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

• Do the recent statements by Mr McEwen, the Minister for Trade and Industry, that the Australia to Europe shipping conference has abandoned negotiations in respect to a 10 per cent increase in freight and the announcement that it remains up to the various shipper groups representing the meat, dairy and canned fruit industries to decide on the 10 per cent increase mean that the Government has given up any hope of using the Trade Practices Act to subvert this action or to use the Government’s interests in the Australian Coastal Shipping Commission to resist such increases? [More…]

• But the preoccupation and obsession linger on, even to the stage of persistence to subvert the Act. [More…]

• the continuing incompetence, evasion, deceit and duplicity of the Prime Minister and his Ministers as exemplified in the overseas loan scandal which was an attempt by the Government to subvert the Constitution, to by-pass Parliament and to evade its responsibilities to the States and the Loan Council; [More…]

• I do not subvert them in the military action they are forced to take. [More…]

• lt was hoped that this could be done by slandering the people taking part in the demonstrations, by intimidating them and by holding them out as people willing to subvert this country. [More…]

• So long as it is understood that this issue, under the guise of the disallowance of a regulation, is just another effort to subvert or undermine the National Service Act, I am prepared to commit the matter to Senate. [More…]

• Naturally the Manager as the senior officer would be the one to decide, at least in the first instance, on what is a reasonable standard of conduct, what acts subvert good order and what interferes with normal duties. [More…]

• The same position could well develop in South East Asia if China, for example, having a minority ethnic group available to it in some of the countries to our north, as a protecting power tried to subvert any one of these countries by the stimulation of the minority movements in any of them and that country became an accommodating power to China, or to any other nation not friendly to Australia. [More…]

• I think the Government intends to tie down the unions completely, to subvert the traditional role of the conciliation and arbitration tribunals and generally to make it more difficult for organised labour to maintain wage and industry standards. [More…]

• I want to underline the fact that you would like to subvert the Australian Government’s performance which has been marked by a permanent expression of hope that when the Territory asked for self-government and assumed the responsibilities of independence, Australia would have foreseen it, made the provisions that facilitated it and immediately acceded to it on a responsible resolution of the peoples themselves to accept that responsibility. [More…]

• However, once a government has notice of activities designed to train terrorists and of plans to subvert a recognised government if may be considered that a duty arises to suppress such activities. [More…]

• It seems to be all right if, inside Australia, we can train people in international Communist subversion and can send Communists overseas to subvert and pervert. [More…]

• Because they have the numbers on the opposite side, honourable senators have become so arrogant with their power that they think that they can subvert the Government. [More…]

• On the one hand, if it suits Australia’s book, it suits the Commonwealth of Nations and the general Western democracies to hold the peace and possibly to subvert some Croatians who want independence. [More…]

• They are setting up a little junta within this Senate which will subvert the purposes of the Senate. [More…]

• In answer to a previous question the Leader of the Government referred to the Prime Minister’s impertinent and unauthorised intervention in the dispute by suggesting the intrusion of a federal judge to subvert the decision of the Industrial Commission of New South Wales. [More…]

• In one proposal which is cognate to this we see a pattern of referenda designed to subvert the States and to alter the constitution of the States. [More…]

• Mr Deputy President, within the ambit of your ruling I am compelled to say that the author of these proposals has a direct purpose, which is to subvert the States and to undermine this chamber. [More…]

• But these things aside, it is an obvious purpose of the present Government to subvert the States and weaken them. [More…]

• It is an obvious purpose of the present Government to subvert the States House and weaken it. [More…]

• I hope that it is not just an attempt to subvert the authority of State governments and an attempt to centralise further powers in Canberra. [More…]

• Labor says ‘No, we just think’-and I believe this is Labor’s aim- ‘of how it will subvert this Senate and how it will subvert the representation of the States’. [More…]

• This is the most ingenious, cunning trick that has been conceived to subvert the Constitution. [More…]

• Australian Federal governments have never tried to subvert the Constitution by, for example, extending the life of a Parliament. [More…]

• The Labor Party proposed referendums on anything and everything, but a responsible Senate thwarted the Government’s irresponsible attempts to subvert our federal system. [More…]

