, there was in that experience and over those years certain principles which could be readily brought to mind and written down as the basic principles for the protection of the rights of individuals living in a society. [More…]
A lot has been said in this debate about the way in which these rights can be protected. [More…]
I reject the motion that that is the reason why the Government is proceeding with legislation in this field, I believe that the common law has been very notable in this period about which I have been speaking in the development and promotion of human rights, but I also believe that it has been necessary from time to time for those rights to be given further, better and perhaps more particular expression through the parliamentary process. [More…]
That new clause is directed to providing an enforcement mechanism for persons who are found by the Commission to have been on the receiving end of acts or practices which are in breach of human rights. [More…]
It will be confined solely to the enforcement through the courts of breaches of human rights at the Commonwealth level. [More…]
Indeed, there are some provisions, notably his proposed new paragraph 9 ( 1 ) (ha), which would allow the Human Rights Commission to investigate acts or practices within the States and within the Northern Territory. [More…]
Senator Missen is happy for the Human Rights Commission to investigate such alleged breaches and to report thereon to the Federal Minister. [More…]
We take the view that this is entirely consistent with what most speakers said during the second reading debate, when it seems it was universally acknowledged that the great bulk of offensive intrusions on human rights takes place at the State level. [More…]
Most States, not only Queensland and Western Australia, although they have become the most notorious in this respect, have on their statute books legislation which, if enforced in a ham-handed way, is manifestly offensive to rights of public assembly and freedom of association, assembly and political protest in the public domain. [More…]
There is a political gerrymander which operates in Queensland offensive to any concept of equality of voting rights, which is probably the most spectacular in the country. [More…]
But there is no doubt that at the moment the kind of intrusion on the voting rights which exists in Queensland is the most cynical, the most blatant, the most unself-conscious and the most complete in the Commonwealth. [More…]
It is a familiar one in any discussion on human rights in this country. [More…]
We are not sufficiently confident of the utility of report and publicity associated with breaches of human rights. [More…]
It seems to me and to the Opposition that one cannot go on then to claim, as the Attorney did, that federalism was its own guarantee in a sense of human rights and that somehow that principle of federalism on which he relied to justify the nonextension of the Bill into that area was itself a human rights guarantee of a kind. [More…]
The Opposition takes the view that the whole history of federations- I refer not only to Australia in this respect but in particular to the United States- is that they simply cannot be relied upon to protect through the participation of their member units the civil rights of individuals. [More…]
It has been a classic phenomenon in the American experience that the worst breaches of human rights, particularly in the racial discrimination area, were in the State area in the South. [More…]
There is a conflict between the federalist principle and the human rights principle. [More…]
They have chosen the federal principle rather than the human rights principle. [More…]
Let that be openly and overtly acknowledged for the sellout that it is by a government which claims to be genuine in its protection of human rights. [More…]
For so long as it maintains this resistance to the extension of federal legislation into the areas where the real problems are it cannot credibly and respectably hold up its head internationally or within Australia as a defender of human rights. [More…]
It is all right for Senator Evans to say one has to choose between the federalist principle and the human rights principle. [More…]
To add this definition and to bring the States into this will mean that one would have an obvious war, a fight between the federalist principle being espoused by the States and the human rights principle. [More…]
It seems to me that it is quite important that in passing a Bill like this we ought to place on record the approval which the Parliament gives to the ratification of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
Certainly it will help, just as every accession by another country does, to give extra weight and status to the Covenant and thereby help give some strength and credence to the international human rights movement. [More…]
I suppose it will do something to burnish Australia’s image internationally and help to justify our rather undeserved place on the United Nations Human Rights Commission, and perhaps enable us to earn one in due course under the Human Rights Committee which is established under this Covenant. [More…]
Of course, ratification does not necessarily mean that this will have any direct and immediate effect on the rights and liberties of ordinary Australians. [More…]
It is only if we accede in addition to the Covenant to the optional protocol that goes with it, which does not seem, regrettably, to have been seriously proposed hitherto by any government, Labor or Liberal, that there would be any really significant implications associated with attachment to international machinery, because accession to the optional protocol would mean that individual human rights grievances could be the subject of complaint, investigation and report in the international forum. [More…]
I foreshadow something of a continued prodding over the next few months and years on the Government on the subject of the optional protocol because I genuinely believe- I hope the Opposition will be with me in this respect- that the optional protocol is perhaps the most significant part of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to supersede certain provisions of the laws of Queensland that discriminate against Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and deny them basic human rights. [More…]
So the parties on this side of the chamber, who then constituted the Opposition, had absolutely no problem with the federalist principle when it came to specifically overriding discriminatory laws which sought to deny human rights to Aboriginals in Queensland. [More…]
I believe that the symbolic gesture of saying that we are establishing a human rights commission and that its job is to monitor compliance with the international covenant should be followed by the third step of saying that we now ratify the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and give a clear expression of our bona fides in this matter. [More…]
I believe the merit of Senator Missen ‘s proposal, which is in similar terms to the proposal put forward by the Labor Party and endorsed by the Australian Democrats, is that it may, along with the similar clauses in the Racial Discrimination Act and the proposed similar clause in former Senator Murphy’s Bill on Human rights, build up a practice whereby this Parliament is involved in the process of telling the international community that we will be bound in some particular manner. [More…]
In conclusion, I simply wish to endorse the remarks of Senator Puplick and to express the same fear that I expressed in my second reading speech, that perhaps we have not yet had ratification at this date because the Government is unable or unwilling to go to the international community and say that it will endorse the Covenant as a whole, including Article 50, which requires of this Government that it ensures that these human rights are effectively guaranteed throughout the length and breadth of Australia, in a sense without regard to its specific federal characteristics. [More…]
In other words, from the point of view of other nation states, we go into the international community as an unitary state guaranteeing that wherever human rights are violated in Australia they will effectively be remedied in accordance with the criteria set up by the Covenant. [More…]
Of course, the principles of universal suffrage, the Bill of Rights enacted in 1688 and freedom of religion are some of the great achievements of parliament and parliamentary democracy. [More…]
I believe that we can still rely on these institutions, as we have in the past, to provide the legal framework and the legal sanctions which may be required to protect and enhance human rights. [More…]
That is why the Government rejects the all-embracing solution which has been propounded in this debate, I suppose more particularly by Senator Evans, that we now need, because of the failure of or the retreat by the courts in this direction and because of the failure, as Senator Evans sees it, of parliament in these areas, some new approach altogether, namely a Bill of rights in line with the American model. [More…]
First and foremost, we have a very firm faith in our existing institutions of parliament and our courts to continue to develop, enhance and promote human rights. [More…]
I am quite interested in Senator Tate’s view that we should be looking at the development of some standards- call it a Bill of rights if you like- to which courts and parliaments can refer in deciding what decisions they will make. [More…]
I believe that there is great merit in having a Human Rights Commission. [More…]
That is the rationale of this Government’s proposal to establish this Human Rights Commission. [More…]
Let me say to those who have criticised the Government for this approach that a federal system of government is one of the traditions and one of the institutions by which human rights can be preserved. [More…]
One of the more fatal threats to human rights is the concentration of overweening power in one place and amongst a few people. [More…]
The dispersal of power which a federal system involves is one of the bulwarks by which human rights can be preserved and enhanced. [More…]
Let us not forget the fact that a federal system of government- a system whereby the people are close to the individual government making decisions about them- is one of the important institutions by which human rights can be preserved. [More…]
That being the case, what we are seeking to do with the States is to involve them in discussions in relation to human rights matters and to hope that by this means- I think there is reason to hope that this will happen in the course of time- the States will become more and more involved in an Australia-wide forum for the discussion and promotion of human rights. [More…]
The establishment of the Human Rights Commission will be one step further along the road of observing our international commitments. [More…]
But I and the Government do not put the proposed Human Rights Commission forward as something which must be established as part of our ratification of the Covenant. [More…]
The proposed Human Rights Commission will be a valuable institution irrespective of whether we ratify the Covenant. [More…]
In seeking the establishment of the proposed Human Rights Commission, we want to rationalise the relevant institutions at Commonwealth level. [More…]
If there were other legislation in this field we would want to see that legislation come under the broad aegis of the Human Rights Commission. [More…]
The Human Rights Commission will be assigned the role of undertaking educational and promotional activities. [More…]
Rights Commission will be given a right to exercise the relevant powers. [More…]
But the existing powers of the Commissioner for Community Relations will remain, subject to the changes I mentioned and subject to general directions given by the Human Rights Commission. [More…]
