Contexts in which the phrase united states was used in the Senate during the 1970s

• In conjunction with other nations, notably the United States of America, we wish to ensure that the people of South Vietnam have the right to live under a system of democracy, with free elections and all the freedoms that we in this country particularly enjoy. [More…]

• The problem, as 1 understand it, is primarily a domestic one for the United States Government and the Canadian authorities to sort out. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry been directed to a statement that 17 American senators have asked President Nixon to prohibit meal imports, mainly from Australia and New Zealand, that are being shipped to the United States via Canada to circumvent United States meat import quotas? [More…]

• Will the Minister assure the Senate that the Australian Government will not allow any such practices to develop which could disrupt our meat export trade to the United States? [More…]

• Has not the position of the Australian producer been further aggravated by previous imports of these peas from the United States of America and the United Kingdom? [More…]

• Under United States meat import laws total arrivals of fresh, chilled and frozen meat in 1970 are limited to about 1,061 million lb from all countries. [More…]

• Has the Minister noted recent experiments by the United States Coastguard Service using a giant rubber sausage to remove oil from a sinking or stricken tanker. [More…]

• Is any of the Australian meat exported to Canada and later re-exported to the United States of America taken into account as part of the Australian quota of meat allowed to be exported direct to the United States of America? [More…]

• As to the training of pilots to fly Phantoms, 1 would say that it would normally take 4 months plus travelling time to and from the United States where they would be trained. [More…]

• Will the Minister for Defence, during his time in the United States, shop around the American discount houses or used plane yards to see whether he can get a trade-in on the $200m equity that we have in the FI 11C aircraft? [More…]

• Has the Minister for Air seen a report emanating from Washington that the Fraser mission to the United States leaves Americans confused as to what Australia really wants and that the Pentagon has made a major sacrifice in order to make Phantom F4Es available at short notice? [More…]

• It would be useful for the Senate to know that the negotiations between the Australian Government, represented by the Department of Civil Aviation, and the American airlines, represented by the United States State Department, were officially concluded about 6 weeks ago. [More…]

• Counter proposals were put to the Americans who have taken the proposals back to the United States to consider them. [More…]

• I refer to the broadcast today by President Nixon in which he announced that 150,000 United States troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in the next 12 months, and to his statement that the United States of America intends to withdraw all its troops from Vietnam. [More…]

• Will the Minister give the Senate an assurance that there will be no alteration in the Government’s promise that Australian troops will be withdrawn and our commitment scaled down as the United States scales down the number of its troops in Vietnam? [More…]

• lt is true that at about midday today, Australian Eastern Standard Time, President Nixon of the United States of America made a statement to the effect that the United States will withdraw troops from Vietnam within the next 12 monhs. [More…]

• The answerto the question obviously would involve a reference for the personal consideration ofthe Attorney-General.I am surprisedto hear it said that anyone is making the statement that the United States Government signed the Geneva Convention of 1954. [More…]

• As did practically everybody in the free world, I read the statement made by the President of the United States of America. [More…]

• Does the Minister representing the Minister for External Affairs agree with the statement of the President of the United States of America, Mr Nixon, that the just peace we seek is in sight? [More…]

• It is my understanding that when abattoirs conform to the requirements of the United States of America they will come back on stream. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Trade and Industry, lt follows a question asked earlier about muttion exports to the United States of America. [More…]

• Minister ask the Minister for Trade and Industry to make representations to the United States Administration to have mutton import restrictions lifted as each export abattoir meets the health standards required by the United States of America? [More…]

• Will the Minister confirm whether a team of Royal Australian Air Force members and officers of the Department of Air left or will leave Australia for the United States of America to evaluate the Phantom F4E aircraft? [More…]

• Senator O’Byrne makes his own judgment that there is something sinister in this and therefore we should start cutting off our trade with the United States. [More…]

• In view of the arbitrary action of the United States authorities in banning the import of certain Australian beef, veal and mutton on technical grounds, the motive for which could be open to grave doubt, will the Government give consideration to refusing the import of United States automobiles, crude oil and other commodities in which there are technical faults, particularly the Fill? [More…]

• I understand that recently a number of meat works lost their licences to export meat to the market in the United States of America. [More…]

• I understand the reason is that United States inspectors walked into these works - which they have a right to do, and which they do from time to time - and found that certain facilities within these meat works were not up to the standards required for the market in the United States. [More…]

• The Minister for Primary Industry was then requested to cease the exporting of meat to the United States from these works until the complaints had been rectified. [More…]

• 1 understand that this is a temporary measure and that as soon as the complaints are rectified the works concerned will be quite free to go on exporting meat to the United States market. [More…]

• I should point out that about 20% of Australia’s export mutton sales is exported to the United States. [More…]

• So although these works may temporarily lose their licences to export to the United States market there is no reason why they should not be able to go on exporting to other markets. [More…]

• After the meeting in Paris the Minister will visit Britain, Eire, West Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Malta, the United States of America and Canada to discuss with the governments concerned problems and other matters relating to the immigration programme. [More…]

• We have not received any reports yet from the evaluation team, if you like to call it that, which has gone to the United States. [More…]

• Has the Minister for Air received any reports from the team of specialists and other officers presently in the United States of America investigating the proposal relating to Phantom aircraft and the failures of the F111 aricraft? [More…]

• Have they resolved in part any of the issues which remain between the Australian and United States Governments including the. [More…]

• It is hoped that some of the works will be restored to the United States list fairly quickly, but at this stage it is not possible to forecast the exact time when that will happen. [More…]

• In order to be restored to the list the works, first of all, must be inspected by inspectors from the Department of Primary Industry who must then certify to the inspectors from the United States Department of Agriculture that the works are up to a certain standard. [More…]

• I refer to the recent announcement that some Australian meat export plants had had their licences to export meat to the United States of America cancelled. [More…]

• That is why we have lost the propaganda war both here and in the United States - because the people have not been taken into the confidence of the Government and properly informed. [More…]

• I do not have details ot the differences that may exist between the slaughtering arrangements in the United States of America and those in Australia, but 1 feet quite sure that the Department of Primary Industry has some information on that. [More…]

• discrepancy that is alleged to exist between the standards of meat inspection in the United States of America and the standards insisted upon by that country in countries which export meat to the United States? [More…]

• As I recall, the Prime Minister made a statement some time ago that a withdrawal of Australian troops from Vietnam would be made in the context of the overall situation, having regard to the decisions made by the United States. [More…]

• In view of President Nixon’s announcement that 50,000 United States troops will be withdrawn from South Vietnam by 15th October can the Government now take this Parliament and the people of Australia into its confidence and tell us when Australian troops will be withdrawn from this futile and costly conflict? [More…]

• A Labour Government was in office in Great Britain at the time of cancellation of the TSR2 project, lt then placed orders in the United States for Fill aircraft. [More…]

• Has the Leader of the Government in the Senate seen a statement by Mr Averell Hardman, former chief United States negotiator at the Paris talks, to the effect that the Nixon Administration’s Vietnamisation policy was a programme for the perpetuation of the war and that the concept was dependent on an unpopular and unrepresentative government in Saigon? [More…]

• I ask the Minister, as I have done previously, whether he would now nol agree that parliamentarians who are elected and entrusted with the responsibility of looking after the affairs of the Australian people would command much greater respect and the confidence of those people if the whole of their income, including share holdings, were made available for public scrutiny - a practice which at present operates in many States throughout the United States of America and in Singapore under the Prime Minister, Mr Lee. [More…]

• I ask the Minister whether his answer to the honourable senator in relation to withdrawals and the threat about the activities in Laos indicates some change of opinion by the Government; that it may not withdraw its promised quota of Australian troops from Vietnam, having regard to the announcement by the President of the United States of America that, despite the military difficulties, there will be a recognised withdrawal of United States troops. [More…]

• Mr Deputy President, 1 do not think it is right that I should say whether I believe the Canadian or the United States Government is unreasonable or not. [More…]

• The question of food standards and the hygienic preparation of food is a public issue in the United States. [More…]

• I understand that negotiations are proceeding with the meat industry and the United States veterinary services to have certain approved abattoirs here re-listed within a short period of time. [More…]

• Does he agree that it was unreasonable for Canada and the United States to place a ban on all mutton exported to those countries, whether the particular abattoirs conformed to the regulations or not? [More…]

• The remaining 18 of the total of 24 Phantoms leased from the United States of America will arrive in Australia in batches of 6 on 19th September, 26th September and 3rd October. [More…]

• They will be brought out by Royal Australian Air Force crews, which have been trained in America, and by experienced United States of America Air Force crews. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science aware that, according to recent psychological studies carried out under the sponsorship of the Carnegie Corporation ot the United States of America, half of ali growth in human intelligence takes place between birth and age 4 and a further 30% between age 4 and age 8 or that, in relation to formal education, two-thirds of a child’s intellectual development takes place before he even commences primary education? [More…]

• As to psychological studies conducted in the United States, either of children aged from 1 year to 4 years or from 4 years to 8 years, [ confess a complete absence of knowledge. [More…]

• Has the Minister seen a report in today’s ‘Australian’ that evidence is mounting swiftly in the United States of America that President Nixon and his critics no longer disagree about even the timetable for full disengagement from Vietnam, which is to be completed by the end of next year? [More…]

• I ask: Is the Leader of the Government aware that the United States of America is to allow persons from outside that country, including prominent Australian citizens and members of this Parliament, to go there and speak against the war in Vietnam? [More…]

• How does it come about that the Australian Government is less free in its standards than the Government of the United States of America? [More…]

• Also, is not the fact that approximately 3 million voters supported the general policy of the Government of South Vietnam a telling answer to those in this country and in the United States of America who claim that the Government of South Vietnam is unrepresentative of the opinion of the people of that country? [More…]

• In directing my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration I refer to the Government’s refusal to grant a visa to United States negro entertainer Dick Gregory, ls Australia no longer a free country? [More…]

• T ask: Is the Leader of the Government aware that nearly half the members of the United States Senate have called for exactly the same thing as the people organising the Vietnam Moratorium Campaign? [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry: fs it a fact that 2 major meat exporting firms have objected to the increasing demands of United States health authorities and have refused to co-operate with them? [More…]

• Is it also a fact that because of this development the senior United States veterinary inspector has been urgently recalled to the United States for instructions? [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that a firm in Devonport - and I believe the situation in relation to this firm is typical of what is happening throughout Australia - has been refused entry into the United States of America of 120 tons of meat held in store, which meat is valued at 88,000? [More…]

• Because of the distress and loss being caused throughout Australia, to producers and processors alike, by what is allegedly only a subterfuge to curtail shipments of meat to the United States, is it not time the Australian Government faced up to the United States Government on this matter which is so serious to producers in this country? [More…]

• However, I regret that I have very little information to give him because the matter to which he referred is under discussion at present by representatives of the Department of Primary Industry and authorities of the Government of the United States of America. [More…]

• There is an agreement as to airline operations between Australia and the United States of America. [More…]

• The designation by the United States of a second air carrier to fly from the United States into Australia was perfectly within its province under the terms of its airline agreement with Australia. [More…]

• As Air Vice Marshal Ky, Vice-President of South Vietnam, has been told that it is not advisable for him to visit the United States of America, is there any truth in the rumours circulating in Canberra that he is to be invited by the Australian Government to visit this country again to boost the Government’s popularity, which is diminishing as a result of its support of the war in Vietnam? [More…]

• In addressing my question to the Minister-in-Charge of Tourist Activities I refer to Press statements following the receipt of the report of the Australian Tourist Commission and the comments of the Chairman of the Commission of the fact that if we were to take away the advantages gained from United States R and R travel arrangements in Australia the general advantages to the country by way of tourist earnings would not increase significantly. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Leader of the Government in the Senate and refers to the public statements made by the former Chairman of the Defence Committee and Secretary of the Department of Defence, Sir Henry Bland, which strongly contest the present policies of the Government in defence procurement and organisation and question Australia’s commitments to the purchase of sophisticated equipment dovetailed into United States policies, equipment and designs. [More…]

• The position is as the honourable senator stated in the early part of his question, that is, that under the present lease arrangements Australia i.s leasing 24 aircraft from the United States Government. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, lt refers to the discussions currently being held in Canberra between representatives of the United States of America Defence Department and representatives of the Australian Department of Defence, ls the Australian Government promoting a strong, positive policy that Australian industry, government and private, should have a greater share in coproduction or offset orders related to the heavy Australian purchases of the United States military equipment? [More…]

• Has the Minister for Civil Aviation, his Department or Qantas Airways Ltd investigated the current controversy in the United States of America over the fact that Boeing jumbo jet engines are subject to overheating? [More…]

• How long is it since the investigation team which is in the United States of America to take account of tests and other matters in relation to the Fill Aircraft has reported to the Government? [More…]

• Senator Fitzgerald has already indicated that when he asked me this question during the last session I replied that it was something which still had to be worked out between the Royal Australian Air Force and the Department of Defence in the United States of America. [More…]

• In view of the Prime Minister’s concern about inflation arid the cutting down of costs, I ask: Is the Minister in a position to advise what payment Australia is making to the United States of America for the parking and storage of Australia’s 24 Fill fighter bombers in that country? [More…]

• Is there any truth in reports that the Prime Minister overruled objections by both himself, the Minister for Air, and the former Minister for Defence on this matter and that the United States Air Force is now sending the Fill aircraft to Australia for the period 1st April to 6th April next? [More…]

• Can the Minister for Air inform the Parliament of the total amount spent to date on repairs to Royal Australian Air Force Phantom fighter bombers on lease from the United States of America? [More…]

• I preface my remarks by saying that about 4 months ago, during a visit to Australia by representatives of the United States Sheep Producers Association, a consultative committee comprising representatives of the Australian and New Zealand Meat Boards and the United States Sheep Producers Association was formed, with the object of increasing prime lamb exports to the United States. [More…]

• In view of the plea of the Prime Minister to the States to exercise caution in their spending, will the Prime Minister draw the attention of Premier Askin to an assessment of the Jervis Bay steelworks plan appearing in the March issue of the Australian Quarterly’ by Mr T. Dughteren, chartered engineer management consultant, that New South Wales would be squandering$75m of public money to prop up the inefficient sector of the United States steel industry and, in the final analysis, cause New South Wales to squander federal aid that could be spent on more laudable objectives? [More…]

• What is the total amount spent to date on repairs to Royal Australian Air Force Phantom fighterbombers on lease from the United States of America. [More…]

• Will the Minister for Air say whether the action of the United States Air Force in temporarily grounding the 257 operational Fills after the eighteenth crash involving’ the supersonic swing wing jet will finally induce him to make a recommendation to the Cabinet for the cancellation of Australia’s order for Fill aircraft and to concentrate on an airworthy operational aircraft for the Royal Australian Air Force? [More…]

• the Minister for Primary Industry whether he has seen a report that Australia may not be able to fill its meat export quota to the United States of America this year and that if this is the case it could have an adverse’ effect upon our future quotas and sales? [More…]

• My question which is directed to the Minister for Civil Aviation refers to the recent answers given by the Minister relating to charter flights generally and the application made to the Minister by World Airways Inc. in connection with charter nights between the United States of America and Australia. [More…]

• I ask the Minister: Is it a fact that the application of World Airways, Inc. is based on the proposal for IS charter flights into Australia, which would not detrimentally affect existing services of Qantas Airways Limited to the United States of America? [More…]

• In view of world Press speculation about pressures on the United States dollar, will the Minister comment on the likely effect on Australian overseas trade if there is any devaluation of the United States dollar in the future? [More…]

• The difficulty I see in relation to sub-section (d) of section 8 relates to the Foreign Assistance Act of the United States. [More…]

• Did the Department of Foreign Affairs receive a diplomatic note from the United States Department on the subject I just asked Senator Cotton about? [More…]

• Did the Department of Civil Aviation receive a letter from the United States State Department on 26th March concerning the operations of Qantas and United States air carriers? [More…]

• Did the Department of Foreign Affairs receive a diplomatic note from the United States State Department on the same subject? [More…]

• I am sure that the Minister is aware of the displeasure in the United States of America resulting from trade and commerce initiatives taken by Australian industries without prior consultation with or approval of United States authorities. [More…]

• Has the Minister for Air seen a report that the United States Navy is interested in and may purchase the vertical and short takeoff and landing aircraft, the Harrier jet, which it is claimed can do all that helicopters can do and more? [More…]

• Affairs: Did the Minister issue a statement this week denying that the United States Government had objected to the sale by Australia of sugar harvesters to Cuba? [More…]

• If so, can the Minister reconcile his statement with the reported statement of the US State Department’s Press officer, Mr Robert McClosky, in which he said that the United States had made representations to the Australian Government about the sale? [More…]

• I have not seen even a Press report of the statement attributed to the United States Minister. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the United States ambassador in Taiwan has publicly predicted that Taiwan’s international trade volume may be equal to or in excess of that of mainland China in 2 or 3 years’ time? [More…]

• Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONI can react to the question asked by the Leader of the Opposition only by saying that the joint defence research facility at Pine Gap is an agreed facility under the Australian, New Zealand and United States defence pact - ANZUS. [More…]

• In view of the large number of university graduates who cannot find suitable employment in their home countries of Canada and the United States of America and in view of the possibility of this trend developing here, will the Minister ensure that the entry of graduates into Australia from North America and other countries will not bc to the detriment of Tasmanian and other Australian graduates who have yet to qualify? [More…]

• It is a fact that in the United States of America and in most advanced Western countries persons with general professional qualifications or with technical qualifications of some description are finding it difficult to obtain employment. [More…]

• Is the Minister still studying the recommendation of an RAAF technical team which returned from the United States of America several weeks ago? [More…]

• The Netherlands, France, Germany, Turkey, Canada and the United States of America, who already transfer the social entitlement of their citizens wherever they may choose to live. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science aware that Dr Paul Ehrlich is a distinguished Professor of Biology at Stanford University and that a few weeks ago he came to Australia at the invitation of an international science school which is comprised of students from the United States of America, Japan, the United Kingdom as well as young Australian students in science? [More…]

• Is it correct that Dr Ehrlich normally charges a lecture fee of between $1,200 and $1,500 when he makes public appearances in the United States of America? [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…]

• I am informed by the Minister for Immigration that Australia does not have any such agreement with the United States or with any other countries. [More…]

• Does Australia have any reciprocal agreement with the United States as regards the reimbursement of fares for the deportation of illegal immigrants to meet a situation which was exemplified by last week’s O’Lear case? [More…]

• Prior to the Australian Government’s acceptance of demands by the United States of America trans-Pacific carriers for increases in their capacity on this air route, did the Government suggest any counter-sanctions in response to the ban on Qantas Airways Ltd jumbos flying to America? [More…]

• I refer to the speech made by Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs in the United States to the AmericanAustralian Association in which he endeavoured to involve leading American industrial and commercial interests in the Australian domestic political scene. [More…]

• The Labor Party has made abundantly clear - and it could easily be documented - the attitude of some of its members and groups to the United States of America. [More…]

• For my part, and as I understand it for the Government’s part, the speech was made by the Foreign Minister at a luncheon and in it he pointed out certain trends in our domestic politics and the possible implications for our friends and allies in the United States. [More…]

• It is an excerpt from the testimony of George Karlin to the internal security sub-committee of the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate. [More…]

• There is a protocol which was agreed to by the United States of America in 1932 and which regulates relationships between the various States with which the United States enters into these arrangements so that there will not. [More…]

• I think the problem of the United States and West German teachers and their educational beachcombing activities is a matter for those 2 governments and not for this one. [More…]

• By way of preface I refer to a reply given by him yesterday to a question about the acceptability of United States and West German teacher migrants to Australia. [More…]

• My question refers to the United States teachers Edward Blesch and John Smith, who claim they were assisted migrants. [More…]

• Further, has the Committee on Overseas Professional qualifications been asked to mediate in this apparent conflict involving United States and West German teachers which makes the teachers virtually educational beachcombers? [More…]

• I wish to inform the Senate that the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) is leaving Australia today to visit the United States of America and Britain for discussions with President Nixon and Mr Heath on matters of mutual concern. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the records of the Australian Government show that 2.12 million kangaroo skins were exported to the United States of America between 1966 and 1970? [More…]

• From which States of the United States of America have immigrants come to Australia during the past 5 years [More…]

• Why did the request for Australian advisers to stay in Vietnam and train Cambodian soldiers come not from the Cambodian Government but from a United States official? [More…]

• I understand that only recently the United States Government reallocated about 44 million lb of shortfalls in its imports of meat. [More…]

• Under United States legislation the United States Government can penalise countries which fall short by redistributing their quotas. [More…]

• That was why Australia was unable to reach its quota.I understand that under the United States agreement there is no reason to suspect that a shortfall in a particular year would be used against a country concerned when arrangements for the following year were being determined. [More…]

• In view of the fact that Australia’s exports of meat to the United States of America have fallen short of the quota allowed for this year, is the Australian quota likely to be reduced in 1972? [More…]

• Italy, Greece, Malta, The Netherlands, France, Germany, Turkey, Canada and the United States of America, who already transfer the social entitlement of their citizens wherever they may chooseto live. [More…]

• I think this is a matter of importance becauseI understand from the figures given by the Minister for Civil Aviation (Senator Cotton) that separate loans have been made for the expenditure incurred in connection with the purchase of the F111 aircraft as against the normal loan from the Export-import Bank of the United States. [More…]

• That the Senate, in Parliament assembled, seek to have Australia adopt the principle followed by Britain, Italy, Greece, Malta, The Netherlands, France, Germany, Turkey, Canada and the United States of America, who already transfer the social entitlement of their citizens wherever they may choose to live. [More…]

• If the answer is In the affirmative, does the Department of Customs and Excise inter experimenting further with cross-bred dogs imported from the United States which have an excellent record in this field of drug detection? [More…]

• Who comprised the Australian delegation announced in the Minister’s press release of3rd November 1971, which held talks in Washington with the United States Government on the sharing of information concerning gaseous diffusion uranium enrichment technology. [More…]

• Do we have special security measures or do we work in conjunction with the United States forces as to the interception of potential drug smugglers? [More…]

• Will the Government increase its dues to the Organisation in view of the reduction in the United States of America’s contributions to that body. [More…]

• That the Senate, in Parliament assembled, seek to have Australia adopt the principle followed by Britain, italy, Greece, Malta, The Netherlands, France, Germany, Turkey, Canada and the United States of America, who already transfer the social entitlement of their citizens wherever they may choose to live. [More…]

• The Commonwealth has paid to the United States Government approximately $US228.8m, which leaves about $US1 15.14m to be pa:d on the project. [More…]

• What is the net saving in Australian dollars on the balance of the amount due on the contract for the purchase of the F111 and associated spares following the decision of the Australian Government to revalue the Australian dollar as against the United States dollar? [More…]

• Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONlt is true that the President of the United States of America, as the honourable senator states, did make a visit to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]

• It is equally true that our own Prime Minister issued a Press release on the subject of the visit to China of the United States President. [More…]

• What is the number of personnel going to the United States of America for training and familiarisation with the F111 aircraft? [More…]

• Is it a fact that, resulting from discussions between the Royal Australian Air Force and the United States Air Force, a 2,000 miles per hour Lockheed aircraft, which is stated to be the technical successor to the U2 spy plane, is likely to be stationed at Elizabeth air base in South Australia to study upper atmosphere weather patterns? [More…]

• As 15 per cent of the visitors to the Great Barrier Reef last year were Americans, will the Minister tell the Senate when discussions on charter flights from the United States of America into Australia are likely to be finalised so that a boost can be given to our foreign exchange earnings? [More…]

• It would be true to say that the defence science staff of the Department of Defence, in conjunction with the Royal Australian Air Force, has had talks with the United States Air Force about the possibility of a research programme being carried out in the upper atmosphere by high flying aircraft. [More…]

• I also wish to inform the Senate that the Minister for Shipping and Transport (Mr Nixon) is to leave Australia tonight to have discussions and make inspections in the urban transport field in South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Europe, and to attend the launching of the Australian National Line container ship ‘Australian Explorer’ in Germany. [More…]

• What are the general principles of the fairness doctrine’ of the Federal Communications Commission of the United States of America? [More…]

• Can the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry inform the Senate why the Cannon Hill, Brisbane, abattoir has lost its licence to process meat for sale in the United States? [More…]

• I would think that it is one of the most disgraceful episodes in Australia’s political history that a significant section of a political party, that is, the State Council of the Victorian Australian Labor Party, should express publicly its support for the enemies of South Vietnam, the United States of America and, until recently, our own troops. [More…]

• Does the Minister consider that the Government should set up a body with functions similar to those of the United States Army Coastal Engineering Research Board. [More…]

• In the total scene, experimental and observational work in the United States, particularly at Washington D.C., Los Angeles and New York, has shown that aircraft of all kinds are only responsible for between 1 and 2 per cent of the total emission of air contaminants produced in and around a typical metropolitan area. [More…]

• What was the outcome of the discussions in Washington last November between Australian and United States officials regarding the conditions for the release of United States diffusion technology. [More…]

• This data is being prepared by the United States and should be made available soon. [More…]

• Now that the United States of America is engaged in open war with the North Vietnamese, will the Government assure the Senate that there is not, and will not be, participation by Australian servicemen in Vietnam in such a way as to involve Australia in a state of war? [More…]

• Preferential countries include United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand while typical General Tariff countries include the United States of America, France, Germany and Switzerland. [More…]

• The United States has made - with full Australian support - every effort to bring about a negotiated settlement of the present conflict. [More…]

• The United States has also tried to de-escalate the fighting by progressively withdrawing its forces from Vietnam. [More…]

• In our view the United States has done everything in its power to ensure a negotiated settlement and to maintain the independence of South Vietnam and not to abandon the people of that country. [More…]

• The present decisions by the United States reflect its determination to stand by its international obligations and alliances. [More…]

• The United States must also avoid endangering the lives of its own forces in Vietnam. [More…]

• Has the Government conducted negotiations with any country other than the United States of America and France regarding the possibility of establishing uranium enrichment facilities in Australia; if so, what countries have been involved and what stage or conclusion has been reached with these discussions. [More…]

• Is the Treasurer aware of the attempts by United Kingdom monopoly groups to take over a major Melbourne retail firm, if so, (a) does the Treasurer acknowledge that almost daily the financial columns of the Press report similar takeover bids by United States and United Kingdom combines, and that Australia is fast reaching the stage where most of our own indigenous companies will be swallowed by foreign groups, (b) is this sort of overseas capital inflationary, and (c) has the Government given any consideration to enacting legislation which will protect the Australian interest in’ companies threatened by overseas takeover bids. [More…]

• Does the Minister consider that such conditions applied to a Qantas Airways Ltd procurement of such aircraft would duplicate some of the harsh clauses in the F111 agreement with United States aircraft manufacturers? [More…]

• Does the Minister intend seeking the enactment of a replica of the United States of America National Environment Quality Act 1969 to enable his Department to operate positively for the protection of the environment. [More…]

• Legislation along the lines of the National Environment Policy Act of 1969 of the United States of America is not proposed in that statement. [More…]

• Has the Minister for Civil Aviation noted the methods used by the Government of the Republic of Ireland in successfully resisting the demands of United States airlines? [More…]

• Does he not think that the Irish Government’s policy of conducting such a battle in public could be emulated by both Qantas Airways Ltd and the Australian Government in their revenue battle with the mammoth United States airlines? [More…]

• We expect to meet claims during the year from the United States Air Force for expenditure already incurred in the F111C project and for spares and other equipment already delivered to the order of $A30m. [More…]

• The Government of the United States of America has, with the support of the Australian Government, been engaged in helping the Government of the Republic of Vietnam to withstand armed aggression mounted against it by the communist government of North Vietnam. [More…]

• Now that the United States of America is engaged in open war with the North Vietnamese, will the Government assure the Senate that there is not, and will not be, participation by Australian servicemen in Vietnam in such a way as to involve us in a state of war. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry: In view of the announcement this morning that China is to buy $25m worth of wheat from the United States of America, will the Minister say whether any approach was made to Australia to supply this wheat? [More…]

• Are these bombs similar in type to those used by the United States forces in Vietnam against civilian populations? [More…]

• After the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr N. H. Bowen) made the statement referred to by the honourable senator, it was necessary for him to proceed on the same day or the following day to the United States. [More…]

• rather than to property and machinery; if so, are the bombs similar in type to those used by the military forcesofthe United States of America in Vietnam. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the official report of the Australian Parliamentary Delegation to the United States of America and Mexico. [More…]

• That section comments fairly and factually on the position in Britain, Australia and the United States of America. [More…]

• Before I commence my remarks, may I suggest that we debate together this Bill, the United States Naval Communication Station (Civilian Employees) Bill 1972 and the Seamen’s Compensation Bill 1972 as they are related measures. [More…]

• Do the allowable dust standards, recommended by the National Health and Medical Research Council in the asbestos mining industry, give recognition to the new standards imposed in the United States of America following extensive research conducted by the Mount Sinai School of Medicine; if so, what action is being taken to ensure that State Government Mining Acts are suitably amended, so as to reduce the likelihood of this industrial disease in Australia. [More…]

• Mr President, 1 seek leave to make a statement concerning United States defence installations in Australia. [More…]

• Has the Minister initiated an inquiry within his Department to ascertain the loss of income to exporting primary industries resulting from the decisions, firstly, to revalue the Australian dollar in December lust and, more recently, not to devalue along with the United States dollar? [More…]

• Has the Government approached the United States authorities with a view to trading them in? [More…]

• Minister for the Media ask United States film distributors to help with the expansion of the Australian film industry? [More…]

• There has been no exchange of diplomatic representation on a permanent basis between the United States of America and the People’s Republic of China. [More…]

• Did the Prime Minister express himself very strongly in favour of open Government; if so, why has the Prime Minister not released to the Parliament and the public the contents of the protest he made to the President of the United States of America in connection with the bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong, North Vietnam, by the United States’ Air Force. [More…]

• Stales and other foreign troops allied with the United States and the Republic of Vietnam from South Vietnam. [More…]

• The Foundation developed the Annual International Science Schools for high school students which include youth from Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States and Japan, with the support of the leaders of these overseas countries. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that, when answering charges in the United States of America that large numbers of prisoners were held in inhuman conditions in South Vietnamese gaols, the President of South Vietnam, President Thieu, said that he was prepared to open the prisons to international inspection? [More…]

• In this country we have not reached as yet the situation that exists in the United States of America where it is the Government that says whether a car will be recalled. [More…]

• When I was in the United States I had discussions on the various legal problems which might be arising between the 2 countries, and this was one matter about which the American authorities were concerned. [More…]

• We have, for example, an act or omission which, if it occurs in Australia, would be the offence but if it was committed in the United States of America would constitute the crime. [More…]

• As sure as the sun will rise in the morning, if we pursue this matter a little further I have no doubt that a conservative Foreign Minister in Great Britain and a United States Foreign Secretary will indicate to us, as probably has been indicated to us, that if we do not control these people who are meddling in Europe we will be out on our own. [More…]

• My information is that Mr Zvobgo is travelling on a British passport and is coming to Australia from the United States of America. [More…]

• Does the Prime Minister’s recent moves to break time-honoured ties with Britain and his persistent criticism of the United States of America, confirm growing fears that Australia, under Whitlam and Labor, could become a small barren rock in a none too friendly sea? [More…]

• Is the United States of America exporting to Australia very large consignments of carpets made of synthetic fibres at prices far below the cost of production in Australia of similar products. [More…]

• Is a high percentage of this carpet banned by law in the United States of America for use in that country, because it is highly inflammable. [More…]

• Import clearance statistics show thatthe United States of America is a small exporter of carpet to Australia and in the nine months to March 1973 supplied about 4 per cent of Australian carpel imports. [More…]

• The United States of America has prohibited the manufacture or sale of carpet which docs not comply with flammability standards. [More…]

• The Department of Secondary Industry has investigated the matter but has found no evidence that inferior and dangerous carpets are being imported from the United States. [More…]

• The following nineteen industries have made inquiries regarding eligibility for adjustment assistance following the December 1972 revaluation and subsequent devaluation of the United States dollar: Dairy products and casein, egg, rice, sorghum, maize, ginger, peanut, cotton, canned fruit, pineapple, citrus fruit, fresh apple and pear, dried fruit, fresh grape, fishing, wool, wine, wheat and timber. [More…]

• However, it deals with most of the important issues and usefully draws attention by way of cross-references to relevant passages in Professor Loss’ treatise and in the tentative draft at the United States Federal Securities Code. [More…]

• One of the greatest tragedies is that a great nation like the United States of America has been able to move into other countries, particularly in South America, in order to create revolution, the destruction of human beings and the assassination of persons who have been elected to leadership. [More…]

• I think that if the record was examined and the truth told we would readily find that the CIA and the intervention of the United States of America in many countries throughout the world have been more devastating than the case which Senator Hannan has raised on the adjournment tonight. [More…]

• Has the Minister for Primary Industry noticed Press reports stating that Dr Kissinger, the United States Secretary of State, has warned of dangerously low world food reserves and has made a proposal for a United Nations world food conference next year to ensure supplies? [More…]

• When will Qantas Airways Limited be reducing air fares in accordance with the effective revaluations of the Australian dollar against the United States dollar that took place last December, and earlier this year; if not, will the Minister please advise why. [More…]

• Whilst revaluation of the Australian dollar has realised some savings in Qantas’ expenditure overseas, there has been a substantial reduction in the company’s revenue remittances on travel sold in other countries, including the United States, where currency changes have taken place in the past 12-18 months. [More…]

• The net effect of these exchange gains and losses on Qantas’ operating account has led the company to the decision that it would not be economically feasible for adjustments to bc made in international fares sold in Australia to take account of the changes in the value of exchange rates between the revalued Australian dollar and other currencies, including the United States dollar. [More…]

• 1 ) The following airlines operate through or connecting services between United States, West Coast and Australia: Qantas, Pan American, American Airlines, Air New Zealand, BOAC, UTA. [More…]

• 1 ) What are the airlines that are operating from the West Coast of the United States of America at this date. [More…]

• World Airways operated 30 inclusive tour charter flights, carrying some 5,000 passengers, from the United States to Australia between January and May, 1973. [More…]

• Airline Operations Between the West Coast of the United States of America and Australia (Question No. [More…]

• I was in the United States of America a couple of years ago and on the west coast they were saying: ‘If only we could get Tasmanian apples. [More…]

• What class of air travel for civil servants/government employees is used internally and internationally in (a) the United States of America, (b) the United Kingdom, (c) New Zealand, (d) the U.S.S.R., (e) East Germany, and(f) Poland. [More…]

• I do not know why the United States authorities decided to restore the name. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs whether he has noted the statement reported to have been made publicly yesterday by the United States Ambassador that Australia had learned within moments of its implementation of the world wide United States alert during the Middle East crisis? [More…]

• Has he also checked whether Dr Cairns expressed regret -again I quote- ‘at the Australian association with the United States war of destruction upon your country’? [More…]

• I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate whether the United States Government has complained to the Australian Government about a lack of diplomatic security in Australia. [More…]

• 1 ) Is the Minister aware that the decision of the British and United States Governments to develop further the naval installation at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean was taken to balance the growing naval influence of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in that Ocean. [More…]

• Will the Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence confirm that the Government has decided to purchase 2 patrol frigates from the United States of America at a cost of $ 1 87m? [More…]

• Can the AttorneyGeneral confirm a statement which appeared in the Press relating to the distinction associated with the success of Sergeant Haswell of the Commonwealth Police Force in graduating from the Federal Bureau of Investigation Academy in the United States? [More…]

• -Is the Leader of the Government in the Senate aware that the President of the United States of America has initiated measures to pay $2 an hour to all workers who are on the minimum wage in the United States? [More…]

• As this will amount to an increase to $80 a week in workers’ wages in the United States and will be paid, amongst others, by the Shell oil company, does this not show up in true perspective how the Shell oil company would hold the people of Australia to ransom because of its politically biased attitude to just wages for its employees? [More…]

• Does the Minister appreciate that there is no need for very expensive communication equipment in these aircraft, as is the case with the aircraft of the President of the United States of America, because when our Prime Minister is overseas the Deputy Prime Minister acts as Prime Minister, with full authority of the Prime Minister? [More…]

• I hear the law and order gang opposite protesting, but we saw what its attitudes and its sympathisers did in the United States in connection with students. [More…]

• The Australian Government did ask British Airways Ltd to discontinue the service to Australia via the United States of America. [More…]

• Whereas the Governments of the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognized the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by the Soviet Union, it has been announced from Moscow that the Australian Government is now recognizing them as part of the Soviet Union. [More…]

• The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of [More…]

• The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]

• Whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]

• Whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia- by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]

• Whereas the Governments of the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognized the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by the Soviet Union, it has been announced from Moscow that the Australian Government is now recognizing them as part of the Soviet Union. [More…]

• The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]

• The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]

• The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]

• The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Transport: Is it a fact that Britain and France, through the British Aircraft Corporation, have committed themselves to building 16 Concorde aircraft and that they encountered a ban by Canada and the United States of America when they sought supersonic overnight permission? [More…]

• When will the refit, planned to be carried out in the United States later this year commence on the guided missile destroyer HMAS Perth. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for the Media whether his attention has been drawn to the report of the Children’s Television Action Committee to the effect that television stations in Australia are screening cartoons which have been either banned in the United States or carry a warning to parents. [More…]

• The requests were made of Paraguay, Spain, United States of America and Peru. [More…]

• The 3 countries in which the biggest inflation rates are occurring are, of course, the United Kingdom- where it is about 20 per cent- the United States of America and Japan. [More…]

• Neither the United States nor Japan has an inflation rate quite as high as that of Australia. [More…]

• That leave be given to introduce a Bill for an Act relating to the United States Naval Communications Station established at North West Cape in Western Australia. [More…]

• Is it not a fact, as indicated by the President of the United States, that there are at least 18 North Vietnamese divisions in South Vietnam? [More…]

• This Bill gives effect to an exchange of notes concluded on 2 1 March 1974 between the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), as Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Mr Marshall Green, the United States Ambassador, acting on behalf of their respective governments. [More…]

• The exchange of notes amends the agreement of 9 May 1963 between the Government of Australia and the Government of the United States of America relating to the establishment of a United States Naval Communication Station in Australia. [More…]

• The exchange of notes followed discussions the Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, had in Washington in January 1974 with the United States Secretary of Defence, Mr Schlesinger. [More…]

• An amendment to Article 1 of the Agreement provides that the station at North West Cape shall be operated jointly while amendment to Article 2 limits United States Navy exclusive occupation to a national room and provides for a similar Australian national room. [More…]

• Is it a fact that prices for Australian meat are increasing in the United States? [More…]

• Have any Australian Consulate officers in the United States of America been approached by the Rev. [More…]

• Ronald Marstin has not approached the Austraiian Consulate General, New York nor are we aware of any approaches to other Australian Consular Offices in the United States. [More…]

• The United States immigration authorities have no record of any approaches seeking curtailment of Father Marstin ‘s current visa. [More…]

• In the light of the fact that under new United States legislation, the Freedom of Information Act, citizens have the statutory right to see their Federal Bureau of Investigation file, whether or not they have been charged with a crime or are under suspicion, will the Minister for Police and Customs assure the Australian people that such a right will be guaranteed in the legislation now being drafted for the Australian police force? [More…]

• What percentage of world demand for enriched uranium does production in the United States of America represent (a) at present, (b) in 1980 and (c) in 1985. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Agriculture: Is it a fact that Australian beef shipments to the United States have, despite the diversification scheme, proceeded at such a rate as to risk exceeding the voluntary agreement entitlement figure of 279 000 tons before the end of 1975? [More…]

• If so, what is being done to avoid exceeding the entitlement and running into difficulties with the United States authorities? [More…]

• This practice is followed in the United States and Canada, and was introduced in those countries by conservative governments with the support of all major political parties. [More…]

• In many overseas countries including Britain, the United States of America, France, Canada and New Zealand, there is a growing practice of including provision for works of art in planning and budgeting for Government buildings intended for general public use. [More…]

• United Press International is owned by a company incorporated in the United States. [More…]

• Do two frigates on order from the United States of America have nuclear powered armaments systems. [More…]

• Would further United States establishments in Australia increase the possibility of initiating a nuclear first strike as suggested in the article. [More…]

• Visit of Vice-President of the United States and Mrs Rockefeller (Question No. [More…]

• Will the Vice-President of the United States, Mr Nelson Rockefeller, and his wife, visit Australia from 29 March to 1 April 1976 as guests of the Australian Government. [More…]

• This view is also held in Canada where all the documentation from the recent United States Study has been reviewed by the relevant authorities. [More…]

• 1 ) Was Amaranth, the most common red food colouring in both the United States and the United Kingdom, banned in January 1976 in the United States market. [More…]

• Did a representative of the United States Central Intelligence Agency, on 9 or 10 November 1975, seek from the Australian Security Intelligence Organization’s liaison officer in Washington explanations of alleged statements made by the Australian Prune Minister. [More…]

• 1 ) Have United States oil companies announced that by the end of 1 976 they will have marketed a substitute in place of sperm whale oil for use in heavy equipment gear boxes. [More…]

• Will the United States nuclear powered aircraft carrier BIG E visit Australia later this year? [More…]

• Planning is in progress for USS Enterprise to participate with other United States forces in combined exercises in Australian waters later this year. [More…]

• Exercises with United States forces provide invaluable training for Australian forces, the more so when they are held in the Australian environment and enable benefit to be gained by substantial elements of all three Australian Services. [More…]

• Details have not been finalised and will be subject, as always, to confirmation in the light of, in particular, operational demands on United States resources as assessed nearer the time. [More…]

• A United States Government aircraft was provided for the journey from Washington to New York. [More…]

• What arrangements with regard to air travel were made for the Prime Minister and his party on the Prime Minister’s recent visit to the United States and Canada. [More…]

• If this information is not available, are similar figures available in respect to the United States of America or the United Kingdom for recent years. [More…]

• 1 ) to (4) I have tabled in the Parliament an arrangement between the United States Department of Justice and the Attorney-General’s Department of the Commonwealth of Australia concerning procedures for mutual assistance in the administration of justice in connection with the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation matter. [More…]

• The arrangement resulted from the request by the Australian Government for United States assistance in respect of allegations regarding illicit acts pertaining to the sales activities in Australia of the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. [More…]

• The arrangement sets out the conditions upon which information received from or documents made available by the United States Department of Justice can be disclosed. [More…]

• I am informed that the United States only makes information and documents available to another country with respect to the activities of Lockheed under an arrangement made between the United States Department of Justice and the law enforcement agency of the other country. [More…]

• I am also informed that arrangements which have been entered into by the United States with other countries relating to the Lockheed matter are along the lines of the arrangement which I have tabled. [More…]

• 1 ) Will the Attorney-General confirm whether or not the Justice Department in Washington and Senator Church, in his role as Chairman of a United States Senate Committee, have decided that no names will be released to the public of any people involved in the allegations concerning what is called the Lockheed bribe business? [More…]

• The information in respect of the satellite link and the American landline is determined in the United States of America and our requests for the details have not yet been satisfied. [More…]

• Does the technical co-operation program between England, the United States of Amenca, Canada and Australia contain a provision that a party to the Agreement need not disclose any information that the party does not in its national interest desire to disclose. [More…]

• The Department of Health has advised that imported avocado fruit is coming only from California, United States of America, provided the consignment is accompanied by a phytosanitary certificate endorsed ‘This fruit is derived from a grove established from sources free of avocado sun blotch vims’. [More…]

• The United States Government had indicated its concern about meat imports through the United States Foreign Trade Zone m Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. [More…]

• The trade was lawful under United States law and not precluded by the terms of the voluntary restraint agreement between Australia and the United States of America. [More…]

• The matter was primarily a United States domestic problem. [More…]

• However, in order to assist the United States Government to control the trade, the Australian Meat Board ceased approval of shipments to Mayaguez on August 16. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of an interview with the United States Secretary of Agriculture, Mr Earl Butz, which appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald dated 2 1 August 1976, in which Mr Butz reportedly claimed that Australia was placing its share of the American meat market in grave jeopardy by continuing to abuse the United States Meat Import Quota Act. [More…]

• what action has the Minister, his Department, or the Australian Meat Board taken to remove the causes of friction between Australia and the United States of America with relation to meat imports into the latter country. [More…]

• -As this Bill is more or less a consequential Bill designed to bring provisions for civilian employees of the United States naval communication station into line with those with which we have just dealt, the Opposition offers no opposition. [More…]

• the United States of America. [More…]

• Did the United States Environmental Protection Agency publish in 1973 a report entitled ‘Environmental Analysis of the Uranium Fuel Cycle’. [More…]

• Is the same result likely in consequence of the Australian Meat Board’s decision to close the export ‘loophole’ to the United States of America through Puerto Rico. [More…]

• I will draw the attention of the Minister for Health to the United States experience with this influenza and see that as a matter of urgency he makes the necessary investigations in the interests of the people of this country. [More…]

• How do these projected growth rates compare with those for (a) the United States of America, (b) the United Kingdom, and (c) the world average. [More…]

• He further informs me that President Carter’s reference to the proposed demilitarisation of the Indian Ocean was made when he was detailing arms control proposals which the United States has put to the Soviet Union. [More…]

• As honourable senators will know, members of the new United States Administration have said in testimony before the Congress that the Administration would be interested in negotiating with the Soviet Union on arms limitation in the Indian Ocean. [More…]

• -I am not aware of the United States law. [More…]

• I inform the Senate that the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Honourable Andrew Peacock, left Australia on 20 March to visit the United States for discussions with the Secretary of State and other senior officials in the new administration in Washington. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I table letters sent by the Prime Minister to the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Canada both dated 4 February 1977, relating to nuclear safeguards. [More…]

• I might point out to honourable senators that each share is valued at $12,063.50 in terms of current United States dollars. [More…]

• -For the information of honourable senators I lay on the table the official report of the Australian Parliamentary Delegation to the United States of America from 26 June to 16 July 1976. [More…]

• In particular it records our observations of the United States approach to Federal/State relationships and urban redevelopment in those areas which we visited. [More…]

• This is a very active group drawing together representatives of the States around matters of mutual concern including legislation, policies and programs of the United States Federal Government and Congress, as effecting State and local governments. [More…]

• Our report summarises our activities and we hope it will be of interest to the Parliament and useful as a guide to future delegations which may visit the United States. [More…]

• The allegations in the United States relate to substandard Bell and Sikorsky parts. [More…]

• -Is the Leader of the Government in the Senate aware of an investigation by the United States Justice Department into the allegations of interference in Australian politics by the Central Intelligence Agency? [More…]

• What action is the Minister taking to determine whether the use of saccharin should be banned in Australia, following the decisions by the United States of America and Canada to remove saccharin from the market after Canadian tests found it caused cancer in animals. [More…]

• Has the Government taken action to investigate the claim that the Australian Meat Board has paid more than $750,000 to a Washington law firm to lobby for the Australian meat industry in the United States, referred to in an article by John Hamilton in the Courier-Mail dated 27 April 1977. [More…]

• 1 ) Did a joint Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and Department of National Resources Mission visit the United States Energy Research and Development Agency, and other United States energy centres, last year. [More…]

• What organisational and financial aspects of United States energy research were investigated and recorded. [More…]

• What degree of collaboration and co-operation was discussed and /or agreed to between the Australian mission and the United States energy groups. [More…]

• What is the type, nature, and level of energy research being carried out in the United States, and any other country that Australia co-operates with on these matters. [More…]

• Energy Research: Mission to the United States (Question No. [More…]

• Alleged Activities of the United States Central Intelligence Agency in Australia (Question No. [More…]

• How many officers of the Department of Foreign Affairs have attended courses at the Central Intelligence Agency Headquarters at Langley, Virginia, United States of America, in the past 10 years? [More…]

• 1 ) Is the yellowcake released from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission’s Lucas Heights stockpile to fulfil orders due to be met by Australian companies being sent to the United States of America and Canada for processing. [More…]

• The yellowcake is being shipped either to Canada, the United States or the United Kingdom for conversion into uranium hexafluoride. [More…]

• It is then transported to United States enrichment plants. [More…]

• The enriched uranium is then sent from the United States to Japan for manufacture into fuel elements which will finally be placed into the reactors of the Japanese electric power utilities. [More…]

• Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, in which countries the material will be processed to uranium hexafluoride, are parties to the NPT and require stringent safeguards on the material processed. [More…]

• Furthermore, in this regard as the Australian uranium will be finally processed into enriched uranium in the United States it will attract the full force of the safeguards policy recently announced by President Carter. [More…]

• Co-operation between Australia and the United States in solar energy projects will be assessed in the light of Government policies for energy research and development which will be determined following receipt of advice from the Australian Science and Technology Council (ASTEC) and the National Energy Advisory Committee ( NEAC). [More…]

• My fears are based on several publications in respect of interviews which were held with Senator Robert Kennedy when he was the United States Attorney-General. [More…]

• Earlier this year the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) found it necessary to make a public statement about efforts in Australia to expose some of Australia’s most closely held secrets and to publicise allegations based on hearsay, or worse, to the embarrassment of Australia’s relations with the United States, our closest ally. [More…]

• 1 ) Has the Minister seen reports that the United States of America is to establish its first large-scale experimental solar energy electricity generating plant at Barstow in California in 1978 to begin production by about 1980-81; if so, are these reports correct. [More…]

• Is Australia to be associated with this project in any way, for example under the United States-Australia Agreement for Scientific and Technical Co-operation; if so, what form will this association take; if not, will the Government take action to assess whether Australia might be informed of progress with the project. [More…]

• The journal Nuclear Fuel of 25 July 1977, a copy of which has also been placed in the Parliamentary Library, reports that ERDA in the United States has criticised the study prepared by Dr Taylor. [More…]

• 1 ) How much Australian beef has been exported to the United States of America from the beginning of the 1976-77 selling year to date. [More…]

• What is the total quantity of beef which the Minister anticipates will be shipped to the United States for the selling year 1976-77. [More…]

• Beef Exports to the United States of America (Question No. [More…]

• Australia had shipped approximately 260.2 thousand tonnes of beef and veal to the United States. [More…]

• The total quantity of beef and veal expected to be shipped from Australia to the United States in the 1976-77 shipping year is 2868 thousand tonnes. [More…]

• This will complete a quantity of 296.2 thousand tonnes which Australia is entitled to supply to the United States under the restraint agreement for calendar year 1977. [More…]

• I refer to reports of grave disquiet in the United States Congress regarding the development of a nuclear industry in the Philippines, particularly an article in the Australian Financial Review of 10 February, which reads: [More…]

• -I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry whether he has noted the recent allocations of the United States entitlements of beef imports that have been granted to the Alice Springs abattoir. [More…]

• I came across some startling figures in relation to what is happening in the United States of America. [More…]

• 1 ) Did Australia become a partner in the agreement between the United States of America and the United Kingdom in the matter of ‘Tube Alloys’; if so, on what date did Australia become a partner? [More…]

• Who is the Australian Government official who will shortly be visiting the United Kingdom and the United States of America to discuss aspects of this agreement. [More…]

• 1 ) Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Chile, France, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Republic of South Africa, United Kingdom, United States of America and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics participated in the Conference which concluded the Convention on Conservation of Antarctic Seals. [More…]

• However, in January 1975 the United States, previously the major market for kangaroo products, imposed a ban on such imports under the provisions of the United States Endangered Species Act, claiming that three species- the red, the western grey and the eastern grey- were threatened with extinction. [More…]

• I can inform the honourable senator that the view of the United States authorities conflicts with the scientific advice and evidence provided to State and Commonwealth governments and with the opinion of international organisations, including the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, which body endorses the Australian Government’s view. [More…]

• In February 1976 the United States Government advised that it would relax the ban if Australia presented to the United States evidence of State kangaroo conservation and management programs developed in accordance with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service’s guidelines and certified by the Australian Government. [More…]

• Australia duly provided the certification and documentation requested by the United States on kangaroo management and conservation programs. [More…]

• Despite this, however, there was no United States response to the Australian arrangements and no steps were taken towards relaxing the import ban, as had been undertaken. [More…]

• In October 1976 and again in October 1977 Australia made formal representations to the United States State Department requesting the United States to take the necessary steps towards lifting the ban. [More…]

• The representations informed the United States that the Australian Government did not consider the species of kangaroo previously mentioned to be endangered. [More…]

• Australia was informed in December 1 977 that the United States was prepared to re-examine its ban on kangaroo product imports. [More…]

• Discussions on the matter are continuing between the Australian and State governments responsible for conservation and between Australia and the United States authorities. [More…]

• I refer to a report in the Melbourne Sun newspaper of 27 March which refers to the import ban placed by the United States on products made from kangaroo hides. [More…]

• I ask the Minister: Is it true, as alleged in the report, that the Australian Government has placed pressure on the United States to have the ban lifted? [More…]

• Has the Minister any information which contradicts the belief of the United States Fisheries and Wildlife Service that red, eastern grey and western grey kangaroos are threatened with extinction? [More…]

• 1 ) Did the now-defunct Australian Meat Board allocate a special United States export quota in 1 977, for shipment in late 1977 and early 1978, to Norwest Ltd, a company jointly owned by the Hooker and Project Development Corporations. [More…]

• 1 ) Has the Minister noted the recent allocations of the United States of America entitlements of beef imports granted to the Alice Springs Abattoir. [More…]

• Did the export industry accept the control schemes for the United States of America on the basis that it would apply equally to all licensed exporters, whether old or new. [More…]

• 1 ) Australia, Britain and the United States of America. [More…]

• I address my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs and refer to the question I asked yesterday about the establishment of a United States defence satellite communications system in the north of Western Australia. [More…]

• Is it right that Australian citizens should first find out about the establishment of such a satellite communications system by reference to a United States congressional committee rather than from a statement made in the Australian Parliament? [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Science: Is the United States delegation that came to Australia a few days ago to study the implementation of the InterScan system still in Australia? [More…]

• In relation to the countries that are mining and exporting uranium, the advice I have in my brief is that Australia, Canada, France, Gabon, Niger, South Africa and the United States of America are in that category. [More…]

• However, if the honourable senator’s question relates to mineable and exportable quantities, the countries are Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Central African Empire, Denmarkthat is, Greenland- Finland, Gabon, the Federal Republic of Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Niger, the Philippines, Portugal, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the United States of America, Yugoslavia, Zaire and France. [More…]

• Apparently there is a possibility that this can be overcome by further development in partnership between the United States and Australia. [More…]

• Does the Minister consider that the information provided with these products is sufficient to warn the average individual that in the opinion of the Environment Protection Authority in the United States of America extreme care must be exercised in the use of this material, otherwise binh defects or cancer may well result? [More…]

• Is it true that the United States authorities legislated in 1970 to protect women of child bearing age against exposure to 2,4,5-T? [More…]

• Can the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry give any details of a report this morning that the United States will increase its beef imports? [More…]

• If so, which government, the United States Government or the Australian Government- or was it both governments- determined the name of this new station to be erected? [More…]

• I thought that the United States naval communications facility at Learmonth in the North West Cape had been called the Harold E. Holt base since the unfortunate death of the former Prime Minister. [More…]

• At the same Press conference Dr Wild of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation described Australia as being way ahead in the development of microwave lenses, which are an integral part of the InterScan system, and said that we have adopted an entirely different approach to InterScan from that adopted by the United States of America. [More…]

• Does the statement mean that the two Australian companies involved in this development- Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd and Hawker De Havilland Australia Pty Ltd- are technologically more advanced in this area than are United States companies? [More…]

• I inform the Senate that the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) left Australia yesterday for discussions in the United States and Europe. [More…]

• I am aware of the restrictions imposed by the United States Government. [More…]

• In view of the Prime Minister’s public commitment to support the United States in arguing for the proposed 40 per cent tariff cut and the fact that this matter has now been referred back to an interdepartmental committee for further consideration, what will be the position if the interdepartmental committee fails to come up with recommendations that are in line with the Prime Minister’s already publicly-stated position? [More…]

• I inform the Senate that the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) leaves Australia today to attend the sixty-fourth session of the International Labour Organisation Conference in Geneva and to have discussions elsewhere in Europe and the United States. [More…]

• In view of the findings in the United States of America of the Ford Foundation’s energy policy project that in many cases it is cheaper to save a watt of energy than to find an extra watt of supply, what efforts are being made by the Federal Government and the various relevant State bodies to (a) investigate the potential for energy conversion and conservation in Australia; and (b) encourage industrial, commercial and domestic power consumers to conserve energy. [More…]

• What in relation to the United States World-wide Military Command and Control Systems and its Defence Communications (DCS) is (a) the Satcom program; (b) the Seafarer program; (c) the Harpoon technique; and (d) the Tomahawk technique. [More…]

• Is the United States Airforce Satellite Communications (AFSATCOM) program and/or the Defence Satellite Communication System (DSCS) part of the overall Defence Communications System currently operating or to be operational in the future, at the North West Cape Naval Communications Base. [More…]

• Did the Attorney-General, on his recent visit to the United States of America, discuss with the Government the possibility of an agreement in relation to the enforcement in Australia of American antitrust laws particularly as they affect uranium marketing? [More…]

• 1 ) Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to recent allegations of a design flaw in about half of the United States of America ‘s operating nuclear power plants. [More…]

• I am sure that everyone welcomes the initiative that has been taken by the United States President, just as we welcomed at the time the initiative taken by President Sadat of Egypt. [More…]

• 1 ) Did Christopher Boyce, a code clerk with a company involved with the United States Central Intelligence Agency, state during his trial on espionage charges that the CIA had acted improperly in Australia by withholding from the Australian Government information as to the true purpose of the Pine Gap Installation. [More…]

• Is the Prime Minister aware that United States Security Agents operating in Alice Springs maintain files on Australian nationals living in that town. [More…]

• What impediments did the United States Government place upon the Australian silver medallist in the Commonwealth Games pole vault event, Don Baird, when he went from the University of California to Edmonton? [More…]

• -He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute; a Fellow of the Chemical Society of England; a member of the Australian Marine Sciences Association; a member of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science; a member of the Marine Technology Society of the United States of America; a member of the American Chemical Society; a member of the Society of Sigma-XI of the United States of America and a member of the Royal Society of Queensland. [More…]

• Has the Australian Government sought to use the United States Refugee Program for Latin America (see the Australian, 11 December 1978, page 4) to expedite the release of the political prisoner, Ana Maria Mohaded, so that she may join her sister in Australia. [More…]

• I inform the Senate that the Treasurer (Mr Howard) left Australia on 2 March to attend meetings of the International Monetary Fund interim committee in the United States of America. [More…]

• The United States program referred to by Senator Mulvihill is designed to resettle in the United States500 Latin-American political refugees and detainees. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Science and the Environment whether he is aware of an application for Government financial assistance by Dr L. Dintenfass of Sydney Hospital, to carry out a program which involves the participation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States. [More…]

• What has been the exchange rate of the Australian dollar, at 3 1 December of each year from 197 1 to 1978, expressed in units per Australian dollar, of (a) United States dollar; (b) pound sterling; (c) Deutschmark; (d) Guilder; (e) Swiss Franc; and (0 Yen. [More…]

• In view of this (Fraser Island) situation, and the concern expressed in business, political and other circles in the United States as to the decision of the Australian Government, can the Minister indicate whether the deadline to which he referred, and the appointment of an independent arbitrator with respect to compensation, might be reconsidered by the Government. [More…]

• Were the end user provisions as required by the State Department of the Department States of America for the resale of United States aircraft purchased overseas observed? [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators, on behalf of Senator Durack, I present a study of certain developments in the regulation of petroleum marketing in the United States. [More…]

• Does not the statement by the honourable senator, who is no mere Leader of the Opposition in the Senate but the Australian Labor Party shadow Foreign Minister, seriously weaken the defence of Australia and the whole of the Western Alliance, because when stripped of all its humbug the statement has the sole purpose of creating an intolerable situation for the United States of America and Australia so that the United States will withdraw from its bases? [More…]

• But when he was a Minister serving under a disastrous Prime Minister he knew that to give this information would be damaging to Australia and to our alliance with the United States of America. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of advanced research into cargo ships with sails and auxilary engines in the United States of America, Germany and Sweden? [More…]

• Has the Leader of the Government in the Senate read the congressional record of the American Armed Services Committee on matters which in this country are regarded as secret by the Australian Government and which the Australian people are not permitted to know about but which are made common knowledge in the United States of America? [More…]

• Can he tell the Senate why this Government does not trust the Australian people with the same knowledge about these matters with which the United States Government trusts the American people? [More…]

• Defence Department Personnel in United States (Question No. [More…]

• If the United States Congress passes the Ways and Means Committee’s recommendation that United States beef imports be restricted to 1 .2 billion lb, does this mean that the multilateral trade negotiations agreement entered into by Mr Anthony and the United States Administration will have to be renegotiated? [More…]

• I am grateful for the interjection from Senator Bishop, which refers to the certification of the aircraft by the highest authority, namely the United States civil authority. [More…]

• Did an article by Mr Mike Steketee in the Sydney Morning Herald, 22 March 1979, state that, in return for greater access to United States markets, Australia agreed to lower protection levels on some industrial goods- mainly heavy manufacturing products- and tobacco; if so, has Australia agreed to lower protection levels on tobacco in return for greater access to United States markets. [More…]

• Trade with United States (Question No. [More…]

• A Ministerial Statement covering, inter alia, bilateral negotiations with the United States of America in the context of the Multilateral Trade Negotiations was made in the Parliament on 8 May 1979 by the Acting Prime Minister. [More…]

• As the United States of America does not consider Australia to be a traditional supplier, this has effectively cut off a potential market for Australia and has presented very serious problems for producers of concentrate of poppy straw and other opium alkaloids in this country. [More…]

• As a result of representations by the Australian Government and other concerned parties, the United States Government authorities are currently reviewing their policy in relation to the importation of opium alkaloids. [More…]

• The Australian Government is making all efforts through diplomatic channels at the highest possible level to influence the United States authorities to allow Australia reasonable access to the United States market. [More…]

• The United States authorities have assured all parties that they will have ample opportunity to make their views known and that these will be taken into account in reaching a final determination. [More…]

• On 2 May 1979 Senator Townley asked the Minister representing the Minister for Post and Telecommunications without notice; ls the Minister aware that in the United States of America the direct cost of selling stamps is 17c from each dollar received from the sale of stamps? [More…]

• ls the Minister able to say whether the cost of selling stamps in Australia is comparable with that in the United States? [More…]

• The basis for the cited 17 cents per dollar in the United States of America is not known. [More…]

• Was the decision to make retrenchments made in the United States of America by the firm of Sandvik Pty Ltd without any consultation with its Australian representatives or with the Vehicle Builders’ Union. [More…]

• It is understood that the decision to close down the operations of H. K. Porter (Australia ) Pty Ltd was made by the parent company in the United States in response to the uneconomic trading pattern of the Australian subsidiary over recent years. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry: What is the present position in respect of the United States Congress ratifying the International Sugar Agreement? [More…]

• What was the intake of migrants from: (a) the United Kingdom excluding Northern Ireland; (b) Northern Ireland; (c) Eire; (d) Italy; (e) Yugoslavia; (f) Greece; (g) Portugal; (h) Spain: (i) West Germany; (j) Chile; (lt) Uruguay; (I) Peru: (m) Ecuador; (n) Hong Kong); (o) India; (p) the Philippines; (g) Malaysia; (r) Lebanon; (s) Cyprus; (t) the United States; and (u) Canada, during the first six months of 1 979. [More…]

• 1 ) I am informed that Volume 42 of the Official Opinions of the Attorneys-General of the United States has now been published. [More…]

• Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, United States and USSR. [More…]

• I refer the Minister representing the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs to a recent report of the Department of Transportation in the United States which showed that 65 per cent of American cars and 25 per cent of imported cars tested would not protect the front seat passenger from fatal injuries at a speed of 60 kilometres an hour and the subsequent recommendation of the head of this department and the head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that a rating system be introduced which would allow consumers to assess at a glance a particular vehicle’s measure of safety protection in the event of a crash. [More…]

• If I could be precise for Senator Grimes, the practice that will be put into effect is one that is similar to that used in the United Kingdom and the United States of America. [More…]

• Perhaps I could use as an analogy the rather tough United States legislation to control what are known as the Mexican wetbacks who enter that country illegally. [More…]

• I know that illegal workers among the lettuce growers and those in other agricultural pursuits in the United States have caused many problems. [More…]

• They have been received from organisations in Australia, the United States, Britain, Canada, Japan, Korea, Italy, France and Germany. [More…]

• Australian Visit by United States’ Ambassador to Japan (Question No. [More…]

• Are arrangements being made for the United States Ambassador to Japan, Mr Mansfield, to visit Australia in November 1979. [More…]

• Affairs, refers to the current deterioration in the relationship between the United States and Iran. [More…]

• In view of Australia’s good relations and significant trade with Iran, and our close relationship with the United States, has the Australian Government offered to assist in whatever way it can to help prevent further deterioration of the relationship between those two governments? [More…]

• 1 ) In accordance with the appropriate authorisations the Australian Wool Corporation established arrangements with the Chase Manhattan Bank in December 1977 to borrow in United States dollars up to the equivalent of $A40m during 1978. [More…]

• Did the United States Food and Drug Administration restrict the use of the drug in 1 97 1 . [More…]

• Has the Minister representing the Prime Minister seen a report of a special United States Presidential Commission under the chairmanship of Mr Thomas Gates, former Secretary of Defence, which report stated that the draft system of national service in Australia is unnecessary, that Australia could have avoided the introduction of national service by raising pay and reorganising recruiting and that Australia has not made a concerted effort to attract additional recruits on a voluntary basis? [More…]

• My understanding of the general position is that in the United States there was a very strong move to adopt the Australian method of conscription for national service. [More…]

• Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to a recent report that the storage of Australia’s twentyfour F111 aircraft in the United States is costing Australia $1,700 a day in addition to the actual purchase price? [More…]

• In view of the enormous cost to Australia and the long delay that obviously is taking place in securing delivery of the aircraft, will the Government be prepared to re-examine its present attitude towards securing delivery of these aircraft from the United States? [More…]

• His Excellency quite clearly pointed out that to the extent that there will be future withdrawals of troops from Vietnam by the United States consideration will be given to the withdrawal of Australian forces. [More…]

• Are discussions now proceeding between United States authorities and the Australian Government about cancellation of the contract for the purchase of the Fill aircraft and the non-use of this aircraft after June 1971? [More…]

• A great deal of discussion is proceeding at the present time between our project manager together with Royal Australian Air Force officers and scientists from the Aeronautical Research Laboratories of the Department of Supply and the manufacturers and scientists from the United States of America together with officers of the United States Air Force. [More…]

• All this began through the collaboration of the Department of Supply with the Department of Trade and Industry and had its genesis really in an Australian delegation which went to the United States for the purpose of looking generally at the situation and then looking in particular at some specialised areas where we could get an offset in relation to our defence activities. [More…]

• As a result of the collaboration which has taken place between my Department and the Department of Trade and Industry we have been able to get the necessary information from members of the United States team and to put them in touch with a series of Australian industries which may be in a position to tender for certain equipment. [More…]

• Has the Minister for Air any information which confirms or denies reports emanating from the United States of America that have stated that the Fill A version of this aircraft which is being purchased by Australia is now obsolete or will be so within 2 years? [More…]

• 1 have no information from the United States of America or elsewhere that the F111C, the model which we are getting, is obsolescent. [More…]

• As modifications have been made to the latest United States Fills our Australian planes have been modified accordingly. [More…]

• A very high level delegation led, as I recall, by Sir Ian McLennan, went te the United States of America. [More…]

• I preface my question to the Minister for Air by thanking him for the full reply that he gave to my previous question on whether discussions were taking place between the United States of America and Australia on the cancellation of the Fill contract. [More…]

• 1 refer the Minister for Air to a question 1 asked him on 25th November - he might recall it - in relation to whether the mission to the United States headed by Sir Henry Bland which investigated the faults in the Fill aircraft and, in fact, the whole project, was widely reported in Australia as having been adverse to the project. [More…]

• Apart altogether from the question of whether the aircraft would fly, is it correct that the United States considered that it was not suitable for some of the purposes for which it was originally intended and that after a certain period it was not used in the Vietnam conflict? [More…]

• Within a short time will be make a full statement on the progress of the FU 1 dealing, in particular, with the question of what Australia intends to do with the aircraft if it acquires them and what the United States now intends to do with any of the aircraft that it acquires, so far as that matter is one of public knowledge or can be given here? [More…]

• Attaches weight to the statements by the governments of the United States, United Kingdom and the Soviet Union declaring their intention to seek immediate Security Council action to provide help to any nonnuclear weapons State party to the treaty that is subject to aggression or the threat of aggression with nuclear weapons. [More…]

• These already include the United States, Great Britain, Italy, Philippines and Mexico, and other countries on its routes are expected to follow suit shortly. [More…]

• The United States Government has made it clear that it does not intend to escalate but rather to de-escalate the strength of its assistance in the area. [More…]

• To put it in proper perspective, we have not stopped at the battle that went on between Rheem and its United States rival. [More…]

• 1 assure them that United States Presidents, whether they were Trueman or Kennedy, from time to time had to exercise their presidential powers to curb big business in the United States. [More…]

• 1 have never indicted the United States on that. [More…]

• I have said that the United States has been over generous but naive. [More…]

• The point I am making on the sophisticated approach is that the United States and Britain, if they can do so at any time, skilfully play off China against the Soviet Union in world politics. [More…]

• Even when we said that the United States suggested it would be a wise move, we were still scorned. [More…]

• Fulbright of the United States, as well as many other Americans, are getting sick and tired of Vietnam. [More…]

• Should the future situation permit a further substantial withdrawal of troops - beyond those announced by President Nixon on 16th December 1969 - then in consultation with the Government of the Republic of Vietnam and the Government of the United States, some Australian troops will be included, at some stage, in the numbers scheduled for such withdrawal. [More…]

• The Prime Minister succumbed to pressure from the new Minister for External Affairs (Mr McMahon), he succumbed to pressure from leading personalities in the Department of External Affairs who mounted their own Press campaign to twist the Government’s arm, he succumbed to pressure from the United States and he succumbed to pressure from certain people who describe themselves as left wing. [More…]

• Australia relies - and the best prospect, I think, is to rely - on the United States. [More…]

• There is trouble in New Zealand and in areas of the United States of America. [More…]

• I noted today with some perplexity that, in a question to the Leader of the Government (Senator Anderson), Senator Georges referred to the United States withdrawal as some gigantic hoax. [More…]

• I really think that members of this new united - or disunited - Opposition should get together because I heard gloating questions asked by members of the Opposition, particularly by the Leader of the Opposition (Senator Murphy), referring to the United States withdrawal as a recognition of defeat by the United States in Vietnam. [More…]

• Those senators who take great comfort in the United States withdrawal should understand the facts of the situation. [More…]

• But because of the military and political positions, and because of the success of the policy of Vietnamisation, fewer United States troops are required than was formerly the case. [More…]

• I suppose if there can be one criticism of the United States effort in South Vietnam it is that in the past it has placed too little reliance on building up the South Vietnamese forces and has made it a purely American operation. [More…]

• A study of President Nixon’s speeches reveals that he has made it quite clear in the strongest terms that the United States is determined that aggression shall nol succeed and that his country’s objective in South Vietnam remains unchanged. [More…]

• One might even question whether the Truman doctrine does not still hold as the basis of United States policy, although the emphasis has certainly changed. [More…]

• The United States today insists, 1 believe rightly, that the countries of South East Asia should do more to help themselves. [More…]

• The United States is prepared to provide facilities to enable South East Asian countries to build up their own strength so that they are reasonably able to defend themselves, and only as a last resort will United States forces, particularly ground forces, again be committed to serve in South East Asia. [More…]

• Several years before becoming the President of the United States, in an article which at that time received a great deal of attention, President Nixon stated this policy quite clearly. [More…]

• Having said this, and having reminded the Senate that the grave danger is a loss of confidence, not only in Vietnam because of a precipitous withdrawal but also in other countries of South East Asia, I suggest that the objective of North Vietnam today is, as it has always been, to destroy the will of the United States people to resist aggression. [More…]

• The main sources of the investment were the United States of America and Canada. [More…]

• The Committee of Economic Inquiry - the Vernon Committee - considered overseas investment in Australia and the double taxation agreements that exist between Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada and New Zealand. [More…]

• A comparison of research and development engineers shows that in Australia there are very few for every 10,000 people - far less than the ratio of 25 for every 10,000 in the United States of America, 22 for every 10,000 in Sweden, 12 for every 10,000 in Japan, 1 1 for every 10,000 in the United Kingdom and 7 for every 10,000 in Canada. [More…]

• I agree with Senator Fulbright’s statement that while the Australian Government professed to see a threat in Vietnam, as did the United States, its response was grudging and minimal and designed to earn American gratitude rather than influence the prosecution of the war. [More…]

• The Australian Government was obviously more concerned with pleasing the United States millionaire investors than with saving the lives and future welfare of thousands of young Australians who have been conscripted to fight in a war condemned by all nations of the world. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Supply, refers to the recent visit to Australia by Dr Paine, who is the Administrator of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and his published statement that Woomera may become a centre for a space shuttle service. [More…]

• Secondly, will this arrangement, if it is adopted, involve the new AustraliaUnited States communication station, or will it involve some other technical section of the Woomera establishment? [More…]

• I would emphasise at this stage that the Government has not received a firm proposal from the United States Air Force about the testing of our aircraft or about the impact which these tests will have on our scheduled delivery date. [More…]

• These responses are designed to preserve peace and deter aggression and, if aggression occurs, to maintain the security of the countries of western Europe, Britain, Canada and the United States. [More…]

• Is there any truth in reports that the Royal Australian Air Force has its eye on securing the F15 aircraft which is now being developed by the United States? [More…]

• Only several months ago - I think it was during the great vacation - the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) spoke of an outstanding migrant, Dr Doxiadis, who is probably one of the most notable architects and city and regional planners in the world and who has been responsible for the replanning of some of the great cities of the United States as well as conducting universities in Athens. [More…]

• lt appears to me that great damage will be done if, in the publicity which flows from the United States of America and Australia in the future in regard to a pulling out of the forces which are fighting in Vietnam at present, the view is conveyed that we are no longer interested in ensuring that there is sufficient support for a country which wishes to be free from external aggression. [More…]

• There are indications in the United States that the boom of recent years is losing its intensity, in the event of which the buoyancy of world economic conditions will diminish for the time being. [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…]

• Australian Air Force base at Amberley for the Fill and for the training and maintenance of crews in the United States of America is S8.8m. [More…]

• Can the Minister tell us why, in view of the fact that in the United States of America it is considered important to publish the birth dates to ensure that there is no nonsense about the selection, the Australian Government refuses to publish these dates but keeps them a secret from the people? [More…]

• I shall take the earliest opportunity to verify the prescribed methods and procedures adopted in the United States of America in regard to the drawing of the birth dates. [More…]

• Is it not a fact that the former Minister for Defence, Mr Fairhall - now Sir Allen Fait hall - journeyed to the United States of America last year and attended a handing over ceremony at Fort Worth, Texas, on 5th September 1969, where he formally received and accepted the first F111C aircraft on behalf of the Australian Government? [More…]

• It is true that Sir Allen Fairhall, as he now is, who was Minister for Defence at the time, visited the United States of America and, at a ceremony, received nominally an aircraft in connection with Australia’s F111 project. [More…]

• I do not accept, and I am sure that the Government does not accept, that this will in any way inhibit the discussions the present Minister for Defence proposes to have with the United States Government when he visits that country in the near future.I am not in a position to give the figure the honourable senator seeks or to give an answer to his imputation in regard to that figure, which is, of course, a different matter again. [More…]

• He added that the Communists could be stopped in South East Asia if the United States and Britain gave Asian governments firm and sympathetic support in resisting either economic, political or military aggression. [More…]

• The Vietnam war is the only war in history which is being lost by superior forces with complete charge of the air fighting against enemy forces which, according to United States official figures, have been wiped out at least twice. [More…]

• The reason is that the people who are supposed to be their friends are opposed to the United States forces, the Australian forces and everyone else being there and fighting in that country. [More…]

• Look at the manufacturing industries in the United States of America that have to make their profits either through wars or through the dispersal of the armaments that they make to practically every nation in the world. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Gorton), in his latest statement, said that if there is a further withdrawal of United States troops he will consider withdrawing some of our troops. [More…]

• Do not think that I am unfriendly towards the United States. [More…]

• If I am any kind of judge - I do not say I am a good judge - once the United States gets out of Vietnam it will take a lot to get that country back into Asia again. [More…]

• We would be doing the United States a very good turn if, instead of blindly following what it did or what it said and instead of having no worthwhile foreign policy of our own, we helped the United [More…]

• We would be doing the United States a service. [More…]

• I think the United States of America with all its power - if I am correct it is somewhere in the vicinity of half a million men - has learned that it cannot subdue this country. [More…]

• I am able to say that representatives of interested firms and of the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of Supply will attend a bidder’s conference with the Boeing representatives in Seattle, United States of America, within a fortnight to discuss bid packages and explore future opportunities for sub-contract work in Australia. [More…]

• The delegation that is to attend the conference in the United States will see whether our companies can quote successfully - we should be able to do so - for part of this big Boeing 747 aircraft project. [More…]

• Does not the Government owe to the people of Australia, particularly to relatives of servicemen in Vietnam, an explanation of the rise in casualties there in recent weeks, Does not the Government realise that the people of Australia will not accept lightly a steadily rising rate of Australian casualties at a time when United States troops are withdrawing from Vietnam and US casualties are declining markedly? [More…]

• Are the so-called cease fire negotiations between South Vietnam and the United States of America on the one hand and North Vietnam and the Vietcong on the other hand still continuing in Paris? [More…]

• ls the prolongation of the talks, occurring in the face of the often expressed willingness of the United States to withdraw its troops from South Vietnam if North Vietnam will desist in its aggression, due to North Vietnam’s unwillingness to so desist? [More…]

• In those circumstances, is not the current tactic of North Vietnam, its apologists and supporters directed to weakening the resolution of the United States, Australia and other countries in South Vietnam supporting the South Vietnamese Government to maintain the security of that country? [More…]

• I ask the Minister whether he has had brought to his notice an article in the Canberra Times’ of 6th March 1970 which refers to a speech purported to be made by Averell Harriman, the former chief United States delegate to the Paris peace talks, in which he said that the President of South Vietnam, President Thieu, had pulled the rug out from negotiations several times. [More…]

• As peace in Vietnam is very important to Australia because our troops are there, I wonder whether the Government has taken the trouble to see if the facts are as stated by this eminent United States peace negotiator. [More…]

• The other part of his question related to the discussion that is going on at present between American scientists and United States Air Force officers and our own scientists and Air Force officers, so I cannot answer that part. [More…]

• The position of our exports of prime meat is governed in the main by the United States. [More…]

• The farmers of Wyoming or the meat producers of the United States may say: ‘Oh no, you had better put a stopper on imports of Australian meat’ We would then sell less and less meat there. [More…]

• It just so happened that the then Treasurer of the Commonwealth, the late Mr Holt, was in the United States at that time. [More…]

• If you couple that with the recent statement of the President of the United States of America with respect to a projection of America’s intentions internationally, it is obvious that we as a nation - a European nation in an Asian sea - will have to find ways and means of fending for ourselves. [More…]

• Our annual home construction is 11 per 1,000 persons as compared with 9 per 1,000 in Canada, 8 per 1,000 in the United States of America and 7 per 1,000 in the United Kingdom. [More…]

• I had compared our figures with those of Canada, the United States of America and the United Kingdom and shown how we were at the top of all nations. [More…]

• The United States of America did not sign the agreement; it reserved its rights. [More…]

• But as I have said, the United States did not sign the treaty; it reserved freedom of action. [More…]

• When the United States of America, in honouring guarantees to South Vietnam, attempted to interfere to stop that action, it was at once accused of aggression. [More…]

• It is hard to believe that there are people in Australia, the United States and the free world who say that Communism should not be resisted. [More…]

• If he goes back and reads the Geneva Accords he will find that Vietnam is one country and there is a war between the northern and southern parts of it, just as there was a war between the North and the South in the United States of America. [More…]

• The United States has a superannuation scheme and a health scheme. [More…]

• When you think of what happens in the United States and the problems there of who will run for President and who will have the confidence of the people to carry on the affairs of that country, and when you think of Churchill, Eden, Macmillan, Douglas-Home, Heath- [More…]

• There is no doubt that in that period the links with the United Kingdom were stronger and strong links were forged with the United States of America. [More…]

• Is he aware that the Canadian House of Commons was informed that Ministers from the United States of America, Australia, the Argentine and the European Common Market were invited to discuss the proposition and to consider complementary legislation? [More…]

• The aim was to release air from between the outer skin and the seed, as it had been shown in earlier work in the United States and Britain that this air slows the loss of moisture during drying, and its take-up during reconstitution. [More…]

• I believe that, the committees enquiring into air and water pollution were set up only because former Senator Denham Henty, a great Tasmanian - he was Leader of the Government in the Senate and Minister for Supply - visited the United States of America and through his official work there came to realise the great problems facing Americans because of air and water pollution. [More…]

• It is costing countries such as th e United States enormous sums of money. [More…]

• Later, because of some pressure from the United States of America, he agreed to send Australian troops to Vietnam. [More…]

• In one speech the Prime Minister said the Government concerned was that of South Vietnam, and in another speech he said it was that of the United States of America. [More…]

• As Senator Murphy said last night, the position in the United States is becoming critical for the American Government. [More…]

• It has been alleged that the new communications station will be connected with the antiballistic missile programme of the United States of America. [More…]

• Australia will therefore continue, in co-operation with the United States of America and other countries, to assist the Republic of Vietnam in its struggle to repel aggression and allow its citizens to live under a Government of their own choice. [More…]

• Should the future situation permit a further substantial withdrawal of troops - beyond those announced by President Nixon on 16th December 1969 - then in consultation with the Government of the Republic of Vietnam and the Government of the United States, some Australian troops will be included, at some stage, in the numbers scheduled for such withdrawal. [More…]

• I suggest that neither in terms of law as we know it in Australia nor in terms of international law is there any illegality attaching to any action that has been taken by the United States command or by the Australian command in Vietnam. [More…]

• I repeat that the Republic of South Vietnam was recognised by the United Kingdom Government, the United States Government and the Australian Government in February 1950. [More…]

• Senator Cavanagh and Senator Georges have said that in some way - whether they mean Australia or the United States is never made clear - we denied the free elections, or the eleotions which were supposed to be held under the Geneva Accords. [More…]

• In the first place, the United States was not required to conduct elections; nor was Australia; nor was North Vietnam; nor was South Vietnam. [More…]

• The United States never signed the declaration and was never a party to it. [More…]

• There was a declaration which all the participating parties except the United States and South Vietnam were prepared to sign and in which they stressed their views for the future. [More…]

• There has been a misrepresentation of the Australian and United States purpose in Vietnam. [More…]

• We hear from time to time, and we heard in the course of this debate, the suggestion that all that the United States is doing in Vietnam is in some way maintaining its economy. [More…]

• At that time, the United States, although not a party to the Accords . [More…]

• The United States, like the Republic of Vietnam, remains devoted to the cause of peace and our primary purpose is to help your people maintain their independence. [More…]

• The Gulf of Tonkin incident merely brought all the United States people behind the United States effort. [More…]

• If we pull out immediately, irrespective of what the United States of America or the South Vietnamese Government may think, I suppose the Labor Party will say that there would be an end to the war. [More…]

• Moratorium demonstrations have occurred in the United States of America. [More…]

• He has confused it with the unilateral agreement of the United States of America. [More…]

• I would like to refer to the American ceasefire agreement which was not officially published but of which the main provisions were outlined by M. Mendes-France and Mr Eden and published by the British, French and United States Press. [More…]

• They and similar people in the United States, Germany and other parts of the world love wars because they can make fortunes during wars. [More…]

• Senator Greenwood has said that we did not sign the agreement and that the United States did not sign it, but this is a mere technicality which is announced to the Australian people in order to confuse them. [More…]

• Our reason for being in Vietnam is to try to buy the assistance of the United States for our future. [More…]

• We are not there because of the Vietnamese people; we are there because the United States is involved and we feel that in becoming involved with the United States we are buying time for ourselves and assistance for ourselves if ever the occasion should arise when we need it. [More…]

• The United States has realised this and it is the policy which has been adopted by the United States over the last couple of years. [More…]

• By getting out into the streets and demonstrating against the war in Vietnam they were able to excercise influence on the President of the United States so that for the first time in the history of that country a President had to resign his position. [More…]

• He was succeeded by a man who campaigned about the country on the platform that he was going to withdraw United States troops from Vietnam. [More…]

• Should the future situation permit a further substantial withdrawal of troops - beyond those announced by President Nixon on 16th December 1969- then in consultation with the Government of the Republic of Vietnam and the Government of the United States, some Australian troops will be included, at some stage, in the numbers scheduled for such withdrawal. [More…]

• If the United States indicates that it will withdraw its troops, I believe that Australian troops should be entitled to know when and how they will be withdrawn in the same proportion. [More…]

• The sixties have placed Japan firmly on the summit of the non-Communist world, with an economy second in size only to the unsurpassable United States. [More…]

• They are supposed to cope with localised or small scale invasions, sharing the task of strategic defence with the United States which in turn is responsible under the mutual security pact for strategic offensive roles. [More…]