• Therefore this legislation is nothing short of an attempt to subvert the Constitution. [More…]

• It is the propriety of subverting the constitutional system of administrative processes. [More…]

• This simple administrative act to which I have referred involves an attempt, firstly, to subvert the proprieties of parliamentary authority and, second, to subjugate the parliamentary authority of a Prime Minister who is temporarily embedded in this place. [More…]

• I have no doubt that the majority of the former Mapoon people are wise enough to see through the obvious manoeuvres of this diabolical attempt to subvert them from being citizens of Queensland and Australia and reject it with the contempt it deserves. [More…]

• I am astounded, as my question today indicated, that the State Government of South Australia is endeavouring to subvert the new trade practices legislation that has been passed by the Senate. [More…]

• Does he also argue that by giving state aid to church schools we are setting out to subvert the churches, because it would seem to me that if one is subverting religious and charitable institutions which conduct nursing homes by paying them these substantial sums of money, the same would apply to the schools which are conducted by religious and, if not charitable, then non-profit making organisations? [More…]

• When it came to an electorate completely under the Labor Government’s control it attempted to pass through this Parliament a Bill to subvert the 20 per cent disparity which could occur between electorates. [More…]

• Where could that thought have come from except from an entrenched government that was trying to subvert our news media? [More…]

• We do not want to subvert the Australian Agricultural Council which we so wonderfully support’. [More…]

• If there are going to be people setting out to subvert the electoral system by having mischievous candidates then I think it requires the government of the day to do something about it. [More…]

• There is no question that it shall be subverted or slid around. [More…]

• To do otherwise in this matter is to join in the most unsavoury single minded attempt to subvert justice instead of to apply it. [More…]

• Of course he refers to the free enterprise capitalist system, except insofar as the Government can convert it or subvert it to socialism in its worst form, as a most virulent disease. [More…]

• I can assure the Committee that the statement by the Treasurer is a clear indication that there is no intention on the part of the Government or of the Treasurer to subvert in any way the processes of this Parliament. [More…]

• The attitude that Senator Steele Hall has adopted that this training is something to be feared and that this trade union program will be used to indoctrinate or to subvert the worker and make him an enemy of society is a dishonest approach and he must know it. [More…]

• Regulations are not the proper vehicle to subvert this Tribunal. [More…]

• I use a provocative term such as ‘subvert’ because to subtract from this Tribunal’s jurisdiction will be the pressure of all the bureaucracy. [More…]

• There has been an attempt by unlawful means to subvert the Constitution, to by-pass the Parliament and to raise, so that one might govern without Parliament, $4,000m. [More…]

• There has been an attempt by unlawful means to subvert the Constitution, to by-pass the Parliament and to raise, so that one might govern without Parliament, $4,000m. [More…]

• That is the sort of institution that this Bill is determined to subvert and destroy. [More…]

• We had the pretence last night of the Government protecting private industry and this night subverting it. [More…]

• We have a Prime Minister who sanctions the irresponsible expenditure of the taxpayers’ money on unwanted paintings that have offended most of his mandate, a Prime Minister who sanctions irresponsible expenditure on Aboriginal affairs to the detriment of Aborigines and the disadvantage of others, a Prime Minister who sanctions irresponsible expenditure on sordid films and proposes unhealthy law reform on incest, abortion and homosexuality, a Prime Minister whose every attempt to subvert our Constitution - [More…]

• -Yes, I know, but the honourable senator has raised a question which has been ventilated in the Press in recent days about groups of people who are out to subvert and to avoid the postal tariff proposals which have been put up by the Commission and authorised by the Government. [More…]

• Any group of people, whether on the Right or the Left, which tries to subvert parliamentary democracy by going around the proper way of the ballot box ought to be condemned very roundly by all Australians. [More…]

• the continuing incompetence, evasion, deceit and duplicity of the Prime Minister and his Ministers as exemplified in the overseas loan scandal which was an attempt by the Government to subvert the Constitution, to by-pass Parliament and to evade its responsibilities to the States and the Loan Council; [More…]