-The powers will remain subject to directions given by the Human Rights Commission, but obviously those powers of direction will be exercised only in a general way because the existing powers of the Commissioner for Community Relations will remain and will not be replaced in the Human Rights Commission exercising those powers. [More…]
As I said, this proposal to amend the Racial Discrimination Act is designed simply to rationalise the machinery so that, when the proposed Commonwealth institution, which will have an overriding position in relation to human rights, is established, it will have that power in relation to the Racial Discrimination Act and in relation to other specific Acts in that area which might be passed by the Parliament. [More…]
Senator Missen asks: Why not make him a commissioner for human rights’. [More…]
We do not believe that the Human Rights Commission should be made up of various ex officio people who have a special role to play in this area. [More…]
We want to have a body of people with a broad interest in and responsibility for human rights generally. [More…]
If we have a human rights commission made up of a group of specialists, I and the Government do not believe that it will be the sort of body which will have an overall responsibility for human rights generally. [More…]
That is the sort of body which we feel that the Human Rights Commission should be. [More…]
I hope that the Senate will agree that the step which the Government proposes to take with this legislation is a step worth while taking; that it will reject the proposition put by the Opposition that this Bill should be withdrawn and redrafted along quite different principles from those which I have been seeking to espouse in this debate; and that before much longer we will have this legislation on the statute books and a human rights commission established in this country. [More…]
Will the Attorney-General tell the Senate whether he has received from Amnesty International, the United Nations Associations, civil liberties organisations and other bodies submissions in connection with the Human Rights Commission Bill and the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill which have not yet been debated in the Senate? [More…]
I have received representations from many organisations, including Amnesty International and the United Nations Association of Australia, concerning the Human Rights Commission Bill 1977 and also the current Human Rights Commission Bill and the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill. [More…]
That it is acknowledged that it is reasonable for major sporting organisations to conclude agreements with individual commercial television networks for sole telecasting rights. [More…]
I refer to the statement by the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs of 13 November 1979 referring to the examination of the land rights legislation. [More…]
If so, can changes be made to ensure that the author retains some rights, particularly if the media refuse to act in a reasonable manner? [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that that Bill has the effect of incorporating the racial discrimination administration under Mr Grassby in the operations of the Human Rights Commission but does not make him a commissioner of the Human Rights Commission. [More…]
As a number of honourable senators have said, that is an extraordinary anomaly, especially when one bears in mind that in New Zealand, where there is a Race Relations Conciliator, the Conciliator is one of the human rights commissioners. [More…]
Nonetheless, Mr Dancey the Race Relations Conciliator, is a member of the Human Rights Commission there. [More…]
They would be people with some knowledge of human rights and therefore well able to look after themselves. [More…]
Under the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill which has yet to be discussed in detail, Mr Grassby is to be under the direction of the Human Rights Commission. [More…]
It meets the requirement that we should not in any way turn the racial discrimination administration into a defective organisation; that we should not create a situation in which there will be a clash between the Human Rights Commission and the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]
For these reasons I have moved this amendment, which I regard as extremely important to the continuing operation of racial discrimination oversight and the most effective working of the Human Rights Commission. [More…]
-The Opposition strongly supports Senator Missen ‘s amendment, which seeks to make Mr Grassby, the Commissioner for Community Relations, a member of the Human Rights Commission. [More…]
Yesterday the Attorney-General (Senator Durack) made it very clear that an explicit provision of this kind would be necessary because the Government did not propose to make the present commissioner, Mr Grassby, a member of the Human Rights Commission. [More…]
The floodgates argument in this case was: If we started the process of rationalising various human rights agencies around the country, where would we stop if we put the heads of all those agencies on the Human Rights Commission? [More…]
It appears that in the future they will not be demanding places on the Human Rights Commission. [More…]
It is the real matter of importance that is involved here because despite the AttorneyGeneral’s endeavours yesterday to say that the Commissioner for Community Relations will continue to exercise in practice the untrammelled powers that he has at present and that this is merely a formalisation of arrangements, the reality is that the legislation provides for the Commissioner for Community Relations, Mr Grassby, to become a mere cipher, a mere delegate, of the new Human Rights Commission. [More…]
It is said, it is true, that he as an individual shall continue in practice to exercise those powers, but subject at all times to the direction of the Human Rights Commission. [More…]
The report of the activities of the Commissioner for Community Relations side of things will simply be submerged in a larger document representing the report of the Human Rights Commission as a whole, which of course will be prepared and endorsed by the Human Rights Commission of which Mr Grassby is not to be a member. [More…]
It has sought to pretend and claim to the community at large that nothing is changing, that something is being added to the present structure for the protection of human rights, but that nothing is being taken away and that it is business as usual as far as the Racial Discrimination Act and Mr Grassby are concerned. [More…]
For that reason it is crucially important that this chamber vote for at least the small chance of preserving Mr Grassby ‘s effectiveness and the effectiveness of the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations that would be involved in making the Commissioner a member of the Human Rights Commission. [More…]
It seems ludicrous to me that we are setting up the Human Rights Commission and that part and parcel of that Commission will be the Racial Discrimination Act under which the person holding the office of the Commissioner for Community Relations is to work. [More…]
I am giving my total support to this amendment because I believe it is necessary, if we are to have Human Rights Commission and if we are to maintain the Racial Discrimination Act and the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations, that the Commissioner have a vital role to play on that Commission. [More…]
Unless he is a member of this Human Rights Commission I do not believe he can continue to do the job that he has been doing until now. [More…]
I believe that it is important for honourable senators tonight to carry the amendment to the Human Rights Commission Bill. [More…]
If the Human Rights Commission Bill and the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill are passed, that valuable body of experience, going back many years, will be embodied only in the person of the Commissioner. [More…]
I say that with all respect to the rights of Queenslanders, Western Australians, Tasmanians or anybody else to have their own authority. [More…]
However, if somebody else were to be appointed to that position, I must say that I think that person, if he were a person of great integrity and great capacity, probably would want to think twice about taking a position which potentially was of such subservience as these Bills, the Human Rights Commission Bill and the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill, would reduce it to. [More…]
The fact that racial prejudice against the Aboriginal community appears to be more of an issue in recent years is quite simply because Aboriginal people have attempted in recent years to assert and claim their proper and full rights. [More…]
Every time they have done so those who have existed very well for a prolonged period by keeping those original Australians in their position of subservience have attempted to adhere to standards of the past, standards which I hope will become standards recognised as being of the past if human rights legislation is to work effectively. [More…]
There will be an increasing need for us to be vigilant about protecting their rights in Australia. [More…]
If he is a member of the Human Rights Commission I hope that he will get through that body more easy access to reporting to the Parliament. [More…]
If we are not vigilant about the League of Rights and all the claptrap that goes on from that sort of organisation we will be failing to meet a significant responsibility that we have not only to today’s Australian community but also to communities of the future. [More…]
I direct the attention of honourable senators to those criticisms- the criticism that the Commissioner is placed under the control of the Human Rights Commission, that complaints will not be as easily handled by the Commissioner in the future, that he will be subject to directions that his access to staff will be reduced, that his report to Parliament will disappear and that his role in promoting an understanding and a public awareness of racial discrimination matters will also disappear. [More…]
As we are to have a situation in which race relations in Australia will be severely strained not only, as I have said, by the increasing education of the Aboriginal population but also by the increasing number of Vietnamese refugees and the increasing tensions in the employment situation in this country, the Commissioner for Community Relations ought to be one of the members of the Human Rights Commission, one among many and an equal among many. [More…]
Of course, the person holding the office of Commissioner for Community Relations has to be a person with great compassion, a person with energy, a person with the capacity to apply initiative, a person devoted to the principles of human rights, and a vigilant person. [More…]
We do not want on the Commission or in this office people who pay lip service to the principles of human rights. [More…]
We have to recognise that racism is the very base of the struggle for human rights. [More…]
It would be detrimental to the cause of human rights if he is not appointed. [More…]
We have to understand that when we talk about human rights and racism we are dealing with part of the Australian makeup. [More…]
The amendment proposed by Senator Missen, that the person holding the office of Commissioner for Community Relations shall be one of the members of the Human Rights Commission, is a matter which was raised during the very lengthy second reading debate. [More…]
The proposal is that the Human Rights Commission which, as stated in clause 7, is to consist of a Chairman, a Deputy Chairman and not less than five or more than nine other members, should be amended to have the provision that one of those persons appointed to the Human Rights Commission shall be the person holding the office of Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]