• The British Labour Prime Minister is being haunted by irate farmers, and farmers are making protests in the United States and other parts of the world. [More…]

• I know that there is a system of price support for wheat in the United States of America. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence announced in the House of Representatives last Thursday, 5th March, that he would visit the United States of America at an early date to consult with the United States Secretary of Defence on all relevant aspects of the F111 project. [More…]

• by leave - I wish to inform the Senate that, in my capacity as Minister-in-Charge of Tourist Activities, 1 shall bc making an overseas visit to Fiji and the United States, from 21st March to 6th April. [More…]

• In the United States, including Hawaii, I shall attend a number of public presentations associated with the ‘Destination [More…]

• In the United States also, I shall visit a number of centres where the development of resorts and attractions has been most advanced. [More…]

• My itinerary in the United States has been suggested by the Australian Tourist Commission with the specialist advice and assistance of Harris, Kerr, Forster and Co., the consultant firm which has recently completed studies of tourism development in central Australia and the Ayers Rock region for Commonwealth authorities. [More…]

• During the visit, I shall have the benefit of the advice of Mr C. A. Greenway, Chairman of the Australian Tourist Commission, whose direct experience of recent tourism developments not only in Australia, but also in Fiji and the United States, is especially valuable. [More…]

• Australia played an active part in the Washington conference of December 1969 which was summoned by the Government of the United States of America. [More…]

• Coupled wilh all these factors was a great increase in the production of wheat in the United States and Canada. [More…]

• Although the total quota was not reached - for 1969-70 the wheat industry brought in quotas totalling about 357 million bushels - people in the industry appreciated the problems associated with surpluses such as storage and potential markets aggravated by vast surpluses of wheat in the United States of America and Canada. [More…]

• ls the Minister aware that the United States Senate recently passed a Bill to outlaw cigarette advertisements on radio and television? [More…]

• While I am on my feet, Mr President, perhaps I should inform honourable senators that I had intended to make today a statement in relation to Australia’s role in outer space and our responsibilities with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States of America. [More…]

• However, the undermentioned payments to the sterling area and non-sterling area would be predominantly for material of United Kingdom and United States of America origin respectively. [More…]

• In far too many fields the Australian Government wants to know what Britain and the United States of America, or some other major maritime powers, are doing. [More…]

• If so, I ask the Government to study the proposal which emanated from United States Senator Muske. [More…]

• I illustrate how disturbing it is by pointing out to honourable senators that a similar situation confronted the United States of America in its obligations under the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation in north western Europe. [More…]

• The United States Government considered this an intolerable situation and, at enormous expense, moved all its bases out of France into West Germany, Belgium and other areas. [More…]

• Can the Minister for Air inform the Parliament whether 2 airlines operating in South East Asia - -Air Vietnam and Air America - are controlled or owned by the United States Central [More…]

• By the early 1950s there was an enormous surplus of wheat, especially in the United States of America. [More…]

• By 1960 and up to 1965 stocks were at a low level as a result of restriction on acreages in the United States and the large purchases made at that time by China and Russia. [More…]

• In Canada and the United States of America foodstuff is being burnt. [More…]

• Potatoes are being burnt in parts of the United States and wheat is being destroyed in Canada. [More…]

• I do not profess to prejudge but it is necessary to refer to some companies or persons to show that the laws are inadequate and that there is a good case for a securities and exchange commission along the United States lines, adapted to suit our own experience, our own conditions. [More…]

• The figure which 1 gave of $20m was taken from the United States Budget, a copy of which I have here and will make available to him. [More…]

• I have referred to this when speaking of the provisions which operate in the United States but do not operate here. [More…]

• We are really proceeding through a period which was peculiar to the United States prior to the commencement of the 20th century, when it had a series of bank crashes, with disastrous results, and it found it necessary to take on substantial power to control their banking institutions. [More…]

• When the United States passed through that first period from the end of the 19th century into the 20th century and struck the great depression in the early part of the 20th century, there began this intense interest of the investing public in investing equity capital in public companies. [More…]

• The boom of that investment culminated in 1929 in the collapse of the stock exchange and the tremendous consequences which flowed, not only to individuals and the nation of the United States but also throughout the world. [More…]

• It was as a consequence of that, no doubt - -because significantly it happened in 1933 and 1934 - that the United States introduced the legislation to which Senator Wright has referred. [More…]

• Australia is now reaching that second position, lt is reaching in 1970 the situation that the United States reached in 1900 when there was this tremendous equity investment by the general public. [More…]

• This applies not only in this country but also in the United States of America and in other places. [More…]

• Has President Nixon issued an order to American forces in Vietnam that the United States command is to offer no infantry support in the Vietnam conflict but is to supply only air and artillery support? [More…]

• As is known, the Minister for Defence is currently in Washington in the United States and amongst other things is having discussions in relation to the F111. [More…]

• Does the Australian Government support United States military policy in Laos. [More…]

• Are the cease-fire negotiations between South Vietnam and the United States, on the one hand, and the Viet Cong and North Vietnam, on the other, still continuing; if so, is it a fact that the talks have made no progress. [More…]

• Is the prolongation of the talks, despite United States willingness to withdraw if the North Vietnamese will desist from aggression, due to North Vietnamese unwillingness to do so; if so, is the current tactic of the North Vietnamese and their apologists and supporters directed towards weakening the resolution of the United States, Australia and other allies to maintainthe security of the South Vietnamese Government. [More…]

• The expanded talks on Vietnam are continuing in Paris between representatives of the Republic of Vietnam and the United States of America on the one side, and representatives of the communist side in the Vietnam conflict on the other. [More…]

• I ask the Minister whether he has had brought to his notice an article in the ‘Canberra Times’ of 6th March 1970 which refers to a speech purported to be made by Averell Hardman, the former chief United States delegate to the Paris peace talks, in which he said that the President of South Vietnam, President Thieu, had pulled the rug out from negotiations several times. [More…]

• As peace in Vietnam is very important to Australia because our troops are there, I wonder whether the Government has taken the trouble to see if the facts are as stated by this eminent United States peace negotiator. [More…]

• -(New South Wales Minister for Supply) - by leave - I wish to inform the Senate that the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) left Australia on 30th March to visit Vietnam and the United States. [More…]

• In Saigon he has had discussions with senior leaders of the South Vietnamese Government and with Vietnamese, United States and Australian officials and Service commanders. [More…]

• The major trends in world affairs with which I propose to deal are: Communist policies; the reduction of British influence east of Suez aud in particular the withdrawal of British forces from Malaysia and Singapore; the dramatic growth of Japan with the promise this has for greatly increased influence in the world at large and in our own region in particular; and the comprehensive doctrine enunciated by President Nixon concerning the world role of the United States. [More…]

• I hope and trust that the money provided for action to control the crown of thorns starfish will be substantial and that it will be of the order of the amount provided by the United States Government to combat this threat, that is, $5m. [More…]

• It is not dominated by large United States companies. [More…]

• Some honourable senators may smile at such a suggestion, but when it comes to planning I think the views of honourable senators are much more important than those of the boardroom czars in the United States, Britain or, for that matter, Australia’s Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Leader of the Government in the Senate in his capacity as Minister for Supply and as Minister representing the Minister for Defence, ls he aware of Press reports to the effect that the United States Defence Department will not agree to transfer any of the $200m-odd which has been paid by Australia for the FI 1 1 aircraft towards the purchase of another aircraft? [More…]

• If this is the attitude of the United States Government., is it not time that the Australian Government put its cards on the table, informed us of the present position and allowed us to have a debate on it so that, irrespective of any bungling that has occurred in the past, the matter can be thrashed out here and Australia’s representatives can go to the negotiating table without having one hand tied behind their backs and see to it that we get a fair deal and are not done out of the $200m which we have paid- [More…]

• As everybody including the Leader of the Opposition knows, the Minister for Defence is in Washington in the United States of America at the present time, having discussions with the Defence Department and the manufacturers in relation to Australia’s acquisition of the Fill. [More…]

• It would be quite unreal and quite absurd to suggest that whatever the views of the United States Government were they would be reflected in a Press comment. [More…]

• I think the honourable senator’s question arose out of the trouble incurred by Pan American Airways in the United States of America. [More…]

• The nature of our arrangement with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States of America is such that it is not within our competence to do so. [More…]

• As Australia is the main supplier of raw materials to Japan, does the Government hopefully anticipate that Japan will become our military protector if and when the United States of America withdraws from Vietnam? [More…]

• Fourthly, are they aware that as the shamrock will grow only in good Irish soil it presents none of the dangers to Australia which Mr Quain says derive from thistles from Scotland, rabbits from England and cactus plants from the United States of America? [More…]

• Is it correct that there are no reciprocal arrangements for enforcing in the United States alimony or maintenance orders made in Australia such as those which exist between Australia and a number of other countries? [More…]

• If so, will the Government explore the possibility of making such arrangements in order to assist those women who have obtained orders in Australia but are unable to enforce them because their husbands or ex-husbands have gone to the United States? [More…]

• There are no reciprocal arrangements for the enforcement of our orders in the United States. [More…]

• The Government at present is considering reciprocal arrangements with several countries for the enforcement of such orders and will include in its consideration the suggestion that it should be extended to the various States of the United States of America. [More…]

• Did the Attorney-General read the report in the Sydney ‘Sun’ of 12th February 1970, wherein a United States tennis promoter reported that. [More…]

• No, as evidenced by the huge stock piles in Canada (all hard wheat) and United States of America (predominantly hard wheat). [More…]

• Does the Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service know whether it is correct, as alleged by a South Australian trade union secretary, that the Australian Council of Trade Unions has, under its new president, invited certain Communist unionists to visit this country; that the ACTU proposes to spend union raised funds to finance this visit; and that no such invitation has been issued to non-Communist unionists from the United Kingdom or the United States of America? [More…]

• Negotiations with the United Slates Department of Defence have resulted in a policy designed to encourage the opportunity for Australian industry to seek work from United States firms engaged on defence contracts. [More…]

• Honourable senators will recall earlier arrangements whereby a United States Defence procurement officer was located in my Department and a post of Trade Commissioner, Supply, was established in Washington. [More…]

• The Committee of Departments will have the task of developing and carrying out a co-ordinated programme of work to promote increased overseas sales of Australian built equipment and components; to encourage co-operative research and development projects between Australian and overseas industry; and to encourage firms to take on work in Australia for overseas firms wishing to build up the Australian content of items offered for sale to the Australian armed forces and to seek sub-contracts from United States defence contractors. [More…]

• In the United States of America there is not a total exclusion of the conduct of foreign affairs between the President and the Congress because there are inside the Congress, and particularly in the Senate of the United States of America, certain constitutional proprieties which the Senate particularly is charged with observing. [More…]

• So the United States Senate has a constitutional entry into the area of foreign affairs and defence through its own placita, if I may use an Australian word in the context of the American Constitution. [More…]

• However, I do not want to embark on an enlargement of the United States congressional powers in this context. [More…]

• If honourable senators wish to ascertain the truth of my remarks they have only to examine some of the proceedings of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the United States Senate. [More…]

• What makes it worse in the United States of America is that, as Americans live in a highly libera: society, events which are supposed to be heard within the privacy of a committee are enlarged until they become public property. [More…]

• As a result, enormous penalties are imposed upon the conduct of the United States Senate Foreign Affairs Committee. [More…]

• The people of the United States may be able to live with this fact, but at the present juncture in Australia we cannot live with it. [More…]

• Finally, I wish to say in this context - and I say it quite humbly as a senator who has sat on this Committee for some years now - that I do not think that as a nation we have reached a level of maturity where we can consider foreign affairs matters in the glare of publicity in which they are considered in the United States of America. [More…]

• I would much prefer the Commonwealth or State system of distributing relief to the system which was in force in the United States of America at the turn of the last century when, to be quite blunt about it, it was left to the political parties to buy votes by giving people coal in the winter and ice cream in the summer. [More…]

• The people whom we are allowing in to Bougainville are only a little better than those who were selling people in slavery in the United States and are selling people in slavery today. [More…]

• Australians who think that the United Nations need nos be taken seriously may be mort respectful of the United States. [More…]

• Perhaps a member of the Labor Party could tell us of any public statement by the United States Government indicating that it is in any way critical of Australia’s policy or administration in Papua and New Guinea. [More…]

• If the honourable .senator can point to one statement from the United States - a country which he has delighted in abusing in this chamber time and again - which is critical of Australia and which supports the statement made by Mr Whitlam, we on this side of the chamber would be most interested to hear of it. [More…]

• On 1 8th September 1969, as a result of a question being placed on the Notice Paper by me, the PostmasterGeneral indicated that the following countries televised at least some programmes in colour: The United States of America, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, France, West Germany, Thailand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic and Lebanon. [More…]

• Honourable senators will appreciate that we purchase a great number of imported films from some of these countries - namely the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Canada and Japan - for showing on television. [More…]

• The transmission and evaluation data from the spacecraft through these three establishments will assist the mission control centre at Houston in the United States to check the accuracy of the flight path to Earth and to determine any mid-course correction manoeuvres which may be necessary. [More…]

• It notes and welcomes the fact that the United States Government has undertaken a full investigation of all aspects of recent allegations of the killing of civilians in Vietnam. [More…]

• In answering Senator Webster’s question without notice on17th March 1970 was the Canadian Wheat Industry system referred to by the Minister similar to that which is well known to operate in the United States of America, where vast sums of money are paid to persons and corporations, including foreign corporations, to leave their land idle and not to produce wheat. [More…]

• The ceiling on payments to individual producers is one of the important differences between this and the farm programme of the United States although some similarities with the acreage diversion programme in that country can be detected. [More…]

• Exchange of Notes constituting an Agreement between the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia and the Government of the United States of America, regarding the Importation of Meat into the United States of America, concluded at Washington on 29th-30th January 1970. [More…]

• I remember that on 4th July 1968 it was only be sheer chance that the United States Consul-General’s office in Melbourne was not burnt to the ground. [More…]

• Today, whenever one picks up a paper, one finds that the Press of the world is unanimous that this war must be concluded and that our invading troops and the United States invading troops must be withdrawn from IndoChina. [More…]

• In parts of the United States people have turned out in their hundreds to protest. [More…]

• His reputation and the prestige of the United States are on the world’s chopping block at present. [More…]

• But how can the Labor Party possibly justify its association with this motley collection of no-hopers who have assembled to establish or set on foot this Moratorium, which is a miserable imitation of what has been already organised in the United States of America, and, having damaged its reputation, proceed to an election and ask the people to vote for it. [More…]

• The former United States President Truman always said thai the buckpassing ended on his desk. [More…]

• The consultation decided to hold a national moratorium based on the recent moratoriums in the United States against the Vietnam war. [More…]

• There have been great moratorium demonstrations and Vietnam mobilisation demonstrations throughout the whole of the United States, and they were supported by the United States Communist Party, in the same way as our moratorium in Australia is being supported by the Australian Communist Party. [More…]

• When the great mobilisation was held throughout the United States, prominent members of the United States Congress took part. [More…]

• There were people such as Senator McGovern, a highly decorated former bomber pilot in the United States Air Force, whose experience of war was not vicarious, but real. [More…]

• One of the leaders of the Vietnam mobilisation in the United States and of the Vietnam moratorium in the United States was Senator George McGovern, a war hero of the Second World War. [More…]

• One could go through a large number of members of the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives. [More…]

• Although Mr Agnew and the extreme people inside the Republican Party - I regard them as the worst people inside the Republican Party - have attacked a number of people inside the peace movement, inside the Vietnam moratorium and inside the Vietnam mobilisation, they have not had the audacity to accuse Senator McGovern, Mr Lindsay, Senator McCarthy or Professor Galbraith, a former United States Ambassador to India under President Kennedy, or Mr Moyes, a former special adviser to President Johnson and one of the national organisers of the Vietnam mobilisation and the Vietnam moratorium, of in any way being treacherous or subversive. [More…]

• At least, the people within the United States, the leadership within the United States and the people within Congress, when they know that their colleagues within Congress are actively participating in a great mass movement like this, are prepared to accept the right to protest as a democratic right. [More…]

• When we sometimes hear from honourable senators opposite that we should go all the way with LBJ and how we ought to imitate the American alliance, one of the things I do wish they would try to imitate from the United States is the constitutional guarantees to people’s freedom of action and the refusal to smear people which is engaged in by people like Senator Greenwood and Senator Rae. [More…]

• I can remember former Senator Denham Henty indicating that the United States asked Australia to join that nation in Vietnam. [More…]

• Then there is a further article containing a statement by Mr Cyrus Vance, the former United States negotiator at the Paris peace talks. [More…]

• Yesterday a statement was issued in the name of the Australian Minister for Defence and the United States Secretary of Defence, Melvin R. Laird. [More…]

• It Is understood that the Minister for Defence would be reporting to the Government the results of his exploratory- and I underline the word ‘exploratory’ - discussions, having ascertained the views of the United States Department of Defence on a number of issues. [More…]

• I gave Senator Turnbull a figure then that the total cost to date - that was to 28th February 1970 - for providing ground facilities at the Royal Australian Air Force base at Amberley for the Fill, for the training of crews and for maintenance in the United States of America was $8.8ni. [More…]

• The Opposition would seek to have appointed to the Committee persons with practical experience, ls the Minister aware that persons serving on the United States Securities and Exchange Commission had had great practical experience before their appointment? [More…]

• I think the first Chairman of the United States Commission was Joseph Kennedy. [More…]

• On the opening of Tullamarine Airport and any possible contingent redirection of international air routes across the continent, will consideration be given to the inclusion of Adelaide in order to allow South Australia at least one through service to the United Kingdom and the United States of America and one through service to Asia, on a weekly basis, as is enjoyed by some other States? [More…]

• By way of preface I refer to the present hubbub in the United States over an appointment to the United States Supreme Court. [More…]

• Was this request accepted by the company in the United States of America which is manufacturing and supplying this aircraft? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Air and relates to the financial arrangements between Australia and the United States of America in connection with the F1ll aircraft. [More…]

• Can the Minister advise the Senate of the current position in relation to the payments which are due to the United States in connection with the project? [More…]

• In the United States of America primary industry has been propped up by all kinds of systems and subsidies and other aids to such a degree that the whole edifice is now threatening to topple. [More…]

• Over the past 12 months prices have risen in Australia by 3.5%; in Canada by 5.1%; in France by 6.8%; in Germany by 2.7%, in Japan by 5.6%; in New Zealand by 5.7%; in South Africa by 2.6%; in the United Kingdom by 6.6% and in the United States by 6.1%. [More…]

• Never let it be forgotten that the United States Government is prepared to negotiate and has been prepared to negotiate for a long time. [More…]

• It is not achieving its territorial or military ascendancy, but it is relying upon a relentless propaganda campaign which distorts the situation in Vietnam, which ignores the fact of aggression from North Vietnam in South Vietnam and which publicises and stresses the horror of war - the horror of all war - and puts all the blame for that horror on the United States in order to weaken the determination of the United States and its allies. [More…]

• We believe it is a rotten war and we have been drawn into it simply because of the politics associated with big business and the investments of United States companies in this country. [More…]

• Last Thursday in answer to a similar question I went into some detail as to why I could not, at that time, make any announcement as to what had taken place during the discussion that the Minister for Defence had with the United States Secretary of Defence. [More…]

• I have been informed of some discussions that took place during their visit to the United States, but as the Cabinet has not been informed of these discussions I think it would be unfair of me to make any further comment at this stage. [More…]

• If not, how has it happened that the United States has carried on a secret operation for 4 years without the knowledge of the Australian Government and the Australian Parliament? [More…]

• Because the United States’ aims and objectives have often been misquoted I refer to what President Nixon said in his State of the Union message this year. [More…]

• 1 say that the pattern which the President of the United States announced in June 1969 has been recognised in what amounts now to 3 statements on withdrawals of troops. [More…]

• What the objective of the current Vietnam Moratorium Campaign ignores and gives no credence to is the success of the United States efforts in resisting aggression. [More…]

• What the supporters of the Vietnam Moratorium Campaign have consistently ignored and failed to give any credence to has been the success of the United States Government’s efforts in resisting aggression. [More…]

• I opened by saying that President Nixon had made an important announcement on the occasion of the Vietnam Moratorium Campaign in the United States. [More…]

• Professor Reed Dickerson, Professor of Law at Indiana University in the United States of America, who is the author of several books on legislative drafting and numerous articles on the subject, has written: [More…]

• To do so, I should add, will also bring us into line with Canada, New Zealand and some States of the United States of America. [More…]

• Following a review of the progress in the situation in Vietnam which led to the earlier United States decisions to reduce the level of its forces by 115,000 by the middle of this month, President Nixon yesterday announced his decision to introduce a new and long range programme of United States troop reductions involving the withdrawal of 150,000 men over the next 12 months. [More…]

• Accordingly, I now announce that after consultation in recent weeks with the Governments of Vietnam and the United States, who understand and accept our approach, the Government has decided that one Australian infantry battalion and some supporting personnel will be withdrawn from South Vietnam. [More…]

• One of the outstanding United States Generals, General Matthew Ridgway, in his subsequent writings, was most emphatic that he did not want to see the United States involved in any lengthy military entanglements on mainland Asia. [More…]

• When we are talking about world affairs and the question of security, I might do no better than quote from a lengthy article by Mr John P. Roche entitled ‘Moraliam and Foreign Policy’, which is contained in the United States publication ‘The New Leader’ of 16th February 1970. [More…]

• I think that the Minister’s statement implies that, if the United States lapses into pre-World War II isolationism, it is to be regretted. [More…]

• Nobody denies that the United States had to reduce a lot of its costly overseas expenditure because of some of its internal problems in its own society. [More…]

• It appears to me that one does not get very much material from the United States Secretary of State. [More…]

• Possibly the United States realises that it did back some losers. [More…]

• They may emulate some of the more independent eastern European countries which do not go all the way with the United States. [More…]

• We have to live with these countries, as does the United States. [More…]

• If Australia has the temerity at any time - whether it be at the United Nations or at a regional conference - to take a view that might be slightly different to that taken by the United States, that will not jeopardise our security. [More…]

• It may be argued that Canada, as a next door neighbour of the United States, can manoeuvre a little better than we can. [More…]

• 1 refer to the forceable takeover of the United States gunboat off North Korea. [More…]

• When President Johnson’s declaration was debated here in the Senate I made the observation - I have continued to repeat this observation - that, as the United States is our ally and we are involved in responsive obligations to the United States and as it can ask for the return obligations from Australia, it was perfectly safe - indeed, it was proper and strategically in terms of grand strategy it was of paramount importance - that we should advance in a forward disposition into the South East Asian area because at that time we were protected in our advance positions by an alliance with the United Kingdom and the United States. [More…]

• The second’ one is that the United States of America, has decided that it will withdraw from the Asian mainland. [More…]

• When the United States, originally decided to embark on an intrusion into the Asian mainland - we all’ remember the events following the Gulf of Tonkin incident when President Johnson decided on a partial disposition of American) forces on the Asian mainland, both he and President Kennedy having been urged by intellectual eggheads from the various universities in America who provided the advisers which both of those Presidents sought - it seemed to me to represent an abandon,ment by the United States of its historical1 strategic role, in defiance, I believe, of the armed forces advisers. [More…]

• There is a curious characteristic about the people of the United States. [More…]

• Those whom Senator Mulvihill and his colleagues; would describe as good social democrats; - the members of the Democratic Party - are always outside American interventionists, while the ironclad conservatives, whom they would despise, who provide the management qualities around which the wealth of the United States evolves - the Republicans - are inside Americans who do> not like committing themselves abroad. [More…]

• So there has been on and off - I exclude from this categorisation General Eisenhower, am ironclad conservative and Republican - very little in the nature of adventures outside the United States. [More…]

• It is when the eggheads start to be noticed that we find the United States involving itself in outside adventures, or what a lot of people consider are outside adventures. [More…]

• I do not think I am drawing the long bow when I say that there was great opposition inside the United States, by the armed1 forces in particular, to the intrusion upon the Asian mainland. [More…]

• It has been fundamental in the United States strategic concept of the Pacific area that the United States should never intrude upon the Asian mainland but should maintain its strategic capacity, to hold the ring as it were, in the Pacific Ocean basin - that is the north and south Pacific. [More…]

• So what is now known, or is coming to be known, as the Guam <doctrine of President Nixon is no more than a repetition of the general political attitude of the United States to the global responsibility that it assumes. [More…]

• It seems to me to be clear what the policy of the United States is. [More…]

• It is clear from the article by President Nixon - or Mr Nixon as he then was - in Foreign Affairs’ in 1967, and from his Guam Press release, that he believes the United States should withdraw to its historical area, which is in mid-ocean, and that it should retain its strategic flexibility and options by doing so. [More…]

• Obviously the United States has come to the conclusion that the various countries in South East Asia should do something to help themselves militarily. [More…]

• This means, I assume, that inside the special relationship between the Republic of the Philippines and the United States of America the Philippines should do something. [More…]

• I assume that this is the region about which the President of the United States was talking. [More…]

• I have no apologies to make for speaking as an individual here in my place in the Senate as to the change that must take place in Australia’s foreign policy and Australia’s defence because the concepts on which defence and foreign policy were directed in the 1950s and 1960s has disappeared with the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from east of Suez and the United States retreat - not retreat but retirement - to the area where it can exercise its greatest strategical flexibility. [More…]

• On the last occasion on which I spoke in the Senate on matters of foreign affairs in this particular context I explained that I thought we probably were able to help the United States persuade the Government of Japan to sign the treaty, and as soon as Japan signed it we signed it. [More…]

• In other words, in the terms that are often used, Australia must have a shield, and the shield is the United States of America. [More…]

• If we accept the shield of the United States of America, as I believe we must, then it is proper for the shield bearer to ask something of us. [More…]

• What the United States asks of us is that we play some part in attempting to create an area of stability in the South East Asian area. [More…]

• It is important that this should be so because in global terms in the area in which we live the United States, the great strategical power with a global capacity, is the only nation which basically has the same interests as we have in terms of how society conducts itself and lives. [More…]

• Therefore, that is an additional reason why we should cleave to the treaty obligations that we owe to the United States and that the United States must convey to us. [More…]

• Although the United States is a global power there are circumstances under terms of nuclear blackmail, for example, in which the United States could conceivably say to Australia: “There are circumstances in which we must ask you to release us, temporarily at any rate, from an undertaking that we have given to you’. [More…]

• In the context of our commercial relations with the United States of America and north west Europe we must be able to maintain our trade routes to the north as well as across the Indian Ocean. [More…]

• Precisely the same situation exists in the United States of America. [More…]

• Despite repeated requests that the United States Government produce evidence that the Government of South Vietnam invited the American forces into South Vietnam, that evidence has never been produced because it does not exist. [More…]

• The first reason was that we were pressured by the government of the day in the United States to take part in the war in Vietnam because the United States Government badly needed as much support as it could get - moral support - for a cause which it had adopted in Vietnam but which it was experiencing extreme difficulty in selling around the world. [More…]

• In fact, if one were to read through the conditions which the United States Government imposed on South Korea in regard to the dispatch of a second contingent of South Korean troops one would almost disbelieve that any government would impose such conditions upon another government of which it calls itself an ally. [More…]

• Of course, the South Vietnamese Government did not sign the Geneva agreement, nor did the United States, Australia, Britain, Russia or China because the agreement was not drawn up for them. [More…]

• This shows beyond any measure of doubt that the South Vietnamese were in fact committed to the agreement and the 8-nation declaration, and the same applies to the United States. [More…]

• We know, of course, that the United States did not sign the agreement. [More…]

• The United States did not even sign the 8-nation declaration but it did in fact issue a statement to the effect that it would not interfere with the agreement that had been reached. [More…]

• I quote again from the statement which was made by Mr Bedell Smith, the United States representative, in which he said: [More…]

• That is, the United States- [More…]

• That in itself should have been sufficient to indicate that the United States did have obligations towards the agreement which had been reached but should Senator Greenwood or any of those who support him wish further evidence it is available. [More…]

• If that is not sufficient, perhaps the words of Mr Bedell Smith himself when he returned to the United States are surely evidence of the fact that the United States did in fact feel itself committed to this agreement. [More…]

• There was no reference to the fact that the United States of America was not committed. [More…]

• We are not taking part in violence by the Vietcong but we are involved in the violence that is being committed by United States troops and perhaps by some of the forces serving with them. [More…]

• He said, amongst other things, that it would be a matter for extreme regret if the United States of America sank back into the condition of isolation which pertained prior to World War II. [More…]

• The United States of America, that much maligned country, has poured billions of dollars into Western Europe, Japan and South East Asia since World War II in order to rehabilitate and stabilise those countries. [More…]

• I shudder to think what condition the world would be in today but for what the United States has done. [More…]

• The United States has certainly been a great bastion of democracy, the last one of consequence left in the world. [More…]

• If the United States sinks back into isolation, that position will have been very largely contributed to by the people in this Parliament - who, incidentally, pleaded with the Americans 20 years ago to come and save this country. [More…]

• That is the United States of America. [More…]

• If the United States of America pulls out of South East Asia - and goodness knows the Americans have had their fingers burnt sufficiently - they have been the object of demonstrations and abuse all round the world because of their attitude and because of their attempt to carry out a guarantee that was given by Eisenhower, which was given by Kennedy, which was inherited by Johnson, which was inherited again by Nixon- [More…]

• Would he be like his predecessors and call upon the United States of America to come to our assistance? [More…]

• Would not the United States of America be justified in saying: ‘We came once before when it was far from your doors and we tried to stop it, but you would have hone of it. [More…]

• The people who malign the United Stales of America for trying to stop something that is coming right towards us, which is a direct threat to us - we are right in the line, and the people of the United States are not in the line - leave me appalled as to their mentality. [More…]

• Thanks to the United States and to our own forces, we did. [More…]

• Let me tell you this: Had it not been for honourable senators opposite and their counterparts in the United States of America, the war in- Vietnam would have been over by now. [More…]

• In a few years lime, when the situation in Vietnam falls into its proper perspective, it will be clear and plain that the attitude taken by the Labor Party, the Communists, the misguided Ministers of religion and others in this country, and their counterparts in the United States, started the tragedy that eventually ensued. [More…]

• It relates to the continuing reports from the United States of America about the progress of tests of Fill components which are subject to fatigue cracks and other failures. [More…]

• 1 ask the Minister whether the specialist air force and defence teams presently in the United States are continuing their investigations into these matters or have their investigations been suspended? [More…]

• I notice that Mr Whitlam, the Leader of the Opposition in another place, said that in many law schools in the United States there is a post-graduate course in legislative drafting. [More…]

• Were prior consultations held between the Australian Government and the United States Government? [More…]

• I ask the Minister whether the talks between the governments of Australia and the United States relating to the entry of American Airlines into Sydney are still deadlocked, as the newspaper reports. [More…]

• I believe that the governments of New Zealand and the United States have agreed on a slight enlargement of the air traffic between the two countries, Air New Zealand being the carrier for the New Zealand Government and other airlines being the carriers for the United States Government. [More…]

• Such programmes receive support from Government cultural agencies in other countries including the United States of America, United Kingdom and West Germany. [More…]

• This military disadvantage was endured with great forbearance by United States and South Vietnamese forces - for even though the neutrality of Cambodia was being violated by the Communists, the allies continued to hope that the protests of the Cambodian Government might lead to a cessation of the North Vietnamese invasion. [More…]

• This new military threat, increased in gravity, has led to South Vietnamese and United States forces taking action to protect themselves by crossing the border into Cambodian territory occupied by the North Vietnamese. [More…]

• The decision, reached by the President of the United States, was taken on operational military grounds and was designed to protect the lives of allied servicement. [More…]

• The action taken by the United States and South Vietnam was action to protect the servicemen against attack by an enemy which was increasingly occupying a neutral nation. [More…]

• Will the Leader of the Government assure the Senate that no Australians are engaged with United States or South Vietnamese troops in the invasion of Cambodia? [More…]

• The proposal to erect a statue was part of an overall scheme of development of the church site submitted by the Free Serbian Orthodox Chruch St George Inc., for construction on land leased to the Eastern Serbian Orthodox Church Community, Parish St George Diocese for the United States of America and’ Canada Inc. [More…]

• In 1967-68, however, imports totalled 1.8 million lb with more than half coming from Britain and none from United States. [More…]

• That on the Party becoming the Government it will take immediate action to notify the United States Government that all Australian Armed Forces will be withdrawn from Vietnam. [More…]

• What Australian troops and United States troops originally went in to Vietnam to achieve was a support for the South Vietnamese Government against an insurgency which was backed and directed by North Vietnam. [More…]

• The basis of the whole argument advanced by supporters of the Liberal Party is that so long as we are attached to the United States, although we get into all the troubles in the world the Americans will get us out of them. [More…]

• The President of the United States of America was very much disparaged by Senator Willesee. [More…]

• -I think it is of shame to the Senate if the hilarity which occurred whenI referred to the fact that the President of the United States and his predecessor had engaged themselves in every diplomatic activity they could employ in search of peace and a beginning of negotiations to establish the freedom of South Vietnam came from the floor of the Senate. [More…]

• Having the door closed firmly against him about 12 months ago the President then declared that a limited withdrawal of United States troops would be made which would enable the campaign to be sustained by South Vietnamese forces and United States forces to be brought home. [More…]

• The interjection no doubt refers to certain aspects of the Moratorium movement in the United States of America. [More…]

• The Moratorium Campaign in the United States has produced on campuses and in the streets the degree of violence about which Senator Greenwood and other honourable senators on this side of the chamber are trying to warn the Parliament and the public. [More…]

• Is there anybody who is so blind as to be unable to see the awful predicament in which our democracies would have been placed if the United States had not been forthcoming with help during the Second World War? [More…]

• Some people disparage the fact that Australia is aligning itself with the United States. [More…]

• Australia stood under the protective shield of the United States during 2 world wars. [More…]

• The United States made a decisive contribution to our victory on those occasions. [More…]

• United States than ever before. [More…]

• Having regard to her purpose in South Vietnam and the cause to which she has committed herself there - the defence of a small nation against violent aggression - I would have thought that the gratitude for assistance in the past would earn respect for the present alliance and that, so far from disparaging the cause of the United States, no responsible person in the Commonwealth Parliament would denigrate her cause. [More…]

• Of course, there are many people listening to him who were not born at that time and whom he might mislead, but the fact is that the alliance of the United States was welcomed as the saviour of the British Isles, and the United States was welcomed as a decisive ally of Australia. [More…]

• It was with overwhelming relief that we found that after being attacked at Pearl Harbour the United States came to our aid. [More…]

• Our people are being brutalised because of the continuation of the United States and Australian participation in this aggression in Vietnam and Cambodia. [More…]

• We call for the withdrawal of Australian troops from Vietnam because we believe that a continuation of Australian participation in this war is wrong, first of all because of the bloodshed which is taking place as a result of our intervention, secondly because of the hypocrisy with which every action of this Government in this struggle has been tainted, and thirdly because of the total stupidity of this Government and of the United States Administration in the policies which they have followed in Indo-China. [More…]

• I remember what Senator George Aiken, a very conservative Republican member of the United States Senate, said only a few years ago - [More…]

• What Senator Aiken said was this - and I think it is something that ought to be repeated: As nobody knows what the United States is trying to do inside Vietnam, the best course for the United States Administration to follow would be to declare that it had won the war and withdraw all the troops immediately. [More…]

• It is convulsed with war as a result of the invasion which has taken place by the United States and South Vietnamese Government forces. [More…]

• United States troops from Cambodia in 8 weeks time. [More…]

• The United States has. [More…]

• The situation in Cambodia is that even the Lon Nol Government, which is opposed completely to the policies followed by Prince Sihanouk, has not welcomed the United States or the South Vietnamese into that country. [More…]

• Similar protests have been held throughout the United States of America. [More…]

• The standard of debate in the United States Senate is rather more sophisticated than the standard that one would expect from Senator Greenwood or Senator Gair. [More…]

• People like Senator Cranston from California, Senator McGovern and Senator Nelson have taken part in the Moratorium movement in the United States. [More…]

• There has been considerable violence in the United States but it has been a product of the violence taking place in Vietnam and Cambodia. [More…]

• There can be no doubt that the demonstrations which have taken place in the United States of America have played a substantial part in the defeat of President Johnson and in the limited changes in policy which have been undertaken by President Nixon. [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…]

• The account of the origin of it appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald’ of 5th March which reported that Professor Medlin of Flinders University, South Australia, announced after a meeting of peace groups in Canberra last November, that ‘the Moratorium would be held in Australia in April or May and would duplicate the Moratorium held in the United States last year’. [More…]

• But I read to honourable senators the origin of this, the importation from the United States by Professor Medlin. [More…]

• Australia must answer the call of the United States because, as Senator Wright said, we allied ourselves with that great and mighty power. [More…]

• Public opinion has hardened to the view that the United States must get out of Vietnam, as we must also. [More…]

• But the United States view is that its forces must annihilate the enemy forces in Vietnam before its troops are withdrawn. [More…]

• Cambodia, another part of the former French empire in Indo-China, has been ruled with brilliant but erratic skill by Prince Sihanouk, the king turned politician, but towards the end of 1963, the prince seemed to have decided that in time China was going to rule over everybody anyway, and asked the United States to drop its aid programme. [More…]

• Since nearly all South East Asia’s Communists are inspired and helped from outside the area, and since the United States and other Western powers have tried to counter their progress, South East Asia– as we all know - has become one of the world’s major theatres of the cold war - indeed the area, above all others, Where the cold war, in reality, has been ‘hot’. [More…]

• They support the remark made by Mr Askin, their socalled beloved Premier of New South Wales, when he gaily drove the then President of the United States along the streets of Sydney and said: ‘Run over the so-and-so’s’. [More…]

• Nobody could convince me that had protests not been staged in the United States President Nixon would have withdrawn troops from Vietnam. [More…]

• Last night the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) spoke in support of the entry of United States troops into Cambodia. [More…]

• All the speeches today have been coloured against the United States and Australian involvement and against the South Vietnamese. [More…]

• Every evil word which could be mustered up has been hurled at our allies - the United States of America and the United Kingdom - as well as ourselves. [More…]

• The last thing we want to see arise in this country is the unfortunate situation that has developed in the United States of America recently, but I fear that if this sort of movement gains credence and popularity, we run the grave risk of anarchy of this kind developing in Australia. [More…]

• He also knows that the people of South Vietnam are fighting for their very existence and their own nationhood and that the contribution made by their allies - the United States of America, Australia, New Zealand and South Korea - is for no other purpose than to give the people of South Vietnam the right to self government and self protection. [More…]

• The facts are that allied troops, including those from the United States, Australia, New Zealand and South Korea, have been in South Vietnam assisting the South Vietnamese to resist aggression for a long time. [More…]

• It was tied to a statement in which the President of the United States had made proposals about the withdrawal of United States troops. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Leader of the Government, refers to statements which have been reported to have been made by Sir Reginald Sholl, the former ConsulGeneral for Australia in New York, to the effect that the present problems in the United States may be attributed largely to the fact that Jews own newspapers in that country. [More…]

• It is certainly most desirable for us to have the sort of thing that 1 understand exists at the Harvard School of Law in the United States of America, that is, a division for the training of draftsmen. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government must assume as much responsibility for city development and redevelopment as do the Federal governments in the United States of America, Canada and West Germany. [More…]

• I presume that the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry is aware that the United States of America has put a ban on the import of mutton from Australia. [More…]

• In regard to the latter part of the honourable senators question, I made some inquiries from the Department of Primary Industry this morning and was informed that Mr Anthony was told by the United States Secretary for Agriculture, Mr Hardoin that there was deep concern at the high rejection rate of Australian mutton. [More…]

• Almost 1,000,000 lb had been rejected in the middle of April indicating that much of the mutton shipped by Australia was not meeting United States standards. [More…]

• The Secretary subsequently reported that it was inevitable that there would be a decision to place a temporary ban on the import of mutton from Australia until the general standards of hygiene and of mutton inspection in Australia came up to the United States standards. [More…]

• The United States decision is that mutton produced in Australian meatworks after 15th May will not be eligible for export to America. [More…]

• This restriction will remain in effect until the United States authorities are satisfied that Australian procedures comply with American standards. [More…]

• I do not have any doubt that the United States of America is entitled to place certain standards on the quality of mutton it imports. [More…]

• 1 refer to the very strict conditions which are applied in regard to the type of cattle suitable for the meat trade in the United States of America. [More…]

• He said that the flag of the Vietcong may have greater elevation than that of the United States. [More…]

• I am brought into this debate by the extraordinary statements which have been made by Senator Cavanagh and Senator Georges to the effect that they find greater respectability in the Vietcong and, presumably, North Vietnamese flags than in the flag of the United States of America. [More…]

• However, when the United States launches attack after attack on the sanctuaries - on main supply routes and supply bases - the action becomes one of aggression. [More…]

• more respect in the world than the flag of the United States of America. [More…]

• I conclude by reminding the Senate that in 1960-61, long before the United States was involved, 6,000 South Vietnamese village leaders, teachers, medical personnel, people who exercised some authority, were murdered. [More…]

• On the one hand it applauds the intervention by America in Cambodia an action which, incidentally, has been condemned by the United States Senate Committee as recently as yesterday; and on the other hand, the Minister for External Affairs (Mr McMahon) is urging upon the countries which will attend the conference in Indonesia the need to set up inspection in Cambodia and Vietnam if that is found to be necessary. [More…]

• For that reason and because of the interest of the Vietnamese people in the National Liberation Front in areas of South Vietnam that the NLF has controlled for up to 15 years, the Government cannot cope with the situation and is relying on its friends - the United States and ourselves - to hold the position by military means, which finally we will find will be incomplete and unsatisfactory. [More…]

• When I hear references to the Vietcong flag being more highly regarded than the United States flag in some parts of the world, it seems to me that such remarks are better not made, when we are dealing with our allies and we have been very proud in past wars to fight alongside them and to work with them under their flag and our flag. [More…]

• If it suits you, and if you do not like another nation’s philosophy, and if you have control of the industrial and military complex that is astride the world today, centred in the United States, you just go to war. [More…]

• I am certain that the presidents of the United States, such as former President Johnson and present President Nixon, are not in control of the machinery of government in that nation. [More…]

• 1 believe that the military and industrial leaders of the United States are the only people who can gain physically and financially from the war. [More…]

• There would be no war if the United States Government was influenced by peace seeking people, but there would be an enormous repercussion on the United States economy, which would bc thrown into a state almost of major depression. [More…]

• Present unemployment in the United States stands at about 4 million. [More…]

• United States industries are engaged in the- manufacture of aircraft, tanks and armaments. [More…]

• At the suspension of the sitting I was pointing out that it had appeared as though the United States of America had become severely divided within itself. [More…]

• Although President Nixon claims that the United States is the strongest, the greatest and the most powerful nation in the world, a nation which is divided to the extent that the United States is divided, I would suggest, creates a precedent the like of which has never been understood or realised before in a nation of such strength. [More…]

• But here we see a situation in which the United States is fast losing its credibility in the light of what is claimed by the President. [More…]

• The United States Administration must realise that every time there is a demonstration against the United Slates in the national capital of that country, throughout the world United States credibility and status is reduced. [More…]

• If we suggest that the United States Hag is losing some of its popularity throughout the world we are accused of being subversive and of being all kinds of nasty people. [More…]

• The situation has become out of hand because the industrial and military people of the United States have taken the administration out of the hands of the Parliament and virtually out of the President’s hands. [More…]

• All the tricks and techniques of the Germans have been followed holus-bolus by this complex in the United States and there is no doubt that it has lost nothing in its interpretation of the philosophy. [More…]

• Many millions of dollars profit are being made through the perpetuation of war and wherever it is occurring throughout the world the smutty finger of the industrialists and militarists of the United States can be found. [More…]

• The United States is not supplying the Russians with arms. [More…]

• Wherever it exists the power of the United States can be directed towards it. [More…]

• This helps the military and industrial economy of the United States to get rid of its surplus arms. [More…]

• It is a means of settling unemployment in the United States. [More…]

• Without the need for vast industrial armament industries, the like of which the world has never known, not only would there be the present rate of unemployment in the United States but also there would be an unemployment rate more than twice the existing rate. [More…]

• But because of the number engaged in these industries to supply countries, not only where the United States has military representation and a substantial number of troops but also other countries, their unemployment rate is reduced. [More…]

• There has been some suggestion of lymphonitis or some other complaint with our mutton, but this is just another American hypocrisy prompted by the mutton lobby in the United States. [More…]

• It is a fact that they import our bulls because hamburgers in the United States are almost the staple diet of the average American. [More…]

• Because of the inflation in the United States the average American cannot afford to buy the choice cuts of beef. [More…]

• American people have told me that the demand for Australian second and third grade beef is fantastic in the United States. [More…]

• I do not think the United States ever wanted to see that agreement work so that there would be an election, within 2 years. [More…]

• At that time President Eisenhower of the United States said that if an election were to be held within 2 years 80% of Ho Chi Minh’s supporters would vote for unification and would vote for a government suitable to them. [More…]

• They fired on the American Navy to the extent not only that the Navy had to shoot the sampans out of the water, but also that the armed forces of the United States had to be committed to Vietnam. [More…]

• If we ever survive the present trend in world affairs, when the history of this war is written we will find that the Gulf of Tonkin incident was the focal point on which the United States was talked into being committed to the Vietnam war by the military and industrial complex advisers and also by the secret organisation, the Central Intelligence Agency, which is a supranational organisation, which combines the American military, spy and intelligence systems. [More…]

• The United States has withdrawn its troops, but into Cambodia. [More…]

• They have withdrawn their troops into Cambodia instead of withdrawing them back to America, which was the promise made to the people of the United States. [More…]

• Throughout the length and breadth of the United States people are so frustrated and annoyed at having been told this great lie and given this great doublecross, that they are coming out into the streets to demonstrate. [More…]

• The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Great Britain, the United States of America and France have a proliferation of thermonuclear weapons. [More…]

• My purpose tonight is to report on the results of the recent mission which I led to the United States of America to discuss with Secretary Laird and his Deputy Secretary Packard and other Defence officials, problems concerning F111 aircraft and the need for Australia to get into its inventory a strike bomber. [More…]

• Honourable members will recall that subsequent to discussions I had with Dr J. L. McLucas, the Under Secretary of the United States Department of the Air Force, in December last year and taking account of further unanimous advice provided to mc by the members of the July 1969 Bland Mission to the United States; the Government decided and 1 announced on 5th December that we were sufficiently satisfied that we had protection in regard to the wing carry through box problem and that we would be reactivating our 24 FI 1 1C aircraft with a view to bringing them to Australia at an early date. [More…]

• As a result, 1 was directed by the Government to pursue these questions in direct negotiation with the United States Administration. [More…]

• My discussions were wide ranging and, in addition to Secretary Laird and his Deputy Secretary Packard, 1 and members of my delegation negotiated with Department of Air Force Secretary Seamans, the United States Air Force Chief of Staff General Ryan, Lieutenant General Glasser and other officials. [More…]

• Honourable members who studied these documents closely will be aware that their broad intention was that the United States Air Force should specify to the contractor, and control the development of, an aircraft with a very high operational capability. [More…]

• At that time we were confident that the aircraft would satisfy Australia’s requirements because those requirements were fully encompassed by the capability then being pursued by the United States Air Force. [More…]

• Honourable members will also see that the practical effect of these documents was that, taken together, they gave the United States the overriding authority to modify or downgrade the aircraft’s specifications if for some reason it felt that it became necessary or unavoidable. [More…]

• It followed that, when the United States authorities did this, Australia was bound to accept any aircraft delivered in accordance with such downgraded specification, provided of course similar aircraft were accepted by the United States Air Force. [More…]

• It had confidence in the ability of the United States - with its unsurpassed achievements in aeronautical science and technology - lo translate the design concept into an aircraft of uniquely high performance entirely suitable for Australia’s needs. [More…]

• The United States view has been that both governments went into the development of this new aircraft together and that we should each be responsible for our own investment. [More…]

• In short, if General Dynamics failed to produce an effective aircraft, we would lose our Australian expenditure without remedy beyond any which the United States could pursue on behalf of both of us with the company. [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 was pleased when the United States saw fit to stop fighting the battle with one arm behind its back, when it went into Cambodia to attack the Vietcong and North Vietnamese. [More…]

• lt was to the great United States. [More…]

• He yelled to the United States to come to our aid. [More…]

• Prime Minister, but a Labor Prime Minister who called to the United States for help. [More…]

• lt would be the United States. [More…]

• I believe that, just as in the United States of America at this time, the majority of the Australian people are opposed lo Australia’s participation in the Vietnam war. [More…]

• I am afraid that his hopes are doomed to be dashed in this matter because even the President of the United States has said that the United States intends to withdraw its troops from Cambodia approximately 7 weeks from now at the latest. [More…]

• The United States has no intention of staying inside Cambodia for any long period - certainly not until such time as the Government and people of North Vietnam have been defeated. [More…]

• The other argument which Senator Wood raised - an argument which we have heard frequently - was the argument concerning the insurance policy which we were supposed to be obtaining from the United States of America by sending forces into Vietnam; the old argument has been that if we were to do something for the United States now the United States would be so impressed by our 3 battalions of conscripts that whether or not its national interests appeared to demand it the United States would come to our rescue at some time in the future. [More…]

• When this argument was put forward first it was pointed out that it was palpable nonsense, that the United States would come to our assistance only if it believed that it was in its national interest to do so, and that it would not come to our interest in some future conflict if it did not believe this to be the case. [More…]

• The President of the United States, the United States Administration and every national leader in the United States have made it clear that, whatever the outcome of the present conflict in Indo-China may be, the United States does not intend to participate in future conflicts of this nature in Asia. [More…]

• The very cheap insurance policy whereby we hoped to obtain the support of all the armed forces of the United States of America by sending a couple of battalions of conscripts to Vietnam has been cancelled already by the insurer before anybody has made any demand for the payment of damages. [More…]

• The United States has made it perfectly clear that in no wars of this nature in future will it become involved in South East Asia. [More…]

• If it is to be said that because members of the Australian Labor Party are opposed to the American intervention in Cambodia we are treacherous and we are subversive, the Government will have to concede that a majority of the members of the United States Senate also are treacherous and subversive because the viewpoint of the Australian Labor Party - the viewpoint of honourable senators sitting in opposition in this chamber - on the American intervention in Cambodia is the same as the viewpoint of a majority of members of the United States Senate. [More…]

• Sena:or WHEELDON- If Senator Young wishes to say that a majority of members of the United States Senate are traitors and subversives, he is entirely at liberty to do so but 1 do not think this statement would be taken seriously by the Australian people. [More…]

• We are told - and Senator Wood repeated it tonight - that we are fighting in Vietnam and we are supporting the invasion of Cambodia by troops of the United States of America because we stand for freedom. [More…]

• In 1968 he visited the United States of America where he lectured at 33 universities and colleges. [More…]

• In 1969 he applied for a visa to re-enter the United States in order to give another series of lectures, but his visa was refused when objection was taken by the United States Justice Department. [More…]

• 1 know that Senator Greenwood will now think that if the United States has refused him a visa we should do the same. [More…]

• The Justice Department was condemned by the New York ‘Times’ as well as by Professor J. K. Galbraith, who, I remind those honourable senators who are aware and tell those honourable senators who were not aware previously, was the United States Ambassador to India under President Kennedy. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Trade and Industry in a position to say whether the United States of America’s ban on Australian mutton has been imposed because export inspections are below standard or, as suggested in some quarters, is it merely political because of pressure by what is known as the United States meat lobby? [More…]

• If the latter is the case, will the Government make strong representations to the United States Government and even consider retaliation in kind regarding some American imports? [More…]

• 1 believe it would be quite wrong to make assumptions that the reason for the ban on the export of mutton to the United States of America is anything more or less than what it purports and sets out to be - that our Australian killing conditions do not come up to American requirements. [More…]

• It would seem to me that we must meet the American requirements if we wish to sell meat to the United States market. [More…]

• The honourable senator’s question is based on the assumption that the ban may have been imposed because of political lobbying in the United States. [More…]

• What is the current position in relation to accommodation charges for each of the Fill aircraft in the United States of America, a storage charge having been struck at the time when the aircraft was found to be faulty? [More…]

• What has been the cost to Austrafia of the various specialist and scientific parties which either visited the United States or had to attend investigations into particular failures of the aircraft? [More…]

• A close examination is to be made by the Department of Air of the methodology of pricing with the United States Air Force to determine the agreed methodology for final pricing. [More…]

• I ask: Can the Minister say whether there is in existence in Washington what is known as a paid meat lobby consisting of persons whose principal function is to induce the Administration to reduce as far as possible the amount of meat imported into the United States? [More…]

• We must accept the position al its face value until it can be shown that our abattoirs meet the United States requirements, at which point - and here I refer to the question asked by Senator Bull - they may recommence exporting to America. [More…]

• I refer to the statement by the Minister for Primary Industry yesterday that the rejection rate of Australian mutton exported to the United States had amounted to about 1 million lb up to the middle of April and that Australian meat was not meeting the standards necessary for entry to the United States market. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, refers to the question asked earlier by Senator Lillico and the answer given in respect of the employment of lobbyists in the United States. [More…]

• All I said was that political lobbies are part of the political scene and political life in the United States. [More…]

• I ask again: Is the United States insisting upon the payment by Australia of charges for storing [More…]

• Do these amounts which the Minister has mentioned include also the cost of the special visits to the United States of scientific and specialist teams which were investigating the aircraft or are they separate payments charged to the Department? [More…]

• The matter of charges for storage in which the honourable senator and his colleague Senator Toohey have been very interested for some months is still under negotiation with the United States Department of Defense. [More…]

• In regard to the cost of specialists going to the United States, this figure is not known to me at this stage. [More…]

• I ask for permission to incorporate in Hansard an extract from the United States Congressional Record. [More…]

• I would not expect Senator Wright to make a judgment on this, but my motive is to have incorporated in Hansard a summary of the United States legislation on endangered species. [More…]

• The point 1 like about it, among other things, is that it consistently uses the words ‘after consultation with the affected States’ and then goes on to say how the United States Department of the Interior can work in tandem with the States. [More…]

• The only major country which has not declared itself on this issue is the United States of America, and there an official study regarding increased metric utilisation is in progress. [More…]

• We had initially from Senator Cavanagh the bald statement that the Vietcong flag has more respect than the flag of the United States of America. [More…]

• There have been scenes witnessed in Melbourne in the demonstration outside the United States consulate never before experienced. [More…]

• I think arguments such as that might suitably have been addressed to the old-time vigilantes of the United States because when people take the enforcement of the law into their own hands and outside lawful authority in an endeavour to create what amounts to a substitute police force they take another step which can be used by those who desire to utilise such forces for unlawful purposes. [More…]

• The Lawyers Committee on American Policy Towards Vietnam was formed after the Department of State in March 1965 issued its memorandum, ‘Legal Basis for United States Actions Against North Vietnam.’ [More…]

• The sub-title is ‘The Illegality of United States Military Involvement’, and tha editor is John H. E. Fried. [More…]

• Possible Contributions by the People of the United States’ (1960) ; ‘International Executive Agreements’ (1941); etc. [More…]

• In the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics the number is 19.4, in Germany it is 12.7, in Japan it is 10.9, in Sweden 10.7, in the United States of America 9.8, in Canada 8.3, in Taiwan 6.3 and in Australia 6.1. [More…]

• This may explain, he said, why despite our success in developing small units of defence like the Ikara missile and exporting it, we must depend on countries like the United States to develop our major items. [More…]

• He quoted in support of his case an article that he said was written by a Professor R. A. Falk of the United States. [More…]

• He also mentioned the names of some nine lawyers in the United States. [More…]

• Senator Georges put up as the authority on whether the war was illegal Senator Georges, and he reinforced that authority by referring to eminent legal men in the United States of America. [More…]

• Will the Minister take action to protect Commonwealth meat inspectors from being blamed for the results of an American tactic to use health measures to erect a barrier against United States imports of Australian mutton? [More…]

• Does the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry know, or has he any means of verifying, whether reports that I have read are correct when they say that the slaughtering and inspection facilities in the United States do not reach the standards laid down by the United States authorities for Australia? [More…]

• In view of the claims that have been made by the Government, that one of the primary reasons for our sending troops to Vietnam was to raise the estimation of this country in the eyes of the United States, does the Government consider that the refusal by the United States Administration to admit Australian mutton to America is an indication that the insurance policy which we were allegedly taking with the United States is paying off? [More…]

• Will the Government consider making representations to the United States Administration, suggesting that in view of the sacrifices that we have made in Vietnam in order to obtain American friendship, the least the United States can do is to import our mutton? [More…]

• The initial part of Senator Wheeldon’s question is completely unrelated to the final part which refers to the import of Australian mutton into the United States of America. [More…]

• The Kingdom of Cambodia, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, France, the Kingdom of Laos, the People’s Republic of China, the State of Vietnam, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom and the United States were represented at that conference. [More…]

• The United States which did not sign the Accords produced a statement of its own, a unilateral declaration, in which it said: [More…]

• The only countries which have agreed are the United States, Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines. [More…]

• This claim was generally considered to be reasonable until doubts were raised in the minds of members of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. [More…]

• Dear Mr Secretary: As you know, questions have been raised, from time to time, concerning the circumstances under which United States combat forces were first sent to Vietnam. [More…]

• It was blown up for the sake of getting the United States House of Representatives and the Seriate to approve this mighty expenditure which actually brought the United States so heavily into the campaign. [More…]

• We know, of course, that we are there at the request of the United States. [More…]

• That justifies what Senator Cavanagh said, namely, that the bigger percentage of the people of the world today would rather see the Vietcong flag flown than see the United States flag flown. [More…]

• Of course, it hurts Government senators to hear this because they have been supporting the United States, which is undeniably the most violent country in the world. [More…]

• There is no doubt that it is having its effect not only on the Government in Australia but also on the Government in the United States. [More…]

• There have been reports that the United States Senate is considering discontinuing the finance necessary for the United States to participate in the war in Vietnam. [More…]

• Over 1 million people have been killed in Vietnam since the intervention there of the United States. [More…]

• We were told in the early stages by the United States general in charge of Allied forces in South Vietnam that if the United States increased its military commitment by another 50,000 troops the war would be over very quickly. [More…]

• Another 50,000 United States troops were committed. [More…]

• The United States increased the number of its troops in South Vietnam to about 500,000 but the war continues without any end in sight. [More…]

• So United States planes bombed North Vietnam. [More…]

• It is now obvious that the escalation of the conflict by the invasion of Cambodia by United States troops, supported by South Vietnamese forces, will not bring the confrontation to a close any more quickly. [More…]

• Honourable senators opposite have claimed that if United States and Australian troops leave Vietnam there will be a bloodbath. [More…]

• He now lives in the United States. [More…]

• For the majority of Vietnamese, poor peasants in the defoliated countryside and destitute workers in the city slums, it is what they have been witnessing for a long time: the search and destroy missions; the ‘free zone’ strikes; the BS2 saturation bombings; the Phoenix operation which from December 1967 to December 1968 killed 18,393 civilian Vietcong cadres; the Song My (‘Pinkville’) type of breakfast massacre in which an American infantry unit allegedly shot down some hundreds of men, women and children in a captured village in the early morning of 16th March 1968; the atrocities regularly described in national United States magazines. [More…]

• The United States has had a very violent record over the years. [More…]

• The massacres at My Lai were only part of the pattern of massacres in which the United States has been involved for many years. [More…]

• There was the massacre of thousands of red indians by the United States and the massacre of thousands of negroes by the United States. [More…]

• We are trying to pretend that we are in Vietnam at the request of the United States, but our only purpose in being there is to save face with America. [More…]

• At the time when the United States intervened in Vietnam it was the only country which invaded Vietnam. [More…]

• Massacres are not uncommon in the United States. [More…]

• Only recently I read a report of a hearing of the Special Sub-Committee on Sea Power of the Committee on Armed Services of the United States House of Representatives, in which reference was made to the tendency, even in the United States, continually to recondition old vessels. [More…]

• It has reached the stage at which the United States authorities are extremely concerned about the fact that they have a Navy which is essentially an old Navy, and that the expenditure of vast sums of money on so many of their old units simply has not paid off. [More…]

• Admiral Harlfinger, who was one of the members of the United States Navy who appeared before the Committee, commented on this fact. [More…]

• 1 shall read from an article in the October 1969 edition of the ‘United States Naval Institute Proceedings’, which describes in some detail the sinking of the Israeli destroyer ‘Elath’ by the Russianbuilt missile boats. [More…]

• However, the undermentioned payments to the sterling area and non-sterling area would be predominantly for material of United Kingdom and United States of America origin respectively. [More…]

• It was with this imported foreign quota arrangement that these countries were able to get their Canadian films and British films effectively on to the world markets, particularly in the United States and Japan. [More…]

• Australia can never make films’, and that the business of film making is- ‘best left to those countries (meaning the United States of America who can do it better than we can”. [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…]

• 1 considered that we were suffering, if that is the right word, from the fact that we are an English speaking country and that both the United Kingdom and the United States of America have nourishing film industries in the English language and that, therefore, a country with u population the size of ours and with the need to develop in so many directions could not possibly afford to develop this industry in competition with either the United Kingdom or the United States of America. [More…]

• Overproduction of primary products is occurring in the European Economic Community, the United States of America, Canada and in most other areas in the world. [More…]

• Because of quotas operating in the United Kingdom and the United States of America anil shrinking markets in other parts of the world, the prospects of selling this surplus are remote. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Primary industry: ls it a fact that there is a professional meat lobby in the United States of America paid for from the resources of the Australian Meat Board? [More…]

• Is it part of the responsibility of that organisation to promote the interests of the Australian meat industry in the United States? [More…]

• What advice was received from that body that plans were afoot to impose import restrictions on Australian mutton on the pretext of failure to meet United States hygiene requirements? [More…]

• Has the Australian meat lobby in the United States given any information on differences in standards of hygiene in abattoirs in the United States and in Australia that would warrant the recent high-handed action of the United States in imposing these restrictions on imports of Australian mutton? [More…]

• I do not know all (he details necessary to reply to the honourable senator’s question, but I understand that the United States authorities have repeatedly given the assurance that the standards of slaughtering and inspection facilities’ required of countries exporting mutton to the United States are the same as those that apply federally to the inspection of meat works in the United States. [More…]

• I understand that the requirements necessary to pass meat inspection in the United States of America are the same as those that are applicable in Australia. [More…]

• Has the Leader of the Government in the Senate seen a report attributed to Dandridge M. Colli of the General Electric Company’s missile and space vehicle department in the United States of America who referred to a huge and powerful super rocket which could be exploded behind an asteroid as it orbited between planets and would hit the earth with the force of several million megaton type hydrogen bombs; or has he seen a report by W. H. Clark, a physicist and explosives expert of the Utah Research and Development Company of the United States of America, in which he speaks of a bomb containing 1,000 tons of heavy water equipped with a nuclear detonator and a boron blanket? [More…]

• I ask you, Mr President, whether you are aware of the fact that in the United States of America when a visiting parliamentarian is invited on to the floor of the American Senate individual senators are then invited to express their feelings of welcome and congratulations to the visitor. [More…]

• Can the Minister give the Senate any further information on the position of the Australian meat works which have had their licences to export meat to the United States of America cancelled? [More…]

• In view of the number of people directly affected and threatened with the loss of their livelihood, such as stock producers, meat workers and people in associated industries, will the Government take all reasonable steps to ensure that exports of Australian meat to the United States of America are resumed on a normal basis as soon as possible? [More…]

• The latest information I have is that the Meat Industry Advisory Committee has formed a sub-committee to consider ways and means by which all concerned with the Australian meat industry can adjust to the requirements of the United States of America. [More…]

• I would like to take this opportunity to refer to a question which Senator Sir Magnus Cormack, 1 think, asked of trie the other day in regard to the organisms which have been found in certain meat which has led to a temporary ban on our exports to the United States of America. [More…]

• I ask: Does the Minister know from which abattoirs throughout Australia meat has been rejected by the United States of America? [More…]

• I direct a further question to the Minister ‘ representing the Minister for Primary Industry on the prohibition of mutton imports to the United States of America. [More…]

• Is a United States Senate Sub-committee, which is investigating the F111, now examining the question whether, in 1962 and early 1964, reports were made to the United States Government by engineers, to the effect that the actual performances of theF111 aircraft did not approach performances which were claimed for it and which were very much exaggerated; if so, was the Australian Government informed of these reports at that time or was the information concealed from it. [More…]

• In April 1964 the Royal Australian Air Force appointed an F111 Project Officer in the United States. [More…]

• The F111 Project Officer works in close consultation with the United States Air Force F111 Project Office and has been kept informed of developments relating to the F111C. [More…]

• The principle which was originally enunciated by Sir Allen Fairhall when he was Minister for Defence was that a very real look should be had at the possibility of turnback orders for the Australian aircraft industry, lt will be recalled that a delegation of Australian industrialists went to the United States of America for the purpose of propounding this principle. [More…]

• What are the names of the meatworks affected by the United States ban on imports of Australian mutton? [More…]

• We do not disclose the names of firms taken off the United States list of approved exporters. [More…]

• There are two reasons: One, 76 abattoirs are licensed to export mutton but it is not known how many were actually affected by the United States ban although all licences were revoked temporarily from 14th May. [More…]

• I refer to the very substantial sums in the United States of America which have been paid by us in connection with the Fill aircraft. [More…]

• I would like to see the Government demand a fair go from the United States and a return of the moneys which have been paid. [More…]

• The Government is in a position in which, in negotiating with the United States, it is unable, I would think, to come out as forcefullt as it ought and say that the matter has been bungled from beginning to end and that the United States has made a hash of it. [More…]

• The Government ought to tell the United States of America the kinds of things which have been said here. [More…]

• I suggest to the Government that, in the national interest, it ought nol to start negotiating wilh the United States from a position of weakness, lt is desperately trying to defend what the rest of us think is indefensible. [More…]

• 1 took out some figures some years ago which showed that expenditure on health services as a proportion of national income was 7.5% in the United States, in Israel 7.4%, Canada 7.2%. [More…]

• United States Blue Cross scheme. [More…]

• The Blue Cross system of health insurance was pioneered in the United States but it is now admitted there that fragmentation has occurred. [More…]

• Bactrin has been tested in the United Kingdom and the United States. [More…]

• The drug bactrin has been passed by the Drug Evaluation Com,mittee in the United Kingdom and in the United States. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry and it flows from a question I asked the Minister some few days ago concerning the existence of a professional meat lobby in the United States of America. [More…]

• I ask: Has the Minister anything further to report concerning, firstly, the existence of a paid meat lobby in the United States which is paid, as I understand it, from the resources of the Australian Meat Board, and secondly, is the Minister able to indicate whether any reports have been provided by this meat lobby concerning the present difficulties which have arisen over the ban on mutton Imports into the United States? [More…]

• I understand that (he Australian Meat Board does employ the legal firm of Clifford, Warnke, Glass, Mcllwain and Finney, which was appointed by the Board as legal representative and adviser to ensure that the Board and the Australian meat industry are kept fully informed of all legislation brought before the United States Congress, and to put the industry’s view before the United States representatives. [More…]

• Senator Devitt asked me a question last Tuesday seeking information from the Minister for Primary Industry in regard to the ban on mutton exports to the United States. [More…]

• All 76 meat works licensed by the Australian Government to export mutton to the United States were forbidden to export mutton to America from 14th May last. [More…]

• The ban has been imposed due to impurities which have been detected in the mutton going to the United States. [More…]

• and (2) The Australian Government has been in close and continuing consultation with a number of Governments including that of the United States about the situation arising from the increase in Vietnamese Communist military activity in Cambodia. [More…]

• The Australian Government’s attitude to the increased North Vietnamese and Viet Cong aggression in Cambodia and to the subsequent measures taken by the United States was set out in the Prime Minister’s statement in the House of Representatives of 5th May, 1970. [More…]

• I now wish to inform the Senate that I did refer the report of the parliamentary delegation to the Australian Tourist Commission on 23rd September 1969 for its consideration and after consideration of the matter the Tourist Commission advised that it was not appropriate to participate in the Montreal Exposition mainly because the area is one from which comparatively few visitors are derived for Australia and also because the Commission was then mounting ‘the largest promotional and publicity exercise ever attempted in North America, concentrating in the United States. [More…]

• The main factor in this decision was that following an agreement between the Commonwealth Government and the United States of America the payment of market development allowances from the Fund on export of Australian canned peaches to major export countries was discontinued from 1st January 1969. [More…]

• Can the Minister representing the Minister for Primary industry say whether the Department of Primary Industry is in possession of any knowledge as to the standard of slaughtering and inspection of mutton in the United States of America in comparison with that which the United States insists should be maintained in this country in respect of mutton exported to the United States? [More…]

• If the Department has not any specific knowledge of this matter, would it take steps to carry out an investigation, if this is practicable, as to the standard in these matters in the United States so as to p’ace beyond doubt whether the ban imposed on exports of Australian mutton is political only or really bona fide? [More…]

• In view of the ELDO commitment and the new United States and Australian upper atmosphere research activities, is the Minister able to say at this stage whether the existing skilled staff at Woomera and at the Department of Supply’s Weapons Research Establishment will be maintained at the present level in the immediate future? [More…]

• moneys paid has been met from loans raised in the United States of America. [More…]

• It would be incorrect to blame Commonwealth Meat Inspectors for the United States restriction on the importation of mutton from Australia. [More…]

• I would not expect the Minister for Housing (Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin) who in this chamber represents the Minister for Health (Dr Forbes) to answer very easily the apparently simple question asked by Senator Byrne when this matter has plagued some of the courts here and overseas - in all parts of the British Commonwealth and in the United States of America - as to exactly what is involved in some of these propositions. [More…]

• Does the Government not recognise that the results of the Ceylon elections indicate a mass movement amongst the Asian people in opposition to the prolongation of the war in Vietnam and Cambodia by the United States and Australia? [More…]

• Finally, as minimum prices for Canadian wheat under the Arrangement are expressed in terms of United States dollars, those prices would not be affected. [More…]

• The United States Wholesome Meat Act and the United States Department of Agriculture regulations governing meat inspection prescribe the standards and inspection procedures which are applicable in federally inspected meatworks in the United States. [More…]

• There are some State works in the United States which do not fully comply with the prescribed standards but these works must reach federal standards by 31st December 1970. [More…]

• Section 20 of the United Stales Wholesome Meat Act prescribes that no carcases, parts of carcases or meat products for use as human food shall be imported into the United States unless they comply with ail the inspection and building construction standards and all other provisions of the Act and regulations. [More…]

• Imported meat of prescribed standards is eligible for interstate trade on the same basis as meat from United States federally inspected works. [More…]

• Department of Primary Industry veterinarians who have visited the United States works in recent years are satisfied that the slaughtering standards expected in the United States federally inspected meatworks are the same as those required in countries exporting meat to the United States. [More…]

• Arrangements have been made for the Department’s veterinary officer stationed in Washington to visit a number of United States works handling mutton to observe and report on the inspection and slaughtering standards being applied. [More…]

• Yesterday Senator Bishop asked me a question concerning the level of employment of skilled staff at Woomera and the Department of Supply’s Weapons Research Establishment in the context of the ELDO commitment and the United States and Australian upper space research activities. [More…]

• Hasthe American Embassy in Laos been used as the headquarters for directing the bombing of northern Laos; if not, how has it happened that the United States has carried on a secret operation for 4 years without the knowledge of the Australian Government and the Australian Parliament. [More…]

• The Government does not believe it is appropriate to comment on detailed aspects of the United States Government’s conduct of its foreign policy, nor to expand upon President Nixon’s statement of 6th April 1970, on United States policy in Laos. [More…]

• She is saying thai not enough investigational procedures have been followed in the case of one drug, and another drug is not available generally in the United States. [More…]

• The optometrists have pointed out that in countries like the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and some parts of Europe optometrical services rendered by legally qualified optometrists are an integral part of health care programmes carried out in those countries. [More…]

• I think we have reached the height of absurdity when, in the National Health Act, we condone the fetish that has grown so much in the United States of America and here. [More…]

• The company was principally or predominantly controlled by interests in the United States of America, although a good deal of United Kingdom money had been invested in the venture. [More…]

• The 2 main investors in Australia are the United Kingdom and the United States of America. [More…]

• In America about 4 years ago President Johnson asked companies which had overseas investments to repatriate as much of their funds as they possibly could because the United States was running into balance of payments difficulties. [More…]

• This industry is the key to the Australian transport industry yet decisions can be made in this industry by boards of directors in the United States or London. [More…]

• The machinery for loading the ore and the heavy earth moving equipment to mine the ore came from the United States of America. [More…]

• The great United States of America that we see today that is pouring so much investment into this country, in relation to which there seems to be some opposition, was built up through people bringing money into the country and investing it there. [More…]

• That indicates that British investors were in the United States to a very great extent. [More…]

• I still think that in the United States - and I believe this to be correct - there is still a lot of money which has been imported from other countries and which has been invested which is helping to develop the United States even further. [More…]

• Much in the background of any of these discussions is the reference to the system in the United States of America, which over and over again is held up as a very good example of how a committee system works in a total legislature. [More…]

• The United States, as every honourable senator knows, has a congressional system, which is sometimes described as a ‘committee system’. [More…]

• Our system is a parliamentary system which is essentially a Cabinet system with Ministers and leaders selected from the elected representatives of the people, in the United States the committee system has been going for a long lime and over a period of years the committees multiplied to such an extent that a few years ago a legislature reorganisation Act which reduced the number of Senate committees from 33 to 15 and the number of House committees from 48 to 19 was introduced because the system had reached the stage at which the com.mittees were usurping the power and the right of Congress and of the Senate, which comprised elected people who were entrusted to carry out particular duties within the framework of the established congressional system. [More…]

• The United States Senate committees are allowed to move from place to place. [More…]

• These aircraft are coming from Canada, France, the Netherlands, United Kingdom and the United States of America. [More…]

• I suggest that the Government should not rely too much on getting from overseas suppliers, including the United States of America, large machines, parts for those machines, smaller machines and various types of aircraft which we could manufacture in Australia. [More…]

• The aircraft industries in countries such as the United Kingdom, France and the United States of America are much better geared to volume production than we could ever hope to be at this stage of our history. [More…]

• Officers of various Commonwealth departments are in the United States of America seeking further offset orders. [More…]

• Honourable senators will be aware that in more recent times we entered into an agreement with the General Aircraft Corporation in the United States to build certain parts in Australia. [More…]

• The contractual arrangement with this company depends upon certain things being done in the United States of America before we begin to build the airframes and parts that are to be made in Australia. [More…]

• All we have is aircraft silting in wrappers in the United States. [More…]

• Currently the situation persists in which a local series of programmes produced on budgets of between $14,000 and $20,000 must compete unaided with the United States series produced at from $150,000 to $200,000 per episode but sold in Australia for as little as $5,000 per episode. [More…]

• These i-hour shows cost on an average about $145,000 in the United States and arc sold in Australia for approximately $2,000. [More…]

• As the statement also mentions that $2,000m will be invested in synthetic meats in the United States in the near future will the Minister take steps to see that the subject of synthetic meat is put on the agenda for the next meeting of the Australian Agricultural Council so that a suitable policy on the subject as between the Commonwealth and the States can be formulated? [More…]

• I think that the Minister for Defence, in the statement he made following his visit to the United States, said that $US252m was the amount which had been authorised for this project, but at the same time he hinted that there could be further costs which have not been taken into consideration at this time. [More…]

• Even at the design stage, which would be 3 or 4 years prior to the aircraft being put into the air, there would need to be a prime market for this aircraft in the United States, Europe or some other place for the proposal to be viable. [More…]

• If GAC entered into an arrangement with a substantial United States manufacturing company for the production of the aircraft we would naturally seek to re-negotiate the contract which we hold, under which wings and nacelles were to have been manufactured in Australia. [More…]

• ls it part of the responsibility of the organisation lo promote the interests of the Australian meat industry in the United States of America. [More…]

• What advice was received from this body thai plans were afoot to impose import restrictions on Australian mutton on the pretext of failure to meet the hygiene requirements of the United States of America. [More…]

• Would the Australian Government alford recognition to the German Democratic Republic, if the British and United States governments were to do so. [More…]

• might add that the same is true of the film industries in the United States, Italy and France. [More…]

• If Australians want to visit the United States for film purposes or to develop their talents they must first obtain labour permits from the United States authorities in order to be able to work in that country. [More…]

• The United States will bethe only major trading nation which has not initiated a programme of conversion.I have seen Press reports emanating from the United States of America which makes it clear that the United States will eventually lake the same step as has been taken by the United Kingdom, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia within the last 2 or 3 years. [More…]

• On page (iii) of the report of the Senate Select Committee there is an extract from the Report on Weights and Measures made by the Secretary of State of the United States of America, John Quincy Adams, to the American Senate on 22nd February 1821. [More…]

• Is it a fact that in France, West Germany, the United States of America and New Zealand the reasons for the rejection of a claim for acceptance of a disability as being war caused must by law be provided to the claimant? [More…]

• Has the Leader of the Government in the Senate seen a statement by the United States Secretary of State that, although the United States Administration would find a victory by the North Vietnamese forces in Cambodia to be regrettable, it would not send any armed forces into Cambodia in order to defeat the North Vietnamese forces’? [More…]

• Does the Government share this view of the United States Administration? [More…]

• The honourable senator asks a question built round a presumed statement by the United States Secretary of State. [More…]

• I think that the history of national health schemes in Great Britain and New Zealand as well as the counterpart national health scheme in the United States of Amenca, known as Medicare, will show that constant high level guerilla warfare has existed between the authorities and drug companies concerning overcharging. [More…]

• I repeat that the United States of America, Great Britain and New Zealand at various times have been victims of excessive price charges for drugs. [More…]

• The United States has several research institutes of world significance which are admired by marine biologists throughout the world. [More…]

• The only research of any significance that has been done on the Great Barrier Reef has been done by a British research team, by a Belgian research team and, for a very short time, by a Japanese research team and by a United States research team. [More…]

• There is no doubt that in the past strains have been placed on the balance of payments of many countries, particularly the United States of America. [More…]

• Only a few years ago an equalisation lax was introduced in the United States in an endeavour to conserve internal funds by preventing outgoings. [More…]

• That this is what has happened is, I think, an accepted fact, and I think this is just one more justification, if indeed one was necessary, for the action taken by the United States forces in relation to Cambodia, lt is the same sort of problem, lt is a matter of military strategy and something that has to be met. [More…]

• to be some withdrawal of forces, affecting not only United States forces but also our own forces there. [More…]

• Can the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry inform me whether any further consultation between the Australian authorities and the United Stales authorities has been held at to the reasons advanced by the United States administration for banning the importation of Australian mutton into the United States? [More…]

• Section 20 of the Wholesome Meat Act prescribes that no carcasses, parts of carcasses or meat production for use as human foods shall be imported into the United States. [More…]

• The United States is asking that its laws be adhered to. [More…]

• I have told the Senate that hygiene and killing conditions in the United States are very burning matters with the United States people. [More…]

• However, Australia has complied very well with the United States requirements. [More…]

• Department of Primary Industry veterinarians have visited United States works in recent years and are satisfied that the slaughtering standards accepted in the United States federal works are the same as those that the United States requires of exporting countries. [More…]

• At present arrangements have been made for our veterinary officers stationed in Washington to visit a number of United States works and to observe and report on the inspection and slaughtering standards being applied. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that caseaus lymph adenitis, the organism that the United States authorities complained about, .has been known to be present in Australian mutton for 30 years and has not been considered harmful to humans, but is now classified as harmful to the American consumer? [More…]

• Would the Minister have an investigation made as to whether this damaging image being created by the United States authorities is not the result of interested United States meat lobbyists seeking protection for their own products? [More…]

• In respect to the causes of rejection of Australian mutton on the Canadian and United States of America markets, does the Minister regard research thus far made into the avoidance and eradication of cysticerosis to have been given sufficient emphasis? [More…]

• These figures are based on comparable figures obtained from England and the United States of America. [More…]

• The United States of America has made much progress in this field. [More…]

• The limit at the moment is $15,000 both for interna) flights and when travelling outside Australia, except in the United Slates where the United States Government took the view that the limits were unjust, lt insisted upon the international airlines which were going to and from the United States or stopping at any stage of a flight in the United States agreeing to higher limits. [More…]

• The United States threatened to denounce the convention unless this agreement was reached, as it was reached in 1965 and 1966. [More…]

• Has Qantas Airways Ltd made an arrangement with the United States Government to enter into special contracts with all passengers on journeys to, from or through the United Slates for a limited liability of $US75,000 inclusive of legal costs or$US58,000 exclusive of legal costs in lieu of the limited liability of $ A 15,000 set by the Warsaw Convention as amended by the Hague Protocol? [More…]

• On 15th November 1965, the United States Government served notice of denunciation ot the Warsaw Convention wilh effect from 15lb May 1966. [More…]

• This high figure was considered more appropriate having regard lo the income and cost structure in the United States. [More…]

• Several countries, including Australia, made representations to the United States pointing out the serious effects that denunciation of the Convention would have for civil aviation. [More…]

• After protracted negotiations, the Government of the United States approved an interim agreement made between the international airlines operating to that country, including Qantas, and a number of United Slates domestic carriers, whereby the carriers agreed that the limit of liability for death or injury to passengers on services including s point in the United States as a point of origin, destination or agreed stopping place was raised to $US75,000 including legal fees and costs, or$US58,000 exclusive of such fees and costs where the claim is brought in a country where costs are awarded in addition to damages. [More…]

• The United States then withdrew ils notice of denunciation of the Warsaw Convention. [More…]

• That was the course taken in the United States, because of the obvious injustice of these limits. [More…]

• At end of motion add - but the Senate is of opinion that the limits of liability under International Convention arc unjust and therefore requests that the Government take action to have the injustice rectified by pressing for a revision of the International Conventions to increase the limits applied in the absence of negligence and to remove the limits where negligence is proved and, in the meantime, to take action similar to that taken by the United States Government in 1965 and 1966, that is, to obtain agreement with the international airlines operating to this country and our international airline, whereby the limit of liability for death or injury to passengers on services including a point in this country as a point of origin, destination or agreed stopping place will be raised to an amount of $5.2,000.00 (Aust.) [More…]

• Honourable senators will note that the phraseology follows closely that which was referred to in the question addressed to Mr Swartz, former Minister for Civil Aviation in the House of Representatives, in regard to activities in the United States of America and the answer furnished by him. [More…]

• The latter part of the proposed amendment provides for action similar to that taken by the United States Government. [More…]

• 1 think I should mention that the industry in the United States operates under what are described as the Bermuda Rules. [More…]

• It is essentially a proposal for the Government - not the Minister - to take action similar to that taken by the United States Government. [More…]

• The international airlines operating to the United States agreed to raise the limits of liability for their passengers travelling to and from or within the United States. [More…]

• Now, I know, even in the little time I have had in the Department, that we have a different set of operating criteria on all these things from those in the United States. [More…]

• In the meantime it may be premature to take action as suggested, particularly as the limit for the United States passenger is related to economic circumstances in the USA and would be excessive as a general rule in Australian conditions. [More…]

• Qantas Airways Ltd is operating in countries such as the United States where the value of awards is very high as opposed to those awarded in the less developed countries where the amount likely to be awarded to an insured person would never be s 15,000, let alone $30,000 or $52,000. [More…]

• 1 have discussed with various people concerned with the administration of the airlines in Australia the question of the press the button insurance tickets which are available in the United States of America, and it seems that there are many undesirable elements in relation to that type of insurance. [More…]

• I think it has been disproved, particularly in the United States where the situation is roughly comparable with that in Australia, thatflying is ever so much more dangerous. [More…]

• Most of the progressive parts of the world, including a number of the provinces of Canada and areas of the United States of America, as well as many of the eminent lawyers of Australia are developing, implementing or advocating that we get to the stage where one can recover compensation without proof of fault. [More…]

• As Mr Odgers and the Standing Orders Committee in its report prepared for us have reminded us, many legislatures in the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada and New Zealand have adopted, in ways to suit their own conditions, the committee system. [More…]

• On 13th May Senator Bishop asked for the costs of visits to the United States of America by specialist teams which were investigating the F111 aircraft. [More…]

• Since 1963 funds totalling approximately $59,500 have been approved in respect of visits to the United States by specialist teams in connection with the F111 aircraft. [More…]

• This Bill seeks parliamentary approval to borrowings by the Commonwealth of up to$US100m for the purchase of general defence equipment in the United States. [More…]

• Under the Loan (Defence) Act 1966, the Commonwealth arranged borrowings of $US450m to assist in the purchase of defence equipment in the United States. [More…]

• Those borrowings were almost completely committed by orders placed up to last December, and the Government wishes to make provision under the present Bill for further borrowings to finance orders placed from the beginning of this year for additional purchases of defence equipment in the United States. [More…]

• The loans arranged under the 1966 Act were all with the Export-Import Bank of the United States. [More…]

• It is expected that the Export-Import Bank of the United States will provide the loan funds to be raised under this legislation. [More…]

• This same problem has occurred in the United States of America. [More…]

• So there is an orderly disposal of business in the United States. [More…]

• Therefore, the kind of conduct that we are witnessing today in the Senate is not indulged in in the United States. [More…]

• ls the Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service aware of reports that the United States Supreme Court today declared that an individual has a right to object conscientiously to all wars or to a particular war? [More…]