• the continuing incompetence, evasion, deceit and duplicity of the Prime Minister and his Ministers as exemplified in the overseas loan scandal which was an attempt by the Government to subvert the Constitution, to by-pass Parliament and to evade its responsibilities to the States and the Loan Council; [More…]

• It is being exposed for a murky record of attempts to subvert the Constitution and the laws of the land and for its destruction of the fabric of our democratic society. [More…]

• the continuing incompetence, evasion, deceit and duplicity of the Prime Minister and his Ministers as exemplified in the overseas loan scandal which was an attempt by the Government to subvert the Constitution to by-pass Parliament and to evade its responsibilities to the States and the Loan Council; [More…]

• the continuing incompetence, evasion, deceit and duplicity of the Prime Minister and his Ministers as exemplified in the overseas loan scandal which was an attempt by the Government to subvert the Constitution, to by-pass Parliament and to evade its responsibilities to the States and the Loan Council; [More…]

• It states in part: the continuing incompetence, evasion, deceit and duplicity of the Prime Minister and his Ministers as exemplified in the overseas loan scandal which was an attempt by the Government to subvert the Constitution, to by-pass Parliament and to evade its responsibilities to the States and the Loan Council; [More…]

• Indeed, this attempt by certain margarine manufacturers, aided by their puppets in this chamber and in the other chamber- the Country Party- to subvert the free market still continues. [More…]

• the continuing incompetence, evasion, deceit and duplicity of the Prime Minister and his Ministers as exemplified in the overseas loan scandal which was an attempt by the Government to subvert the Constitution, to by-pass Parliament and to evade its responsibilities to the States and the Loan Council: [More…]

• the continuing incompetence, evasion, deceit and duplicity of the Prime Minister and his Ministers as exemplified in the overseas loan scandal which was an attempt by the Government to subvert the Constitution, to by-pass Parliament and to evade its responsibilities to the States and the Loan Council; [More…]

• His attempt in this loans affair to subvert the Constitution shows the Prime Minister to be a man without principle. [More…]

• There was an attempt by unlawful means to subvert the Constitution, to bypass Parliament and to raise, so that one might govern without Parliament, $4,000m. [More…]

• It will not subvert the law, the Constitution or the Parliament. [More…]

• the continuing incompetence, evasion, deceit and duplicity of the Prime Minister and his Ministers as exemplified in the overseas loan scandal which was an attempt by the Government to subvert the Constitution, to by-pass Parliament and to evade its responsibilities to the States and the Loan Council; [More…]

• the continuing incompetence, evasion, deceit and duplicity of the Prime Minister and his Ministers as exemplified in the overseas loan scandal which was an attempt by the Government to subvert the Constitution, to by-pass Parliament and to evade its responsibilities to the States and the Loan Council; [More…]

• According to the newspaper editoralists and right wing radicals we should forget the actions that those who continuously plotted to subvert the verdict of the 1 972 and 1 974 elections took in October and November of last year. [More…]

• On the other hand, the Clerk of the Senate argued that ‘joint committees subvert bi-cameralism’ and that the constitutional roles of the Houses militated against joint committees. [More…]

• Mr Fraser ‘s actions leading up to the events of 11 November 1975 can be described as being nothing less than ones of duplicity, evasion of the truth and the issues confronting the people, full of deceit and at all times designed to subvert the will of the people as was twice recorded at the ballot box in the space of 1 8 months. [More…]

• and the continuing incompetence, evasion, deceit and duplicity of the Prime Minister and his Ministers as exemplified in the overseas loans scandal which was an attempt by the Government to subvert the Constitution. [More…]

• It ought to recognise that in the final analysis victory depends upon unionists imbued with that spirit of defence of true trade unionism, with the resource capacity to oppose those with other major resource capacities whose involvement in the trade union movement is to subvert it and to pervert it. [More…]

• This attempt to subvert the concept of a private enterprise economy led us to the parlous state this country reached. [More…]

• He claimed that there was a communist plot engineered in Moscow to subvert mining and, therefore, mineral development in the Pilbara. [More…]

• If the word ‘subvert’ offends Senator Bishop I withdraw it. [More…]

• If that is not subverting the legislation in my view, I do not know what is. [More…]