The Government’s view is that the Human Rights Commission should not have ex officio members. [More…]
There is the vast range of other interests which the Human Rights Commission will have under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
So the Government’s view is that when it comes to a point, the proposal is that this Commission will be the watchdog over all the various manifold aspects of human rights questions which are dealt with in the Covenant. [More…]
I think it is fair to say that if the Government was considering these questions afresh and was entirely able to develop its own blueprint for a Human Rights Commission and a human rights approach, it would be doubtful whether it would actually create a statutory position of a commissioner of human relations as has been created by the Labor Government under the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
The Government believes that if we had a Human Rights Commission that should be the body which exercises the functions under various pieces of legislation that may be assigned to it in the human rights area. [More…]
The mere fact we are faced with a particular set of circumstances is not sufficient, in the Government’s view, to mean that it is required by legislation actually to have determined for it and dictated to it who should be members of the Human Rights Commission which it is proposing to set up. [More…]
There may well be other positions in which persons will have a specific responsibility in relation to human rights. [More…]
That is not a reason, in the Government’s view, why that person should be made a member of the Human Rights Commission. [More…]
I think that the indications from the Racial Discrimination Bill are that we will assign the Act functions to the Human Rights Commission. [More…]
the function of the Human Rights Commission - [More…]
Of course, in any event the matter would in the end be in the hands of the Parliament as indeed the future of the Human Rights Commission is in the hands of the Parliament at the moment. [More…]
The first relates to sub-clause ( 1 ) (c), which provides that one of the functions of the Commission is to report to the Minister as to the laws that should be made by the Parliament, or action that should be taken by the Commonwealth, on matters relating to human rights. [More…]
In other words, I am seeking to make it quite clear that the Commission is quite independent and free to carry out is own inquiries and investigations under its functions and to report to the Minister, but that the Minister may request it to carry out a particular inquiry on a matter about which he may wish to have the benefit of the Human Rights Commission’s views. [More…]
Sub-clause ( 1 ) (c) is in fairly general terms, but the way in which the AttorneyGeneral is now amending it to make it quite clear that it is to be on the Human Rights Commission’s initiative or when requested by the Minister, widens it and puts it beyond doubt. [More…]
Clause 9 seems to me to cover all kinds of things standing by itself, but when one looks at subclause (d), which relates only to action which is needed to be taken to comply with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights or other instruments and it is only on the request of the Minister, one could well interpret that this cuts down or restricts at least that aspect of the matter and therefore that, read with sub-clause ( 1 ) (c), it really cuts down sub-clause ( 1 ) (c). [More…]
Their effect is to ensure that the rights and liabilities of senators and members who commute the whole of the retiring allowance, and of their eligible dependants, are the same as under the existing 50 per cent commutation provisions. [More…]
Because of the flow-on effect into the States of Commonwealth land rights legislation, will Mr Rowland be empowered to take evidence from State governments? [More…]
I have not asked Mr Rowland to report on all matters but rather to report on specific practical difficulties which have been drawn to my attention or allegations about practical difficulties with respect to the land rights legislation which have been drawn to my attention. [More…]
It is certainly not my wish for Mr Rowland or anybody else to set off and, for example, to undertake another Woodward Aboriginal Land Rights Commission kind of report. [More…]
By way of example, mining companies have represented that it is not possible to explore for minerals on Aboriginal land because the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act does not permit an agreement to be made before a mining lease has been issued. [More…]
I think there is broad bipartisan support in this chamber for the land rights legislation. [More…]
This in itself, I submit, requires a measure of social control which can only erode civil liberties and hard-won industrial rights and which obviously threatens the environment if governments do not see their responsibility to adopt a policy and a process which protect not only the present environment but also the environment in the thousands of years that lie ahead. [More…]
There are enormously significant ways in which rules of court can affect the rights of citizens. [More…]
The purpose of the amendment is to ask the Senator to express the opinion that this legislation, which deals with Aboriginal land rights in the Northern Territory should also encompass land rights for the Aboriginals in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
but the Senate is of the opinion that the Government should as soon as possible extend by legislation the rights of Aborigines in the Northern Territory to Aborigines in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
We are somewhat at a loss to understand why there has been this long delay on land rights legislation, in the absence of information and in the absence of any endeavours by the Government and its Minister to explain to the Senate why it has taken six months for this matter to be proceeded with. [More…]
I am not able, in the absence of any inside information, to know whether my deductions are borne out, whether my own views or the views of my party are correct, that, in fact, there are some difficulties for the Government as it relates to the States’ inability to appreciate what the national Parliament is doing about the problems of Aboriginal affairs where they relate particularly to the relatively new issue of land rights. [More…]
I refer in this context to the statement that was issued on 13 November by the Minister himself which is titled ‘The Examination of Land Rights Legislation’. [More…]
Mr Barry Rowland has been appointed and he will visit the Northern Territory later this month to conduct his examination of representations received by the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs in the practical operation of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
I think it would be fair to comment that they arise as a result of representations that most probably have been brought to the attention of the Government as a result of either deputations or disagreements that might exist in respect of the land rights legislation, its operation and the reluctance of the present majority in the Northern Territory Government to accept the views of the national Parliament. [More…]
One does not need to stress the point that in more recent times we have seen the Aboriginal people beginning to express, in a much more determined and consistent fashion, their views of land rights. [More…]
From the Labor Party’s point of view we believe that we are probably witnessing something of a counter-attack by those forces in the Australian community who believe, when it comes to the question of development and rights of development on Aboriginal lands, that there has to be a recognition of the latter day claimants as against the original claimants. [More…]
So there is a need for the Parliament to join forces with the Aborigines for the purpose of protecting their achievements in their struggle for the fundamental principles of land rights. [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…]
We have witnessed similar difficulties in Western Australia and have also witnessed, unfortunately, the disenfranchisement of Aborigines and the systematic denial of their democratic rights. [More…]
For a Minister of the Crown to find it degrading to mix with Aborigines who are, after all, his voters and constituents seems to me to be related to the problems we were discussing yesterday on the racial discrimination and human rights legislation. [More…]
The National Aboriginal Conference has strongly condemned the Court Government for its latest attack on the basic rights of blacks. [More…]
If that is the case- that is the way the Opposition reads the legislation- it seems to be in line with the Government’s aim to prevent any possible impediment to the views that have been expressed openly in a publication by the Australian Mining Industry Council and in other magazines, which seems to indicate that they have set about to weaken the legislation and to vest more power in a development-minded Government to deprive Aborigines of the rights that were originally contemplated in the legislation. [More…]
Naturally, the Opposition is concerned that the mentality or philosophy that seems to be characteristic of mining companies is seen in a proper perspective, having regard to our fundamental commitment and obligation to protect the rights of Aborigines. [More…]
One would think, therefore, that rather than leave the matter in the hands of the Minister for the Capital Territory, it ought to come within the province of the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs so that he can take on board the proposition that at some future stage the Government should introduce legislation which would extend at least the Northern Territory Aboriginal land rights legislation, with all its weaknesses that I have referred to, to Aborigines in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
At end of motion add but the Senate is of the opinion that the Government should as soon as possible extend by legislation the rights of Aborigines in the Northern Territory to Aborigines in the Australian Capital Territory ‘. [More…]
The Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Bill is the fourth Bill dealing with Aboriginal land rights in the Northern Territory, and is part of a continuing stream of such legislation as adjustments to the principal Act are required. [More…]
I suggest that the legislation relating to Aboriginal land rights in the Northern Territory is an apt analogy because as time goes by adjustments to it are required. [More…]
Before land rights became the issue that they are now- and we have what we might call very forward legislation which is emotive and the subject of much discussion- Aboriginal land rights legislation was introduced in the Northern Territory by that much criticised legislature the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, which in those days was the Legislative Council. [More…]
I emphasise that the people of the Northern Territory fully support Aboriginal land rights, but they believe that there needs to be some adjustment. [More…]
Only a few days ago the Chief Minister of the Northern Territory was tangling with the Premier of Queensland over a statement that had been made regarding Aboriginal land rights in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Regardless of what the tangle was about, part of a statement by the Chief Minister, Mr Paul Everingham, stated that ‘despite the utterances of the Queensland Premier, northern development and Aboriginal land rights are not incompatible’. [More…]
He is saying that there is the ability for Aboriginal land rights in the Northern Territory to go alongside development. [More…]