• If United States youths cannot be forced to fight in what they conscientiously believe to be an unjust war, why should Australian youths have been imprisoned and why should 50 more be facing prison sentences because they object to fighting in the Vietnam .war? [More…]

• As the Government has dropped its plan for civil conscription for objectors, will it now reconsider the National Service Act in the light of the United States judgment? [More…]

• 1 have seen some reference to the judgment of the Supreme Court of the United States, lt would be completely irresponsible for me to comment on that upon the basis of the news communications presently at hand in Australia. [More…]

• It is a few years now since some honourable senators in this chamber began to speak about the imports of processed potatoes from the United States and Canada. [More…]

• lt was purely and simply a reference to the Tariff Board to investigate the economic condition of 3 processors in Australia; to determine whether or not they could endure competition, principally from Canada and the United States. [More…]

• The books which have been prohibited are not only books that offer a critical analysis of Australia’s position in Asia and of Australia’s position inside Vietnam in particular but also books which put forward a view which supports that of the Commonwealth Government and the Government of the United States of America in respect of Asia. [More…]

• Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to an article in today’s ‘Australian’ regarding a statement by the Secretary of Defence in the United States of America, Mr Laird, to the effect that he was not committed to buying another 40 Fill aircraft and a statement by Senator Charles Percy of the United States in which he described the FI 1 1 project as a disaster aud said that the money involved should not be added as another strain on the economy? [More…]

• It relates to a purely domestic matter concerning only the situation in the United States. [More…]

• This team was set up by the Commonwealth and sent to the United States to investigate the offer which has been made by the Department of Defence in the United States in regard to the leasing of Phantom aircraft. [More…]

• But how can it be retained when the United States of America and Canada are selling wheat at 10c a bushel below the arranged price? [More…]

• The end result was that he had to advise the people of Australia that the Wool Board would cease its activities on the international market in order that Canada and the United States could retain their traditional markets. [More…]

• I do not see any Country Party in Canada or in the United States of America but apparently the effect of the wheat problem has spread to those 2 areas. [More…]

• The picture in the United States is much the same. [More…]

• At 30th June last year the United States wheat surplus was about 800 million bushels. [More…]

• Firstly, the legislation proposes the borrowing of some $US100m from the Export-Import Bank of the United States of America for the purchase of defence equipment. [More…]

• The type is not specified - in the United States. [More…]

• We are now putting the aircraft under wraps in the United States and it will be there until 1973 or 1974 when one hopes that all the problems associated with it have been ironed out. [More…]

• All we can learn from this legislation is that it is expected that the Export-Import Bank of the United States will provide the loan funds to be raised under this legislation. [More…]

• We cannot be sure that it will be possible to borrow this money from the ExportImport Bank of the United States. [More…]

• As the second reading speech makes abundantly clear, we intend to go on the market to borrow $!00m, and it is expected that the Export-Import Bank of the United States will1 provide the loan funds to be raised under this legislation. [More…]

• I say this is a myth because we have had in Australia a higher level of employment in manufacturing industries than exists in the United States of America. [More…]

• In the United States of America the consumption of apparel wool in 1969 reached the lowest level since the war; it went to 9% be:ow the figure for 196S. [More…]

• Handling costs from the wool grower’s store to the point of entry in the importing country were $28.1.2 for each bale of wool exported to the United Kingdom, 523.83 to Japan and $30.20 to the United States of America. [More…]

• He cited an amount of about $28 as the handling cast of a bale of wool shipped to England and about $30 for a bale of wool snipped to the United States of America. [More…]

• I suppose that the most famous example of this doctrine concerns the treaty making power in the United States of America. [More…]

• Wherever the President of the United States gives an undertaking that a treaty will be entered into by the United States, that has always been understood to mean that it is subject to the necessary advice and consent being given. [More…]

• In some countries they have collective bargaining - in Great Britain to a degree and in the United States. [More…]

• The Government consistently has complained about the use of the strike weapon - a weapon which is freely available to trade unionists in the United States of America. [More…]

• The Government imitates the United States of America so far as the Vietnam war is concerned but certainly not so far as its labour policy or its standards of civil liberties are concerned. [More…]

• I think it was by interjection that North Vietnam was raised when I was referring to the industrial law of the United States, which bears upon section 109a of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]

• That section is completely contrary to the trade union law of the United States of America. [More…]

• I do not think that Senator Greenwood could have understood me very well because the point I was making was that in the United States, there not being compulsory arbitration, there is no president or anybody comparable to the president to whom industrial disputes can be referred. [More…]

• In the United States there is no compulsory arbitration machinery and for that reason there is no counterpart of the president. [More…]

• said to Senator Cotton: ‘Even in the United States the Government rivets trade union conditions into some legislation’. [More…]

• Whether statistics are taken in relation to the duration of industrial disturbances or whether the aggregate working hours lost are taken, it will be found in the main that strikes are not as long in duration as in Britain and the United States of America. [More…]

• He told me that he had just come back from the United States of America but that he was about to leave Australia again because, as a former Rhodes scholar, he had been extended the honour of an invitation to the Cecil Rhodes centenary celebrations which were to be held shortly in South Africa. [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…]

• Quite some time ago the United States of America authorities designated an additional carrier on the Pacific route. [More…]

• In view of President Nixon’s announcement that 50,000 United States troops will be withdrawn from South Vietnam by 15th October, can the Government now take this Parliament and the people of Australia into its confidence and announce when Australian troops will be withdrawn from this costly conflict. [More…]

• Is it a fact that in France, West Germany, the United States of America and New Zealand the reasons given for rejecting a claim for the acceptance of a disability as being war caused must, by law, be provided to the claimant. [More…]

• Are lamb exports to the United States of America and Canada banned. [More…]

• The source of each loan is the Export-Import Bank of the United States and the loans were arranged in 1966 and 1968. [More…]

• Within a period of 1 2 months we find the door closed in Europe, sanctions and embargoes put on our exports to the United States and strong lobbies in the United States Congress from the various primary producing States to exclude Australian products. [More…]

• It is to be found also in Canada, the United States of America, Great Britain and France, but so far as I know none of those countries has a Country Party. [More…]

• They are the United States of America and Canada. [More…]

• In response to the invitation of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to bid by 15th June, 14 tenders have been received from 7 organisations in 4 countries, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada and the Federal Republic of Germany. [More…]

• Can the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry inform the Senate of the latest figures concerning our exports of meat under the quota system to the United States of America? [More…]

• The honourable senator expressed to me earlier today his interest in obtaining information as to the amount of meat being exported to the United States of America under the quota system, so I have obtained the following information for him. [More…]

• To date, 184,632 tons of meat have been shipped to the United States of America. [More…]

• Allowable shipments to the United States of America for 1970, including rejections, are estimated to be 249,000 tons. [More…]

• I ask the Minister in charge of Tourist Activities whether it is a fact that he recently visited the United States of America at the invitation of American Airlines? [More…]

• It is a fact that I had an invitation from American Airlines to be a passenger on its inaugural flight to New York and to visit the United States. [More…]

• It will establish, in the new service which lt has been granted to Australia, direct contact for the first time with the cities of Chicago, Detroit, Boston and St Louis, with populations aggregating over 16 million persons and, having regard to its connection with the eastern States of the United States, it will service a very populous area of that great continent. [More…]

• In 1964 deposits of these elements, although still not a dangerous level, reached a maximum as a result of the extensive test programmes of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1961 and 1962 and the United States of America in 1962. [More…]

• The 2 governments decided that the telescope would have a nominal aperture of 150 inches and that its specifications would be based on the design adopted for a similar optical telescope which was to be constructed by the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona in the United States of America. [More…]

• The United States of America has a national organisation to deal with the effects of natural disasters. [More…]

• It occurs, for example, in the United States of America. [More…]

• In the United States legislation it is provided that in any major disaster the federal agencies are authorised when directed by the President to provide assistance by utilising or lending with or without compensation to States and local governments their equipment, supplies, facilities, personnel and other resources other than the extension of credit under the authority of any Act. [More…]

• A non-contributory scheme is in existence in the United States. [More…]

• Moneys are made available to the States, from a fund controlled by the President of the United States, for the purpose of coping with natural disasters that occur from time to time. [More…]

• In setting up a standing committee of the Senate it is necessary to impose a time limit system in order to avoid the situation that has developed in the Senate of the United States of America where standing committees of the United States Senate use the system of standing committees to bottle up legislative processes, according to the dominance of the party that holds the greater numbers in the Senate. [More…]

• I have said here previously that about 18 months or 2 years ago, on my last analysis, about 2,500 Bills were locked up in standing committees of the United States Senate. [More…]

• Can the Minister confirm that there is a strong demand for Australian wheat in the United States of America and a general world increase in grain prices? [More…]

• The United States and Canada have had it and they have it now. [More…]

• Article 7 of the agreement between Australia and the United States relating to the establishment of the United States Naval Communication Station at North West Cape enjoins United States personnel to observe Commonwealth and State laws and regulations. [More…]

• Article 13 of the Status of Forces Agreement between Australia and the United States, which applies to the Joint Defence Space Research Facility, contains a similar provision. [More…]

• The Commanding Officer of the United States Naval Communication Station has confirmed that he fully supports the maintenance of all laws relating to protection of flora and fauna. [More…]

• Upon arrival at the Facility, United States personnel are informed of the Northern Territory fauna protection laws. [More…]

• Investigations into the incident were inconclusive but the indications were that United States personnel were not involved. [More…]

• The only principle that the Government has shown has been one of being completely subservient to what is the day to day foreign policy of the United States of America. [More…]

• The actions in Indo-China that have been condemned have been those of the United States of America and those of Australia - not those of North Vietnam. [More…]

• The Secretary-General of the United Nations and a majority of member countries of that body have been diametrically opposed to the policies of the United States of America and the policies of Australia in South Vietnam. [More…]

• This is an article in one of the best informed and most authoritative newspapers in the capital of the United States. [More…]

• ‘The United States should announce a timetable for withdrawal of all its troops’, says Lieng along with- [More…]

• Here are a couple more Communists for Senator Gair - former United States Defence Secretary Clark M. Clifford and a large segment of war-weary American public opinion. [More…]

• ‘It is a serious mistake for the United States to think it can solve an ideological conflict with military force1, he says along with Senator J. William Fulbright and Lawrence F. O’Brien. [More…]

• The United States, Lieng says, propelled South Vietnam into its present situation and now must accept responsibility for doing whatever is necessary to gel it out. [More…]

• That is the view of one of the members of the legal Opposition in South Vietnam - that far from the consequences of United States intervention being the defeat of Communism - if that is what the United States is striving for in South Vietnam - the consequence of the continued American military presence will be at the end of 3 years the total Communising of Vietnam. [More…]

• What conclusions is history already drawing as regards the intervention of the United States and Australia in South Vietnam? [More…]

• I am referring to United States Senator Barry Goldwater, a Republican senator from Arizona and a candidate for United States Presidency in 1964. [More…]

• We now find that history, to which the Prime Minister referred in his statement, has now pushed the United States so far that even Senator Barry Goldwater finds it necessary in the interests of his country, as he sees it, to join forces with Senator Hatfield in proposing a Bill to abolish the draft. [More…]

• Mayor Lindsay has said repeatedly that not only is he opposed on moral grounds - on grounds of international sanity - to the United States policy in Vietnam, but also that American participation in the war in Vietnam is completely corroding and demoralising the life of America itself. [More…]

• One cannot see any reference by responsible Americans interested in social questions to the growing problem of crime or to the growing problem of drug addiction in the United States without sooner or later seeing reference to the problems which have been brought about in that country through the divisive, corrupting and brutalising effects of American participation in the Vietnam war. [More…]

• He was elected to the United States Senate, from the State of Oregon, with an overwhelming majority. [More…]

• He has recently put forward a proposition calling for the total withdrawal of United States troops from South Vietnam. [More…]

• He says this about the United States, and I believe that it applies to the position in Australia to the same extent as it does to the position in the United States: [More…]

• This is the first time in the history of Australia or in the recent history of the United States that our forces have been involved in an overseas war in which great masses of our people have been opposed to the Government’s policy. [More…]

• We are abetting, by our rather timid compliance, the doing of great harm to the United States of America and through it to those many parts of the world over which the United States has vast influence. [More…]

• We would not do this alone but in conjunction wilh other powers such as the United Kingdom and France, which has some interest in the Indian Ocean area, and perhaps the United States, which is showing an interest in the area although not a very strong one. [More…]

• As Senator O’Byrne knows, there are in some of the Latin American countries military juntas which will not give the big commercial interests of the United States, Britain or any other country a chance to exploit them as they did 50 years ago. [More…]

• I referred to the Treaty on the NonProliferation of Nuclear Weapons and said that I would like to feel that when the chips were down we had an alliance of some sort between the nuclear powers - Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]

• The United States and the Soviet Union have had to exercise considerable restraint with Israel and the Arab nations because that conflict could balloon into another blood bath in the Middle East. [More…]

• I acknowledge, as I think our present Minister does, that the United States and the Soviet Union realise that in this atomic age a big power battle is not worthwhile unless the 2 countries can be contained. [More…]

• I link the United States Government on many occasions. [More…]

• 1 know that post-war history is studded with occasions when the United States has been generous with aid, but my point is that it has been conned too often. [More…]

• The Catholic publication ‘Report’ of 14th August 1970 contains an article headed ‘Catholic Letter Rips Saigon Government’ which is a virtual endorsement of the exposure of conditions in some of the prisons in Saigon which was brought about by a United States congressional committee. [More…]

• He was big time when President Johnson of the United States visited Australia. [More…]

• This is also what is emerging in the United States. [More…]

• That is an indication of the feeling in the United States legislature of what is happening to the United States, and of the determination of its legislators to turn the country away from the paths of war in order to deal with the great social problems there. [More…]

• In the United States and Japan a significantly higher percentage of children enter and complete secondary school courses, more receive a university education and more undergo technical training than in Australia. [More…]

• Anyone who has been to the United States of America or to Europe will be very well aware of the indirect taxation that is levied in those countries. [More…]

• In the United States there is quite a considerable amount of Slate tax. [More…]

• Charges in the United States vary very considerably from airport to airport. [More…]

• Equally, as a Department we are confronted all the time with increasing demands from international air carriers - particularly those of the United States of America - to fly into Australia, lt does not therefore appear to us that the charges have inhibited Australian opportunities in aviation in any sense at all. [More…]

• Exchange of Notes constituting an Agreement between the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia and the Government of the United States on the launching of three Aerobee Rockets by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, signed at Canberra on 22nd May 1970. [More…]

• If that figure of 10 were related to a nation the size of the United States of America on a comparative basis it would be the equivalent of 1,000 American soldiers being killed each week. [More…]

• Wc, the Cambodian people, are grateful to the United States. [More…]

• It appears to me that the Government is able to emulate the United States of America in terms of a foreign policy, but the United States has a much more effective Federal agency to deal with drug abuses. [More…]

• I mean that the United States is constantly probing the cost of drugs used in that country and manufacture either within the United States or outside it. [More…]

• The percentages of the world’s total of other principal wool producers were: New Zealand 10 per cent; Argentina 7 per cent; South Africa 5 per cent and the United States of America 4 per cent. [More…]

• I draw the attention of honourable senators to the fact that the President of the United States of America has been much more specific about the decision to withdraw American troops from Vietnam. [More…]

• I was in the United States at the end of 1968 and saw the massive dissent which produced a change in the American Government’s attitude to that country’s presence in Vietnam. [More…]

• During my visit to the United States I was able to observe at first hand how deeply this dissent and division of opinion had eroded the confidence and moral fibre of the American community. [More…]

• I saw enough in the United States in 1968 to convince me that the American people, as a nation, were against their Government’s participation in this senseless war. [More…]

• Nevertheless, if it had not been for the massive demonstrations of dissent in the United States and, to a lesser degree in Australia, in regard to our participation in Vietnam we would not be as far advanced in the matter of withdrawal as we are at present, so do not let us underestimate the value of dissent and of demonstrations of dissent. [More…]

• It gives me no pleasure that this country is so grievously divided on the question of our participation in Vietnam, lt should be a lesson to us, as it has been a lesson to the Government of the United States, that no country can fight a war unless its people genuinely believe in the cause. [More…]

• It is scandalous that our mutton exports to the United States and Canada have had to be stopped to highlight to this Parliament and to the Australian people the grave shortage in [More…]

• One can look further afield to the United States of America and even to Great Britain, which has always been looked upon as being amongst the most sedate and law abiding of all the democracies, and see this attitude towards the law appearing to grow. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration whether she can confirm the Press reports, before the announcement of the Government’s decision yesterday not to admit Mr Gregory, to the effect that he has been convicted 5 times of offences arising out of his partcipation in street demonstrations in the United States of America. [More…]

• Has the Government noted the Press reports today of the statement of Mr John Lloyd, the spokesman for the Vietnam Moratorium Campaign, that the September Moratorium calls for the withdrawal of support for Saigon and the withdrawal of United States and Allied troops from Indo-China? [More…]

• of the Australian Labor Party and others have publicly indicated their support, is necessarily the success of North Vietnamese aggression and the defeat of the United States, Australian and other forces who are fighting for the self-determination of 18 million South Vietnamese people? [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…]

• How is it that the great United States of America can allow men like Mr Gregory to speak freely against the war in Vietnam7 How is it that Australian citizens, including members of this Parliament, can go across to the United States and speak against the war? [More…]

• The honourable member for Lalor (Dr J. F. Cairns), who is a member of the other place, and Senator Wheeldon, who is a member of this chamber, were allowed to speak from one end of the United States to the other against the war in Vietnam. [More…]

• How is it that the standard of freedom which is the right of citizens of the United States is denied to citizens of Australia? [More…]

• Perhaps Government speakers will explain why Linus Pauling was allowed into Australia in 1964 from the United States of America perhaps to speak on an antiVietnam platform, why General Hugh Hester was allowed in in 1967 from the United States to speak on an anti-Vietnam platform, why Doctor Connor Cruise O’Brien was allowed in in 1968 from Ireland to speak on such a platform, why Felix Green was allowed in in 1968 from the United Kingdom to speak on such a platform, and why Professors Schiller and Whittaker were allowed in in 1969 to speak on anti- Vietnam platforms, and yet Mr Dick Gregory has been prevented from entering Australia in 1970. [More…]

• As I was saying, on 20th August the Australian ConsulateGeneral in New York received an application from Dick Gregory for a visa to visit Australia for 2 weeks, departing from the United States on 28th August. [More…]

• He made a comparison between the United States of America and Britain on the one hand and the situation that has developed in Australia in recent years. [More…]

• The amazing fact is that during the long period to which I have just referred more people of the kind who could perhaps be described as non-conformists were allowed to enter the United States and United Kingdom than were allowed to come here. [More…]

• I am reminded that at the time of the referendum our powers to deal with subversive bodies a Polish member of the Communist Party named Gerhardt Eisler was involved in a problem in the United States. [More…]

• He arrived in England and an attempt was made to extradite him back to the United States. [More…]

• If we are talking about visitors from the United States, let us look at some of the Americans who have come here either as visitors or as permanent residents. [More…]

• The current issue of the Melbourne publication, the Catholic Worker’ refers to one permanent resident from the United States who, when asked why he came to Australia, went into a great monologue to the effect that in America the coloured people were being coddled. [More…]

• Whether we like it or not, it is a plain fact of life that the siphoning off of an excessive amount of money for expenditure in South East Asia has contributed to the inability of the United States Treasury to meet some of the urban problems that have racial overtones. [More…]

• If supporters of the Government want to be so sensitive about Vietnam, I ask them to ponder on this: If you are going to disparage the role of Australian servicemen in South Vietnam, if you want to look at it in that way, why do you not have a go at United States Senator Fulbright? [More…]

• I remind you that Senator Fulbright once thought that we did not count at all as a participator in the Vietnam conflict, and he is a United States senator. [More…]

• As to the objectives the Government is attempting to achieve in Vietnam, ultimately the United States Government will say that the time has come for agreement to be reached there. [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…]

• It was said by Senator Murphy that Dr J. F. Cairns was allowed into the United States of America and given a free rein. [More…]

• One sometimes wonders whether he should not have stayed there because he advocates the type of anarchy which is being advocated in the United States and which is the cause of a great deal of trouble in the United States. [More…]

• Each year some 360,000 visitors are admitted to Australia, and more than 65,000 of them come from the United States of America. [More…]

• Because of the society that exists in the United States and in some other countries today, his writings must be of great public interest. [More…]

• Surely the President of the United States has shown by his action in withdrawing a number of troops from Vietnam - no doubt more will be withdrawn as time goes on - that it was a mistake to become involved in this struggle. [More…]

• This is the first time I have ever known this Government to do anything other than willy nilly follow the United States. [More…]

• I will concede that Mr Gregory is a person whose freedom of movement is affected, but he is a national of the United States of America and the Australian Government has no obligation to promote the freedom of movement of nationals of other countries. [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…]

• It is seeking the withdrawal of all United States and Allied troops from Indo-China. [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…]

• Certainly Mr Walter Reuther, former President of the United Automobile Workers of the United States, who suffered convictions during the labour troubles of the 1930s, should not have been admitted to this country. [More…]

• After hearings in a lower court and in the Supreme Court of Illinois an application was made for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States. [More…]

• It might give some indication of the manner in which Mr Gregory conducts himself if I were to refer to part of the judgment of Mr Justice Hugo Black of the United States Supreme Court, which was delivered on 10th March 1969. lt refers to the episodes which took place in Chicago at that time. [More…]

• This was the conviction which was subsequently referred to the Supreme Court of the United States. [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…]

• Far from seeking money, he gave up money so that he could continue to engage in his own form of political satire which is allowed in the United States of America. [More…]

• One knows very well where the Senator Greenwoods and Senator McManuses would have stood had they been in the United States during the time of that great movement of liberation which I suppose reached its peak in the demonstration which took place in the early 1960s outside the White House when the late President Kennedy, Walter Reuther, Martin Luther King, leaders of the trade unions and the churches and people like Dick Gregory demonstrated. [More…]

• Only a short time ago Dr Cairns and I applied for permission to enter the United States to speak in opposition to the Vietnam war. [More…]

• But I was admitted to the United States of America and 1 travelled throughout the United States of America without any let or hindrance. [More…]

• When Professor Owen Lattimore was driven from his employment in the United States by Senior Joseph McCarthy’s committee in the 1930s he was able to obtain sanctuary in Britain as Professor of History at Leeds. [More…]

• Despite the follies and blunders which the United States has committed I am not one of those who denounce the United States for everything that it does. [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…]

• One of the members of the Vietnam Moratorium Committee was in the United States of America for a while. [More…]

• Apparently the Government considers that the taxpayers’ money should be spent on investigating and surveilling the activities of citizens of another friendly country such as the United States of America. [More…]

• The Minister for Works, Senator Wright, left Australia on 12th September to visit the United States of America, at the invitation of the United States Travel Service. [More…]

• Australia, alone with the United States of America and Portugal, voted against 80 other nations to oppose a resolution forbidding as contrary to the generally recognised rules of international law as embodied in various protocols and the Geneva Convention of 1925 the use in international armed conflict of any chemical or biological agents of warfare. [More…]

• McGraw of the United States? [More…]

• At present about 20 Australian pilots are in the United States receiving training on Phantom aircraft. [More…]

• The conditions which existed in the United States of America, Canada. [More…]

• In defence purchases from the United States, instead of paying out money we had a net improvement of $3m. [More…]

• France, Italy, West Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom have a figure of 3.5 per cent. [More…]

• The countries that have done better than Australia are Canada and the United States, which are running at about 20 per cent to 17 per cent. [More…]

• Are the present Fills in operational service with the United States Air Force still using this steel? [More…]

• Has the Leader of the Government in the Senate seen figures released by the United States Senate Foreign Relations Sub-Committee on payments to America’s allies in Vietnam for the services of their troops? [More…]

• Did the United States pay about $l,000m for the South Koreans, $200ra for the Thais and $40m for the Filipinos to demonstrate that it had the support of those nations in the Vietnam war? [More…]

• If the Minister’s attention has not been drawn to that report, will he ascertain the degree of truth in it, especially the section which alleges agreement with and support given to Russia by the United States of America? [More…]

• How many guests were invited by the Australian Ambassador to the United States of America to a function to celebrate the appearance of Gretel II on the American yacht racing scene. [More…]

• The Australian, French and United States crews and those associated with their efforts were included. [More…]

• Under that head Senator Murphy used 70 words, as I counted them, most of which related not to the Australian scene but to the scene in Japan and the United States. [More…]

• As I read the facts, countries like Sweden, Germany, Denmark, the United States of America, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and France have shown a tendency, in the gathering of revenue, to move towards the principle of indirect taxation, the principle of the user paying the tax. [More…]

• In/the United States and Japan a significantly higher percentage of children enter and complete secondary school courses, more receive a university education and more undergo technical training than in Australia. [More…]

• In the United States of America for some considerable time Dr Friedman, to whom I have referred previously, has been advocating reverse income tax. [More…]

• It is extraordinary that in the United States people are delighted to work for somebody who takes responsibility and whose business is prosperous and paying big dividends. [More…]

• There are crises also in the United States of America. [More…]

• Is it not also true that in the face of such an unequivocal indication of intention any total withdrawal of United States and allied troops from South Vietnam before South Vietnam is able adequately to resist this aggression would simply be to ensure that Communist aggression must succeed? [More…]

• I do not know of any other library, apart from the library of the United States Congress, which has a better research or reference section than we have. [More…]

• If the Minister agrees with Senator Greenwood’s contention that forces of the United States of America and Australia must remain in Vietnam until such time as South Vietnam can stand on its own, can he say how long the Australian Government is prepared to accept such a commitment? [More…]

• Would he not agree that the longer the United States commitment remains, the greater the likelihood of increased Russian influence in other parts of the world? [More…]

• The United States of America, to a major degree, finds herself in a similar position. [More…]

• The United States and Great Britain are concerned about it. [More…]

• In our study of the situation in the United States we went back as far as the Truman era. [More…]

• Our Committee was particularly interested in some of the experiments in the United States and Canada by some of the regional authorities. [More…]

• This is what has happened in the United States, but it is something that we are trying to avoid here. [More…]

• I know that there has been tremendous controversy in the United States of America. [More…]

• In making that recommendation the Committee is not seeking to emulate some ot the revolutionary governments in South America, lt is emulating the State of Maine in the United States where a small levy of 3c has been imposed on every barrel of oil from a refinery. [More…]

• In the United States the US Coast Guard has a strong right to decree what shall be used. [More…]

• They consist of a letter to me from Senator Edmund Muskie of the United States Senate who played a very prominent role in the United States in connection with the Water Quality Improvement Act of 1969; a Press release in which the senator deals with oil pollution and a statement of elaboration. [More…]

• I shall cover myself by handing to the Committee’s former officer, Mr Thomson, copies of Bill S.3687 and S.3516 of the United States Congress which deals in detail, I am sure, with the question Senator Greenwood has asked. [More…]

• I have here a copy of the United States ‘Conservation News’ which is a National Wildlife Federation publication which contains an article about a compound called Polycomplex A-ll. [More…]

• It is true that the United States, going back to the Johnson era, by legislation granted 40 per cent or more of capital costs for certain modern sewerage operations. [More…]

• I have mentioned Senator Muskie of the United States Senate in relation to oil pollution. [More…]

• The President of the United States has gone further and is creating an invironmental protection agency and a national oceanic and atmosphere administration. [More…]

• I suggest to anybody who claims that there is no need for a national approach, or a uniform and co-ordinated approach to overcome this problem, that he should study the United States experience over the last 50 or 60 years. [More…]

• In the past in the United States of America, in other countries and in Australia a completely fragmented approach has led to a complete failure to overcome the problem. [More…]

• Heaven forbid that we should ever achieve the result that the legislative approach in the United States of America achieved until the mid-1960s. [More…]

• It was not a lack of legislation, a lack of money or a lack of will, but it was a lack of uniformity and of coordination which caused the largest part of the problem which is besetting the United States at the moment. [More…]

• If we do not act swiftly we will face the insoluable problems that are now being faced in Europe, the United States of Ameria and many parts of Asia. [More…]

• In reply to the second part of the honourable senator’s question, I am very glad to have the opportunity to say thai on my second visit to the United States of America this year I had the privilege of calling at Hawaii and there conferring with Professor Barnett who conducts the school of tourist industry management. [More…]

• Is it a fact that Qantas Airways Ltd is largely dependent upon reduced tourist fares to meet the highly competitive conditions which have been occasioned by the entry of a second airline of the United States of America onto the Australian scene? [More…]

• I ask: Will the Minister draw the attention of the Minister for Primary Industry to a report of 22nd September under a Washington dateline to the effect that a Bill authorising the expenditure of $US4.5m for research into ways of controlling the crown of thorns starfish has been passed by the Congress of the United States of America? [More…]

• Will the Government give consideration to the provision of a research grant to enable marine biologists or some research scientists to go to the United States to work with those engaged in devising a method of eradication of this marine menace? [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Externa) Affairs aware of Malaysia’s new Prime Minister’s call for the neutralisation of South East Asia with guarantees from the Soviet Union, the United States and China? [More…]

• 1 refer by way of preface to representatives from the ladies of MUCK, a group of Kurnell housewives who have banded together to resist industrial pollution in that area, ls the Minister aware that following representations by this group to the United States head office in Oklahoma of Phillips Imperial Chemicals Ltd, which operates in Sydney at Captain Cook Drive, Kurnell, the local management has sought to engage industrial espionage private agents to infiltrate meetings of MUCK, in addition to which the local manager of the company has been making telephone threats to officers of this organisation? [More…]

• Will the Attorney-General, together with the State police, ensure that the treatment of United States crusader George Nader by General Motors Corporation is not followed in New South Wales by Phillips Imperial Chemicals Ltd? [More…]

• The United States allows the entry of Australian meat if it meets certain standards. [More…]

• Is it a fact that when the export of mutton to the United States was stopped in May of this year the reason given was that the disease condemnation standards were not being met? [More…]

• Because so many towns in the west of New South Wales are practically dependent for their economic survival on being able to export mutton to the United States, will the Minister take steps to ensure that the inspections carried out in Australia by the 5 American inspectors are conducted fairly and not capriciously, and that the inspectors do not exceed their authority in regard to the overall general standard of hygiene? [More…]

• What quantities of earthmover, tractor, omnibus, truck, aeroplane, motor car and motor cycle tyres were exported to the United States of America during the periods July to December 1969 and January to June 1970. [More…]

• What quantities of tyres, in the abovementioned categories, were exported to the United States of America by each of the following companies during the periods referred to: Goodyear Tyre & Rubber Co. [More…]

• Preliminary export figures of the above group of products to the United States of America (in quantity terms) are as follows: [More…]

• Australia has been a pioneer in the sphere of social welfare and social services oyer the years, it introduced a comprehensive system of age pensions long before either Great Britain or the United States of America, 2 countries with which we frequently have been compared and on which we are frequently modelled in all broad areas of social advance. [More…]

• If there was any doubt about what many of us said before that campaign it was made quite apparent by the Moratorium itself because on that day in the various capital cities of Australia we saw processions and marches under Vietcong flags, under Communist flags and under the flag of Red China, but a United States flag or an Australian flag was scarcely to be seen. [More…]

• In all of this the objective to be achieved was the success of Communist forces in Indo-China by the withdrawal of United States and allied troops. [More…]

• In 1941 the United States could have stopped the war by yielding to the Japanese demands. [More…]

• The Vietcong banners, the adulation of the North Vietnamese, the denigration of the United States and Australia would be more easily tolerated if there were balancing demands for North Vietnam to halt its aggression and for the Vietcong to halt their slaughter. [More…]

• Does the Leader of the Government in the Senate recall a dangerous reactionary political epidemic of the 1950s known as McCarthysism which spread in the United States creating an atmosphere of fear and hysteria and which affected the internal stability of that country? [More…]

• At the time I informed the Senate that discussions were going on at that moment between officers of the Department of Primary Industry and the United States of America authorities. [More…]

• In view of a report in the London ‘Times’ of 15th September 1970, that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics will soon be the main naval power in the Indian Ocean, will the Minister make a statement to Parliament on the degree of truth in the report, especially that section which alleges that there has been agreement with and support given to the USSR by the United States of America. [More…]

• I do not propose to comment on a speculative newspaper article, except to say that the Australian Government has no knowledge of any agreement or understanding between the United States of America and the USSR concerning the level of Soviet naval forces in the Indian Ocean. [More…]

• The only other major postal administration still providing a domestic bulk rate for newspapers and periodicals is the United States of America, which incurs an annual loss of millions of dollars on this type of mail. [More…]

• United States: 12c. [More…]

• United States: 5.4c with an increase to 7.1c proposed [More…]

• The United States Post Office deficit now exceeds$A1.6 billion annually, the British postal service lost $A37m in 1969-70, and the Canadian Post Office lost $A47m last year. [More…]

• Has the Minister seen the Press report in today’s issue of the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ which quotes the President of the United States of America as saying that the United States intends to maintain the necessary strength in the Mediterranean to keep the peace? [More…]

• The President was referring to the deployment of the naval fleet of the United States. [More…]

• Will the Minister agree that in most places where forces of the United States are stationed to keep the peace war breaks out which invariably involves other nations that are tied - mainly on economic grounds - to the policy of the United States? [More…]

• However, I do accept the proposition that Australia was on the brink of disaster during World War II when the great United States of America came to our aid and defended us. [More…]

• In postwar years the United States has a magnificent record of aiding reconstruction in Europe and in Asia following the depredations of the Second World War. [More…]

• Whatever the situation in Europe today, the really great factor in the recovery of Europe after the War was the help that the United States Government gave. [More…]

• We should remember that to our dying day, as we should remember what the United States did for us in our hour of trial. [More…]

• Having said that and having put that on the line as a starting point, I also make the point that the United States has been effective and will continue to be effective in keeping peace in the free world. [More…]

• Whilst I saw the article - and I have not had a chance to read it in depth - I accepted it on the premise on which the President of the United States of America made it and that is that the United States contribution to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and to the peace of the world is probably the most significant contribution of any nation. [More…]

• Is it also a fact that because of this development the senior United States veterinary inspector has been urgently recalled to the United States for instructions. [More…]

• Managements of several meatworks have expressed concern about United States inspection standards, but there is no evidence that any have refused to co-operate with American Veterinary Reviewers. [More…]

• I have not produced a breakdown in respect of the Australian Post Office, but I have for the United States Post Office. [More…]

• The business to business work done by the United States Post Office, through letters and telecommunications, consists of about 75 per cent to 80 per cent of its activities. [More…]

• I say that because of some knowledge I have of the system which apparently is in operation in other countries, particularly the United States of America at this time in relation to its type of telephone service. [More…]

• The deficit incurred by the Post Office in the United States of America exceeds$A1.6 billion annually. [More…]

• in the United States of America it is to be increased to 7.1c; in France it is 6.4c; and in Sweden it is 9.5c. [More…]

• ..fs the Minister aware of reports that suggest that earnings of airlines in the United States are falling drastically? [More…]

• ls the Minister aware that, whilst a situation exists in the United States in which the volume of traffic carried last year rose by more than 10 per cent, earnings showed the greatest decline in the airline industry’s history? [More…]

• Yes, I most certainly am aware of the very dramatic fall in profitability of airlines in the United States of America, particularly those engaged in the domestic traffic. [More…]

• I think the honourable senator probably will find that this is because of what 1 would describe as excess capacity in airline business in the United States. [More…]

• The head of the United States Federal Aviation Administration was in Canberra yesterday and he spent some time talking to me. [More…]

• The United States does not have anything more advanced than we have to enable clear air turbulence to be detected. [More…]

• However, there is no evidence that such incidents are included as reasons for removal of meatworks from the United States list of approved establishments. [More…]

• The postage charge in the United States of America for ‘Readers Digest’ and Time’ is 2.3c each. [More…]

• The Committee may be interested to learn that the United States Post Office incurs a loss of about $ A 1.1 6 billion annually, while the Canadian Post Office incured a loss of $A47m last year. [More…]

• Tell us about the costs of postage in the United States. [More…]

• So far as rates in the United States are concerned, in that country they experience a huge financial loss of $1.16 billion- [More…]

• Clearly, 1 can accept no responsibility for the internal rate structure in the United States. [More…]

• Has the Minister for Air seen a report in today’s Press to the effect that yesterday the United States House of Representatives approved of the payment of certain moneys for 40 Fill aircraft which have completed severe tests and been found to be structurally sound for use by the United States Defence Department? [More…]

• Has the Minister also seen the reported comments of the Chairman of the United States House Armed Services Committee, Mr Mendel Rivers, who was formerly a critic of the Fill aircraft, to the effect that he has taken a 180-degree turn following the successful testing of the aircraft and now fully supports it? [More…]

• As I have informed the Senate previously, technical and scientific officers of the Department of Defence and the Department of Air, are monitoring both in the United States of America and in Australia the testing programme of this aircraft. [More…]

• I would like to remind .the Senate and the honourable senator who asked the question that when the Fraser mission visited the United States in April the United States Secretary of Defence agreed to meet the specified operational and technical requirements which we believe are necessary if this aircraft is to perform a strike role in the Royal Australian Air Force. [More…]

• Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to a statement in the ‘Australian’ of today’s date attributed to United States Senate Republican Leader Scott that the present Administration has been eminently successful in winding down the war in Vietnam and in assuring the American people that America’s involvement in this tragic venture is quickly coming to an end, as well as his prediction that a major favourable announcement will be made by President Nixon in the next few weeks? [More…]

• Is the Minister for Air aware of the reported decision of the United States House of Representatives yesterday approving the payment of $283m for 40 Fill fighters which the Defence Department said had been found ‘structurally sound’? [More…]

• My question to the Minister for Supply relates to 2 comments which the Auditor-General has made in his last 2 annual reports - no doubt they have been brought to the Ministers attention - about the purchase in the United States of 307 amplifiers. [More…]

• Because the amplifiers do not meet the specifications of the Australian Army they are presently stored in the United States Army Stores Depot. [More…]

• Does it result: from incorrect specifications being set down by Australian purchasing bodies, or from faulty manufacture in the United States? [More…]

• In view of the recent withdrawal of participation by the United States of America in the communications system known as Project Mallard., which was to have been a global military communications scheme involving an overall cost to the countries involved of $ 1,000m, can he say how much has been expended by Australia and the British and Canadian Governments who are partners in the project? [More…]

• Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONrt is true that the United States of America has indicated its intention to withdraw from the Mallard proposal which, without being too precise at question time, is a proposed communications system, [t is true that Australia is playing a very modest part in the scheme which, of course, has plenty of pluses for Australia because of the application of technology studies. [More…]

• In view of the serious disruption that Ls being caused to meatworks throughout Australia by the withdrawal of licences for exports to the United States of America and in view of the particular effect of such withdrawal on works in northern Australia, which are almost solely dependent on the export market, will the Minister do all he can to ensure that uniform and continuing standards of hygiene requirements are drawn up with the United States authorities? [More…]

• I remind the Senate that some countries have been banned completely from the meat market of the United States of America because their abattoirs did not meet the required standards and because their inspection services were not of a sufficiently high standard. [More…]

• The United States was enforcing a policy of federal registration of American abattoirs trading across the State border and, as a result of domestic pressures, was being forced to ensure that imported meat came only from the abattoirs which were of a standard at least equal to the federal requirements. [More…]

• What quantities of cotton are imported from: (a) the United Arab Republic; (b) The United States of America; and (c) other sources. [More…]

• What quantities of synthetic apparel fibres are imported from the United States of America. [More…]

• 1, with those from the United States shown separately. [More…]

• The circumstances in which exemption will be allowable are to be prescribed by regulation, the intention being that they will parallel those in which exemption is currently available to United States and British servicemen. [More…]

• In conformity with Australia’s obligations under the Status of Forces Agreement withthe United States, the Sales Tax (Exemptions and Classifications) Act was amended in 1963 to enable United States servicemen stationed in Australia to purchase Australianmade vehicles free of sales tax. [More…]

• Does the Minister recall his reply to me yesterday during question time in which he said that no meat was coming into Australia from countries whose exports to the United States of America had been banned? [More…]

• Senator Devitt asked me yesterday by way of interjection whether meat was allowed into Australia from those countries from which meat had been banned from entry into the United States, and I replied no. [More…]

• If we are to get meat into the United States then we have to comply with the Wholesome Foods Act in the United States. [More…]

• Can the Minister say if standards set by the United States of America authorities for hygiene and up-to-date slaughtering facilities have shown variations over the past several years? [More…]

• In the event of new abattoirs being built - this is mooted in Tasmania - anywhere in Australia in accordance with the present conditions laid down by the United States, could the people responsible have any confidence that those standards would remain consistent and not be so changed as to negative their venture? [More…]

• I point out to the Senate again that all Australian meat works exporting to the United States of America are subject to periodic inspections by United States veterinarians to see that they comply with the United States Meat Inspection Act and meat inspection regulations. [More…]

• United States legislation requires foreign establishments to observe the same standards as those applicable to American meat works. [More…]

• In regard to the honourable senator’s other question, the 24 Phantoms are under a lease arrangement with the United States at present, as he knows. [More…]

• No doubt he has seen Press reports about a presidential panel advising President Nixon of the United States of America that the call-up of youth in that country is costly, inequitable and divisive as a means of recruiting men for the armed forces, and introduces needless uncertainty into the lives of all young Americans? [More…]

• I am bound to point out that the situation in relation to national service in the United States of America may well be entirely different from the situation in Australia. [More…]

• The situation in this country in relation to recruiting people can, as I have said, be entirely different from the situation in the United States in respect of recruiting, as I understood the implication of the question, for the permanent forces in that country. [More…]

• In answer to a question yesterday relative to the withdrawal of licences for meat export to the United States of America, the Minister stated that a handbook is made available to each abattoir and that it contains information from the Department of Primary Industry as to the standards required to be met. [More…]

• Is the information contained in the handbook compiled on the basis of regular consultation and in accordance with the requirements of the United States authority? [More…]

• In each of the last 10 years, how much has Australia paid or agreed to pay to the United States of America for defence material and services. [More…]

• A recent report from the United States indicates just how great are these marine losses around the world. [More…]

• Does it not realise, and does not the Government realise, that in the United States and elsewhere the casette revolution is now well under way? [More…]

• Singapore, South Vietnam, Sweden, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor, Trinidad, United Arab Republic, United States of America, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Uruguay, Yugoslavia. [More…]

• In the United States of America, a country often referred to in newspapers, the Government imposes a transportation tax of 8 per cent on all domestic airline tickets. [More…]

• In addition, two underground explosions occurred, one in the United States and one in Russia. [More…]

• the United States of America, Britain or the Continent on matters of commerce as it is to ring, say, Sydney or Melbourne. [More…]

• Therefore, in every modern society - in West Germany, France, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States of America or Australia - governments are forced to seek the bulk of their revenue from consumer taxation. [More…]

• in this place from time to time I have heard enormous complaints about the United States of America for not spending its vast revenues to elevate the standards of people in other parts of the world. [More…]

• If any honourable senator went to the United States of America and wished to buy at a little shop some sandwiches for his lunch and sit in the park to eat them or take them back to the office to eat them, he would discover that there is a tax placed on sandwiches. [More…]

• Even food in the United States of America is taxed. [More…]

• The enormous volume of revenue raised in the United States of America comes substantially from the consumer tax. [More…]

• 1 understand that the Government is leasing 24 Phantom jets from the United States Air Force at a cost of $34m for a period of 2 years. [More…]

• Does this do great credit to the Government’s fiscal policies at a time when the inflation rate in the United States and New Zealand is approximately 6 per cent per annum and is a matter of very great concern to both of those countries? [More…]

• I was not relying on any information other than the price that has been given to the Australian Government by the United States Government. [More…]

• Has the Leader of the Government in the Senate seen today’s Press reports that the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States of America has told President Nixon that it doubts whether the Saigon regime can survive without the presence of a big American military force? [More…]

• My impression of the situation in, for example, the United States Congress is that sittings of committees take place while the 2 Houses of Congress are in session. [More…]

• Senator Byrne has reminded me that normally there is not a very big attendance of members in the Senate chamber in the United States. [More…]

• This is done all over the United States of America. [More…]

• Canada has a surplus of about 800 million bushels and the United States of America about 860 million bushels. [More…]

• Only the United States of America and Canada have had lower rates of inflation, and the difference has been a matter of only I per cent, 2 per cent or 3 per cent over this period. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Trade and Industry been drawn to a report in the ‘Australian’ under the heading ‘Tougher Stance on Wheat by China’ which refers to a United States report, issued in Washington, that China is harvesting record crops and will this year export more primary produce than she imports? [More…]

• In that agreement there was no provision to buy or lease tankers from the United States. [More…]

• The tanker at present being used by the United States is the KC135, which is going out of production. [More…]

• Has the Postmaster-General noted reports in the Melbourne Press that Australian troops in Vietnam will be able to ring home at rates of $10.80 per 3 minutes plus $3.60 for each additional minute; if so, are these rates correct and why do they compare so unfavourably with rates to United Kingdom, $7.50; Canada and United States of America from $6.09 to $10.80; and Hong Kong and South Africa, $7.50. [More…]

• Of course today it is parked somewhere in the distant south of the United States. [More…]

• The Government has found it imperative to lease very expensive Phantom aircraft from the United States. [More…]

• Two years ago when the United States armed Services made a damning indictment of the manufacture of Australian sunglasses we were blandly told that States were having a look at it. [More…]

• After all, we operate under a Federal system similar to those operating in the United States of America and Canada. [More…]

• Anybody who has read any of the books about Senator Bobby Kennedy when he was the United States AttorneyGeneral would be familiar with his battle with the Bethlehem steel company and some of the other big industrial giants in the United States. [More…]

• In order to meet this position the Government should create an effective agency such as George Nader had sei up in the United States of America. [More…]

• These are the figures that I have been able to obtain and they are interesting: The figure for the United Kingdom is 36.3 per cent; for the United States of America it is 32.3 per cent; for Canada it is 30.9 per cent; and for Australia it is 25.4 per cent. [More…]

• I accept that, The point I am getting at is that last weekend there was a representative here from the United States housing authority and his views were reported in the Australian Press. [More…]

• While his speech contained racial overtones when he referred to the position in the United States, he was implying that we were creating slums for the future. [More…]

• In view of the withdrawal of the licence to export meat to the United States that had been held by the meat processing firm of S. P. Holman and Sons Pty Ltd at Devonport, involving the laying off of 60 employees and the stranding of an $88,000 shipment of meat intended for the United States, will the Minister direct the trade commissioners in countries accepting Australian beef to endeavour to obtain a market for this first class beef from Holmans, thereby alleviating also the critical position that has arisen because the supply of raw material to by-product firms in. [More…]

• As firefighters in countries such as New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Canada have full recognition as a national industrial organisation, does the Minister feel that it would be acceptable to the union and perhaps in the public interest if some legislative action were taken to correct this anomaly? [More…]

• In the United States of America and Canada in the last century, firm laws were introduced to deal with these kinds of practices. [More…]

• There has been some curbing of them but even now the benefits are so great that cartels, syndicates and great corporations in the United States have broken those laws despite the severe penalties. [More…]

• In the United States of America the rise was 22 per cent. [More…]

• In 1969 the increase in Australia was 2.9 per cent, as opposed to New Zealand where it was 4.9 per cent, the United States where it was 5.4 per cent, and Canada where it was 4.5 per cent. [More…]

• Other figures given are West Germany, which is always known to have a booming economy, 4.3 per cent; the United States, 4.9 per cent; New Zealand, 3.9 per cent; and France, 5.3 per cent. [More…]

• The Estimates Committees are conducting the type of examination which has become a part of the United States Senate special committees. [More…]

• Certainly with the United States of America we have traded at a permanent loss. [More…]

• The United States authorities have applied conditions to the slaughtering and processing of beef that, in my view and in the view of many people in the industry, have been far beyond reason. [More…]

• This action, which has resulted from lobbying by meat interests in the United States, has been a bitter blow aimed at our beef industry. [More…]

• I am informed that the authorities in the United States of America have shut off supplies from at least 27 Australian meatworks until they comply with United States health standards. [More…]

• While in some quarters this has been interpreted as an attempt by the United States to limit meat supplies from Australia and thus protect producers in that country - and indeed there may be some justification for this interpretation - I think there is ample evidence to support the United States action as a health precaution. [More…]

• Because so many towns in the west of New South Wales are practically dependent for their economic survival on being able to export mutton to the United States, will the Minister take steps to ensure that the inspections carried out in Australia by the 5 American inspectors are conducted fairly and not capriciously, and that the inspectors do not exceed their authority in regard to the overall general standard of hygiene? [More…]

• In the United States 98 per cent of urban homes are sewered; United Kingdom 98 per cent; West Germany 94 per cent; Canada 97 per cent: France 94 per cent; New Zealand 92 per cent; Sweden 88 per cent; the Netherlands 83 per cent; and Australia a mere 70 per cent. [More…]

• The Minister will recall that one night during the debate on the motion for the adjournment of the Senate I had incorporated in Hansard some of the views of SenatorMuskie of the United States of America about what he called the pay first and argue afterwards policy. [More…]

• I know that the United States Coast Guard service has certain powers to enforce the use of a particular detergent or dispersant.I do not know whether this applies here. [More…]

• I have not gone too deeply into the relative monetary value of the$US1 and our$1, but I am inclined to believe that what the United States has suggested for penalties is much higher. [More…]

• The Water Quality Improvement Act of 1969 of the United States Senate had these headings: [More…]

• The United States legislation also refers to: [More…]

• In 1951 the Government of the United States of America offered to enter into a contract with the Australian Government to buy the Australian wool clip at 100c per lb. [More…]

• Italy had a decrease of 6 per cent, Netherlands 13 per cent, United Kingdom 11 per cent, United States of America 19 per cent and Germany 8 per cent. [More…]

• I refer, for instance, to Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Germany. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Customs and Excise, in the light of remarks made by the Chairman of the United States Senate Sub-Committee on Juvenile Delinquency that in recent months a much more powerful variety of heroin has been circulating amongst Gls and others addicted to drug taking in South Vietnam, I ask whether this trend has been manifested in Australia in regard to heroin supplies impounded and drug victims under treatment. [More…]

• The stronger variety of heroin referred to by Senator Dodds, who is Chairman of that United States Senate Committee as being used by troops in Vietnam, would be stronger by reason of its greater purity. [More…]

• Papua and New Guinea was one of the South Pacific countries which joined with Australia in the recent ‘Destination South Pacific’ promotion in the United States of America. [More…]

• and (2) I am aware of Press reports which purported to describe a report prepared by the United States Central Intelligence Agency. [More…]

• As tothe United States Government’s intentions with regard to the future of its forces in the Republic of Vietnam, I draw Senator O’Byrne’s attention to the statement made by President Nixon on 7 October 1970, a copy of which may be found in the Parliamentary Library. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science aware that, according to recent psychological studies carried out under the sponsorship of the Carnegie Corporation of the United States of America, half of all growth in human intelligence lakes place between birth and age 4 and a further 30 per cent between the age 4 and 8 or that, in relation to formal education, two-thirds of a child’s intellectual development takes place before he even commences primary education? [More…]

• This Bill seeks parliamentary approval to borrowings by the Commonwealth of up to $US125m for the purchase of defence equipment in the United States of America. [More…]

• Under the Loan (Defence) Act 1966, the Commonwealth arranged borrowings of $US450m to assist in the purchase of defence equipment in the United States. [More…]

• Under the Loan (Defence) Act 1970, the Commonwealth arranged borrowings of $US89m to finance orders for general defence equipment placed with United States suppliers for the remainder of 1969-70. [More…]

• Orders approximately equal to the amount of that credit had been placed in the United States by about the end of June, and negotiations have commenced for a further credit to cover orders placed during 1970-71. [More…]

• The loans arranged under the 1966 and 1970 Acts were all with the Export-Import Bank of the United States. [More…]

• The Export-Import bank of the United States has agreed to provide the loan funds to be raised under this legislation. [More…]

• The provision has been made under the special passage assistance programme for assistance to applicants from Ireland, the United States and continental Europe who are not eligible to apply for passage assistance under any existing migration agreement or arrangements. [More…]

• My colleague Senator Bishop did raise with the Minister the finalisation of the last International Labour Organisation delegation that went overseas and the fiasco that occurred due to some cut off in expenditure by the United States of America to the ILO conference. [More…]

• For example, if one narrows it down to 2 countries which are different in many respects - the United States of America and South Africa, at least so far as the white population is concerned - there is an insistence in the field of tertiary education at the university level that before one proceeds to special studies, such as the study of law, it is necessary that there should be a study of the humanities in any university course. [More…]

• I do not think there is any psychologist or reputable educationist in the United States who now would not agree that the difference in the IQs of young white people and young black people is due to the opportunities of young white people, which, in the majority of cases, were superior to those available to young black people and that with the spread of education among the black youth of the United States there has been a steady drawing closer of the IQs of both groups. [More…]

• I understand that President Nixon has been warned that within possibly the next 100 years no more fossilised fuel will be available in the United States of America. [More…]

• At that time a warning was issued that in one generation fossilised fuel could become so expensive as to injure the commercial life of the United States of America. [More…]

• I have already said that the availability of fossilised fuel in the United States was questioned about 100 years ago. [More…]

• The word ‘elsewhere’ is used because in various countries - Canada, the United States of America and England - studies have been carried out. [More…]

• In Arnhem Land there is the Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd; United Uranium N.L,; Noronda Australia Ltd; Air Navigators Pty Ltd; G. D. Stevens, C. M. Stevens and P. N. Craven; Nevsam Mining Company; United States Steel International (New York) Inc.; H. Brennan; Queensland Mines Ltd and a number of others. [More…]

• At the same time, I point out to the Government that at the present time there is what might be known as a revolution - a cassette or cartridge revolution - taking place particularly in the United States of America. [More…]

• This Bill seeks parliamentary approval to borrowings by the Commonwealth of up to $US125m for the purchase of defence equipment in United States of America. [More…]

• Orders approximately equivalent to the amount of that credit had been placed in the United States by the end of June. [More…]

• We are in the situation where a successive number of Bills have been introduced for borrowings in the United States related to credit arrangements with that country. [More…]

• These Bills have authorised a part of the borrowings necessary to purchase equipment from the United States. [More…]

• We certainly dealt also with the wider issue of purchasing United States defence equipment in this period. [More…]

• The Opposition opposes the Bill also because we consider that it is not necessary to purchase all of these items from the United States. [More…]

• In addition, a very important argument relating to these purchases is whether Australia should continue to bc so dependent upon United States suppliers for this equipment much of which can be produced in Australia. [More…]

• I suggest that the position has not changed much since August 1969 when, as honourable senators may remember, Mr Fairhall, as he then was, tried to make this an issue in the United States when he was visiting there. [More…]

• (4.7) - In reply - The Opposition has indicated that it will oppose the second reading of this Bill which seeks parliamentary approval for borrowings by the Commonwealth of up to $US125m for the purchase of defence equipment in the United States of America. [More…]

• The rate for defence loans is determined by the cost of money to the United States Government at the time the loan is negotiated. [More…]

• In fact, the head of my Department only recently returned from a visit to the United States and to Europe, and one of his prime functions in the United States was to seek a flow back of offset orders. [More…]

• In connection with the relative limits of liability under the United States of America and the proposed Australian legislation dealing with marine pollution, I am informed that the position is that the maximum liability in each case is on a par, to all intents and purposes. [More…]

• The United States of America’s overall limit is $US14m while the Australian is $A12.6m. [More…]

• For instance, in the United States of America the Colorado School of Mines which began purely as a school of mines is a university which teaches a vast variety of subjects other than those strictly related to mining. [More…]

• For each of the years 1967-68, 1968-69, 1969- 70, what has been the average import price into Japan of coking coal from (a) Queensland: (b) New South Wales; (c) Canada; (d) United States of America; (e) Poland; (f) Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; and (g) any other major’ exporters. [More…]

• As a guide however, for the year ended30th June 1970 the range of prices quoted for rutile, zircon, ilmenite and monazite concentrates in the United Kingdom and the United States of America are shown in the following table. [More…]

• Except for rutile in the United States of America prices are per long ton. [More…]

• In the following cases negotiations as required have been completed and rights granted: United States of America, France, Italy, Nauru and Indonesia. [More…]

• Partly the inflation may be a response to world wide trends because inflation is going on in the United States of America, Great Britain, Germany, all over Europe and almost everywhere in the world. [More…]

• Even the Republican President in the United States shares the same view. [More…]

• An overall picture of the metric position in other countries has been obtained through visits made by the Chairman and Executive Member of the Board to South Africa, Kenya, United Kingdom, France, Canada, United States of America, Japan and New Zealand. [More…]

• The nations that abstained were Australia, France, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States. [More…]

• Will it be based on an ethnic percentage, such as that which has been followed by the United States of America from time to time? [More…]

• Are we still paying the United States of America at the rate of $7m to S9m each month? [More…]

• In today’s Press the Minister for Health is reported as stating that the banning of cigarette advertising on television has had no effect in diminishing the smoking habit in the United States of America or the United Kingdom. [More…]

• How was he able to assess this, in view of the fact that the cessation of cigarette advertising on television in the United States occurred only on 1st January 1971? [More…]

• The annual rate of increase in consumer prices in selected countries in the first half of 1970 was as follows: Japan, 7.9 per cent; United States of America, 6.1 per cent; France, 5.7 per cent; United Kingdom, 5.4 per cent; Italy, 4.9 per cent; Belgium, 4.2 per cent; and Canada, 4.2 per cent. [More…]

• We had no say in the way this so-called businessmen’s government was out-generalled and out-gunned by the United States on the contract for the Fill. [More…]

• Today the interest rate in Australia is 8 per cent; yet the American banks, not the United States Government, have just reduced the interest rate in that country to Si per cent. [More…]

• The United States started to lower its interest rates when we began to increase ours, as I have tried to point out. [More…]

• At the moment all that we are doing by having a rate of interest 2 per cent or more higher than that prevailing in the United States is to create the situation such as that outlined by Senator Wilkinson. [More…]

• If proof is needed of what I have said, I refer honourable senators to last night’s edition of the Melbourne ‘Herald’ which states that United States banks have cut rates to Si per cent. [More…]

• We are worried also about the wheat crops in the United States of America and Canada. [More…]

• By way of brief preface I refer to the fact that several times in the past 2 years I have asked questions relating to the United States proposal for the establishment of an Omega navigational station in Tasmania and the Minister’s answers then given are set out in full in Hansard. [More…]

• May of this year, which is when it is planned that the United States of America will have withdrawn all of her ground combat forces? [More…]

• Has the President of the United States of America, Mr Nixon, set up a Commission to compare conscription with the volunteer system. [More…]

• Circumstances in Australia differ significantly from those in the United States. [More…]

• The Government has, however, established a Committee of Inquiry into the financial terms and conditions of Service employment; an area in which the Gales Commission was also concerned and in which the President has announced a number of decisions taken by the Administration to improve conditions of service in the United States armed forces. [More…]

• I am not technically equipped to recall what the system was, but having seen colour television in the United States of America and Britain I am satisfied that the French system was as near perfection as any I have seen. [More…]

• The hauling equipment, passenger cars and cable and other associated gear are under manufacture or in process of delivery from Europe and the United States of America. [More…]

• Can the Minister say what effect this will have on Australia’s wheat selling capacity, particularly in view of competition from countries such as Canada and the United States of America? [More…]

• There was widespread support at the conference for international orderly marketing of wheat by all wheat exporters including the United States of America, Canada and the European Economic Community. [More…]

• If the Government disagrees with the spirit and intention of the British decision, will it support the United States of America, Canada, Malaysia and the African Commonwealth nations in any diplomatic action to prevent the arms sale? [More…]

• What is the present complement of Royal Aus tralian Air Force and other specialist staff in the United States of America connected with the examination of the capability of the Fill aircraft? [More…]

• A permanent complement of men is stationed in the United States in connection with the Fill mission: I do not know the exact number stationed there and I would have to do a bit of research to obtain that information. [More…]

• Will it be based on an ethnic percentage, such as that which has been followed by the United States of America from time to time? [More…]

• Also it is a continuation of the age long battle for superiority of the executive over Parliament or the Parliament over the executive, the lower house, the upper mass news media I see it is spoken of as being some new phenomenon, but if we look at the history of parliamentary government throughout the world - in the United Kingdom, the United States of America and all other countries with parliamentary governments - there has always been a battle between Parliament and the executive. [More…]

• We in this country have adopted a system of parliamentary government which is, in simple terms, a mixture of what is generally known as the Westminster system and the United States system. [More…]

• We have borrowed something from each, here are, of course, many similarities between our Senate and the Senate of the United Slates of America, lt is rather interesting that in the very early days of discussions on the American system of government, the United States founding fathers saw the need for Senate committees as a part of the game of checks and balances. [More…]

• He traces the history of the development of the United States Senate from the days of the founding fathers up to the present period. [More…]

• In particular he deals with the relationship between the United States Senate and the House of Representatives and, incidentally, the growing loss of power of the House of Representatives in America to the Senate. [More…]

• here is scrutiny of legislation in the House of Representatives in the United States and the need to get legislation through quickly and. [More…]

• From all the evidence the committee system in the United States has suffered accordingly. [More…]

• We have a lot to learn from the United States system. [More…]

• This was in the United States of America. [More…]

• Not only in the United States of America but also in all countries with parliamentary government there is a constant seeking for greater efficiency, effectiveness and control by Parliament. [More…]

• I have examined in some detail the system of committees operating in the United States of America, in some regards 1 think it works excellently but on many occasions the committees have been used as a means of holding back vital legislation that should have been passed. [More…]

• I remind honourable senators of the action of the committees which operated in the United States immediately after the assassination of President Kennedy. [More…]

• The new President, President Johnson, endeavoured to introduce legislation to control the availability of weapons to the people within the United States. [More…]

• One of the great dangers that has arisen in the United States of America with the committee system, which has functioned well in some fields, is that it has been used as a means of delaying for long periods action by the Congress on vital and important matters. [More…]

• It happened in relation to the repeal of the Taft-Hartley laws, when the United States had repressive legislation against the trade union movement. [More…]

• Let us examine the matter for the purpose of seeing what validity we should give to this book by Catherine R. Dalton who submits a theory that, with the investigation of atomic expansion after the Second World War, a tripartite agreement was entered into at Quebec between Canada, Great Britain and the United States for the exchange of information on atomic energy, chemical and biological warfare, and rocketry. [More…]

• On 8th May 1965 there was a near collision of a United States submarine with a group of Australian naval vessels - on the very date she stated. [More…]

• If one looks at the position in Canada - quite apart from that in the United States - one finds that Canada has not made this problem the sole preserve of educationalists. [More…]

• A big study in this field has been proceeding for some time in the United States of America. [More…]

• Today in a country such as the United States of America it is possible to train a team of people to travel to the moon and to tramp upon it, but it seems that in our associations with other nations, through the United Nations, nothing practical has been done to rationalise this problem of lack of communication because of language barriers. [More…]

• Under the Commonwealth Sugar Agreement we sold 335,000 tons to the United Kingdom, and under a particular quota we sold to the United States 165,000 tons. [More…]

• I refer to the maintenance of a home consumption market and then the retention of the contractual markets, which would be those under the Commonwealth Sugar Agreement, the quota to the United States, the quotas to Canada and New Zealand, and then of course the major, sale of sugar recently made to Japan. [More…]

• The first is the United States of America, where we now have an increased quota. [More…]

• That has not been easy to obtain and it is not always easy to retain because, after all, the United States has obligations, political and otherwise, in other national areas. [More…]

• Therefore there is always a degree of uncertainty, of vulnerability, in our market in the United States. [More…]

• It used to sell substantial quantities to the United States. [More…]

• In November 1968 the Department of the Interior brought Mr Sam Weems a United States conservation expert seconded from the New South Wales parks advisory committee to the Northern Territory. [More…]

• Offset orders from the United States of America are being actively sought. [More…]

• Civil Aeronautics Board in the United States of America has denied permission to Qantas Airways Ltd to operate a charter flight across the Pacific. [More…]

• The rate in the United States of America for the 2-year period 1967-68 was 3.4 and in New Zealand for the 2-year period 1968- 69 it was 3.25. [More…]

• An invitation was sent to air forces in various countries including Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and the United States to send representatives to the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Royal Australian Air Force. [More…]

• Was a secret agreement entered into by the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada in November 1945 known as the Quebec Agreement? [More…]

• In the United States Senate the expression ‘pork barrel’ has grown into usage. [More…]

• The Budget is brought before the Senate by the President of the United States and his budgetary office and it is referred - to the appropriate committee which could be a committee such as this Standing Committee on Finance and Government Operations. [More…]

• That is why there arose in the United States of America the concept of the clear or supposedly clear division of power between the executive and Congress. [More…]

• I know that the committee system works in the United States of America. [More…]

• This is a characteristic of the United States Senate system. [More…]

• As a result of some failures on the New York Stock Exchange over the last 3 months a sub-committee of the Economic Committee of the United States Senate has been reformed to look at what has been happening on the New York Stock Exchange in much the same way as the Senate Select Committee on Securities and Exchange is examining the securities industry in Australia. [More…]

• What 1 want to demonstrate is that the initial appropriation for the corresponding committee of the United States Senate is $500,000: yet our Committee is expected to carry out literally the same responsibilities as that committee of the United States Senate. [More…]

• from all parts of the United States new concepts, new scientific analyses and new- intellectual qualities which constantly reinvigorate and reinforce the United States centre-of government and Congress. [More…]

• The gist of my complaint was that after talking to both the ETU and Mr Rudd I was under the impression that the employer, after negotiations with the United States Navy, had been able lo get a 100 per cent increase on his original tender price. [More…]

• The first is a letter from Senator Edward Kennedy which was in reply to a letter I wrote to the Chairman of the then United States Senate Committee dealing with Vietnam. [More…]

• The second is a letter written to Senator Kennedy by Mr Frank Sanders, the Assistant Secretary of the United States Navy, which confirms that the initial tender of the Australian employer of $72,000 was increased to Si 46,000. [More…]

• Honorable Edward M. Kennedy United States Senate Washington, D.C. 20510 Dear Senator Kennedy: [More…]

• I am sure that when the Minister peruses this letter from Senator Kennedy and the other one from the Assistant Secretary of the United States Navy he will agree with the view I expressed in my original letter to Senator Kennedy that the Australian employer was actually a free rider at the expense of the United States taxpayer. [More…]

• If this information is factual will the Minister advise the Senate of what action is contemplated by the Commonwealth Government to place a complete ban on the use of DDT in Australia as has happened in some other countries, including the United States of America? [More…]

• Has the Minister seen reports that the United States division of Proctor and Gamble, the international soap and detergent manufacturers, has decided to reduce the organic phosphate content of their detergent products, and that this action has been taken because of the polluting effects of phosphates in effluent waters. [More…]

• I refer to Sir William McKell who, as Premier of New South Wales - a Labor Premier - was the first person to establish a conservation portfolio following his studies in the Tennessee Valley, the Mississippi Valley and the Missouri Valley in the United States of America. [More…]

• I am aware that in recent months there has been a considerable amount of controversy about steps which have been taken in the United States of America to restrict the importation of various canned foods which have contents which could. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs whether Australia is a party to a secret agreement between the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Canada for co-operation in military research and development? [More…]

• In referring to the then Minister for Health perhaps 1 should have referred to the Department of Health, because I addressed my question to the Minister who was then representing the then Minister for Health, f ask: Was the then Minister unaware that British, United States and Canadian reports have all stressed the need to ban cigarette advertising on television? [More…]

• However, I am quite sure that my predecessor would have been aware that cigarette advertising on television has been banned in the United States since the beginning of this year, in the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, and is also banned in Canada. [More…]

• I think that last week in answer to a question I said that at the invitation of the Royal Australian Air Force the United States Air Force had agreed to be represented at the 50th anniversary celebrations of the RAAF. [More…]

• The United States Air Force asked whether it could send 4 F111 A aircraft to the celebrations. [More…]

• This review follows from the policy stated by the then Prime Minister in April 1970 when, in announcing the withdrawal of one Army battalion, he said that should the progress of pacification and Vietnamisation succeed as the President (of the United States) hopes and believes that it will, then at some stage during the 12 months period we will consider phasing additional troops into the planned withdrawal’. [More…]

• During his recent visit to Vietnam, the Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) had valuable discussions with Vietnamese leaders and with the Commander of United States forces in Vietnam. [More…]

• With the agreement of the Government of the Republic of Vietnam, and following consultations with United States military authorities in Saigon, some forces will now be withdrawn. [More…]

• These are; Selected combat and supporting forces of the Army task force, including the tank squadron, totalling about 650 men; Royal Australian Navy personnel, about 45 in number, serving with the United States Assault Helicopter Company; the RAN Clearance Diving Team - clearance of underwater explo sives - of 6 personnel; No. [More…]

• This timetable will permit detailed adjustments to be made between the Australian, South Vietnamese, and United States military authorities in relation to the security requirements of the areas involved. [More…]

• Together wilh the United States of America and the other countries which have been dragooned into this war, we are suffering the consequences of it. [More…]

• The President of the United States said last year - 1 read this in his official journal - that he was aware that the majority of the American people were against the war. [More…]

• We are in the same position as the United States, which has found that it cannot afford to spend the S30,000m a year which it has been costing that country. [More…]

• According to one estimate, the cost of crime in the United States of America during 1965 amounted to some SUS20,000m. [More…]

• In the United Kingdom, the United States and other countries there are reports of alarming increases in the number of reported crimes in proportion to the population. [More…]

• If we are vigilant we can seize the nettle and solve the problem with far less difficulty than, for instance, the authorities in Europe, the United States of America and other countries where there are highly concentrated industrial areas with huge populations. [More…]

• These displays will show most types of aircraft within the RAAF inventory, and there also will be aircraft from the air forces of other countries, including Fill As from the United States of America. [More…]

• Will the current policy of the United States Government to reduce the number of FI 1 1 aircraft ordered from the American aircraft industry, and the rumours that production of this aircraft in America will cease in 1972, affect the existing Australian commitment? [More…]

• Does the Government propose to re-examine the Fill deal as a result of the reduction in production of this aircraft within the United States? [More…]

• Australian and United States Governments, agreement was reached whereby the Australian Government could defer the taking of a decision on acceptance of the aircraft until later this year. [More…]

• That agreement was reached on the basis of certain technical and operational requirements being met by the United States. [More…]

• In addition, the aircraft have not been released in the United States to fly at 100 per cent of their design manoeuvre envelope. [More…]

• What is the Australian Army unit corresponding to the United States Army criminal investigation division? [More…]

• South Vietnam; if so, does il maintain liaison with its United States counterpart in South Vietnam [More…]

• This corresponds with the United States Army criminal ‘investigation division (CID) which is a branch of the United States Military Police. [More…]

• It does maintain liaison with its United States counterpart in South Vietnam. [More…]

• The Australian SIS and the United States CID maintain close liaison and regularly exchange information. [More…]

• In addition certain of the scientific investigation facilities of the United States CID are made available to the Australian Military Police Unit. [More…]

• Why is the bank rate in Australia over 8 per cent when in the United States of America, for example, it has been reduced recently to just over 5 per cent? [More…]

• Are the statements correct that large sums of money are being poured into Australia from the United States to take advantage of our extraordinarily high interest rates? [More…]

• One formed the opinion from Press reports that the combat forces of the United States of America would be withdrawn by the end of May of this year. [More…]

• The action of widening the war of invasion into Laos reveals once more the savage ambition of the United States Government, using the native servants of undeveloped nations to kill each other, serving the interests of the imperialist state. [More…]

• The United States Government should withdraw at once all its expeditionary troops out of Indo China and stop ail elkins at widening the war and obstructing the restoration of peace though disguised in any form. [More…]

• We have received notification also that the United States ground forces are to be removed from Vietnam at a much earlier date than Australian ground forces. [More…]

• Australia was the only country which voluntarily and’ readily came to the assistance of the United States in the Vietnamese war. [More…]

• The Foreign Relations SubCommittee of the United States Senate has published information showing payments made by the United States to other nations in return for propping up American morale by sending their troops to Vietnam. [More…]

• The United States payment to Korea for this purpose was $l,000m: the payment lo Thailand was $200m; and the payment to the Philippines was SI 4m. [More…]

• That is the price that the United States has been prepared to pay in order to demonstrate that it has the support of the free nations of Asia. [More…]

• We have known all along that Australia’s purpose in sending troops to Vietnam was to boost the morale of the Americans, particularly the American population at home in the United States, and to show that there was support for American action, ft has been for this reason, rather than for what our 8,000 troops could achieve in jungle warfare in Vietnam, that our troops have been sent to Vietnam. [More…]

• A number of spare parts for the F111C have been returned to the United States of America. [More…]

• These parts are sent back to the United States and are modified. [More…]

• The spares requiring re-work have been returned to the United States Air Force so that we can take advantage of the production line handling similar spares in that country. [More…]

• We could leave it until later but we would find then that the production line in the United States handling the modification of these spares had come to an end. [More…]

• Finally, there is a group of spares which have been returned to the United States for use by the United States Air Force. [More…]

• The honourable senator asked how these spares were sent to the United States. [More…]

• They were sent mainly in United States Air Force military aircraft at the cost of the United States Air Force. [More…]

• Has the Minister noted action by the United States Federal Trade Commission to correct advertisements in the United States by the Coca-Cola Company regarding the qualities of 1 l-C in fruit flavoured drinks. [More…]

• Most witnesses have replied to questions relating to insider trading in much the same terms that the late Senator Coolidge of the United States used when he was asked his opinion of sin. [More…]

• Obviously we do have a sort of gold mine because the Government can spend millions of dollars of theF- 1 1 1 aircraft, possibly$1,700 a day for the parking and storage of these aircraft in the United States, and some $400m to $500m ayear on the war in Vietnam. [More…]

• The settlers are beseiged’ in a fort by Red Indians, who are riding around it with their bows and arrows, when all of a sudden the sound of a bugle is heard and the United States cavalry is seen coming to the rescue with General Custer at its head. [More…]

• Has the Postmaster-General seen a report that plans are under way for a1-hour prime time worldwide programme, via satellite in commemoration of the United Nations International Childrens’ Emergency Fund, and that the programme, which is being promoted by the International Telecommunications Union as part of its world telecommunication exhibition scheduled for Geneva from 17th to 27th June 1971 will be arranged by an international group that will include the United States networks, the European Broadcasting Union and other national and international bodies. [More…]

• The inflation is much heavier in the United States than it is here. [More…]

• More than 12 months ago President Nixon stated that in a message to the United States Congress. [More…]

• In relation to the ammunition testing facility for the Department of the Navy at Port Wakefield it appears from the evidence that the structure required was unusual in nature but was similar to facilities previously constructed in Britain and the United States of America. [More…]

• It is known that the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States has one. [More…]

• The Government knows that it entered the war as a matter of some sort of social obligation to the United States of America. [More…]

• Did the Minister, in a Press statement issued on 22nd December 1970, after his visit to the United States and Canada, state that he hoped seminars could be held between scientists from both Australia and the United Statesof America on problems concerned with tropical marine ecology and that such seminars would be valuable in connection with the development of the Institute of Marine Science in Townsville? [More…]

• Which scientists from Australia and the United States have been invited to attend a seminar? [More…]

• Some of these may possibly be organised under the United States-Australia Agreement for Scientific and Technical Co-operation, which provides machinery for arranging collaboration between Australian and United States scientists in areas of mutual interest. [More…]

• However ( am aware that, as a result of proposals supported by Qantas at the International Air Transport (IATA) Traffic Conference in Honolulu in September last year, useful concessions were’ achieved which should stimulate the flow of United States tourists to Australia. [More…]

• The elimination of periods in the year during which concessional fares for travel from the United States, to Australia were not available. [More…]

• Inclusive tour fares to the Orient from United States of America may now be used for a round Pacific routing so American travellers to Asia can visit Australia during the tour. [More…]

• An application by a United States charter operator to undertake charter flights to Australia is under consideration. [More…]

• Service to Callao, Guayaquil, Buenaventura, Christobal, Kingston, La Guaria, Port of Spain, Bridgetown, Georgetown then return to Australia via Japan, or via United States of America and Japan. [More…]

• So, when the United States votes $400m to help that war, we are not voting a give away programme. [More…]

• that would be of most terrible significance to the United States of America, our security our power and ability to get certain things we need from the riches of Indo-China and from South East Asia. [More…]

• What I intend to say arises from the remarks made by the Minister for Works (Senator Wright) in the context of the discussion of the speech made by Senator Keeffe in which he quoted what were alleged to be the remarks of President Eisenhower before the Governors of the United States of America. [More…]

• Other countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States of America, India and Australia, have also been approached for various kinds of assistance. [More…]

• I ask the Acting Minister for Primary Industry: Is it not a fact that the considerable sales of wheat to Communist China in recent years were made possible because it was the policy of the United States of America, which has immense wheat production, not to sell wheat to that country? [More…]

• Is it true that people who are endeavouring to bring about recognition of Communist China by forecasting possible sales of Australian wheat to that country as a result of recognition would have to take into consideration the fact that the United States, with its immense production, could become a competitor? [More…]

• The United States of America has not traded with Communist [More…]

• What decision, if any, has been made by the Government on the application by Ansett Airlines of Australia to operate international charter flights, and on the application by World Airways inc., a representative of which recently saw the Minister in connection with charter services between the United States and Australia? [More…]

• So, when the United States votes $400,000,000 to help that war, we are not voting a give away programme. [More…]

• We are voting for the cheapest way that we can prevent the occurrence of something that would be of most terrible significance to the United States of America, our security our power and ability to get certain things we need from the riches of Indo-China and from South East Asia’. [More…]

• The Vietnam war is not for the so-called defeat of Communism in Asia but to ensure that the capitalists of Australia and the United States have uncontrolled access to the riches of Indo China and, as I said in this chamber a week or so ago, to the possible oil fields off the shores of South Vietnam. [More…]

• The millions of people who laid down their lives in Europe are still not comprehended by the people of Australia and the United States of America. [More…]

• General Eisenhower became great because the United States of America was able to sit back and inherit the greatness of the British Empire. [More…]

• In doing so the United States inherited all the greatness and power of the British Empire. [More…]

• General Eisenhower then went back to the United States and started to talk about South East Asia, the next part of the world that was in Hitler’s plan of domination, with Italy and Japan, of the world. [More…]

• The great expert on South East Asia, General Eisenhower, went back to the United States a hero and great tributes were paid to him. [More…]

• He was hailed as the great scion of the Establishment, the man who won the war for the West, and he became President of the United States. [More…]

• Eisenhower had the great plan, the grand strategy, that the United States had the divine right, after the Second World War and after all the sacrifices by the satellites around the world. [More…]

• The policy of the United States in the past has led it into chaos, where it has nothing externally and very little internally. [More…]

• The days of world domination by the United States are over. [More…]

• So when the United States votes $400m to help that war - [More…]

• We are voting for the cheapest way that we can prevent the occurence of something that would be of a most terrible significance to the United States of America - our security, our power and ability to get certain things we need from the riches of the Indonesian territory and from South East Asia. [More…]

• I was top of the Royal Navy Radar School in England and first place ‘with greatest credit’ in the United States Coastguard School of Radio Navigation, and introduced and taught Radio Navigation to the Australian Navy. [More…]

• So, when the United States votes $400m to help that war. [More…]

• We are voting for the cheapest way that we can prevent the occurrence of something that would be of most terrible significance to the United States of America, our security, our power and ability to get certain things we need from the riches of Indo-China and from South East Asia [More…]

• So when the United States votes (400m to help that war, we are not voting a give away programme. [More…]

• We are voting for the cheapest way hat we can prevent the occurrence of something that would be of a most terrible significance to the United States of America, our security, our power and ability to get certain things we need from th riches of the Indonesian territory and from Sou Iti East Asia. [More…]

• We know this: Unless the United States is prosperous, unless it is strong, unless it is secure; there is no strength, there is no prosperity, there is no security for any state. [More…]

• And, indeed, in spite of the tradition that has been directed at us, I believe this: I believe that if every citizen, every state and the national government would do ils proper job under that concept, it would still be a good one for the United States. [More…]

• If we go into the field of agriculture, if we go into the field of Federal power and the conservation of all the resources of this United States, we find this same community of purpose with the necessity of division of responsibility obtains. [More…]

• Civil defense is absolutely impossible without complete and enthusiastic cooperation, not merely of governments, not merely of men, but of every man, woman and child in the United States. [More…]

• All of that position around there is very ominous to the United States, because finally if we lost all that, how would the free world hold the rich empire of Indonesia? [More…]

• So when the United States votes $400,000,000 to help that war, we are not voting a giveaway program. [More…]

• We are voting for the cheapest way that we can prevent the occurrence of something that would be of a most terrible significance to the United States of America, our security, our power and ability to get certain things we need from the riches of the Indonesian territory and from Southeast Asia. [More…]

• The security of the United States is not just the business of the Secretary of Defense and the Congress and the President and the Secretaries of the services, it’s the business of every man, woman and child and, if it is their business, then it is the business of all of us. [More…]

• I think I can always talk, my friends, just to get back to this one thought: unless the Governors of the state, I don’t give a hoot whether a Democrat or Republican is in this kind of a job, we are Americans, in the Federal Government, unless we can cooperate on the basis of understanding of the facts and progress steadily, surely and confidently in carrying out a program that we believe will establish the security of the United States, not only from a bomb, from some kind of destructive action of the enemy, but make sure that its surpluses are carried abroad and in return for those surpluses we get back goods that will allow those people to buy our surpluses; unless we have that kind of economic strength we are going to have to live a very different kind of life than we do. [More…]

• The Minister said that as a result Australia had its policies towards China under review, and in this respect we were consulting closely with the United States of America, Japan and other friendly nations which have also had their policies under review. [More…]

• It is a country with which we, Japan and the United States and a number of other countries in the region, have developed close relations. [More…]

• The United Stales wa.nt.s_ to have more contact with China and the President of the United States speaks of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]

• What is it really but recognition when the Head of State of the United States speaks publicly of the People’s Republic of China? [More…]

• For myself I would say that the United States has recognised the People’s Republic of China. [More…]

• In recent weeks the United States has taken steps which promise to alter dramatically its relations with China. [More…]

• The truth of the matter is that the Government has never really had a policy of its own towards China; it has held on tightly to the apron strings of the United States and blindly followed the dictates of that country. [More…]

• Now, when the United States is changing its course, and changing it rapidly, Australia apparently is unable to perform its manoeuvres sufficiently dextrously and is being made to look sheepish in the eyes of the world. [More…]

• A thaw is starting between the United States of America and China. [More…]

• This dropping of the guard, collapse of the wall or the bamboo curtain - whatever fancy term may be preferred - could easily be influenced by the fact that the other great giant, the United States of America, is starting to move out of this zone. [More…]

• The reason why the western world or, if you like, the United States, other countries and certainly our own country have refused to recognise Red China - or the People’s Republic of China - for the last 20 years Ls simply that before we exchange embassies or recogni- lion with another country three things have to be in existence. [More…]

• We must bear- in mind, because of ‘ what has been said by various senators in this place from time to time about the United States of America, that in the roundabout way in which international relations are sometimes conducted for at least 10 years the United States has been in almost constant consultation with the Warsaw Embassy of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]

• Notwithstanding what has .Been said, there has been a quite strong line of communication between the Government of the United States of America and the Government in Peking, but there has been very little give by either side, one way or the other. [More…]

• The Minister went on then to refer to the establishment of a strong bargaining position with the 2 super powers, the United States of America and the USSR, and the rejection of their influence wherever possible. [More…]

• The first step is on the one hand to weaken proposed areas of support that some parts of the world would accord to the USSR, and on the other hand to weaken support from various countries who owe some allegiance or support to the United States of America. [More…]

• I ask: As far as the Australian Government is concerned, where is the change of attitude by China which has, for example, enabled us now to follow the lead of the United States and send a ping-pong team to China and engage in diplomatic relations of this sort? [More…]

• Australia did not think of sending a ping-pong team to China before the United States decided to send one. [More…]

• The Australian Government sits down and listens to the newscasts of the United States in order to find out what policy it will adopt with respect to the other nations of the world. [More…]

• He said that Australia was following the United States of America, by sending a ping-pong team to China and that because a United States ping-pong team went there we had to follow. [More…]

• It was not a case of Australia following the United States. [More…]

• On 16th April he said that it was premature to anticipate any change in United States policy of recognition or representation in the United Nations, and that that was very much in the future. [More…]

• China issued a clear warning to the United States that if American forces crossed the Yalu River and thus threatened China it would send its forces to North Korea, and it did so. [More…]

• That was a very mild reaction compared to that of the United States in such countries as Cuba in which there were no foreign forces at all. [More…]

• Cuba has no border with the United States, yet the United States has said that it is entitled to decide the type of Government for Cuba. [More…]

• It was not until November 1933 that the United States under the late President Roosevelt recognised the Government of the Soviet Union as being the Government of the Soviet Union. [More…]

• The foreign policy of the United States in the 1920s was part and parcel of the same mentality which led to the Palmer raids and the red scares in that period inside the United States. [More…]

• The reason why the United States Government refused to recognise the Government of the Soviet Union as being the Government of Russia was not that it did not realise it was the Government but that it wanted to use the fear of Communism for domestic consumption to frighten people into voting for it when polling day came around. [More…]