• From December 1972 until May 1974 plans were in progress to subvert the normal procedure for holding elections in Australia to bring about an election prematurely in a way - [More…]

• I do not believe that would in any way subvert what you, Mr President, and Mr Speaker are trying to do. [More…]

• -Since the honourable senator mentions the Greeks, let me remind him of what happened in Greece when an overzealous security force, endeavouring to protect the conservative elements, used the very system that was set up to protect Greece in order to subvert Greece. [More…]

• Therefore those men have the power to subvert any attempt by the Commonwealth to grant selfmanagement in any short period. [More…]

• It would be possible for the Premier to subvert the intention of this Parliament by a simple administrative device. [More…]

• Those sections were included in that Act because the Government of that time had quickly learned, it thought- until corrected by the Senate it insisted- that it could subvert and by-pass this Senate if it resorted to legislation by regulations and not by Act of Parliament because the issue of regulations does not require consultation with either chamber. [More…]

• “There are persons trying to subvert the change, ‘ Mr Knox said. [More…]

• Any ordinary taxation officers- one does not need an official report- or anyone in government with the slightest responsibility, is conscious of the fact that a bush fire is developing that will completely subvert the income taxation system. [More…]

• At the same time, it is to be protected against what appears to be an effort on the part of others to subvert its proper role as the embassy of the Yugoslav Government. [More…]

• But it was not settled by this Government; it was settled again by the intervention of the ACTU and by the processes of the conciliation and arbitration system which this Government sought to subvert by endeavouring to delay negotiations. [More…]

• Fortunately we will see at a meeting of the national council next week the finalisation of the effort by the moderates within the SDA to stop the attempted takeover by those who have tried to subvert the SDA, which is the third largest union in the Commonwealth. [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…]

• It is simply this: While on the one hand this Government is making noises, in order to woo the conservation vote, about protecting the Great Barrier Reef and proclaiming the area as a marine park, it is having discussions with its mates in the Queensland Government and in the oil companies to subvert that very process. [More…]

• -I am reminded that the Government is having informal discussions with those two groups of people to subvert the very process which the Minister for Science and the Environment should be concerned to protect. [More…]

• Alternatively, did he attempt by mischievous means in later questioning to try to subvert the truth coming from me? [More…]

• They show the misuse of power by Ministers to subvert the Act and detail lies told by Liberal Party workers, for which they were congratulated by Mr Ridge, a Minister of the Crown. [More…]

• But I will refer simply to an article which appeared in the New York Times of 8 October 1973 in which for the first time it was revealed by the New York authorities what had happened in order to subvert the system of harsher penalties. [More…]

• As a senator from New South Wales I have no problem in saying that in this area Federal laws ought to be able entirely to override State laws, where those laws are ineffective or being subverted because certain people in the States are part of the corrupt system, and they allow it to flourish. [More…]

• Simply because he has made money from it he is able to use it to subvert the legal system and get himself a better form of treatment from the courts than can the person who does not have the same financial resources. [More…]

• If they are going to subvert the authority of the Senate simply because of the political brawl that they are having in New South Wales, then it will be on their heads. [More…]

• In view of this welcome break between the accountancy profession and those people who would subvert our society by refusing to contribute their fair share to government revenue, will the Government ensure that the Institute President, Mr John Bishop, is immediately called in for consultation on the drafting of a new section 260, dealing with the artifices of tax bludgers? [More…]

• Attempts to subvert that Commonwealth responsibility represent an abdication of the proper role of the Commonwealth Government, just as this Government has abdicated its role in a variety of other areas, such as Aboriginal affairs. [More…]

• the continuing incompetence, evasion, deceit and duplicity of the Prime Minister and his Ministers as exemplified in the overseas loan scandal which was an attempt by the Government to subvert the Constitution, to by-pass Parliament and to evade its responsibilities to the States and the Loan Council; [More…]

• The history of nuclear power so far is a reflection on the fact that the scientists are prepared to subvert the great ideals that they have held in the past for the sake of a fast buck. [More…]

• The dilemma that he poses is one that is universal throughout the Western world; every country in the Western world is finding that overclever lawyers and over-clever accountants are finding over-clever ways to subvert. [More…]