Let us briefly go over the history of what has happened in the few years since the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act was brought in. [More…]
Previously the small people- I am talking now about the other people who have an interest in the land- faced great difficulties in land rights hearings. [More…]
I wish to look a little further at the land rights system. [More…]
It is important that non-Aboriginal people who put a different viewpoint at a land rights hearing will be heard by the land commissioner. [More…]
One of the most controversial situations in the Territory- it is unusual when one looks at the principle of land rights- is the fact that if an Aboriginal organisation purchases a pastoral lease, that land, through a process, can be claimed as Aboriginal land. [More…]
I do not know what the Minister’s thinking is on this, but I do recall that when we had a debate in this chamber in 1976 on the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill some 30 amendments moved by the Opposition were opposed by every member of the Government. [More…]
In other words, the watered down version of the land rights legislation that was imposed on the Northern Territory did not even resemble faintly the [More…]
We further strongly support your Council ‘s efforts to win land rights for Aboriginal peoples in the Northern Territory. [More…]
But we must write to you because signing and accepting the agreement would cause problems for land rights all over Australia. [More…]
This Government, because of the requirements of the mining companies and the pressures applied to it by the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, is prepared to whittle down its original Aboriginal land rights legislation in every possible way. [More…]
That was done deliberately to exclude Aborigines from putting in land rights claims. [More…]
I am afraid that I cannot agree with Senator Keeffe that there is anything malevolent or sinister in the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Bill 1979. [More…]
A matter of credibility is involved in this whole question of the dealings of the Government and this nation with land rights. [More…]
That whole point, however, raises the basic issue which I believe to be of relevance to this Bill; that there is a state of fragility in any relationship or discussions between the Government or perhaps any government and the Northern Land Council over this matter of land rights. [More…]
The Federal Government will have to amend the Aboriginal Land Rights Act to guarantee development of the Pancontinental Jabiluka uranium project. [More…]
I suggest to honourable senators and to the Minister that the Government’s good faith over land rights will be judged and tested both by the Aboriginal people and by all Australians on this single issue. [More…]
The last thing we want in maintaining faith in the land rights area is to tell the Northern Land Council that there is a tremendous bonanza for Aborigines there and then find in a few years’ time that we have made a great big hole in the ground, there is a hell of a mess, we have a bankrupt company which can no longer come and fix the damage and they have just got to live with it. [More…]
-The Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Bill 1 979 is the latest in a number of Bills to amend the Aboriginal Land Rights Act. [More…]
At the same time as the Minister indicated his approach to this Bill, he spoke at the Wesley Church in Perth and indicated his attitude towards land rights generally and the Aboriginal situation. [More…]
Land rights, compensation for past wrongs, economic assistance at a given level, a multicultural Australia, are presented as issues for such action. [More…]
We believe in land rights. [More…]
That is the Minister- assured the principles allowing traditional owners rights to claim Aboriginal land would not be changed. [More…]
The Government’s own views on land rights have also been interpreted by the Northern Territory News. [More…]
The CLP supports land rights, but when it comes to it the record raises doubts. [More…]
It is clearand it has been clear to the Minister since he spoke to the Aboriginal communities years ago in those distant days when he was a back bencher and a member of the committee that talked to Aboriginals about land rights- that the Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory want the Federal Government to have the final say. [More…]
Himself an Aboriginal- as being part of a tactic by the Government to oppose the eventual granting of land rights over the leases. [More…]
It would seem that the Aboriginal people themselves feel that they have no rights. [More…]
In fact, the debate has ranged over a fair area of concern about Aboriginal land rights and Aboriginal affairs generally. [More…]
It is perhaps a healthy thing that there is a concern in the Parliament to make sure that the land rights legislation of 1976 is not whittled away. [More…]
I believe that that damage can occur in eroding the consensus which was built up over the matter of giving Aboriginals security in Australia through the instrument of secure access to land and what is usually termed land rights. [More…]
Another matter of concern to honourable senators is the appointment of Mr Barry Rowland, Q.C., to examine matters which have been raised with me and which allege difficulties in the practical implementation of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
Those honourable senators who feel that there is something wrong in examining the Act in that way might console themselves by looking at the second report of the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission, headed by Mr Justice Woodward. [More…]
In arriving at these recommendations, I have experienced great doubt on a number of issues- particularly those relating to mineral rights and to additional claims in pastoral lease areas. [More…]
I can only remind honourable senators opposite that in 1975 when they proposed to legislate for land rights they introduced a Bill which, like the Government’s Bill, was restricted to the Northern Territory. [More…]
I was pleased that he quoted Paul Everingham, the Chief Minister, in his defence of land rights. [More…]
A number of comments have been made by Senator Robertson and I think by some other senators about the attitude of the Northern Territory Government to land rights. [More…]
At the Develop the North’ seminar in Broome recently he responded strongly to the critical remarks of the Premier of Queensland and defended land rights in the Northern Territory and their operation. [More…]
In fact, the Northern Territory Government has made it clear on many occasions that it proposes to support land rights. [More…]
Again, the matter of roads, which was also raised by Senator Robertson, has been satisfactorily put to bed in terms which will not diminish the rights of Aboriginals but will enable the titles to be registered and any disputes to be settled subsequently, by either discussion or litigation. [More…]
I have given a long reply in a debate on a Bill which essentially effects rather technical amendments to the Act, but I appreciate the considerable interest in land rights on the part of honourable senators, whom I thank for their continuing participation in this regard. [More…]
They are outside the jurisdiction of the Land Commissioner and the land rights Act generally. [More…]
The present state of affairs between the Government and the Wreck Bay community is such that there is not a claim for traditional land rights as in the Northern Territory or in the traditional community form, but rather a disagreement about the lease area which ought to be granted. [More…]
Therefore, it is not proposed, by this Bill or by any other means, to extend the operation of the land rights Act to the Australian Capital Territory or, indeed, change the way of dealing with non-traditional claims for land by Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory. [More…]
He indicated that there is a lot of information which is not available to us in the normal course of events on which to make judgments about the way in which the land rights legislation is being applied. [More…]
I think it has to be recognised that the land rights legislation is a new concept. [More…]
If we want to have a reasonable and logical debate, a debate that is related as far as is practical to the factual situation in respect of land rights, it seems reasonable that the information ought to be furnished to the Parliament rather than to the Minister, because whilst some of us certainly would take a broad view with respect to the current Minister, I would not apply the same yardstick to his predecessor, who I felt did not have the breadth of vision or approach to the matter to satisfy the Opposition. [More…]
I do not think it is a matter that really restricts substantially the rights of the Minister, but it certainly does enhance the role of the Parliament. [More…]
I acknowledge, as I did in my reply to the second reading debate, that this amendment arises out of a suggestion made by Senator Cavanagh who, in correspondence, drew my attention to the difference between the disallowance provision of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act as it relates to a national interest proclamation permitting mining over an Aboriginal veto and what might be called the standard provision in the Acts Interpretation Act and in a number of other Acts. [More…]
The only Bill, to my knowledge, which did not have a suitable clause was the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Bill. [More…]
The Regulations and Ordinances Committee, in correspondence with the Attorney-General (Senator Durack), asked why the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act is so different and why the Government would not accept the amendment that is presently proposed. [More…]
The National Health Act and the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act now provide that the regulation or the determination shall have no effect until such time as 15 sitting days have passed for objections to be lodged and, if an objection is lodged, until 1 5 sitting days have passed for consideration of it. [More…]
The only other point I want to make- I stress that I stated it in correspondence to the Minister- is that the disallowance provision is important in the operation of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act because of what Mr Justice Woodward said in his report. [More…]
Apart from making that point, I suppose that all we can say is that perhaps regulations ought to be established which clearly define who would be able to make an application and that that sort of information ought to be freely available to the persons who might find that their rights in the matter are being neglected because of the inability to provide themselves with financial and legal assistance. [More…]
any amount paid under an agreement under subsection 44(1) or (2) of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976; or [More…]
( 1 ) This section applies to any payment made on or after 23 June 1978 and before the commencement of this section that purported to be a payment under sub-section 64 (4) of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976, being- [More…]
A payment to which this section applies shall be deemed, for all purposes, to be, and to have been, a payment that was validly made under sub-section 64 (4) of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976. [More…]
I think the general proposition that Senator Mulvihill has put in regard to the distinction between rights under the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and recourse to the Ombudsman are broadly correct, except that there has been a right of appeal in respect of deportation decisions under sections 12 and 13 of the Immigration Act, which perhaps qualifies the views he expressed. [More…]