• I understand that the abattoir mentioned by the honourable senator was one of those de-listed late last year following an inspection by an American veterinarian because they were not up to the standard required by the United States of America for exports of meat to that country. [More…]

• He found that some aspects of the premises were not in accordance with the United States requirements. [More…]

• Then, if they are passed, the abattoirs will be listed again for the export of meat to the United States market. [More…]

• The article is called ‘The War Machine A Washington analyst takes a pragmatic view of the awesome Pentagon juggernaut as the lamentable keystone of United States economic wellbeing’. [More…]

• The article concerns the complex military and industrial economy of the United States of America. [More…]

• Has the Leader of the Government in the Senate noted that a United States presidential commission yesterday recommended that the People’s Republic of China be admitted to the United Nations? [More…]

• Did the Commission say that the admission of that government might be awkward and discordant but that there was more hope for peace in its interaction in the organisation than in its continued isolation from the United Nations and the United States? [More…]

• Is it true that, although the Government has refused to make public the range of the Fill fighter-bomber, information was displayed publicly on a notice board at the Fairbairn Royal Australian Air Force base during the visit of United States Fills that it is 3,150 miles with full bomb load? [More…]

• ls the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs aware that the United States Central Intelligence Agency had approached Australian journalist Francis James to act as agent during his overseas tour? [More…]

• Can the Minister inform the Parliament whether the former Prime Minister or the Government generally was aware that there was a possibility that Australian journalist Francis James would infiltrate the United States Central Intelligence Agency to satisfy his own curiosity? [More…]

• Was the Australian Government then responsible for leaking that information so that Green Beret methods would be used to eliminate Francis James, or alternatively, was the information supplied to agents of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation or the United States Central Intelligence Agency in the People’s Republic of China in order to ensure that Francis James would be detained indefinitely in that country? [More…]

• Is Australia a party to a secret agreement between the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Canada for co-operation in military research and development; if so, who signed the agreement on behalf of Australia. [More…]

• and (2) There is an agreement at the Defence level between the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada, known as the Technical Co-operation Programme’. [More…]

• Did an American overseer of a properly in the Northern Territory, in a television programme entitled ‘Whicker’s Walkabout’ which appeared on Australian Broadcasting Commission Television recently state that he would shoot any aborigine, without fear of punishment, who was found on a United States acquired property in the Northern Territory; if so, will the PostmasterGeneral insist on a withdrawal of the offensive remarks and ensure that no similar attitudes are expressed in the future in television programmes. [More…]

• Like so many acts of this Government, its action in introducing this Bill, as has been its whole behaviour in running a campaign on the question of law and order, has indicated a desire to imitate the less desirable features of life in the contemporary United States of America. [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…]

• It was promised by Agnew and Reagan, at the behest of the President of the United States, that they would carry on this campaign in the congressional elections to be held in the [More…]

• United States of America at the end of last year. [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…]

• The result of the law and order campaign in the United States was a repudiation of the policies which have become identified’ with the name of Vice-President Agnew, to such an extent that the Republican Party analysts have now concluded that, in those States where Agnew went with his law and order campaign, far from benefiting his own party he benefited the Democratic Party, so that even in the conservative State of Illinois the seat which had been held by the former Republican leader in the Senate, Senator Dirksen, was won by a liberal Democrat, the son of the former Democratic Party Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson. [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…]

• It seems that this Government imitates the politics of the United States only when it wishes to be repressive and not when the opportunity exists to follow the great democratic principles enshrined in the United States Constitution. [More…]

• The right of persons to assemble appears in the First Amendment of the, Bill of Rights, in the United States Constitution. [More…]

• Nobody could fairly deny that problems are involved in free assembly of large gatherings of persons, but under the United States Constitution the first right is the right to assemble. [More…]

• I refer to a judgment delivered in March 1969 by the United States Supreme Court in the case of Gregory v. The City of Chicago. [More…]

• Mr Justice Black of the United States Supreme Court referred to the language of that City of Chicago ordinance in his judgment. [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…]

• 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…]

• I was possibly misled by the lengthy and eloquent remarks of Senator Wheeldon when he attacked Vice-President Agnew of the United States of America. [More…]

• I am not going into the question of why a product which has already been passed in the United States of America or Great Britain is knocked back in Australia. [More…]

• I saw some research going on in Indianapolis in the United States where excessive smoking of pot is thought to be a danger because smokers lose concentration. [More…]

• Usually we follow as quickly as possible anything that is done in the United States but we have not been too fast this time. [More…]

• I know that advertisments about cigarettes have been banned in the United States. [More…]

• The allowances which are paid to a single man on a visit such as this are quite generous, but in the United States for a married couple the allowance is quite hopeless. [More…]

• I would have thought that the only reason people could properly advance in support of that argument is the one advanced by Senator Turnbull - that other countries in the world have done so, particularly the United States of America. [More…]

• I am surprised by the way in which people castigate the Government for slavishly following United States policy on this and that issue, whether it is true or not. [More…]

• But on this issue they urge with all the determination they have that we must follow what the United States is doing. [More…]

• I refer to the visit to Australia of a President of the United States of America. [More…]

• Two misguided brothers who, because they were alleged to be intelligent young men doing university courses, should have known that a visiting dignitary such as a President of the United States would be accompanied by armed guards to protect his security in an intensely crowded area, by their actions ran the risk of those guards opening fire on them thus involving women, children and babes in arms around them. [More…]

• However, I still wonder what would have been the position in the United States as regards mining conditions today if those bombings had not gone on and if disputes had not occurred in Broken Hill. [More…]

• I refer also to a statement made by Chief Justice Earl Warren of the United States Supreme Court. [More…]

• But it is manifesting itself not only here but also in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, many parts of Europe and even in Japan, where the youth are protesting against their lack of national purpose and their lack of something in which to believe and for which to strive. [More…]

• Veterans in the United States of America are appearing before committees and telling of their experiences. [More…]

• I suggest that many of the scientists who at that time were able to migrate from Germany to the United States had more scope and more money available for the tasks on which they were occupied than they could ever have hoped for under Hitler. [More…]

• Norway abolished it in 1905; Denmark in 1930; many States in the United States of America have abolished capital punishment or have greatly restricted its application. [More…]

• Can the abnormally protracted negotiations between the Commonwealth and New South Wales Governments on the release of land on the foreshores of Sydney Harbour for park purposes’ be attributed to either the failure of the New South Wales Premier to reply promptly to a request from the former Prime Minister or the high selling price of the land that has been determined by the Commonwealth, which is in contrast with the practice followed by the Government of the United States of America in its relations with the various States in that country? [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Trade and Industry been drawn to a paragraph in a leading article in an Australian newspaper of today’s date to the effect that there are justifiable fears in the minds of the Japanese Government and of exporters that any foothold they have established in a particular segment of the Australian market can be capriciously closed by Australian vested interests - often United States or United Kingdom owned companies - and the closure justified on the spurious ground of balanced development? [More…]

• Was the stock of F111 aircraft spare parts stored at Amberley returned to the United States of America at the Minister’s direction; if not, who authorised their return. [More…]

• Will the value of the spares returned to the’ United States of America be refunded to Australia or will it be written off and become part of the debt already incurred by Australia over the eight years of negotiations to purchase the F111 aircraft. [More…]

• The value of spares returned to the United States of America is being credited to the Commonwealth at full acquisition cost. [More…]

• Will the whole of the $20m worth of F111 aircraft spare parts held at Amberley be now returned to the United States of America. [More…]

• The whole of these spares will not be returned to the United States of America. [More…]

• The majority of spares returned to date for use’ by the United States Air Force are those having a finite storage life. [More…]

• There were 3 main tenderers from the United States of America. [More…]

• Why did these people come from the United States and tender to buy these 2 aircraft? [More…]

• We know that, in respect of the American firm whose tender was accepted, Mr Barton has certain interests in the United States. [More…]

• He recently acquired a major interest in a United States oil exploration company. [More…]

• One ponders whether or not some liaison occurred between Mr Barton’s representatives in the United States and this company whose tender for the Viscounts eventually was accepted. [More…]

• There was also an intricate matter of loan funds credits - United States credits. [More…]

• In evidence before the Barrier Reef Royal Commission on oil drilling, a leading United States expert on corals, Professor R. E. Johannes, suggested that the poisoning might occur from fish eating certain types of algae that flourish on reefs denuded or coral organisms. [More…]

• If a particular reef is severely infested surely it is reasonable to launch such an attack as has been launched in the United States. [More…]

• The Minister for Works (Senator Wright) knows that the United States of America has a corps of engineers engaged in flood mitigtion relief work. [More…]

• He also is aware that there are a host of other ways in which much more is being done under the Federal systems that operate in the United States and Canada. [More…]

• In part these arise from a lower than expected rate of expenditure under the United States Defence Credit Agreement and as a result of rephasing of and lags in both orders and deliveries of defence goods; and to agreed reductions in Commonwealth expenditure in response to the request of February 1971. [More…]

• I do not have all the articles with me at the moment but there are various reports about declining profits for British Overseas Airways Corporation and other airlines, a substantial loss by most of the airline operators in the United States and a comment that Qantas Airways Ltd had done very well indeed to keep making a profit under those circumstances. [More…]

• On 8th May 1965 was there a near collision of a United States submarine with a group of Australian naval vessels. [More…]

• At the time mentioned several ships of the United States Navy were in Sydney for Coral Sea Week which coincided with Sydney University Commemoration Week. [More…]

• Are there any distinctions between United States and Australian passport procedures? [More…]

• Luis Rodriguez and his manager are not citizens of the United States of America and they hold no passports. [More…]

• They held re-entry permits to the United States for use as identity documents in lieu of passports and their visas for Australia were endorsed on these documents. [More…]

• In special circumstances, however, the United States authorities grant visas on documents other than passports. [More…]

• As for overseas travel, the Permanent Head of the Department went to the United Kingdom, France and Canada and was accompanied by one officer who went to the United States of America and to Canada. [More…]

• The Director of the Bureau of Transport Economics went to the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada. [More…]

• The information I have is that additional funds are required to meet the rescheduling of accounts to be received from the United Kingdom and United States government authorities. [More…]

• A second replenishment of IDA’s resources, involving contributions of $US400m a year, was agreed for the 3 years 1968-69 to 1970-71, although it came into effect only in July 1969 due to a delay by the United States Congress in ratifying the relevant Agreement and passing the necessary legislation to authorise that country’s participation. [More…]

• Because of the size of the pledge to be made by the United States, this means that the agreement cannot enter into effect unless and until it is ratified by that country. [More…]

• This Bill seeks the approval of Parliament to borrowings by the Commonwealth of $US29.58m ($A26.4m) from the ExportImport Bank of the United States and the Boeing Company, and $US30m ($A26.8m) from a syndicate of United States commercial banks led by the Chase Manhattan Bank of New York to assist in financing the purchase of jet aircraft and related equipment by Qantas Airways Ltd. [More…]

• the United States, a commitment fee of one-half of one per cent per annum is to be paid on the undrawn amounts of both loans. [More…]

• The United States, which is the world’s largest consumer of tin, is not a member. [More…]

• In particular, the relative shares of the market previously enjoyed by the major exporters, Canada and the United States, declined sharply. [More…]

• Moreover, a number of important producers, including the United States, Canada and Australia, are operating restraints over production in one form or another in an effort to achieve a better balance between the supply and demand for wheat. [More…]

• But if the United States Consulate in Melbourne is attacked by a mob of hoodlums there is not a question from the Labor Party. [More…]

• When those who aTe interested in the law look at the constitutional law in the great collection of United States law, the corpus juris secundum, it states: [More…]

• At the founding of the United States of America, shortly after the Constitution was adopted, the people put into it Article 1 which provides that Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the Press or of the right of the people peaceably to assemble. [More…]

• They may be found in the United States, which was referred to by one of our colleagues opposite earlier this evening. [More…]

• Australia’s shipments of beef and mutton to the United States of America this year are about 50,000 tons below those of last year. [More…]

• I understand that this is due to certain factors, the main ones being the unusual weather experienced in Queensland, the prohibition - now lifted - on mutton shipments to the United States of America, shipments of beef to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the lower level of stocks carried forward this year compared with last year. [More…]

• They are meeting especially to review the position in relation to the United States of America. [More…]

• This meeting will examine the steps to be taken to ensure that the United States quota is filled. [More…]

• Is he also aware that Australian mutton is selling in the United States of America for 42c per lb c.i.f.? [More…]

• Can the Minister give the reason for the great discrepancy between prices paid to Australian producers and prices being obtained in the United States for similar meat? [More…]

• I do not know whether it is valid to compare auction prices in Australia with prices received for Australian mutton in the United States of America. [More…]

• The only thing I can add is that in- answer to a question recently I pointed out that to increase the demand representatives of the trade in New Zealand, Australia and the United States of America had decided to set- up a committee to, in effect, promote mutton by trade education and consumer education in an effort to encourage the consumption of mutton. [More…]

• Will the Australian Government support the governments of the United States, Canada, Malaysia and the black African Commonwealth Nations in any diplomatic action to prevent the arms sale if it disagrees with the spirit and intention of the British decision. [More…]

• What was the total amount paid to the United States of America as at 6th April 1971 towards the purchase of the 24 F111 aircraft on order for the RAAF. [More…]

• The total amount paid in respect of the project as at 6th April 1971 is $US228.288m of which amount $US223.449m has been paid to the United States Government. [More…]

• The total amount still owing will depend on the outcome of the final decision regarding acceptance or otherwise of the aircraft Final costing for some elements of the project is still to be the subject of discussion and agreement between the United States and the Commonwealth. [More…]

• In doing this I would like to refer again to the judgment of His Honour Mr Justice Black in the case of Gregory v. the City of Chicago which was heard in the Supreme Court of the United States. [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…]

• Having established the principle that freedom of assembly is guaranteed under the law of the United States, the law then must look at what restrictions must be imposed upon freedom of assembly so that the undesirable consequences, such as those which were referred to in the part of Mr Justice Black’s judgment which were quoted by the Minister could not take place. [More…]

• During the course of his judgment Mr Justice Black and other members of the Supreme Court of the United States, but in particular Mr Justice Black, used the phrase ‘meat axe ordinance’. [More…]

• First, he wants to take issue with something which he believes I fairly said last night in regard to what Mr Justice Black said in the Supreme Court of the United States of America. [More…]

• He quoted him again in order to equate the provision which the United States of America Supreme Court was considering with the provision which is before the Senate at the present time. [More…]

• American provisions and seeking to make some comparison with precise Australian provisions, but because Senator Wheeldon raised it let me indicate what that provision was in the United States. [More…]

• It seems to me that in Australia we have the idea that we are different to the United States and Canada and that if we do reach the kind of situation that we have had in some instances the law is incapable of handling it. [More…]

• However, because of the heavy influence of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and the United States Central Intelligence Agency no arrests were made amongst those who were provoking the police. [More…]

• I spent about 4 months in the United States of America and I would not like to have reared 4 sons to live in a community such as I saw there. [More…]

• I should like to read very quickly an extract from a statement on the international air transportation policy of the United States which was approved by the President on 22nd June 1970. [More…]

• The United States should continue to accept . [More…]

• In that respect I make the point that the comment made by the United States President is more valid for a country like the United States, which has a huge aircraft manufacturing industry - I think an over capacity - and an airline industry which is in substantial over capacity. [More…]

• But we do know that there is a tendency, which seems to have been derived in the United States of America, for people to go into these demonstrations carrying obviously repulsive objects, such as a dead animal. [More…]

• That happened in the United States, of course, but surely it would not be suggested that the same thing could not happen here. [More…]

• In view of the serious European balance of payments problem involving the United States dollar and its implications for the Australian dollar, will the Minister representing the Treasurer make a statement to the Senate before it rises outlining Australia’s position so as to allay speculation and other eventualities should a flow of United States dollars into this country commence? [More…]

• Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONIn the last 48 hours there has been considerable publicity in relation to the movement in international finance resulting from a flow of United States dollars and other international currency. [More…]

• We have technical and scientific officers in the United States watching the project all the time and reporting back practically daily, and sometimes even twice or thrice daily. [More…]

• Honourable senators are familiar with the situation that arose in the United States in the early days of the development of its railways. [More…]

• In the United States the private ownership of land upon which railways were built created tremendous problems and a great opportunity for individuals to cash in on public moneys spent in the development of railway systems. [More…]

• Was a secret Agreement entered into by the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada in November 1945 known as the Quebec Agreement? [More…]

• Is Australia a party to a secret agreement between theUnited Kingdom, and United States of America and Canada for co-operation in military research and development; if so, who signed the agreement on behalf of Australia? [More…]

• There is an agreement at defence level between the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada known as the Technical Cooperation Programme. [More…]

• On 8th May 1965 was there a near collision of a United States submarine with a group of Australian naval vessels. [More…]

• I am well aware that because I am a citizen of the United States of America, I could have left Australia before I reached the age of 21 years rather than render National Service. [More…]

• The fact that I have been trying to .transfer from national service to the United States Navy is due to the advice of your predecessor, Mr Snedden. [More…]

• He said that I would have a very good chance of transferring to the United States Navy once I had proof that I was accepted for enlistment in the United States Navy. [More…]

• Sir, if it is impossible for me to transfer into the United States Navy, I definitely do wish to transfer into the Royal Australian Army Electrical and Mechanical Engineers in a radar trade. [More…]

• On 7th January 1970 he saw the American Consul in Brisbane concerning electronic courses available and enlistment in the United States Navy. [More…]

• It was difficult to obtain relevant information and he was advised to write to the United States Naval Attache in Canberra. [More…]

• As he had not received a reply on 23rd February 1970 he on that day sent a carbon copy of the letter dated 8th June 1970 to the United States Naval Attache at Canberra. [More…]

• Between 23rd February and 18th June 1970 he corresponded with the United States Navy Department in Canberra and Sangley Point in the Philippines requesting information concerning electronic courses and enlistment: He was sent a number of brochures and social security and personal history forms to complete. [More…]

• His mother booked a call through the Mount Isa Post Office to the United States Naval Attache for 2 o’clock that afternoon. [More…]

• Mr Spatley said that he would arrange for the lad’s discharge from national service through various channels in which the HSL had connections, but he needed photo copies of the United States documents that would prove that the lad’s intention to enlist was genuine. [More…]

• Two days later Private X brought in the information concerning the lost United States passport so that assistance could be obtained to get another passport. [More…]

• On 25th May 1970 he wrote to the Commonwealth Taxation Office requesting 2 1970 income tax return forms and stated that he intended to enlist in the United States Navy. [More…]

• An appointment was made for a new United States Navy medical check at Barkly Medical Centre during his lunch break on 8th June. [More…]

• He explained that he was enlisting with the United States Navy and would not be undertaking national service. [More…]

• He sent all his correspondence with the United States Navy Department to the Brisbane registrar. [More…]

• At 1.45 p.m. on 17th June he collected his x-ray and completed his United States Navy medical form through a Dr Thompson at the Tocal medical centre. [More…]

• He made inquiries to determine whether this information was sufficient to make him acceptable for enlistment in the United States Navy. [More…]

• Late in June - I am not sure of the date - he went to the office of the local Federal member and made a telephone call to the United States Embassy. [More…]

• The telegram stated that the United States Navy was sending further tests which, when completed, were to be sent to the IEC Navy Recruiting Detachment at an address in San Francisco. [More…]

• As I mentioned, the final result was that he scored sufficiently well to qualify for entry into the United States Navy. [More…]

• His advice was to report for national service and, in so doing, show that he was willing to co-operate with the Australian Government and then, when he received word that he was accepted for enlistment in the United States Navy, to arrange for a transfer. [More…]

• The Minister said that the case was by no means closed and that his chances of being able to enlist in the United States Navy were still good. [More…]

• Private X said to the lass concerned that he would co-operate with the Australian Government, that he would present himself for national service and that he would apply for a transfer when proof of his enlistment qualifications came through from the United States Navy. [More…]

• He “received a telegram from Canberra by ordinary mail stating that his AQT was to be held in Canberra and that he should make arrangements to be tested at the United States Embassy in Canberra He showed the telegram to one of his superior officers and asked whether he could take his 4-day stand-down -in Canberra. [More…]

• In spite of his request and in spite of his attempt to get into the United States Navy, his application was rejected and he was assigned to an infantry platoon. [More…]

• He received a letter from the secretary of his local Federal member who advised that he make an application to the Minister for Labour and National Service, Parliament House, Canberra, for transfer to the United States Navy. [More…]

• On 3rd September 1970, which is only a few weeks after he had actually been inducted he received a letter from the United States Navy Recruiting Detachment at Sangley Point stating that he had made a qualifying score in his AQT test but that he had to make his own way to Sangley Point to be enlisted. [More…]

• He started taking bets with his superior officers as to whether he would be transferred to the United States Navy. [More…]

• I am advised that, while you were born in the United States of America, you have resided in Australia since 1951 and therefore have a clear liability for national service; Under provisions made by the Government in. [More…]

• However, the United States is not recognised for the purposes of this -provision. [More…]

• This is a case of a lad who was most anxious not to avoid the provisions of the National Service Act, who took all the necessary steps before he was required for medical check or before he was called up to apply for entry into the United States Navy. [More…]

• After all, we are supposed to be friendly with the United States. [More…]

• By way of preface I refer to the recent United States Supreme Court decision which terminates the [More…]

• United States citizenship of a foreign born child of an American parent unless the child lives in the United States for 5 consecutive years between the ages of 14 and 28. [More…]

• The United States of America has had such legislation at the federal level for many years. [More…]

• Broadly, the effect of the United States Naval Communication Station (Civilian Employees) Act 1968 is to extend to civilian employees employed by the United States Navy in connection with the station the terms of the Commonwealth Employees Compensation Act as if they were employees of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• It also gives to these employees, or to another person, in the event of an injury or disease causing the death of such an employee, the right to recover damages at common law from the Commonwealth, and again as if the Commonwealth were the employer, in the event of damage arising from injury, disease or death suffered directly as a result of employment with the United States Navy, subject, of course, to the usual requirements concerning negligence being met. [More…]

• The purpose of this Bill is, firstly, to make amendments to the United States Naval Communication Station (Civilian Employees) Act 1968, which in Part II of the Bill is referred to as the principal Act. [More…]

• Secondly, the Bill provides, in Part III, consequent upon the Compensation (Commonwealth Employees) Bill 1971, for the application of the provisions of that Bill to certain civilian employees of the Government of the United States of America employed in connection with the station, whether within or outside the territorial limits of Australia. [More…]

• The amendment to section 3 of the principal Act will make clear that persons employed by an instrumentality of the Government of the United States of America, in this instance, the Navy Exchange, whom it was always intended should be covered by the Act, are civilian employees - within the restricted meaning that that term has in this context - for purposes of the Act. [More…]

• The other amendments to the principal Act will enable the principal Act to be applied to civilian employees who are employed, either within or outside the territorial limits of Australia, by the Government of the United States of America in connection with the station. [More…]

• When the principal Act was being prepared it was not clear whether any civilian employees of the Government of the United States would be employed outside the territorial limits of Australia and the application of the Act was limited accordingly. [More…]

• The purpose of the Association, which was formed on the initiative of the Senate of the United States of America, is to provide loans to developing countries which are not in a position to borrow money on the world market at the normal rates of interest. [More…]

• They depend on money which is made available by wealthier nations such as Australia, and more particularly, the United States of America, to allow them to bridge the gap between their capacity and what they would like to do and, I am sure, what we would all like them to do. [More…]

• Most of the time Canada lives in an asbestos box provided by the United States of America. [More…]

• The United States, out of a total of SUS2,428m, is asked to produce $US960m. [More…]

• The first amount that I mentioned is to be borrowed from the Export-Import Bank and the amount of $US30m will be borrowed from a number of banks in the United States, including the Chase Manhattan Bank of New York] The purpose of borrowing this money, is. [More…]

• It may be of interest to note that in the 11 years prior to 1968 the Commonwealth has been the borrower of approximately $US289m from the various banks in the United States in order that aircraft could be bought by Qantas. [More…]

• It continues: with armed forces of the United States or (b) which furnishes by direct governmental action (not including chartering, licensing or sales by non-wholly owned business enterprises) goods, supplies, military assistance, or advisers to any nation described in Clause (a) above. [More…]

• But the most remarkable thing is - and I have never blamed the United States for protecting itself - that the United States, on behalf of Boeing, has said: ‘There may be some mechanism in these planes which we believe other countries have not got and which we want to see they do not get.’ [More…]

• the Minister for Civil Aviation (Senator Cotton) said that the purpose of this Bill is for the Parliament to approve borrowings by the Commonwealth of $A26.4m from the Export-Import Bank of the United States and the Boeing Company, and $A26.8m from a syndicate of United States commercial banks led by the Chase Manhattan Bank of New York to assist in financing the purchase of 4 Boeing 747 aircraft and related equipment, spares and services estimated to cost $A125m. [More…]

• I think that this is the tenth or eleventh occasion on which parliamentary approval has been sought by the Government for a borrowing by the Commonwealth in the United States of America on behalf of Qantas Airways Limited. [More…]

• Between 1957 and 1968 over $A258m has been borrowed from the United States. [More…]

• For instance, only last weekend, there were full page advertisements in the Sunday newspapers giving reasons why one should travel with an international operator, which is a competitor of Qantas, between Australia and the United States of America. [More…]

• The United States Government has allocated funds for the construction of 2 prototype Boeing supersonic transports. [More…]

• Qantas has an option for 6 of the United States supersonics. [More…]

• I refer particularly to the page headed ‘International Agreements’ where it states that Qantas carried some 700,000 passengers last year compared with 14 million on United States international airlines, 9 million on United Kingdom airlines, 5 million on French airlines and 3 million each on the Canadian, German, Swiss and Italian airlines. [More…]

• I referred to the answers given by the Minister recently relating to charter flights generally and the application made to the Minister by World Airways Inc. in connection with charter flights between the United States of America and Australia. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the application of World Airways Inc. is based on the proposal for15 charter flights into Australia which would not detrimentally affect existing services of Qantas Airways Ltd to the United States of America? [More…]

• Almost all internation airlines, with some exceptions and apart from the countries behind the Iron Curtain, are flying substantially the same limited types of aircraft - Boeings, perhaps Douglases and some other British planes - the great bulk of which are manufactured in the United States of America. [More…]

• 8m is to be borrowed from a syndicate of United States commercial banks, with which the Chase Manhattan Bank of New York is associated, and the $2 6.4m is to be borrowed from the Export-Import Bank of the United States under loan agreements. [More…]

• The United States would be well advised to pay some attention to this because even if the Government is not resenting the fact that these provisions are contained in Bills, the Opposition is, not only in this chamber but also in the House of Representatives. [More…]

• If the United States wants to produce a relationship which will be conducive to proper and continued fair dealing between the countries it should pay some attention to seeing to it that these provisions which are resented and which the Opposition regards as an indignity, are taken out of these Bills and agreements. [More…]

• I do not care whether the United States has some Act of Congress which says it has to be done in this way. [More…]

• If the United States wants to do business with us, and it does because it wants to sell its aircraft and we want to buy the aircraft, it should give consideration to taking these provisions out of the arrangements. [More…]

• If the United States wants to continue selling goods to us and to continue lending money as a means of facilitating sales - it does let there be no doubt about it - these provisions should come out of the agreements. [More…]

• I am saying that I do not think this is a very satisfactory way, from the point of view of the United States, to be dealing with us, and the sooner the United States wakes up to it the better. [More…]

• It would be a lot better if that is what the United States did. [More…]

• It would be very difficult to see how the United States could have a treaty obligation, except with us, that would affect us in that way. [More…]

• If the Government says there is some such thing let it tell us, but I find it difficult to conceive that the United States could enter into a treaty with somebody else which would affect its relations with us in this way. [More…]

• Let us not be put in the position of a subordinate or second rate country in dealing with the United States. [More…]

• At the same time, there is a certain national dignity to be maintained and if year after year the United States persists, through its agency, in offending that national dignity by insisting that as a condition of borrowing some money from it - which we will be paying back after all - we have to enter into terms which some of us here consider to be degrading, it is going to affect our future relationship. [More…]

• I hope that not only the Treasury but also the United States authorities will take that into account. [More…]

• I think the United States authorities ought to understand, and our Treasury ought to make them understand, that resentment is arising in Australia because of these clauses in the agreement which have no real purpose but are degrading to us. [More…]

• If it is necessary to include them because of United States legislation, the United States should consider that legislation. [More…]

• I think it is reasonable that in view of our comity with the United States the American Government ought to be put on notice that clauses are being included in agreements which are certainly offensive to a considerable number of members of the Australian Parliament, on no other ground than that they are inconsistent with the dignity of this country and are degrading to our sovereignty. [More…]

• To take this theme to its logical conclusion we would have to consider the history of the United States over the last 20 years. [More…]

• I hope I do not upset the decorum of the Senate by saying that I remember reading that on one memorable occasion when the creation of a massive bureau in Washington was being discussed, Harry Truman, the President of the United States of America, who was a very earthy man, listened to what was said for a while and then said: ‘That agency will be about as much use as the male nipple’. [More…]

• Is it true that so far Australia has paid $228m to the United States of America as a deposit on the 24 Fill fighter bombers? [More…]

• I referred to this matter last week in answer to a question by Senator Bishop when I explained that I would be sending officers to the United States of America to make inquiries concerning the progress towards meeting our operational technical requirements as laid down under the Laird-Fraser agreement in May of last year. [More…]

• Is it a fact’ that a serious difference has arisen between the United States and Australian governments over the supply of agricultural machinery by Australia to Cuba? [More…]

• Has the United States Government indicated that it will take action to deter further exports of such goods by Australia to Cuba? [More…]

• While it may be true that Japan spends only 1 per cent of its gross national product on defence, as the Prime Minister announced in the House of Representatives, is the Government aware that substantial contributions to the re-arming of Japan have been made by the Government of the United States of America since the end of World War II? [More…]

• Will the Minister inform the Senate of the total amount of United States contributions to Japanese rearmament since the end of World War II? [More…]

• It is well known that the United States of America has made substantial contributions to the Japanese economy, as well as to the defence of Japan. [More…]

• With regard to the amount of United States contributions for the purpose referred to by Senator O’Byrne, he would not expect me to have that knowledge without reference to the Department. [More…]

• If the terms relating to the use of the FI 1 1 aircraft have yet to be negotiated, will the Minister see to what extent the servicing and overhaul specifications and the work which has now apparently been sent to the United States of America might be let out to Australian manufacturers? [More…]

• Is the United States of America Central Intelligence Agency responsible for the financing and equipping of a provincial reconnaissance unit in Vietnam; if so, is the unit better known as the assassination squad.’ [More…]

• Under the presidential governmental system a Secretary of State, say, in the United States, is required to administer his department and perform other duties of that character whereas under the Westminster system the same gentleman is required to represent an electorate - or a State if he is a senator - to run his department, to appear in the House and answer questions, to present legislation for his department and to present, defend and explain the estimates for his department. [More…]

• It was in this struggle that there emerged in the United States of America a new concept of government. [More…]

• That was the Constitution of the United States of America, whereby an attempt was made to separate the power of the executive and the power of the Congress. [More…]

• It is not the circumstance in which there is a division of power between the executive and the Government clearly demarked by the Constitution of the United States of America. [More…]

• The situation in the United States is very different from that in Australia. [More…]

• The United States, which is the world’s largest consumer of tin, is not a member. [More…]

• Of those, 315 are available to the United States of America. [More…]

• Almost onethird of the votes that are available to the consuming countries are allocated to the United States of America. [More…]

• The United States, by her own vote, can bring the Agreement into operation providing 950 votes are available from the producing countries. [More…]

• Yet the United States of America is not prepared to ratify the International Tin Agreement. [More…]

• It seems to me that the United States is prepared to enter into negotiations with other world producers and consumers of tin to fix the price at which that commodity shall bc sold on the world market but then reserves to herself the right to stand outside the agreement, which she is capable of influencing, and to buy tin on the world market at prices less than the international agreement price. [More…]

• I do not believe that the United States plays the game in any way on the international trade scene. [More…]

• The case concerns the freighter S.S. ‘Hanna’ which, was bought by a business house in Taiwan from the United States of America earlier this year. [More…]

• The United States has the same number of votes. [More…]

• lt is interesting to see the considerable power that could be exercised by the European Economic Community, the United States and Canada in the operation of the Agreement. [More…]

• In the United States of America as at March there were stocks of 957 million bushels. [More…]

• The United States, European Economic Community, Canadian, Japanese and Argentinian contributions are also unchanged. [More…]

• The voting patterns would be those one would expect in a situation with the European Economic Community being a large importer of wheat as well as a producer of wheat products and Canada and the United States of America being large producers. [More…]

• During those discussions the United States representatives claimed that there would be a tremendous growth in business and that the granting of extra frequencies would produce this increased growth. [More…]

• If the terms relating to the use of the F111 aircraft have yet to be negotiated, will the Minister see to what extent the servicing and overhaul specifications and the work which has now apparently been sent to the United States of America might be let out to Australian manufacturers? [More…]

• The terms relating to maintenance of the Phantom aircraft while on lease to us from the United States Air Force are embodied in the lease document and provide that the Royal Australian Air Force shall operate and maintain the leased property to USAF standards while it is under RAAF control, including modifications, periodic overhauls, technical order compliance, and any other actions that would be taken by the RAAF if the aircraft were owned by the RAAF and maintained to standards equivalent to those applied by the USAF. [More…]

• By returning these spares, we avail ourselves of the production line in the United States and are included in the total rework programme for the whole fleet of Fill aircraft. [More…]

• To illustrate the point I am making, I should like to include in the record a list which shows some of the matters under the administration of various departments in the United States of America. [More…]

• With the concurrence of honourable senators I incorporate in Hansard an extract from a publication produced by the United States Department of the Interior called ‘Assistance for Outdoor Recreation’. [More…]

• In fact, there have been 18 crashes in the United States. [More…]

• It has fitted too neatly into the defence concepts established by the United States. [More…]

• But it is evident that he and his specialist groups that travel to and from the United States have been very careful and are not satisfied. [More…]

• Before the suspension of the sitting I was referring to our commitments with the United States of America to purchase the F111 aircraft and our arrangements to lease Phantom aircraft. [More…]

• In the United States 18 F111 aircraft have crashed and this has occasioned our specialists to give definite consideration to whether the order should be cancelled, as a result of which Australia would stand to lose a great deal of money. [More…]

• It seems to us that in relation to aircraft acquired from the United States . [More…]

• I know that the Government and the Minister could say: ‘Well, we have sent special teams to the United States of America to see to what extent we could get offset orders’, but the fact is. [More…]

• When we consider, the magnitude of the expenditure, totalling about $500m, on importing aircraft from the United States of America, we realise that Australia is getting only small bundles of orders to a total value of $4m or SSm. [More…]

• I support the remarks of Senator Bishop, but I wish to refer more specifically to the Fill aircraft contract with the United States of America. [More…]

• When the original agreement was entered into, a document dated 19th October 1963 was circulated in the Parlia ment which gave details of the text of the memorandum of understanding between the United States Secretary of Defence and the then Australian Minister for Defence. [More…]

• A further statement was made on 25th October 1966 by Secretary Hicks of the United States Government when the Australian Government was attempting to alter the arrangements which had been entered into. [More…]

• At the same time there is also evidence of a wide disparity between the estimates of the United States authorities and our own Australian advisers as to the comparative costs involved. [More…]

• According to the same report the cost of the 24 aircraft estimated by the United States Air Force as at April 1967 was $237.7m. [More…]

• I reminded the United States Government of our acute dissatisfaction in Australia with the project, and said that Australia did not consider that our order of 24 aircraft created a joint project in any real sense; that, on the contrary, this was essentially a United States project . [More…]

• Mr Malcolm Fraser said that in regard to this highly technical area he did not learn anything in the United States of America - and now I quote him - ‘which, to my mind, casts doubt on the expert advice given to me . [More…]

• Despite the fact that the United Kingdom Government years ago cancelled its contract and that the United States Navy also cancelled its contract, the Australian Government has not had the courage to face up to the fact that eventually it will have to decide to do the same thing or, alternatively, if we ever get the aircraft, find ourselves involved more and more deeply in further expenditure on the aircraft and probably the supply of tankers as well. [More…]

• Honourable senators will recall that last year the then Minister for Defence, together with officers of my Department, went to the United States of America and spoke with the Minister for Defence in that country, Mr Laird, before coming back here with what is now called the Fraser-Laird minute. [More…]

• The chief technical officer of the Department of Air has gone to the United States of America to determine exactly What is the situation at the present time in regard to these technical fatigue tests. [More…]

• have technical and project officers in the United States on the site all the time, giving us advice and keeping us in touch with the project position. [More…]

• United States of America offset orders and sub-contracts for Australian industry as a means of easing the foreign exchange burden on defence equipment. [More…]

• Another factor is that in Europe and the United States of America lighter fibres have become more fashionable. [More…]

• In that time there were swept away from the Scottish Highlands, the Irish lands and the Welsh hills, thousands of people who eventually found their way to the United States of America, Canada or Australia and sought to reestablish themselves on the land. [More…]

• This happened in the United States of America where a whole generation was driven off the land after the 1914-18 war. [More…]

• We also have a new situation in regard to the American-Australian-Cuban situation relating to the supply of farm machinery in that the South American republics which are members of the Organisation of American States are pressing the United States in the circumstances for the rescission - or apparently that is expected - of the Australian sugar quota on the American market. [More…]

• Has the Minister any intention of replying to the loud-mouthed Yanks, both United States Government spokemen and the Press, who have been very vocal against Australia in so many fields over the past week? [More…]

• Will he inform them that in addition to our troops in Vietnam, without foreign or Marshall aid the balance of trade between our two countries has favoured the United States by over $2,400m during the past 5i years - this excluding the Fill transaction and the huge profits made by American companies investing in Australia? [More…]

• The honourable senator may take it that in matters of trade with the United States or with any other country Australia prosecutes its natural self interest to the best of its ability. [More…]

• It is perfectly true that the trade situation with the United States has, through the years, improved progressively in favour of the United States, and therefore Australia ought to have increased trading opportunity in the United States for many things that we produce and that we think people in the United States should have a chance to buy. [More…]

• My question to the Minister for Civil Aviation refers to previous answers by the Minister and further publicity about an application by the United States charter operator, World Airways, for 15 charter nights to Australia. [More…]

• Is it a fact, as the Minister said in reply, that the application was for control by World Airways of the charter services to and from Australia, or was there an agreement or a proposal that consideration would be given to 15 reciprocal charter flights from Australia to the United States? [More…]

• The latest information we have is that Qantas Airways Ltd was asked to make an application in the United States to provide facilities to fly the people referred to. [More…]

• No doubt the Minister is aware of a recent announcement made by Dr Linus Pauling, the eminent United States scientist, twice winner of the Nobel prize for his work, to the effect that a copious intake of vitamin C will act as a preventive shield against the common cold. [More…]

• Has the Minister seen reports of the debate which is now raging in the United States of America between certain senators in relation to Australia’s selling mechanical sugar cane harvesters to Cuba? [More…]

• Has the Minister taken steps to inform the American senators and the American Government of this fact, particularly as there could be great damage to the sugar industry of Queensland if the quota of sugar supplied to America is cut or eliminated because of the stand by the United States of America? [More…]

• On 12th March i947 the President of the United States of America announced what was to become known as the Truman Doctrine on military aid to Turkey and economic and military aid to Greece. [More…]

• The United States Senate carried a resolution by Senator George Vandenberg that the United States enter into military agreements in conformity with the United Nations Charter. [More…]

• On 6th July 1948 representatives of the United States Department of State, the Ambassador of Canada and representatives of the Brussels Treaty countries met in Washington to plan such an alliance. [More…]

• Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. [More…]

• It is indeed serious, as I indicated in a question I directed to the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson) this morning, that large blocks of the equity holdings of finance companies which are attracting overseas, investment should be in the hands of banks in Hong Kong, United States of America, Great Britain and Canada. [More…]

• The pyramid idea came to Australia from the United States where it has been under increasingly heavy fire and the subject of several investigations. [More…]

• That company which sells detergent uses the hard sell techniques perfected in the United States. [More…]

• Koscot Australia is a company which was launched 4 years ago in the United States. [More…]

• The honourable senator mentioned many countries, including those in most parts of Europe as well as the United States of America, in which legislation of this type has existed for many years. [More…]

• Reported figures show that gross profit of department stores in the United States is 36 per cent, in the United Kingdom 31 per cent and 29 per cent in Australia. [More…]

• The average for the top 10 retailers in Australia is 10 per cent but in the United States it is 11.9 per cent. [More…]

• It is not, perhaps, by accident that legislation of this character comes to this country many years after similar legislation has been in effect in other countries such as the United States, Great Britain and certain continental countries. [More…]

• May I now say something of the type of legislation that was introduced into the United States in 1890. [More…]

• That is one matter in respect of which the people of the United States received a benefit as a result of similar legislation. [More…]

• The Act is admittedly clumsy in operation, but it has a wonderful deterrent effect on the wouldbe commercial buccaneer in the United States. [More…]

• Standard Oil, Stetson Hats, Kodak and Judson Rivets are some of the well known names which have been effectively dealt with in the United States. [More…]

• In the United States, which I suppose must be regarded as the home of free enterprise, the practice under the old Sherman Act - I call it that for lack of a better title at the moment - was that where a company had 35 per cent of the market it was not allowed to fix its resale price maintenance figures. [More…]

• The subsidiary Bills to this Bill are the United States Naval Communications Station (Civilian Employees) Bill, the Air Accidents (Commonwealth Liability) Bill, the Anglo-Australian Telescope Agreement Bill and the Seamen’s Compensation Bill which will be debated following consideration of this Bill. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the appropriate Minister: In view of the very serious situation which could develop in the Queensland sugar industry because of any loss of markets or loss of the opportunity to increase markets in the United States as a result of this sale, will the Minister see that some statement is made publicly so that the people of Queensland, and in particular those engaged in the sugar industry, will know that the Commonwealth Government is on the alert in relation to this matter, because of the potential loss not only to Queensland but also to the nation generally in external or overseas credits. [More…]

• It is evident, though, from reading an article from the United States which appeared in this morning’s Press that this is, as one suspected earlier, to some extent tied up with the general position of Australia in negotiating for a higher sugar quota in the United States. [More…]

• Was the Australian Government aware that there was a possibility that Francis James would infiltrate the United States Central Intelligence Agency to satisfy his own curiosity; [More…]

• Did the United States Central Intelligence Agency approach Australian journalist Francis James to act as an agent during his overseas tour; [More…]

• It is well known that wool interests in Australia, Europe and the United States of America have been carrying out such investigations for some time. [More…]

• In Belguim - there is no law relating to this but it is compulsory in insured schemes - the qualifying period for portability is 5 years, in Canada it is 10 years, in Denmark 5 years, in Finland immediately, in France immediately, in the Netherlands 5 years, in Norway immediately, in Sweden immediately and the United States, South Africa and West German governments are currently considering the period of 10 years. [More…]

• Inspite of the explanation given by the Leader of the Government in the Senate that it is loo early to talk of the implications of the freeing of the United States dollar. [More…]

• He would be aware that in the State of Florida in the United States of America there was massive agitation by conservationists about what a particular airport would bring about. [More…]

• One could probably argue about transportation to the State of Florida from other major regions in the United States of America, but the fact of the matter is that the President of the United States of America, President Nixon, vetoed the whole project. [More…]

• President Nixon’s veto of one section of aviation expansion was not the death knell of the aircraft industry in the United States of America. [More…]

• At the age of 23 years he married a citizen of the United States of America and took up residence 6 months ago at 144 Ridge Road, Watchung, New Jersey. [More…]

• official of the theatrical employees union, was in a very agitated state when he telephoned me tonight and asked how this boy, who is an alien in the United States, could be subject to call up by the United States Army. [More…]

• I ask: How would such an error occur in the United States of America? [More…]

• As most acrylic tow is imported from the United States of America and is duty free, whilst the United States has a duty of 25 ic per lb on wool, will the Government give consideration to the imposition of protective duty against this strong competitor of our wool? [More…]

• Listening to the honourable senator with great care I could not help thinking to myself that the Australia-United States trade patterns are of great importance to this country and that the imbalance of trade between ourselves and the United States was quite a little bit worse in the last year than it was 10 years ago. [More…]

• Has the Minister seen a press report to the effect that a black United States citizen has been refused permission to say in Australia for another year despite the fact that he has special skills and guarantees of employment? [More…]

• Did the Minister issue a statement this week denying that the Government of the United States of America had objected to the sale by Australia of sugar harvesters to Cuba; if so, can the Minister reconcile his statement with the statement of the United States State Department Press Officer, Mr Robert McClosky, in which be is reported to have said that the United States had made representations to the Australian Government about the sale? [More…]

• There has been an informal exchange of views, at a routine level, with the United States and this is what Mr McClosky was referring to in his remarks to the Press on 12th May 1971. [More…]

• However the United States has not objected to the sale by Australia of sugar cane harvesters to Cuba. [More…]

• It has been explained to the United States that the sale of sugar cane harvesters to Cuba was a normal commercial transaction which did not involve items of strategic significance. [More…]

• Two safeguards inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency visited Australia from 15th to 23rd April 1971 to inspect safeguarded material supplied by the United Stales to Australia under the agreement for co-operation concerning the civil uses of atomic energy in force between Australia and the United States. [More…]

• United States Steel (N.Y.) Inc. [More…]

• The Department of Foreign Affairs has since discussed the matter with the Embassy of the United States of America. [More…]

• The Department was informed that under normal circumstances nonimmigrant visa applications by residents of the Australian Capital Territory are processed and posted within 24 hours of receipt by the United States Consulate-General in Sydney. [More…]

• The Embassy has pointed out that United States Consulates issue visas in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth where the major volumes of applications arc lodged. [More…]

• The decision to change to the metric system was made in recognition of the considerable benefits which will follow the change, that it was in any case inevitable having regard to the world situation in which the United States of America is now the only non-metric country, not committed to the change, and that the longer it is delayed the greater will be the costs. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the United States Ambassador in Taiwan has publicly predicted that Taiwan’s international trade volume may be equal ‘ to or in excess of that of Mainland China in 2 or 3 years’ time? [More…]

• I understand that die United States Ambassador to the Republic of China said, when addressing the American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei, that the Republic of China’s total trade volume may be equal to, or larger than, that of the People’s Republic of China within 2 or 3 years. [More…]

• Then in February this year the Seamen’s Union banned service to United States vessels as a demonstration of support for the anti-war congress held in Sydney in that month. [More…]

• He said that the United States of America had a record of industrial unrest much greater than that in Australia. [More…]

• The economy of the United States is threatened, and one would be moderate in saying that the economy of the United Kingdom is staggering. [More…]

• The parliamentary system under which we operate is known as the Westminster system as distinct from that practised in the United States of America and some of the newly emerging countries. [More…]

• This is at a time when the United States of America is making very radical moves in Asia. [More…]

• The withdrawal of the United States and Great Britain from the area is in turn causing the Asian nations to look even more to the continent of Australia for assistance. [More…]

• I understand that he also referred to the production of synthetic meats in the United States of America, which is a very large market for Australian meats, and said that already General Foods and Dupont were making synthetic meat. [More…]

• If so, what is the current view as to its evaluation by the experts in the United States of America? [More…]

• The honourable senator will recall that in May last year, following the visit to the United States of the then Minister for Defence, Mr Fraser, the Fraser-Laird agreement, which included a clause providing for certain tests to be carried out, was announced. [More…]

• Does this mean that negotiations with the United States to allow 747s through that country have failed? [More…]

• I press him to do so, especially in the light of changing circumstances in Vietnam and the fact that in the United States system the man responsible for the dreadful massacres at My Lai is still not in prison, whereas 2 young men who have refused to be involved in that dreadful war are languishing in an Australian prison? [More…]

• Is he aware that the United States of America has almost eradicated brucellosis from its beef producing areas? [More…]

• What action does the Minister intend to take to prevent a situation arising in which our meat cannot be exported to the United States? [More…]

• Will the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry inform the Parliament whether recent restrictions imposed by the United States of America on its currency will result in any loss or restriction of the export market for Queensland canned tropical fruits and fruit juices? [More…]

• Its purpose was to help, jointly with the United States and others, to sustain and develop the confidence of the government and the people of the Republic; to help defend it; to develop its capacities to deal with both overt aggression and externally promoted insurgency; and to enable it to make its own decisions about its future in a context of greater security. [More…]

• It has for some time been our policy to withdraw our forces progressively as and when in our judgment, and after consultation with the Republic of Vietnam and the United States, the situation has allowed it. [More…]

• We hope that these elements will continue to work in close association with the United States effort in this field. [More…]

• At the same time, we see changes in the defence posture of our close allies, particularly the United States. [More…]

• Indeed, if one examines the position in the United States one finds that there is even less representation involved in the government of Washington in the District of Columbia than there is in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• When the Agreements were made in 1954, the United States, although not a signatory to the Agreements, indicated quite clearly through its then Secretary .of State, Mr Foster Dulles, that k ‘ would support and carry out the terms of the Geneva Agreements. [More…]

• That government refused to carry OUt the terms of the Agreements, and it was only when it became obvious that the United States and the puppets of the United States were not carrying out the terms of the Geneva Agreements that the National Liberation Front in South Vietnam engaged in armed activity in order to see that the people of Vietnam would be able to conduct their own affairs. [More…]

• The ANZUS Treaty, which refers only to aggression against one of the three member countries - Australia, New Zealand and the United States - obviously has nothing to do with the form of government in South Vietnam. [More…]

• I must confess that when I have been in the United States I have not heard an American talk about the Australian alliance. [More…]

• The argument went that if we would send troops to Vietnam because the United States had troops there, somehow or other in days to come the United States Government would remember what we had done for it and at great inconvenience to itself it would get into difficulties, and give American lives and arms and American wealth in order to save Australia from some aggressor because of what we had done in Vietnam. [More…]

• What has been the record of relations between the United States and Australia ever since we have had troops in Vietnam? [More…]

• When the United States decided to reduce Australian meat imports into that country, did anybody say that that action should not be taken because Australia had 8,000 troops in Vietnam? [More…]

• When the President of the United States decided to go to China to pay court to Chairman Mao in order to salvage the few vestiges of American interests still left in that part of the world following the results of the United States’ absurd foreign policy, did the President give any consideration to the embarrassing situation in which he placed his loyal ally, the Prime Minister of Australia? [More…]

• President Nixon, the President of the United States himself, is to go off to China, his arrangements made for him by none other than Dr Kissinger, regarded as probably the most eminent - or, if ‘eminent’ is not the word, the most persuasive and well-informed - adviser to the United States Government. [More…]

• previous tack he would have no alternative but to describe President Nixon as the Manchurian President, and to say that President Nixon had sold out Australia or had sold out the United States. [More…]

• Did the United States Government pay the slightest heed to the position of its ally, Australia? [More…]

• The Government of the United States decided that it was in the interests of the United States to talk turkey with the Chinese, and if the Australians did not like it, it was too bad for them. [More…]

• It is absurd nonsense that if we would send 8,000 troops to Vietnam, the United States would come rushing to our support. [More…]

• The United States would come to the support of Australia if it became involved in conflict with another power, if it thought it were in the interests of the United States to do so. [More…]

• The United States would not come to Australia’s assistance if it did not think it was in the interests of the United States to do so. [More…]

• The United States thinks it is in its interests to have an agreement with the Government of China and it will have an agreement with the Government of China, whether it is in the interests of Australia or not. [More…]

• Within the last few days the floating of the United States dollar has taken place and a 10 per cent surcharge is to be made on imports into the United States. [More…]

• Has the United States Government said: ‘But of course, we have to make one exception to all this - dear little Australia and Mr McMahon. [More…]

• If Ted Hill had been Prime Minister of Australia instead of Billy McMahon, the treatment we have had in respect of the floating of the United States dollar would not have been one whit worse than it is at present under the present Government which has sent young Australians to murder and to be murdered in Vietnam in order to build up these treasures in heaven.It has been said that the United States would make great sacrifices on our behalf because of our young men we have had murdered in Vietnam. [More…]

• Our meat cannot be exported to the United States. [More…]

• The United States Government consults with China without telling us a word about it. [More…]

• The United States has floated its dollar and has imposed a 10 per cent surcharge on our exports to that country. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Air and refers to a report which came from the United States of America early last July regarding modifications to the Phantom F4E aircraft and the Minister’s statement that some examination was being made of this report. [More…]

• Has the Royal Australian Air Force completed its study of the United States recommendations to modify these aircraft? [More…]

• 1 ask: Is the Minister aware that last year the United States Senate passed a Bill to outlaw cigarette advertising from radio and television and to strengthen health warnings on cigarette packets? [More…]

• In the United States 1 also found a concern for the future of world trade related to the policies of the EEC both in protection for agriculture and the spread of new preferential agreements. [More…]

• The other particular concern in the United States is with the protective policies of Japan. [More…]

• These reflect the continuing problems which the United States has been experiencing in its balance of payments which have led to the serious measures which were announced by the President this week. [More…]

• These measures, on the trade side, included the imposition cf a temporary import levy of 10 per cent on about half of United States imports. [More…]

• Happily for Australia, some of our major exports to the United States - beef, sugar, alumina, beach sands, totalling about 70 per cent of our exports are exempt from the levy. [More…]

• However, the measures will have a marked effect on the trade with the United States of other countries such as Japan, and Australia’s exports of raw materials which are processed in Japan for re-export to the United States could he affected. [More…]

• The one pleasing feature of the United States measures is that they have been clearly announced as temporary, to be removed when the causes of the current problems disappear. [More…]

• It had been feared that the rising protectionist sentiment in the United States, which arose because of the pressures on the United States trade balance, might result in the erection of permanent barriers to trade. [More…]

• Since the War the United States has been a leader in all the moves towards freer trade. [More…]

• However, until the immediate and pressing problems are overcome the United States Administration would not be prepared to Undertake to seek from Congress a mandate for such a major international move, Indeed, the climate in the United States is such that it would be difficult for any Bill designed to free trade to succeed. [More…]

• While in the United States 1 explored the possibility of reopening the question of the United States wool duty which has so long been a thorn in the side of our own trade with the United States. [More…]

• Whilst I received a sympathetic hearing on the difficulties of the Australian wool industry and on the importance for us of some movement in the United States wool duty, I was given clearly to understand that in the current circumstances there was no prospect of legislative action designed to open the way for an agreement leading to the reduction of the wool duty. [More…]

• I have mentioned the problems which the United States Government feels with the protection used by Japan against its goods. [More…]

• Moreover, if we can sell over SI 20m worth of manufactures on a straight competitive basis in a vast manufacturing country like the United States - as we did in 1969-70- and nearly S800m to all world markets, we should not be pessimistic about our ability to be competitive also in Europe. [More…]

• The recent action by President Nixon to protect the United States’ economy has, moreover, introduced a new and complicating factor in the consideration of prices and the demand for wool in the 1971-72 season. [More…]

• This procedure is accepted in the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada and all Australian States. [More…]

• There has been a national campaign in the United States of America against crime and on crime prevention. [More…]

• Has this action resulted in a steady revaluation to 2 per cent of our dollar in relation to the United States dollar? [More…]

• Will he accept my figures when I indicate that between 1958 and 1968 the average number of days lost for each 1,000 employees through strikes was 262 in Britain, 312 in France, 345 in Australia, 784 in Canada, 1,008 in Italy and 1,114 in the United States? [More…]

• In these circumstances will the Government consider inviting to Australia the eminent consumer protection expert in the United States of America, Mr Ralph Nader, to advise the Parliament on how best to protect consumers from improper actions by an increasing number of manufacturers and some distributors? [More…]

• This study analysed inflation in the last IS years in a number of West European countries and also Canada, the United States and Japan. [More…]

• Kingdom, in other parts of Europe and in the United States, one appreciates that it was an extremely modest rise. [More…]

• The conservative governments in the United States and Britain have made the mistake of putting millions out of work to try to contain inflation. [More…]

• The United States of America is clearly about to wind down and leave behind its Vietnam presence. [More…]

• The United States President is about to journey to Peking to do some hard bargaining with Communist China. [More…]

• Whatever emerges from the dialogue between the United States and Communist China its shadow has already been cast over Asia. [More…]

• Japan is showing deep concern and the clear view of other Asian nations is that the Nixon Doctrine, which current United States moves clearly represent, carries a simple message. [More…]

• ls it a fact that in addition to the orders for 5 Boeing “547 aircraft from the United States a request has been made by Qantas Airways Ltd for consideration of further Boeing 747s? [More…]

• Are the decisions dependent upon the arrangements which will be made between the United States and the Australian party which is now in the United States? [More…]

• If not, what will be Qantas’s requirements of the United States industry? [More…]

• The members of the negotiating team at present in Washington on behalf of the Australian Government are the DirectorGeneral of Civil Aviation; the General Manager of Qantas, Captain Ritchie; and the Australian Ambassador to the United States, Sir James Plimsol]. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Customs and Excise: Is it not a fact that the United States Government has sought to encourage Turkey and Mexico to discourage some of their farming communities from cultivating plants which are the source of well know drugs? [More…]

• The United States of America has realised this in its handling of the position over the years. [More…]

• population of Australia is as large as the population of the United States? [More…]

• A Minister handling a portfolio in a nation the size of the United States of America would not bother about the little things that Ministers deal with in Australia. [More…]

• It is all very well to say that in the United States of America and the United Kingdom the percentage of poverty is a great deal higher, but we should be concerning ourselves with the existence of poverty in this country. [More…]

• This is absolutely necessary if we are to remain stable and not reach the stage where we could be in the same strife as some of the European countries and the United States are in at the moment. [More…]

• I do not want to go beyond that now, except to say in general that 1 believe our group did a first class job in the United States of America and I am very proud of what they did. [More…]

• Australian airline scene provide that a smoke emission code similar to that imposed by the Department of Health in New Jersey, United States of America, on Eastern Airlines, which uses that type of aircraft extensively, will also apply in Australia? [More…]

• It was expected that all Australian aircraft would be fitted with these new chambers by the end of 1972, but because all parts necessary have not arrived fom the United States of America it is now expected that the modifications will not be completed until about mid- 1973. [More…]

• Has the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts had his attention drawn to the widespread response to the television appearances and statements of Dr Paul Ehrlich of the United States of America culminating in a repeat screening of his television programme? [More…]

• Will the Minister obtain for the Parliament a full and frank statement of all moneys improperly spent on behalf of the Department of Foreign Affairs in the United States of America during the last 5 years? [More…]

• The Leader of the Government said that he would refer the question to the appropriate Minister.I ask: Will he also draw that Minister’s attention to an article in this month’s edition of Aircraft’ which states that the United States Navy has taken delivery from Litton Industries of the first of 8 Omega transmitters which are to be installed in 8 named countries including Australia? [More…]

• Will he ascertain from the Minister on what grounds the United States Navy assumes that a transmitter will be installed somewhere in Australia? [More…]

• Does the Australian Army have liaison with the United States Army to achieve the maximum special qualities for dogs used for guard purposes. [More…]

• As the Army does not use ‘guard’ dogs there is no reason for liaison on this subject There is no formal liaison with the United States Army on the subject of tracker dogs. [More…]

• and (2) The full title of the Agreement is: Agreement between the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Government of Australia and the Government of the United States of America for the Application of Safeguards.’ [More…]

• of a system of safeguards in the use of equipment, devices and materials made available to Australia by the United States. [More…]

• Exchange of Notes of 7th May 1971 between the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia and the Government of the United States of America regarding the Importation of Meat into the United States of America. [More…]

• United States of America, Australia and the International Atomic Energy Agency on safeguard officers visiting Australia. [More…]

• With regard to the crisis in world finances we have the Australian dollar tied to sterling and already our currency and sterling have appreciated in relation to the United States dollar but depreciated a little in relation to the Japanese yen. [More…]

• This means that ordinarily we would lose a little on United States trade but would benefit from trade with Japan. [More…]

• I am told that many of our coal and iron contracts with Japan are written in United States currency. [More…]

• I have taken note of the fact that 2 prominent men - one was a man who last stood for the presidency of the United States and was defeated - have complained about the havoc that the EEC is playing in the agricultural markets of the world. [More…]

• Does this not fully justify the massive research expenditure by the United States of America on an apparently similar type of project? [More…]

• I think the case of Dr Daniel Ellsberg in the United States underlines the point that I wish to make. [More…]

• It is true that it is in the United States that the problem is most serious. [More…]

• We pay taxes totalling 23 per cent of our gross national product; New Zealand pays 25 per cent: the United States and Canada pay 30 per cent; the United Kingdom and the Common Market countries pay 33 per cent; and Sweden pays 38 per cent. [More…]

• In speaking for the Opposition I said that by and large it was a step forward, but in doing so I quoted the criteria that was applied by the late President Kennedy when, as a senator who specialised in immigration matters in the United States Senate, he pointed out that any immigration policy should be one that is generous, fair and flexible. [More…]

• Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONThe United States of America is one that I can recall in which the incidence of smoking in the normal sense has increased and the use of the tobacco weed has increased. [More…]

• They show that the involvement of this country, the United States of America and New Zealand in the Vietnam war was based on false premises and should never have taken place. [More…]

• With the use of gas and guns the Government has given to an overseas company the Bougainville copper riches and a big cut from them is going back to the United States of America. [More…]

• Despite what is happening in Papua New Guinea at the moment we find that there is a full time Country Party organiser stirring up trouble among the indigenous people there in the hope that there will be riots, and the Government allows in a political organisation in Papua New Guinea a person who, according to very good local evidence, is associated with the United States Central Intelligence Agency. [More…]

• We had the terribly embarrassing situation of the Prime Minister saying that Mr Whitlam had been played like a trout, but at the same time the President of the United States was playing the Australian Prime Minister like a flathead. [More…]

• This has been so in the Scandinavian countries for many years and it is increasingly so in the United States. [More…]

• I noted in a recent Press report that every 9 minutes in the United States of America a murder is committed. [More…]

• In the United States of America and Canada unemployment rates currently exceed 5 per cent. [More…]

• He may recall that last week, on 8th September, 1 asked him a question about the publication in the United States of America of a book which set forth details of the operation of this installation. [More…]

• Is he aware that on Sunday last the publisher of that American book was interviewed on the ‘Four Corners’ programme and said that the manuscript, prior to publication, had been submitted to the United States Department of Defence, had come to the knowledge of the Secretary for Defence, and that the American Department of Defence had informed him that it proposed to take no steps to block publication of the information? [More…]

• In mid-June, 1971 the Soviet Union advised the other four nuclear weapon states - the United States, Britain, France and the People’s Republic of China - that it ‘proposed to convene at the earliest time a conference of the Five Powers possessing nuclear weapons.’ [More…]

• The text of the Soviet Note to the United States spoke of the need for ‘joint actions of all the states possessing nuclear weapons to arrive at their prohibition and destruction’, progress in which ‘would undoubtedly facilitate the solution of the problem of general and complete disarmament.’ [More…]

• It called on the United States and the Soviet Union to issue undertakings, as China had repeatedly done, not to be the first to use nuclear weapons, and also to withdraw all nuclear arms resources to their own territories as a preliminary gesture. [More…]

• The United States’ attitude is that Peking’s formal rejection had altered the situation. [More…]

• Were Mr James O’Leary, his wife and their 13 children recently flown to Australia at the expense of the Government of the State of Hawaii in the United States of America? [More…]

• As United States citizens has the O’Leary family applied for permanent residence in Australia? [More…]

• This matter has been taken up with the Embassy of the United States of America and the information is expected to be available shortly. [More…]

• This figure agreed with data obtained from similar surveys in the United Kingdom and the United States of America. [More…]

• Has the United States Government recently proscribed 10th April, which is a day used by Ustashi to celebrate some of their World War II and subsequent post-war activities; if so, will Australia emulate the United States action? [More…]

• I was therefore fortunate that the opportunity to inspect and discuss some 20 major airports in Europe and the United States of America was open to me during my recent visit overseas to attend the International Civil Aviation Organisation’s assembly in Vienna. [More…]

• Such inquiries have been set up in the United Kingdom, the United States of America and several European countries. [More…]

• Whole fishing industries were destroyed in the United States. [More…]

• The second, which has caused legislation to be introduced in the United States of America, is the right of the employee as against the employer. [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…]

• Today I have had no answer as to why acrylic fibres are brought from the United States of America and admitted to Australia duty free whereas the United States charges a duty of 25 per cent on our natural product of wool.I think the Government should take positive steps to equalise the situation, or at least to ensure that if synthetic fibres are to enter this country they should not do so completely free of duty when exported by the country that is charging such a vicious rate of duty on the natural fibre produced here. [More…]

• One of the things that he said was that we are losing sight of the fact that the moves being made by the United States of America in financial circles are likely to have more far reaching effects on our economy than the Government realised when it was drawing up the Budget. [More…]

• Does the Minister seriously believe that in the face of Australian employer organisations’ bleats on rising costs they would have a bar of the United States system now advanced by the Dental Association in which employers underwrite their employees’ dental costs? [More…]

• I ask: Will he also draw that Minister’s attention to an article in this month’s edition of Aircraft’ which states that the United States Navy has taken delivery from Litton Industries of the first of 8 Omega transmitters which are to be installed in 8 named countries including Australia? [More…]

• Will he ascertain from the Minister on what grounds the United States Navy assumes that a transmitter will be installed somewhere in Australia? [More…]

• The preferred, and hoped-for locations for the 8 stations, as given in the ‘Aircraft’ report, are the same as listed in numerous public statements made by the United States authorities from the outset of their Omega planning. [More…]

• In all cases, the United States has approached the country concerned for participation in the global Omega network. [More…]

• Obviously the United States authority implementing the Omega project has elected not to await confirmation of all proposed participants before proceeding with equipment procurement The latter action could not be said to imply agreement on any or all of the locations at which the equipment might be installed. [More…]

• I do not agree with the popular story that prohibition had such terrible consequences in the United States of America that it should never be introduced again. [More…]

• We know of problems in the United States where it is unsafe to enter a lift to ride to the top floors of enormous blocks of fiats. [More…]

• Honourable senators who have been to the United States are aware of the cost of security measures taken by people living in any type of apartment which is open to the public. [More…]

• These were negotiations between the Australian Government and the Government of the United States of America. [More…]

• I would have made a statement early last week, but 1 was involved in settling the matter with the United States Government on a government to government level and therefore could not do so. [More…]

• I sent a senior officer of my Department to the United States of America to determine the stage which the tests had reached in order to see whether a decision could still be made at the end of this year. [More…]

• According to the records of the International Whaling Commission, countries which are known to have been whaling in one or both of these regions are: Australia, United Kingdom, Japan, Norway, U.S.S.R., Netherlands, United States of America, South Africa, Panama, Chile and Argentina. [More…]

• Australia spent in 1967, the latest year for which international comparisons are available, only 5.5 per cent of her gross national product on cash social benefits, compared with 15 per cent in the Common Market countries, 11 per cent in Scandinavia, 10 per cent in Canada, Si per cent in the United Kingdom and 6 per cent in the United States. [More…]

• I have made investigations into the matter, and I understand from the officers on the project in the United States that Australia’s aircraft will not have any defective welds in them. [More…]

• New South Wales- Accepts qualifications from Britain, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and certain institutions in the United States of America. [More…]

• Queensland - Accepts qualifications from Britain, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and accredited institutions in the United States of America. [More…]

• South Australia - Accepts degrees from Britain and New Zealand and by administrative decision usually accepts qualifications from Canada, Republic of Ireland, South Africa and the United States of America. [More…]

• Northern Territory - Accepts qualifications from Britain,’ Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and accredited institutions in the United States of America. [More…]

• Australian Capital Territory - Accepts qualifications from Britain, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and certain institutions in the United States of America. [More…]

• A comment in the Press about the effects of malnutrition in the United States draws our attention to the fact that in even the most advanced of societies a malnutrition problem exists. [More…]

• This same problem has been fed into a computer in the United States of America. [More…]

• The Postmaster-General (Sir Alan Hulme) has pointed out that, in Australian currency, postage in the United Kingdom costs 6.4c, in Germany 7.3c, in Canada 5.8c, in the United States of America 7.1c, in Sweden 9.5c and in France 6.4c. [More…]

• I ask: Firstly, is the Government aware of the testimony of Yuri Krotkof, given under the name of George Karlin - a high ranking officer of the KGB before his defection in England in 1963 - to the Internal Security SubCommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate on 6th and 10th November 1969, which was released publicly on 28th December 1970? [More…]

• Does the Government agree that there is considerable confusion in world capitals arising from the unilateral decision of the Government of the United States of America to impose a 10 per cent surcharge on all imports? [More…]

• Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONThe decision taken by the Government of the United States of America to impose a surcharge on imports has been linked to a significant degree with the monetary considerations of various nations. [More…]

• United States District Court that the president of a company supplying parts for the Fill Aircraft . [More…]

• Public tenders were called in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, by the Department of Supply for 16 Vampires ex-RAAF. [More…]

• Recent statements of Labor Party spokesmen taking up the cry for an all-volunteer army have obviously had in mind the report of the Gates Commission in the United States. [More…]

• Honourable senators will know that the report proposes all-volunteer armed services for the United States through substantial pay increases for its members. [More…]

• Current research in respect of the Australian scene indicates, however, that the elasticity of supply of volunteers to our Army would not be so high as has been estimated for the United States. [More…]

• In recent years in the United States the level has averaged 4.4 per cent, with a peak of about 6 per cent. [More…]

• Whether pay increases would result in the forces required has yet to be demonstrated in the United States. [More…]

• Bear in mind, too, that the Gates Commission was contemplating a situation where the United States Armed Forces were to be reduced overall by 25 per cent. [More…]

• As I have said, this matter has been fully canvassed not only in this country but also in the United States, Great Britain and other countries. [More…]

• There is a disquiet in the community about events which have occurred in the United States of America, such as those recently occurring at Attica prison. [More…]

• I took the trouble to make a comparison between this and the transaction way back in 1867 when it took only 9 months for the United States of America to purchase from Russia the State of Alaska. [More…]

• I have argued in the Senate on many occasions that if the United States could transfer land from Washington to the States without all this haggling, it can be done here. [More…]

• Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray - that the Senate, in Parliament assembled, seek to have Australia adopt the principle followed by Britain, Italy, Greece, Malta, The Netherlands, France, Germany, Turkey, Canada and the United States of America, who already transfer the social entitlement of their citizens wherever they may choose to live. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry been drawn to the fact that the longshoremen’s strike in the United States of America has now spread to the east coast? [More…]

• Can he inform the Senate of any likely effect on Australian exports to the United States, especially meat which has to be got in almost immediately to fill this year’s quota? [More…]

• plies in East Pakistan, and some donors, such as the United States of America, Britain and Canada, are channelling aid through it. [More…]

• First he pointed out that Australia at present lives in circumstances that are comparatively new to it in the matter of defence with the disappearance of the British presence from this area, with the impending withdrawal of United States forces from South East Asia and, of course, with the shock of President Nixon’s reversal of previous American attitudes towards China. [More…]

• In this regard I would like to refer briefly to the findings of the Gates Commission in the United States of America, lt will be recalled that this Commission was set up at the request of the [More…]

• President of the United States of America in order to determine whether that country could dispense with the draft and raise an all-volunteer army. [More…]

• It was advanced to this Commission that the experience of Australia was all against the elimination of conscription, that Australia had been forced to rely on a conscript army and that the United States should do the same thing. [More…]

• Some have cited the Australian decision to return to a draft as evidence that an all-volunteer force is not feasible for the United States There are several’ reasons why this argument by analogy is inappropriate. [More…]

• There can be no doubt that throughout this period the Government of the United States of America was applying considerable pressure on the Australian Government to send more forces to Vietnam to provide a facade of respectability to the American claim that what it was doing in Vietnam was saving the free world from the Communist hordes. [More…]

• I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate whether it is a fact that recently the Australian Government complained to the Government of the United Slates of America about the failure of the United States Administration to keep Australia properly informed on important matters of joint concern. [More…]

• Will recent restrictions imposed by the United States of America on its currency result in any loss or restriction of the export market for Australian canned tropical fruits and fruit juices. [More…]

• The Minister for Trade and Industry has provided me with the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: it is assumed that the question refers to the import surcharge which the United States recently introduced on specified imports entering the United Slates market. [More…]

• There were no exports of tropical tanned fruit juices from Australia to the United States in 1970-71. [More…]

• The effect the United Statesmeasures will have on our exports of canned tropical fruit to that market are not yet clear. [More…]

• The import surcharge does not apply to canned fruit produced within the United States and unless the surcharge is absorbed by exporters or distributors, imported canned fruit will now be more expensive to consumers than domestically produced fruit. [More…]

• The burden of the surcharge is also, of course, compounded by the change in parity of the Australian dollar relative to the United States dollar. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry been drawn to the fact that the longshoremen’s strike in the United States of America has now spread to the east coast? [More…]

• Can he inform the Senate of any likely effect on Australian exports to the United States, especially meat which has to be got in almost immediately to fill this year’s quota? [More…]

• I have been advised that longshoremen on the west coast of the United States went on strike on 1st October and have been followed on strike by east coast longshoremen. [More…]

• Regarding that part of the honourable senator’s question which concerned importations of meat, I understand that some meat is still entering the west coast of the United States via Canadian ports. [More…]

• Win Asia, Africa and Latin America through wars of national liberation’ and the United States and its western allies will be encircled, will be overwhelmed. [More…]

• In particular, in South Vietnam the continued instability of government has made the task of resistance more difficult and to some extent frustrates the massive efforts of the United States and our own necessarily small contributions. [More…]

• In the meantime, of course, the President of the United States of America was playing the Australian Prime Minister like the biggest flathead that has ever been pulled out of any ocean surrounding this country. [More…]

• At least it had the effect of making up the minds of the leaders of the great United States of America at a time when the leaders of public thought and the major Press were advocating neutrality. [More…]

• As the United States withdraws militarily from Asia and Britain pulls out its forces, this area will lack a balance of power to offset China. [More…]

• In Europe there is the NATO alliance and behind it is the United States nuclear shield. [More…]

• The second matter negotiated was not really an agreement as much as a final declaration - an unsigned declaration - of the Geneva Conference, the parties to which were representatives of Cambodia, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, France, Laos, the People’s Republic of China, the State of Vietnam - I point out to honourable senators that South Vietnam was not recognised in the declaration - the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. [More…]

• At the end of the Conference the United States and South Vietnam said that they had serious doubts about clause 7. [More…]

• The United States and South Vietnam dissociated themselves from it because they did not believe that conditions would exist for a free election. [More…]

• I am glad that Senator Mulvihill has mentioned the socialist leader of Singapore because the socialist leader of Singapore has nothing but contempt for the views of the socialist party of Australia, as is evidenced by the fact that he has supported to the hilt the commitment in Vietnam of both the United States and Australia, and is on record as having said that Singapore knows, as do the other countries in South East Asia, that if Vietnam falls to the communists all the little fishes of Asia will fall as well. [More…]

• Nor can we be complacent about the attitude and policies of the United States.. [More…]

• Some glaring examples of the way in which countries have been divided is the way in which the United States of America divided Korea. [More…]

• The United States went there, through the United Nations of course, and created 2 countries. [More…]

• Then the United States decided not to adhere to the Geneva Accords. [More…]

• It is an ideal site which is near the British Embassy and opposite the Embassy of the United States of America. [More…]

• Was the Minister for Foreign Affairs requested or instructed by the Government to support the recent complaints by the Prime Minister to the United States Administration that it had not properly consulted with Australia, or even given Australia sufficient information, about moves by it in matters which jointly concerned Australia and the United States? [More…]

• by leave - I table a document which is an excerpt from the proceedings of the Internal Security Sub-Committee of the United States of America Senate Standing Committee on the Judiciary. [More…]

• The document is an English language translation of evidence given by a Russian before the United States Senate Committee. [More…]

• Indeed, I would have hoped - although 1 am quite sure my hopes would have been dashed - that Senator Greenwood, who takes a lively interest in conscripting people to fight in wars which he supports, would have known that there is a very substantial body amongst the Catholic clergy and laity in the United States of America who argue for precisely the proposition submitted by the Labor Party in the amendment moved by Senator James McClelland - that there should be provision for conscientious objection on the ground that the proposed conscript believes that the war is unjust. [More…]

• If one looks at such important American Catholic theological journals as ‘The Commonweal’, published by the Society of Jesus, one finds that this is a doctrine which has been put forward consistently for the past 5 or 6 years by this very eminent organ of responsible Catholic opinion in the United States. [More…]

• The first group includes those who have met their obligations under the National Service Act and who subsequently, when in their midtwenties, have migrated to the United States of America. [More…]

• As I understand the position, the United States authorities do not take any action against young men who have fulfilled the normal call up requirements in Australia and who can produce a discharge paper. [More…]

• But when those young men who have registered but were not called up go to the United States there is some confusion as to whether they are there on a temporary visa. [More…]

• The American authorities are in some doubt as to his obligations for Army service in the United States. [More…]

• Can the Leader of the Government in the Senate add anything further to the report that at a symposium in Washington next month doubts may be dispelled about the United States Northrop Corporation’s precision navigation system, Omega? [More…]

• Was similar action to enlist support for this move taken on 1st July 1971 by Mr R. Pulinski, a member of the United States of America House of Representatives? [More…]

• What is the area of the United States Satellite control installation at PineGap? [More…]

• What undertakings were given by the United States Government regarding conservation and anti-pollution measures in respect of the Pine Gap base? [More…]

• It is a joint Australian/United States project. [More…]

• The JDSRF is an agreed activity under the Status of Forces Agreement between Australia and the United States. [More…]

• Article 13 of that Agreement provides that the United States Government shall conform to the provisions of relevant Commonwealth and Stat: laws and regulations and that United States personnel shall observe these laws and regulations. [More…]

• The Facility is jointly managed by senior representatives of the Australian and United States Governments who co-operate closely with the local authorities to ensure that all personnel on site play their part in protecting the environment including the observation of conservation and anti-pollution measures. [More…]

• Minister for Immigration outline the extent of liaison which exists between his Department and the New South Wales Department of Education as regards the acceptance of United States and West German migrant teachers? [More…]

• What is the price quoted by Australianbased refiners to process Australian produced crude oil and what is the price quoted by United States of America refiners to process crude oil. [More…]

• I have noticed in the Press in the last few days that an offer has been made by, I think, a United States based shipping organisation, to carry the coming season’s crop overseas at the now existing shipping freight rates, despite the threat of those who are now carrying this cargo to increase shipping freight rates by 24 per cent or thereabouts which will then make the cost of shipping a case or carton of fruit from this country something in the vicinity of $3.10. [More…]

• It is my understanding that in Russia, for example, the going price for wool is 300c a lb and that in the United States it is something like 73c a lb. [More…]

• It is acknowledged that that scheme has its limitations, but it is the basis of structuring the continuance of a sound export market not only to Europe but also to Asian markets such as Singapore and Malaysia and to the United States of America and Japan if only we can penetrate the Japanese market. [More…]

• During those early discussions I warned that the committee system should never be used in Australia as it is used in the United States of America for the purpose of burying legislation. [More…]

• I was fearful because it has happened so often in the United States of America. [More…]

• My only concern about the committee system is that it will evolve in this country as it has in the United States. [More…]

• The fact is that the suggested changes to the gun laws of the United States have been buried before a committee for over 2 years. [More…]

• Everybody has the right to carry a gun in the United States and the proposed amendments to the law have been buried in committee deliberations. [More…]

• We were told that opposed to these commissars was our great and powerful ally, the United States of America, steadfastly determined to oppose Communism and to support democracy even if supporting democracy meant sending troops into the Dominican Republic to depose a democratically elected president. [More…]

• Nothing would inhibit the United States of America in its desire to maintain democracy, so dedicated was it to this great proposition. [More…]

• Here we were faced with this menace, but we were allied with the United States of America steadfastly opposed to Communism - a country which would never talk to Chou En-lai or Mao Tsetung; a country which would never recognise Communist China; a country which, with every fibre of its being, would oppose the admission of Communist China to the United Nations. [More…]

• In any case whether or not the dominoes were falling over and whether or not the war was a good thing, the United States of America was sending troops there and if we sent our troops there with theirs the United Slates would look after us. [More…]

• lt has been said that if we make these sacrifices now, America, being a just nation, will keep a sort of ledger in which it will have black entries and red entries and we will be scoring up some credits, and at some time in the future when we are in a spot of bother the United States will come to our assistance. [More…]

• The United States of America, like any other power, great or small, will act in a way which it believes is conducive to its own best interests and the interests of its own ruling class, and not for any other reasons. [More…]

• Over recent years, we have seen many examples of United States foreign policy and action and how this has worked. [More…]

• I return to an example which I have mentioned in the Senate earlier, namely, the relations between the United States and the Netherlands. [More…]

• I suppose that there could not be a more loyal and dedicated ally of the United States than the Netherlands. [More…]

• It was an ally of the United States in World War II. [More…]

• It is a country of similar ethnic and cultural origins to the United States, a country which provided the earliest white settlers in the United States, a country which is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and which, up to the time about which I am speaking, was also a member of the South East Asia Treaty Organisation. [More…]

• A number of its leading citizens had collaborated with the Japanese during World War II and had been enemies of the United States. [More…]

• It was an active member of the Afro-Asian bloc and, in fact, the instigator of the Afro-Asian Congress at Jogjakarta in 1955, at which the most stringent criticisms of the United States were made. [More…]

• It was a country which, in season and out of season, maligned the United States in the United Nations and elsewhere. [More…]

• In the dispute which broke out over who was to get West Irian, the former Netherlands New Guinea, when the chips were finally down on which side did the United States come out? [More…]

• The United States did this because it believed that, whatever the Netherlands had done for it in the past and whatever the Republic of Indonesia had done against it in the past, the best interests of the United States were served by recognising the Indonesian claim to Netherlands New Guinea and repudiating the Dutch claim. [More…]

• Yes, in Vietnam he has played a similar part for the United States to that which he has played in other parts of South East Asia. [More…]

• I believe that the moral of this is that if needs be, the United States will treat Australia in precisely the same way. [More…]

• If Australia becomes involved in some military conflict and the United States of America believes that it is in the interests of the United States to come to Australia’s assistance it will do so whether Australia had done anything for the United States or not. [More…]

• If Australia became involved in a conflict with someone else and the United States did not believe that it was in its interests to come to Australia’s assistance, it would not come lo Australia’s assistance. [More…]

• Can anyone imagine a President of the United States going to his .people in three or four years time and saying: ‘I have bad news for you. [More…]

• Of course the United States is not going to do anything remotely like that. [More…]

• We have already seen what the United States has done. [More…]

• When the President of the United States announced his intention of going to the People’s Republic of China, did he inform his loyal little ally, the Prime Minister of Australia, that he intended to do so? [More…]

• When the United States decided to impose a 10 per cent surcharge on imports as a result of its recent currency difficulties did it say that this applies to everyone except Australia because it sent troops to Vietnam? [More…]

• We got exactly the same treatment as Romania, Albania and everybody else who engages in any sort of trade whatsoever with the United States. [More…]

• When it comes to any question of exports of Australian meat to the United States, do senators and congressmen from the cattle States and from the Rocky Mountain States say: ‘Well, we would like to organise a vote in Congress to do something to stop the import of Australian meat but we had better not do it because they sent some troops to Vietnam’? [More…]

• When it comes to negotiating airline agreements between the United States and Australia does the United States say: ‘We have a different sort of commercial relation with Australia from those which we have with France, Italy and other countries which did not send troops to Vietnam. [More…]

• The United States does not say anything of the sort. [More…]

• The United States continues to pursue what it believes to be the policy in its own best interests. [More…]

• The United States’ policy has been completely discredited and our policy has been even more discredited. [More…]

• Of these, 53 are Australian, 33 are American including 2 which are Australian-United States joint owned, 27 are British. [More…]

• Australia captures only 7.3 per cent of the total prescription market in this country, the United States of America 53 per cent, the United Kingdom 10.2 per cent. [More…]

• It was geared to the Blue Cross health insurance system operating then in the United States of America. [More…]

• It is history now that the United States has since developed its Medicare system. [More…]

• I do not think it is sufficient for the President of the United States or the Prime Minister of Australia to say that because a national health system costs $Xm it is the best. [More…]

• Secretary for Defence in the United States of America- said once that what was good for General Motors was good for the United States of America. [More…]

• Just as the gap between the money spent and the benefits returned is getting wider and wider in the United States system, I feel that we are in a situation in Australia where there is not enough control over the expenditure. [More…]

• Anybody who has read about George Nader in the United States will know of the exposure which has gone on in relation to big American and British firms, going back to the time of the MacMillan Government and Wilson Government in Britain and to successive United States Presidents. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Attorney-General been drawn to Press reports of statements of various directors of Queensland Mines Ltd relating to the introduction to the board of that company of Mr R. J. Searls, who is the Australian managing director for Newmont, a large United States mining company? [More…]

• In the light of the current policy of rather rigid vaccination procedures applying to all air travellers entering Australia, what were the reasons for the apparent favouritism accorded to the United States vocalist Bobbie Gentry who apparently was able to avoid these procedures? [More…]

• In September 1969 the vaccination certificate requirements for travel by air from the United States and Canada were modified for persons who are not vaccinated against smallpox and who are subject to medical conditions or treatment which would make vaccination medically inadvisable. [More…]

• Further, the person must make a statutory declaration that he or she has not been outside the United States. [More…]

• I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate whether the authoritative journal ‘Janes All the World’s Aircraft’ has reported that American spy photographs of Russian and Chinese missile tests are now being relayed from satellites to a secret United States base in Australia? [More…]

• of Denver, United States of America, for a total sum of $11,000 [More…]

• If so does this indicate that the Government is working against the United States of America alliance and has been seriously embarrassed by President Nixon’s failure to take the Prime Minister into his confidence on such a vital matter? [More…]

• Does this situation confirm wide public suspicion that there has been a fundamental change in relations between the Governments of the United States of America and Australia? [More…]

• Was Mr Simpson granted leave by the Department to study the making of artificial limbs overseas as a Churchill Fellow; if so, did he study in the United States of America for 12 months. [More…]

• Mr Simson applied for and was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 1967 to enable him to study the making of artificial limbs in the United States of America. [More…]

• before” his defection in England in 1963, to the Internal Security Sub-Committee of the United States of America Senate Standing Committee on the Judiciary on 6th and 10th November 1969, which was released publicly on 28th December 1970? [More…]

• At the time of Mr Burchett’s admission Sir Keith Waller was Australian Ambassador to the United States. [More…]

• As most acrylic tow is imported from the United States of America and is duty free, whilst the United States has a duly of 25ic per lb on wool, will the Government give consideration to the imposition of protective duty against this strong competitor of our wool? [More…]

• In this latter year, the major sources of imports were Japan, followed by United States of America, United Kingdom and the Netherlands. [More…]

• Is it correct that, as one correspondent states, the United Nations is carried on in the main by the United States of America’s largesse, that many other members, particularly the Soviet Union, have failed to meet their financial obligations to the organisation and that the United Nations is hence drifting info a state of bankruptcy? [More…]

• We all know that the contribution by the United States of America to the maintenance of the United Nations is undoubtedly the most significant contribution made by any country. [More…]

• I am sure that the honourable senator will recall that in the Fraser-Laird agreement of last year it was agreed between Australia and the United States of America that certain static and fatigue tests should be carried out and that the results of these tests should be made known by October of this year. [More…]

• What liaison have officers of the Department of Health with United States health authorities who are experimenting with a form of pill to replace the traditional needle as a key weapon in vaccination? [More…]

• are being adjusted in accordance with agreed plans between Australian, Vietnamese and United States authorities. [More…]

• Can the Minister inform me whether this year the traditional practice is for United States students to be farewelled by the President of the United States and for Japanese students to bc farewelled by the Emperor of Japan. [More…]

• Although overall our meat exports for 1970-71 were about the same as for the previous year we know that our exports to the United States were down a certain percentage, particularly in the case of mutton. [More…]

• Despite this the United States remains the greatest importer of Australian beef. [More…]

• The importance to Australia of the United States of America market can be seen by the fact that some $209m was spent by the United States on the importation of beef from Australia. [More…]

• The value of the lamb which went to the United States last year was about $8. [More…]

• The great developments which have occurred within the last few years in research has been prominent in the minds of those people who have noted the problem which the abattoirs have had in so many areas of Australia and the actions which the inspectors from the United States have taken and the criticism they have made of the quality of the meat which has left Australia and the quality of the abattoirs which have handled that meat. [More…]

• Perhaps the most important investigation insofar as exports are concerned is in relation to cysticercosis, which is the greatest single cause of the rejection of Australian frozen boneless mutton by the United States market and which is to Australia a very severe economic problem. [More…]

• It appears in, amongst other animals, goats, sheep, cattle, water buffalo, pigs, yaks in Mongolia, reindeer and caribou, and in the United States of America a form of brucellosis has been identified in dogs. [More…]

• I remind the Minister for Air (Senator Drake-Brockman) that by way of question I indicated that among the many threats to the export of beef from this country to the United States of America there was the added threat of brucellosis, because the information coming from the United States indicates that brucellosis is almost completely under control there and Australia could face an added restriction by the American health authorities against the export of our meat. [More…]

• So it is very important to press the point that moneys raised under this Bill should be directed towards, and emphasis and priority should be given to, the control of brucellosis in this country because limitations could be imposed on the export of our meat to the United States. [More…]

• The United States authorities consider this to be a very serious disease. [More…]

• Senator Drury spoke also about the export of meat to the United States of America. [More…]

• I understand that the fall in the shipments of mutton to the United States in 1970-71 compared with 1969-70 was a direct result of the United States ban on mutton from Australia which was imposed in the middle of 1970. [More…]

• It was not until March that a significant number of works which formerly had prepared mutton for the United States were reinstated to prepare mutton for that market. [More…]

• The slight fall in shipments of beef and veal to the United States arose because of a strong demand from other markets. [More…]

• These 2 markets, which represent a total increase of about 23,300 tons, more than compensate for the fall in exports to the United States. [More…]

• The major economic powers and the major donors of aid to India, like the United States and Britain, are making the largest contribution to the international relief effort [More…]

• He pointed out that there was no recognised national school in the United States and he went on to say: [More…]

• Film making in every nation in the world, outside the United States of America, survives only through systems of subsidy, mostly from governments, and we urge that our Government should ensure that the Australian Film Development Corporation should be administered more as a subsidy organisation and less as a banking institution. [More…]

• The Prime Minister may be discussing the matter in the United States. [More…]

• What are the details of the common method of scrutiny and assessment of Pacific air service capacities, established in the United States of America-Australia Agreement announced by the Minister on 19th September 1971. [More…]

• Did the Malagasy Republic recently expel the United States of America Ambassador and other United States diplomats on the grounds that they were engaging in a conspiracy to overthrow the Malagasy Government? [More…]

• Will the Government bear in mind the experience of this friendly anti-communist country, whose President was a recent guest of Australia, when admitting United States of America diplomats and other United Slates Government employees to Australia? [More…]

• However the United States announced on 25th June that it was recalling five members of its Embassy in Tananarive at the request of the Malagasy Republic,It was also announced that there, were no immediate plans for the return to Tananarive of the United States Ambassador who had earlier returned to Washington for consultations. [More…]

• Under what agreement, and by which parties, are freight rates arrived at for cargoes carried by Australian-United States Atlantic Gulf Conference vessels. [More…]

• What communications exist between the United States of America Federal Maritime Commission and Australian Federal Government departments or agencies. [More…]

• What role does the United States of America Federal Maritime Commission play in determining or influencing freight rates fixed by the Conference. [More…]

• b Freight rate discussions take place between the Australia/United States Atlantic and Gulf Shipping Conference and various Shipper Associations representing the interests of individual shippers and marketing Boards. [More…]

• Contact is maintained with the United States Federal Maritime Commission through the Australian Embassy in Washington and through direct correspondencewith my Department on relevant matters relating to Australia/United States shipping. [More…]

• Whilst representatives of various Australian organisations make separate approaches to agencies of the United States Government they do not make representations on behalf of the Australian Government. [More…]

• Under the United States Shipping Act of 1916, the Commission has certain powers to act in regard to freight rates in trades serving the United States. [More…]

• Section 18 (b) (1) of the Shipping Act of 1961 provides that every common carrier by water in foreign commerce and every conference of such carriers shall file with the Commission and keep open to public inspection tariffs showing all the rates and charges of such carrier or conference of carriers for transportation to and from United States ports and foreign ports. [More…]

• However, the current Japanese economic slowdown, coupled with the effects of the United States economic measures, has naturally led to some build up of stocks of minerals and raw materials in Japan as industrial production has slowed. [More…]

• The Bureau of Census and Statistics does not classify migrant arrivals from the United States of America (or from any other country) according to the State or other geographic or political region whence they come. [More…]

• Settler arrivals from the United States of America during the last5 financial years were: [More…]

• One implication is the immediate United States response. [More…]

• It is now in the forefront in the thought processes in the United States. [More…]

• The vote having been taken, the immediate United States response was reflected in the decision of the United States Senate which passed, by an overwhelming majority, a resolution that there should be no more foreign aid provided by the United States. [More…]

• In other words, there was to be an immediate acceleration of the process of retraction and of withdrawal by the United States from involvement in the affairs of other nations. [More…]

• Only this morning on the radio I heard an interview with Senator McGovern, who is a possible Democratic Party nominee for the United States presidential election next year, in which he advocated that the United States withdraw from the ANZUS Pact. [More…]

• That very dramatic statement highlights the fact that, quite apart from the control of America in Republican hands, in the hands of Senator McGovern as President, backed by his Party, there would be an American retraction to the extent that he would contemplate the dissociation of the United States even from an existing treaty such as ANZUS. [More…]

• These processes on the part of Britain and of the United States are highlighting one emerging fact in the disposition of world power, particularly as it affects Australia. [More…]

• That disposition is that as Britain withdraws west of Suez and withdraws more and more into an introverted Europe and as the United States, for reasons good and sufficient to itself, withdraws into a quasi-Monroe doctrine, Australia will be faced with a new, emerging and dangerous isolationism. [More…]

• Let me remind honourable senators that the closest the world came to major war since the Second World War - we were on the very threshold of it - was during the confrontation between the United States of America and the Soviet Union over Cuba. [More…]

• There was no suggestion of the physical invasion of the United States. [More…]

• All that was required was that within a measurable target distance of the mainland of the United States there should be an accommodating power that could provide a launching base for missiles. [More…]

• When that position had been established, President Kennedy found it necessary to deploy the American fleet and to bring his nation and the world to the brink of a major war because that position in itself was a lethal threat to the security and continuance of the United States. [More…]

• I remind honourable senators of the action of the United States Government when it found that nuclear weapons were in Cuba, so close to its shores. [More…]

• Britain and the United States are withdrawing, but if confrontation of these great powers should occur in this part of the world, and it seems to be a real strategic possibility, Australia will find herself in the very eye of the cyclone. [More…]

• I know, but you are implying that Europe will tend to adopt a Monroe Doctrine concept and I do not believe that it will, lt will be a task for Australian diplomacy in the broadest meaning of the word to encourage Britain to see that this does not happen, and to suggest that other big trading countries of the world such as the United States and Japan should work towards the same objective and will not become - and I believe this to be so - introverted or inward. [More…]

• I will not name all of those 34 nations, but those which have special significance for us included the United States of America, Japan- [More…]

• But the countries of the 34 that I wish to name are the United States of America, Japan and New Zealand. [More…]

• The other substantive resolution, known as the dual representation draft resolution, was co-sponsored by 18 member states including Australia, Japan, New Zealand, the Philippines, Thailand and the United States. [More…]

• But that power is in the hands also of other permanent members including our close friends, Britain and the United States. [More…]

• Out of the 35 countries which voted against the Albanian proposition 12 - over a third - were South American client states of the United States of America. [More…]

• The fact is - and I think that almost all of us would recognise it today - that neither our membership of the United Nations, nor our membership of the Commonwealth, nor our natural relationship with the United States, has provided us with that leverage in world affairs for which the instinct of this House continues to ask. [More…]

• The significance of the United Kingdom decision is that we now see being created in Europe a huge world ‘force, a new super power - indeed, it might be said, a power capable of exercising enormous economic, political and, if need be, military power in the world, lt will be a power equal to, if not greater than, that of the United States, of the Soviet Union, of the People’s Republic China, if it seeks to be a super power, and of Japan. [More…]

• She is o longer able to exercise a major influence in the world, but there will be with the United Kingdom, Denmark and other countries as part of Europe a community of 255 million people - a population far greater than that of the United States, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or Japan. [More…]

• On 20th January 1969 the Leader of the DLP forwarded a message to President Richard Nixon on his elevation to the Presidency of the United States. [More…]

• Assumption by Australia of some responsibility for the defence of Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand; strengthened defence capability to make that possible; active Australian diplomacy for regional co-operation to provide the framework for collective self-defence; expanded Australian aid to Indonesia; trade opportunities for Malaysia and Singapore; and a trade agreement with the United States to end our squabbling over meat and wool. [More…]

• If we cast our minds back to the beginning of the matter of urgency where it refers to Australian defence and security implications, and refer to the remarks made by the President of the United States to the Prime Minister a couple of days ago, I suggest that that is a reasonably fair defence and security implication which should be read by everybody who is interested in this matter. [More…]

• Equally, it should be noted that the United States has security treaties with Japan, the Philippines and the Republic of China, in addition to the ANZUS Treaty. [More…]

• In 1959-60 we exported 8.1 per cent of our exports to the United States of America. [More…]

• In 1959-60 we imported 16.2 per cent of our imports from the United States. [More…]

• Predictions indicate that by 2000 Japan could well be a bigger country economically in total terms than the United States of America. [More…]

• He faced the fact that the immediate reaction in the United States of America was to return to a policy of isolationism. [More…]

• I am no historical genius but I see every indication of a return by the United States to the isolationism that has been her attitude for most of her history. [More…]

• Senator Little spoke about isolationism in the United States of America. [More…]

• Only a few days ago I read an article describing a mounting campaign in the United States to withdraw or at at ‘.east to reduce drastically the United States forces that are stationed in Europe. [More…]

• If the United States sinks more and more into isolationism and withdraws its forces or part of them from or substantially reduces them in Europe, it does seem reasonable to think that this action might speed up the further federation of the countries that comprise the European Economic Community into a real, virile defence unit as a counterpoise to the influence further east of the Soviet Union. [More…]

• The United States and the United Kingdom are 2 countries with which Australia has had most adverse trading balances. [More…]

• Belatedly, Government supporters came here today and accepted the position, as the United States of America has done. [More…]

• Honourable senators opposite admit that this could be a good thing for the world, just as the arrangement between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States has been. [More…]

• We know that many world crises have been avoided because of the understanding - I admit there have been some misunderstandings - between the Soviet Union and the United States. [More…]

• I believe that the United States of America has realistically accepted the position. [More…]

• It is true that as far back as 1955 the Chinese tried to reach an agreement with the United States. [More…]

• Because of United States commitments in the area the approach was dropped. [More…]

• It is my opinion that in a short time - 5 to 10 years - Taipeh will make the same sort of accommodation with China as the United States has made. [More…]

• I believe that because we can walk with our head high in South East Asia, because we can talk to the peoples of western Europe, because we can talk to the people of the United States and because we are developing links with Japan we can be a political placenta for the exchange of ideas and, therefore, we can be a great factor towards peace. [More…]

• President Nixon’s statement on various new economic measures the United States was taking was made on 15th August last. [More…]

• Shortly stated, the President announced the following main measures: Convertibility of United States dollars into gold and other reserve assets was to be temporarily suspended; a 10 per cent surcharge on all dutiable imports into the United States, other than those subject to quotas, was to be imposed. [More…]

• The President announced certain other measures the main effects of which were designed to stimulate the growth of output in the United States while at the same time attempting to restrain wage and price increases. [More…]

• One of these measures however - the job development tax credit - also has the effect of discriminating against imports into the United States of various manufactured products. [More…]

• In international terms the significant element of the United States action - apart from the suspension of convertibility of the dollar, the consequence of which I will come to later - was ‘.he 10 per cent surcharge on imports. [More…]

• There were many factors which contributed to the United States’ balance of payments crisis. [More…]

• For one thing, the United States, which had once been an example to the world in maintaining cost and price stability, found itself in a position where, for some time, its prices and costs had been rising more rapidly than those of its main competitors. [More…]

• Beyond that the United States has claimed thai some of its troubles have been due to the fact that it has been shouldering an undue share of the free world’s defence burdens. [More…]

• Defence expenditures abroad by the United States have recently been running at around SUS5 billion annually Australia is probably in as good a position as any country to appreciate the size of the defence expenditures the United States has been assuming. [More…]

• Then again, the United States has claimed that its trading position has been worsened by what it regards as the unfair practices pursued by some of its trading partners. [More…]

• The United States is facing a deficit on its trade account this year for the first time for almost 80 years. [More…]

• it is a good thing that a country as powerful as the United States is prepared to take up seriously this matter of unfair trading practices. [More…]

• In that context, incidentally, I certainly took the opportunity of pointing out the barriers that exist to many of our own exports to the United States. [More…]

• Bearing in mind all these circumstances, the United States has taken the view that a number of its trading partners were conducting their trade with the United States on the basis of exchange rates which gave them an unfair advantage. [More…]

• The United States has called foi a major realignment of exchange parities. [More…]

• This realignment would recognise the over-valuation ot the United States dollar, or the under-valuation of the currencies of those countries in balance of payments surplusthe way of expressing it depends upon the point of view. [More…]

• Finally, the United States has recognised that this dollar crisis is only the last of a series of crises which have affected in turn the pound sterling, the French franc, the German deutschemark, and now the United Slates dollar. [More…]

• And when they did open, parities with the United States dollar were not maintained. [More…]

• The currencies of most major trading countries floated upwards against the dollar until today the deutschemark is almost 10 per cent up on the United States dollar, lite yen about 9 pei cent, the Netherlands guilder 8 per cent, the Belgian financial frac 7 per cent and sterling 4 pet cent. [More…]

• Meanwhile, the United States and its major trading partners are still debating bilaterally, and within other forums, notably the Group of Ten, what further contribution to the restoration of equilibrium in international trade and payments is still required by the United Slates, on the one hand, and by the rest of the Group of Ten. [More…]

• The United States, however, has not had things all its own way on these non-financial issues and criticism is mounting not only against the import surcharge, but also against some related measures such as the application of the United States job development tax credit which has the effect of discriminating against imports of capital equipment into the United States. [More…]

• Then there is the basic question of the magnitude of the balance of payments turnaround which needs to be achieved between the United States and the rest of the Group of Ten. [More…]

• The United States has made no secret of the fact that it seeks a total turnaround of the order of $13 billion per annum. [More…]

• For example, one reason which is reported to figure prominently in the argument between the United States and the other members of the Group of Ten is that the latter, particularly some of them, seriously question the need on their part to worsen their balances of payments on current account in order, among other things, to provide the United States with a sufficient surplus to enable it to maintain a high level of net capital investment abroad. [More…]

• However that may be, what is clear is that even if trade and defence issues are left aside, the attitude of the United States appears to be that the realignment has not yet gone far enough. [More…]

• The United States is an important trading partner of the Europeans, but not all-important. [More…]

• The rest of the Group of Ten, for their part, have said in voices of varying strength, that if the United States is seeking a more substantial realignment, it should be making a contribution itself. [More…]

• By this they mean that the United States should itself devalue in terms of gold. [More…]

• From that point of view the United States dollar can just as much be said to have floated downwards against most major currencies as those currencies can be said to have floated upwards against the dollar. [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…]

• Suffice it to say that the United States at this point of time asserts that an increase in the dollar price of gold is not acceptable to it. [More…]

• One problem is that the United States is an enormous economy in which, in relative terms, international trade does not loom so large. [More…]

• Exports as a proportion of United States Gross National Product are only some 5 per cent. [More…]

• It follows that the United States is obviously under less pressure, from a purely economic viewpoint, in arriving at an outcome which it would regard as giving it a satisfactory contribution from the surplus countries. [More…]

• And there are some individual countries in turn for whom trade with the United States is not so important - for example, only some 5 per cent of France’s trade is with the United States. [More…]

• The great risk in all this, however, is that as the import surcharge and other measures taken by the United Staes begin to bite - as exports to the United States and employment in export industries begins to fall away - the countries affected could well become less and less willing, and perhaps less and less able, to make the further contributions which the United States expects. [More…]

• Unemployment is running in the region of about 6 per cent in the United States, about 7 per cent in Canada, and over 31 per cent in the United Kingdom. [More…]

• Thirdly, I have made it clear that we are not taking sides, as between the United States on the one hand and the other members of the Group of Ten on the other, on the issue of whether or not the United States should effect a minor devaluation in terms of gold. [More…]

• Thus, if the United States docs achieve the turnaround in its balance of payments necessary to correct its deficit, it is by no means unlikely that the status of the US dollar as a reserve asset will be restored. [More…]

• As a country which has traditionally held a large pa/1 of its reserves in the form of foreign exchange, with consequent benefit to our balance of payments, what we say is that any such action, il indeed it is needed once the United States achieves balance again, must be acceptable to the existing holders of foreign balances. [More…]

• The discussion between the United States and the rest of the Group of Ten is to continue in Paris next month. [More…]

• This means that the Australian dollar has appreciated by about 4 per cent in terms of parity with the United States dollar. [More…]

• However, other countries, some of them important trading partners of Australia, have appreciated even more against the United States dollar. [More…]

• In practice, this means that the agreement cannot become effective unless and until it is ratified by the United States. [More…]

• Although the United States administration had commenced proceedings to have Congress pass the necessary legislation to authorise payment of the subscription and contribution totalling $US960m for that country, action on this matter had not then been completed and indeed still remains outstanding. [More…]

• A similar situation occurred 3 years ago when the second exercise to replenish IDA’s resources was held up for 12 months due to a delay by the United States Congress in ratifying the relevant agreement. [More…]

• My question to the Minister was for the purpose of establishing why this substance was being admitted into Australia from Japan and the United States of America duty free when the United States imposed a 25c duty, T think it is, on every pound of our wool going into the United States. [More…]

• 1 should like to see the Government initiate action to search out every possible avenue, at least in our internal markets over which we have control, to increase the demand for the Australian grown product which is competing with the chemically produced product which is imported from, among other countries, the United States of America. [More…]

• I remind the Senate that already we have an adverse balance of trade with the United States. [More…]

• Have a number of countries objected to the underground explosions of nuclear weapons by the United States of America on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians? [More…]

• Canada, and several other nations have expressed varying degrees of concern to the United States regarding the proposed nuclear test explosion under Amchitka Island in the Aleutians late this month. [More…]

• The position is that there is a full-time representative of the New South Wales Education Department in the United States recruiting teachers and counselling enquirers upon teacher employment opportunities in the State of New South Wales. [More…]

• However, the migrant had decided to come to Australia and had left the United States before this information could be conveyed to him. [More…]

• Other amendments proposed by the bill will give effect to certain income tax exemptions provided for in the agreement between the Australian and United States governments relating to the establishment of the Joint Defence Space Communications Station at Woomera. [More…]

• Broadly speaking, the relevant provisions exempt from our income tax income derived in Australia by certain United States employees, contractors, sub-contractors and their employees from work done on the projects, so long as the income is subject to United States tax. [More…]

• This Bill seeks parliamentary approval to a borrowing by the Commonwealth of up to $US90m from the Export-Import Bank of the United States to assist in financing the purchase of general defence equipment in the United States, and approval for the execution of the loan agreement on behalf of the Commonwealth for this borrowing. [More…]

• Under the Loan (Defence) Act 1970, the Commonwealth arranged borrowings of $US89m to finance orders for general defence equipment placed with United States suppliers in 1969-70. [More…]

• 2) 1970, the Commonwealth arranged borrowings of $US123m to finance orders for general defence equipment to be placed with United States suppliers during 1970- 71. [More…]

• In accordance with normal lending practice in the United States, a commitment fee of one-half of 1 per cent per annum is to be paid on the undrawn amount of the Export-Import Bank loan. [More…]

• However, the Export-Import Bank has asked for a letter from Qantas stating that it is not Qantas’ present intention to use the aircraft principally in a Communist country (as defined in section 620 (f) of the United States Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended). [More…]

• What real promotion has been made in the United States? [More…]

• What real pressure is being put on the United States to reduce the 25c tariff barrier against the entry of Australian wool into the United States? [More…]

• We know that the monetary situation overseas and the uncertainty about What is going on between, in particular, Japan and the United States has been responsible for the depreciation in the price of wool. [More…]

• These practices include collusive tendering, which embraces horizontal agreements; blacklisting or boycotting; tying of contracts, such as export franchises which stipulate that a company can export only to certain countries so as to preserve a market serviced profitably by overseas sections of a multi-national corporation; and interlocking directorates which are outlawed in the United States legislation. [More…]

• We need a body such as the British Monopolies Commission or the United States Federal Trade Commission which has open hearings and continually publicises and analyses the whole structure of business so that gradually the broad pattern of company structures becomes clear to the public. [More…]

• I accept the way in which Senator Murphy puts it because when he was speaking 1 thought that one of the interesting features of the Canadian Competition Bill is that it repeals pre-existing legislation which is of the character of the Sherman anti-trust law in the United States or of the Australian Industries Preservation Act which proscribes conduct as unlawful and substitutes for it provisions which are subject to the test of whether they contravene the public interest. [More…]

• Predatory pricing was dealt with in the United States 35 years ago when the Patman-Robinson Act came into force in 1936. [More…]

• It has been said that it has twice as many monopolies as the United States and 3 times as many as the United Kingdom. [More…]

• I ask the Minister whether the Prime Minister’s reluctance to travel with Australia’s international airline was brought about by the recent dispute over the carriage of passengers between this country and the United States of America, or was there some other reason? [More…]

• The proposal to build such a plant was announced by the then President of the United States of America in 1967 but work on this project was subsequently suspended. [More…]

• I refer - and I do this without the slightest criticism to the very distinguished Australian concern - to the proposed flotation or the resort to the market of Gunn Resources and Exploration Incorporated, a company which Sir William Gunn has incorporated in the United States for the development of rural properties in Western Australia and the Northern Territory. [More…]

• I understand that no approach to the market has been made yet by that incorporated United States company. [More…]

• The history of the United States of America is a case which is quite remarkable. [More…]

• The United States had a tremendous pool of resources and very little capital. [More…]

• In 1970, in a book entitled The International Corporation’, Donald T. Brash, using figures derived from the United States Department of Commerce, said this about Australia: [More…]

• For United Slates corporations the attractions that Australia offered were clear from the fact that by the end of 1967 there were only 4 countries in the world - Canada, the United Kingdom, West Germany and Venezuela - where the book value of United States investments exceeded the amount invested in Australia. [More…]

• In per capita terms, only Canada and Venezuela surpassed Australia as a field for direct investment from- the United States. [More…]

• The level of United States corporate investment in Australia more than doubled between 1962 and 1967 alone. [More…]

• The next reason was to avoid unfavourable conditions for expansion in the United States of America. [More…]

• 1 mention the tremendous technical skills and know-how which we have been able to import from the United States and from other countries to assist our industries and to provide greater technical knowledge and greater managerial skills here. [More…]

• Company after company came under United States control because of the attitude of Australian shareholders. [More…]

• Without the risk capital which came from the United States in the 1930s Mount Isa would have closed down and 1,000 men would have lost their jobs. [More…]

• If we go back to the food processing industry we will find that United States capital has rescued ailing Australian companies which are closing down. [More…]

• It could be a cheap form of power for iron ore and bauxite plants and it could also be shipped to Japan or the West Coast of the United States’, he stated. [More…]

• I do not believe that this development would have been possible without foreign investment which, in the case of our mining industry, came from the United States. [More…]

• He gave the example of the great United States and the way in which it developed on overseas investment. [More…]

• He went on to say that the United States paid off its investment. [More…]

• The main reason for the increase was that other direct investment from the United States of America in 1969-70 was S72m higher than in 1968-69. [More…]

• Of these 53 are Australian, 33 are American - including 2 which are Australian and United States joint owned - 27 are British, 9 are German, 6 are Swiss and 13 are from various countries. [More…]

• As against that, the United States captures 53 per cent of the market, the United Kingdom 10.2 per cent, Germany 6.2 per cent. [More…]

• ‘I think it is rather significant that something as powerful as advertising is now almost completely in the control of the United States. [More…]

• I think it has been proved that in the United States alone the economy is based on enterprises that employ fewer than 10 people in the main. [More…]

• This is the kind of provision which existed not only in the Australian Industries Preservation Act but also in the Sherman Act and related Acts in the United States of America. [More…]

• United States in connection with the breaches of law, even when in the United States they had strong laws against the kind of practices that we are concerned with. [More…]

• Because in the course of a recent visit overseas 1 found that governments in Europe and in the United States were lowering interest rates considerably as a measure to counter rising prices and to stimulate their flagging economies, will the Treasurer explain to the Parliament why in Australia we persist in excessive interest rates which promote inflation, saddle home builders in particular with heavy burdens of debt, depress the vital building industry and conduce to the coming depression? [More…]

• Is it true that the United States Deputy Secretary of Defense, Mr Packard, will be given free access to the Pine Gap base while permission is still refused Australian members of Parliament to enjoy the same right? [More…]

• Does not the Prime Minister realise what embarrassment this ill-mannered remark could cause to Australia if Senator Muskie defeats President Nixon next year and becomes the new President of the United States of America? [More…]

• I think that the matter has been properly resolved in the United States. [More…]

• This Bill proposes the borrowing by the Commonwealth of $US1 1,3 10,400, which is roughly$A 10,100,000, from the Export-Import Bank of the United States of America and the Boeing company and the appropriation from the Loan Fund of an amount not exceeding$A 13, 1 50,000 to assist Qantas Airways Ltd in purchasing not more than 2 Boeing 747 aircraft and spares. [More…]

• Is the Minister able to advise whether these retrenched staff will now be maintained in view of the agreement in relation to United States-Australia ait services? [More…]

• In total the 12 United States trunk carriers, including Pan-Am. [More…]

• Following initial approaches by Ministers and officials, in March 1970 a report by an Australian Defence Industries Mission which visited the United States of America to explore the possibility of increasing United States procurement from Australia was considered. [More…]

• The Committee has been active in endeavouring to arrange offsets and has ‘had success in having some United States restrictions on purchases overseas waived. [More…]

• There is no doubt that there are problems such as the difficulties being experienced by the industry in the United States … but the Government of Australia proposes to continue to work with industry to improve the flow of offset orders. [More…]

• I had prepared a statement covering about 14 pages on the United States and Australian air negotiations. [More…]

• it seemed to me, an area of great misunderstanding, and - one might say fairly - of much Press speculation a great part of which was singularly ill-informed, and the Senate having asked me to deal fairly exhaustively with the affairs of Qantas, I think I am entitled to say something about this matter: The agreement reached with the United States represents a reasonable and realistic solution. [More…]

• In ils terms it did not permit prior agreement between the governments oh frequencies before an extra service was introduced; nor did it enable us to argue that a second United States carrier could not be allowed on the South Pacific route to Australia. [More…]

• For many years Qantas operated more frequencies than the single United States carrier. [More…]

• This position has altered only in the last 3 years, during which time a second United States carrier was introduced. [More…]

• However, through taking a strong attitude we have limited the number of extra frequencies that United States carriers could introduce. [More…]

• This position was maintained in talks with United States authorities in 1970 and again in 1971 in the Washington discussions. [More…]

• The United States carriers with the support of the United States authorities sought originally an increase of 150 per cent in seat capacity from the beginning of 1970. [More…]

• This has been a period of great adjustment in the South Pacific with the large Boeing 747s coming into service as well as the commencement of operations by a second United States carrier. [More…]

• Our approach has been to persuade the United States to accept the need for governmental intervention and scrutiny in relation to these extra flights that their carriers proposed. [More…]

• I suggest as an example the longshoremen of the United States. [More…]

• If we are aware of something that is happening on the Pacific or Atlantic coasts of the United States affecting longshoremen we can anticipate that a similar happening here will result in an industrial complaint. [More…]

• The execution on behalf of the Commonwealth of the Loan Agreement, and the borrowing by the Commonwealth in accordance with that agreement of moneys in the currency of the United States of America not exceeding Ninety million dollars, are approved. [More…]

• In answer to that question, the Treasurer stated that the 2 loans of$US80m and $US75m respectively had been approved to assist in financing the purchase of the 24 F111C aircraft, spares and associated equipment, the source of each loan being the Export-Import Bank of the United States. [More…]

• The pointI am making here is that between 1966 and 1968 the Government, by means of a Bill similar to that now before us, sought approval to raise$US155m from the Export-Import Bank of the United States. [More…]

• The objection I take to clause 4 is that we are being asked to approve a Bill to raise an amount of$US90m from the same source not knowing, as my colleague Senator Cavanagh said in the course of his remarks, whether it would be required to be spent in the purchase of hardward from the United States. [More…]

• It seeks to borrow from the Export-Import Bank of the United States a sum of S90m. [More…]

• An agreement was made for the United States Defence Department to be credited with $US123m for supplies we would receive between 1st July 1970 and 3 1 st December 1974. [More…]

• 2) 1970, the Commonwealth arranged borrowings of $US123m to finance orders for general defence equipment to be placed with United States suppliers during 1970-71. [More…]

• These were for hardware in the United States, including the F1 1 1 aircraft. [More…]

• The amount of $4,644,183 mainly related to billings rendered by the United States Government under the current financial arrangements and included accounts totalling $116,498 processed in Australia in respect of supplies and services associated with the project. [More…]

• In addition, a commitment fee of $355,146 was paid in respect of the undisbursed balance of credit made available by the ExportImport Bank of the United States to assist in financing the project. [More…]

• Under the heading ‘Loan Fund - Credit Arrangements with the United States of America’, the Auditor-General stated: [More…]

• So, we are paying heavily for the privilege of obtaining credits in the United States for the purchase of hardware from the United States Government and other suppliers. [More…]

• We are paying interest to United States lenders for giving United States suppliers the privilege of supplying our defence needs. [More…]

• in fairness to the Russians 1 would say that in the matter of atomic testing they have played the game just as much as the United States or any other country. [More…]

• This Bill seeks the consent of Parliament to borrow $90m from the Export-Import Bank of the United States to enable us to purchase defence equipment. [More…]

• I noted also that Senator Cavanagh made the comment that the Soviet Union was playing the game as much as the United States was with regard to atomic testing. [More…]

• The United States is an open society and it announces to the world weeks - sometimes months - beforehand that it is going to conduct a nuclear test, but the Soviet Union never announces it to the world. [More…]

• It seeks the approval of the Parliament, in the first instance, for the borrowing of $US90m from the ExportImport Bank of the United States of America to assist in the purchasing of general defence equipment. [More…]

• Clause 4 of the Bill refers to moneys in the currency of the United States of America not exceeding $90m. [More…]

• The equipment that we desire for our purposes is available only from the United States of America. [More…]

• Since 1966-67 the rate of interest on these credits has been reflecting high rates of interest of government borrowings and commercial borrowings on the United States capital market, but the rate of interest of 6i per cent in the current credit, which is lower than in the previous 2 credits, is still about 2 per cent or 3 per cent lower than would be available to the Government for other purchases overseas. [More…]

• Turkey, Canada and the United States of America, who already transfer the social entitlement of their citizens wherever they may choose to live. [More…]

• The Prime Minister added that the situation was continually under review and that any short-term change in the rate against the United States dollar should not necessarily be taken as an indication as to the long-term rate that will eventually be settled for the Australian dollar. [More…]

• As I pointed out in my statement to the Mouse on 28th October on the international monetary situation, this means that the Ausralian dollar has appreciated by about 4 per cent in terms of parity with the United States dollar. [More…]

• However, other countries, some of them important trading partners, have appreciated even more against the United States dollar. [More…]

• How much mutton exported by Australia to the United States has been rejected because of sheep measles, in each of the years 1969, 1970 and 1971? [More…]

• Lesions of sheep measles are not identified as such by United States import inspectors in the records of their inspections. [More…]

• Is it correct that, as one correspondent states, the United Nations is carried on in the main by the United States of America’s largesse and that many other members, particularly the Soviet Union, have failed to meet their financial obligations to the organisation and that the United Nations is hence drifting into a slate of bankruptcy? [More…]

• It is true that the United States is the largest contributor to the United Nations budget. [More…]

• Also in the past the United States has paid about 40 per cent of the voluntary programmes of the United Nations to which it contributes. [More…]

• No, but there are techniques which have been used elsewhere, such as in the United States. [More…]

• Senator Wright speaks adversely of the committee system in the United States. [More…]

• I will cause to be handed to honourable senators a statement which will give them information on all defence loans arranged with the Export-Import Bank of the United States under the authority of the Loan (Defence) Acts. [More…]

• It is clear from the terms of the agreement that the loan will only be dispersed by the Export-Import Bank provided the loan money is spent on defence articles, equipment and services of at least 95 per cent United States content. [More…]

• Orders for defence equipment to be financed under this loan are approved of in the first instance by our Service departments and the Department of Defence and then by the United States Defence Department. [More…]

• These arrangements have applied to all loans arranged in the United States for the financing of defence equipment. [More…]

• The source of each of these loans has been the Export-Import Bank of the United States. [More…]

• The first loan was negotiated in 1966 when Australia concluded a credit sales arrangement with the United States Government under which the United States Government undertook to provide credit of $US80m at 4 per cent interest. [More…]

• The United States Government chose to make this loan available to the ExportImport Bank. [More…]

• The technical arrangements for this loan were as follows: For each of the financial years 1966-67, 1967-68, and 1968-69 Australia, the United States Defence Department and the ExportImport Bank concluded note purchase agreements. [More…]

• Under these agreements Australia issued promissory notes to the United States Defence Department for disbursements against the, loans. [More…]

• The United States Defence Department sold those notes to the Export-Import [More…]

• The unused balance of this loan will be drawn to finance payments on defence orders already placed in the United States. [More…]

• In seekingto ascertain the amount of money that we borrow from the ExportImport Bank of the United States from lime to time. [More…]

• This also raises the question of the arrangements we have with the ExportImport Bank of the United States, from which we seem to be seeking loans continuously. [More…]

• In the table the Minister has supplied the amounts of the individual loans are all set out in millions of United States dollars. [More…]

• I take it that the amount drawn is the amount which Australia has received from the United States under the authority of this loan. [More…]

• The final column in this table shows in United States dollars that between 30th June 1971 and 31st October 1971 only $US13m was drawn. [More…]

• As noted in the table, these amounts are committed by orders already placed in the United States. [More…]

• Clause 4 of the Bill refers to moneys in the currency of the United States of America noi exceeding $90m. [More…]

• The equipment that we desire for our purposes is available only from the United States of America. [More…]

• Senator WEBSTER (Victoria) (5.2 1> - I wish to ask a question of the Minister in relation to loans from the Export-Import Bank of the United States. [More…]

• I ask whether we do not nave available in the United States by decision of this Parliament sufficient unused morey on which we are now paying ( per cent interest. [More…]

• We desire to add $US90m lo ‘he reserves that we have and cannot use in the United States at the present time, apparently for no other reason than a desire to pay the Export-Import Bank i per cent interest on an extra $US90m. [More…]

• A further Agreement was entered into pursuant lo the Act whereby the Export-Import Bank of the United States agreed to finance payments, not exceeding $US35,05 1,734, required to be made by the Commonwealth to the United States Department of Defense and other suppliers of defence equipment. [More…]

• Has the Government a surplus, which it is not using at present, under all the relevant Actsthat the Parliament has passed and under the agreements that it has entered into with the United States. [More…]

• Has the Government no money available in the United States? [More…]

• Could the Minister give some information on that aspect of the Auditor-General’s Report to which I referred, particularly as to how much is available in the United States at present under previous agreements and which has not been used? [More…]

• money available on loanthrough the Export-Import Bank of the United States. [More…]

• It rests a great deal upon equipment purchased and supplied from the United States of America, for obvious, good, sensible and wise reasons. [More…]

• Fundamentally, therefore, for various reasons its defence or supply train links it to the United States. [More…]

• When governments borrow from other governments, particularly in the case of the United States, they also pay a commitment fee - in this, case per cent. [More…]

• A commitment fee applies now in the case of all loans from the United States, whether from commercial resources or from the Export-Import [More…]

• Orders are in hand with the United States suppliers for the full amount of the credit which has already been arranged and the actual disbursements are lagging behind the orders. [More…]

• An examination of the report of the Auditor-General seems to reveal a practice of the Treasurer’s paying whatever he likes from United States loans. [More…]

• At page 361 of the report we find that in relation to the procurement of munitions and aircraft productionthe following was said about credit arrangements with the United States of America: [More…]

• 5m and that in addition $92,048 was chargedto the loan fund under the credit arrangement with the United States. [More…]

• Treasury arranged for $92,000 to be taken from the credits that we have in the United States. [More…]

• When it comes to an allocation to a department for a particular project it would appear that additionally we had these reserves whichcan be used for payments tothe United States. [More…]

• I have been trying to find out what credit we have in the United States on the loans that have already been authorised. [More…]

• What credit do we have in the United States? [More…]

• Is it necessary for us to add another $90m to our credit in the United States during this session of the Parliament? [More…]

• We should be told whether we have credits in hand in the United States and whether it is likely, as has been the case in ; he past, that we may not need those resources. [More…]

• Let us be told also when it is likely that we will need to have additional money available in the United States to meet further commitments. [More…]

• I answered Senator Cavanagh earlier when I made the comment that the undrawn amounts that have been referred to are already committed for equipment which has been ordered but the payment for which has not been covered by the present Bill; that is, orders already in hand with the United States suppliers will require the full amount of the credit which has already been arranged. [More…]

• I know that Senator Cavanagh is trying to help me, but it is very difficult to see how and why.I am just trying to go through the defence situation to illustrateto the honourable senator the gigantic size of the defence programme and to point out quietly,I hope, that substantially the equipment is obtained for good and sensible reasons in the United States of America because this suits our weapons and equipment programme, and also our arrangements with allies. [More…]

• Since 1966-67 the rate of interest ‘ on these credits has been reflecting the high rates of interest on governmental and commercial borrowings on the United States capital market. [More…]

• It is a fact of commercial borrowing in the United States, and indeed in some other countries now. [More…]

• 1 say that notwithstanding the fact that there has been some indication that some part of those undrawn loan moneys has been committed to defence orders already placed in the United States. [More…]

• Some additional drawings will be made to finance payments for defence items for which orders already have been placed with the United States. [More…]

• The problems encountered with the early performance of the Fill led to a slowing-up of billings from the United States Air Force, which handled the matter on behalf of the Royal Australian Air Force. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science whether he is aware that almost every major country except the United States of America has converted to the metric system of weights and measures. [More…]

• In view of the reported criticism of mass chest X-rays by Mr J. C. Villforth, Director of the United States Federal Bureau of Radiological Health. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of the views of Professor Wilfred Mommaerts, Professor of Physiology and Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, who recently told a seminar in Melbourne that a quiet revolution in medical education is occurring in the United States of America, created by students concerned with the needs of the under-privileged and who desire to create a modern variation of the old style family doctor? [More…]

• Has the authoritative journal, Janes All the Worlds Aircraft, reported that United States satellite photographs of Russian and Chinese missile tests are being relayed through a secret United States base in Australia. [More…]

• This article contains statements which stimulated speculation in the Australian Press and questions in Parliament about the purpose of joint United States-Australian installations in this country. [More…]

• Will the cessation of United States aid to under-developed countries seriously affect Australian export markets, particularly in Asia? [More…]

• and (2) Although the United States Senate voted on 29th October to defeat the Administration’s 1971-72 Foreign Assistance Authorisation Bill, the Government’s understanding is that this does not mean the cessation of United States aid to developing countries. [More…]

• Congress is now examining new proposals on the United States aid programme. [More…]

• Since United States aid is largely tied to purchases in that country a decrease in US economic aid would have little direct effect on Australia’s exports. [More…]

• The disgust of the people of the United States and of this nation has meant, I hope, that there will not be any repetition of this kind of thing, where our young people can be sent to other countries to be sacrified in this way. [More…]

• This war has been costing us not the $40m that has been staled at times but something, like $400m a year - thus doing relatively the same damage to our country as has been done to the United States. [More…]

• I. would remind them also that if the experience of the major industrial countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States of America, which preceded Australia into the stagflation club, are any guide, this type of unemployment, unless tackled quickly and thoroughly, tends to become chronic and permanent. [More…]

• If the Leader of the Opposition in this chamber believes that an invitation properly and urgently issued by the President of the United States should have been rejected and the resultant: journey be described as a pointless jaunt overseas, then he is entitled to use that definition. [More…]

• Incidentally we are talking of an unemployment rate of 1.1 per cent which compares with the United States, 5.8 per cent, Great Britain, 5.2 per cent, Canada, 7.1 per cent, Italy, 3.3 per cent and Sweden, 2.7 per cent. [More…]

• 1 would have expected the Leader of a responsible Labor Party to describe the impact that that currency crisis has bad on the United States of America and Japan and the effect it has had in producing a lack of confidence overseas in investments. [More…]

• The United States of America, as has been mentioned, has an unemployment rate of very nearly 6 per cent. [More…]

• Because of the miserable policy of the United States, with its fictitious price of gold at SUS35 per ounce, are the mine owners to be left in the position of having to have caretakers in their mines until the American Government settles its monetary differences with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics so that any increase in the price of gold will not boost the economy of the USSR? [More…]

• In the United States the figure is 6.2 per cent. [More…]

• Statistics show that in 1971 the rate of unemployment in Australia of 1.7 per cent compared more than favourably with that of the United Kingdom at 3.1 per cent, the United States at 6.2 per cent, New Zealand - with a record employment situation - showing only 0.2 per cent unemployed and Canada with 7.1 per cent unemployed. [More…]

• by leave - The statement I am about to make concerns the recent visit to the United States of America and Great Britain by the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) and was made by him yesterday in another place. [More…]

• A new balance is emerging which includes the United States, the Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China, Japan and the European community, including Britain. [More…]

• On behalf of the Government of this country, I wanted to establish close personal contact with leaders in the United States and Britain and to explore their thinking on major international issues, their attitudes to which are of importance to us. [More…]

• And, as it happend, it occurred at the same time as the defeat of the foreign aid Bill in the United States Senate. [More…]

• In the United States, I had lengthy and very frank discussions with President Nixon, Secretary of State Rogers, Defence Secretary Laird, Deputy Secretary Packard, Dr Kissinger, Under Secretary of the Treasury Volcker, Chairman of the Council of Environmental Quality Russell Train, and Senator Fulbright, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. [More…]

• The ANZUS Treaty, as honourable members will know, provides that in the event of an armed attack on any one of them or on their forces in the Pacific area, the United States, Australia and New Zealand would each act to meet the common danger in accordance with its constitutional processes. [More…]

• It is the symbol of the close co-operation which exists between Australia, the United States and New Zea land. [More…]

• On my way home I discussed defence strategy in the Pacific with the United States Commander-in-Chief, Pacific, in Honolulu. [More…]

• I am satisfied the United States is fully aware of the political and strategic importance of the Indian Ocean and agrees that a careful watch should be continued in this area. [More…]

• The United States will continue visits and transits by its naval ships and naval exercises in the Indian Ocean. [More…]

• I emphasised the need to take full account of Japan in the emerging balance between the United States, China and the Soviet Union in North Asia. [More…]

• I believe the administration in the United States, the Government in Britain and leading representatives of the media in both countries now have a greater awareness of Australia - as a country of stability and increasing influence in the South East Asian region. [More…]

• I believe this was worth while in focusing the interest of leading opinion formers in the media in the United States and in Britain on Australia and its prospects and policies. [More…]

• I pointed out the impact which the United States import surcharge and the uncertainty about exchange rates has had on the market for some of our products, including wool. [More…]

• I stressed, particularlyin the United States, the indirect implication tor Australia of any sharp check of economic growth and trade in third countries, such as Japan, as a result of the United States’ measures. [More…]

• In America I urged on the Administration the need to remove barriers in the way of world trade in agricultural commodities and raised at the highest level the problems we face in our attempt to export Australian wool and meat to the United States. [More…]

• There are good grounds for believing that the United States is seeking ways of being helpful to us in respect of both wool and meat. [More…]

• Is he aware also that the Attorney-General of South Australia said that in many cases the promoters of these snide enterprises arrived here from the United States of America and Canada? [More…]

• Can the Minister inform the Senate whether his Department has finally abandoned the use of dogs to detect drug smuggling or whether it is considering switching from the Labrador breed, which has proved a failure, to the crossbreeds which have been used effectively by the United States drug agencies? [More…]

• Were Vampire aircraft sold to a United States of America Company advertised for purchase by tender or were they sold by private treaty. [More…]

• The Vampire aircraft were advertised in Australia, United Kingdom and United States of America for sale by public tender. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Attorney-General been drawn to reports that the Iowa Supreme Court in the United States of America has upheld a verdict of guilty against a Mr Glen W. Turner of violating the State’s consumer fraud laws? [More…]

• I do not know how the Minister should be expected to know of what a Mr Nader said in the United States of America. [More…]

• Has the Minister also seen the statement on 8th November 1971 by the Chief of the Naval Staff, Vice-Admiral Peek, on his return from an international seapower symposium in the United States, that there is nothing ominous about the Russian naval presence in the Indian Ocean and that they are ‘just catching up with what we have been doing for years’? [More…]

• France, Germany, Turkey, Canada and the United States of America, who already transfer the social entitlement of their citizens wherever they may choose to live. [More…]

• It has been quite apparent to the Department and to me that if wc succeeded as we have succeeded in breaking through in the low fare operation overseas to the United Kingdom, the United States and Europe, as has been announced, this would undoubtedly show a comparison between such fares and the fares for long distances in Australia. [More…]

• However, in the United States of America they have apparently been most successful. [More…]

• Does Dr Ehrlich normally charge a lecture fee of between$ 1,200 and $1,500 when he makes public appearances in the United States of America. [More…]

• Have threats been made against two persons associated with the Melbourne television programme’ Dateline’ which, in a recent edition, exposed the sales techniques of the United States of America pyramid-selling organisation known as Golden Products’. [More…]

• 1 have no knowledge of the lecture fees paid to Dr Ehrlich in the United States of America. [More…]

• It is the case in many of the States in the United States of America, lt is the case in not only both Western Europe and Eastern Europe but in many parts of Asia. [More…]

• There has not been any discussion in this country, nor any serious discussion in this Parliament, in the same way as there has been in the United States of America, for example, where there has recently been a decision of the United States Supreme Court on this matter. [More…]

• Certainly an almost identical provision in the United States Constitution was held by the United States Supreme Court to prohibit grants of this kind being made in that country and one would have thought that at least when this rather unique proposition was presented to the Senate the Minister, if only in passing, would have touched on this very important mater relating to our Constitution and the philosophy which, I have understood, for many years has been one of the hallmarks of our society. [More…]

• To those people who say that we can cure all the problems of education by giving more money, I suggest that we look at the situation in the United States of America. [More…]

• If all we needed to do was to build a lot more universities and make it possible for every youngster who wants to go to a university to go there free of charge, the experience of the United States should indicate that that is what we have to do. [More…]

• But while we pay 4 per cent of our national income on education, the United States spends 7 per cent of ils national income on education. [More…]

• I would like honourable senators to consider what we are told about the results in the United States as far as its youth is concerned. [More…]

• There may be factors other than the ones we are told about in relation to what is happening to the youth of the United States, but it would appear that spending more and more money on education and making it easier for people to go to tertiary institutions free of charge has not produced in the United States the kind of community that we would want here. [More…]

• I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate whether the Australian Government will inform the Government of the United States of America, following the controversial dismissal of the former commander of the Harold E. Holt base in Western Australia, that it wants this country to have a much greater say in the control of the base? [More…]

• Very properly therefore, before responding to a question which implies that we should be sending almost dictatorial signals to the United States of America, I would think that the obvious thing to do would be to get the facts. [More…]

• As a result of the nationality of Beck’s father he was at binh a citizen of the United States of America by descent as well as being an Australian citizen by birth. [More…]

• As Beck had arrived in Mexico with an American passport, it was the United States Consul who was informed of Beck’s arrest and not the Australian Embassy. [More…]

• It was later, when the United States authorities withdrew Beck’s US citizenship,- that the Australian Embassy was informed and he was issued with an Australian passport. [More…]

• At that time the economic measures subsequently taken by the Government of the United States of America and the consequent international currency disturbances could not be predicted. [More…]

• I refer first to the 1969 edition of the ‘Senate Manual’ of the United States, which states that a Joint Congressional Committee on Immigration and Nationality Policy has been established to investigate the problems of aliens and nationality. [More…]

• I might say in passing that I know that the United States had some inbuilt immigration problems between 1924 and the Second World War that Australia did not exactly experience. [More…]

• The United States of America experienced tremendous difficulties in rationalising the quota system in po.%t-war limes as against pre-war .times. [More…]

• The United States of America, which has a long-standing committee system, found 3 or 4 years ago that this happened. [More…]

• A few weeks ago some of the members of the Opposition were lauding the statements of an alleged learned professor who had been brought to Australia from the United States of America to tell us we must join the zero population growth movement; that we should not be filth sinners and have more than 2 children to * family. [More…]

• Perhaps we should adopt an immigration policy somewhat similar to that which the United States has had for some years. [More…]

• I had to find someone in America who would ensure that I would not become a burden on the United States for the first 12 or 18 months. [More…]

• I wish to quote now from the book ‘A Nation of Immigrants’ written by John F. Kennedy, an illustrious United States President. [More…]

• In the United States accusations were made about the exploitation of Mexican workers - or wetbacks as they call them - in the rural industry. [More…]

• If some of those people want in this country the kind of problems that face the United States of America and Great Britain - if they foster that type of policy in this country - they have not much regard for the Commonwealth. [More…]

• Does the Government’s decision to cosponsor the resolution seeking the admission of the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations Organisation mean that the Government has changed its attitude towards China, or has pressure been applied on the Australian Government by the United States of America to support their current policy towards the People’s Republic of China. [More…]

• Do Australian Government records show that 2.12 million kangaroo skins were exported to the United States during the period 1966-1970, and do United States statistics reveal that 3.76 million kangaroo skins were imported from Australia during the same period: if so, what is the reason for the discrepancy in these import/export figures. [More…]

• The table below shows details of Australia’s exports to the United States of America of undressed kangaroo and wallaby fur skin, measured by ‘number of skins’, for the years 1966-67 to 1969-70 and United States imports from Australia of raw or cured kangaroo or wallaby skins, measured by ‘pieces’ and by ‘pounds weight’, for the calendar years 1967 to 1970. [More…]

• As can be seen from the table, throughout the period there is a difference of only 47,410 between the number of skins exported to the United States of America and the number of pieces’ imported from Australia. [More…]

• One reason for this difference is to be found in the fact that the Bureau of Census and Statistics figures relate to financial years while the United States Department of Commerce statistics relate to calendar years. [More…]

• The original signatories to the Agreement were Turkey, Greece and Australia - Australia participated at industry level with the endorsement of the Australian Government - and while the United States was not a signatory it adhered from the outset to the terms of the Agreement in every way. [More…]

• During its lifetime the conferences held under, the Agreement were all chaired by Mr Setrakian of the United States of America which is the world’s largest producer of dried vine fruits and which, as explained previously, while not a signatory to the Agreement faithfully adhered to its terms during its lifetime. [More…]

• If there was one thing which was brought out in the evidence taken by the Senate Select Committee on Water Pollution it was this: We studied 20 years of efforts by the States of the United States of America in which each State went its own way and established some watery co-ordinating plans, none of which worked. [More…]

• I think it was Mr Finch, who was Secretary for Health in an earlier United States Administration, who indicated very forcibly that a time will come when an industry virtually will have to be told to close down if it is an extreme polluter of the atmosphere. [More…]

• I do not doubt the motives of the Department, but in view of developments in the United States I had hoped that the honourable Peter Howson would have assumed the mantle of Steward Udall or Henry Hicker, or even Mr Morton, a subsequent Secretary of the Interior in the United States. [More…]

• What I am suggesting has been the pattern of many conflicts in the United States and I had hoped that it would develop here. [More…]

• As to the individuals who are mentioned, I believe that both Mr Nocera and Mr Berliner are now resident in the United States of America, although they have been in Australia. [More…]

• The paid-up capital of Holdiay Magic is $201,000, and the greater part of that paid-up capital is held by interests in the United States of America. [More…]

• A large proportion of the total number of people who were sent to the United States of America for training under the Fill programme! [More…]

• This means that if the Government should make a decision to accept the Fill aircraft, crews will have to be sent to the United States for training. [More…]

• If the decision should be taken a number of men, both ground crew and air crew will be sent to the United States for training. [More…]

• of the United States, Mr Nixon, to acquire a large tract of land. [More…]

• In relation to the background basis of the matter to which I referred - the Minister’s advisers will know what 1 am getting at - we all know the terrific upheaval which occurred over the Florida Everglades and the conflict between United States Army engineers, reclamation people and conservationists. [More…]

• If I substitute the River Murray Commission for the United States Army engineers in the situation the Minister’s advisers will know what I am getting at. [More…]

• First 1 mention the role of the Australian News and Information Bureau and relate it to the large number of Australians of all ages, who .are at present abroad on working holidays throughout Europe and also Asia/ j should like to know whether it is possible to be given a comparison between, the news bulletins, if any, supplied by Australia to embassies and consulates and those supplied by the United States. [More…]

• such- in fact, if the Bureau needed more money and staff I would be in favour of ‘ them being provided - I noticed that’ the United States service provided considerable information on the baseball series and gridiron held at the Rose Bowl. [More…]

• One can look at what has happened in the United States of America with its open cut and kindred projects in Kentucky. [More…]

• Mr Simpson applied for and was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 1967 to enable him to study the making of artificial limbs in the United States of America. [More…]

• The formal Agreement with the United States is currently being negotiated and concurrently a preliminary engineering study is being made of suitable areas for site selection. [More…]

• United States contributions are assessed at a rate of 25 per cent of the budget. [More…]

• The position is that the United States Congress has not appropriated funds to pay the contributions due from the United Stales for the period sine: 1st July 1970, and the United Stales is therefore in arrears with its contributions. [More…]

• Legislation of this kind has been the subject of very strong criticism in recent years iri the United States of America where it was first enacted. [More…]

• The 2 matters under consideration are, firstly, the maintenance in Vietnam of a small Australian Army Assistance Group (AAAG) after the withdrawal of the Australian Force Vietnam; and secondly, the provision of Australian military instructors to train Cambodian military personnel at United States training establishments set up with the co-operation of the Vietnamese Government in Phuoc Tuy Province. [More…]

• The Army Assistance Group is a matter for Australia and the Republic of Vietnam; the proposals to train Cambodian troops in Vietnam involve the governments of Australia, the Khmer Republic, the Republic of Vietnam and the United States. [More…]

• In fact the United States refused to attend it. [More…]

• Although I believe that the United States did not attend or was not a party to the agreement, it did agree that it would work within the ambit of the agreement and would not participate in any price cutting or any switch deals. [More…]

• Inherent in the Bill could bring us to the point that has been reached in the United States of America where the attempt to control the use of marihuana creates greater social problems than the use of the drug. [More…]

• Is the Government satisfied to leave any inquiries into events within Australian territory to the President of the United States, or does the Australian Government intend to inquire into this matter and the associated allegations. [More…]

• Will the Government inform the Government of the United States of America that following the controversial dismissal of the former commander of the Harold E. Holt base in Western Australia, it wants Australia to have a much greater say in the control of the base. [More…]

• I think that my reply has always been that it is a matter of consultation between the Governments of the United States of America and Australia and their air forces. [More…]

• The honourable senator will recall that, just before the Parliament rose at the end of the last session, the Deputy Secretary of the United States Department of Defence, Mr Packard, came to Australia with departmental officers of the United States Air Force. [More…]

• In accordance with the foregoing policy, Australian companies have been establishing enterprises in many countries overseas, particularly in New Zealand, South-East Asia and the Pacific, but also in the United Kingdom, the United States and elsewhere. [More…]

• Will the Prime Minister, while overseas, discuss with the United States the possibility of sending Australian Army advisers to Cambodia. [More…]

• Was a request made 6 months ago by the United States Government for the sending of Australian troops to Cambodia, and was it considered by the Government’s advisers and not brought before Cabinet for discussion. [More…]

• Is it correct to say that these requests preceded the United States interest on the subject. [More…]

• The initial request by Cambodia to Australia preceded the first United States approach to us on the question of training assistance for Cambodian forces. [More…]

• The only installation in Australia which might be described as a United States base is the United States Naval Communications Station :;t Northwest Cape. [More…]

• The United States Air Force Detachment at Amberley, engaged in research into atmospheric disturbances. [More…]

• Other activities, including the National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) network of tracking stations, the Mildura balloon launching station, the Tranet navigational receiving station at Smithfield and the Baker Nunn photographic satellite tracking station at Woomera are operated by Australians in conjunction with or on behalf of United States agencies and could not be described as United States basis. [More…]

• I think also it is even more incorrect to look on the problems which have to be resolved if we are to have peaceful relations with our neighbours in the Indian Ocean as being solely the result of the intervention of major powers, whether they be Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union or China. [More…]

• They have shown that even the United States, the most powerful country in the world, cannot impose its will on Vietnam. [More…]

• Although the tumult and the shouting and the aerial bombing still have not been stopped it is quite clear what has happened in Vietnam: The Vietnamese people have defeated the United States of America. [More…]

• While on the one hand the Pope is offering prayers for the success of President Nixon’s visit to Peking and, at the other extreme, both India and the Soviet Union are expressing concern about the possibility of a new alliance between China and the United States of America, we can get no intelligible statement whatsoever from this Government apart from the usual old anti-Communist claptrap it has been serving up for about 25 years that everything which is going on is the part of some Red plot. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party used to say that the alliance with the United States of America and New Zealand was of crucial importance, was essential and must continue. [More…]

• We have virtually forced the Soviet Union to become a super-power by reason of our foreign policy, by reason of United States foreign policy and by reason of British foreign policy which believed that the Soviet Union must be matched. [More…]

• They arc the major British withdrawal of forces cast of the Suez, extension of the Russian naval and economic influence in the Indian Ocean and its surrounds, the uncertainty of the intentions of the United States in the area, an anticipated large increase in exports of minerals from Western Australia, and the extension in the ocean of the influence of great powers whose policies and ideologies differ from our own. [More…]

• It states further on page 57 that there is a danger that Australia by her complacency in relying on the United States, Great Britain and Japan for her trade and defence is playing into the Soviet hands without considering the Soviet presence. [More…]

• The report goes on to note the possibility that, after United States and British withdrawals, countries and areas in the regions may turn more towards Russia and/or Communist China than towards Australia which today they consider to be only good friends but economically and militarily stronger than themselves. [More…]

• He had to rely on the United States of America for assistance. [More…]

• As honourable senators will be aware the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) during a visit overseas last year discussed the position of the Indian Ocean both in England and in the United States of America. [More…]

• The United States already has welcomed the possibility of using facilities at Cockburn Sound and the requirements of our allies will have been kept in mind. [More…]

• The Committee has examined in some detail great power involvement and interests in the Indian Ocean region - specifically, the role and interests of Britain, the United States, Japan, China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]

• The Committee discussed the United States Middle East force operating from Bahrain in paragraph 31 of its report. [More…]

• The United States Government has announced that on 23 rd December 1971 it concluded an agreement with Bahrain under which the United States is to lease parts of the former British naval base at Jufair. [More…]

• Previously, the United States had an informal arrangement with Britain on behalf and with the approval of the Bahrain Government, under which the United States Middle East force - comprising a converted seaplane tender, as a flagship and 2 destroyers - had been based on Jufair for over 20 years. [More…]

• A recent British decision to return the Jufair facilities to Bahrain would have left the Middle East force without a base, and it had therefore become necessary for the United States to negotiate a status of forces and leasing arrangement with the Bahrain Government. [More…]

• United States spokesmen have made clear that the United States Middle East force based on Bahrain will not be enlarged, and it remains the only permanent United States naval presence in the region. [More…]

• In answering Press inquiries about the United States-Bahrain arrangement on 6th January 1972, a Pentagon spokesman also indicated that units of the Seventh Fleet would continue to operate in the Indian Ocean from time to time, but not on any fixed schedule or at any fixed or permanent level. [More…]

• He revealed that the United States Commander-in-Chief Pacific Fleet, to whose command the Seventh Fleet belongs, has been given responsibility for United States naval operations in most of the Indian Ocean. [More…]

• This task was formerly shared with the United States CommanderinChief Atlantic. [More…]

• The Pentagon spokesman commented that this new arrangement was to bring the Indian Ocean area under one unified command and would enhance United States capabilities to operate there if necessary. [More…]

• Although these statements do not indicate any change in United States policy inasmuch as elements of the United States Seventh Fleet have made random sorties and conducted exercises in the Indian Ocean before, the Australian Government welcomes continued United States deployments in the Indian Ocean and the agreement with Bahrain, as well as the development of the joint United StatesUnited Kingdom communications facility at Diego Garcia, and sees this evidence of United States1 interest as a valuable and necessary demonstration that the United Stales has a security role and capability in this area. [More…]

• lt is probable that if diligent search and inquiry were made we might be able to obtain one of the 2 United States ships which are in moth balls at the moment - the USS ‘V……….a’ of about 40,000 tons fully loaded, which is not as modern .as the ‘Hermes’ but is still a good ship, or the ‘Bennington’, which is about the same displacement but perhaps 2 years older. [More…]

• A little time ago, of course, when India was being attacked by China it ran screaming to the United States for assislance. [More…]

• Senate, in debating the situation in the Indian Ocean region, were merely to look at.it from the point of view of the interests of various major powers and were to consider only what will happen as a result of Britain’s withdrawal, what will happen as a result of the Soviet allegedly coming and what the United States or China might do in this part of the world. [More…]

• As honourable senators may be aware, the Russian Navy today has not only an equality of numbers of nuclear submarines with the United States but also has in all some 340 orthodox submarines compared with some 85 of the United States as listed in ‘Jane’s Fighting Ships’. [More…]

• The Soviet Union is exercising its right as a super-power, a status which it has achieved along with the United States of America, to accept what was given to us during our heyday as part of the colonial and imperialist power that was the British Empire and then the British Commonwealth. [More…]

• I believe that our involvement in Korea was part of the philosophy of the people of the United States, backed up by people such as Senator Carrick and the Australian foreign policy that we could bring about internal disruption and perhaps the overthrow of the governments of these various countries and, if we did not bring that about, we could mount attacks on them. [More…]

• It has had to expand in depth into Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary and the other buffer countries and exercise its influence there because of the fear that the United States Central Intelligence Agency and that country’s other instrumentalities which are practically extra-governmental would undermine the people’s governments there and establish reactionary governments which would allow the Western powers, with its fanatical objection to people having their own form of government, to make attacks through these bordering countries. [More…]

• The people of the United States have been fed propaganda that the Chinese will come down to Australia. [More…]

• There are some who thought, until President Nixon showed the way, that it was unthinkable that one should have the kind of relations that now exist between the United States of America and China. [More…]

• In the development of space research it originally led the United States and has been overtaken only in recent times. [More…]

• At the present time, except in destroyers aand aircraft carriers, the Soviet outnumbers the United States Navy. [More…]

• It is believed, altough there is no certainty of it, that the Soviet Union is building its first aircraft carrier which is believed to be of about 45,000 or 50,000 tons, putting it in the class of the United States carrier ‘Enterprise’. [More…]

• The achievement and the maintenance of a strategic balance with the United States; [More…]

• a military and an economic sense throughout the world in competition with the United States and other Western powers; and [More…]

• Russia, as one of 2 or 3 super powers, is in competition with some other super powers, notably with the United States, Japan and China. [More…]

• The United States has developed Polaris missiles with a range of 2,500 miles which, if they were deployed in submarines in “ the Indian Ocean, would threaten any of the cities of the Soviet Union. [More…]

• It is true that the United States of America has not been in the habit up till now of deploying ships in the Arabian Sea, but it. [More…]

• Nearly half the world’s tanker tonnage belongs to NATO countries, and when Japanese tankers; plus those registered in Liberia but owned inAmerica (and in the last resort likely to call on the United States Navy rather than the 200-man Liberian Navy for protection) are included. [More…]

• For example, Great Britain spends about 9 per cent of its gross national product on defence and the United States of America spends between 12 per cent and 15 per cent. [More…]

• We are now going through a new phase in which many of our own nationals are going to the United Kingdom or to the United States of America. [More…]

• I shall put Sir Kenneth Anderson at ease by informing him that although I have something to say about the United States I have not all my ammunition ready on that aspect and so I shall not develop it tonight. [More…]

• I remind him that no less a person than a former United States President, Senator Lyndon Johnson, had problems with the American Federation of Labour over the influx of Mexican farm labourers, known as wetbacks, coming over the border into California. [More…]

• If the AFL was able to persuade an American President to take up with the Mexican President the status of Mexicans entering the United States, in the lengthy discussions between our Prime Minister and Edward Heath the matters that I have raised should have been finalised. [More…]

• The RAAF purchased its spare parts for the Fill aircraft from the United States Air Force. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the salary of at least one of these persons is met by the United States Central Intelligence Agency or the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, if not, which organisation is responsible for the payment of salaries and expenses of expatriate persons who are assisting the United Party. [More…]

• The United States of America is one country where there is a definite system for coping with national disasters. [More…]

• The Act defines major disasters to include, as we would expect, floods, droughts, fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, storm or other catastrophe in any part of the United States which is or threatens to be of sufficient magnitude to warrant disaster assistance by the Federal Government. [More…]

• I return to the scheme which operates in the United States of America. [More…]

• If what can be done by such organisations in the United States, Canada and one or two other countries which have established effective organisations can be of value to their people, surely we in Australia ought to do the same. [More…]

• lt is true that the Leader of the Opposition has brought the proposition up to date by reference to what has happened in more contemporary times in the United States of America and Canada. [More…]

• The position in the United States, to which I will refer in a moment, may have some overtones of alteration that we would not be able to apply here. [More…]

• The procedure is such that the system operates in the very way that Senator Murphy has suggested the schemes in Canada and the United States work. [More…]

• In the United States, the concept is different because the role of the President is different from that of our parliamentary institutions and our State and local government authorities. [More…]

• Nor has the honourable senator indicated, as I understand it, what was being done in the Canadian and the United States scene in that regard, although I thought he did say that bodies could go to the President for special financial aid. [More…]

• He mentioned what is done in Canada and the United States but they do not have the same sort of federal system that we have here. [More…]

• Canada, Japan and the United States of America all have organisations of a like nature. [More…]

• Indeed, under the Federal Disasters Act of the United Slates provision is made for cooperation between the Federal Administration of the United States and the States of that country. [More…]

• The United States of America has a Bureau of Reclamation which uses the United States Army Engineers Corps. [More…]

• I assure honourable senators that I am not quot ing from the’New Statesman’ or ‘Nation’; I am quoting no less a person than Lyndon Baines Johnson, the former President of the United States. [More…]

• In Canada and the United States, under federal systems, Ottawa and Washington do much more than Canberra does. [More…]

• The United States Air Force in the purchase of spares follows the United States Treasury Armed Services Procurement Regulations. [More…]

• The first is for those components to be fitted to a new aircraft which are already in the United States Services Inventory, procurement is made direct from vendors or the sub-contractors to take advantage of large volume buys and the appropriate price advantages associated with this practice. [More…]

• I must emphasise that the General Accounting Office report is not available here yet and it relates naturally to United States practices. [More…]

• For example, if sub-contractor purchasing was followed for parts to be used in the actual production of the aircraft, the United States Air Force would be involved in a major task of configuration management, maintenance of technical records and quality control at the sub-contractor’s works as well as the main contractor. [More…]

• As far as the RAAF is concerned, our buys of spare parts are made through the United States Armed Forces rather than through a prime contractor or a subcontractor. [More…]

• Over the years this has been shown to give us price advantages as our purchases are combined with the high volume procurement of the United States Air Force. [More…]

• Further the United States Air Force, I understand, controls profit margins and overhead factors which we would be faced with if we were to purchase direct. [More…]

• It is also worth noting that the RAAF did not order any spares from the United States during the period May 1970 to December 1971 while the requirements of the Fraser/ Laird minute were still to be satisfied. [More…]

• Until the report has been examined both in the United States and here, one cannot say categorically that there has been overcharging. [More…]

• If we were following the procedure adopted in the United States, Canada and in other countries we would say to the committee dealing with constitutional and legal affairs: ‘You will consider all matters of law and justice, bankruptcy, copyright, the Judiciary Act, administrative review matters and so on’, and then leave the committee to deal with the various aspects which were important. [More…]

• Of this number 407 have been accepted by the United States Air Force. [More…]

• In directing my question to the Minister for Health T refer to the United States committee which recently reported on the drug marihuana. [More…]

• I ask: Did that body recommend that alt existing United States legal sanctions and penalties be actively pursued against the pedlars and pushers of the drug? [More…]

• Is it not a measure of the United States Government’s concern at the adverse effects of that drug that the existing penalties against pedlars and pushers are particularly heavy? [More…]

• Under United States Federal law to have, give or sell marihuana in the United States is a felony. [More…]

• There is a nation called Israel and I admit, without anyone telling me, that it receives pretty big handouts from the United States of America. [More…]

• The United States of America is one of the world’s super powers. [More…]

• She possesses vast quantities of financial reserves, natural resources and manpower, enabling the United States to accept a large responsibility in assisting the growth and development of the under-privileged nations of the world. [More…]

• If one reads the various statements of the Prime Minister of India, the new Prime Minister of Bangla Desh and the Prime Ministers of Ceylon and other countries in the Indian Ocean area one finds that they take a somewhat similar view - that the Soviet Union should accept some responsibility, as the United States does, in assisting the growth and development of the under-privileged nations of that part of the world. [More…]

• I think it will be found, as 1 shall show later, that the United States secs nothing unusual in the fact that another major power seeks to interest itself in the affairs of the Indian Ocean, because that is a prerogative that it exercises in its own right. [More…]

• Whilst there would be many people who would like to see the Indian Ocean free from the influence of the major powers, the fact is that if it is the prerogative of the United States it is also the prerogative of the other major powers to become involved in that region. [More…]

• I think any reasonable person would agree that the conclusion reached by the Committee in respect of the United States has some substance. [More…]

• The achievement and the maintenance of a strategic balance with the United States; the extension of Soviet influence both in a military and an economic sense throughout the world in competition with the United States and other Western powers; and the curtailment, as far as possible, of the influence of the PRC. [More…]

• [ have taken the trouble to do some research on the United States attitude to the Soviet presence in the Indian Ocean. [More…]

• I obtained extracts from hearings of the Sub-Committee on National Security Policy and Scientific Developments of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the United States House of Representatives on 20th, 22nd, 27th and 28th July 1971. [More…]

• The United States Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Elmo Zumwalt Jnr, also spoke about the Soviet presence in the Indian Ocean in his testimony before the Sub-Committee of the Committee on Appropriations on 15th March 1971. [More…]

• At the Committee of Appropriations hearing, the Defence Secretary, Mr Laird, when questioned about United States interests in the Indian Ocean, said: [More…]

• the strategic and political interests of the United States in the Indian Ocean are, over the next 5 years at least, of a substantially lower order than it is in either of the other great ocean basins - the Atlantic and the Pacific - both because they border on these and because the States along those shores are for the most part economically, politically and militarily more important than those of the Indian Ocean. [More…]

• These are the men in the United States concerned with United States interests and, for those who want to use the terminology as they have done with great frequency and emphasis over the years, the interests of the free world. [More…]

• We find that the DLP has lost its international support in the sense that previously the United States was regarded as being a power which would protect us in all circumstances but we have found that America applies those principles which affect its own national interests. [More…]

• The Prime Ministers of these countries - as distinct from our own Prime Minister whom 1 will admit, to my knowledge, has not made a pronouncement on the matter but will during the coming general election - came to the same conclusion as Mr Friedheim, again of the United States, who in Washington on 10th January when he was discussing the Soviet presence in the Indian Ocean had something to say which is in accordance with the standpoint of most of the nations in the Indian Ocean region. [More…]

• According to Mr Friedheim, there had been some surveillance between the United States and Soviet forces in the area but ‘nothing unusual in the context of what happens all the time around the world1. [More…]

• If it is competent to express the view that China and the United States of America can find the means to live in peace, I think that surely in Australia we can adopt a much more mature attitude instead of our normal behavioural pattern. [More…]

• I note with great satisfaction the growing interest by the United States of America in the Indian Ocean region and the need for that nation to maintain a naval presence there. [More…]

• I believe that it is in Australia’s interests to encourage a greater presence of and participation by the United States navy in the region. [More…]

• Our policies become important - the recommendations of the Committee in this regard are of particular importance - because of the need for us to provide for our defence and to provide, in alliances with nations such as the United States and Britain, naval and air bases and so on on the western coast. [More…]

• Prior to that the Admiral had been to a sea power symposium in the United States. [More…]

• As Senator Gietzelt pointed out, the fact is that according to the quotation from the United States Congressional Record that is not the situation. [More…]

• It is, in fact, 2.3 per cent of the work force, which might be compared with the latest available figure of 5.4 per cent in the United States of America and 4 per cent in the United Kingdom. [More…]

• It is, in fact, 2.3 per cent of the work force, which might be compared with the latest available figure of 5.4 per cent in the United States of America and 4 per cent in the United Kingdom. [More…]

• There was a famous poll in the United States of America which showed that the only person who thought Mr Truman would win the Presidency was Mr Truman himself. [More…]

• In view of the apparent participation of William Burchett in lead up work for the visit to China of President Nixon, docs the Minister have any knowledge of United States suggestions to the Australian Government that it should review Burchett’s lapsed Australian passport? [More…]

• Will the United States Deputy Secretary of Defense, Mr Packard, be given free access to the Pine Gap base while permission for members of the Australian Parliament to enjoy the same right is still refused? [More…]

• I hope that 1 have already made it clear that similar principles apply to Australian as to United States persons in equivalent positions. [More…]

• We are aware that the British Government is in dire straits wilh the expenses of its health scheme, as is the United States Administration. [More…]

• Of particular significance here is the prospect of larger quotas for beef and mutton in the United States. [More…]

• There were the Hoover Commission in the United States of America and the Royal Commission to Inquire into and Report Upon State Services in New Zealand. [More…]

• Secrecy and civil liberties are inextricably related, and simultaneous solution to both problems is to open up our Public Sen-ice along the lines that have already been adopted in the United States, the United Kingdom. [More…]

• It urged the appointment of a commission, similar to the Hoover Commission in the United States of America, to investigate the efficiency of the Public Service administratively. [More…]

• If it had not been for those people who broke the law in the 13 colonies of North America in 1775 there would not have been the Declaration of Independence of 1776 and there would not have been any United States of America established out of the colonial situation in which- the people in that country found themselves at that time. [More…]

• As Senator Murphy has pointed out, it was a national scandal in the United States when President Nixon made comments about the guilt of Charles Manson who was engaged with other persons in a most diabolical series of murders in California. [More…]

• They were saying that the President of the United States should not presume to judge the guilt of a person who had not been convicted. [More…]

• It is a basic principle of our democracy, and of the democracy of the United States, whatever weaknesses there may be in the United States - there are myriad weaknesses in the United States - that there is a rule of law to be followed, and the President of the United States and the Attorney-General of the United States would never dream of doing the sorts of things, except by inadvertence as I believe was the case in relation to President Nixon’s comments, that this Attorney-General has done since he has held this office. [More…]

• As Senator Murphy pointed out - I think it was referred to also by Senator Wheeldon, and this underlines the point I am making - did anyone believe that Charles Manson, the mass killer in the United States, was not guilty? [More…]

• But when the President of the United Stales expressed his horror at the crimes of Charles Manson before Manson had been brought to trial there was a cry of protest all over the United States against this premature public assertion by the President of the gUilt of a man whom most Americans, as f have said, privately considered to be guilty. [More…]

• The Pentagon Papers have proved to the people of America - and this was proved later, after the truth seeped through our propaganda and censor’s machinery, to the people of Australia - that the authorities in the United States lied. [More…]

• The people of Australia have never been told that the authorities of the United States sat round a table and plotted the overthrow and assassination of Ngo Din Diem in order to get a change of Government so as to be able to continue American policy in Vietnam. [More…]

• Harold Holt disappeared from the scene as did L. B. Johnson because they realised that they had been sucked into this living lie which had been sold to the people of the United States and Australia. [More…]

• Throughout the western world, particularly in the United States and Australia, there is a reaction from young people who in Australia are prepared to go out in the streets and tell the Government that this is an unjust law of which they do not approve. [More…]

• In the United States we have examples where troops come out and mow the young people down and there are bashings and the type of thing we have here in Australia when these people are demonstrating against a bad law. [More…]

• But, according to table 47, the only country of any consequence which showed a decline in cow numbers from 1966 to 1970 was the United States of America. [More…]

• But many of us remember Chamberlain’s visit to Munich and the parlies that were held in the United States between the Japanese and the Americans while the Japanese fleet was heading towards Pearl Harbour. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) reported in another place on 23rd November last that he had discussed the security of the Indian Ocean, in the course of his overseas visit, with the United States Administration and with British Ministers. [More…]

• Our mutual interests with Britain and the United States in the Ocean are subjects on which consultations continue at a government to government level. [More…]

• The United States has welcomed the possibility of using facilities at Cockburn Sound and, with Britain, is maintaining a communication station at Diego Garcia. [More…]

• It has recorded its hope that military competition in the Indian Ocean area may be avoided, and indeed this hope was jointly expressed by Australia, New Zealand and the United States in the communique of the last ANZUS Council meeting. [More…]

• I might say that the position with respect to the renewal of licences in overseas countries is that in the United States the licensing authority may now renew licences for a period of up to 3 years, while in Canada licences may be renewed for up to 5 years. [More…]

• Indeed, if one looks at the levels of government in the United States of America and gets down to the Stales and counties as well as the district councils of education and the whole ramification of participation in government one finds that on a per capita basis the involvement of the people of that country is substantially more than our own involvement. [More…]

• The strikes here have not been of the duration that the strikes of the longshoremen on the west coast of the United States have been. [More…]

• In this case the United States is the other country concerned. [More…]

• Ecuador knows that whether the other country is the United States, the Soviet Union or Mainland China those countries believe that, irrespective of their big battalions, t’hey need a good image. [More…]

• The United States will do a deal with Ecuador, and Ecuador will get a pretty lucrative revenue from foreign fishing trawlers. [More…]

• On the previous occasion 53 aircrew personnel and 121 ground crew personnel went to the United States. [More…]

• He had a Defence Secretary named Wilson who had the idea that anything that was good for General Motors was good for the United States. [More…]

• In the United States of America the States toe the line when Washington issues edicts. [More…]

• Prices of structural steel, for example, rose by 4 per cent in Australia compared with increases of 11 per cent in the United States, 14 per cent in Britain, 18 per cent in Germany and 37 per cent in Japan. [More…]

• in Britain of J5 per cent and in the United States and western Europe of approximately 50 per cent. [More…]

• notably the United Kingdom and the United States, informing them of the Committee’s report. [More…]

• What were the good reasons for the United States not consulting with Canberra regarding its plans in such important moves? [More…]

• In the last 2 days, Trans-World Airlines in the United States of America had to search 260 jet aircraft looking for bombs. [More…]

• Did the Australian Government have discussions with the United States Civil Aeronautics Board prior to granting World Airways approval to operate the charter flights? [More…]

• It is of interest that recently the United States of America reintroduced a similar allowance for all manufacturers, including manufacturers in the building industry. [More…]

• The industry raises trout primarily for fish for the table, but there is a growing trade in supplying fish eggs for breeders in other parts of the world, particularly in the United States of America. [More…]

• With the realignment of world markets through the European Common Market, the European Free Trade Area and the barriers in the United States and so many other areas, we find it difficult to compete because of our high costs of production. [More…]

• Honourable senators will recall that at the instigation of the Professional Musicians’ Union of Australia I sounded out the Minister for Immigration to see whether there was any truth in the assertion that the relative labour employment codes of the United States and Australia were such that undue preference or privileges accrued to American musicians or non-Australian musicians in Australia when compared with the treatment given to Australian musicians overseas. [More…]

• In making this reference I have in mind a promising young Australian pop singer who was in the pop scene in the United States. [More…]

• In this case he was referring to the United States. [More…]

• Mr McQuaid went on in his letter to point out that he had had correspondence with the Australian Minister for Immigration and the United States Consulate in Australia. [More…]

• One of the worst situations occurs when United States film technicians come into Australia armed with cameras and sound equipment, etc. [More…]

• The basis of John McQuaid’s allegation is that if it is good enough from time to time for other national leaders to confer with the United States’ President on equality of opportunity, it is good enough to have consultations in this instance. [More…]

• I instance the running sore that existed between Mexico and the United States in relation to the exploitation of Mexican rural workers in the Californian fruit industry. [More…]

• Either Dr Forbes or the Australian Prime Minister should confer with the appropriate United States authority. [More…]

• The point I make is that if it is good enough for the most obscure national leader who visits Washington to deal with these gut issues - that is what they are - and to confer with the United States President, it is beyond my comprehension that our leaders cannot deal with the British Prime Minister, Mr Heath, or the United States President. [More…]

• I do not disparage the American consul or even the United States Embassy with which I have had many dealings. [More…]

• Either the Minister for Immigration or the Prime Minister should deal with the United States on questions such as this. [More…]

• Let me say this to Senator Greenwood: I hope that in our dealings with the United States and when discussing matters with the United States President it will not be infra dig for us to raise matters that concern a very important segment of the Australian community, particularly at a time when job security is not what it used to be. [More…]

• I turn now to the other matter raised by Senator Mulvihill - the entry into Australia of persons who are film technicians in, for example, the United States of America and who come to Australia to undertake the same activity here. [More…]

• If film technicians are travelling to Australia from the United States ostensibly as visitors but in reality for employment, the Department of Immigration is certainly not aware of it. [More…]

• Has the Minister representing the PostmasterGeneral heard a report of a statement attributed to the United States SurgeonGeneral when appearing before the United States Senate Communications Subcom.mittee in Washington in which he called for immediate action to restrict violence in television programmes because of its effect on some children? [More…]