The rights are still there. [More…]
As well as action taken by the Government, a number of students, most of whom were connected with Liberal Party organisations, challenged in court the rights of universities to collect student union fees. [More…]
As a result of pressure from the Government, the Council of the Australian National University adopted new fee rules in 1977 which provided for exemption for compulsory membership of, and payment of fees to, approved student bodies and gave rights of appeal to any student dissatisfied with decisions on those issues. [More…]
The legislation is about the rights of the students on the campus at the Australian National University in regard to the compulsory membership of student organisations and the attitude that the University was previously prepared to adopt- of denying students entry to the University, preventing them from sitting for examinations and denying them their examination results on no other test than that they had failed to become members of a student organisation. [More…]
However, I am not concerned with the ins and outs of the politics of the AUS; I am concerned with the matter of the rights of students on campus who do not want to be members of student organisations or who have a genuine objection to money which is taken compulsorily out of their pockets being paid to the AUS. [More…]
-When entering the chamber this morning for the day’s business I picked up the Order of Business paper which is issued as a guide to honourable senators and I looked in vain for mention of the Human Rights Commission Bill 1979, which had occupied so much of the time of this Senate yesterday. [More…]
The Bill is about the destruction of human rights and that is the point I find so amazing. [More…]
Rather than our debating the human rights which, even though in an indeterminant or unsatisfactory manner, the Human Rights Commission Bill 1979 in some measure seeks to protect, we find ourselves debating a partisan, paternalistic, authoritarian and dictatorial piece of legislation which denies to adult Australians- do not forget that on the whole students are 1 8 years of age or older- the right to associate and affiliate with a particular national body of students. [More…]
This is not an attempt by government to secure rights in some high-minded way. [More…]
I know that people are looking at the clock but this is the kind of legislation which is damaging and destructive to people’s reputations and individual students’ rights- [More…]
What can be said is that from the Bureau experience there would appear to be a very high incidence of breaches and maybe employee rights are not as secure as may be thought. [More…]
I ask the Minister How can the Government justify this continuing situation while it brings into the Parliament very drastic regulations and provisions in relation to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act which restrict the rights of employees? [More…]
The Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act requires the titles to exclude roads over which the public has a right of way. [More…]
Australia had condemned the excesses of the Pol Pot Administration and will continue to make its position clear on the question of the massive violation of human rights which this regime perpetrated. [More…]
Is the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs aware of advertisements proposing the negotiation of a treaty, covenant or convention of peace with Australia’s Aboriginal people, which would protect their culture and land rights and detail conditions for the mining of Aboriginal lands, compensation for the loss of traditional lands and damage to traditional life? [More…]
On what criteria was the $ 1 .4m paid by Japan for fishing rights based and what, if any, supervision does Australia retain under the agreement? [More…]
These amendments are primarily aimed at changing references to Australian Federal Police from references to Commonwealth Police, as well as to preserve rights under the Officers ‘ Rights Declaration Act, where appropriate, to members of the Australian Federal Police. [More…]
The one exception to this, as set out in clause 2, sub-clause (2), amends sections 87 and 87J of the Public Service Act 1922, which are in relation to the preservation of rights under the Officers’ Rights Declaration Act, which are to come into operation on the date of the commencement of section 32 of the Public Service Amendment Act 1978. [More…]
In this instance, the amendments provide for the preservation by some former Commonwealth Police officers, who have been appointed to the Australian Federal Police, of their rights under the Officers’ Rights Declaration Act in respect of their former service in the Australian Public Service. [More…]
The mistaken view has been taken that if those in the public sector exercise what I believe to be their rights and obligations it is a cost to the community. [More…]
Yet the Government has cut back the emolument that was granted to members of parliament on an unlimited basis and has restricted it to 40 overnight stays, even though members’ staff, because of their classification, have unlimited travel rights. [More…]
There ought to be recognition of the rights of members to carry out their responsibilities and to be adequately compensated in the same way as those who work in the private sector are compensated. [More…]
For those reasons we ask the Government parties, whilst they may not agree with all that I have said about the question of resources for members of parliament, to consider seriously the points I have raised and to have them discussed in their party room and by their party committees which deal with such rights so that we can come to an understanding about the need for adequate resources to be available to members of parliament. [More…]
I understand that according to the airlines agreement under which the two major domestic airlines operate the rate of increase in air navigation charges is limited to 10 per cent per annum, yet last year the airlines agreed to a 15 per cent increase and this year they have again agreed to waive their rights in order to permit a 25 per cent increase, as proposed by the Government. [More…]
We have given away certain rights. [More…]
When consideration of this Bill was interrupted last week we had reached the stage of having accepted the amendment which was moved by the AttorneyGeneral (Senator Durack) to clause 9(l)(c) and which had the effect of clarifying some aspects of that clause to make it clear that the functions of the Commission, amongst others, were to report on its own initiative or when requested by the Minister as to the laws that should be made by the Parliament, or action that should be taken by the Commonwealth, on matters relating to human rights. [More…]
As I understand it, the Attorney-General’s amendment, which he foreshadowed when this matter was last considered, was to delete that sub-clause entirely as being now unnecessary and redundant, given the extension and the extended operation of clause 9 ( 1 ) (c) which refers not to the Covenant but to human rights generally. [More…]
True it is that human rights are denned in this Bill as meaning the rights and freedoms recognised in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights or in any relevant international instrument and true it would be that a general power under clause 9 ( 1 ) (c) to investigate matters relating to human rights would accordingly enable a good deal of the matters associated with the operation of the Covenant to be specifically dealt with; but our concern, for example, is with something like Article 4 1 of the Covenant which on its face is not concerned with the subject matter of any of these human rights but with the procedure whereby a state- that is, a country which is party to the Covenant- may declare its recognition of the competence of the international human rights committee. [More…]
It may well be that if clause 9 ( 1 ) (d) is retained this can be a vehicle whereby the Commission can properly investigate the extent to which human rights are being effectively looked after in the State areas of the Commonwealth to which this Article of the Covenant applies. [More…]
But in the absence of clause 9 ( 1 ) (d) it might be that a reference to human rights would have to be read down to mean simply human rights applying in the Commonwealth area. [More…]
Because of the absence of a specific reference to the Covenant and having simply the reference to human rights which happen to be defined in the Covenant, it seems to me that the procedural clauses in the Covenant and those parts of the Covenant which are not directly concerned with human rights as such but rather with the scope, operation and procedures associated with the Covenant, may be outside the Commission’s scope. [More…]
I know that the Attorney-General is preoccupied with people peering over his shoulder and talking into his ear, but my argument was concerned with particular issues, such as the meaning and application of Article 41 and Article 50 of the Covenant and the possible application of the optional protocol, all of which seem to be outside the immediate sphere of dealing with human rights. [More…]
They deal not so much with human rights as with the machinery by which those human rights are protected. [More…]
I understand that the Attorney has agreed to this proposal, which relates to a relatively minor and specific power concerning the investigation of an instrument to see whether in fact it may contain inconsistencies by comparison with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
to promote an understanding and acceptance, and the public discussion, of human rights in Australia and the external Territories; [More…]
What is the attitude of the Attorney-General to the insertion after the words ‘human rights’, of the expression ‘and of international humanitarian law’? [More…]
I do not labour the point but the main content of the international humanitarian law is the Geneva conventions associated with the conduct of war, matters certainly unequivocably related to human rights and the dignity of the individual. [More…]
As is set out, the purpose of this Commission is to have regard to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
But as I have said, at this stage the object of establishing this Commission is to give effect to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
Also, they must be shown to be for the protection and advancement of human rights in Australia. [More…]
The argument that the great majority of breaches of human rights in this country occur under State laws, acts and practices has already been made. [More…]
Perhaps I may add that, in the present state of international alignments, it would be hazardous for the Commonwealth to enter into new international obligations such as the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and yet not assume legislatively the necessary powers to secure respect for those obligations throughout Australia. [More…]
to have the power to compare State laws with Federal laws, to compare one State law with another, or to come up with draft suggestions to try to give leadership in this country on the question of improving the various laws relating to human rights. [More…]
It would add another string to the bow of the Human Rights Commission to at least be able to investigate and report upon the state of human rights, by reference to the standards in the Covenant, in the States and in the territories where most of the civil liberty interfering action, as we know, takes place. [More…]
The real thing that matters, if one is talking about the enjoyment and the protection of human rights in the States, is to have some enforcement mechanism attached to provisions of this kind which would enable the investigation of particular complaints and the following up of such investigation by, where appropriate, court proceedings and by, where it is even more appropriate, the striking down in those court proceedings of particular pieces of obnoxious legislation. [More…]