• Because Australia imports annually from the United States drama programmes valued at millions of dollars, many of which have violence as their central theme, will the Australian Government heed the warning given by the American SurgeonGeneral and suggest to the Australian Broadcasting Commission and to the commercial television stations that they should produce and exhibit more programmes of an Australian character which depict, principally for the benefit of our younger generation, something of our country’s history and heritage? [More…]

• The Branch serves ‘ as Australian co-ordinating agency for co-operative science programme with the United States under the United States/Australia Agreement for Scientific and Technical Cooperation. [More…]

• At that time the United States of America which had huge wheat surpluses- refused to sell to Mainland China. [More…]

• In those days the United States had huge surpluses, was restricting production and on ideological grounds was refusing to sell wheat to Communist China. [More…]

• 1 can remember statements appearing in the Press in the middle of 1960s to the effect that in the United States there were certain pressures to get rid of its wheat surplus by throwing wheat on the market and making it available to Communist China, if necessary. [More…]

• 1 read in the Press that, as one would e.xpect, strong representations were made by Sir John Mc Ewen to the United States Government not to do that on the ground that if it did that it would gravely interfere with the sales which the Australian Government felt had to be made in view of the huge increase in our wheat acreages. [More…]

• We have to face the situation that if we recognise Communist China the United States is about to do the same and in those circumstances is a potential competitor. [More…]

• I agree with Senator Rae’s suggestion that witnesses should be given reasonable protection, but anybody who has studied the counterpart of our committee system in the United States would realise that not so long ago senior public servants in the United States were destroyed by the committees before which they appeared. [More…]

• I am thinking particularly of one case before an unfair practices committee in the United States when the question of discrimination because of colour was raised. [More…]

• They were shown throughout the whole of the United States of America. [More…]

• There was another film dealing with Charles Dickens’ story ‘A Christmas Carol’ which was sold by one of the Australian companies for screening on the American CBS network, and I am told that that programme had a viewing audience in the United States of some 25 million people. [More…]

• I am told that the American company, known as Hanna and Barbera, a multi-million dollar production company in the United States - a company which produces animated films such as The Flintstones’, ‘Yogi Bear’, The Jetsons’ and about 30 other popular television programmes in the United States - now has established business in Australia and employes about 1,500 people. [More…]

• It is a fact, of course, that Australian wage standards are much lower than those of the United States, but I imagine that the profits that will be made by this American company operating in Australia will be returned to Hollywood instead of Australia being able to earn, as it has been able to do over the past 12 months, a healthy export income. [More…]

• The United States has made it quite clear, following the Nixon visit to the People’s Republic of China, that it has no intention of abandoning its military arrangements in South East Asia and the Pacific. [More…]

• What were the reasons for the sudden decision to expel the United States actor Stephen de Ghelder from Australia when he was on the verge of portraying Jesus Christ in the production ‘Godspell’? [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence whether his attention has been drawn to the recent warning by the United States Defence Secretary, Mr Melvin Laird, that the Soviet Union is aiming to achieve overall military supremacy by the late 1970s and that the existing, dwindling margin of military superiority of the United States on present trends will disappear within the next 2 or 3 years? [More…]

• But with more particularity in response to the question I think I should say that in Australia we follow closely statements made from time to time by the United States Defence Secretary, Mr Laird, on matters of relevant strength of the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]

• The ‘fairness doctrine’ of the United States Federal Communications Commission was developed in 1949 and restated in 1969. [More…]

• This ruling is in doubt following a decision in 1971 by the United States Court of Appeal for the District of Columbia which in effect interpreted the doctrine as meaning that a broadcaster cannot refuse to sell advertising time to groups or individuals wishing to speak out on controversial public issues. [More…]

• But in Great Britain, the United States of America and other countries, parents regard it as a privilege to help the school that their children attend. [More…]

• Furthermore it is a flagrant, direct piece of aggression against the integrity of the Republic of South Vietnam which, as the honourable senator appropriately says, the United States is defending at very great cost to itself. [More…]

• Having regard to our treaty obligations to the United States, the statements attributed to Dr Cairns can be regarded only as a deplorable subversion of the united interests of Australia and the United States in the Pacific. [More…]

• Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to newspaper reports that 4 Royal Australian Air Force officers and one civilian employed by the Air Force have mysteriously died from unnatural causes - by strangling and shooting - since December of last year and that these men were all involved in top secret preparation of the Fill aircraft in the United States of America? [More…]

• The honourable senator refers to a writ issued by the Commonwealth Government in August 1969 against the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation and the Menasco Manufacturing Co. which arose, as he says, as the result of an accident involving an Orion aircraft in the United States of America in April 1968. [More…]

• I understand that this form of dismissal is the usual practice in the courts of the United States. [More…]

• Trans-Australia Airlines has sold its 3 Electras to a buyer in the United States. [More…]

• The United States of America maintains its global balance with the Soviet Union and it has a marked superiority in strategic nuclear strength vis-a-vis China. [More…]

• As the Department of Defence review points out, its strength in the Pacific Ocean is vast but American resources are not unlimited and the United States Administration has set conditions for its assumption of further responsibilities The United States, the Soviet Union, China and Japan are exploring each other’s attitudes and examining the effect of initiatives taken. [More…]

• On the other hand, we seek an intensification of our defence undemanding with the United States and with Our northern neighbours in the expectation that the United States will, as pledged to the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) since the Nixon Doctrine was promulgated, provide the foundation of Australian security against threats or actual attack going beyond Australian capacity to deal with alone. [More…]

• To lay stress on dangerous contingencies against which Australian defence efforts must steadily prepare over the longer term is not inconsistent with the hopes entertained by the President of the United States of progressively negotiating understandings which will reduce tensions among the 4 great powers: The Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China, the United States and Japan - and particularly among the 3 great military powers in this group. [More…]

• I have not the slightest doubt that the United States commitments to Australia under the ANZUS Treaty are as strong and effective as ever and it is my belief that it is the responsible attitude of this Australian Government towards the economic growth and the military security of this region that have contributed to maintaining this undeviating attitude. [More…]

• On the contrary it confers upon us a need to contribute as a non-nuclear power to the maintenance of the global nuclear equilibrium which is sustained by the United States. [More…]

• In this policy there is no provocation unless our very alliance with the United States is held to be such. [More…]

• 1 refer to the response which the Government believes we should adopt to the continuing defence burdens which are borne by the United States. [More…]

• The Government will continue to give defence cooperation to the United States. [More…]

• We will not impose doctrinaire conditions that would undermine the strategic mobility and the capacity for swift reaction by the United States against its adversaries. [More…]

• These 2 elements are the foundation of the deterrent system upon which the President of the United States is trying to develop understandings between the Americans and the Russians. [More…]

• Nor, in the Government’s view, should we permit disclosure of technological military secrets to undermine such advantages in the strategic balance as the United States may possess. [More…]

• 1 would like to say something further about the United States. [More…]

• We are aware of the arguments and pressures inside the United States against present levels of defence spending and defence aid. [More…]

• I suggest, a time to acknowledge the debt which Australians, among others, owe to the United States for the burdens it is still carrying 30 years after Pearl Harbour and after that, great country’s acknowledgement of its leadership role which it has performed steadfastly since. [More…]

• I ask the Minister: Is it not a fact that the pioneering work of Dr H. Johnstone of Berkeley University, the decision of the Canadian Parliament to prohibit supersonic flights and a recent scientific conference in Massachusetts, United States of America, have all contradicted the conclusions of the Australian Academy of Science in relation to the Concorde aircraft? [More…]

• France United States of [More…]

• The table is headed by the United States. [More…]

• Has the Minister for Health seen the reported findings of the General Accounting Office in the United States of America that the Division of Biologic Standards in that country permitted 32 substances, including some influenza vaccines, to be marketed although they were virtually useless and some may have been actually dangerous? [More…]

• Finally, I think I should add that the Minister for Defence announced within the last few days that offset orders worth $3m from aircraft companies in the United States of America and Britain had been arranged with the Australian aircraft industry. [More…]

• So, if his Leader does espouse views, as Dr Cairns claims, which are entirely hostile to the United States of America and entirely friendly and encouraging to the North Vietnamese, it is an important matter for this Senate to take notice of and for the country to understand. [More…]

• The extensive test programmes by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1961 and 1962, and by United States of America in 1962, injected more radioactive debris into the atmosphere than had all previous tests. [More…]

• Newspaper reports have referred to the release of plutonium 238 into the world environment in April 1964 as a result of the burn-up of the power generator contained in a United States satellite which disintegrated on entering the upper atmosphere after failing to gain the desired orbit. [More…]

• The Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee has assisted and cooperated with the United States Atomic Energy Commission in a world wide programme to monitor plutonium 238 in the environment by conducting sampling and providing materials from Australia for analysis. [More…]

• On the international side, there will be comprehensive multilateral trade negotiations in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade beginning in 1973, which will give Australia the opportunity to pursue our trade objectives with the enlarged European Economic Community, the United States, Japan and others. [More…]

• In the United States of America, where industrial power has so often been misused, invariably the stage has been reached where unless union officials are bribed certain people cannot get the things they require. [More…]

• I quote a statement made by a former Attorney-General of the United States, Senator Robert Kennedy. [More…]

• Sometimes we are told that things are better in Britain or in the United States of America. [More…]

• I am not blaming successive leaders in the United States of America either because whether we like it or not if the worker has only his labour to sell at times he has to find a way of pressurising the employer. [More…]

• I remember a very great Labor Prime Minister, Ben Chifley, who, when confronted with certain evidence that the United States Government was not disclosing things as fully to Australia as it might, because of certain attitudes of the Labor Government, said ‘This information was either stolen or forged and I disregard it’, and that was the end of it. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Health: Is it a fact that the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports in the United States of America was reconstituted late in 1970 to include members with a professional competency in physical fitness? [More…]

• Is it also a fact that there is a close parallel between the problems of fitness in the United States of America and Australia? [More…]

• The Government has Already negotiated with the United States and, to a lesser extent, the United Kingdom and other large suppliers of defence equipment, such opportunities for Australian industry. [More…]

• They have affected the great aircraft manufacturers in the United States of America - organisations such as Douglas, Lockheed and Boeing. [More…]

• The United States, particularly in view of what is happening at present, is a doubtful quantity. [More…]

• It has been said to me that if one of the helicopters we have at present breaks down - and there are few enough in Australia - it has either to be discarded or sent to the United States of America to be put back into operation. [More…]

• We would have to compete with multi-million dollar enterprises in the United States of America and Europe. [More…]

• The situation that we face now is one in which we seem to be quite content to lease aircraft from or to enter into all sorts of agreements with the United States of America to meet our needs. [More…]

• All that has happened is that far too often to obtain our defence requirements we have put ourselves into pawn with the countries whose industries have supplied our needs, namely, England and the United States. [More…]

• However, if at a given time Britain or the United States established priorities which had to be met, they would get in first. [More…]

• If we take the situation in reverse, the ironical thing is that some perfectionist probably would argue that if aircraft are not obtained from the United States or Britain what are acquired are second grade articles. [More…]

• I suppose one can take that a little further and argue that all the procrastination that has been associated with our negotiations with the United States on the FI 1 1 aircraft, quite apart from the cost factor, meant that we are beholden now to another nation. [More…]

• In directing my question to the Minister for Health I draw his attention to a statement made by United States sources that the radiation risk from mobile chest X-ray units is causing growing concern in the United States. [More…]

• I refer to the forecast by the President of the United States Export-Import Bank of the probability of an upward revaluation of the yen, resulting in a relative further devaluation of the United States dollar. [More…]

• I ask: Firstly, has the Australian Government firmly committed itself to a devaluation in parallel with further United States devaluations? [More…]

• Last Thursday 1 asked him whether the Australian Broadcasting Commision proposed to give visiting United States journalist T. D. Allman the royal treatment that normally it reserves for ali visiting leftists. [More…]

• Is the Leader of the Government in the Senate aware that the President of the United States will make a statement on United States policy on Vietnam at 1 p.m. tomorrow, Australian time? [More…]

• Has the Australian Government been informed of the substance of Mr Nixon’s statement or has it been consulted as to future United States policy on the war in Vietnam? [More…]

• Obviously any communication between the President of the United States and the Prime Minister is not a matter for discussion at question time. [More…]

• For example, there are the notes of the meeting of 2nd and 3rd October 1971 which deal with such matters as President Nixon’s announcement of his projected visit to China, the world power situation, the basis of new policy orientations in China and the United States and various other strategic matters of foreign policy, including policy submissions, defence policy, foreign policy and the industrial situation, which covers such things as the Australian Council of Trade Unions Congress. [More…]

• Is the AttorneyGeneral aware that the international Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, reputed to be the tenth largest corporation in the United States of America, has made an offer of more than $8m for an Australian owned food company, Frozen Food Industries Ltd? [More…]

• I ask: Are Cuban lobster tails, which are banned as imports in the United States of America, being exported from Cuba to Tokyo in Japan, reshipped from Tokyo to Sydney and then exported from Australia to the United States as Australian rock lobsters? [More…]

• Will the Minister investigate whether Cuban lobster tails exported as Australian rock lobsters have been shipped to the United States of America on the refrigerated container ship ‘Sultana’? [More…]

• Information received by officers of the Department of Customs and Excise some little time ago suggested that lobster tails of Cuban origin were being trans-shipped to the United States of America via Australia. [More…]

• All the information known to the Australian Department of Customs and Excise was passed direct to the United States customs officials, and further inquiries in Australia were temporarily suspended in order that it might be confirmed whether the shipment was in fact of Cuban origin. [More…]

• This course of action would have enabled the United States customs officials to take any punitive action necessary. [More…]

• The future course of action by Australian Department of Customs and Excise is to be determined when the position is clarified following the arrival of the vessel in the United States. [More…]

• Needless to say, if the tails prove to be tails of Cuban origin, or indeed any other foreign origin, attempting to enter the United States market in the guise of Australian produce, steps will be taken to ensure that no shipments of this kind are made in the future. [More…]

• Has the Minister seen a report in a Melbourne daily newspaper to the effect that the United States Air Force has used nerve gas in South Vietnam; if so, will the Minister ascertain the truth of the report and, if true, inform the Parliament: [More…]

• Further to a question which I placed on the notice paper at his invitation on 26th April 1972, I now ask him whether he has seen an article in the ‘Sunday Australian’ of 30th April headed ‘Gunn Drops $7.6m offer to United States’. [More…]

• Has the Minister for Civil Aviation seen the published statement that in 1970 approximately 26,000 supersonic flights took place over the United States of America? [More…]

• The number of flights of supersonic aircraft over the United States referred to by the honourable senator is substantially correct. [More…]

• I asked for this information and was advised that in the last year about 26,000 supersonic flights were made over the United States. [More…]

• For instance, in the United States of America the Securities and Exchange Commission started an inquiry more than 2 years ago on one aspect alone - that of brokers’ rates. [More…]

• It will be recalled that at a recent Senate inquiry in the United States it was revealed that this giant conglomerate first of all set out to try to prevent the election of the Allende Government in Chile. [More…]

• Rocla processes are used under licence in more than 20 countries, including Canada, France, Holland, Italy, Japan, West Germany, the United States and Hungary. [More…]

• It has particular regard to the great influence the United States of America has on the Canadian economy. [More…]

• I well recall in the 1966 election - the Vietnam election, the khaki election - a DLP spokesman saying that Australia could not afford to do anything about overseas capital or to impose restraints upon overseas capital at that time because such action could place in jeopardy the interest that the United States of America might take in the defence of Australia. [More…]

• We have heard that over many years there has been a strong feeling in Canada that many Canadian resources are in the hands particularly of United States controllers. [More…]

• In the ‘Courier-Mail’ of 28th January 1972 it was announced that a DutchUnited States-French consortium would be negotiating a franchise agreement covering the development of the Aurunkun bauxite deposits on Cape York Peninsula, estimated at more than 300 million tons. [More…]

• The consortium members are Holland Aluminium N.V. of the Netherlands, Tipperary Land and Exploration Corporation of the United States, and Pechiney of France. [More…]

• In fact, 40 per cent of that investment came from the United States of America and no doubt it has been of significant benefit both to the business community and the private citizens of Australia. [More…]

• Of course, it was quite different from the Australian position inasmuch as overseas investment in Australia comes mainly from 2 countries, Great Britain and the United States of America. [More…]

• South America may be an indication of the situation because many countries of South America were subject to uncontrolled British or United States capital investment. [More…]

• What do we find invariably when we talk to United States businessmen? [More…]

• In considering the history of relations between Australia and the United States, I think of the ultramilitancy adopted by Senator Lillico and Senator Lawrie in relation to American trade policies which affected sections of our rural industries. [More…]

• Whatever criticism I make of the United States or the United Kingdom governments on economic grounds - these remarks apply to any other group - should be kept separate from other matters. [More…]

• This is on all fours with the observation which I made about the hard line attitude of the United States of America in regard to our meat trade. [More…]

• Morton, Secretary of the United States Department of the Interior, in a foreword to a paper relating to evaluation of environmental impact: [More…]

• The ‘simple engine modification’ referred to in that report is a complete new engine inlet nacelle which was specially developed to ensure that the Boeing 747 aircraft would meet the noise certification requirements of the United States Federal Aviation Administration. [More…]

• About500 supersonic flights per week have taken place within the continental limits of the United States since 1967, and I have been unable to find any evidence to suggest that sonic boom has caused miscarriages. [More…]

• Can the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry inform the Senate why the Cannon Hill, Brisbane, abattoir has lost its licence to process meat for sale in the United States? [More…]

• The certification of the Cannon Hill abattoir to prepare meat for the United States market was withdrawn on 11th April 1972. [More…]

• This action was taken because of the failure of the establishment to conform with United States requirements on several counts, the details of which have been furnished to the Metropolitan Public Abattoir Board. [More…]

• I refer again to the question of sonic boom and to the information given to the Senate that in 1970 some 26,000 sonic flights took place in the United States. [More…]

• Did the Minister for Primary Industry make a statement on 4th May that, following an amendment to the United States meat inspection regulations, a serious situation capable of affecting Australia’s meat export trade has developed, and that the elimination of tuberculosis from all properties in Australia is likely to be very costly indeed? [More…]

• As to the quantity of meat to be sold in the United States this year and the proportion of the total quota likely to be affected, I cannot give the honourable senator an answer but I shall seek that information and give it to him as soon as possible. [More…]

• the Government in the Senate knowledge of the use of United States manufactured 15,000 lb bombs in Vietnam, each bomb reputed to be able to pulverise city areas of 1 square mile and to be equal in power to the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima? [More…]

• On a recent visit to Canada and the United States of America I discovered - perhaps many honourable senators know already - that in the United States, of America the level of exemption from estate taxes on an estate which was shared by a husband and wife is set at $100,000. [More…]

• Also, the householder being provided with natural gas is paying more for his fuel than would be payable if, as suggested to the Committee, a pricing formula for natural gas - irrespective of where it is produced - similar to that used by the United States of America Federal Power Commission were adopted in Australia. [More…]

• In Libya it is 124- per cent; Algeria, 12i per cent; Iraq, Qatar and Kuwait 12i per cent; in the United Kingdom, 12i per cent; the United States of America - federal off-shore - 124 per cent to 16$ per cent; and Australia, in most States and proposed off-shore royalty, 10 per cent. [More…]

• In particular, can he tell us whether the Congress of the United States has declared war or has taken any steps towards declaring war? [More…]

• 1 have nothing to suggest concerning the reference to the Congress of the United States. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the cost of maintaining Royal Australian Air Force teams in the United States of America and the expenditure on training will be additional to this estimated cost? [More…]

• I fee] that one of the problems in Australia in respect to social services - this applies also in the United States of America and Canada - is that, under a federal system, whatever policy is implemented, the orders have to go down through a chain of command. [More…]

• It is interesting to observe that in its first annual report the Metric Conversion Board indicated that the only major country in the world which is now not actually committed to conversion to the metric system is the United States of America. [More…]

• United States of America, has already made a decision to convert. [More…]

• The United States is now examining this matter very closely. [More…]

• I predict that within the next 2 or 3 years a definite decision will be made by the United States, which will mean that all major countries will have converted or be in the process of conversion. [More…]

• The Americans will not allow closed conferences to trade to the United States. [More…]

• They realise how much danger there is to their economy, so they have imposed certain restrictions on the various conferences trading to the United States. [More…]

• Indeed, in my studies not only of what we have done in Australia but also of what has been done overseas, notably in countries such as the United States of America, Britain and Canada, I have seen many things done in the name of social reform which in the end have created great hardship. [More…]

• At least some of them already have attended high level courses in other countries such as the United States of America. [More…]

• He has bought a teleprompter, which was imported from the United States of America at a cost of $5,000, to help him in his television performances. [More…]

• Up to that time we had seen a mounting volume of international liquidity as United States dollars flowed outward to the world as a result of the continuing deficit in the balance of payments of that country. [More…]

• As we know, repeated warnings have been given to North Vietnam that any infringement of those conditions would lead to action on the part of the United States. [More…]

• The United States Government’s action last week was in response to a series of warnings to that effect. [More…]

• In view of the increasing violence in the United States of America and in other areas of the western world, will the Minister say whether he is prepared to re-examine the admission criteria of films depicting undue violence and keep out of Australia such films until his Department or some other department has had a study carried out to establish possible links between violence seen on the movie and television screens and violence that occurs in the community? [More…]

• Is a party of about 20 Royal Australian Air Force personnel going to the United States to obtain spares and support equipment for the 12 [More…]

• It is true that these Royal Australian Air Force personnel are going to the United States of America and that they are going there to do a particular job. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Civil Aviation: With the concern being expressed by some people over the proposed supersonic flight of the Concorde aircraft over some parts of Australia, can he say whether any figures are available of supersonic flights over Europe and the United States of America and what were the effects of those flights? [More…]

• Fairly precise figures are available on supersonic flights over the continental United States of America. [More…]

• The big test of our political adroitness will come if, or when, the United States of America pulls out of South East Asia. [More…]

• In referring to inquiries 1 have in mind particularly the most recent inquiry by the presidential commission in the United States which has recently published its report. [More…]

• Whatever the question may be as to the action to be taken, I do not think anybody would dispute that the findings of responsibly constituted bodies throughout the world - and most recently the presidential commission in the United States - have been to the effect that there is no harm in marihuana. [More…]

• I think it is well known, for example, that in the United States of America the prohibition of alcohol from 1919 to 1933, under the Volstead Act, led to a very great increase in crime in that country, not only crime which directly resulted from the inclusion of the possession of alcohol within the framework of the criminal law but also a number of other crimes which arose indirectly. [More…]

• This has been particularly evident in parts of the United States. [More…]

• It was shown clearly in the United States that despite the most draconic laws imposed, by the Marihuana Tax Act of 1936 and other subsequent measures, the use of marihuana has increased steadily. [More…]

• There are some 25 million people who have made use of it in the United States despite its illegality. [More…]

• I think that the danger in adopting a more permissive attitude in regard to drug addiction can be seen from what has happened in the United States of America, where there has been a more permissive attitude. [More…]

• National University and who has just visited the United States. [More…]

• The matter that impressed me in Dr Wallner’s article was that in the United States while these older people said that they felt that they could take the drugs and leave them, the tendency was that the age at which young people experimented in drugs was falling to the degree that now - I quote her words - ‘large numbers of children under 10 are being noticed in drug treatment facilities’. [More…]

• In the United States of America excessive use of this drug may force authorities to legalise it as the lesser of 2 evils. [More…]

• If, on the other hand, the use of the drug extends as it has done in countries such as the United States, T believe that we will need to look at the problem most seriously. [More…]

• The United States tried prohibition in relation to alcohol, and we know where it ended up. [More…]

• Certain types of kidney diseases are suffered by 1 1 times more people in this country than in the United States of America. [More…]

• I have referred previously to the fact that there are 26,000 supersonic flights over the United States of America every year. [More…]

• I do not think insurers in the United States have withdrawn the protection that they would properly give to an ordinary policy holder. [More…]

• In view of the Minister’s statement that there are 26,000 supersonic flights over the United States of America every year, can he say how many claims are made on United States insurance companies every year arising out of damage as a result of supersonic flights over that country? [More…]

• Statistics compiled from ILO sources indicate that for the 5 years 1965 to 1969 the average annual number of man.days lost per 1,000 employees in the mining, manufacturing, construction and transport industries in Australia was 4S6, compared with 1,556 for Canada, 1,232 for the United States and 1,574 for Italy. [More…]

• For example, the number of man-days lost in 1970 was at least 30 per cent higher in the United States, about 60 per cent higher in the United Kingdom and 100 per cent higher in New Zealand than in the previous year. [More…]

• Anyone who has been in the United States of America will know that the consensus of opinion there is that they should have been made known. [More…]

• The greatest exporter of manufactured goods in the world is the United States of America which has the highest wage rates in the world. [More…]

• Indeed, in the United States of America which is often held up as a great example of collective bargaining and the values of that system, agreements which are reached between the parties are enforceable by claims for damages in the ordinary courts of the land. [More…]

• No industrial dispute in Australia has lasted as long as the various longshoremen’s stoppages in the United States of America. [More…]

• This stoppage happened on the Pacific Coast of the United States. [More…]

• In the United States there is a multiplicity of unions. [More…]

• Statistics compiled from ILO sources indicate that for the 5 years 1965 to 1969 the average annual number of man-days lost per 1,000 employees in the mining, manufacturing, construction and transport industries in Australia was 456, compared wilh 1,556 for Canada, 1,232 for the United States and 1,574 for Italy. [More…]

• For example, the number of man-days lost in 1970 was at least 30 per cent higher in the United States, about 60 per cent higher in the United Kingdom and 100 per cent higher in New Zealand than in the previous year. [More…]

• In the United States and Canada it was found that when strike ballots were held the ballots overwhelmingly supported the strikes. [More…]

• History will speak for the fact that under a Liberal administration, trade unions in Australia grew strong and developed faster than did unions in any other country - faster than in Britain and in the United States of America. [More…]

• Senator James McClelland set out to show by figures from the International Labour Organisation that the man-days lost in Australia in the period 1965 to 1969 were fewer by far than the man-days lost in Canada, the United States of America and Italy. [More…]

• European opera houses receive about a 70 per cent government subsidy, Britain’s Covent Garden receives 50 per cent, whereas major companies in the United States receive no government support at all. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of the CDU intermittentfriction knee joint; if so, (a) will the Minister explain its function, (b) was this a modification of the United States Navy knee joint, first made in 1958, and referred to by Captain Thomas Canty at the 1958 Pan Pacific-Conference in Sydney; and (c) was this knee joint superseded in 1966 by the North-Western University knee. [More…]

• Several of the components incorporated similar principles to those used in other joints based on intermittent friction, including those used in the United States Naval Hospital knee joint referred to by Captain Canty. [More…]

• As the honourable senator knows, some time ago there was an amendment to the United States meat inspection regulations, requiring that local meat and meat imported into the United States of America be free of bovine tuberculosis at post mortem inspection. [More…]

• Stated in terms of United States currency, these borrowings will amount to approximately $31m, equivalent to about $25.7m in Australian currency. [More…]

• The company does not expect that any difficulty will be experienced in raising the required loan funds from the Export-Import Bank of the United States and other sources in due course. [More…]

• An amount of $US16.1m, or slightly less than one-half of the proposed borrowings, will be provided by the Export-Import Bank: of the United States. [More…]

• The balance of the funds to be borrowed is expected to be provided by commercial banks in the United States. [More…]

• Portus suggested in guarded terms that one major consequence of the Australian system has been to ensure that, compared to the United States of America, members of weak unions and workers who are not members of unions have received a fairer share of the cake than they would have otherwise. [More…]

• The fact is, however, that in common with the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States the work force has undergone a considerable change. [More…]

• On this question, as on so many questions, it is rather surprising to me on occasions - or it would be if I had not become inured to such happenings - to find that a government which for years has been telling us that we must adopt the American way of life, that everything that happens in the American system is something which we should emulate, that if only every country of the world was like the United States all of our problems would be solved and that it is unpatriotic to say that we should not go ‘All the way with L.B.J. [More…]

• The International Association of Machinists is an offshoot of the original British Amalgamated Engineering Union and is not only one of the largest unions of skilled engineering workers in the United States but also one of the most conservative craft unions in that country. [More…]

• I remember on one occasion attending a meeting of shop stewards of the International Association of Machinists at which a resolution was carried by the many hundreds of delegates present repudiating some suggestions which had been made in the United States Senate that a system - a mild system in comparison with that which exists in this country - of compulsory arbitration should be introduced into the United States. [More…]

• The reason I instance the United States is that if there is any country which is the heart land of capitalism, if there is any country - within the framework of reference of the Government, within the ideology of the Government, within the aspirations of the Government - has been successful, it is the United States of America. [More…]

• The reason I refer to the United States is that the sort of legislation which has been on the statute books in Australia for many years and which periodically is worsened by legislation such as that which is before us at the moment would not be tolerated for one second either by the American trade union movement or by the United States Congress, and it would be an act of selfdestruction for any American presidential candidate even to hint that he contemplated any piece of legislation remotely resembling the outrageous Bill which is now before this Senate. [More…]

• As I mentioned earlier, this Government is often apt to cite to us the experiences and example of the United States of America, this bastion of the free world, in support of which we were obliged to send some hundreds of Australians to be killed in Vietnam and to kill no-one knows how many Vietnamese people. [More…]

• Yet when one looks at the United States one finds that the industrial laws of that country bear no resemblance to the repressive measures which this Government has been introducing consistently since it has been in office, and which have culminated in the Bill which is before the Senate at the present time. [More…]

• I wish to give another example of the difference between industrial law in this country and industrial practice and industrial law in the United States. [More…]

• As I have said, I use the United States as an example not because I believe that it has anything remotely resembling a perfect system but because this Government quotes the United States as the exemplar for this country and for what it humorously describes as the free world. [More…]

• If one deals with the question of mergers, one finds that only recently in the United States - only over the past few years - there have been mergers of very big trade unions. [More…]

• Never was it suggested by the most reactionary representative of big business in the United States or the American Administration that there should be any governmental interference whatsoever in the mergers which took place in the United States. [More…]

• At the present time discussions are taking place between the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union which covers the west coast of the United States, and the International Longshoremen’s Association which covers the east coast and the gulf ports regarding a merger. [More…]

• Not one suggestion has ever been made by President Nixon, any member of his Administration, or any member of the United States Senate or the United States House of Representatives, that that Government should interfere in these mergers. [More…]

• Whatever there is wrong with the United States, at least it pays a little more than the lip service which is paid in this country to democracy. [More…]

• Again, this is a position which has been recognised in the United States. [More…]

• Pty Ltd, a subsidiary company of the United States company, International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation. [More…]

• Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to that section of the report of the Senate Select Committee on Air Pollution which records that the United States of America has set the allowable exposure to carbon monoxide at a level of 50 parts per million and that readings of up to 80 parts per million of carbon monoxide have been recorded in some Sydney streets during the peak traffic hours? [More…]

• In view of the precedent established by the United States Department of Interior in setting aside reservations for America’s rapidly diminishing number of wild horses will the Minister use his wildlife secretariat to get combined New South Wales-Victorian State Government action to establish similar reservations on the New South Wales-Victorian border to retain the last vestiges of brumbies in south eastern Australia? [More…]

• I think that insofar as some blueprint for action in Australia is to be found in what happens in the United States of America, it should be recognised that in this field the powers of the Federal Government in the United States are vastly greater than are the powers of the Commonwealth Government in Australia. [More…]

• Did Sir William Gunn recently make available for sale in the United States large areas of northern Australia, and were 900,000 shares at $7 each offered for sale only on the United States market. [More…]

• The Reserve Bank has advised that a preliminary prospectus dated 29th September 1971 was issued stating that a related registration statement had been filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission concerning a proposed issue of 900,000 shares in Gunn Resources and Exploration Inc. [More…]

• Is more use of economy air travel made by government and parliamentary officers in the United States of America, than is the case in Australia. [More…]

• On the information available to the Public Service Board, it would appear that more use is made of economy air travel by government and parliamentary officers in the United States of America than in Australia. [More…]

• This autumn 2 million super-wash garments will be on sale in the United States of America. [More…]

• The history of labour injunctionsin the United States was a great disgrace. [More…]

• Finally the Congress of the United States had to place curbs upon the various endeavours through the courts and by the use of equity procedures to prevent trade unions carrying out their legitimate functions of endeavouring by disputations, bans or limitations, or by any other weapon which they had at their disposal, to try to advance the interests of their members against the great power of those who were employing them and who were able to organise freely. [More…]

• The fact is that the United States of America, West Germany and even countries in Eastern Europe make sure that their basic heavy industries are fully involved in all major projects of this nature undertaken in their countries. [More…]

• If a comparison is made of the growth of air freight in this country with that in the United States, it reveals that air freight is the poor sister of passenger carrying in Australia. [More…]

• By contrast there was a revolution in air freight in the United States of America although not over the same period as the one to which I have referred. [More…]

• An examination of the figures to which I have referred for the United States of America indicate that there has been some-, thing akin to an explosion of air freight operations over the period L mentioned. [More…]

• So, although in a number of other countries^ - namely the United States, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Italy, Sweden and the other Scandinavian countries, to mention those that come immediately to my mind - there is no advertising either on television or on radio of cigarettes or cigarette tobacco, the Australian Government in this legislation is taking the easy course, is treading the half-way path, in an endeavour to appease those who advocate a complete ban, on the one hand, and those who do not want any interference at all, on the other hand. [More…]

• I suppose he is referring, by way of illustration, to the United States of America. [More…]

• Also, I ask the honourable senator to bear in mind that at the time cigarette advertising was tolerated on radio and television in the United States of America there was what was known as a fairness doctrine. [More…]

• In 1969 when I was in the United States, shortly after every cigarette advertisement, there was an advertisement advocating the complete banning of cigarettes. [More…]

• One recalls just how quickly cigarette smoking was accepted by women in the United States. [More…]

• One recalls the promotion that was used by the Lucky Strike company to extend smoking in the United States. [More…]

• In fact, cigarette advertising in the United States became of no advantage to the cigarette companies when contra advertising was permitted. [More…]

• The thing that the cigarette companies feared greatly in the United States was not the ban on cigarette advertising but the compulsory contra advertising. [More…]

• It was for that reason that the cigarette companies accepted the ban on cigarette advertising in the .United States. [More…]

• It is argued that the banning of cigarette advertising in the United States did not immediately reduce the increase in cigarette smoking, but it did considerably slow it down and it is too early to know the result; it will take a long time. [More…]

• The sale of alcohol was banned in the United States and the history of that experiment, which is so close to us, shows how completely futile that was. [More…]

• As Senator Wilkinson was able to elicit from the Minister only recently, the pink pages contract is held by the International Telephone and Telegraph Company of the United States of America. [More…]

• I understand that in the United States where cigarette advertising is completely banned, manufacturers have found other (but more expensive) means of attracting attention to their products, with the result that cigarette sales are reported to be up by 17 per cent. [More…]

• The United States of America, which is a new world country like Australia in the sense that it has not had on it the pressures that Europe has had. [More…]

• Under the United States scheme less than .08 per cent of the total United States annual social services payment is involved. [More…]

• Rcently he had discussions with the Ambassador of the United States of America. [More…]

• Is the Prime Minister aware that the President of the United States of America will make a statement of United State’s policy on Vietnam at 1.00 p.m. on 27th April 1972. [More…]

• Has the Government been informed of the substance of Mr Nixon’s statement, or consulted as to the future United States’ policy on the war in Vietnam. [More…]

• As the Prime Minister announced on 22nd December 1971, the Government has decided to maintain the existing gold parity of the Australian dollar and, at the same time, to set the market rate for the Australian dollar on the United States dollar close to the bottom of the permissible 2 per cent range about par. [More…]

• The United States dollar has been effectively devalued by 7.89 per cent against its previous gold parity. [More…]

• It has resulted in the cancellation of the United States import surcharge. [More…]

• What is the duty imposed by the United States of America on raw wool imports entering that country. [More…]

• What has been the value of exports by Australia of raw wool to the United States in each of the last five years. [More…]

• The duty imposed by the United States of America on raw (greasy) wool imports entering that country is cents U.S. 25 perlb clean weight for wools finer than 44’s. [More…]

• The value of exports from Australia of raw (greasy) wool to the United States in each of the last five years was as follows: [More…]

• However, four delegations from the Australian Apple and Pear Board have visited, during that period, the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States of America in connection with freight rates, shipping and marketing matters. [More…]

• His reputation as an outstanding jurist was acknowledged both in Australia and overseas, particularly in Great Britain and the United States of America. [More…]

• In 1942 he was appointed by the Curtin Government as Australian Minister to the United States and he remained in that important post until he resumed his seat on the bench in 1944. [More…]

• Chief Justice Parker of England, Lord Chancel-‘ lor Simmons and judges of the Supreme Court of the United States of America have gone on record to say that he was acknowledged as pre-eminent as a jurist of the English-speaking courts of his period. [More…]

• Although it is low in comparison with international experience - in the United States of America for several years no.v it has been 5 per cent or 6 per cent and in the United Kingdom it has been 5 per cent or 6 per cent - nevertheless the Australian Government is determined to make every effort it can to keep unemployment to the very minimum. [More…]

• I think I indicated to the Press - 1 repeat it now - that that evidence disclosed links or contacts between persons alleged to be criminals in the United States of America and persons with criminal records in this country. [More…]

• The National Health and Medical Research Council at its 74th session in May of this year recommended a level of 0.5 parts per million for mercury in fish, which is the same as the guideline adopted ‘by the United States of America. [More…]

• Furthermore, following the latest statement by the Attorney-General on the entry of United States criminals into Australia, are we to assume that in the past we placed undue emphasis on political activity and not sufficient emphasis on criminal activity when screening entrants into Australia? [More…]

• Is it a fact that the United States Government has made an offer to sell to Australia the Phantom aircraft currently on lease to the Royal Australian Air Force? [More…]

• Will the Minister assure the Senate that this Government will not enter into any agreement with the United States which might lead us into another Fill fiasco? [More…]

• I think it would be fair to say to the honourable senator that an offer has been made by the United States Government and that this offer is under consideration at the present time. [More…]

• However, a report on the Phantom and the United States offer is now with the Department of Defence. [More…]

• If they are purchased, their cost would still have to be worked out between the Department of Defence and the United States Government. [More…]

• … in which I have used the word ‘Mafia’ at any time to categorise what is called organised crime from the United States. [More…]

• I think Senator Cotton would be well aware that Michigan in the United States of America faced a situation such as the one with which we are faced. [More…]

• Thus, consumption in North America by the year 2000 would still be some four billion cubic feet below the estimated total of annual growth in the United States, plus allowable cut in Canada in 1962. [More…]

• If United States’ projections are taken as a guideline, this four billion cubic feet deficit would increase to over six billion cubic feet by the year 2000. [More…]

• Is it also a fact that salted kangaroo skins are being exported in quantity direct to the United States of America and that this practice has resulted in economic hardship to Australian tanneries and to the Australian souvenir industry? [More…]

• Is it a fact also that the United States has prohibited the killing of most of its furred animals and that the most plentiful source of supply of fur in the world today is the kangaroo? [More…]

• Will the Minister investigate these claims, more particularly as the only government revenue received from the United States trading in skins is the shooter’s licence fee? [More…]

• Will the Minister also confer with his colleague, the Minister for Immigration, to examine closely applications for entry to Australia from overseas people applying for professional shooters’ licences to ensure that they have no connection with organised criminal activity in the United States of America? [More…]

• Our percentage of unemployment, even at the present rate of 2 per cent, is infinitely better than that of any other Western democracy, particularly the United States of America and the United Kingdom which have suffered unemployment to the extent of 5 or 6 per cent of their immense work force - in the United States now for several years and in the United Kingdom for 3 or 4 years. [More…]

• I. think that the United States Senate abounds with situations in which it tags on certain qualifications when federal money has gone back to the States. [More…]

• This is the important thing: Perhaps the Australian Government even now is lagging behind other governments of the world because the evidence is that all governments - when I say ‘all governments’ I am speaking of those of the Western world of which we take notice, including the United States of America. [More…]

• It has already been adopted in Norway, Spain, the Federal Republic of Germany, Canada, Mexico, Holland and Belgium, whilst negotiations are proceeding in the United States of America, Japan, Yugoslavia, India and Peru. [More…]

• The same company, in the last financial year, achieved export sales of over ft. 5m, principally to the United States of America and the United Kingdom. [More…]

• What details does the Minister have of the extent of investment in Australia by the giant International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation of the United States of America. [More…]

• Is the Minister able to give to the Senate any details of acquisition by the Commonwealth for the use of the CSIRO of the property at Humpty Doo formerly operated by the United States entrepreneur Mr Art Linkletter. [More…]

• But as I said yesterday, the Australian unemployment position is immeasurably better than the position in the United Kingdom or the United States. [More…]

• In the United States there were 8 deaths from vaccination. [More…]

• Australia’s present subscription of $US85m is exceeded only by those of the United States, Japan and India as is shown in the following statement of subscriptions which I ask leave of the Senate to have incorporated in Hansard. [More…]

• The Bank greatly increased its borrowing activities during 1971 by issuing bonds amounting in aggregate to about $US121.7m in Austria, Belgium, Japan, Switzerland, the United States and in 12 regional member countries. [More…]

• In accordance with the Articles of Agreement of the Bank all these amounts are expressed in terms of the United States dollar of the weight and fineness in effect on 31st January 1966. [More…]

• There are now 52 states party to the Convention including the United States of America, the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany. [More…]

• 1 understand that in the Parliaments of Great Britain, Canada and the United States such a Bill would be referred to a committee precisely asI have moved. [More…]

• Is it a fact that foreign countries, including Canada, the United States of America and Japan, insist upon a substantial portion of their national trade being carried in their ships and that since October 1970 the United States programme puts its target at 17 per cent while the comparable Australian quota is 1.7 per cent? [More…]

• I recall that at one time I placed a notice of motion on the notice paper to disallow a regulation which, under some agreement between Australia, the United States of America and Great Britain, gave immunity to those associated with an atomic energy inquiry. [More…]

• Only the United States of America, Japan and India subscribe more funds than Australia does. [More…]

• We like to say - and I think with some justification - that our involvement in international aid is a creditable and satisfactory one considering the population of Australia which is not as b:g as that of countries such as Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. [More…]

• Following the history of the United States of America, which is one of the giants of world finance and banking, we find a history of monetary and banking collapse running into large proportions. [More…]

• Here I refer to the United States of America and receding values of its currency. [More…]

• The problem facing the United States of America could very well result from the influence which high rates of interest are having upon this wealthy nation whose economy was tremendously stable when rates of interest were half what they are now, but which today is going through the throes of many economic problems - problems which affect not only the United States but also other nations of the world. [More…]

• During the last 2 years right throughout the world enormous pressures have been placed upon economies and, indeed, upon employment levels by the economic situation of the United States of America, the revaluation of the United States currency and the depreciation of trade upon which Japan had come to depend in its purchasing of raw materials from Australia. [More…]

• I think the predicters of gloom in this country would have been measuring unemployment in terms of 5 per cent or 10 per cent of the total employable community had one said 12 months before the United States currency began to wobble that it would wobble. [More…]

• As has been mentioned, Australia’s subscription is exceeded only by those of the United States of America, Japan and India. [More…]

• This leads me to suggest that the Committee might wish to put a question to the auto companies as to whether similar design vehicles have been recalled in the United States and have not been recalled in Australia. [More…]

• That would, I think, bring to light what was brought to light in Japan and England; that companies were recalling their cars in the United States and they were not recalling the same cars in Japan or England because there was no requirement of defect notification. [More…]

• Recently, because of the decision of the United States of America to prohibit the importation of meat of this type into that country, the Australian Meat Board made certain recommendations to the Commonwealth Governnent on what action it thought should be taken to try to step up the eradication of this disease. [More…]

• Is the Acting Leader of the Government in the Senate aware that the annual report of the Commonwealth Auditor-General discloses that the United States of America has overcharged Australian Service departments at least Sim for defence equipment in the past 2 years? [More…]

• Did the Auditor-General state that the United States Government had agreed to return $252,000 and investigate other claims but that Australia could find it difficult to recover all the money because of the time lag? [More…]

• The situation in the Irish discussions with the United States is quite different from the situation between Australia and the United States. [More…]

• We were dealing with the problem of over-capacity which we resolved most satisfactorily with the United States Government, achieving with it the first and only regulatory system that the United [More…]

• Our estimates of the traffic figures have been shown to be right and the regulatory system that we have engaged in with the United States has worked. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Air and it follows questions asked by Senator Willesee relating to the alarming disclosures by the Auditor-General and the newspapers in connection with overcharging of Australia by the United States Armed Forces to the extent of $1m. [More…]

• I have noted the Press reports indicating that the Australian Defence Services may have sustained possible overcharges amounting to $US900,000 in respect of supplies from the United States Government. [More…]

• Although it is not clear in the newspaper reports, these overchargesarose from the incorrect application by the United States agencies of percentage on costs known as accessorial charges. [More…]

• I am pleased to say that all but $US4,720 has been financially adjusted our way by the United States Government. [More…]

• Following the disclosure of the incorrect charges my Department is examining in detail the nature and extent of the checking performed by Australian staff in the United States. [More…]

• My Department is using computer processing to obtain a reconciliation between United States, . [More…]

• It must be appreciated that the United States Armed Services are alsomonitoring the purification of their computer records and without prompting from Australia, adjustments are automatically made to previous billings on the ascertainment of refined details. [More…]

• As anomalies in the computer process are detected appropriate rectification is being effected and when the system is perfected the Department will reap the labour saving benefits it planned to achieve in departing from the tedious manual process, lt must be appreciated also that ‘discrepancies’ as reported by the AuditorGeneral means ‘under-billings’ as well as excess-billings’ and there is no evidence of deliberate overcharging by the United States Armed Services. [More…]

• The crisis affected our major trading partners, the United States of America and Japan, and also ourselves. [More…]

• But someone finds consolation in the fact that we have not yet reached the rate of 6 per cent which applies in the United Kingdom or 8 per cent which applies in the United States, arguing that we should not squeal until we have reached such rates. [More…]

• In 1963, however, the Government was saved by the United States of America entering the Vietnam war. [More…]

• Trie same thing is happening in the United States of America. [More…]

• Private enterprise has operated in these fields in the United States of America, but many of them are failing now. [More…]

• The transport system of the United States, particularly the rail system, faces bankruptcy and, in more and more areas, the individual States are being forced to take up their public services. [More…]

• In an attempt to give what the Committee hoped would be an intelligent report to the Senate, the members examined information pages from a number of directories, including those from Chicago, Edmonton in Canada, London, and Pretoria, the national capital of South Africa, as well as others from cities of the United States of America. [More…]

• Even the country that is supposed to be the paragon of private enterprise - and .1 refer to the United States of America - has had to concede that mergers, amalgamations and the creation of transport corporations are necessary in order to carry the load and to ease the burden on railway commuters. [More…]

• That has been done in the United States. [More…]

• But do they realise that similar situations have occurred in the United States of America? [More…]

• The vast majority of the natural resources are owned by Australia, the United States of America, Japan and Britain, and there are some other foreign shareholders. [More…]

• Senator DRAKE-BROCKMAN - Yester.day Senator Willesee asked me a question relating to reports on overcharging by the United States Services which was included in the Auditor-General’s Report. [More…]

• The billing from the United States, which was offset against advance payments already made for these aircraft pending its certification in Australia, included, incorrectly, costs for services arranged separately by the Australian Government. [More…]

• After completing his education in the United States of America, he served as a displomat from 1965 to 1970. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Air: Is the Government considering buying the 23 Phantom aircraft remaining out of the original 24 on lease from the United States of America? [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that the United States Government has taken action recently to prevent the killing of all marine mammals in its territorial waters? [More…]

• I am not aware of the particular fact to which the honourable senator referred as to the action of the United States Government nor am I sure whether the Minister for Health is aware of it. [More…]

• All iron ore contracts are expressed in United States dollars. [More…]

• Wool did not suffer the same revaluation troubles as the mining industry did because, as I have pointed out previously, the mining industry was concerned with United States dollars, and we revalued against the United States dollar; we did not revalue against other currencies. [More…]

• Nearly all our wool is bought by countries other than the United States, so revaluation did not affect the wool industry as much as honourable senators opposite would like to believe. [More…]

• 3), I advocated that Australia would be better served if it were to use the avenue available to it under section 137 of the Social Services Act and go it alone, as the United States of America did. [More…]

• It is significant that numerous Polish born persons in receipt of United States social service benefits have returned to Poland. [More…]

• The important thing in the article to which I have referred is that Poland does not ask its people who come back from the United States to give up their American citizenship. [More…]

• In view of the apparent concession by the Polish Government that Polish migrants who have acquired United States citizenship need not worry about their citizenship being in jeopardy, I think it is fair to put to the Government that it should, if it has not already done so, seek to obtain the attitude of the Polish Government to this matter. [More…]

• The honourable senator is aware, of course, that teaching qualifications from a number of other countries, including Britain and the United States of America, already are accepted in Australia. [More…]

• I ask the Acting Leader of the Government in the Senate: Is the Government aware that the United States Government has ended conscription in America and that no more young men will be called up after 30th June next year? [More…]

• He is against reform and when he becomes concerned about the threat of progressive ideas many of his comments can be likened to those of Senator McCarthy in the United States. [More…]

• We are 20 years behind the United States of America and probably 50 years behind Canada. [More…]

• In the United States of America a person can give any number of donees $3,000 in any period of 12 months without involving gift tax of any kind. [More…]

• 1 believe that the Government in the United States has done that because lt feels that if a man gives people money during his lifetime, especially to members of his family, they use that money to create employment, perhaps for a deposit on a home or some such purpose. [More…]

• Is he aware that the United States Food and Drug Administration has banned more than 1,000 medicated animal foods on the grounds that they are ineffective in promoting animal growth? [More…]

• Does the Minister intend emulating the United States Government in banning the sale of these products? [More…]

• Full information has not yet been received regarding the banning of certain medicated animal feeds but the report of a task force in the United States earlier this year recommended a review of the efficiency of some of these feeds. [More…]

• If restrictions were placed on the sale of any such medicated feeds in the United States, an independent investigation would be initiated in Australia if overseas evidence suggested that this course was desirable. [More…]

• All that we were suggesting has become part and parcel of the legislation introduced in the United States in the term of President Johnson. [More…]

• A classic illustration of this is to be found in the United States legislation of the 1950s - it read well, but it did not work. [More…]

• The standards being adopted in the control of water here are those recommended by the United States Environment Protection Agency and supported by recent recommendations of the technical committee on water quality of. [More…]

• The packet showed that the product was produced in the United States and not in this country. [More…]

• I remember that the first time when I met the present Prime Minister in the United States of America he was then Minister for External Affairs. [More…]

• He came to the United States and made a most shocking speech. [More…]

• The next year, as Prime Minister, he came to a dinner party in the United States. [More…]

• I was just about to say that the only person who attracted attention in the United States was Mrs McMahon. [More…]

• Everyone knows that she received Press publicity throughout United States because she was photographed wearing a special dress that exposed a considerable amount of thigh. [More…]

• I replied that, if it was good enough for the then President Johnson of the United States of America to consult with the President of Mexico on Mexican rural workers being exploited in California, at least our Prime Minister could have acted similarly. [More…]

• Did he tell us that they would refuse the United States of America the opportunity to assist in and strengthen the defence programme of this country? [More…]

• Of these six were Italian, six British, one German, and one was a National of the United States. [More…]

• What has been the outcome of the inquiry ordered by the Minister into the alleged rackets involving the smuggling of Australian wallabies, via New Zealand, for sale in the United States of America. [More…]

• The Department of Customs and Excise has no evidence that wallabies were being smuggled out of Australia via New Zealand for sale in the United States. [More…]

• I cannot see any point or profit in running an illegal traffic from Australia to the United States of America through New Zealand when wallabies can be legally exported from New Zealand under the control and supervision of the New Zealand Forest Service. [More…]

• That principle is so strong that it has been carried into the Constitution of the United States of America where, by an Article of that Constitution, the United States Congress is prohibited from making any ex post facto law. [More…]

• The former President of the United States, Mr Johnson, seeking Congressional permission to grant the vote to 18-year-olds, said that he wanted to close the generation gap. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party firmly believes that we ought to do in this country what has been done in the United States of America and the United Kingdom and allow our people to vote at 18 years of age as the citizens of Papua New Guinea voted at 18 in the election held earlier this year. [More…]

• ls the Minister aware that the United States Air Force is providing extensive in-flight refuelling facilities for its F1 1 ls? [More…]

• Can he indicate the difference between the conditions in this country and the United States of America which do not require the RAAF to make available similar facilities in this country? [More…]

• The United States of America has not fallen to pieces as a result of great judicial decisions. [More…]

• If carried it would, as I conceive it, be the kind of way in which the Congress of the United States would deal with such a situation. [More…]

• Perhaps the most prominent in terms of the leading legal systems of the world is to be found in Article I Paragraph 9 of the United States Constitution which provides simply: [More…]

• This has been interpreted by the courts of the United States as being limited to criminal and penal enactments. [More…]

• That has happened in the United States where at times tens of thousands of people who have committed dreadful crimes - not petty offences as most of these are - went free. [More…]

• Did he also hear claims by the person interviewed that the Government of the United States of America had made requests to the Australian Government to assist in the training of such terrorists? [More…]

• In the United States of America and in Great Britain the trade union movement on occasion has taken the firmest action possible to clean up this kind of thing in a trade union. [More…]

• How many Labor Party supporters, in common with others of more extreme views, have demonstrated outside the Embassy of the United States of America and other embassies and consulatesgeneral throughout the length and breadth of Australia? [More…]

• But the fact of the matter is that we live in a pragmatic world and, whenever it -has been good enough for the Western powers and the United States of America to make certain agreements with Yugoslavia and Romania as a buffer to some of the other Cominform nations, Australia has been very happy to fall in with the idea. [More…]

• The only ban which has been placed on the export of meat by the Company in the past 4 years has been the withdrawal of authorisation for the premises at Riverstone to export to the United States of America. [More…]

• United States of America was made by the Department of Primary Industry at the request of the United Slates authorities. [More…]

• As indicated in (2), the Company’s Riverstone premises are not authorised at present to prepare meat for export to the United States of America. [More…]

• The authorisation for the premises to prepare meat for export to the United States of America cannot be renewed until they are brought into full compliance with the requirements of that country. [More…]

• Has the United States Navy been the main body concerned . [More…]

• When we talk about physical fitness, recreation and sport, the best parallel that we can draw is in relation to the United States of America. [More…]

• In 1971, this United States body was upgraded and reconstituted. [More…]

• Commonwealth Government should pui an astronaut in charge of the Commonwealth Council for National Fitness, although many honourable senators do go into space now and again, but I do implore that consideration be given to taking a lead from the United States and that specialist representatives be placed on the Council for National Fitness so that plans can be laid to bring the endeavours of that body into line with what is required in the 1970s. [More…]

• He has recently returned to Queensland after spending 8 months al the Department of Health of the University of Wisconsin in the United States. [More…]

• I believe that, if the Commonwealth Government accepts this advice and upgrades its Council, as has been done in the United States, at least we will be laying a basis for the future. [More…]

• I hope the Acting Minister for Health (Dr Forbes) will take heed of the suggestions I have made regarding the upgrading of the Commonwealth Council for National Fitness and bringing it into line with the President’s Physical Fitness and Sports Council in the United States of America. [More…]

• In 1959 the Australian Government accepted from the United States Government custody of Wilkes Station which was established by the United States on 16th January 1957. [More…]

• I draw the attention of the Senate to Yugoslav members of the Australian community who visit the United States of America or North America in general. [More…]

• Does the Department of Immigration, either itself or through the Committee on Overseas Qualifications, maintain a blacklist of colleges and universities in Britain and the United States of America which award sub-standard degrees; if so, will the Minister make that list public so that potential migrants will know where they stand in relation to the acceptance of their qualifications in Australia. [More…]

• Neither the Department of Immigration nor the Committee on overseas Professional Qualifications maintains a ‘blacklist’ of colleges and universities in Britain and the United States of America which award sub-standard degrees. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs whether it is a fact that last week the Government of Mainland China placed an order in the United States for $28m worth of wheat. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the Government of the United States has repeatedly refused to grant diplomatic recognition to the Government of Mainland China? [More…]

• Does this order placed by China in the United States rebut the furphy spread by the Australian Labor Party that Red China is refusing lo buy our wheat only because the Australian Government has so far declined to grant China diplomatic recognition? [More…]

• For example, in the United States the history of military compensation and pensions goes back to the colonial period. [More…]

• I do know of the Canadian taxation system to restore some economic nationalism in its company ownership structure principally because of the tremendous intrusion of United States capital into Canada. [More…]

• Has the Minister noted that the United States of America has called on the United Nations to convene a world conference early next year to adopt a convention on the prevention and punishment of international terrorism? [More…]

• We would recognise that the honourable senator appropriately calls attention to this matter which has attained such significance that now, on the initiative of the United States of America, it is under international attention. [More…]

• United States, where there is a developing shortage of natural gas, and Japan - that there will be a worldwide demand for natural gas and that, for a number of reasons, Australia will want to develop its utilisation of natural gas. [More…]

• Whether you look at the United Kingdom where the gas industry is nationalised, or whether you look at the United States of America or Canada where the industry is under private enterprise, in all cases you will find a Federal or central authority of reference and decision which we in Australia seem to be lacking at this stage. [More…]

• The shortages which are going to concern the world may be understood from the prices which United States interests are prepared to pay. [More…]

• International interests such as Japanese and United States interests are concerned for their purposes with the exploitation of the Palm Valley field and the off-shore north west fields. [More…]

• In a comparison between the European concept of the nation and health and the United States concept I lean to the European and British set-up. [More…]

• If the same percentage of Australian entertainers were given work permits to go to the United States, calculated on the American population and on a pro rata basis 16,000 Australians would have work permits issued to them to enable them to work in that country. [More…]

• It has been signed, subject to ratification, by the Argentine, Belgium, New Zealand, Norway, the United States of America, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United Kingdom. [More…]

• Does this sale follow the recent sale of wheat worth $28m by the United States of America to Communist China? [More…]

• Is it a fact that both Australian and the United States refused diplomatic recognition of Red China? [More…]

• It will be recalled that 2 or 3 days ago Senator Hannan addressed a question to me which referred to sales of wheat by the United States to Communist China. [More…]

• I ask the Ministers involved to take cognisance also of the fact that with the impending United States presidential elections - I read this in ‘Time’ magazine of a fortnight ago - the United States has apparently put its house in order by extending the franchise. [More…]

• A central element in the financing arrangements is the participation in them by the Export-Import Bank of the United States, which specialises in providing credit on terms tailored to assist in financing the purchase of such items of capital equipment as Boeing 747 aircraft. [More…]

• As a step towards making arrangements for the financing of the sixth aircraft, the Export-Import bank of the United States has authorised a loan of $US11.3m, which is slightly less than one-half of the proposed total borrowings. [More…]

• Perhaps it is reasonable to have first past the post voting in the United Kingdom and in the United States because in both countries there is voluntary enrolment and voluntary voting, but to suggest engrafting a first past the post system onto the Australian electorate which has compulsory voting and compulsory enrolment is in my view a phoney suggestion. [More…]

• If anyone propounds the argument that we should use the first past the post system which is used within the United Kingdom, and the United States, surely we must adopt the other 2 propositions also. [More…]

• I ask the Minister, firstly: In the light of the Yugoslav Government’s complaints to the United States about that inflammatory editorials of some Croation newspapers in that country, does he, as the Minister controlling the Commonwealth Police Force, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and other agencies, know whether monitoring is being undertaken of the content of some Croatian newspapers in Australia? [More…]

• I have noticed what has been reported in the Press as a protest by the Yugoslav Government to the United States Government. [More…]

• all American countries excluding United States of America, Canada and Commonwealth countries)’. [More…]

• Has the AttorneyGeneral been advised that the Yugoslav Government has asked the United States Government to curb Croatian terrorists because of its concern that the Croatian Liberation Movement may gain world wide recognition and that the Yugoslav Government also has asked the Nixon Administration to suppress Croatian publications openly advocating revolution and the assassination of President Tito? [More…]

• Also, in view of the Yugoslav action in relation to the United States of America, is it still believed that the Croatian Liberation Movement is a myth in Australia? [More…]

• I have read Press reports of what the Yugoslav Government is purported to have asked the United States Government to do. [More…]

• [ am aware also that a newspaper named ‘Hrvatska Borba’ is produced in the United States of America and that copies of it have been available for sale in Australia. [More…]

• Does the recent United States Government decision to tighten up on traveller visa procedures make conditions for Australians entering the United States more restrictive than those under the procedures that operate when United States citizens enter Australia? [More…]

• It is true that there have been some recent changes in relation to entry to the United States but I think the position should be recognised. [More…]

• The recent United States decision means that it has temporarily ended a situation whereby Australians and other travellers may spend up to 10 days in the United States while in transit to other countries. [More…]

• The Convention came into force on 14th October 1971 following ratification by the tenth signatory State, the United States of America. [More…]

• As honourable senators will recall, 24 F4E aircraft were leased from the United States Air Force in 1970 to enable the Royal Australian Air Force to maintain proficiency and expertise in the strike role, pending a Government decision on the acceptance of the F111C. [More…]

• The United States Air Force made a proposal that Australia purchase the F4Es and associated equipment offering them at a price substantially lower than that provided by the original lease terms. [More…]

• In parallel with the United States Air Force’s purchase offer, the McDonnell Aircraft Company, which makes the F4E aircraft, made a conditional offer which could provide the Australian aircraft industry with the opportunity of participating in some offset work. [More…]

• After considering a detailed report on all these matters and bearing in mind the effects on the development of Australia’s force structure as a whole, the Government has concluded that although the terms of the United States Air Force’s offer are attractive, the total cost and other consequences could not be justified against other high-priority major items now included in the projections of the 5 year defence programme. [More…]

• The Government has therefore decided not to accept the proposal made by the United States Air Force. [More…]

• The United States Senate and even the American State legislatures have had tremendous battles about protecting the Californian redwoods. [More…]

• In many parts of the United States of America the same thing has happened. [More…]

• Where Avions Marcel Dassault of France and the Boeing Company of the United States of America each offered an equity in the proposed consortium. [More…]

• Did the Boeing Company decline to join the proposed consortium; if so, was the McDonnell Aircraft Company of the United States of America then invited to share in the proposed consortium. [More…]

• It refers to such significant problems as the unprecedented increases in salary, wage, superannuation and aircraft insurance costs, the curtailment by the Commonwealth of the migrant intake, the increasing competitive impact of additional European airline services on the Kangaroo Route, the non-scheduled charter carrier competition offering low fares between Europe and South East Asia, the introduction of lower international mail carriage rates, and the fall in the rate of traffic growth on the South Pacific route following a general economic downturn, especially in the United States. [More…]

• While figures for the first 5 months - April to August - of the current financial year show a steady traffic growth on the Qantas total network, growth on the South Pacific route to the United States is not as buoyant, and capacity still remains a problem. [More…]

• However, under the procedures agreed between the United States and Australian governments in September 1971, the 2 governments are required to take into account the fact that the basic air transport agreement prescribes that the services operated by their airlines over the South Pacific route should bear a close relationship to the requirements of the public for such services. [More…]

• The decision of American Airlines, upheld by the United States Government, to reduce its current frequencies into Australia, and not to proceed with extra frequencies planned for the end of this year, was a heartening indication of an acceptance of the view we had emphasised in Washington concerning the excess capacity situation on the route. [More…]

• There has, in fact, been no increases in capacity provided by United States and Australian carriers this year since Qantas introduced its 4 Boeing 747 flights very early in the year and, at the same time, reduced the number of its Boeing 70? [More…]

• In the financial year 1971-72 the company’s competitive position suffered from the fact that one of the United States carriers had this aircraft type in use on the South Pacific for the whole year, whereas Qantas did not. [More…]

• As part of the settlement of the disagreement with the United States on frequencies in September 1971, after some deferment the Qantas Boeing 747s were brought into operation and the company’s competitive position was thereby considerably improved, especially as the arrangements agreed upon have given Qantas the advantage of one 747 operation in 1972 more than the United States carriers. [More…]

• Pty Ltd, a whollyowned subsidiary of the General Telephone Directory Company of the United States of America. [More…]

• Not every sound taxpayer is equipped to be Prime Minister and in the United States of America the President must be over 35. [More…]

• What was the backlog of applications from persons seeking to enter Australia as (a) assisted migrants and (b) non-assisted migrants, at the end of the 1971-72 immigration programme, from the following countries: Great Britain, Ireland (Eire and Ulster), Yugoslavia, Italy, Greece, Malta, Lebanon, United States of America, Chile, Finland, West Germany and Mauritius. [More…]

• In preparing the Manual, the Committee considered the existing practice for road signs and signals in Australian States and Territories, the provisions of the 1968 United Nations Convention on Road Signs and Signals and decisions more recently made by the United States National Joint Committee on Uniform Traffic Control Devices. [More…]

• Is the main control centre for the Omega system at Hawaii, United States of America. [More…]

• Has the United States Navy been the main body concerned with Omega’s development. [More…]

• Because of the controls imposed by the Argentine and the United States of America on their export of hides and the subsequent inflated demand for Australian hides, local tanners are alarmed that they may not be able to obtain sufficient raw hides to service the shoe and leather industries which employ approximately 50,000 people. [More…]

• The industry believes that the Government should set up the necessary machinery now to ensure that, if there is any export restraint by the United States or any other country which poses impossible problems for the Australian industry in its access to raw materials, immediate action could be taken to guarantee adequate supplies of Australian raw hides so that the local industry would not quickly collapse. [More…]

• Twenty years ago I was doing a research programme in the United States of America. [More…]

• There seems no reason why there could not have been a complete ban on the export of kangaroo hides to a high wage level country such as the United States of America which is still, as I understand it, the main user of our kangaroo skins. [More…]

• Argentina and Brazil have banned exports and the United States has placed restrictions on exports. [More…]

• The latest reports from the United States show that the control on the export of hides may be lifted. [More…]

• If honourable senators refer to the report of the Senate Select Committee on OffShore Petroleum Resources they will find that the United States. [More…]

• As I have mentioned, the experience of Canada and the United States of America should have been sufficient warning for the Australian Government. [More…]

• Whether you look at the United Kingdom where the gas industry is nationalised or whether you look at the United States of America or Canada where the industry is under private enterprise, in all cases you will find a Federal or central authority. [More…]

• Her action in releasing this statement within the last few days was highlighted by a statement released by Senator Edward Kennedy on 9th October this year when he said, as a result of testimony given by Major-General John Pauly, Vice-Director for Operations of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a hearing by the United States Senate Sub-Committee on Refugees: [More…]

• The same situation applies in the Central Intelligence Agency war in Thailand where the Plain of Jars, in the vernacular of ex-President Johnson of the United States, has been bombed back into the stone age. [More…]

• I believe that history will prove conclusively that the Government’s policy, the policy of the United States and the way in which the South East Asia Treaty Organisation was involved in the war in Vietnam will reflect very badly on the judgment of those who were associated with the decisions in relation te it. [More…]

• It may be that one of the points she wants to make is to give some vehicle for her colleagues in the Labor Party to use this forum to express their opposition not only to the National Service Act but also to the United States and the alliance which Australia has with the United States. [More…]

• The fact is that it is not aggression from the United States. [More…]

• I should remind the Senate that in April 1970 Cambodia was invaded by the Vietcong, with such seriousness that the United States entered Cambodia in aid of that country either that month or the next. [More…]

• 1 ask the Minister whether he or the Royal Australian Air Force has sought information from the United States of America in connection with the loss of F111 aircraft and its limited withdrawal from operation in South East Asia following the first crash in September. [More…]

• Exchange of Notes constituting an Agreement between the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia and the Government of the United States of America regarding the Importation of Meat into the United States of America. [More…]

• I know of an airline which made a comparison over comparable mile routes in Europe, the United States of America and Asia which proved conclusively that Australian charges are far lower on any equivalent basis. [More…]

• To quote a United States trade unionist, Samuel Gompers, who was a private enterpriser like Senator Carrick, they wanted more. [More…]

• This officer undertook a fellowship in the United States of America where he made family courts his study. [More…]

• Has the Minister noted that the United States Government has ordered a full scale inquiry into the loss of 2 Fill aircraft shot down in Vietnam, thus destroying the myth that these aircraft are invulnerable? [More…]

• It gave concessions to the United States Government to bring extra aircraft on to one of the previously profitable routes and, generally speaking, Qantas now has been placed in this very serious financial position. [More…]

• I refer now to a speech made by the honourable member for Newcastle (Mr Charles Jones) when he quoted a letter which was presented to the Parliament by the then Minister representing the Treasurer, which letter was to be forwarded to the United States. [More…]

• United States airlines are operating throughout the world in countries of their choice. [More…]

• Bank of the United States had been undertaken for approximately $US11.3m, which is slightly less than half of the borrowingsfor which this Bill seeks approval. [More…]

• lt is important to relate the Qantas borrowings in the United States of America to the purchase of the Boeing aircraft. [More…]

• The actual production of the money has been a complex operation which has involved the economics of the producing and selling company and has involved the intervention of the Export-Import Bank of the United States. [More…]

• So 1 think it can fairly be said, forgetting those who might be looking for credit for themselves or somebody else - none of these things matter - that there has been substantial progress in offset orders in Australia in relation to aircraft purchases in the United States. [More…]

• The first part of it has been picked up under arrangements with the Export-Import Bank of the United States. [More…]

• Occasion of the purchase of the fifth Boeing 747 was a statement of present intention by Qantas not to use the aircraft principally in any communist country or in any country engaged in armed conflict with the United States and, ipso facto, this country. [More…]

• If we examine some of the history of the Red Indians in the United States we see that even as far back as the time of President Theodore Roosevelt there was organisation by agencies and other government organisations, very much the sort of thing we are attempting to achieve now. [More…]

• But if one studies the reports of the United States Senate relating to the time of President Theodore Roosevelt one will see that many things were said about it being a new era for the American Red Indian but that goal was not realised. [More…]

• Let us take a parallel with the United States. [More…]

• I ask honourable senators not to forget that 20 years before these problems occurred bureaus in the United States were dealing with people and they never obtained answers. [More…]

• He has a wife who reminds me in a way of the wife of the ex-Attorney-General of the United States - a rather loud-mouthed woman named Mrs Mitchell who was constantly embarrassing her husband. [More…]

• Is the Minister able to give to the Senate any details of acquisition by the Commonwealth for the use of the CSIRO of the property at Humpty Doo formerly operated by the United States entrepreneur Mr Art Linkletter. [More…]

• In some of the big economies of the world, like that of the United States, monopolisation is the subject of a general proscription. [More…]

• In the United States monopolisation has long been governed by section 2 of the Sherman Act, which is concerned not only with abuse of monopoly power but with the need to prevent trends towards monopolistic concentrations of economic power. [More…]

• For this reason a drastic prohibition of monopolisation as provided for in the United States would be inappropriate to Australia. [More…]

• We know that Australian industry and commerce are amongst the most monopolised in the world, twice as much as in the United Kingdom and 3 times as much as in the United States of America according to Professor Wheelwright as at some years ago. [More…]

• Five such bodies have been formed and designated in relation to the trades from Australia to Europe, to Singapore and west Malaysia, the east coast of the United States of America, the cast coast of Canada and the west coast of North America. [More…]

• Bill is to make an amendment to the United States Naval Communication Station (Civilian Employees) Act 1971 consequent upon the Compensation (Commonwealth Employees) Bill 1972. [More…]

• As honourable senators know, the United States Naval Communication Station (Civilian Employees) Act 1971 extends to civilian employees employed by the United States in connection with the station the terms of the Compensation (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1971 as if they were employees of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• To extend to these employees of the United States the new benefit of compensation at the rate of full sick pay that is provided for in the Compensation (Commonwealth Employees) Bill 1972 it is necessary to amend the Schedule to the United States Naval Communication Station (Civilian Employees) Act 1971. [More…]

• I am not asking for the provision of the type of facilities which are given to a senator in the United States of America. [More…]

• The function and role have altered significantly and tremendously to the stage where the Senate is taking on a role which is somewhat similar to, though not of the magnitude of, the United States Senate. [More…]

• As Senatory Poyser has said, we do not have the facilities which the United States Senate has, we do not receive the emoluments which United States Senators receive and we are not provided with the services which they get, and, in fact, our role constitutionally is different from that of the United States Senate. [More…]

• In 1960 the price of polyester fibres in the United States was 136c per lb and now it is down to 62c per lb. [More…]

• Nations like Japan and the United States can produce equivalent articles at a much cheaper price than ours because of their tremendous turnover and throughput. [More…]

• As was explained when answering an earlier question from the honourable senator there are basic differences in the type of telephone exchange equipment installed in Australia as compared with, for example, the United States of America, which precluded the Post Office from installing, at present, an automatic ticketing system so that details of all subscriber dialled trunk calls can be supplied to subscribers. [More…]

• The devaluation of the South African rand against sterling of approximately 12.4 per cent in November 1971, when the Australian dollar was divorced from its traditional ties with sterling and revalued at approximately 8 per cent against the United States dollar, has given the South African industry a most significant price advantage against Australia in the market place. [More…]

• However, in 1967, with the great upsurge in world production and the increased competition particularly from the United States and South Africa, the situation changed dramatically for Australia. [More…]

• This situation reminds me very much of a letter which a United States senator received from one of his constituents, lt read as follows: [More…]

• This is why I want this individual and his organisation investigated by the Australian equivalent to the United States Internal Revenue Department, the Australian Taxation Branch. [More…]

• In view of some of the revelations of the United States Senate committees which look at the question of where American aid is going and the fact that we are providing $2m under this aid programme, I would like to know whether we have any check on the currupt merchant group that permeates a lot of South East Asian countries. [More…]

• I am not indicating our own officers who have the best of intentions, but I am trying to evolve a system whereby we can weed out these blackmarketeers who have been found to exist by the United States Senate committees. [More…]

• Senator McManus is a great admirer of the United States of America. [More…]

• Will he assure the Senate that the Australian Government is giving complete support to the United States in its endeavours to reach peace in Vietnam? [More…]

• Of course, this is in contrast to the policy adopted in Canada and the United States of America. [More…]

• The United States of America has a very strong legislative and regulatory body - the Federal Maritime Commission - which is given wide powers in exercising jurisdiction over those conferences. [More…]

• It is interesting to consider for a moment how strongly those powers are expressed in the United States Shipping Act of 1916. [More…]

• The Commission shall by order, after notice and hearing, disapprove, cancel or modify any agreement, or any modification or cancellation thereof, whether or not previously approved by it, that it finds to be unjustly discriminatory or unfair as between carriers, shippers, exporters; importers, or ports, or between exporters from the United Slates and their foreign competitors, or to operate to the detriment of the commerce of the United States, or to be contrary to the public interest, or to be in violation of this Act, and shall approve all other agreements, modifications or cancellations. [More…]

• If the trend in Australia follows the pattern of other counries, particularly the United States of America on the advice tended to me, it will be discovered that these places are not the solution to the problem at all. [More…]

• In view of this Government’s long involvement with the Saigon regime in Vietnam, will it exert all its influence on President Thieu to persuade him to co-operate with the United States of America in that country’s attempt to gain a ceasefire? [More…]

• In view of the return to the United States of the Phantom aircraft, can the Minister tell the Senate which aircraft in the Australian armed forces now constitute our bomber force and the period of service of those aircraft? [More…]

• The situation of our bomber force is that only 6 of the 23 Phantoms have so far been returned to the United States. [More…]

• United States of America. [More…]

• I remind the Minister for Air that I asked him questions last week about losses of aircraft in Vietnam and whether the Royal Australian Air Force had sought information from the United States of America or whether the United States had supplied information to the Minister regarding the loss of the first aircraft and the temporary withdrawal of aircraft following that crash. [More…]

• Has the Minister received any information from the United States or does the Air Force intend to investigate those matters to see whether there are any technical problems which ought to be considered by the Air Force? [More…]

• I know that this is very drastic, but it irritates me and the Opposition that all these new types of oil tankers, in the countries where they are registered, such as the United States, the United Kingdom and France, usually have incorporated all the modern designs, including receiver tanks. [More…]

• Senator Muskie of the United States, who represents the coastline State of Maine, told me in a private letter that it is not sufficient to get money to meet a clean up operation; money should be raised over and above that to feed back to what he called the county authorities and I would call the shire councils, to ensure that beautification is carried out in those areas. [More…]

• The United States Coastguard Service appears to change its type of dispersants from time to time; that is, if one dispersant was on the market and the Coastguard Service had stockpiled it but believed that a better one was available, it would simply jettison its stockpiled supplies and use the other. [More…]

• The United States of America is facing and has faced up to structural changes. [More…]

• These standards are periodically reviewed in the light of all research findings, and any new standards imposed in the United States America are considered in such reviews. [More…]

• The task of presiding over the administration of a nation as large and as powerful as the United States is onerous. [More…]

• Both men came from humble rural beginnings in the United States heartland. [More…]

• He was a bank clerk, farmer, artillery captain in the First World War, and a county judge before being elected to the United States Senate at the age of 50 in 1934. [More…]

• At least until the last budgetary announcements by President Nixon the United States was still attempting to carry out the domestic principles laid down by Roosevelt and his successor Harry S. Truman. [More…]

• He lifted the level of administrative thinking on conservation and environmental preservation; he was responsible for the most extensive anti-crime bill in United States history; he was in the forefront of concern with consumer legislation. [More…]

• I think it may be said that it was the result of his strength which enabled the present detente between the United States of America and the Soviet Union to come about. [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…]

• Truman committed United States forces promptly under the United Nations flag to resist this naked act of military aggression. [More…]

• To his great credit he refused to sell out South Vietnam and to betray the United States’ solemn promise to support a small beleagured nation. [More…]

• I ask: In order to assess the effect on the Australian economy of the recent devaluation of the United States dollar, will the Minister advise the proportion of export income received for the year ended 30th June 1972 which resulted from contracts written hi United States dollars? [More…]

• in United States dollars? [More…]

• In the United States a view has been taken which is perhaps even stronger than the view I have put. [More…]

• The United States has investigated the question whether kangaroos ought to be regarded as an endangered species. [More…]

• In a report made on 8th December 1972 by the United States authority, the Office of Endangered Species, kangaroos were regarded as an endangered species. [More…]

• I wish to advise the House of some decisions that have been taken in respect of certain installations with defence implications which have at one time or another been established in Australia following an approach to the Government by the United States. [More…]

• I shall be speaking later about problems of this kind in relation to the United States Naval Communications Station at North West Cape. [More…]

• Some joint Australia-United States installations are public and well known, like the installation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. [More…]

• But, of course, the Australian and United States governments have given undertakings to each other to protect from unauthorised disclosure classified information which we share about these stations. [More…]

• The Government will respect all classified information shared between us and the United States, as well as with Britain, New Zealand and other powers, including our friends in Asia. [More…]

• At this point I want simply to announce that there will be special provision for access for members of this Parliament, as would be the case if United States congressmen were to visit the stations. [More…]

• With the exception of the very few people directly associated with the central execution and control of the defence programmes of Australia and the United States, no person will have greater access. [More…]

• All data available to the United States Government from these facilities is available to the Australian Government. [More…]

• I expect later this year, at a mutually convenient time, to visit the United States. [More…]

• When I go there, I shall further discuss these and other aspects of management and control of the installations with the United States Defence Secretary and his advisers. [More…]

• I believe that in these circumstances, should it be desirable, as I expect it will, we could expect that United States advisers would discuss the implications of these matters with officials in Australia. [More…]

• I now turn to the matter of the United States Naval Communication Station at North West Cape. [More…]

• This installation was established under a formal agreement between the United States and Australia. [More…]

• In an exchange of letters between the United States Ambassador and the then Minister for External Affairs on 7th May 1963, the Government publicly accepted the interpretation that the Australian Government’s right of consultation in Article 3 of the United States Naval Communication Station agreement did not carry with it any degree of control over the station or its use. [More…]

• An agreement with the United States restricted in this way would not have been made by a Labor Government. [More…]

• The United States has told this Government that it is willing to enter into consultations and has said that it is prepared to make North West Cape a joint installation. [More…]

• These aspects will form an important part of my discussions when I visit the United States. [More…]

• This applies also in the case of currency changes in respect of the United States dollar. [More…]

• There is also a small import trade of about 150 tons from the United States of America. [More…]

• I think that a more significant point and one which will be of major concern to us in the future is the projections for the increase in the usage of synthetic meats both in the United States of America and the United Kingdom. [More…]

• The list of Acts administered by the Minister for Social Security starts with the Aged Persons Homes Act 1954-1972 and ends with the United States Naval Communication Station (Civilian Employees) Act 1971- 1972. [More…]

• are told that Senator Murphy is importing wonderful staff from the United States of America and. [More…]

• The intention of that interdepartmental committee is to investigate the approaches being taken in the United States, where the stress hitherto has been mostly on the criminal law aspect and also the approaches being taken in the United Kingdom where the stress seems to have been rather on the health aspect and dealing with it as being a problem of sickness. [More…]

• The experience seems to show that the United Kingdom approach, without being perfect, has been more satisfactory than that of the United States. [More…]

• No-one would want to see a development of the crime in the streets that has been associated with the drug traffic in the United States of America. [More…]

• If so, is this an extension of the new vvhitiam doctrine announced in Indonesia of telling Britain and the’ United States of America to get out of Asia? [More…]

• Is the Minister for Primary Industry aware that cray fishermen in the south east of South Australia who depend on the United States market have had their returns cut by up to 20 per cent by the action of the Labor Government with regard to the value of the Australian dollar? [More…]

• In fact I have suggested to the 3 commercial networks in Australia and to the Australian Broadcasting Commission that rather than go to the United States in March to purchase programs 12 months in advance they should postpone their buying arrangements until the programs are telecast around September, October or November so that they can go over there and see the programs have been telecast. [More…]

• -Can the Minister for the Media advise the Senate whether the commercial television networks have agreed to his suggestion that they should not send program buyers to the United States of America this month but should wait until later this year? [More…]

• The countries are the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Israel, Austria, Sweden and the United States of America. [More…]

• The main provisions in these treaties to which I refer are: Extradition is provided for in respect of extradition offences committed extra territorially; an offence against the law relating to genocide, referred to in the Genocide Convention Act 1 949, as well as the taking of the life of a Head of State or a member of his or her family are not to be considered as crimes of a political character; a very important change has been made to the speciality rule so that an extradited person may be dealt with by the requesting country or be surrendered to a third state for offences other than those upon which the extradition was based where consent is given by the executive authority of the requested country; delivery at the time of surrender of any article that may be material evidence in proving an offence to which the requisition for the surrender of the fugitive relates; the custody of a fugitive who is in transit from one State to a third State; in the case of the United States of America, provision is made for the extradition for federal offences where there is an additional element in the extradition offence of such matters as the use of interstate facilities or use of mails or transporting across the borders of States. [More…]

• It was on the 8th December J 972, before I became Minister for Customs and Excise, that the United States announced that it proposed to make a Jaw to ban the import into the United States of any kangaroo skins or products. [More…]

• If so, is this an extension of the new Whitlam doctrine announced in Indonesia of telling Britain and the United States of America to get out of Asia? [More…]

• If the Minister is still unable to answer the questions I have asked him today and those I asked on 6th March, will he give the Senate an assurance that Australia’s relations with Thailand will not be jeopardised in the way our relations have been with the United States of America, Indonesia and South Vietnam? [More…]

• If the answer is yes, I ask why the Prime Minister has not released to the Parliament and the public the contents of his protest to the President of the United States of America in connection with the bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong by the United States Air Force. [More…]

• At the time the protest against the bombing of North Vietnam was delivered to the United States, in order to be even-handed why was not an emphatic protest against the invasion of South Vietnam by, as reported, 200,000 well equipped troops, which in fact triggered off the bombing referred to and protested against, delivered to the Hanoi Government instead of advancing a proposal to recognise that Government and to receive some of its trade union representatives in this country? [More…]

• His question could easily have been put to the other countries and persons around the world who were making similar protests, in various degrees, at the same time as the Australian Government made its protest to the United States Government over the bombing of Hanoi. [More…]

• The opinion of the Australian Government was conveyed to the United States Government.I do not think the viewpoint of the honourable senator would be shared widely throughout the world. [More…]

• Not only did I study the report of that committee, but the report of the Baysinger Committee in the United States was available to me. [More…]

• My own inquiries as to whether that statement by the distinguished United States investigator is correct so far have borne out its validity. [More…]

• How much is it a suitable attitude for the Japanese today to take the help, and indeed the magnificent help, of the United States in order to rebuild Japan and to help it to grow? [More…]

• Australia is a country that is very comparable with the United States of America. [More…]

• We believe that our alliance with the United States is still of crucial importance. [More…]

• There is one thing of which we may be certain: The United States Government and people harbour no aggressive intentions against this nation. [More…]

• Our Government Ministers insult the United States President, yet that is the one nation which through the ANZUS pact could physically guarantee our security. [More…]

• We should have adopted the principles which were laid down by the United States Supreme Court well over 10 years ago when the imbalance between the rural population and the urban population in most states was reduced drastically. [More…]