It does go so far as to not only permit the Commission to examine any State law or enactment in a general way but also to look at a particular instance where it is said that the State Act or some activity authorised by State law does violate a human right as judged by the criteria set out by the Human Rights Commission Bill. [More…]
It goes a fair distance towards enabling this Federal Commission to look at that vast area where human rights violations may occur within Australia, namely within State jurisdiction and under State law. [More…]
It also deserves support because it continues to amend the Bill in a way which is only in harmony with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which the Bill is said to be attempting to bring into some operation within Australian law. [More…]
As has been pointed out time and time again, if Australia is to go into the international community and say that as a nation state it will try to ensure that all the rights outlined in the Covenant are recognised throughout Australia, it has an obligation under Article 50 of the Covenant to ensure that as far as possible recognition of those rights goes beyond any barriers arising from our federal system. [More…]
I said, I hope fairly clearly, during my speech at the second reading stage, that I believed that failure to extend the power of the Human Rights Commission to examine matters under State law was an unnecessary weakening of the effective role that the Commission could play in the protection of human rights in Australia. [More…]
Governments are the greatest violators of human rights and in the Australian federal system the overwhelming majority of these violations occur under State law. [More…]
Conciliation, a useful technique in the discrimination context, is an inadequate tool to deal with rights such as those of an accused person on arrest, or matters such as the death penalty, to name but two of the matters covered by the Covenant. [More…]
Without full consultation and full knowledge and understanding of administration and operations on reserves, Community Councils can only be regarded as fronts for achieving goals which appear alien to the enjoyment of fundamental freedoms and human rights. [More…]
Frankly, if the Human Rights Commission is to have any validity I think it should have the power to inquire into breaches of human rights which takes place under State jurisdiction. [More…]
I accept the purpose which lies behind it, which is that we must make sure that this Bill will be effective and will justify us in ratifying the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
I would be heartened in my belief in this position if I could have an assurance from the AttorneyGeneral (Senator Durack) that if the Senate passes this Bill, which is openly designed as a mechanism by which we can ratify the United Nations Covenant, the Government is determined to make the human rights legislation effective in Australia by any means in its constitutional power. [More…]
I do so because we are not asking for the Human Rights Commission to go into the States and to change or condemn their laws. [More…]
any State Act or Northern Territory enactment or any law (including rules, regulations or by-laws) made under a State Act or Northern Territory enactment for the purpose of ascertaining whether the State Act, the Northern Territory enactment or the law, as the case may be, is inconsistent with or contrary to any human rights, and report to the Minister . [More…]
He may be able to negotiate, point out where it does offend against the Federal Human Rights Commission, and maybe he will be able to persuade them to change their law. [More…]
This amendment seeks to extend the function of the Human Rights Commission to an examination of State laws, Acts and practices to see whether they conform with the principles of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
I thought I had made it perfectly clear- I hope 1 did in my second reading speech when introducing this proposal and in my reply to the debate during the second reading stage of the Bill- that the Government is not prepared to agree to the Human Rights Commission having a function in relation to State laws and practices. [More…]
We believe that a federal system of government is one of the major bulwarks in preserving human rights and in the dispersal of power away from central government. [More…]
To be quite frank, it is difficult to conceive of somebody going to the trouble of mounting a case before the Commission, going through all the difficulty, the expense and certainly the consuming of time to bring before the Commission’s notice an alleged violation of human rights, if it were not of sufficient concern to the complainant. [More…]
the performance by that State or Territory or by an authority of that State or Territory on behalf of the Commonwealth of functions (including functions of the Commission) relating to the promotion of the observance of human rights- [More…]
We believe it is appropriate that the Commission may on occasion engage jointly with the States in the exercise of human rights protection but we do not think that it is ever likely to be appropriate that the Commission divest itself entirely of this function. [More…]
In order to facilitate a lot of the administrative arrangements that will be required in the performance of functions by the Commission and to rationalise as much as possible the whole area of administration of human rights matters at Federal and State levels, hopefully with the prospect that there will be firm cooperative arrangements in all these matters, it is desirable to provide in the legislation that arrangements may be made between Commonwealth and State Ministers in relation to the performance of functions and in order to provide for State or Territory authorities to act on behalf of the Commonwealth in some respects. [More…]
This clause provides a framework which would have to be adopted by the Human Rights Commission. [More…]
It does not give the power to the Minister to hand over functions and prevent the Human Rights Commission from performing those functions. [More…]
It is simply a matter of the Minister entering into arrangements with the States by which certain functions will be taken over by those States if the Human Rights Commission thinks that is suitable. [More…]
As far as Senator Evans’s amendment is concerned, obviously it is part of the Government’s policy that where in some places it may be desirable to utilise a State body or authority to perform work for the Commonwealth, that is all part of the good sense of rationalisation of the administration of matters in the area of human rights. [More…]
Can the officer concerned now accept the lower promotion on a reduction by consent basis, thus negating the other appellants ‘ rights of appeal against the first provisional promotion, because the Airport Manager Grade 2 classification is lower than the Air Traffic Controller Grade 5 classification; if so, why did: (a) the Promotion Appeals Committee not hear the appeals lodged against the first promotion in the five month period that had elapsed since the appeal deadline for that promotion and the confirmation of the promotion to Air Traffic Controller Grade 5; and (b) the Department of Transport, knowing that the original promotion of this particular officer was a contentious one, allow the second promotion to be processed, thus negating the other appellants ‘ basic right of appeal. [More…]
Will the Department, if the notice, information and opportunity referred to in (1) above are not provided, restructure its procedures in view of the serious invasion of the rights of pensioners and beneficiaries involved in such a denial of natural justice. [More…]
That it is acknowledged that it is reasonable for major sporting organisations to conclude agreements with individual commercial television networks for sole telecasting rights. [More…]
Does the Minister agree that this is a true indication of the sincerity of the people of Yarrabah in wishing to gain land rights and selfmanagement? [More…]
The Government holds the view that the Vietnamese military forces should be withdrawn from countries over which they have no territorial rights. [More…]
by leave- Certain news reports this morning have stated that the Australian Democrats failed to vote on a clause of the Human Rights Commission Bill last evening. [More…]
I understood him to say that the Government would proceed with the Human Rights Commission Bill for about half an hour that evening. [More…]
Senator Evans advised me today that he recalls telling Senator Chipp at about 10.30 last night in relation to the Human Rights Commission Bill- I am using Senator Evans’ words- ‘I do not think we can assume there will be no votes tonight’. [More…]
Qantas currently does not have landing rights to Nairobi, the most obvious point for a stop. [More…]
Unless one considers other people ‘s rights in this country, or anywhere in the world, people with power who use it as a weapon will lose that power one day. [More…]
That is not what land rights is all about. [More…]
I can report to him that, as Mr Staley has stated on a number of occasions over the last few weeks when the matter has been raised by Senator Maunsell and by honourable senators opposite, some of whom were indicating their interest a few moments ago, the Government is particularly concerned that not all Australians will be able to see the various matches programmed and is actively continuing its efforts to ensure that these relatively recent developments in the granting of exclusive television rights to various television stations do not unduly prejudice the long history of widespread coverage of sporting events. [More…]
I am advised by the office of the Minister for Post and Telecommunications that if the television rights to a particular sporting event are not held by the ABC the Minister could not direct the ABC under this section to provide a coverage. [More…]
As I said in answer to questions from Senator Maunsell both this week and last week, the solution requires cooperation between the organisations which grant the rights, the commercial network which secures the rights, and the ABC. [More…]
The reason for Senator Baume ‘s comment was reported to be that he believed that we ought to have voted in a division on an amendment to the Human Rights Commission Bill at the Committee stage last Monday night. [More…]
It is a fact, as Hansard shows, that Senator Chipp and I have spoken and voted in the Committee stage of the Human Rights Commission Bill, voting in divisions on amendments up to the one of last Monday night. [More…]
These have included: in the Northern Territory, land rights in the form of land held in trust for Aboriginal owners in perpetuity; and throughout Australia, the purchase of land, enterprises and housing for both social and economic purposes. [More…]
The Government draws attention to the fact that land rights, land purchases and other accumulating assets to which I referred earlier are real measures of compensation. [More…]
A similar process was followed in relation to the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976. [More…]
It is not right that Senator McLaren insisting on his rights and doing his duty as a politician, should be abused in this chamber by a Minister who opposes the asking of that question. [More…]
The matter of property rights still had to be resolved. [More…]
They study a very wide range of matters concerned with crime including crime prevention policies, alternatives to imprisonment and the human rights of prisoners. [More…]
I draw your attention to the fact that Australia is a signatory to the United Nations Charter on the ‘Special Rights of the Handicapped’. [More…]