• No matter how much honourable senators opposite talked and no matter how much they endeavoured to label the Labor Party as a group of Benedict Arnolds, when the United States Republican President Richard Nixon had a dialogue with the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China he destroyed the credibility of the present Opposition’s foreign policy. [More…]

• 1 will not deal with United States-Australian relations because I think we will have a opportunity later tonight to debate that matter. [More…]

• There is a constant nagging by the Opposition about anything that we do to bring about the withdrawal of Australian and ultimately United States forces from the Asian mainland. [More…]

• He talked about the military presence of the United States in South East Asia. [More…]

• Well, in my mind, the answer, both for the United States and the South East Asian nations, is clearly that an American military presence cannot be a permanent feature. [More…]

• We have seen an enormous break with our very great friend the United States of America. [More…]

• How can any supposedly responsible Minister of this Government abuse the President of the United States and expect that the people of America will ever view this country in the same light? [More…]

• I say to the United States that I have the greatest respect for that country. [More…]

• I certainly do not stand with those Ministers who criticise the United States. [More…]

• This Government has harmed our relations with the United States. [More…]

• The statement of the Minister for Defence marked the first occasion on which a government of this country had sought to place openly on the record a clear expression of the place of United States defence installations in Australia in terms of Australian national interests. [More…]

• It will involve negotiation with the United States on some issues, particularly affecting North West Cape. [More…]

• It is the Government’s intention to take up those matters with the Government of the United States to ensure a proper Australian role in management, operation and control of the installations, and to ensure that their presence is or remains consistent with Australia’s national interests. [More…]

• It may be of value and to the benefit of honourable senators opposite to say clearly that Australia does have national interests, in the defence area as in other areas, distinct from those of the United States. [More…]

• Our defence alliance with the United States is natural and reflects the breadth of our common interests in many fields. [More…]

• The United States is a major power. [More…]

• The relationship we seek with the United States is one based on maturity and mutual recognition that each is equally an independent and sovereign state. [More…]

• I have confidence that the United States not only will accept but will appreciate the opportunities this new relationship will offer for us both. [More…]

• The policy of the Australian Labor Party in respect of United States installations in Australia has as its basis that each must be justified on the basis of an assessment of Australian national interests. [More…]

• These are the matters that will be under discussion with the United States. [More…]

• We may take up all our concerns with the United States at one time, but it should be clear that the concerns we have about Pine Gap and Woomera are not the same as those we have about North West Cape. [More…]

• To date, some measure of this has been accomplished by the following: Firstly, we have access to the installations so that we know what is being done there; secondly, there is joint management of the facilities and participation by Australian civilians and servicemen in their operation; thirdly, all data available to the United States Government from these facilities is available to the Australian Government; and fourthly, we have the right to use either or both systems to meet specifically Australian requirements. [More…]

• I expect later this year, at a mutually convenient time, to visit the United States. [More…]

• When I go there, I shall further discuss these and other aspects of management and control of the installations with the United States Defense Secretary and his advisers. [More…]

• I believe that in these circumstances, should it be desirable, as I expect it will, we could expect that United States advisers would discuss the implications of these matters with officials in Australia. [More…]

• These are the sorts of questions we will be discussing with the United States. [More…]

• In accordance with the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement the Australian Government and the United States Government shall establish maintain and operate in Australia a facility for general defence research in the space field. [More…]

• These agencies are the Australian Department of Defence and the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the United States Department of Defense. [More…]

• The Australian Government and the United States Government shall co-operate in establishing, maintaining and operating a joint space communications station in the vicinity of Woomera, Australia, together with support facilities, to support defence activities. [More…]

• These agencies shall be the United States Air Force and the Australian Department of Defence. [More…]

• Every member of this Parliament is aware of the fundamental objection the Australian Labor Party expressed in respect of the terms and the nature of the Agreement for the establishment of the United States Naval Communications Station at North West Cape to which our predecessors made Australia party in 1963. [More…]

• Article 1 states that in accordance with the terms and conditions set out in this Agreement, the United States Government may establish, maintain and operate a naval communication station at North West Cape in the State of Western Australia. [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…]

• Article 7 states that the United States Government will conform to the provisions of applicable Commonwealth and State laws and regulations, including quarantine laws and industrial awards and determinations, and United States personnel will observe those laws and regulations. [More…]

• It says that the United States will observe Austra’ian laws and regulations including quarantine laws and industrial awards and determinations. [More…]

• 2 days before it was placed before this Parliament under a Bill to approve it, the provisions of Article 3 were undercut by an exchange of letters between the United States Ambassador and the Australian Minister for External Affairs at the time, Sir Garfield Barwick. [More…]

• On 7th May 1963 the United States Ambassador wrote as follows to the Minister for External Affairs: 1 enclose a copy of my memorandum of our conversation of today concerning the construction of Article 3 of the VLF Agreement. [More…]

• After a full and complete discussion regarding consultation on use of the station with Minister for External Affairs, il was clearly understood thai consultation connoted no more than consultation and was not intended to establish Australian control over use of station nor to imply any Government of Australia design to restrict at any time United States Government use of station for defence communications, including, for example, communications for Polaris submarines, lt is also understood that it was not intended to give Australia control over or access to the contents of messages transmitted over the station. [More…]

• The Deputy Prime Minister has said that the Government will negotiate with the United States for the application of the actual terms of the Agreement. [More…]

• In response to our approach, that is, the approach of the first Australian Government to seek consultations under Article 3 and to seek the restoration of Australia’s interests in this matter, the United States has told us that it is willing to enter into consultations and that it is prepared to make North West Cape a joint installation. [More…]

• We already have the desirability of this under study and this will be an aspect of the discussions we will be having with the United States in coming months. [More…]

• It is on the basis of friendship, independence and an abiding concern for Australian sovereignty that the outstanding matters in relation to United States defence installations in Australia will be discussed with the United States Government. [More…]

• Here we have the Queen’s Opposition, which claims that it was defeated unfairly in the election and which is competing with us for the management of this country on the basis that it is better able to run this country than the Labor Party is, debating a very important national issue, namely, United States bases in Australia; and the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate says: 1 must admit that Dr Forbes, in leading for the Opposition in the other place, had the intention of flushing out the differences between the left and right wings of the Labor Party’. [More…]

• They should be contesting, if they want to, the position of the Labor Party in respect of United States bases. [More…]

• Honourable senators will remember that, in the statement which [ read in this place on his behalf, the Minister for Defence made the point that there had been too much secrecy about the United States installations; that it was an obligation of the Government to give the Parliament more information about them, which we are doing; and that it was an obligation of the Government to identify the differences between the previous Government and ourselves on some matters. [More…]

• Apparently the United States Government now accepts the proposition that such installations should be open to members of the Parliament. [More…]

• Some aspects of the operations of those stations will not be revealed to members of the Parliament - there are some things which cannot be told to members of the Parliament - but at least members of the Parliament will be able to visit the areas, will know the environment and will be better equipped to debate matters concerning them in the Parliament and to say whether in their opinion co-operation between Australia and the United States in those areas is a good idea. [More…]

• Referring now to the sharing of those installations with the United States of America, we are satisfied that it is a good thing. [More…]

• This concerns the United States Naval Communications Station at North West Cape. [More…]

• In relation to the North West Cape base, the Government feels that it should talk to the United States Government about some matters. [More…]

• We want to talk to the United States Government as equal partners. [More…]

• The distinction between the point of view of the Opposition parties and our point of view is this: The Minister for Defence said that he believes that Australia should take up with the United States Government the issue 01 control at North West Cape. [More…]

• That the following words be added to the motion: and recognising that the paper acknowledges (i) that the installations in central Australia are not part of a weapons system and are not able to be used to attack any country and that the United States Naval Communications installation at North West Cape is used for the purpose of defence communication; . [More…]

• I expect later this year, at a mutually convenient time, to visit the United States. [More…]

• The North West Cape station is a critical matter which should be left to the Government to consult its partner - the United States of America - to ensure that we are involved completely. [More…]

• In the other place the Prime Minister stated quite clearly that if the amendment moved by Dr Forbes were carried shackles would be put on any Australian Minister who went to the United States to have talks about the station. [More…]

• Mr Whitlam said the Australian Labor Party supported the establishment of the radio base because it safeguarded Australia’s alliance with the United States. [More…]

• Mr Whitlam said any Australian government should and would agree in advance that facilities at North West Cape could be immediately used in the event of an attack on the United States. [More…]

• As I listened to Senator McManus, who made out a case for a little discretion on defence secrets, 1 was reminded that one of the things that always irked Government supporters when we were in opposition was that we were told to be seen and not heard, but we found that facts released to the Press from United States congressional inquiries were not given here. [More…]

• One of the things that irritated us, if we were expected to keep our side of the agreement in relation to the sanctity of defence secrets, was that the bounden duty on the United States Congress was not always adhered to. [More…]

• I hope that the statement that we have before us tonight will be the forerunner of more such statements which will allow us to look al the transition which will occur in foreign relations between Australia and the United States. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party will foster close and continuing co-operation with the people of the United States and our Commonwealth partners to make these associations instruments for justice and peace . [More…]

• One of the crucial points, of course, has been that every United States President has been imbued with the same principles, and I do not say that in any idle way. [More…]

• The subsequent dialogue which occurred between the United States ambassador and Sir Garfield Barwick proved that America put a different interpretation on the matter. [More…]

• Since 1963 a spate of books has dealt with various United States Presidents - Kennedy, Johnson and now Nixon - and just how they arrived at decisions. [More…]

• Nobody in his right mind would say that the enormous power which the United States President exercises should be unfettered by any checks and balances. [More…]

• What more or less brought the United States into top participation in Vietnam was the Bay of Tonkin incident. [More…]

• But after three or four years when America began to look at the situation it was questioned whether there had been over-reaction by the United States fleet. [More…]

• Anyone who has noticed that attitude would agree that we do not know when that may happen with the present President of the United States or somebody else. [More…]

• I do not think that any Australian should take a jingoistic attitude but Australia has never had to grovel for any economic favours from the United States as probably Turkey has. [More…]

• It has to be someone higher up such as the present Secretary of Foreign Affairs in the United States or Dr Kissinger. [More…]

• Whether in Australia, the United States or Great Britain it has become a regular thing for pressmen to anticipate. [More…]

• In the case of the United States if a Democratic convention is being held they anticipate whether this will make the country more isolationist and whether that will affect Australia’s relations with the United States. [More…]

• As far as our relations with the United States and Great Britain are concerned, the day has long gone when we adopted a colonial posture. [More…]

• I think the United States knows this. [More…]

• 1 think that one of the best clippings to read is the report of the farewell dinner whenever a United States Ambassador goes home. [More…]

• We have all heard the abuse that has gone on between the President of the United States and the Kremlin and Peking; yet I wonder how many of the Opposition senators think about it when they see the President and his envoy talking amicably to the Russians and the Chinese. [More…]

• I repeat that the outcome would have depended not only upon the Australian Prime Minister; obviously the President of the United States would have had the prime responsibility. [More…]

• In fact even the United States was ahead of it in this respect. [More…]

• 2, United States installations in Australia, ministerial statement - a statement read to this House by the Minister for Repatriation (Senator Bishop) on behalf of the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard). [More…]

• I am speaking to the United States installations statement. [More…]

• Senator Mulvihill said: ‘We will get cooperation from the United States. [More…]

• The United States- [More…]

• Whatever the imperfections of the United States of America, it should be remembered that that country played a significant part in winning the war. [More…]

• The nations of the world owe their growth and position to the great contribution of the United States which, in fact, has crippled itself in its overseas balances in so doing. [More…]

• The people of the world sneered at the British in the old days when they carried the responsibility that the United States carries today, just as some people of the world today and members of the Australian Labor Party sneer at the Americans. [More…]

• In fact, the Australian people should understand the significance of the appointment by the United States Government of Mr Marshall Green, a remarkably able diplomat of senior status, beyond ambassador to ambassador at large. [More…]

• Undoubtedly, that man is coming to Australia because the United States fears that what this Government is doing in Asia is creating chaos in the area and undoing the good of the past. [More…]

• Let me test these statements: Has the ALP said, whether in the Barnard version, the Willesee version or the caucus version, that it has looked at this base, that it is a threat to Australia, that it does not involve a question of dialogue with the United States or any other nation, that it must be removed from Australia because it is a threat to Australia or that it is an aggressive, dangerous war machine? [More…]

• All data available to the United States Government from these facilities is available to the Australian Government. [More…]

• The honourable senator’s remarks are irrelevant to the subject matter before the Senate tonight which is that the Senate take note of the statement by the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence in relation to United States bases in Australia. [More…]

• The Government of the United States of America has introduced a law - it is conditional now - which is to come into effect some time in the next few days and which will entirely prohibit the import of kangaroo skins or kangaroo products into the United States. [More…]

• The United States is the main market for kangaroo skins and products. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the Government of Communist China has consented to the exchange of official representatives with the United States of America without exacting the slightest concession in regard to the recognition by the United States of the Nationalist Chinese regime in Taiwan? [More…]

• I hasten to add that it is not the United States of America. [More…]

• I made it very clear the other day that what Thailand and the United States of America do is completely a matter for the Governments of those countries and not for any other government. [More…]

• We were dissatisfied, not only with the aircraft but also with the financial arrangements entered into by the then Australian Government and the United States Government. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Overseas Trade concerning the recent devaluation of the United States dollar and the Australian Government’s standstill policy on the Australian dollar, which has placed many of Australia’s export industries at a disadvantage. [More…]

• The committees in the United States were brought into disrepute when they were used for purposes such as this. [More…]

• I do not wish to go into the merits or demerits of McCarthyism as it arose in the United States 20 years ago. [More…]

• These acts which were allegedly committed by Mr Burchett but which apparently did not offend the United States Administration or Dr Kissinger because Mr Burchett was invited to confer with Dr Kissinger on these matters- [More…]

• Dr Kissinger has been accused of many things but never of being a communist agent, a fellow traveller of the Labor Party or even a fellow traveller of the United States Democratic Party. [More…]

• Dr Kissinger apparently did not feel that there was such urgency that Mr Burchett ought to be investigated by a committee of the United States Senate. [More…]

• The members of the Liberal Party can take that into account and convert themselves into a genuine liberal party, for which there is a role in any society, or they can take up the suggestion that has been put forward tonight by the absent Leader of the Opposition, who does not appear to be paying a very keen interest in this debate, that the only people who were critical of Senator McCarthy were the communists and that the only people who did not have faith in Senator McCarthy were the communists when the overwhelming majority of the United States Senate itself censured Senator McCarthy, including the late President Johnson, who was one of the sponsors of the motion of censure of Senator McCarthy. [More…]

• They allege that we of the Labor Party insult the United States of America. [More…]

• In the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States of America and the Federal Republic of Germany the franchise age is 18 years. [More…]

• I refer the Minister to the statements issued by the United States Government on 14th March, that it was using every means of communication to express concern to Hanoi about the heavy flow of troops and equipment into Laos, Cambodia and South Vietnam, and specifically that the confirmed movement of about 30,000 troops, 300 armoured vehicles and heavy artillery is expressly contrary to the Paris cease-fire pact. [More…]

• We feel that we can obtain sufficient spares but the fact is that the United States Government has already terminated plans for its production target. [More…]

• Why does the Government still allow Qantas Airways Ltd to disregard the interests of travellers by its refusal to permit cheaper air fares by the system of advanced bookings on the most popular direct Sydney-London route whereas it allows this system for travellers to the United States of America? [More…]

• Mr Barnard has made the statement that he feels that, while we accept the aircraft, we should be in the market to make some arrangements having regard to the fact, as I have pointed out to Senator Drake-Brockman, that this aircraft will go out of the production line in the United States of America in about a decade. [More…]

• 1 point out to the honourable senator that this has been the practice in a number of other countries, including, of course, the United States of America under the auspices of the Federal Communications Commission. [More…]

• Can the Minister say whether the question of the United States duty of 25ic per lb greasy wool could be taken up under these talks? [More…]

• would have every objection to the presence of Russian or United States troops in Singapore. [More…]

• have a situation in our area in which we do not have to look over our shoulder at Russia, or the United States of America. [More…]

• What military might have we compared to countries such as Russia, China, the United States of America and Great Britain? [More…]

• This greeting also extends to the United States members. [More…]

• I use the expression ‘physical persecution’ in the sense in which it has been interpreted in section 243 (h) of the United States Immigration and Nationality Act of 19S2 under which the AttorneyGeneral of the United States of America is autho rised to withhold deportation of an alien to any country in which, in his opinion, he would be subject to physical persecution. [More…]

• 1 have indicated the traditional and accepted rule - applicable not only in the past in this country but also in the United States of America and the United Kingdom - that deportation or extradition does not take place where a person is likely to be dealt with for his political opinions by the country to which he is sent. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the United States of America is exporting to Australia very large consignments of carpets made of synthetic fibre at prices far below the cost of production in Australia? [More…]

• Is it also a fact that a high percentage of this carpet is banned by United States law for use in that country because it is highly inflammable? [More…]

• Even before this obnoxious raid on his own Department there were Press allegations that Great Britain and the United States of America were already withholding security information. [More…]

• The same attitude is being displayed in the United States of America and other places. [More…]

• Has the Minister studied the report of the recent United States Grand Jury investigation into the illegal import of pelts of endangered wild animals. [More…]

• The service is to operate from a United States satellite which, I understand is currently being tested over the Rocky Mountains. [More…]

• The Japanese submarine was sunk by Royal Australian Navy corvettes and a United States Navy destroyer on 20th January 1 942. [More…]

• No doubt the Minister is aware that the postage rate for an airmail letter to Canada and the United States of America is 30c Australian but that the cost to a Canadian to post a similar letter to Australia is 15c of a smaller dollar. [More…]

• Does the Minister representing the Minister for Defence recall a statement made by the present Minister for Defence last October in which he talked about the Royal Australian Air Force having what he chose to call a pretty good run in the purchase of top drawer and top price aircraft from the United States of America? [More…]

• Of course I have heard the statement that there will be consultations between the United States authorities and the Trades and Labour Council. [More…]

• The reason for this concern is a decision by the United States Tariff Commission that imports of canned Bartlett pears from Australia will become subject to special dumping duties. [More…]

• Apparently this decision was the result of a Tariff Commission investigation which found that the pear canning industry in the United States was likely to be injured by reason of imports from Australia. [More…]

• Apparently a complaint was filed by Pacific Coast Canned Pear Services Incorporated of Seattle, Washington, in 1971, and the matter was investigated by the United States Treasury Department in 1972. [More…]

• Australia sent representatives of the industry to the United States, and these representatives were giving evidence to the Tariff Commission at a time when 3 Ministers of the present Labor Government decided that it was within their province to criticise the United States Government. [More…]

• These Ministers went out of their way to be abusive to President Nixon and to the Government of the United States. [More…]

• So at that critical time when the United States was adjudging whether any duty would be imposed on Australian canned pears, it could well have been impaired by the fact that 3 senior Ministers of this Government - although I believe there are no senior and junior Ministers in the Labor Government; all are of equal status - expressed a united view which could have been taken to represent the view of the Australian Government. [More…]

• On Thursday 15th March 1973, Senator Greenwood asked me the following question without notice: 1 refer the Minister to the statements issued by the United States Government on 14th March, that it was using every means of communications to express concern to Hanoi about the heavy flow of troops and equipment into Laos, Cambodia and South Viet-Nam, and specifically that the confirmed movement of about 30,000 troops, 300 armoured vehicles and heavy artillery is expressly contrary to the Paris ceasefire pact. [More…]

• The Australian Government is aware of the statements issued by the United States Government on 14th March, and subsequently also, of course, of President Nixon’s comments at his news conference on 15th March. [More…]

• Would he investigate the operation of this equipment, as it is said that highly confidential and top secret information prepared by this equipment is constantly monitored by certain quarters in the United States of America? [More…]

• Can he say whether the United States controlled communication base operated in Australia could be used to relay this information to a foreign power, namely, the United States of America? [More…]

• Some 18 months ago there was a prices and wages freeze in the United States of America. [More…]

• The machinery for it was set up on a voluntary basis by the President of the United States. [More…]

• In the markets of the United States housewives are boycotting meat. [More…]

• I was in the United States of America about 18 months ago. [More…]

• We followed the United States far enough into the mire. [More…]

• I think that such a committee would repeat in Australia the worst features of those congressional committees in the United States of America which have been inquisitorial, which have inflicted hardship on individuals and which have struck at essential civil liberties. [More…]

• In fact, the allegations and implications made by the Attorney-General are similar to those made by Senator McCarthy in the United States nearly 20 years ago. [More…]

• If the former is the case it proves what Senator Murphy and all of us have said, namely, that senior people have been using Australia as a base to go to Europe and the United States to foment trouble. [More…]

• I do not know whether honourable senators opposite have been temporarily blind but had they read Time’ and ‘Newsweek’ magazines in the last 5 weeks and from their reports contrasted the position of Mr Barbour with that of Mr Gray, initial heir apparent to the Director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, and had they read questions raised about the Central Intelligence Agency, they would have seen that this was public debate. [More…]

• All of us know that as a fact of life the FBI will continue as a viable organisation in the United States. [More…]

• I point out that in the United States the security service is subject to the President and in the United Kingdom the security service is subject to the Prime Minister. [More…]

• That is an objective sought to be achieved, but not achieved, in the United States of America. [More…]

• In 1964 the security organisations in the United States failed in their responsibility to President Kennedy. [More…]

• Recent acts of violence against Yugoslav Embassies and Consulates in the United States, Canada, Germany, France and Australia indicate that Croatian freedom groups remain active. [More…]

• In 1967 he went to an international Ustasha meeting in the United States, where he met the chief from other countries including a number of war criminals. [More…]

• Regrettably, the United States had yet to accept the Agreement. [More…]

• Applying similar constitutional provisions, the United States Supreme Court has, for the last 9 years and more, declared any form of malapportionment within a State to be unconstitutional. [More…]

• The Supreme Court of the United States and the Constitutional Review Committee are just two that come to mind. [More…]

• United States of America when it ruled that electoral districts shall be as nearly equal as practicable had this to say: [More…]

• As I recall it, during the elections in the United States last November, in California a referendum was held on this subject. [More…]

• As far as 1 am aware - I may well be wrong - the only time that this matter has been subjected to a vote of the people was during the Presidential election in the United States last year when the people of California voted in a referendum on the subject. [More…]

• 1 think it is well known world wide that the United States Government is considering at the moment the drafting of legislation which will overcome the objections of the United States Supreme Court to capital punishment as expressed in its decision of June, last year. [More…]

• One of the things that could madden one but really saddens me is that the proponents of abolition, who project themselves as men of great conscience, integrity and all that sort of jazz, have completely distorted what the United States Supreme Court said in its judgment of June last year. [More…]

• It is generally said that the United States Supreme Court held that the death penalty was unconstitutional because it was a ‘cruel and unusual punishment and therefore offended against the Constitution’. [More…]

• I quote from the United States Supreme Court 33l edition 2d in the cases of Furman v State of Georgia, Jackson v State of Georgia and Branch v State of Texas. [More…]

• These cases were argued before the United States Supreme Court with a bench of 9 judges on 17th January 1972. [More…]

• On certiorari, the United States Supreme Court reversed the judgment in each case insofar as it left undisturbed the death sentence imposed, and the cases were remanded for further proceedings. [More…]

• Marshall, J., concurring, stated that the death penalty violated the Eighth Amendment because it was an excessive and unnecessary punishment and because it was morally unacceptable to the people of the United States. [More…]

• What I am saying is that the abolitionists do not do their cause any justice by saying that the United States Supreme Court by a majority held that the death penalty was unconstitutional. [More…]

• 3 of the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives of the 92nd Congress of the United States of America. [More…]

• Whatever be the source from which the statistics are drawn - whether they be statistics as the United States authorities have elaborated them and as I know they have been elaborated in writings in the main texts on this subject or whether they are drawn roughly as I have drawn them from an examination of the murder conviction rates in the various States of Australia - it is very difficult to draw any conclusion out of those statistics. [More…]

• I think of what happened in the Manson killings in the United States. [More…]

• I refer to what occurred in the State of California in the United States of America during the last presidential election when there was a poll in that State to determine whether or not the death penalty should be restored. [More…]

• The opinion expressed in California in the United States of America must have shocked many people who felt that the trend of thinking amongst the electorate at large was in favour of the complete abolition of the death penalty. [More…]

• I think with that decision in the United States must be taken the opinion which was expressed by President Nixon when he recently announced that he would ask Congress to restore the death penalty for aircraft hijacking, kidnapping, the throwing of fire bombs, attacks on prison guards or other police officers, and treason and other war-related crimes. [More…]

• I must say that for my part I wonder whether the Australian community might not reflect the attitudes which President Nixon believes ought to prevail in the United States and which the people of the State of California indicated by their vote. [More…]

• President Nixon in the United States has requested new crime legislation including restoration of the death penalty for certain crimes. [More…]

• Will the sugar industry, due to changes between the Australian dollar and the US dollar in the past 14 months suffer a 24 per cent reduction in income from sales to the United States of America. [More…]

• The Australian sugar industry will not suffer any significant losses as the result of currency realignments since December 1971 on its sales to the United States under the US Sugar Act. [More…]

• whether the question of the United States duty of25 cents per lb on greasy wool could be taken up in the multilateral trade negotiations, [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…]

• United States Wool Duty and the Multilateral Negotiations - As already mentioned in the Parliament, the Government intends to take an energetic part in the negotiations with particular emphasis on trying to improve conditions of international trade in primary commodities. [More…]

• Since the intention is that the negotiations should be wide ranging there is no reason why the United States wool duty could not be taken up. [More…]

• The GATT Contracting Parties have not decided in detail what the coverage of the negotiations should be but the Government will certainly take the United States wool duty into accountin its preparations for the negotiations. [More…]

• It is clear that the economic difficulties encountered in countries such as the United States of America, especially in its international relations, have repercussions throughout the rest of the world. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Works aware that Sydney waterside workers yesterday put a 24-hour ban on the loading of meat onto 2 ships bound for the United States of America and Japan? [More…]

• A further matter which honourable senators might like to note concerns the United States Naval Communication Station (Civilian Employees) Act 1971-72. [More…]

• This is a companion piece of legislation which extends to civilian employees employed by the United States Navy in connection with the Station the terms of the Compensation (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1971-72. [More…]

• The Bill provides for amendments to the Schedule to the United States Naval Communication Station (Civilian Employees) Act 1971-72 so as to apply to the civilian personnel employed in connection with the Station the amendments to the principal Act that I have outlined. [More…]

• I was gratified to see that the new Government had accepted the treaty negotiations in relation to extradition arrangements which the previous Government entered into with Germany, Italy, Israel, Austria, Sweden and the United States of America. [More…]

• But I would have thought that there is no question that in this situation the Governor-General is the head of the Australian Commonwealth just as the President of the United States of America is head of the United States and the Queen is head of Great Britain. [More…]

• This part of the Attorney-General’s second reading speech to which I have referred was quite specific in regard to the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Israel, Austria, Sweden and the United States of America. [More…]

• The countries with which we will have extradition treaties will be the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Israel, Austria, Sweden and the United States of America. [More…]

• He should look at the history of the United States in the war. [More…]

• The United States had a larger population of Yugoslav migrants than Australia has ever had. [More…]

• The use of the phrase ‘equivalent act’ is to cover the equivalent of offences in the United States of America. [More…]

• Over the years in the United States there has been a complication in relation to federal offences, presumably because of constitutional power. [More…]

• Do the comments of the Minister for Primary Industry at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Committee for Agriculture conference in Paris that any future price guarantee to the wheat industry will be strictly limited mean that returns to wheat growers in the future will be determined by world prices and that the Australian wheat industry will be competing with highly subsidised exporters such as Canada and the United States of America? [More…]

• The Recovery organisation originated in Australia and as a result of the excellent work that it has performed here, it has now spread to a number of other countries, particularly to the United States of America. [More…]

• I am given to understand that one of the honorary officers of the Recovery organisation is going to the United States in the near future to advise on how Recovery functions in Australia. [More…]

• One assumes it will be United States dollars but equally it could be Australian dollars. [More…]

• Has the Cabinet and/or the Economic and Trade Committee of Cabinet studied the adverse effects currently being experienced by the Australian minerals industry, due to the successive devaluations of the United States dollar, the revaluation in December 1972 of the Australian dollar and the fact that mineral contracts have been written in United States currency in the past; if so, what was the decision of the Cabinet regarding the appropriate currency for future contracts. [More…]

• Was the decision during the past decade to write minerals contracts in United States dollars a bad one; if so, why. [More…]

• What proportion of export income received in the financial year 1971-1972 resulted from contracts written in United States dollars. [More…]

• What is the percentage of export income expected to be derived in the financial year 1972-1973 from contracts written in United States dollars in the primary, extractive and secondary industries. [More…]

• Australia has become a party to the convention on endangered species which took place in the United States of America in March, I think it was, and which was an enormous step towards the protection of endangered species. [More…]

• A disease called golden nematode was introduced from the United States and 2 serious diseases exist in New Zealand. [More…]

• The achievement of peace in Indo-China, if peace comes, may well focus attention on the future stability of Thailand and the position of the United States of America in Thailand and its future maintenance or otherwise of air forces or ground forces in Thailand. [More…]

• I think the answer could well be that it was when the Soviet Union had obtained land accommodation in Cuba, within the area of the United States, and set out to mount missile landing weapons on that piece of territory. [More…]

• At that stage there probably was not one Soviet soldier within 5,000 miles of the United States, but the position was so critical that America had to go to the brink of war and deploy her fleet in the face of the advancing Russian missile carrying ships. [More…]

• In other words, all that was necessary to bring the United States to that parlous condition was that some power not friendly to her had managed to establish land accommodation in a strategic position which rendered the United States geographically vulnerable. [More…]

• We could all learn a lesson from the massive number of books that have been published about the post-war mistakes made in South East Asia by the French, then by the United States and to a lesser degree perhaps by other nations. [More…]

• If there was one lesson which the French and later the United States learned it was that if one is going to fight ideological battles one has to win the great mass of apathetic Asian peasants who are interested only in their rice fields. [More…]

• 1 cannot see at this stage that the United States is doing anything other than propping up a military junta. [More…]

• Every time I read about the present rulers in Thailand with their nubile mistresses and their Cadillac cars I wonder how much money is coming from Australia or the United States to supply these top class call girls who are living with these leaders. [More…]

• It might have oppressive internal conditions but it would skilfully play Peking, Moscow, probably the United States of America and to a lesser degree other countries, one against the other. [More…]

• I do not know what good is done by the big United States bombers that are stationed there. [More…]

• I believe we will avoid the mistakes at a foreign office level which I know the United States State Department is also trying to avoid for the future. [More…]

• My Government believes that our close relations with the United States, our growing partnership with Japan and the speedy and successful normalisation of relations with the People’s Republic of China provide a realistic and fruitful basis for such an Australian initiative. [More…]

• Has the fertility rate in the United States of America dropped below the replacement rate necessary for zero population growth. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Statistician has advised that statistics are not yet to hand which would enable an exact calculation of total fertility for the United States of America in 1972. [More…]

• However he has arrived at an approximate estimate based upon the provisional statistics issued for 1972 by the United States National Center for Health Statistics. [More…]

• Replacement fertility, the level of reproduction con sistent with ultimate zero population growth, under contemporary conditions of mortality in the United States of America averages out to 2.11 children per woman over a life time. [More…]

• The Commission of Population Growth and the American Future in its report on 27th March to the President and Congress of the United States commented ‘Even if immigration from abroad ceased and couples had only 2 children on the average - just enough to replace themselves - our population would continue to grow for about 70 years. [More…]

• I refer to President Nixon’s announcement about United States aid to South East Asia in which it was noted there was no allocation to North Vietnam pending observance of the cease fire. [More…]

• This morning the United States Government announced that it would have to resume hostilities if the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese did not cease their breaches of the ceasefire agreement. [More…]

• If one talks about terrorism one finds that it has very respectable antecedents in the first President of the United States of America. [More…]

• They are struggling in precisely the same way as Michael Collins and the Irish revolutionaries have been struggling for the independence and unity of their country for many centuries, and the same way as the people of the United States of America fought for their independence and unity not only at the time of the War of Independence but also at the time of the American Civil War. [More…]

• In fact, if one looks at the accords signed in Paris one finds that there were 4 signatories - the representative of the Government of the United States of America, the representative of the Saigon Government, which is recognised by this Government as it was by the previous Government; the Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in Hanoi and the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam. [More…]

• The Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam is acknowledged by the United States and the other parties to the Paris peace agreement, and the talks which preceded it, as a government existing in its own right, capable of signing the agreement as a government along with the Government of the United States. [More…]

• Australia was involved in the war in Vietnam at the behest of the United States of America. [More…]

• The evidence was clear before one’s eyes that there was massive devastation of areas inhabited by civilians which could come about only as a result of the deliberate action of the United States Air Force in setting out to exterminate a civilian population. [More…]

• Its location was well known- It was systematically detroyed by deliberate bombing by the United States Air Force. [More…]

• There was not one dissenting voice from any Western journalist or diplomat or any neutral diplomat or journalist that what the United States had attempted in North Vietnam during the bombings of last December was the deliberate extermination of the civilian population in Hanoi and Haiphong. [More…]

• Why did the United States do it? [More…]

• The United States did it because it thought that by doing so - and this is what Senator Hannan, this other great Christian, thinks - this was the way in which to get people to sign the peace agreement. [More…]

• I was in Hanoi shortly before the Paris peace treaty was signed, and I was assured not only by officials of the North Vietnamese Government but also by diplomatic observers and journalists who were there, that if the bombing had had any effect at all it was almost to remove the possibility of a peace agreement ever being signed because the response of the Vietnamese people was one of complete abhorrence of what the United States of America was doing to them. [More…]

• As Senator Gair asks me, in the first place the aggressor was the United States of America which deliberately breached the Geneva Agreement of 1954 which provided that there should be only a temporary territorial division between North and South Vietnam and that free elections should be held no later than 1956. [More…]

• It was the United States and its puppet Ngo Dinh Diem whose murder the Americans subsequently engineered who sabotaged- [More…]

• If Senator Little is not aware of the public knowledge of the role which the United States administration played in the murder of Ngo Dinh Diem then he must be one of the few people in the world who is not aware of it. [More…]

• The United States deliberately destroyed the effectiveness of the 1954 Geneva Agreement and engaged in aggression in support of Ngo Dinh Diem and his regime which it created. [More…]

• After more than 100 years of occupation by the French and 30 years occupation by the Japanese, these people were able to take on the United States virtually single handed. [More…]

• The People’s Revolutionary Government was never recognised as a government at the Vietnam peace talks by the United States of America. [More…]

• Honourable senators will remember the crude vulgarity of the attacks which were made on the United States of America by 3 Ministers, one of whom was Dr Cairns. [More…]

• Even Dr Kissinger, who seemed at one stage to be bemused by and believed the North Vietnamese, is now losing his patience and has threatened that the United States will have to take action. [More…]

• They wish to weaken support for the Government of South Vietnam and for the United States. [More…]

• Senator Sim said that there was a crude vulgarity about the attacks on the United States of America by some members of the Australian Government. [More…]

• Members of the Opposition are always accusing the Labor Party of “being out of touch with the United States’. [More…]

• The fact is that in submitting this resolution they display that they are completely out of : touch with the United States. [More…]

• A democratically elected government of the United States of America, which has always been condemned, went to the aid– [More…]

• The Government of the United States went to aid that country against the onslaught of the communists who were assisted by Red China and Russia. [More…]

• The United States of America and Australia later came to the aid of South Vietnam. [More…]

• To me, the reason why it did occur is that in New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America a change in foreign policy occurred. [More…]

• One of the reasons why he did not was that he had a very effective general in charge of the United States Army who had been the GOC in Korea after General MacArthur. [More…]

• There was a time in the United States when one lone senator, who later became an illustrious President, Senator J. P. Kennedy, advocated that the United States should prevail upon France to some degree to recognise Algeria. [More…]

• If it can get aid from Australia and the United States, it will. [More…]

• This idea of being with the United States, right or wrong, cannot work. [More…]

• The United States was tough with it on meat quotas. [More…]

• The United States was realistic enough not to apply sanctions to us in relation to meat quotas. [More…]

• That was the basis upon which people of the United States of America, people of Australia, people of New Zealand and people of virtually every community in South East Asia were prepared to go to the support of a beleaguered South Vietnam to resist aggression. [More…]

• We are moving away from Britain; we are moving away from the United States of America; we are moving away from France; we are moving away from all the basically democratic countries. [More…]

• Early this year when the bombing of North Vietnam was taking place - that bombing was the real cause of the North Vietnamese ultimately coming to the conference table - Dr Cairns, Mr Uren and Mr Cameron were condemning President Nixon and the Government of the United States of America. [More…]

• In 1954 the United States had already invested 2.3 billion dollars in assisting the French to fight Ho Chi Minh because John Foster Dulles believed (and said) that the extension of Communist control to all of Vietnam, whether by elections or any other means, would endanger the entire ‘Free World’. [More…]

• A recent study of Saigon archives conducted from Cornell University concludes that the massacre is a myth and ‘the result of a deliberate propaganda campaign by the South Vietnamese and United States Governments’ (‘The Myth of the Bloodbath,’ published by the International Relations of East Asia Project. [More…]

• The United States Armed Forces understand the concept well, as Mao on guerrilla warfare is required reading at the Pentagon and is the bible of the Green Berets. [More…]

• Unbeknown to the then President of the United States of America and by some devious means, the American nation started to support the re-establishment of colonial rule in Indo-China. [More…]

• A statement was made by a man whom we are presently acknowledging to be one of the great Presidents of the United States of America, the former Commanding-General of the American Armed Forces, President Eisenhower. [More…]

• This is not what Bill Brown says; it is to be seen in the records of the United States Congress. [More…]

• He said that the United States could not afford to have free elections in Vietnam. [More…]

• That it is a risk to the Australian Government was indicated by the attitude that we took, in alliance with the United States of America, in trying to stem that invasion at the expense of Australian servicemen and women. [More…]

• Did the Minister slate that the mining industry had shown foolishness and business naivete in writing mineral contracts over the past decade in United States dollars; if so, in what currency or currencies should such contracts in the past have been written, particularly during the long period when the United States currency was a very strong and appreciating commodity. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of the 1969 study by the United States National Bureau of Standards which revealed that various components of commercial aircraft, including seat cushions, ceiling panels, draperies and plastic trays, when exposed to intense heat, give off highly toxic gases, lethal in impact on humans. [More…]

• Is the Minister also aware that an eminent toxicologist, Dr G. Christopoulis, of Chicago, United States of America, reported in February of thisyear that, in studies of aircraft crashes, he had found that hydrogen cyanide and carbon monoxide gases were responsible for killing many passengers before the flames had reached them. [More…]

• It is a very clear intention of both the United States and Canadian governments which was expressed at the meeting at which I delivered that speech. [More…]

• Is it not a fact also that in the Agreement signed by the United States of America in Paris in March this year the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam has a status equal to that of the Saigon regime headed by President Thieu and is so regarded by the United States and the 11 other signatories to the Paris Agreement? [More…]

• This fact was recognised at Paris where the United States and South Vietnam sat around the table and negotiated the Vietnam peace settlement. [More…]

• Has his attention been drawn to a recent Press report which emanated from the United States of America and which indicated that many deaths from poisoning have resulted from air crashes because of the types of internal furnishings used which, when burnt, emit fumes of the deadly poison cyanide? [More…]

• I do not know whether the same procedures were followed in this matter in the United States where I see that some similar sealing of files took place in .the last day or so. [More…]

• Does he reject the facts which are set out by the United States Government in its note - from recollection of 23rd April this year - which detailed the aggressive acts, including the movement of troops, the movement of materials and the movement of munitions in breach of the cease fire agreement, committed by North Vietnam? [More…]

• Does he not consider that his patronage of the North Vietnamese delegation and the Vietcong delegation is a calculated snub to the United States Government? [More…]

• The honourable senator referred to the United States note in which certain facts were referred to as the viewpoint of the United States Government. [More…]

• There is a growing awareness of a world energy crisis, and major industrial nations such as Japan and the United States of America, having depleted seriously their available resources, and being already heavily dependent on imports, particularly of crude oil, are now turning to ‘resources diplomacy’ to provide for their future needs. [More…]

• These include institutions which are specifically involved in assistance to small business, such as the German Management and Productivity Association (RKW) of the Federal Republic of Germany; the Small Business Administration of .the United States; the Smaller Enterprise Agency of Japan; and the industrial liaison scheme in the United Kingdom. [More…]

• In particular it is argued that the current instability is largely a by-product of the continuing United States balance of payments deficit - a deficit which reached the astronomical proportions of around $US30 billion in 1971. [More…]

• The United States, it is said, should have taken earlier action to correct the deficit by slowing down internal inflation for example, by curbing capital outflow, by devaluing the United States dollar, or by some combination of these policies. [More…]

• One important fact is, of course, that the United States now has taken significant steps to correct its balance of payments deficit. [More…]

• In the first place the United States Government did take firm action domestically and this reduced its rate of inflation below that of nearly all major developed countries. [More…]

• At that time the United States agreed to devalue the dollar by approximately 8 per cent. [More…]

• The large United States deficit on current account continued, as had been expected, into 1972. [More…]

• But in addition there was no net inflow of short-term funds to the United States during 1972 as a whole. [More…]

• It was then, on 12th February 1973, that the United States took a further decisive step by unilaterally devaluing the dollar another 10 per cent. [More…]

• There was a general wish that effective convertibility of the United States dollar into other reserve assets should be restored. [More…]

• The United States had of course formally ceased to maintain convertibility of the US dollar into gold and other assets as from 15th August 1971. [More…]

• This led to suggestions for what is technically called a ‘reserve asset settlement’ scheme, lt implies that the United States should once again receive primary reserve assets if it is in surplus, and should lose them if it is in deficit. [More…]

• But before the United States could assume such a ‘convertibility’ obligation, it was suggested that excess’ holdings of US dollars, and for that matter sterling, should in some way be funded. [More…]

• In this connection a technical group was appointed to consider a United States proposal that a system of ‘objective indicators’ be . [More…]

• I think the Japanese people would acknowledge themselves that certainly by their own extraordinary energy, intelligence and initiative but equally by the enormous help of the United States of America as well as with the very great goodwill of other countries, including Australia, Japan has been able to reach a state of great prosperity, great affluence and great influence in this world, whether it be for good or otherwise. [More…]

• Just so long as Western Europe, Japan and the United States have a single interest in peace keeping in this world, the abilities, the resources and the knowhow of those three great nations and groups of nations will ensure peace, and Japan can be an interlocking linch pin in this regard. [More…]

• The second reason is that as early as 1956, on the first occasion that 1 went to Eastern Europe, I was very pleased to meet men in their 60s and 70s who had given the best years of their lives in the big steel mills in Pittsburgh in the United States, many of whom had gone there as young men and had remained unmarried, who had come back at the age of 66 or so. [More…]

• Thanks to the United States social service system, they were able to enjoy a reasonable standard of living in the last few years of their lives in their homes in Eastern European countries. [More…]

• It was patently clear that all the ethnic groups represented there were demanding that Australia put its hand on the tiller, like the United States of America, and not wait for these direct agreements. [More…]

• One has only to note the attitudes now being strongly presented in Great Britain and in certain States of the United States of America, where the death sentence has been abolished, to see that there is a great clamour for its reinstatement. [More…]

• Recently President Nixon said that he was considering seriously trying to introduce death penalty legislation in the United States again. [More…]

• Does this mean that returns to Australian wheat growers in future will be determined by world prices and that the Australian wheat industry, irrespective of the effects of rising costs of production over which the industry has no control, will be competing with highly subsidised exporters such as Canada and the United States of America? [More…]

• I do not share the opinion that members of the United States Supreme Court are conservative. [More…]

• While that may be so according to United States standards, according to our standards probably the most conservative of the United Status Supreme Court judges would be regarded as something of a wild radical. [More…]

• As I have said before, the distinguished Supreme Court of the United States made a decision that was novel and a signal contribution to the thinking on this subject. [More…]

• There is a definite tendency today, both in the United States and in the United Kingdom, for a reversion to capital punishment because of the increase in crime and because so many people in the community pay so little regard to human life. [More…]

• The United States has 6.8. [More…]

• Let me remind the Senate - this is absolutely pertinent to the situation - of what was said in the Warren Commission report in the United States of America after the death of John F. Kennedy. [More…]

• Only the other day I read about a chap in the United States who killed his mother and cut her into pieces and also killed about 6 other people. [More…]

• The President of the United States has called for the restoration of capital punishment and in the United Kingdom, although the parliamentarians once again squibbed it as they so often do on issues they are afraid of - many of them are weak when it comes to grasping that nettle firmly - there is a rising demand for the restoration of capital punishment. [More…]

• What scares me about this proposition is that we could arrive at the position that has been arrived at in the United States of America and the United Kingdom, where the death penalty has been abolished. [More…]

• F believe it is a fact that half of the Stales of the United States of America are considering measures to bring back capital punishment. [More…]

• We will go down the scale, as the United Kingdom and the United States have done. [More…]

• Why does the Government still allow Qantas Airways Ltd to disregard the interests of travellers by its refusal to permit cheaper air fares by the system of advance bookings on the most popular direct SydneyLondon route whereas it allows this system for travellers to the United States of America? [More…]

• As all fares for international air travel set under the International Air Transport Association are in United States dollars and as the Australian dollar has been effectively revalued against the United States dollar twice in recent months, when will Qantas Airways Ltd, which is wholly owned by the Australian Government, be reducing its fares in accordance with the changed value of the Australian dollar? [More…]

• Has the Government considered the terms of the United States note of 24th April, which was delivered by the United States Government to the other members of the International Conference on Vietnam, charging Hanoi with violations of the Vietnam peace agreement? [More…]

• Although Australia is not a party to the ceasefire agreement, will the Government make representations to Hanoi in support of the United States claim with a view to bringing diplomatic pressure on North Vietnam to honour the ceasefire agreement? [More…]

• We are well aware of the attitude that the United States Government is taking on the violations of the ceasefire agreement in the Indo-China states. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, flew in an F1 1 1 aircraft when on a visit to the United States of America some time ago and that since then he has never really criticised the Fill? [More…]

• It is true that when Mr Barnard last visited the United States he flew in the aircraft. [More…]

• In relation to the arrival date, the first ferry from the United States is expected to take place late this month. [More…]

• I refer to his answer to my earlier question about the Government’s attitude to the Note from the United States on the Hanoi violations of the ceasefire agreement and his own statement of the Government’s awareness of accusations by both the United States Government and the Hanoi Government of breaches of that agreement. [More…]

• 1 ask: Does the Government accept the specific and categorical denial of the accusations made by Hanoi which is contained in the United States Government’s Note7 If so, why is not that denial, together with the evidence of the many breaches by Hanoi of the ceasefire agreement, sufficient to persuade the Government to use its diplomatic influence with a government - the North Vietnamese Government - with which it claims to have friendly relations? [More…]

• I do not think that even the United States of America, which is known for its attitudes on this matter, has ever yet linked this condition to aid. [More…]

• Again, it relates to this United States Note on the Hanoi violations of the ceasefire agreements. [More…]

• If so, how does it sustain that position in the light of, on the one hand, the Prime Minister’s protest to the United States Government in January of this year about the United States bombing of North Vietnam and the particularly virulent statements of condemnation made by several Ministers of the Government at that time and, on the other hand, the complete silence of the Prime Minister and those same Ministers at this time in the face of the obvious North Vietnamese aggression in that area? [More…]

• At the time of the bombing, a time when we believed that peace should be brought about in the Indo-China states, the Prime Minister did protest to the President of the United States of America. [More…]

• Such a change may occur either because of a change in the par value of the Australian dollar, such as was made on 23rd December last; or because of a change in the par value or central rate of the foreign currency concerned such as occurred in the case of the pound sterling when it was allowed to ‘float’ in June 1972; or because of a change in the relative valuation of the Australian dollar and the foreign currency concerned as a result of differing consequences for those currencies of action taken in the case of other major currencies, such as the devaluation of the United States dollar in February 1973. [More…]

• Has the Minister seen a report in today’s Press of a United States contract to supply 19 million tons of wheat to Russia? [More…]

• Can he say whether, as stated in the report, the United States Government is paying a subsidy of 47.5c a bushel to grain company shippers in connection with that contract? [More…]

• I am not aware of any subsidy arrangements which the United States has made with wheat growers. [More…]

• It could well be that the granting of any such subsidy has been because of prior agreement entered into with the wheat industry in the United States, but I am not sure of that. [More…]

• In view of the scandalous revelations of what is known in the United States as the Watergate Affair’, where widespread bugging activities are alleged, what provisions have been made to guard against the possibility of buggers operating in party rooms - in Parliament House? [More…]

• Did the Minister state in reply to a question I asked of him earlier today that he had no idea what subsidies the United States of America and other countries grant to their producers? [More…]

• In view of the fact that the Leader of the Australian Country Party has asked me another question on this subject, I think I should quote one or two passages from a speech in Paris by the United States Secretary of Agriculture in order to give some indication of the thinking of the United States Government on the subject. [More…]

• There is a lot more of his speech that I could quote to indicate that the suggestions by the Leader of the Country Party that it is only the Australian Government that is thinking in terms of a realistic policy towards the marketing and the prices of our primary products are incorrect: That is not an isolated attitude on our part; it is a policy that is being pursued actively by the United States Administration, the Canadian Government and also the New Zealand Government. [More…]

• We need only recall what happened in response to the remarks of 3 Ministers of the present Government when they attacked the United States of America and its President. [More…]

• Has no statement on Australia’s foreign policy yet been made to the Parliament; if so, is the failure to do so in any way connected with the rough treatment that the Government’s statement on United States’ bases in Australia received from the left-wing of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• That officer subsequently had discussions in Washington with senior United States officials and others concerning water and air pollution laws, the functions of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the operation of the National Environmental Policy Act. [More…]

• Maybe there are precedents in the Mother of Parliaments or in the Parliaments of the States or countries such as Canada or the United States. [More…]

• I would make one exception for Senator Dame Nancy Buttfield who is overseas and who went overseas with our authority; she can have a permanent pair until her business in the United States of America is completed and she returns here. [More…]

• Senator Hannan recently quoted from another journal, which was published in the United States of America and I advised him that if he thought that it was a responsible journal and that its statements had any concrete basis it was his duty to place the matter before the Government or the Department of Foreign Affairs. [More…]

• That is the clear experience throughout the whole history of the arbitration system in Australia and our experience is similar to what happens in other countries such as the United States, England and the other European nations. [More…]

• In many of the speeches made in the other place, as well as in the second reading speech made when this Bill was presented, references were made to the ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States and its stand on representation. [More…]

• He has not caught up with the fact that the United States Supreme Court ruled in February this year, in a case involving the State of Virginia, that it was not necessary in drawing boundaries for all electorates to bc equal. [More…]

• There was the Wesberry case in the United States Supreme Court. [More…]

• In the United States, on the Federal Congress and Senate levels, there are discrepancies between electorates to the extent where, in the Senate, one member represents more than 7 million voters while another represents only 80,000 voters. [More…]

• In the United States congress of 1968, one member for a Texas District represented 951,527 voters while another member for a district in Michigan represented only 177,431 voters. [More…]

• If honourable senators opposite want further opinions I will give one by the United States Supreme Court which was brought down in March 1963. [More…]

• Again in the United States Supreme Court, in delivering the opinion of the Court in the case of Reynolds v. Sims in June 1964, the Chief Justice said: [More…]

• I have referred to the Joint Committee on Constitutional Review, the philosophy of the Australian Labor Party, the expert and learned legal opinion of the High Court of Ireland and that of the Supreme Court of the United States of America. [More…]

• Also, they have been recommended to the Parliament indirectly by decisions of the High Court of Ireland and the, Supreme Court of the United States of America to which I made reference. [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…]

• Has the attention of the Minister representing the Treasurer been drawn to a report that the United States balance of payments deficit was $10,000m for the first quarter of the year and to the report that the price of gold has risen to over $100 an ounce? [More…]

• In view of the new and sustained pressure on the United States dollar and of the likelihood of a further devaluation of that currency, will the Government keep a close watch on the position to see that the income from Australia’s trade with the United States of America will not be unduly affected, even if this means a devaluation of the Australian dollar? [More…]

• Yes, the Government will keep a close eye on trade not only with the United States of America but also with everywhere else. [More…]

• The Minister for Health advises me that in 1 967, in the United States, for example, several firms were unable to produce a satisfactory vaccine until late in the winter. [More…]

• United States of America. [More…]

• I think honourable senators on the Government side tended to quote United States practices and decisions made there. [More…]

• In the United States today a percentage of the order of 15 per cent variation from the quota is accepted as being ‘as nearly as practicable’. [More…]

• I shall mention the position in the United States of America which has been referred to several times. [More…]

• It has not been left to the Federal legislature to redistribute in the United States. [More…]

• The preference system which is illegal in the United States of America and the United Kingdom does not give the best result. [More…]

• I am not going to traverse what has happened in Great Britain, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Ireland or anywhere else. [More…]

• It has been demonstrated as being imperfect in this country, and it has been demonstrated as being imperfect in all the other countries which have so called representative government - the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland and other places that have been mentioned. [More…]

• In the United States, I believe, it is as high as 6 to 1 in favour of rural areas, and in the United Kingdom a similar situation obtains. [More…]

• the United States market. [More…]

• I noted that the Ambassador said recently that Australia could lose her exports to the United States if she became too nationalistic or protectionist. [More…]

• This is one area in which I am at great variance with the Government which has so rapidly and so ruthlessly cut off to a large degree old and proven associations with the United States of America, the United Kingdom and other allies and adopted so definitely new policies in which those who follow other than our democratic system of government have been paramount. [More…]

• I deplore the recognition of North Vietnam and East Germany and the hurt and harm done to our foreign relations with the United States through quite objectionable and disgusting criticisms of the President of the United States and his personnel. [More…]

• The Australian Mining Industry Council has estimated that the February 1973 devaluation of the United States dollar cost the 20 largest mining company groups in Australia $143.5m in gross revenue in a full year. [More…]

• This figure relates to the revenue lost irrespective of the destination of the mineral exports, but it would largely relate to exports of iron ore and coal destined for Japan, the contracts for which are written in United States dollars. [More…]

• Although at present a 12 mile limit seems to be most widely favoured, Australia still asserts a 3 mile claim, as do the United Kingdom, the United States and a number of other major countries, and Australia is therefore not bound to recognise wider claims by other states. [More…]

• A similar problem occurred in the United States of America with regard to the legislation over the tide lands oil, where there was division within the Democratic Party and the Republican Party as to whether the national legislature should have control of these matters or whether they should remain in the hands of the States. [More…]

• Here I draw a comparison with the actions of one of the leading jurists of the United States of America, Chief Jus tice Earl Warren ot the United States Supreme Court who is eulogised by honourable senators opposite. [More…]

• As a matter of fact 1 wrote an article for one publication and in it drew a parallel with the reforms of the Roosevelt era in the United States of America in respect of ethnic groups and of how those people flocked to the Democrats and returned a long series of Roosevelt administrations. [More…]

• The future of Australia, at a time when a fuel crisis is developing in the United States of America and when the traditional source of supply of hydrocarbons is the subject of very delicate arrangements, with certain traditional practices being changed and the prices being under barter, is bright. [More…]

• The United States, Canada, Italy, or any country with any sort of economy of scale is looking to the future. [More…]

• In the economic field, in the past several years people have been puzzled by the recourse of the United States of America to a revaluation of its currency. [More…]

• It became very difficult for the United States to trade internationally as she previously had been doing. [More…]

• One of the major contributory reasons for this has been the requirement that has developed in the United States for the expenditure of huge sums of her own capital to import the necessary fuel and power to maintain, in particular, her transport industry and to allow use of all the private motor vehicles that are on the roads in that country. [More…]

• 1 refer to the contractual arrangements and agreements that the United States has with the oil nations of Arabia. [More…]

• Saudi Arabia and other countries in that area are supplying much of the fuel and power required by the United States today. [More…]

• I am speaking purely of the effect that this has had on the economy of the United States and on the capacity of the currency of that nation to stand in the world in the same manner in which it previously was able to stand. [More…]

• In this way they earn still further profits on the income that they have received from the United States. [More…]

• This situation is forced upon the United States by the necessity for it to purchase oil and fuel. [More…]

• United States has come under the enormous pressures to which it has been subjected in recent years. [More…]

• Australia does not want to reach the stage where, if the requirement for this type of fuel continues as the technologies of future generations develop, it will be reduced to the poverty state to which the United States has reduced itself by the lavish use of its own fuel resources to the extent that it has become so dependent on fuel imports from wherever those imports may be obtained in the world. [More…]

• When one speaks about the preservation of natural resources one could even recall the turn of the century and the schism that split the Republican Party in the United States when there was a changeover from President Theodore Roosevelt to Howard Taft. [More…]

• It was like the big establishments in the United States: As soon as they got their way they could not care less. [More…]

• One saw this with the private enterprise railroad giants in the United States - the Union Pacific and the other lines - which did not care 2 hoots what the people wanted so long as their own small stockholders benefited. [More…]

• I have a particular reason for saying that because at the present time in the United States the Government is extracting from the natural gas industry and the oil industry a pretty sizable rake-off which is going into the celebrated Land Water Act which set up a repository of feed-back money to the States, be it for such a mundane subject as better sewerage treatment works, for conservation or the acquisition of vast tracts of forest land. [More…]

• He has indicated quite clearly to me in letters that the policy of the United States Senate towards more and more demands for conservation is that instead of the taxpayer having to pay for them, it will dig more deeply into the pockets of the big exploiters of resources, d have no doubt that under this Bill we will be able to keep a very effective hand on the tiller so far as the income from our natural resources is concerned. [More…]

• I refer to honourable senators a very effective journal called the ‘Lamp’ which I think is published by the Shell Co. of Australia Ltd. That journal goes to great lengths to tell us that in the Gulf of Mexico levies are imposed on production by oil rigs and that the levies are used to buy more wet lands for- the bird life of United States of America. [More…]

• We see a remarkable thing when we again look at this parallel between Australian and United States history. [More…]

• After the Theodore Roosevelt era virtually very little was done about conservation in the United States for more than 20 years until Franklin Delano Roosevelt came to office. [More…]

• After his term there was a sag of interest until John Fitzgerald Kennedy became President of the United States. [More…]

• He was talking about the resources of the United States of America. [More…]

• This is exactly what the United States finds that it has to do now. [More…]

• We find reference in that report to overseas experience in Europe, Britain, the United States of America and Canada. [More…]

• Referring to the United States of America, the Senate Select Committee on Off-shore Petroleum Resources states at page 276 of its report: [More…]

• In 1969, the OECD Report on Pipelines in the United States and Europe reported that: . [More…]

• Whether yon look at the United Kingdom where the Gas Industry is nationalised, or whether you look at the United States of America or Canada where the Industry is under private enterprise, in all cases you will find a Federal or central authority of reference and decision which we in Australia seem to be lacking at this stage. [More…]

• History has undoubtedly shown, particularly in the United States and Canada, that great problems occurred as a result of the lack of uniformity of approach, the varying gauges of pipelines and the criss-crossing of pipelines throughout the United States and Canada, and it was necessary for those countries to establish both authorities and commissions to deal with the transmission of hydrocarbons. [More…]

• The United States would dearly love to have our brown coal reserves, to convert them in the manner I have described into other fuels and to transport those fuels through some of the pipelines that exist in that country. [More…]

• Does the Minister recall his answering a question asked by me a few weeks back to the effect that when the new round of international trade and tariff talks begins in about September 1973 the question of the 25ic per lb duty on greasy wool entering the United States could possibly be taken up with that country? [More…]

• I now ask the Minister: As time is running on can he give a categorical assurance that this matter will in fact be raised with the United States at these talks in an attempt to lift or reduce this extremely heavy impost? [More…]

• I cannot give the honourable senator a categorical assurance but it is my understanding that the matter will be raised with a view to Australia perhaps getting more favourable treatment from the United States in relation to this problem. [More…]

• There was one man whose position gave him unique power to achieve these changes and I here gratefully acknowledge - as everybody with the welfare of the world at heart must - the pivotal role played by President Nixon in ushering in a new and saner phase in our relations with China; in clearing the way for more intensive commercial, scientific, technical and cultural exchanges between the United States and’ the Soviet Union, and thereby achieving a successful first round of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and in ending foreign intervention in Vietnam. [More…]

• It should not be overlooked, however, that equally important parts of our foreign’ policy have required not specific actions but continuing activity directed towards strengthening relations with Japan, India and the Association of South East Asian Nations, with the United States and Canada, with Britain and the other members of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The maintenance of our alliance with the United States under ANZUS remains most important for our security, since by its very nature it has created and guarantees in the Pacific a zone of peace in which the peoples of the region have for the last 20 years been free to pursue their political, economic and social goals without fear of hostile intervention or attack. [More…]

• It is in the context of our attitudes to nuclear testing that the presence of 2 of the United States installations in Australia should be seen. [More…]

• The United States Air Force detachment at Amberley and the joint Geological and Geophysical Research Station at Alice Springs collectively possess technical facilities to monitor the testing of nuclear devices in the atmosphere, on the surface and underground. [More…]

• The Government still has certain reservations about the United States Naval Communication Station at North West Cape and it is our intention to seek a renegotiation of the original terms of the agreement establishing this station in Australia. [More…]

• I want to emphasise, however, that in our relations with the United States as with all other nations we should not allow any single aspect of our relations to dominate our whole approach. [More…]

• This is particularly true of the United States, which has in the space of 20 years become dependent on foreign sources for more than 20 important industrial minerals in which it was previously self-sufficient. [More…]

• Mineral and energy imports currently cost the United States some US$10 billion a year, and the trend towards growing dependence on imported supplies of oil was one of the key aspects of President Nixon’s recent statement on United States energy policies. [More…]

• As the honourable senator is well aware, that means that they are close m concept to the United States legislation. [More…]

• Is it a fact, as has been alleged, that the Prime Minister is anxiously awaiting an invitation from the President of the United States of America to visit that country? [More…]

• If it is a fact, will the Prime Minister, as a step to improving relationships with the United States of America, publicly make amends for the abusive attack on the President by 3 of his Ministers earlier this year? [More…]

• There are things that can point to the way in which the United Kingdom and the United States of America have had short term experience of these matters. [More…]

• Why did the United States and the United Kingdom introduce short term policies with regard to prices and incomes? ‘ [More…]

• The United States freeze in 1971 for 90 days did prove that inflation could come down in the short term, but immediately after lifting that freeze the inflation went up and, if looked at in the longer term, the freeze had no ‘effect. [More…]

• It is difficult to understand why it does not contemplate the price and wages freeze tried by what might be called conservative administrations in both the United States and Great Britain. [More…]

• The President of the United States did halt rising prices for a limited time last year only to find that soon after this trend lapsed and the inflationary trend went on as usual. [More…]

• It can do that, but it does not in any way do what the United Kingdom and the United States of America did, that is, to freeze both wages and prices. [More…]

• Nowhere in the world have these kinds of mechanisms succeeded; nor have the freezes that have been imposed in the United Kingdom and the United States of America. [More…]

• At his Press conference this week the Prime Minister restated his opposition to the presence of United States Air Force units in Thailand. [More…]

• I ask: Will the proposed Australian coastguard which is to be set up for patrol and surveillance duties be modelled on the United States Coastguard? [More…]

• In Vietnam he would have to negotiate, to some extent at least with the President of the United States of America. [More…]

• If the measure of his success, by humbling himself to get an official invitation to meet the President of the United States, is any criterion of his ability to succeed in international negotiations, I suggest that we should not send him to Vietnam or anywhere else. [More…]

• I have always been very interested in this problem and I remember, when accumulating information of an industrial character on a project for which I was sent some 20 years ago to most countries of the world, looking at decentralisation particularly in the United States of America where I spent 3 months. [More…]

• In the history of the world the United States probably enjoyed the most rapid development prior to the discovery and establishment of our own country. [More…]

• I found in the United States things vitally different from the circumstances under which we were trying to attain a type of decentralisation which, to some extent, the United States already had attained. [More…]

• I know that the United States has its monsters such as New York, Los Angeles and other cities, but spread throughout the country are the types of centres that we would like to see in Australia. [More…]

• The United States, however, was discovered and developed at a slightly earlier period in time than was Australia - not all that much earlier but under completely different circumstances. [More…]

• Earlier immigration to this country took place, in an era of larger families which coincided with the tail end of the United States development. [More…]

• One will not find this ready acceptance of rapid transport in other parts of the world with the exception of the United States. [More…]

• I remember doing some research into the banking structure of the United States and noticing how specifically the banking structure that had developed there had accidentally assisted enormously the process of decentralisation. [More…]

• The banks had passed the stage at which they were issuing their own currency, a procedure which created so much confusion in the early days of the United States. [More…]

• Loans are not so easy for people to obtain in those circumstances, and certainly were not in this country in its developing stage to the same extent as they were in the United States. [More…]

• The net result of this United States system, with its financial and banking structure geared the way it was, was an enormous help to the decentralisation of industry in that country. [More…]

• Depite the fact that there are giant corporations in the United States, I recall that 20 years ago as a visitor to that country - visitors were usually shown over the giant enterprises - I was astounded to learn that about 80 per cent of the total production of the United States was produced by plants which employed fewer than 20 people. [More…]

• When one saw, say, the General Motors plant and others one gained the impression that it was through such plants that the United States produced all of its goods. [More…]

• The population, as we all appreciate, will not develop naturally because of the circumstances of family life which have changed so much from what they were in the first stage of our development and since the major period of the massive development of the United States when that country had an immigration rate similar to the one we might be running now. [More…]

• The people who migrated to the United States from Europe usually had families, the minimum number of which ranged from say 4 to 6 and the maximum from perhaps 10 to 12. [More…]

• They have long been features of certain communities in the United States of America and on the continent of Europe. [More…]

• Finally, who is the true Mr Whitlam - the person who in his recent foreign affairs statement strongly commended the United States President for his visionary statesmanship or the person who now reviles him? [More…]

• Does the Minister recall his Leader’s statement a few days ago in another place that relations between Australia and the United States of America had been strengthened by the Whitlam Government? [More…]

• Speaking from my own knowledge of the matter, all I can say is that in January of this year I visited the United States of America and, on behalf of the Government, I attended the funeral of the late President Johnson and also had discussions with a number of United States Government officers. [More…]

• I found that the United States Government was completely cordial and cooperative. [More…]

• 1 found that the relationship between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of Australia was all that one could hope for. [More…]

• If the honourable senator reflects upon the matter he might think that it is better for him not to endeavour to create any kind of discord between this country and the United States of America. [More…]

• I realise that our Federal Constitution in Australia varies considerably in many respects from that of the United States of America, but there are sufficient similarities to make it desirable, in my view, to examine mutatis mutandis the setting up in this country of a Federal communications commission which would be completely responsible for the control of electro magnetic radiation. [More…]

• But if one looks at the history of the United States and of Britain one sees that many of these battles have to be fought a second time. [More…]

• He would tell you that the position in Whyalla is almost parallel with that of about 20 years ago in the deep south of the United States where textile manufacturers got labour on the cheap. [More…]

• Australia, Canada, Japan, South Africa, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Norway, Argentina, France, Iceland, Mexico, United Kingdom, Panama, United States of America and Denmark. [More…]

• The Minister for Transport and Minister for Civil Aviation, Mr Charles Jones, left Australia on Friday, 1 June, to attend the Transport-Expo at Paris and the European Conference of Ministers of Transport at The Hague, as well as to have discussions with officials in the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Japan. [More…]

• By way of preface I refer to the continued concern expressed by the Young Christian Workers movement and several United States and Australian churchmen at ruthless political oppression in Saigon. [More…]

• There have been a number of cases of heroin smuggling in the United States of America and Asia in which large amounts of heroin have been recovered, and the Australian Customs authorities have participated heavily in the investigations which have led to the uncovering of these activities. [More…]

• It reminded me of the observation made by the late Dorothy Parker, a wit of the United States of America. [More…]

• As we know from the arguments which we have had about dual citizenship in Greece, Yugoslavia and the United States, we are not able, by any law which this Parliament passes, to remove the legal effectiveness of laws enacted by a person’s country of origin when that person returns to the jurisdiction of his country of origin. [More…]

• We have insulted all our friends from the United States to Thailand and from Great Britain to Malaysia. [More…]

• Its objectives have been achieved if one considers the situation, for example, in the United Kingdom and in the United States of America where for many years the industry has been chaotic because no such agreement has existed. [More…]

• All I can say is that I challenge Senator Wright and all the other Opposition, speakers- to cite me an industrial stoppage in New South ‘ Wales or any other part of the Commonwealth whose duration exceeded the duration of the recent strike by the Pacific coast longshoremen in the United States. [More…]

• I might be a little hostile, along with my colleague Senator Wheeldon, about President Nixon; but if Senator Wright were the President of the United States he would have put United States Marines on to the waterfront on the Pacific coast and would have had all the strikers shot. [More…]

• Senator Mulvihill said that, if Senator Greenwood had his way, he - like President Nixon - would call out the United States marines and have the workers shot. [More…]

• We, as a national government in a federation - this is a point which has been adverted to particularly in respect to the United States in connection with the ILO - are unable to determine whether particular requirements of conventions are being observed in the States. [More…]

• I refer to the market in the United States of Amenca. [More…]

• What was the date of Dr Cairns’ public criticism of the United States of America’s bombing of Hanoi in late December. [More…]

• Did Australian officials attempt to obtain a share for Australian exporters in the United States’ market. [More…]

• The Proclamation, which followed an apparently lengthy examination by United States officials of proposals by both importers and domestic United States dairy industry interests, was presumably based on an official recommendation to the President. [More…]

• It was made clear by the United States Secretary of Agriculture, Earl L. Butz, in a Press statement dated 30 December, that a global increase in the quota, to be filled on a first-come-first-served basis, was decided on because there was an urgent need for immediate additional supplies of skimmed milk powder for the United States market. [More…]

• Although I am not quite sure of the situation I understand that since that time and during the last few days the United States of America has imposed what is in effect a rule nisi on the import into that country of kangaroo skins and products. [More…]

• However, if Australia fails to do that the United States will reinvoke its ban on imports of kangaroo products. [More…]

• Indeed, one of the participants was a Black Power girl from the United States of America. [More…]

• For about 35 years - I cannot give the precise number of years at the moment - the wool grower of the United States of America has been protected by an enormous impost on imported greasy wool amounting to 25c per lb. [More…]

• It is larger than most consulting bodies in the United Kingdom and larger than most private engineering consultant bodies in the United States of America. [More…]

• The Australian Senate was modelled largely on that of the United States of America, and territories in the United States have never been represented in the United States Senate. [More…]

• The question of Territory representation in the Senate, and indeed in Parliament generally, was the subject of considerable debate at the constitutional convention and also in the United States of America, on the Senate of which country our Senate was so closely modelled. [More…]

• I think if we are to show clearly why we oppose this legislation we should have a look at the interpretation or the com mentary on the Convention debates by these very distinguished Australian constitutional lawyers and have a brief look, if time permits, at the report of the United States House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, particularly the 3 powerful minority reports which convinced Congress that territorial representation in the Senate should not be granted in the United States. [More…]

• We come now to the situation in the United States where in 1967 the House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary was asked to report on the advisability of having representation both in the lower House and in the Senate for the District of Columbia. [More…]

• He was dealing with representation of the District of Columbia in the Senate of the United States. [More…]

• He then goes on in his minority report, after quoting the United States Constitution which is the same as our own, that is, equality of representation as between the States, to say: [More…]

• The Senate of the United States– [More…]

• The United States Congress showed that these powerful arguments embodied in the minority reports were such that they defeated the proposal to provide Senate representation for the District of Columbia. [More…]

• 1 refer now to something which is being done today in the automotive industry in the United States of America and Australia. [More…]

• If the United States plan ls followed territorial delegates would simply be entitled te eater the House of Representative* amd apeak there, but would not be permitted to vote. [More…]

• Mr DEAKIN: Under territorial representation if it follows the plan of the United States, as it probably would, territorial representatives would be entitled to peak in the House of Representatives, but not to vote. [More…]

• This was an argument advanced in the United States of America when it was proposed in 1967 that the District of Columbia - the Seat of Government of the United States with a population of over 800,000 - be given representation in the United States Senate. [More…]

• The proposal was defeated, and in dissenting reports on the proposal before the United States House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary it was stated: [More…]

• The Senate of the United States is an assembly of States and it is the deep concern of many of my colleagues that representation in the Senate by political entities other than States presents so fundamental a change of concept as to destroy the present constitutional character of that body. [More…]

• They are not represented, as a matter of right, in the Congress of the United States (although, as a practical matter, no group of Americans has a louder voice in Congress). [More…]

• Is he aware that there is now a magnificent opportunity for the Kapunda copper mines to be re-opened, provided the Government approves of a joint venture between local interests and a large United States mining group, Utah Development? [More…]

• Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to Mr Whitlam’s statement in New Delhi on Wednesday that Australia would be deserting its traditional friends and allies, Great Britain and the United States of America, in voting in the United Nations and would be consulting 5 other powers, including Tanzania? [More…]

• Can the Minister explain why we propose to desert Britain and the United States of America for the advice and opinion of such a fascist state? [More…]

• For example, I understand that for a long time - I do not know whether it is continuing - the United States of America was supplying military aid to the Government of Yugoslavia, which has been mentioned on occasions in this chamber. [More…]

• They have this in America and 1 think it creates problems even for lawyers, and certainly for the layman who is in a great difficulty in appreciating what type of court it is in the United States where particular matters will be heard. [More…]

• Five pages of a Croatian National Resistance (HNO) publication ‘Croatian Struggle’, published in Washington, United States of America in March, 1972. [More…]

• In the meantime, following discussions that I have had with representatives of the American industry, I have recently been informed that a number of Australianproduced films are under consideration for distribution throughout the United States, after displaying some success on the Australian market. [More…]

• It is true that the Australian delegation to the International Whaling Commission voted in favour of the United States resolution for a moratorium on all whaling. [More…]

• The United States Government has established about 35 information centres throughout the United States. [More…]

• by leave - 1 would like to report briefly on the recent overseas visit to Mexico of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) - the first by an Australian Prime Minister - to the United States and to represent Australia at the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Ottawa. [More…]

• Before Mr Whitlam went away there was no doubt that most Australians would have said that Australia’s most reliable friends - the countries in which we had the greatest trust - we’re Great Britain and the United States of America. [More…]

• Then the Prime Minister went to the United States. [More…]

• What is he able to say to us about the visit which he made to the United States? [More…]

• Apparently when he went to the United States he had substantive and straightforward discussions with President. [More…]

• For all the criticism which the Government now makes - it makes a lot of criticisms of the ineptitudes and the inadequaciese of the present Prime Minister’s predecessors - when Mr Holt went to Washington.when Mr Gorton went to Washington and when Mr McMahon went to Washington they were able to state positively on their return the assurances which they had received from the American President of the continued reliance which we could place on the United States, of the continued reliance upon us which the United States was happy to have and of the friendship which was constantly maintained. [More…]

• We know that the Prime Minister publicly condemned the President of the United States in comments which have been made in the time that the Prime Minister has been in office. [More…]

• We know that he has allowed, without remonstrances, his Ministers to use from time to time the most blackguardly terms about the President of the United States. [More…]

• Australia now is not carrying on at the United Nations waiting to see which way the United States of America or the United Kingdom is voting before it casts its vote. [More…]

• Did the Minister state, while in New Delhi, as reported in the press that ‘Never again are we going to be put in the position of finding ourselves siding with Britain, France, Portugal, South Africa and the U.S. while all of our neighbours are on the other side,’; if so, what were the occasions and what were the isues on which Australia sided with Britain, France, Portugal, South Africa and the United States of America and Australia’s neighbours were on the other side in voting in the United Nations. [More…]

• During his recent visit to India the Prime Minister made a statement to the general effect that, in the past, Australia had in the United Nations paid excessive regard to the voting intentions of the United Kingdom and the United States and had found itself frequently in a different voting position from that of its neighbours. [More…]

• The Prime Minister has made it clear that, in the future, while not disregarding the voting intentions of the United Kingdom and the United States, Australia would ascertain the views of countries in the Indian and Pacific Oceans such as Canada, Japan, Indonesia, India and some of the African countries. [More…]

• In the United Nations in the last twenty years or so, there have been many occasions when Australia sided with the United Kingdom, France, Portugal, South Africa and the United States while Australia’s neighbours were on another side. [More…]

• Is it a fact that Port Kembla is the most polluted town in Australia and that the pollution is fast reaching the dangerous levels existing in the United States? [More…]

• They did not cease that involvement until the United States withdrawal was under way. [More…]

• The ability of the 2 super powers, the Soviet Union and the United States, to destroy each other by nuclear exchange has placed substantial restraint on direct military confrontation. [More…]

• China for its part has effected some rapprochment with both the United States and Japan, and has strong interests in the avoidance of major international conflict. [More…]

• We shall certainly maintain Australia’s security association with the United States and New Zealand under the ANZUS Treaty. [More…]

• Policemen run as big a risk of being murdered in New South Wales as in the United States’, the President of the New South Wales Police Association, Mr M. T. Taylor, said yesterday. [More…]

• I was able to show this lady that the Australian people are most mindful of problems in the United States. [More…]

• I turn to the United States of America. [More…]

• We all heard the interventions not only by the Prime Minister but also by other Ministers in the affairs of the United States. [More…]

• Then the Prime Minister determined that he would go to the United States. [More…]

• He went to the United States. [More…]

• For years the United States Government would not give uranium to Taiwan. [More…]

• For years the United States Government would not train submarine crews for Taiwan. [More…]

• Calley, a mass murderer who has destroyed women, children and babies is still living in comfort in the United States and being treated as a hero, I suppose, makes a mockery of all the pretentions of the rest of the world to introduce humanity into war. [More…]

• It is true, as I understand it, that the United States has not bound its actions by the provisions of the Geneva Conventions. [More…]

• At question time yesterday the Minister informed me that consideration of a proposal for a joint venture between local interests and the United States group, Utah Development, for the reopening of the Kapunda copper mines had been deferred by the Committee on Foreign Takeovers pending review of policy on ownership and control of Australian mineral resources. [More…]

• Honourable senators can argue on and on, but the fact is that that proposition has been upheld in the courts of many countries, including the United States of America. [More…]

• He said that this Government sees hope in the new relationships between the United States of America and the Soviet Union. [More…]

• In those years there were new relationships between the United States of America, Germany and the Soviet Union. [More…]

• We realise that against the background of the Vietnam conflict there is also a new relationship, which arises from Dr Kissinger’s activities, between the United States and China. [More…]

• As a matter of fact the United States of America - the country on which they have relied for so long - is a country of which I am a friend. [More…]

• I have had the pleasure of visiting the United States on several occasions. [More…]

• I know that the majority of Australian people welcome the sort of strong and independent role which the Australian Labor Party is now assuming with respect to the United States of America. [More…]

• In concluding my remarks on this subject, may I point out what Mr Marshall Green, the United States Ambassador in Australia, said. [More…]

• Mr Whitlam’s visit to the United States had been a success, Mr Marshall Green, the United States Ambassador to Australia said yesterday. [More…]

• Australia has come of age since the days it had moved in lock-step with the United States during the Presidency of Lyndon Johnson, he said. [More…]

• The United States, and Australia, shared 3 particular interests. [More…]

• There is a high degree of co-operation between the customs departments and the various narcotics bureaux in South-East Asia, the United States of America, the United Kingdom and elsewhere. [More…]

• Australia has an adverse trading ratio of 2 to 1 with the United States of America and an adverse balance ratio of 2 to .1 with the United Kingdom. [More…]

• Recently he went on a tour to Mexico, the United States of America and then to Ottawa. [More…]

• We have seen increasingly the breaking of the traditional alliances which Australia has held with the countries whom all Australians regard as our allies - with the United States of America, with Great Britain and, in our own area, with Singapore which is a flourishing, progressive and stable nation. [More…]

• We find the USA, which has long been our most effective ally, withdrawing from South East Asia on the basis that it will always be prepared to assist those countries which in their own interests will act to look after their defences; and we, from our point of view, are not taking that action which is likely to maintain the continued interest of the United States in this area. [More…]

• Will he confirm his assurance given to me some time ago that the question of the United States duty of 25.5c per lb on greasy wool will be debated strenuously by his colleague, Dr Cairns, at the Tokyo conference? [More…]

• -The initial GATT negotiations will commence in Tokyo tomorrow and continue in the United States of America next month. [More…]

• I am under the impression, as I think I indicated last session in response to a similar question asked of me by Senator Hannan, that the subject of wool will be discussed in the United States. [More…]

• The United States of America, for example, which more than any other country on earth has prospered from large scale migration over a long period of years, which has been consistently held up as an example of a country which has developed from migration and which has benefited from large numbers of citizens who have come into its citizen strength from a wide variety of countries, makes it perfectly clear what it expects its citizens to do when they embrace United States citizenship. [More…]

• The United States sets out that: [More…]

• To support the constitution of the United States. [More…]

• Senator Davidson made reference to the United States but I do not think that is germane in this situation because after all the United States is a republic. [More…]

• I was interested to hear what Senator Davidson said about the practice in the United States of America where, quite clearly, there is a positive acceptance of American citizenship and a complete renunciation of all other allegiances. [More…]

• This is the pattern which America has evolved over the years because there were many difficulties in a much more stable age than we have today when persons migrated to the United States and, in a variety of ways, found themselves subject to restraints and obligations which their homeland had imposed upon them. [More…]

• There has been some uncertainty at the stations because of the reduction by the United States Government in the vote to operate the stations. [More…]

• As the honourable senator probably knows, the Department of Supply is the agency for the United States Government. [More…]

• The relativity with the United States of America is now $A1 to SUS1.50. [More…]

• According to the OECD the inflation rate in the United States in 1970 was 5.9 per cent. [More…]

• We have suffered a degree of monopolisation far beyond that which exists in the United States of America and the United Kingdom. [More…]

• The cost of the same basket in New York of $35.71 represented 29 per cent of the then average weekly earning in the United States of $ 123.57. [More…]

• Of course, everyone knows of the inflationary trend in the United States of America. [More…]

• We can pay dollar for dollar- and more- and this is more than the international economists think about other currencies such as the United States dollar and sterling for that matter. [More…]

• The decisive question is that it be brought under control in my country- the United States’, Professor Galbraith said at an airport Press conference. [More…]

• As long as inflation is out of control in the United States, it is likely to be out of control in those countries that do a lot of trade with the United States of America- like Australia ‘. [More…]

• It was a shopping expedition in Hong Kong; not in Sweden or the United States of America. [More…]

• The trouble is that members of the Opposition read too much of the industrial history of the United States in the 1930s. [More…]

• When we look at what Senator Hannan has raised we should also think about the intervention of a very great nation in many countries throughout the world and I refer to the United States of America. [More…]

• Outbreaks of botulism in the United States have been shown to be caused mostly by home preserved foods. [More…]

• In recent discussions Dr Linus Pauling expressed to me gratification at the levels of safety achieved by comparison with mass surveys which he had been instrumental in having discontinued in the United States of America. [More…]

• He was also impressed with the much higher rates of detection and the decline in incidence of tuberculosis under a compulsory screening procedure as compared with the United States scheme which was voluntary. [More…]

• That has been shown abroad and it has received wide acclaim, particularly in France and the United States of America. [More…]

• Recently after it was shown in New York at the Museum of Modern Art, there was considerable publicity for Papua New Guinea throughout the United States of America. [More…]

• In the United States it is US8c for each ounce and in France it is 10c for 20 grams and 18c for 50 grams. [More…]

• What about the United States of America? [More…]

• This Government was not in office for a fortnight before Ministers were racing off and attacking the United States. [More…]

• One can understand the attitude of Mrs Ghandi who, at the United Nations through her representatives, said frankly that she would sign the Nuclear NonProliferation Treaty if the nations which had nuclear arms- great nations like Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union- would guarantee to defend, if necessary with nuclear weapons, any country such as India or Australia which might be attacked by a country having nuclear arms. [More…]

• They have examined the situation in Europe today and have come to the conclusion that because the Soviet Union has the bomb, Great Britain has the bomb and the United States has the bomb and because they have had no guarantees from any of those countries that they will be protected or defended against nuclear attack, they have to defend themselves from nuclear attack. [More…]

• They have faced up to the situation that an attitude of isolationism is growing in the United States. [More…]

• The French people consider that the United States cannot be relied upon to continue to provide the nuclear umbrella that it provides at present in Europe. [More…]

• France and Britain believe that if the Soviet Union threatened them they could not be certain that the United States would place its own cities at risk in order to save its allies. [More…]

• The French tests are being carried out with infinitely stricter precautions than those adopted for the tests of the United States of [More…]

• In this present equation the United Kingdom and the United States are superimposed on the Soviet Union and China. [More…]

• This is the crunch of my assertion: Whether the tests were held in Australia, underground in the Urals in the Soviet Union, or in the Nevada desert in the United States, they were held on home ground. [More…]

• Consider the United States and the people like Senator Knowland or even Senator Goldwater. [More…]

• What are the current radiation levels in (a) the United Kingdom, (b) the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, (c) United States of America, (d) Canada, (e) New Zealand, and (!) [More…]