Nations Charter of understanding the HUMANITIES & Human Rights, which certain Australians appear to ignore. [More…]
I must make the point again that it is not just a matter of funds but, as I said in answering a question from Senator Maunsell last week, the solution requires co-operation between the organisations which grant the rights, the commercial network which secures the rights and the ABC. [More…]
The Commission has previously expressed the view, and it does so again, that the television rights to national and international sporting events in Australia should not be sold on an exclusive basis. [More…]
Rather, the practice should be adopted (as in the UK) where certain major sporting events are declared events of national importance and only nonexclusive rights are sold. [More…]
That it is acknowledged that it is reasonable for major sporting organisations to conclude agreements with individual commercial television networks for sole telecasting rights. [More…]
I would simply say that the Human Rights Commission legislation which is being enacted in this place at this time goes no way at all towards the recommendation for sex discrimination legislation outlined in the report. [More…]
Ever since the commencement of land rights and the acquisiton of land in the Territory for the purpose of mining, the Opposition has warned the Government on many occasions- as have many other groups in the Australian communityabout social impact and the destruction of the social life of Aborigines as a result of this mammoth investment by mining groups in our country, and in the Northern Territory. [More…]
However, the most incredible part of the summary made by the Minister of the report is that now there is recognition that we have to take extraordinary steps to protect the rights of Aborigines, but not in any paternalistic way by saying that they do not understand and therefore we need to act on their behalf. [More…]
In assessing the need for such a committee we noted that many Bills come before the Parliament which contain provisions that: Significantly interfere with personal rights and liberties; delegate powers which, arguably, should not be delegated at all; delegate powers to affect rights, liberties and obligations without providing an opportunity for the exercise of those powers to be reviewed either by the Parliament itself or by an independent body; or delegate powers to impose obligations without any clearly defined guidance as to who is to impose them, upon whom and in which circumstances. [More…]
It states that it accepts that there is a necessity to protect personal rights, but it then goes on to state that the Committee ‘s proposal would inject a new element into the legislative process and states that that element is: [More…]
Far from taking away from members of parliament their rights or opportunities, what would happen would be that a better investigation would be undertaken of the civil liberties aspects of Bills and a number of issues would be taken out of the political content and made matters on which agreement might be reached in such a committee. [More…]
Under the heading ‘Watchdog on civil rights’, amongst other things it states: [More…]
trespass unduly on personal rights and liberties; [More…]
make rights, liberties and obligations unduly dependent upon insufficiently defined administrative powers or non-reviewable administrative decisions; or [More…]
The Government is at one with the Senate Committee in its concern to protect the personal rights and liberties of the individual, and to ensure that there is no inappropriate delegation of legislative power or avoidance of adequate Parliamentary scrutiny of the exercise of legislative power. [More…]
We believe that every Member of the Parliament should be concerned, when legislation is before the Parliament, with any questions of human rights and civil liberties which may arise. [More…]
Adequate opportunities are given under existing procedures to ensure protection of personal rights and liberties. [More…]
It shows a complete contempt for the Parliament and certainly insults the bipartisan committee of six honourable senators of this chamber, drawn from every Party, who came to this conclusion as a practical measure to ensure that no legislation escapes the scrutiny of this chamber and of the House of Representatives in relation to these human rights. [More…]
With that sort of contempt for human rights, including the right to life of our young Australians, it is not surprising that we have this sort of response from the Government to a parliamentary report. [More…]
As an additional aid the joint committee would provide to each parliamentarian for his or her consideration a commentary on the Bill linking the operative provisions of the Bill to such questions as whether the Bill significantly alters or interferes with personal liberties and rights, delegates powers which ought not to be delegated or in some way delegates power without giving sufficient consideration to ongoing parliamentary scrutiny. [More…]
That is the sort of instance where legislation comes into a chamber and the focus is on an element of that legislation- in that case the development of uranium deposits- and clauses to do with human rights and their infringement get lost perhaps in general argument on matters of more public concern. [More…]
We have just witnessed the case of the small welfare rights program which was transferred to the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs from the Department of Social Security, where it was very effective. [More…]
Once the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs got hold of this welfare rights program, it quickly cut it off in its prime. [More…]
If the Institute’s researchers pointed to the need to fight for the rights of disadvantaged migrant groups against the private and public bureaucracy and wanted the Government to fund such a program. [More…]
I think the Government has rather let them down by bringing up a Bill like this which is, of course, similar to the Human Rights Commission Bill. [More…]
It follows that we need to make changes to all those pieces of legislation- all those laws- which confer certain rights and obligations upon members of the Commonwealth Police, now known as the Australian Federal Police. [More…]
There is reference also to the officers in the organisation and the officers rights declaration which seems to establish some important principles for those officers who will be transferring from the Narcotics Bureau and from the Public Service into the Australian Federal Police. [More…]
I say that in that instance a tax avoider ought to have his Federal voting rights taken away from him as part of the penalty to be imposed by this community. [More…]
I have a very keen recognition of the abuse and denial of human rights in that country. [More…]
Fraser Government, Australia abandoned support for the rights of self-determination, eventually siding with Indonesia at the United Nations General Assembly. [More…]
One cannot dissociate the humanitarian situation from the political and human rights aspects of the overall problem. [More…]
Indonesia says that East Timor is an internal matter and ipso facto outside the attention of Australia, but we have to remind ourselves that by becoming a foundation member of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights we have a commitment to human rights all over the world. [More…]
No gross abuse of human rights can be entirely an internal affair. [More…]
We should reconsider Australia’s attitude at the United Nations General Assembly and remind ourselves when we do so of our obligations on the Human Rights Commission. [More…]
We accuse and make also Your Excellency responsible, because you ignore the pursuant articles of human rights for social protection which Australia also has signed and because you do not apply the bilateral conventions between Greece and Australia about the pensions. [More…]
The articles of the declaration of human rights and bilateral conventions Greece-Australia show and impose upon Your Excellency and the Australian Government, not only the grant again of the unjustly interrupted disabled pensions as soon as possible but also to stop the accusations against the disabled pensioners living in Greece. [More…]
That it is acknowledged that it is reasonable for major sporting organisations to conclude agreements with individual commercial television networks for sole telecasting rights. [More…]
Sometimes discrimination was oven- Aborigines had to be granted citizen rights before they could enrol. [More…]
There is a view by some people that patents should be a mere aggregation of individual private rights. [More…]
We, the undersigned residents of Yarrabah solemnly declare that we fully support the present council, Mr P. Neil, Mr V. Schrieber, Mr Stan Connelly, Mr Charlie Fourmile and Mr Robert Smallwood in their attempts to negotiate self management and secure land rights for us, the people of Yarrabah. [More…]
It is headed: Report on Human Rights Practices in Countries Receiving US Aid. [More…]
For several years, the United Nations Human Rights Commission and other United Nations bodies have adopted resolutions condemning alleged Israeli human rights violations in the occupied territories. [More…]
The General Assembly’s Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population in the Occupied Territories, Heard the Testimonies of Sixteen Witnesses. [More…]
I raise this matter to put a case for the human rights for those people who have been and who are still detained in gaol. [More…]
I do not believe that I have read the constitution of any country which does not have written into it some passages about human rights in that country. [More…]
As far as I know, every country proclaims that it is a country where human rights are held in the highest esteem and where torture is not used. [More…]
Our Constitution also has certain rights built into it for citizens. [More…]
On that basis it is essential that the coal export levy be replaced with some alternative form of resource tax which is based on the profits of the producers and which must be equitable but must recognise the rights of the Australian community to benefit from the development of those resources. [More…]
by inserting after sub-section (3) the following new sub-sections: (3a) Where, in proceedings in a court in respect of an offence, objection is taken to the admission of evidence on the ground that the evidence was obtained in contravention of, or in consequence of a contravention of, or in consequence of a failure to comply with, a provision of this Act, in relation to a person, the court shall not admit the evidence unless it is, on the balance of probabilities, satisfied that admission of the evidence would specifically and substantially benefit the public interest without unduly prejudicing the rights and freedoms of any person. [More…]
The Opposition believes that the time has long passed when, by the uncontested decisions of a political officer, namely, the Attorney-General, very important evidence can be withheld from the Human Rights Commission relating to the alleged violation of a human right. [More…]
We refer to the current debate in the Senate on the Human Rights Commission Bill and to the amendments which we have supported to strengthen the proposed Human Rights Commission and, to ensure that it would operate effectively in compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
It has been made clear to us that the Government is concerned that an amendment proposed by Senator Missen and supported by us and other senators, providing for enforcement proceedings for human rights violations by way of civil proceedings, is likely to be pased by the Senate and will not be acceptable to the Government. [More…]
We are firmly of the opinion that such amendments are necessary to ensure that the Human Rights Commission Bill has ‘teeth’ and will provide suitable and effective remedies for complaints. [More…]
We believe that the lack of enforcement rights is a grave defect and a limitation on the effective operation of the legislation. [More…]
We also refer to our initial amendments which proposed increased powers for the Commission to undertake investigations of human rights issues on its own initiative and also to widen the access and standing of persons to lodge complaints with the Commission. [More…]
This amendment is an attempt to give this ineffectual, tame pussy cat Bill some teeth, to create a situation in which, if the Commission does investigate an act or practice and finds, that it does offend human rights, it can give a certification which will enable an aggrieved individual to take the matter to court and obtain some appropriate remedy- an enforcement procedure which is entirely lacking in the Bill as it now stands. [More…]
I make only one further comment and that is that it might not be as effective as one would like, even within its own terms, to the extent that the Opposition would regard it desirable not only that an aggrieved individual or group be able to litigate but also that the Human Rights Commission have the power to initiate litigation on behalf of someone so aggrieved, as was a provision in the Human Rights Bill 1973 and as has been recommended by the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs in respect of the enforcement of freedom of information matters by the Ombudsman. [More…]
We have taken an attitude that, in order to have a Human Rights Commission which has some power in terms of investigation and the ability to generate some publicity and some study of this matter, it is better to be in the position of having a commission- albeit a commission which we believe to be a weak one and one without the powers of enforceability- than to have nothing at all, which seems to be the alternative. [More…]
This amendment provides that, upon ratification by Australia of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Minister shall cause a copy of the instrument of ratification to be published in the Gazette. [More…]
The Bill as drafted prevents the divulging of information or the production of a document which a member of the Human Rights Commission has come across in the course of his duties. [More…]
It goes a long way in giving to the people of Australia an assurance of their human rights. [More…]
If we believed that the Human Rights Commission was an unequivocally worthwhile institution we would be a little cautious about creating the opportunity for its demise. [More…]
But since the Human Rights Commission that is now established by this Bill as it has proceeded to this stage, is such a half-hearted inconsequential, feeble, damp squib of an institution we regard that prospect as somewhat less alarming. [More…]
We should be prepared to be more effective in ensuring that those rights are also effective throughout the country. [More…]
When asked about the imminent disappearance of the office of the Commissioner for Community Relations, the Minister replied: ‘The Federal Government has decided to create a Commission for Human Rights, and one of the Commissioners of this body will be responsible for watching out for racial discrimination. [More…]
1 ) The Northern Land Council appointed Mildren and Partners to act on a matter basis in September 1978 under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
Yes; (a) Senior Administration Officer, Ranger Monitoring Cell; (b) until February 1980; (c) he is responsible for assisting the Council in carrying out its responsibilities and duties in relation to agreements in respect of mining developments that have been negotiated under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
, (7) and (8) (a) Structure funded by Section 64 ( 1 ) of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act [More…]
1 ) Has the suggestion in the Report of the Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration paragraph 8-2-45, that the Public Service Board explore the possibilities of restoring benefit entitlements to officers with more than three years’ initial service who return to Commonwealth employment, been acted upon; if so, what decision has been reached with respect to restoration of: (a) seniority; (b) furlough; (c) sick leave benefits; and (d) superannuation rights. [More…]
Provisions for anticipation of sick leave are available to staff, including former public servants who have been re-appointed to the service, in the event of a particular need for sick leave beyond a current entitlement, (d) The Superannuation Act 1976 provides that, on reemployment by the Commonwealth, a former contributor, who on resignation had elected for preservation of superannuation rights, may, in certain circumstances, have his previous contributory service recognised on again becoming a member of the scheme. [More…]
Member Countries of United Nations Commission on Human Rights (Question No. [More…]
1 ) Which countries are members of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. [More…]
In which of these countries do human rights, in terms of the practical constitutional freedom of citizens, approach the standards: (a) laid down in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; and ( b) enjoyed by the average Australian in Australia. [More…]
1 ) The current membership of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights is: [More…]
The Government does not have at its disposal information which would enable it to give a detailed answer to the question of a comparison of standards of human rights in other countries with those pertaining in Australia. [More…]
States Parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights are required by the terms of the Covenant to report to the Human Rights Committee on the measures they have adopted to give effect to the rights recognised in the Covenant. [More…]
Australian representatives in the Commission on Human Rights and elsewhere have also repeatedly stated the view that there is no country in the world which can claim to have a perfect record in the human rights field. [More…]
The following States members of the Commission on Human Rights are also parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: [More…]
The Australian Government has protested to the Iranian authorities about human rights issues. [More…]
The concessions include: immediate deduction of general mining exploration expenditures against mining income; deduction on a diminishing value basis over a maximum life of mine of 5 years of allowable capital expenditures, including certain development expenditures and certain ‘ housing welfare ‘ at or adjacent to a mine site; deduction on a straight line basis over 10 or 20 years at the taxpayer’s discretion of allowable capital expenditure on railway, road or port development; exemption from taxation of income derived by a bona fide prospector from the sale, transfer or assignment of rights to mine certain specified minerals; an additional deduction by way of investment allowance of 20 per cent of the installed cost of eligible new plant contracted for or on which construction commenced in the period of January 1976 to 30 June 1985, if the plant is first used or installed ready for use by 30 June 1986. [More…]
What fees have been paid to Australia for fishing rights by: (a) Japan; (b) South Korea; (c) Taiwan; and (d) the Soviet Union. [More…]
As no bilateral agreements for access have been concluded with the Republic of Korea, no access fees have been paid for fishing rights. [More…]
As no bilateral agreements for access have been concluded with the USSR no access fees have been paid for fishing rights. [More…]
International Convention: Rights in Aircraft (Question No. [More…]
Australia signed the Convention on the International Recognition of Rights in Aircraft (Geneva Convention or ‘Mortgage Convention’) on 9 June 1950 but has not ratified it- Approval in principle was given to ratification in 1961 but the proposal was not proceeded with. [More…]
The Government deplores the fact that Eastern European governments, including Romania’s, continue to deny fundamental civil and political rights to their citizens and that minorities often suffer most in this respect. [More…]
In keeping with the humanitarian interest of the Australian people and our obligations to the United Nations, the Australian Government is concerned about the detention of people for political reasons and other infringements of human rights wherever they may occur. [More…]
It deals with the recent utterances of senior Ministers of the Thatcher Government in which they have accused overseas visitors of sponging and of being bludgers- a word which I do not use- in relation to the British health system and even employment rights, as though they are going to put the cleaners through everybody. [More…]
As the concept of the British Commonwealth is used sometimes to allow Commonwealth nationals to get early voting rights and other things here, I wonder whether we could alert our High Commissioner to the need to have close consultations with British Government to ensure that it realises that, whilst British citizens have rights, citizens of other Commonwealth countries also have them. [More…]
as the International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination will the Government make an early statement on whether it will actively support this decision, which would be in line with Australia’s subscription to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1 said that I thought the question should properly be answered by the Minister for External Affairs, who has provided the following answer: [More…]
This Bill is an onslaught upon the rights of freedom of speech and of peaceable assembly in this country. [More…]
In view of the great demand by residents of New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory for a direct telecast of the rugby league grand final at Sydney on Saturday, will the Minister investigate why the Australian Broadcasting’ Commission has not made an offer of a realistic price for television rights, - as it has in the past with other sports? [More…]
The Committee was also concerned with certain provisions relating to the rights of persons licensed under the ordinance and, in this area, the Minister has also given assurances that the ordinance will be amended so as to meet the points raised by the Committee. [More…]
Clause 1 3 (d) clearly states: witnesses may be accompanied by counsel or solicitor for the purposes of being advised by them as to their rights and. [More…]
The relevant sections of the Copyright Act protect the right of an author or publisherpublishers often have assigned to them the rights of authors to copyright- to arrange for the distribution of the copyright works in any country. [More…]
In Australia those rights are contained in the sections which have been referred to. [More…]
If those safeguards were removed there would be very serious repercussions on the rights of authors and publishers. [More…]
We demand Land Rights now, on these principles: [More…]
Immediate ownership rights by Tribal Groups, of land they continue to occupy. [More…]
That Aboriginal lands include total rights to all natural resources, and that present mining and prospecting be suspended until negotiations are held with Aboriginals. [More…]
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Acts and their regulations and by-laws be abolished forthwith, and that Land Rights be established, believing that only when these two demands arc fulfilled will Aboriginals and Torres Strait Island people begin to have their freedom and independence. [More…]
Close attention is paid to the various kinds of arrangements that are possible in respect of mineral rights- an area which has been the subject of much confusion and misunderstanding. [More…]