• By what percentages has the present radiation level been contributed to by past nuclear testing by (a) the United Kingdom, (b) the United States of America, (c) the Union Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, (d) The People ‘s Republic of China, and (e) France? [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…]

• It was when he reached Washington that he began to show rather more promise: He needed to, of course, because he was starting with the handicap of strained relations caused by his senior ministers ‘ criticisms of American activities in Indo-China at the beginning of the year and his own somewhat truculent attitude towards the United States. [More…]

• His criticism of the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon Administrations was so sweeping that it must surely have caused a good deal of antiAustralian feeling throughout the United States. [More…]

• Thus spoke the man who had said insulting things about the President of the United States, the only ally fit and able, or which would have been fit and able, to come and help us in time of extremity. [More…]

• It will be directly for the basic purpose of providing information to the Australian people, as is done by the governments of the United States of America, Canada and the United Kingdom. [More…]

• The New York office of the Australian Information Service has estimated the 314 minutes of air-time given to Australian Information Service television material in the United States alone, based on overall average advertising charges of US$1,550 a minute, amounted to a conservative US$487,475. [More…]

• The largest individual national groups were 101 from Japan and 68 from the United States. [More…]

• Fifty-nine pages of full colour plates and highly favourable text on the Top End of Australia subsequently appeared in the February 1973 edition of the Magazine published in Washington in the United States of America, which boasts a world wide monthly circulation of more than 7 million and a readership of some 25 million people. [More…]

• One of the major breakthroughs during the year was the introduction of the ‘Visit Australia Program’ under which, with the co-operation of Qantas Airways Ltd and the Australian domestic airlines, the Australian Information Service was able to extend invitations to 5 prominent and highly respected representatives from varying fields of the United States media to make a 2-week visit to Australia. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs whether his attention has been drawn to the letter written by Dr Sakharov to the United States Congress appealing to Congress to block trade concessions to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics unless it allows free emigration of its citizens. [More…]

• The decisive question is that it be brought under control in my country- the United States’, Professor Galbraith said at an airport Press conference. [More…]

• As long as inflation is out of control in the United States, it is likely to be out of control in those countries that do a lot of trade with the United States of America- like Australia. [More…]

• We believe that the Government of Australia, in the same way as the governments of Great Britain, the United States of America and New Zealand, ought to have power to control prices. [More…]

• As I have said, when governments in Great Britain, New Zealand and the United States of America have these powers, we see no reason why they should not be given to the Commonwealth Government. [More…]

• It adverts to a statement by the Minister for Defence some days ago which indicated that Australia had entered into and, I think, completed an agreement with the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration for an additional launch program at Woomera? [More…]

• Every country in the world which has tried some stopgap measure to control inflation, including the United States of America and Great Britain, has imposed not just a prices freeze but a prices and incomes freeze. [More…]

• Those people who are fortunate enough to be able to produce meat for export, particularly for the United States market, are the ones who will have to bear the brunt of the whole of this tax and who will have the price of their product reduced accordingly. [More…]

• But the actions of this Government in the last 9 months through revaluations of the dollar have cut prices on the United States market, our main market, by 25 per cent. [More…]

• Nothing that has happened in the United States of America or in the United Kingdom in the last few years would cause one to change that judgment. [More…]

• In terms of demand pressures, this period shares a strong similarity with current conditions in the United States. [More…]

• -Just to clarify that, is it New England in Australia or is it New England, United States of America? [More…]

• Although this contrast favours a policy of compulsory restraint, it should be borne in mind that the voluntary policies attempted in Canada in 1970 and in the United States during the period of the Kennedy Administration were extremely low key and a more vigorously applied voluntary program might prove more successful. [More…]

• The United States Senate is debating the matter. [More…]

• Two American Cabinet Ministers- that is the nearest approach I can get to their status- have indicated to Russia that arrangements, presumably made with President Nixon when Brezhnev was in the United States recently, might well not be carried out unless there was some liberalisation of the condition of dissidents inside the Soviet Union. [More…]

• It should be brought to the attention of the Senate that in the United States of America the President, on 12 March this year, was forced to take certain actions in relation to the problem of meat prices in his country. [More…]

• It was clear as the evidence unfolded before the Committee that it was the domestic meat situation in the United States which was the major contributing factor towards the demand for meat and the increase in the price in the United States and, consequently, the increase in the domestic price in this country. [More…]

• As to the problem of meat prices in the United States one would have thought that we might have expressed some concern at the dilemma which the American Government was in. [More…]

• It is true that in the last week or so there has been some drop in the general price of meat in this country because already the cattlemen who withheld their supplies from the United States market are now beginning to sell their products to the saleyards. [More…]

• prices are a world-wide problem and although no shortages have developed in Canada, there were shortages in the United States as a result of that Government’s price freeze. [More…]

• There is some evidence in relation to the domestic situation in the United States and of perhaps a recognition by the industry that it has to concern itself with the domestic market, which is the principal part of the productive process of meat in Australia. [More…]

• We say in our recommendations that if American livestock producers continue to withold stock from the United States domestic market immediate action should be taken to impose quotas on Australian beef exports to the United States. [More…]

• I can assure honourable senators that there is any number of Press cuttings here which show that that is precisely what the President of the United States did. [More…]

• In drawing a parallel between the United States of America, Canada and our own situation the honourable senator talked more of short term price freezes than the recommendations which have been provided by the Government members of the Joint Parliamentary Committee. [More…]

• But we cannot be sure that the exporter will not pass some of that tax on to his customer in the United States, Japan and the United Kingdom, or in the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The Committee’s third recommendation that if producers in the United States of America continue to withhold stock from the domestic market in the United States of America immediate action should be taken to impose quotas on beef exports to that country is another recommendation which drew dissent from the nonGovernment members of the Committee. [More…]

• That would also create a situation which the United States could point to should the market position change and should import quotas be reintroduced by that country. [More…]

• Mr Mollison said on his return that the feeling in New York is that Australia has obtained a monumental work of art and there is much regret that it is being allowed to leave the United States. [More…]

• It has been proved in other countries, particularly in the United States of America, that if reasons are given there is a cutback in the great number of appeals. [More…]

• The United States legislation was called the Economic Stabilisation Act of 1 970. [More…]

• The Labor Government, as self inflicted wounds, will produce in Australia the evils that we have seen in Great Britain and the United States. [More…]

• Mr Whitlam told President Nixon in the United States that. [More…]

• Their advice is based on the sharing of intelligence with people concerned with the defence forces of the United States of America and the United Kingdom. [More…]

• The view which the advisers are giving the Government is based on intelligence reports from the United States and the United Kingdom. [More…]

• For instance, already this year a platoon of the 6th RAR has visited the United Kingdom, 150 soldiers have visited the New Zealand defence forces and members of the 6th Task Force have visited Hawaii for exercises with the United States 25th Infantry Division. [More…]

• Mr Barnard has negotiated agreements which come within the concept of joint exercises at home and abroad with our allies in South East Asia as well as with the United States of America. [More…]

• As most people know, there are day to day talks between the navies of various countriesfor example, the navy of the United States of America and the navy of Australia. [More…]

• We have a situation in which the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics are on speaking terms. [More…]

• True it is that it appears that the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics have reached a degree of co-operation and understanding that did not exist previously. [More…]

• It is true also that there has been some measure of understanding reached between the United States of America and China. [More…]

• This has developed in place of the former bi-polar system involving the United States of America and the Soviet Union. [More…]

• The balance between the United States, China, the Soviet Union and Japan- the quadrilateral in our region- is far from clear. [More…]

• The Nixon Doctrine leaves no doubt that the United States will not again engage in Vietnam-type intervention. [More…]

• I might add that it shares intelligence information with the United States and Great Britain. [More…]

• So I fail to see on what basis it is said in the matter of urgency that our credibility as an ally has been affected, because both Great Britain and the United States are still sharing intelligence information with Australia. [More…]

• -Well, I do not know; but we have to rely on what has been mentioned not only here but also in other places, and it has been said that we share this information with Great Britain and the United States. [More…]

• The British have withdrawn to all intents and purposes, so there has been an understandable contraction of United States influence and involvement in this part of the world. [More…]

• In the United States the number is 5. [More…]

• I refer not only to the cold war between the United States, its allies and appendages, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics but to a time when the divisions between the USSR and the People’s Republic of China had not become as apparent as they are now. [More…]

• For the first time there have been Navy to Navy talks between the United States and the Royal Australian Navy- something which never took place during 23 years of conservative government. [More…]

• There are people who feel, as I think members of the Opposition feel, that it is important that there by trust between the United States and Australia. [More…]

• I do not believe there can be any doubt that, just as our participation in that war was used by aggressive elements in the United States to justify their position, so our withdrawal from that war had an influence on the United States Government in ending its participation in the war in Indo-China. [More…]

• That is why there have been negotiations between the Administration of the United States and the Government of the Soviet Union. [More…]

• The Japanese economy and the use of her electronics industry, her shipbuilding industry and her capacity to produce all the articles required in war are the key to the success of any war in the Indian Ocean region, in the same way as the military strength of the United States in this area may be the key to countries respecting Australia’s peace. [More…]

• He called upon the United States Congress to support the Jackson amendment which sought to place safeguards, in terms of liberty, in any negotiation between the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]

• Whatever we think about the Soviet Union and whatever we think about the United States, there is no doubt that the relationships between those 2 great powers will have a great deal to do with the sort of lives that we and our children will live in this country. [More…]

• Whatever we may think of President Nixon, there is no doubt that over recent months negotiations designed to produce a real detente between the great rivals in the world- the Soviet Union and the United Stateshave been in train. [More…]

• Understandably, there is in the United States, as there is in the rest of the world, a justifiable concern with what I believe are clear-cut manifestations of repression of opinion by dissident intellectuals in the Soviet Union. [More…]

• We have to learn to live with it, just as the Soviet Union has to face the fact that it has to learn to live with the capitalist United States. [More…]

• I would hope, as I said when I got to my feet, that everybody who speaks in this debate will speak responsibly, will speak without hate and will speak with a knowledge that we can no longer afford the luxury of just sounding off about what we do not like in the Soviet Union or, if it comes to that, what we do not like in the United States. [More…]

• We know that at present there is a growing detente and a so-called closer relationship between the governments of the Western world, in particular the United States, and the Government of the Soviet Union. [More…]

• Yet, whilst the United States of America is stating these things as objectives of detente- of this closer relationship- as it seems the position in terms of growing contacts with Russia at the same time we are finding a clamping down in the Soviet Union of any movement for freer contact, freer information and the interchange of it amongst the Soviet intellectuals. [More…]

• When will Qantas Airways Limited be reducing air fares in accordance with the effective revaluations of the Australian dollar against the United States dollar that took place last December, and earlier this year; if not, will the Minister please advise why. [More…]

• Government, with United States diplomatic help, sought to avert hostilities? [More…]

• Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to the letter written by Andrei Sakharov to the Congress of the United States of America appealing to it to black trade concessions granted to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, unless that country allows the free emigration of its citizens. [More…]

• that in the hours immediately before the outbreak of war in the Middle East, the Israeli Government with United States diplomatic help sought to avert hostilities, [More…]

• Then there were amendments to the meat inspection regulations in the United States of America relating to the disposition of tuberculosis affected cattle and carcasses. [More…]

• These regulations were published in the United States of America on 4 February 1972. [More…]

• The United States requires that all meat from TB affected carcasses or animals which react to a TB test is to be used only in cooked products or is to be removed from abattoirs under conditions of security. [More…]

• We received evidence recently that there will be a growing demand for beef in Europe, Japan, the Asian countries and the United States of America and that the future of the beef industry is very bright. [More…]

• This report goes on to say that the European, United States and Japanese markets are very buoyant. [More…]

• In the same approximate period the United States domestic price had dropped by nearly 30 per cent. [More…]

• In fact there has been a steady decline on the United States market in the last month or 6 weeks. [More…]

• that, we have had every indication of a falling market in the United States. [More…]

• I come now to some comments that were made about the recent drop in meat prices in the United States. [More…]

• It is true that prices in the United States have fallen, but this has been due to a specific factor, namely, the fact that after the 12 September freeze had finished in the United States the primary producers of that country resumed their normal flow of meat on to the American market. [More…]

• That the Senate, noting reports that in the hours immediately before the outbreak of war in the Middle East, the Israeli Government, with United States diplomatic help sought to avert hostilities; [More…]

• We must be concerned because the stability of any region in which the interests of the 2 super powers- that is, the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- are so vitally engaged must be of concern to nations such as ours. [More…]

• All attempts made by the United States and other responsible governments to dissuade the Arabs failed. [More…]

• The United States and the Soviet Union have a special responsibility to do everything in their power so that conflicts on situations will not arise which would increase international tension. [More…]

• What steps has the Minister for Transport taken to accelerate action by State authorities and car manufacturers in Australia to ensure that, in keeping with current United States trends, all new cars should be fitted with bumper bars with a greater impact absorption than they have at present? [More…]

• Council had before it the regulations in the United States which provided that 1973 model cars had to withstand the impact of a 5 miles per hour frontal crash and a 2.5 miles per hour rear crash into a barrier without damage to any of the essential safety features, such as lights, radiator and the cooling and exhaust systems. [More…]

• It indicates that Australia is well behind the large manufacturing countries of Italy and the United States of America in the number of working days lost because of strikes. [More…]

• The United States averaged 510 working days lost. [More…]

• It was produced in the United States as part of a labour relations and public policy series. [More…]

• I am, of course, referring now to the United States. [More…]

• Talking about lengthy stoppages and strikes, in the free enterpise Mecca of the United States about which Senater Webster has spoken, trade unionists on strike have access to food stamps, public assistance and unemployment compensation. [More…]

• The United States is far ahead of us in this field. [More…]

• Honourable senators would well know that I have argued that the legislation proposed by Dr Cass will in many ways help Australia as a nation to follow the United States example. [More…]

• The United States has enacted highly successful legislation to protect endangered species. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of reports that in the hours immediately before the outbreak of war in the Middle East the Israeli Government, with the United States of America’s diplomatic help, sought to avert the hostilities. [More…]

• However, in view of the fact that the war has now proceeded to the stage where the United States and the Soviet Union are supplying large quantities of arms to both sides, I ask whether it is not time that the Government should use its undoubted influence at the United Nations level and internationally to promote a ceasefire. [More…]

• If we were to compare the Secretary of the Treasury in the United States with the Federal Treasurer in Canberra we would find that the Secretary of the Treasury in the United States is not a member of Congress. [More…]

• A number of States in the United States are called commonwealths. [More…]

• Certainly, any kind of violence, and especially murder, would be disapproved of not only by everyone here but also by the trade unions of Australia which have a reputation of being free of the kind of violence and intimidation which has sometimes occurred in the United States when there has been infiltration from outside. [More…]

• Often this was done by big organisations in the United States which wanted to gain control of the trade union movement. [More…]

• Is the Minister for the Media aware that foreign film distributors, particularly those of the United States, are mounting an expensive campaign to try to prevent the Government from introducing a system of pool buying of overseas films and television series by Australian companies? [More…]

• Exchange of Notes between Australia and the United States of America constituting an Agreement Extending the Agreement of 16 October 1968 relating to Scientific and Technical Co-operation, signed at Washington on 30 July 1973. [More…]

• Exchange of Notes between Australia and the United States of America constituting an Agreement concerning the Launching of seven Aerobee Rockets, signed at Canberra on 18 September 1973. [More…]

• I would hope that when the Law Reform Commission is established it would not be bound to English precedent but will have regard to substantial accomplishments in many areas of law reform in other countries and, in particular, in the United States of America. [More…]

• Therefore we could expect that, allowing for changes that inevitably will take place in any system of law in a different country, substantially the system of the English common law will persist there as it has persisted in the United States, and that the guidance, legal knowledge and expertise of Australia will continue to be available to that country, whether in a general sense or through particular practitioners who will move from our jurisdiction to take their places in judicial and professional positions in Papua New Guinea. [More…]

• It will be another Vietnam and the intervening power, instead of being the United States, will have to be Australia. [More…]

• If this reduction were passed on a married couple would be able to save $250 on tickets bought in the United States or in Europe. [More…]

• -Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Health been attracted to a report on research in the United States which indicates some relationship between small-pox injection of children and multiple sclerosis in later life? [More…]

• He brought out experts from the United States to assist him. [More…]

• The whole pattern of trade practices legislation in this country has been based more upon the English pattern than upon the United States pattern. [More…]

• I would say that all Senator Murphy visualises is the Ralph Nader syndrome in the United States. [More…]

• This was exemplified earlier this week when Senator Cavanagh, in reply to a question asked by me, illustrated in relation to the motor industry how we lagged behind the United States of America in regard to safety devices. [More…]

• The fact is that the United States of America pioneered this legislation back in 1894. [More…]

• The United States then adopted the punitive legislation whereby the criminal court or the penal sanction was made the agency of enforcement of the legislation. [More…]

• The latest information is that yesterday a joint resolution was put down by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America. [More…]

• Of course, simultaneously while the Security Council was meeting, negotiations were going on between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America. [More…]

• But because of the detente or because of some other better considerations for each other, Russia and the United States were able at the same time to enter into negotiations to bring about a ceasefire as a preliminary towards peace talks. [More…]

• A miscalculation by either of the great powers involved- the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- could easily have brought about a world war. [More…]

• It may well have been that, in the situation we have faced over the past several weeks, the unfortunate and unsettled domestic situation in the United States could have brought about a miscalculation. [More…]

• One can imagine how those countries will try to exercise their oil strength, if I may use that phrase, to bring pressure to bear on the United States of America to cease support for Israel. [More…]

• I note that both the Soviet Union and the United States were criticised together for the supply of arms. [More…]

• The United States, only when it was faced with Israel suffering attrition of its armour and weapons and with Russia beginning a massive airlift to supply the Arab states, began its very significant re-supply of Israel. [More…]

• I do not accept that a even handed policy blames the United States to the same degree as it blames the Soviet Union for the war in the Middle East. [More…]

• We also believe- it is referred to in our foreshadowed amendment- that there must be an understanding and an agreement between the 2 major powers concerned, the Soviet Union and the United States of America, that they will ensure that there is no massive rearmament and that they will adopt an even handed policy on both sides to ensure that peace is maintained. [More…]

• Even if one were to argue that it was a mistake for the United Nations to decide some 25 years ago that Israel should be established as a state- even if one were to say that it should not have been done, despite the fact that the United States, the Soviet Union and practically every country in the world voted for the establishment of Israel- it is too late now to say that it was a mistake. [More…]

• It is like saying that it was a mistake that the Pilgrim Fathers went to the United States or Captain Phillip settled in Sydney. [More…]

• We can condemn the Soviet Union for providing arms to the Arab countries only if we condemn the United States for providing arms to Israel because there has been a two-sided traffic going on. [More…]

• What has happened is that there has been a conflict of interest between the Soviet Union and the United States with the Soviet Union supporting certain Arab countries and the United States supporting Israel. [More…]

• I am not saying that either the United States or the Soviet Union is acting maliciously or endeavouring to create havoc or harm. [More…]

• It is all very well to condemn the Soviet Union and the United States of America in this conflict. [More…]

• The fact is that it was the Arab states that made the first move and it was the Soviet Union that assisted the Arab states before the United States came in. [More…]

• In regard to this conflict of interests, what specific interest has the United States of America in supplying arms to Israel? [More…]

• It is abundantly clear from the situation in the United States of America and Canada- both federations comparable with Australia- that a problem is not solved just by getting a decision from the courts as to where the legislative authority lies. [More…]

• What will be the opinion of the United States of America when it hears that Communist China is the one country above all with which we aspire to march along in the world of the future? [More…]

• If we do this against the advice of many people and, I suspect, the departments, why do we not do it with the United States of America and others? [More…]

• One would have thought that that expression, however extravagant, might in itself have caused the United States of America to wonder whether the ANZUS treaty, which is vital to this country and to which the Government pays lip service, is now tenable and viable. [More…]

• the United States of America; [More…]

• the United States of America; [More…]

• In the face of certain United States comments about Australian kangaroo product exports, can the Minister indicate the present state of negotiations with the various State Ministers responsible for wildlife conservation? [More…]

• The evidence taken from the 3 Service departments related mainly to inadequate checking of billings received from the United States services for equipment and stores supplied which resulted in substantial over-charges of approximately $900,000 not being detected. [More…]

• The evidence given to the Committee shows that landed costs of imports from the United Kingdom and the United States of America, whose currencies have devalued against the Australian dollar, of fully finished goods and active ingredients have generally fallen as a result of the currency changes. [More…]

• It is now a well-recognised policy in the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Canada that the large and often impersonal mental hospitals and other similar institutions need to be substantially phased out and replaced by the types of services to be funded by this Bill with additional beds integrated into general hospitals. [More…]

• Australia works differently from the United States and Great Britain. [More…]

• Firstly, I endorse the remarks of my colleague Senator Milliner when he paid tribute, as has been done by the Government and particularly by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), to our Senate colleague Senator Dame Nancy Buttfield, who was invited to go to the United States of America to play a prominent part in international discussions on the problems of the physically and mentally handicapped. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for the Media whether the increased level of interest about Australia in the United States of America, which was very evident around the time of the election last year from the amount of space devoted to this country in American magazines, is being maintained. [More…]

• What is being done to further the awareness of Australia in the United States? [More…]

• Senator DOUGLAS McCLELLANDFirstly, since the election of the Labor Government the Prime Minister has visited the United States of America and as a result of that visit there was tremendous publicity for Australia in that country. [More…]

• The Australian Information Service of my Department has assisted some 65 or 70 publicists from the United States, all of whom have provided a high level of return in media coverage of this country. [More…]

• I understand that the Minister may give some breakdown of this amount but here, if I am not mistaken, there is a proposed expenditure of $1,959,500 which is, I understand, for 3 works of art being purchased from the United States of America. [More…]

• I have a few friends in the United States and every one of them has written to me, not criticising the art, but about the absurdity of the price. [More…]

• When I refer to Soho in the United States I am referring to where Hutchinson has his gallery. [More…]

• There is not one person in the United States who does not agree with that fact. [More…]

• He referred to comments by various people in the United States of America. [More…]

• The Soviet Union has bought 700 million bushels from the United States. [More…]

• If one multiplies that amount allowing for the inflation that has occurred in the United States, as it has here- it is not quite as bad here as it is there- one gets an indication that some of these works are priceless and invaluable, not only from the point of view of their material worth but also for the fact that they are examples of a period of history or of a different interpretation of art. [More…]

• We should consider the North American experience in this regard, because frequently we have been told to study the position in the United States of America. [More…]

• Senator DOUGLAS McCLELLANDBecause of the developments that were taking place and found to be in existence in some parts of the United States of America and the United Kingdom I determined that this matter should be investigated in Australia. [More…]

• In view of the serious overseas fuel crisis necessitating drastic cuts in the use of hydrocarbon derivatives for power, heating and transport in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States of America, would the Minister press for a higher priority for bringing into use at the earliest possible time the known reserves of the North West Shelf and the Cooper Basin which would include the early commencement of the national pipeline grid in order to avoid the possibility of the disruption to industrial and social life that is high and growing in other parts of the world? [More…]

• I have been advised, however, that in the United States of America, the United Kingdom and New Zealand the following air travel standards apply for international travel: [More…]

• United States of America- first class for very senior officers, economy class for others. [More…]

• Applying similar constitutional provisions, the United States Supreme Court has, for the last 9 years and more, declared any form of malapportionment within a state to be unconstitutional. [More…]

• He had enunciated the startling principle that what is good for General Motors is good enough for the United States of America. [More…]

• The simple answer in both instances is that General Motors is not the United States of America and the Australian Capital Territory is not Australia. [More…]

• Might I say by way of preface that I am intrigued to observe that there has been a return in recent days to the use of the name Cape Canaveral’, which was the original name given to the United States base which later became Cape Kennedy to honour the name of that great United States President whose passing the world still mourns. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs: Is he aware of the grave hardship caused by the reduction of Arab oil supplies to many countries including Great Britain and the United States of America. [More…]

• I remind honourable senators that there have been no less than 26 amendments to the Constitution of the United States, of which eleven have been since 1900. [More…]

• Australia learnt of the world wide United States alert during the Middle East war ‘moments’ after it was implemented, the United States Ambassador, Mr Green, said today. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that HMV- Healing is two-thirds owned by overseas interests; that General Electric is 80 per cent owned by United States interests; that Kriesler, Philips and Pye are substantially owned by Philips of Holland; that Thorn is wholly owned by United Kingdom interests; that National is wholly owned by Japanese interests; and that only AWA is Australian controlled? [More…]

• The system of giving compensation to growers only on the basis of hardship was adopted in 1971 by the McMahon Government at the time of devaluation of the United States dollar. [More…]

• In the United States the Houses find that they must live together. [More…]

• Is it not also true that the supply of arms by the United States of America to Israel was entirely necessary because it enabled that country to resist this aggression? [More…]

• I should like to mention the situation in the United States of America and in Canada where questions of the control of off-shore areas have been the subject of litigation. [More…]

• In both Canada and the United States we have had exactly the same thing occur as I am predicting will occur here: It has taken years and not even yet has the problem been resolved despite the fact that the decision to place the matter before the courts was made, I think, in the United States many years ago and was made in Canada about 6 years ago. [More…]

• Indeed, in the United States of America I understand that control of the 3-mile limit, although it was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to reside with the Federal Government of the United States, has been returned by the Federal Government to the State parliaments and governments. [More…]

• Some 10 to 15 years ago the Americans were drilling off the coast of the United States only to a shallow depth, in some 100, 200 or 300 feet of water, but techniques have improved so much in recent years that even off the Australian coast some of our drilling ships are capable of drilling in a depth of 1 500 feet of water. [More…]

• I was told at that time that what we are facing now had already occurred in America, namely, that the central Government of the United States had declared its right over various areas, although it had not declared its right over the territorial sea. [More…]

• The United States is facing a very awkward situation. [More…]

• So far as this legislation is concerned, the point brought out this afternoon in the debate which attracted my mind- I think Senator Durack was speaking at the time- related to legislation that had been passed in countries such as the United States. [More…]

• Apparently the United States has not solved the legal problems because I understand that more legal actions are being taken in that country than was the case before the legislation was passed. [More…]

• Santa Barbara, or whatever place it is in the United States, was always quoted as a case. [More…]

• He went to the United States and spoke to certain people. [More…]

• I wonder whether he had the opportunity of talking to or receiving communications as I did from leading United States Senators such as Senator Muskie, from the seaside State of Maine, or Senator Jackson. [More…]

• They are people who have a high reputation in the United States Senate. [More…]

• Mention also has been made of the fact that in the United States of America and Canada litigation has gone on for a great while because of challenges as to where authority lay. [More…]

• Projections have been made, especially in the United Kingdom and the United States of America of greatly expanded production of synthetic meats. [More…]

• 1 m. At the same time this Government had representatives in the United States of America negotiating the purchase of a painting which has committed the Government to an expenditure of $ 1.3m, plus commission of $100,000, plus the cost of insurance, transport and everything else. [More…]

• The Federal Government of the United States of America, when President Kennedy was in office, had to send Federal deputies into the southern States to make sure that justice was done and that coloured people were placed on the electoral rolls. [More…]

• What I have been saying brings me back to the situation in the United States where the Federal Government in Washington had to send deputies into the southern States to make sure that the Negroes got on the roll. [More…]

• When the present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) campaigned in Federal elections between 1969 and 1972 the whole theme of his argument was that we should try to pitch a policy into the Constitution that was akin to the United States of America and Canada. [More…]

• If we as the Australian Government sound the tocsin, it is merely because of our appreciation of the need for reforms having seen what has happened so often in the United States of America and in Canada. [More…]

• Has the Government given any consideration to the compilation of a register of all professional lobbyists and making public the names of such lobbyists, which action would be similar to the action which the United States Congress had to take to publicise the work of all full time lobbyists? [More…]

• Certainly overseas, in more places than the United States, it has been felt that in the public interest something should be done about the registration of lobbyists, in their own interests as well as the interests of the nation. [More…]

• -Senator Wright suggests, I think, that there might be something improper in the approach that has been taken by the United States in regard to lobbyists I do not. [More…]

• I believe that it is in the same condition as was the United States when it was first settled and had to get capital from the United Kingdom and western Europe until its industrial generation was such and its population had grown to such an extent that the capital flowed the other way. [More…]

• Because of the revaluation of the Australian dollar it is much more costly for people in the United States of America to come to Australia than before. [More…]

• the United States. [More…]

• More than forty governments have recognised or maintained relations with the new Chilean regime, including all Latin American states (except Cuba), the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, New Zealand, West Germany, Sweden, and China. [More…]

• By way of preface, let me say that three major sporting activities- namely, Korea versus Australia in World Cup soccer, the rugby league ashes series between Australia and Great Britain, which Australia won, and the recent Davis Cup final between Australia and the United States have been telecast direct to Australian audiences by satellite coverage. [More…]

• If my dissenting report is perused- I had not looked at it for 10 years until I brought it in here and I had not thought of this remark- it will be seen that I quoted there that in its first 50 years of existence the United States Senate was made light of and that jests were made that the senators could be found going to the House of Representatives to observe the proceedings there, and that they were insignificant and of no account. [More…]

• Whilst revaluation of the Australian dollar has realised some savings in Qantas’ expenditure overseas, there has been a substantial reduction in the company’s revenue remittances on travel sold in other countries, including the United States, where currency changes have taken place in the past 12-18 months. [More…]

• The net effect of these exchange gains and losses on Qantas’ operating account has led the company to the decision that it would not be economically feasible for adjustments to be made in international fares sold in Australia to take account of changes in the value of exchange rates between the revalued Australian dollar and other currencies, including the United States dollar. [More…]

• By way of further elaboration ofthe foregoing explanation it should be said that changes in the relative values of major currencies, including the devaluation of the United States dollar and the floating by the United Kingdom of the pound sterling which are two of Qantas’ largest markets, has resulted in a decline of approximately $A 1 3m in the company’s revenue from air travel sold in foreign countries. [More…]

• It is relevant to mention that Australians are among the few travellers and shippers in the world who are paying the same fares and rates as last year whereas fares and rates in some countries, of which the United States and the United Kingdom are prime examples, have increased by more than 10 per cent as a result of currency changes and general fare increases. [More…]

• international air fares are established by the IATA in two basic currencies, sterling and the United States dollar, which have been chosen as a matter of convenience and because of their past stability within the international monetary system. [More…]

• This year fares sold in the United States for travel to Australia have increased by 10 per cent and United Kingdom pound sterling fares have increased 6 per cent with the further 4 per cent to be added in November to normal fares for travel originating in the United Kingdom. [More…]

• As a result of these increases an excursion fare purchased in the United States for travel to Australia which cost US$833 in January this year has increased to US$9 18.80 today. [More…]

• I know that 2 members of the organisation, Dr Lacey and Father Keogh, recently were invited to the United States of America to advise people there on how to go about setting up a similar organisation. [More…]

• They are gradually emerging as exporters to the United States, Japan and Singapore, and these markets were not easy to capture. [More…]

• In the United States of America the penalty imposed is a fine of US$100,000, which is $A67,340, or 1 year’s imprisonment or both. [More…]

• If there is one thing that stands out in the international field today it is the fact that although the United States of America huffed and puffed about its objection to some of the decisions taken by Latin American countries in regard to their territorial sea limits, that country has learned to live with them. [More…]

• It has never been accepted in British law though it is done often in United States law. [More…]

• I often wonder whether a great number of the troubles in the United States of America which are currently before the people of the world are not in some sense attributable to the complexities and the delays in the legal administration and judical system generally in that country. [More…]

• While we may agree with the arguments advanced by the Minister in regard to revaluation of the Australian dollar, the fact that the United States dollar has recovered to a certain extent has meant that in Great Britain, which is the main market for this industry, there has been a currency revaluation of about 3 to 4 per cent, so there is justification for money to be spent on currency revaluation compensation. [More…]

• It merely corrects a drafting error and, at the same time, removes a redundant provision in the schedule to the United States Naval Communication Station (Civilian Employees) Act 1971-1972. [More…]

• It has proved to be so in the United Kingdom, the United States, and no less so in Australia. [More…]

• His wife had the misfortune to be involved in an automobile accident in the United States. [More…]

• Mr Hayden, the present Minister for Health, and I leaned on the fund concerned and it condescended to meet her expenses as a result of the automobile accident in the United States. [More…]

• I anticipate that Senator Gair might interject and say: ‘What about third party insurance in the United States?’ [More…]

• I refer to the Carlingford case involving a woman who was denied justice because of an accident that took place in the United States of America. [More…]

• Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Government contend that the United States of America wants to control territory in South and North Vietnam? [More…]

• -I do not know of any way in which I could look into a crystal ball and tell the honourable senator what the United States of America or any other country will do in the future. [More…]

• Is Dr Cairns expressing the views of the Australian Government in stating that the United States Government’s objective is to maintain as much Vietnamese territory as possible and that the Australian Govenment would probably recognise the People’s Revolutionary Government in one form or another? [More…]

• By the standards of the time taken in the United States, too, the time taken in our task has not been inordinate. [More…]

• The United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s Report of the Special Study of the Securities Markets took several years to complete with a staff averaging 65 people, of whom half were lawyers, economists, analysts and investigators working full-time. [More…]

• In view of the decision by the Economic Advisory Committee to the President of the United States of America to reduce interest rates by 2 per cent next year to combat inflation, a complete reexamination of the high interest rates policy of the Government that has failed to combat inflation should be undertaken. [More…]

• An agent has been appointed in the United States of America to examine the market prospects. [More…]

• By way of preface, I state that the International Narcotics Control Board claims that heroin demand is levelling off and even declining in Western countries, particularly in the United States of America and Canada. [More…]

• But at the same time, that action has been very mild compared with the campaigns of economic boycotts and sanctions which were carried out for almost 2 decades against the Soviet Union and against the People’s Republic of China, largely at the behest of the United States of America. [More…]

• If there is one country which should not be in a position to complain about resources diplomacy, or about boycotts or sanctions against other countries, it is the United States of America which in fact is still carrying on sanctions against its neighbour Cuba. [More…]

• To a large extent the major difficulties between the United States of America and the Soviet Union, and perhaps to a lesser extent between the United States of America and China, have been resolved as a result of some of the initiatives taken by the major powers. [More…]

• Although obviously the most serious and most disastrous thing that could happen to the world would be a third world war, particularly a nuclear war, at the same time it would be a rather grim prospect for the people of the world if the consequence of the relaxation were to mean that the Soviet Union was free to send its tanks into Czechoslovakia and the United States of America was free to send its marines into the Dominican Republic. [More…]

• We have to see that we have our own independent policy, our own desire to assist our own people by an independent national policy, and that we work to see that there is no foreign intervention in any country either by the Soviet Union, the United States of America or anybody else. [More…]

• Both the Soviet Union and the United States have a rather dismal record over the past 20 years of interventions and invasions in other peoples’ countries and of efforts to impose their form of economic system and their domination on other countries- the United States of America in South East Asia and Latin America, and the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe. [More…]

• We find that a number of senior ministers in the United States Government, a number of people very close to the Presidency, including, as Senator Mulvihill reminds me, the Attorney-General, the principal law enforcement officer of the United States, the holder of an office which has been held by some of the most distinguished men in Western history, are under indictment. [More…]

• We find steadily increasing pollution and destruction of the environment despite all the wealth and the many admirable and desirable features in the United States- and there are many admirable and desirable features. [More…]

• The fact that there has been this free discussion about the alleged improprieties of President Nixon and the behaviour of Mr Agnew, Mr Mitchell and the others reflects very great credit on the United States. [More…]

• I believe that there are many positive things to be learnt from the United States. [More…]

• There are many features about the United States which, in some respects, to any democratic person make it one of the most attractive countries in the whole world. [More…]

• As a matter of fact let us look at the United States and most of Europe. [More…]

• The Aborigines find themselves in somewhat the same position as the negroes in the United States of America who were deluded into believing that the passage of a law would give them freedom. [More…]

• When I came back from the United States after attending the United Nations 3 years ago, I was running around telling people that the situation in America was shocking; that one had to pay $5 for a leg of lamb. [More…]

• It is all very fine to have kick at the Government about this matter, but it should be remembered that Australia still has a private enterprise economy, as have the United States, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the European common market countries. [More…]

• But how silly can the Prime Minister get when in India last year he announced that before voting in the United Nations Australia will now consult Tanzania in preference to the United States and Great Britain. [More…]

• It is rather interesting that the United States of America has had a chequered record in the introduction of the metric system. [More…]

• At one stage, when the United States nuclear forces were put on full alert, the world seemed to be facing the possibility of armed conflict. [More…]

• All I am speaking of are the uncertainties in the world, the uncertainties in relations between the United States and Japan, between China and Russia and between Japan, China and Russia. [More…]

• I was amazed at the Government’s reaction to the announcement of joint United Kingdom-United States proposals to upgrade the facilities at Diego Garcia- to extend the runway by 2,000 feet and to provide refuelling and other facilities for naval vessels. [More…]

• The United States decided, because of the Korean war, that it would buy up the whole of the Australian wool clip. [More…]

• Yes, we may be all right for 3 years but there only has to be another brush up in the fuel crisis and a few other Middle East episodes with the United States and we could be involved. [More…]

• I refer to a statement made in America yesterday by the new Australian Ambassador to the United States of America, Sir Patrick Shaw, which was rebroadcast in part in the ‘AM ‘ radio program today, in which Sir Patrick said that there are no ground rules for American or other foreign investment in Australia. [More…]

• Has the Department of Health given consideration to the recommendation by the team that Australia should adopt the salmonella surveillance system as now used in the United States and Britain? [More…]

• We see this development in the United States of America, Canada, Great Britain and elsewhere. [More…]

• Ours will be like the Houses of Parliament in England and the United States and the actual days of sitting each year will increase greatly. [More…]

• Later in his speech, while referring to the Joint Committee on Constitutional Review and the Supreme Court of the United States, he said: [More…]

• A great deal has been written on this, particularly in the United States of America. [More…]

• Of the latter sum, US$41 1,000 is payable in gold or United States dollars while the balance of US$3. [More…]

• Each public servant who puts a.foot outside his own town or city on official business is entitled to first class air travel- unlike the United States, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and many other countries where only very senior officers are entitled to travel first class, with economy class travel provided for other members of the Public Service. [More…]

• I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate whether he will clarify completely the attitude of the Government towards the proposed United States base on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. [More…]

• It is a technique used in the United States of America and in other air force administrations. [More…]

• I understand that, under the terms of the Australian Government’s assistance program, the Australian Softball Federation will be eligible to receive a subsidy of up to 50 per cent of the cost of fares to assist with expenses involved in sending the Australian softball team to compete in the world series in the United States later this year. [More…]

• In view of the possible danger to our ANZUS Treaty relationships with the United States of America and New Zealand, will the Minister give an assurance that the Russian overtures will be rejected? [More…]

• Some people apparently envisage a system of federal courts parallel with the State courts somewhat like the system in the United States. [More…]

• It is often said that we should have a duplicate system because a similar plan was undertaken in the United States of America. [More…]

• It is not correct to draw a parallel between Australia and the United States. [More…]

• The United States of America has uranium enrichment plants. [More…]

• As I understand the position, the United States can supply the world with enriched uranium until the early 1980s. [More…]

• It is business so big that by comparison big business, as we regard it, in the United States of America, is insignificant. [More…]

• Also, the householder being provided with natural gas is paying more for this fuel than would be payable if, as suggested to the Committee, a pricing formula for natural gas- irrespective of where it is produced- similar to that used by the United States of America Federal Power Commission, were adopted in Australia. [More…]

• It looked overseas seeking in the first place Mr Lewis Weeks who had experience in the United States of America. [More…]

• Quite rightly it wanted Mr Weeks because the United States of America had gone into off-shore drilling and had been very successful. [More…]

• Every one of the oil companies is foreign- mainly United States- owned. [More…]

• United States owned; it is owned by the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. [More…]

• Caltex is 100 per cent United States owned. [More…]

• Esso is 100 per cent United States owned- by Standard Oil. [More…]

• Amoco is 100 per cent United States owned; Shell is 100 per cent owned by English and Dutch interests; BP- British Petroleum- is 100 per cent English owned; and 35 per cent of the shares of H. C. Sleigh are owned by Caltex which is 100 per cent United States owned. [More…]

• Total is owned by French and United States interests. [More…]

• If he wants to have some learning on these matters, probably one of the most famous legal decisions in history was given by the great Chief Justice of the United States of America, Chief Justice Marshall, on the matters of when appointments, commissions and so forth take effect. [More…]

• Our relations with the United States have become strained because of the Labor Party’s hostility. [More…]

• How different the Government’s reaction has been to the announcement by the United States that it intended to upgrade facilities at the joint US-British base at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. [More…]

• In posing the question of great power rivalry what Mr Whitlam is in fact accepting is that absurd premise that it is permissible for Russia to increase its present naval presence in the Indian Ocean but it is outrageous for the United States to take a counter measure, no matter how modest. [More…]

• It is, in fact, double that of the United States. [More…]

• As an ally of the United States, one would have thought that the Australian Government would have welcomed the decision by the United States to attempt to redress the balance. [More…]

• No the United States has suffered a diatribe of abuse from the Whitlam Government. [More…]

• If it intends to play around with the idea, one could hardly blame the United States if it decided to withdraw from ANZUS if Russia is granted bases in Australia. [More…]

• 1 ask: Can we expect the Prime Minister to issue an invitation to China to establish a scientific facility here merely to snub the United States? [More…]

• The great powers of the world such as the United States of America and Britain are seeking to establish better relations. [More…]

• Factors considered included international global developments affecting relations between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America, the strong interest of other major powers in the avoidance of conflict, and various developments nearer to home involving countries in our neighbouring region. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence is trying to organise and is organising exercises with Britain, the United States of America and various other countries and that will be the pattern of our commitments. [More…]

• The Chinese-United States detente, so-called, is far from complete. [More…]

• He would be a brave man indeed who could look to the future of Chinese-United States relations with increasing confidence. [More…]

• Europe, mainly because of the energy crisis, is in disarray; the Atlantic Alliance is under great strain; United States-Russian relations have not improved. [More…]

• I think that we are all discouraged to learn that Dr Kissinger’s latest mission to the Soviet Union did not achieve the hoped for results and that the Russian position is obviously hardening, no doubt because of the domestic situation in the United States and the disunity in Europe. [More…]

• I think it is an absolutely extraordinary attitude for the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Willesee, a Western Australian Minister, to adopt by immediately attacking the United States-United Kingdom agreement to extend facilities at Diego Garcia. [More…]

• The Government has protested to both the United States and Russia but I would have thought more of the Government if it had protested to Russia much earlier, when it was building up its naval strength. [More…]

• These factors included international global developments affecting the relations between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America, the strong interest of other major powers in the avoidance of conflict, and various developments nearer home in and between the countries within our own neighbouring region. [More…]

• As Senator Sim reminded us, in recent times who predicted that the Middle East conflict would break out again as quickly as it did and that the major powers, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America would nearly come into conflict? [More…]

• When Labor was in opposition and since it has been in government, the left wing of the Labor Party has opposed most vocally the proposal for the establishment of any foreign bases in this country, particularly for the United States. [More…]

• In fact, they are so inadequately developed that the Soviet Union is now calling in expertise from the United States of America, France, Japan and other countries because it has been so committed- this is my view, and I am stating it publicly- to the proposition of having huge numbers of” men in uniform that many of the resources which the Soviet Union could have been developing for the good and the benefit of its people were left undeveloped. [More…]

• The circumstances therefore are that while Mr Whitlam periodically asserts that Australia ought to be isolationist, he goes to the United States of America and pleads for the ANZUS Treaty and says that Australia will not be isolationist. [More…]

• At the present time the situation has become so serious that the United States of America and Great Britain have agreed to the establishment of a base at Deigo Garcia facing the bases which the Soviet Union has acquired from some of the eastern countries. [More…]

• Instead we have a mean and contemptible attack upon the United States and Great Britain for taking an action which is to our advantage. [More…]

• A few years ago under the old regimes it would have been unthinkable that the United States of America would have dared to talk or even suggested talking to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]

• But if a world war breaks out in this situation with the United States on one side and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the other side nearly every nation, and certainly Australians, Indonesians and the rest, will finally be dying in the field. [More…]

• We could say to the United States of America that we want it to count the ships every day and to have the same as the U.S.S.R., or perhaps 10 per cent or even 20 per cent more. [More…]

• Not that it matters a great deal since the 2 super powers- the United States and the Soviet Union- have enough to overkill one another many times over. [More…]

• One would have thought that the Government would have been delighted that the United States proposed to set up defence facilities at Diego Garcia. [More…]

• It was negotiated, to his everlasting credit, by Sir Robert Menzies in 1951 when that great Prime Minister was able to secure for Australia from the United States a guarantee of protection in peace time, a guarantee which has been given to no other country in peace time. [More…]

• One hears talk of detente between the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]

• While this situation can, in general terms be explained by currency ajustments, the cessation of the United States R and R program to Australia which terminated on 31 December 1 97 1 and in some cases by an uncompetitive fare situation from our major markets, there are no indications that the position is improving, nor can one be optimistic that it will improve of its own accord. [More…]

• We sit here in this chamber, a chamber whose significance has been growing year by year and will grow until it more nearly approaches the ambit of power in the comprehensive jurisdiction of the Senate of the United States if we accept the first principle of our existence, to guard and defend our own integrity. [More…]

• In addition I can tell the honourable senator, as I told the Senate last week, that there has been a tremendous response for these types of productions in the United States and in Mexico, so much so that in Mexico, as a result of a week’s productions being shown there, there has been a request for repeat performances. [More…]

• If he is visiting Australia at the invitation of the Australian Government I think it is relevant to remind the honourable senator that in this modern day and age Mr Khrushchev once visited the United States of America and President Nixon visited the Soviet Union. [More…]

• When it is all boiled down, the real crux of the issues centres around the point that we are offering universal coverage to the community- something that belongs in most countries today; something that is being introduced in the United States of America; something that has been established in Canada for many years. [More…]

• On the adjournment debate that night a number of members of the House of Representatives paid tribute to Mr Makin, who was then Minister for the Navy, Minister for Munitions and Minister for Aircraft Production, on his appointment as Australia’s first Ambassador to the United States of America. [More…]

• It is rather interesting to read how, after about six or seven speeches had been made, Mr Makin referred to his parliamentary life, what happened during his career, how he had enjoyed it, had gone on finally to Become the Minister for the Navy and capped his career by being appointed as Australia’s first Ambassador to the United States of America. [More…]

• I have been further honoured; the Government has appointed me as its first Ambassador to the United States of America. [More…]

• The whole of the Government of the United States of America today stands in doubt in the eyes of the world because of one question and one question alone and that is: Did those in high authority conspire to deceive the Congress? [More…]

• The attitude has been taken in other parts of the world, especially in the United States, that the great corporations ought not to be permitted to interfere in political affairs and especially to use industrial disputes as a means of intervening in politics. [More…]

• It has been the subject matter of discussion and inquiry in the United States. [More…]

• The same course has been taken in the United States. [More…]

• A major feature of last October’s conflict in the Middle East from our strategic point of view was the manner in which the United States and the Soviet Union successfully managed the crisis in their relations and used their influence to limit the conflict. [More…]

• Our alliance and working defence relationship with the United States continue important of course- in terms of the global balance, of our regional standing, of the long-term contingency of serious deterioration in our strategic situation, and of the maintenance of the capability of our defence force in several important practical respects. [More…]

• But we are now required by strategic and international political developmentsand we ourselves wish- to deal on our own with any local situations that may arise, to assert an independent strategic influence, and to pursue political policies more independently of United States views and interests. [More…]

• The Government has accepted the recommendation of the Defence Force Development Committee that we should, as the first step, acquire 2 destroyers of United States design, known as the patrol frigate, and the Government has agreed that negotiations should be opened with the United States Government for this purpose. [More…]

• Assuming congressional authorisations, a production run of 50 ships in the United States is expected by the Administration. [More…]

• It is proposed that the 2 patrol frigates be procured in the United States with considerable cost saving. [More…]

• The competitors are the United States P3 type and the British Nimrod. [More…]

• In the case of new destroyers, which have the United States Navy as the source, negotiations will be commenced with both the United States foreign military sales organisation and United States equipment suppliers. [More…]

• I mentioned earlier Australia’s relationship with the United States. [More…]

• When I was in the United States early last January, I was able to re-affirm publicly in New York and privately in Washington, to the Secretaries of State and Defence, Drs Kissinger and Schlesinger, and to other senior members of the United States Administration and the United. [More…]

• States Armed Services, the importance I and my colleagues in the Government continued to attach to Australia’s alliance and practical working defence relationship with the United States. [More…]

• The relationship with the United States requires management, of course. [More…]

• We entertain on our territory United States installations whose presence and functions required the Government to satisfy itself that adequate regard was paid to Australian sovereignty. [More…]

• We have this utter nonsense in the so-called defence statement about the Government’s concern over the United States of America but the Government’s Ministers only 12, 13 or 14 months ago were calling the President of the United States and his people war criminals, butchers and all the rest of it. [More…]

• The Government tries to kid the Australian people that it has a friendly and co-operative relationship with the United States. [More…]

• Perhaps we are waiting for the day when this Government, if it ever gets back, gulls the people of Australia into believing that perhaps we would get better equipment from the Soviet Union than we would get from the United States or some other country. [More…]

• It brought the world to the verge of war, when the United States Mediterranean forces and the United States nuclear strike force were put on immediate alert in response to a Russian threat to send divisions of troops to Egypt. [More…]

• In response to the increasing build up of the Russian naval strength in that area the United States made some arrangements with the United Kingdom to upgrade the facilities on Diego Garcia. [More…]

• Foreign Affairs (Senator Willesee), who is a Western Australian senator, announced that the Government was protesting to the United States because the United States was responding to the increased Russian naval strength in the Indian Ocean. [More…]

• It must rely on bigger countries like the United Kingdom and the United States of America to come to its aid. [More…]

• The medical fund to which she belonged did not want to reimburse her for the medical expenses she incurred after she had the misfortune of being involved in a motor accident in the United States. [More…]

• All major countries- I include Great Britain but exclude the United States of America- have adopted a national health system. [More…]

• The United States of America is an example of this. [More…]

• Will the Government secure a fixed price contract for the patrol frigates it intends to purchase from the United States of America? [More…]

• In the meantime Senator DrakeBrockman, as the Minister- and in that capacity he did a good job- was faced with recurring expenses associated with the need to send specialist investigation groups from the Royal Australian Air Force to the United States to muck about with the position and safeguard the interests of Australia in connection with the design of an aircraft which had not been properly developed. [More…]

• Although the Government said we would not save any money on the deal, Mr Barnard went to the United States of America this year and saved $30m. [More…]

• The power units on the 2 bow thrusters are large electric motors run from main generators and are similar to motors in the most highly specialised United States submarines. [More…]

• The United States Navy conducted very extensive studies of battle damage to warships and found in very few cases where ships were sunk or damaged was there any advantage in ships having 2 screws instead of one. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Foreign Affairs in a position to state what the attitude of the United States would be, particularly with regard to the ANZUS Pact, if a Soviet scientific station were established in Australia? [More…]

• We are about to have an election and this Government is about to face its masters- and it is about to learn that the people of Australia want to belong to the free world and want to honour our alliance with the United States and those ideals, practices and objectives which we have in common with the people of the United States. [More…]

• This last incident was one of the chain of incidents which has occurred from the time the Labor Government took office, from the time there was recognition of the Russian and Chinese supported government of North Vietnam, from the time at which 3 Ministers criticised the United States Government and its President and therefore clearly aligned this Government with an attitude which was antiAmerican. [More…]

• If one is to accept what was rumoured in the newspapers, or leaked to the newspapers, if we had gone ahead with this it would have meant the end of the ANZUS treaty and an end to the alliance with the United States as we have always known it. [More…]

• When the 2 super powers of the world today, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America, combine in space research I suppose honourable members opposite would say, if they were sitting in Congress, that President Nixon would be a communist as also would Dr Kissinger and everybody else there; therefore, they are not even to be talked about. [More…]

• 2m for the Department of Repatriation for pensions to widows and other dependents of deceased ex-servicemen and for maintenance of patients in non-departmental institutions; and $6.5m for the Department of Services and Property for rent, property maintenance, furniture and fittings and running costs at overseas posts; and $900,000 for the Department of the Special Minister of State for expenditure on the international exposition to be held in Spokane, United States of America; this year. [More…]

• That so much of the Standing Orders be suspended as would prevent me forthwith moving the following motion: That the Senate agrees with the statement made by the Prime Minister that the attack by Senator Brown on the Ambassador of the United States of America was miserable and cowardly and is of the opinion that that the attacks by Senator Brown on the Government of the United States of America are unsubstantiated, irresponsible and unworthy of a member of the Senate of the Commonwealth Parliament.’ [More…]

• Experience in the United States of America has shown that it is virtually impossible to do this successfully without the help of television. [More…]

• I would like to remind the people of Australia that the vocal interjection by Senator Wheeldon is by an honourable senator who is on record as saying in recent weeks, if I can paraphrase it- he can correct me if I am wrong- that it would be good if we were to cut all ties with the United States of America, including the ANZUS pact. [More…]

• For what reasons did Australia move an amendment to the motion moved by the United States for a complete moratorium on commercial whaling, and what was the amendment? [More…]

• Last year the Australian Government took the position of supporting the United States motion for a total ban. [More…]

• The amendment was carried by 13 votes to 2 and subsequently was supported by the United States delegation. [More…]

• The statement was made that the electronics companies engaged in the manufacture of colour television sets believed that there would be a heavier saturation of sales at the outset in Australia than occurred in the United States, Canada and Great Britain when colour television first came to those countries. [More…]

• Accordingly, the top 1 5 United States oil companies today own 53 per cent of its coal production and, through a maze of subsidiaries, put their actual control of the commercial coal market at closer to 67 per cent. [More…]

• By contrast, in the United States, including Alaska, according to a recent report, approximately 1.8 per cent of offshore public lands had been leased by the Federal Government to the oil and gas industry as of January 1974, and these leases were accompanied by very substantial payments. [More…]

• Even allowing for the differences in leasing methods, this situation reflects the very different attitude taken by the Government of the United States to the management of the resources of that nation. [More…]

• I am not quite clear on the present position regarding the United States of America but I know the attitude was being taken some time ago that if we were to relax this ban it would intensify its measures against the import of kangaroos skins or products. [More…]

• I know the figures that have been cited in respect of the United States of America and I know the figures for Australia. [More…]

• The New Zealand electoral laws permit a fairly wide variation as do the laws in the United States of America. [More…]

• I believe that they are because in the Supreme Court of the United States of America in the case of Gray v. Sanders in March 1963, the majority opinion said: [More…]

• Again in the United States Supreme Court in June 1964 in the case of Reynolds v. Sims, the Chief Justice in delivering the opinion of the Court said: [More…]

• It also is the basis of the 3 judicial opinions of the eminent judges of the highest courts of the United States and Ireland. [More…]

• To cite the United States situation which has been mentioned several times by other honourable senators, the United States House of Representatives is elected by a quota system as nearly as possible equal in each State but the Senate has 2 senators from every State. [More…]

• Thus the State of Alaska has the same say in the United States Senate as the more populous States of California, New York State and others. [More…]

• Both Mr Daly and Senator Murphy have argued that the Supreme Court of the United States of America has declared that any form of malapportionment within a State is unconstitutional under the American Constitution. [More…]

• I know that there has been a development of doctrine in the United States of America since the cases of Reynolds v. Sims and Westberry v. Sanders which suggests that if you do not have equal electorates you are denying to people the equal protection which the American Constitution vests in them. [More…]

• But what Mr Daly and Senator Murphy ignored was the most recent decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States which had been given before these Bills were introduced in 1973. [More…]

• -That is a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States of America. [More…]

• It makes nonsense and more of statements consistently made by spokesmen on behalf of the Labor Party to the effect that in some way what is happening in Australia is inconsistent with what ought to be the law as disclosed by the United States Supreme Court. [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…]

• Once again I refer to the patience and tolerance which was used in securing additional statehood in the United States. [More…]

• We want to feel that we can look across the Pacific at the United States and say: ‘Well, we gave our people much better service in the avenue of parliamentary representation than you gave to Alaska’. [More…]

• As honourable senators know, our parliamentary system is similar in many ways to the system in the United States. [More…]

• In the United States there is a Senate and a House of Representatives and there have been arguments about the Capital Territory there having representation in the Senate. [More…]

• This was the argument advanced in the United States- this is a very important point, particularly in relation to our own legislation- when it was proposed in 1967 that the District of Columbia, the Seat of Government of the United States with a population of over 800,000 people, be given representation in the United States Senate. [More…]

• The proposal was defeated, and in dissenting reports on the proposal before the United States House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary - [More…]

• This is a quotation connected with the argument that was advanced in the United States. [More…]

• As I was saying, the proposal was defeated, and in dissenting reports on the proposal before the United States House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary it was stated: [More…]

• I had said that the last quotation came from the United States House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary. [More…]

• -Has the Minister representing the Minister for Transport seen recent Press reports on the hearing of an injunction sought by Foremost International Tours against the Australian airline Qantas Airways Ltd in the United States District Court in Honolulu? [More…]

• I would point out that the tour charges of Qantas are in conformity with International Air Transport Association regulations and have been filed with the United States Aeronautics Board. [More…]

• Treaties with Austria, Sweden and Italy were signed in 1973 and one with the United States of America in May 1974. [More…]

• Australia joined the IBRD soon after it opened its doors for business in 1947 and has subscribed the equivalent of nearly US$640m to its capital stock, of which 10 per cent, or approximately US$64m in terms of current United States dollars has actually been paid in. [More…]

• 14m, allowing for the effects of the 2 United States dollar devaluations in recent years. [More…]

• Of the latter sum, US$411,000 is payable in gold or United States dollars while the balance of US$3.7m can be paid in Australian dollars, either in cash in a single lump sum or in the form of a promissory note which would subsequently be encashed only as and when the IBRD required the funds involved, or else as otherwise agreed with Australia. [More…]

• Once the new program is introduced in Australia only a handful of countries such as the United States and South Africa will remain as bastions of voluntary insurance. [More…]

• In the United States for the same number of people there are 16 doctors, 51 nurses and 47 beds. [More…]

• Accordingly, the top 15 United States oil companies today own 53 per cent of its coal production and, through a maze of subsidiaries, put their actual control of the commercial coal market at closer to 67 per cent. [More…]

• These oil companies account for 40 per cent of the total milling capacity and 45 per cent of all known United States uranium reserves. [More…]

• In the off-shore areas of the United Kingdom, the United States, in Alaska and off west Africa the relevant authorities grant non-exclusive exploration licences. [More…]

• That company was, and is, in partnership with a United States company in other areas off-shore from Australia. [More…]

• I think we ought to take heed of what has happened in the United States of America and Canada, which are 2 of the world’s great federations. [More…]

• This problem arose in the United States of America in the 1940s and, although the Congress of the United States was given the authority by a decision of the Supreme Court and although the United States Congress vested the power which the Supreme Court had conferred in that Congress in the States of the Atlantic seaboard, still that has not resolved the legal problems. [More…]

• There is, as I discovered when I was in the United States earlier this year, a vast area of grey still unresolved as regards the authority of the States and Congress. [More…]

• We are a long way behind Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Japan and naturally the United States. [More…]

• In that context, many of us are quite disturbed at the attitude which the present Government has adopted and its failure to do something more sensible and positive about the relationship between Australia’s currency and its present linkage with the United States dollar. [More…]

• We in my Party hold the view that the time is overdue for us to unhinge ourselves from the United States dollar. [More…]

• It would appear that as a result of meetings of some countries connected with the World Bank organisation it was decided that the United States of America would grant, through the World Bank, up to US$400m per annum to Saigon for at least 20 years to aid that country’s economy. [More…]

• It seems somewhat strange also that whilst the United States government is content to pour aid, by way of the World Bank, into South Vietnam, there is no recognition by that government or in this Bill of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam- the Government that was recognised by the Paris agreements and a body that controls a rather extensive area of South Vietnam. [More…]

• Australian aid has been utilised also to provide water supplies at Vung Tau, which previously was an American base and where I understand the United States is now planning a major port development. [More…]

• In fact Mr Justice Kerr, after making an examination here some years ago, visited the United States of America and England and then wrote to the Prime Minister of the day, Mr McMahon, pointing out that there was a tendency throughout the world for this interlocking situation to arise with people dealing with various types of salaries. [More…]

• The practice of differential rentals is followed in many other countries including Britain, Canada, United States of America, and New Zealand. [More…]

• -I remind the AttorneyGeneral that as long ago as 10 January 1973 he made a public statement acknowledging the Government’s intention to introduce a freedom of information Bill along the lines of the United States Freedom of Information Act and detailed in his statement the major features of such legislation. [More…]

• Chief Justice Hughes of the United States Supreme Court made this very point in an opinion he delivered in 1933 in the case of Appalachian [More…]

• The discriminatory dealing provisions are based on provisions in the United States legislation known as the RobinsonPatman Act, and commentators have been quick to note that that legislation has been the subject of some criticism in the United States. [More…]

• The telephone systems in the United States and in Canada are run by private enterprise, as distinct from the mail services which are run by the United States Post Office and the Canadian Post Office. [More…]

• Tariffs in the United States and Canada compare pretty favourably with our tariffs. [More…]

• In the United States the figure is 830, and in Canada it is 780, which is a little less than in the U.S. [More…]

• -The Post Office is now considering arrangements which should provide a superfast mail service for traffic between Australia and the United Kingdom and Australia and the United States of America. [More…]

• It should mean that within 48 hours of the receipt of articles in Sydney and Melbourne those articles would be delivered to areas in the United Kingdom and in the United States. [More…]

• If this be correct, and if Australia is aligned with the United States through the ANZUS Treaty, have the rules for membership of the Third World been changed or is Australia’s policy towards the ANZUS Treaty changing? [More…]

• In the United States of America, committee proceedings have been telecast, but Congress so far has refused to allow its proceedings to be telecast. [More…]

• Worse than that- I am now mentioning a personal communication to myself- a committee of a Parliament with a Westminister type of government, having looked at the telecasting of committee proceedings in the United States, wrote to me and said that the whole system is a disaster area. [More…]

• The Minister’s advisers will know what happens in the United States from time to time. [More…]

• In the United States the Federal Government provides up to 80 per cent of the cost of projects aimed at improving these services. [More…]

• During his overseas visits the Australian Minister for Transport has made a point of investigating urban transport systems in Europe, Canada, the United States and Japan. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Overseas Trade aware that New Zealand is buying wheat from the United States of America because imports of Australian wheat have encountered shipping difficulties? [More…]

• It is true that New Zealand made inquiries about the purchase of United States wheat. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs: Is the United States of America using Cocos Island as a military base? [More…]

• Cocos Island is used by aircraft from some countries- Britain, New Zealand, Australia and United States of America. [More…]

• If we look at the position in the United States, which we seem to follow in many ways, we find that the costs of health care are enormous. [More…]

• For example, there is a book on public housing produced in the United States of America which draws on the experience in that country. [More…]

• We believe, in the words of the great Chief Justice Warren of the Supreme Court of the United States of America in 1964- [More…]

• Its basic principles have been recognised by the Supreme Court of the United States for 10 yean and by an all-party committee of our Parliament for 15 years. [More…]

• I refer on this occasion, as I did on an earlier occasion, to the case of Baker v. Carr in the United States Supreme Court. [More…]

• The United States Supreme Court continued that it would effect: [More…]

• The United States Court also held: [More…]

• When the Prime Minister stood up here and lectured us, as he so often does, about democracy and about what that great Chief Justice Earl Warren said in the Supreme Court of the United States of America, he certainly did not advert to the Supreme Court case of February 1973 involving the State of Virginia. [More…]

• Chief Justice Warren of the Supreme Court of the United States of America has been quoted today by the Prime Minister. [More…]

• In his findings in one case in the Supreme Court of the United States of America, Chief Justice Warren said: [More…]

• The Joint Committee on Constitutional Review, the Supreme Court of the United States and the Federal Council of the Liberal Party of Australia, though that is not exactly a good recommendation, support equality of representation as well. [More…]

• That statement was made by a man who played a very important part in framing the Constitution of the United States of Amenca. [More…]

• The United States Supreme Court has had an opportunity of expressing a legal view on this question on several occasions in recent years. [More…]

• In every single case that has been before the United States Supreme Court it has made the same decision- that the democratic concept will not tolerate the gerrymandering of politicians. [More…]

• In the United States Constitution Convention debate of 1 778 James Madison said: [More…]

• The electors are to be the great body of the people of the United States. [More…]

• I want to comment on the remarks of the honourable member for Phillip (Mr Riordan), who referred to a court decision in the United States of America. [More…]

• We ought to compare our record not only with that of the United States of America but also with that of Canada, Britain and France. [More…]

• Of course, as many know, it was named after Governor Gerry of Massachusetts in the United States of America who approved an electorate which was so distorted to his Party’s advantage that it was in a peculiar shape, looking a little like a salamander. [More…]

• All other countries- France, the United States, Canada and others- have a special loading. [More…]

• Those who drew up our Constitution felt so keenly about the representation of the people that they expressly did not follow the example of the United States Constitution. [More…]

• I point out that members of the United States Senate said that they believed that the people of the district, that is the capital District, should be represented in the House of Representatives but that, the Senate is the forum for the people, that is, that the Senate should represent the States from where the people come. [More…]

• Quick and Garran, an authority quoted at length in this debate, agree with the view put forward by the United States senators. [More…]

• I noticed also that Senator Carrick used the district of Columbia in the United States as an example to support one of his arguments. [More…]

• How marvellous it is that the Opposition uses the United States example when it suits its case. [More…]

• This was a problem that faced the founding fathers of the United States. [More…]

• As a proportion of gross domestic product the cost of Canada’s health services is at this point about the same as in the United States of America, but I repeat that in Canada everyone is covered. [More…]

• In the United States a very large proportion of the public is not covered. [More…]

• More importantly, the rate of increase in costs in Canada is much less than the rate of increase in costs in the United States. [More…]

• If one had to make a comparision to decide which scheme the present Australian scheme was more likethat in Canada or that in the United States- one would have to say that it was more like that of the United States of America. [More…]

• Even the United States of America is in the middle of a rather turbulent debate on the issue of universal health insurance. [More…]

• State governments can confirm- and it is evidenced by the most recent 50 per cent increase in hospital charges- that hospital costs are running away in this country under the present scheme and at a much faster rate, as it happens than in Canada or the United Kingdom or the United States of America against which unfavourable comparisons are so often made. [More…]

• We are determined to ensure that the transition in the United States will not be repeated in Australia, under which major petroleum companies are announcing that they have broadened their activities and objectives to become major energy companies. [More…]

• A point has been reached in the United States where top oil companies own 53 per cent of United States coal production and, through a maze of subsidiaries, control nearly two-thirds of the commercial coal market. [More…]

• Finally, the only people he could interest in this enormous project in the Pilbara was the Kaiser Steel Corporation of the United States of America and Riotinto Zinc Corporation of the United Kingdom. [More…]

• Another aspect which has been of significance in the United States of America and which is almost scandalous in Australia relates to the field of refining technology. [More…]

• I should like to devote my remaining time to a statement made by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) concerning the United States. [More…]

• He said that there is no grip by multinational corporations in the energy sector in the United States. [More…]

• There is a lot of concern in the United States at the moment. [More…]

• Likewise there is a startling revelation as to control of energy components in the United States. [More…]

• However, if we follow the course of the United Kingdom and the United States in mindlessly plundering our raw reserves or, what is worse, do what the parties opposite were doing and, in effect hand the reserves over to others to plunder, we shall deserve to sink to the same wretched position as other countries have found themselves in. [More…]

• As yet no money has been returned to the United States by Clutha. [More…]

• What the miners and I asked during 1971-72 was: If we reversed the situation, would the United States Government allow 2 companies from Australia to come to its country’s shores, mine coal entirely for export and then engage in competition for overseas markets to the detriment of local industry? [More…]

• It can be shown that the so-called energy crisis in the United States of America is really a business crisis or, more properly, a policy crisis. [More…]

• The current energy crisis in the United States is the fifth annual energy crisis. [More…]

• It is the gas stations owned by the smaller companies which are closed in the United States. [More…]

• The top 25 oil companies in the United States now control 84 per cent of all oil, 72 per cent of all gas, 54 per cent of all coal and 80 per cent of all atomic power, together with 60 per cent of all electric power in the United States. [More…]

• In the Parliamentary Library one can read the history of the battle for Lake Superior in the United States. [More…]

• There have been injunctions, actions by 3 State legislatures and an action in the United States Supreme Court- and the mining companies are still going on with their pollution methods. [More…]

• The history of the United States would have been a lot better if a conservationist in the person of Senator Edward Muskie had been elected President instead of what did happen. [More…]

• I believe that Rex Connor will maintain the same high standard as has been maintained by such Secretaries of the Interior in the United States of America as Stewart Udall. [More…]

• It is a Bill which reverses the whole trend and development of trade practices law in this country and adopts an approach peculiar to the United States of America which has existed in that country since 1891. [More…]

• But the Bill does not introduce the refinements and the qualifications which experience of that law in the United States have shown to be necessary. [More…]

• The experience of Great Britain, where it took 10 years to examine all the agreements which were put on the register in order to find out whether or not those agreements were consistent with the public interest, and the experience of the United States of America, where it took 20 years before they first found that there had to be some test of reasonableness in the otherwise broad restraints of trade which were laid down by the Sherman Act, are indications to Australia that we cannot expect to have effective legislation in this area unless we allow a suitable time to elapse in which the principles are formulated by the timehonoured method of trial and error. [More…]

• It was 1978 and, according to Buchwald’s prescience, corporate power had become so concentrated in the United States that, after numerous mergers, only two corporations remained: Samson Securities west of the Mississippi and the Delilah Company east of the Mississippi. [More…]

• Buchwald’s piece ends with this announcement from the Attorney-General: While we find drawbacks to only one company being left in the United States, we feel the advantages to the public far outweigh the disadvantages. [More…]

• I would like to announce that the Samson and Delilah Company is now negotiating at the White House with the President to buy the United States. [More…]

• After a long battle in the courts by the trade unions it was finally decided by the Supreme Court of the United States of America in 1909 that the trade unions were the subject of restrictive trade practices legislation in the form of the Sherman Act, as were commercial organisations. [More…]

• Similar legislation went through a long travail in the United States where it is in keen discussion at the present time. [More…]

• I think that we are all aware that there has been a growing amount of controversy in Australia and in the United Kingdomand one could almost say that it is an issue which has captivated the United States of America in recent years- about the extent to which persons discharging public obligations and responsibilities should disclose what are their private interests which may be in conflict with their public duties. [More…]

• The Robinson-Patman amendments were introduced in the late 1930s in the United States of America. [More…]

• I am reading from ‘Anti-Trust Laws of the United States of America’ by A. D. Neale and neither I nor my advisers can find the reference which Senator Greenwood has said was in the Robinson Patman Act. [More…]

• It is pointed out that nobody in the United States of America can censor a newspaper. [More…]

• In the United States, as Senator Wright has indicated, in the Norris-La Guardia Acts the same approach was taken. [More…]

• According to the information which I have been able to obtain the Union Insurance Group of the United States holds a 14.9 per cent interest in the company and we understand that it is reinsuring 95 per cent of the policies which are underwritten by the Oak Insurance Ltd. [More…]

• The other interests, apart from the Union Insurance Group of the United States, are Caravan and General Finance which holds 35 per cent of the shares, a Mr Robert Dillon who holds 15 per cent, CIL Brokerage which holds 10 per cent, Wyong Road Holdings Pty Ltd which holds 15. [More…]

• Is it a fact that New Zealand, which is normally a 100 per cent purchaser of Australian wheat, has purchased 13,500 tonnes of United States hard red winter wheat, which will be the first United States wheat to enter New Zealand for decades? [More…]

• It is important to note in this context that the countries which agreed in a limited sense to act as guarantors of the Agreements- the additional participants in the International Conference of February-March 1973- as well as the United States, North and South Vietnam and the PRG, all saw fit to include in the final act of the conference a penultimate sentence which read: ‘Signature of this Act does not constitute recognition of any party in any case in which it has not previously been accorded . [More…]

• The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexion. [More…]

• The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]

• The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States-Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]

• Whereas the Governments of the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognized the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by the Soviet Union, it has been announced from Moscow that the Australian Government is now recognizing them as part of the Soviet Union. [More…]

• The problem which besets government in a modern society, whether large or small, whether in the United States of America or in Australia or New Zealand, is that of Parliament being able to match the techniques that are available to the Government. [More…]

• In the United States it received great credit. [More…]

• The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: WHEREAS THE Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]

• The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]

• The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic [More…]

• Whereas the Governments of the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognized the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by the Soviet Union, it has been announced from Moscow that the Australian Government is now recognizing them as part of the Soviet Union. [More…]

• The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]

• The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]

• Why has Australia departed from the course of action which France, Britain, Canada and the United States have followed? [More…]

• What would happen in the case of an Australian in the United States of America, Great Britain, Canada or New Zealand- in any of those countries- who kept repeating, even telling the whole world on television, that he wanted to go back to Australia? [More…]

• The policies of the former government were geared to a colonial era in which Australia dared take no action unless either Britain or the United States moved first. [More…]

• I do not wish to accuse the Minister of untruths but at one stage he did say that in the past Australia took no action unless the United States of America or the United Kingdom moved first. [More…]

• Australia, long before the United States and the United Kingdom, was one of the first countries to recognise the independence of Bangladesh. [More…]

• The United Kingdom, the United States of America and all European countries with the exception of Sweden, Finland and Switzerland have also refused to recognise the incorporation. [More…]

• This may well explain many of the recent rather odd policy decisions of the Government, such as the recognition of the incorporation of the Baltic states, the recognition of North Vietnam and the assumption of diplomatic relations with that country as well as with Algeria which is the headquarters of the Third World, the attacks on the United States in relation to Diego Garcia which were made with complete disregard of the fact that the actions of the United States are in response to increased Russian naval presence. [More…]

• I refer also to the Prime Minister’s speech earlier when he made representations to both the Soviet Union and the United States and said that the situation is hopeful. [More…]

• There is instability in other countries, including the United States of America. [More…]

• This has been commented upon in the newspapers in the United States, the United Kingdom and all over the world. [More…]

• Does anyone suggest that if there were an Australian in the United States of America who was in a similar position that the officials of the Australian Embassy would take that Australian, hold him and not allow him freedom of movement? [More…]

• We were, as everybody knows, quite slavish to the United States of America in situations in which we should not have been. [More…]

• We have got our political relations right with the United States, with Japan, with China, with Indonesia- with the United States, the most powerful nation in earth, with Japan, our greatest trading partner, with China, the most populous nation on earth, with Indonesia, the great next door neighbour of ours . [More…]

• If Russia had your Government I reckon the Russians would probably rush off to the United States of America and make an alliance with that country straight away. [More…]

• These amounts are to be paid in the national currency of each member country up to the equivalent of the amounts in United States dollars specified in the attached table, which I ask leave of the Senate to have incorporated in Hansard. [More…]

• I make some comment on clause 3 of the Bill, which sets the rate based upon tUe rate of exchange between the Australian foliar and the United States dollar in November 1973. [More…]

• The documents which I have, and which no doubt are available in the Parliamentary Library, indicate that the United States of America and Canada have very strict controls residing in their national governments for the sort of management of uranium resources that the Australian Minister is seeking here. [More…]

• I do not believe that the United States of America is limited by the reference to defence as is this provision outside territories under Commonwealth control. [More…]

• The results led to the establishment of the Radium Hill mining project in 1954, producing uranium oxide yellow cake from the United States-United Kingdom combined development agency over a period of 7 years. [More…]

• The project was financed by the United Kingdom and the United States Governments. [More…]

• Rum Jungle operation in the Northern Territory about the same time as Radium Hill, and later the mines of Mary Kathleen in Queensland and on the South Alligator River in the Northern Territory, all of which had contracts to supply the United Kingdom or the United States government agencies. [More…]

• All these early uranium contracts terminated about 1964 as a result of stockpile sufficiency and lower cost supplies being available chiefly from Canada in respect of the United States and United Kingdom markets. [More…]

• The fact is that in Japan and the United States of America, the chief markets for the uranium of which we have such great supplies, there is an extremely cool attitude towards Australia exporting the enriched product. [More…]

• We know that whatever mistakes we have made in Australia, they were more than compounded in the nineteenth century in Kentucky and in other States in the United States by what they call strip mining; we call it open cut mining. [More…]

• The Department of Foreign Affairs has maintained contact for a number of years with the Governments of the United States, Britain and Canada on this question, and consultations took place with these governments before the Australian Government took its recent decision on this matter. [More…]

• The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]

• I inform the Senate that the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Willesee, will be absent from Australia until 14 October on a visit to the United States and the United Kingdom. [More…]

• In the United States of America it is common practice to have an escalation clause in respect of prices and wages. [More…]

• This situation applied to other big producing countries also, such as the United States of America and Canada. [More…]

• He served with the Australian Imperial Force during the First World War, and during the Second World War he was appointed liaison officer with the United States force. [More…]

• The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]

• I inform the Senate that the Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, will be absent from Australia until 1 5 October on a visit to the United States of America, Canada and Fiji. [More…]

• It is reported that her father is an American citizen resident in the United States. [More…]

• Has the Leader of the Government noticed in the Press a report that the broker handling the sale in the United States said that if Australia had bargained more toughly on this purchase it could have been bought for a sum considerably less than the $650,000. [More…]

• The painting was inspected by the Director of the Australian National Gallery, Mr James Mollison, during a recent visit to the United States of America. [More…]

• But the Government last year declined to accept the offerand its owners, the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration had to sell it for scrap. [More…]

• One wonders whether there was some political bias on the part of this Government because the telescope was offered by the United States space agency. [More…]

• At the same time we have seen in the last week or so leaders on the United States scene warning of the very grave dangers facing us in respect of the fuel and energy resources of the world and telling us how they are concentrated in a few hands. [More…]

• I thought that the appropriate thing to do would be to consult people that I had met in the United States of America when I visited that country as a member of a delegation in 1971. [More…]

• Solar energy could provide at least a fifth of the United States’ total fuel needs by the year 2020, the US Government Solar Energy Panel reported here today. [More…]

• Australia is far more suitable for the use of solar energy than even the United States and I might tell even Senator Sim a little about that in a moment. [More…]

• The United States Senate today passed a Bill to double the US Government ‘s funds for solar energy research. [More…]

• why is it that one hears always about the developments of atomic energy in the United States and Europe, rather than of solar power? [More…]

• There is abundant evidence to show that the United States and other powerful international financial interests in the post-war years have deliberately set out to create a surplus money supply. [More…]

• In the 1950s and the 1960s, basically the United States economy was characterised by approximate stability of prices; and this exercised a stabilising influence on world prices. [More…]

• And the inflation tax has fallen on the whole world economy, not merely the citizens of the United States. [More…]

• The world inflation, then, can be attributed largely to a change towards the inflationary behaviour on the part of the United States. [More…]

• Whereas the Governments of the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognized the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States of Estonia. [More…]

• He wrote an article which appeared in ‘Time’ magazine in the United States of America in which he described the artist as the greatest living painter. [More…]

• Is the Government aware that the United States Government, with an inflation rate only half that of Australia, has promised to prune its spending by US$5,400m this financial year? [More…]

• Can the Minister inform the Senate if this policy has been successful in achieving distribution of Film Australia films in the United States? [More…]

• The program was shown in evening peak viewing time over a network of some 55 television stations throughout the United States. [More…]

• That the Department of Transport be asked to advise on commercially viable ways in which improved transportation of books from Britain and the United States of America may be brought about. [More…]

• Japan, the United States of America, France, the Netherlands and the Federal Republic of Germany. [More…]

• I was able to produce some evidence to show that world economists, in analysing the problems facing the economies of the world, were stressing that the surplus money supply situation created deliberately by the American Government had now flowed into the economies of all the other countries tradingwith the United States of America. [More…]

• There is something very wrong when we find Mr Baker of Mainline squealing and asking for a handout from this Government, and then he goes over to Long Island in the United States of America to live it up. [More…]

• I do not wish to be disparaging of Senator Drake-Brockman, because I like him as a man, but the general attitude of the Country Party and the Liberal Party to our relations with the United States has been to say: ‘Look, if the Labor Party takes on the Americans in relation to differences on foreign policy, the Americans will get even with us by means of trade’. [More…]

• Honourable senators should look at the figures for meat imports to the United States from Australia. [More…]

• It ignores the destabilisation of all capitalist economies which flowed from the declining strength of the American dollar, which was a direct consequence of the reckless distribution of $60 billion worth of paper currency throughout the world, chiefly to finance the United States’ immoral adventures in IndoChina, which I understand were warmly applauded by virtually every member of the present Opposition in this Parliament. [More…]

• In December 1971 the McMahon Government caved in to political blackmail from an unrepresentative minority party which was concerned with the protection of its eroding electoral base and the interests of its financial backers, who had been foolish enough to write long term contracts in United States dollars in the late 1 960s. [More…]

• At that time Mr Anthony was telling the wheat growers that he would not sell his soul for trade by desisting from insulting the Chinese, the previous Government had worked its way out of its major wheat market, and Mr Anthony called off the professional lobbyist that the Australian Wheat Board was employing in the United States because, as Mr Anthony told a meeting of the executive of the Farmers’ Union of Western Australia, he was starting to embarrass the Americans. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister representing the Prime Minister: Is it a further measure of the contempt of the Government for this Parliament and for the Australian people that the Prime Minister has disclosed to a Press conference in the United States of America important and controversial details of his Government’s recent talks with the Shah of Iran rather than first reporting those details to this Parliament? [More…]

• One of them came from the United States of America. [More…]

• She holds university degrees from universities in both Australia and the United States of America. [More…]

• As the benefits which are being paid are based on the same principles it would seem to be quite suitable to use this one set of terminology - a practice which in fact is followed in the United States, New Zealand and Canada where the word ‘veteran’ is commonly used to describe all of those people who are eligible for the various benefits. [More…]

• All the member countries in the region- the Asian countries- are very happy with the way the organisation is proceeding, as are the non-regional countries such as the United States of America, Great Britain, New Zealand and Australia. [More…]

• The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]

• Whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]

• Israel, the United States of America, Bolivia and the Dominican Republic were the only countries which voted against the resolution. [More…]

• The Government has taken all possible steps to reactivate the markets, especially in Japan and the United States of America. [More…]

• It does not happen in the United Kingdom, the United States of America or Canada. [More…]

• Honourable senators opposite expect some magic kind of formula to be advanced to overcome a problem which is unable to be dealt with by the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, other developed countries, or the developing countries. [More…]

• In the United States there are riots in the prisons. [More…]

• It is true that there are commitments and that there are some banning provisions in the United States of America and Canada because civil air transport is allowed over their territories only on condition that no sonic boom effects will be encountered on the ground below the aircraft. [More…]

• Is the honourable senator unaware that inflation is raging all around the world, particularly in countries such as Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom? [More…]

• Honourable senators may also care to note that the Bill provides for amendments to the Schedule to the United States Naval Communication Station (Civilian Employees) Act 1971-1973. [More…]

• This Act is a companion piece of legislation which extends the terms of the Compensation (Australian Government Employees) Act to civilian employees employed by the United States Navy in connection with the naval communication station. [More…]

• What Senator Greenwood and the Opposition are saying is that all of the people employed by Film Australia and all of the productions of Film Australia are to be put in the same category as films from South Africa, United States, Canada, China or wherever it might be. [More…]

• Taking the figures that she has given and the situation in the United States of America which is even more extreme, she concludes: [More…]

• Not so very long ago Mr G. J. F. Yuill of the Attorney-General’s Department went to the United States of America and Canada. [More…]

• Among the legislatures which have adopted this ground either as a sole ground or the main ground in the United States of America are the States of California, Florida, Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, Texas, New York, Alaska and Oklahoma. [More…]

• There are many variations in the United States, but significantly there is a body known as the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, approved by the council of the American Bar Association, which on 9 November 1972 proposed that the dissolution of marriage should be granted only on the one ground of irretrievable breakdown. [More…]

• The vast majority of divorce actions are undefended- the percentage varies slightly from country to country, but in England, Germany, France, Canada, the United States and, indeed, most western countries, it is in excess of 90 per cent. [More…]

• Just recently in New Zealand I happened to meet Senator Vance Hartke, the Chairman of the United States Senate Veteran Affairs Committee. [More…]

• He was one of the first members of the United States Congress to come out in total opposition to American participation in the Vietnam War. [More…]

• as Chairman of the United States Senate Veteran Affairs Committee, was responsible for a Bill which passed through both Houses of the United States Congress, giving adequate repatriationtype benefits to the American veterans of the Vietnam War. [More…]

• I found to my dismay that the United Kingdom and the United States of America had done it some dme before. [More…]

• So my motivation was hardly left wing because the United Kingdom and the United States had done a lot more than we had done. [More…]

• The United States of America, with its tremendous and rising gross national product, does not get near that figure of 07 per cent. [More…]

• Nobody would suggest that the United States of America does not really pull its weight in regard to foreign aid. [More…]

• I am specifically seeking alternative methods which could be used to relieve the position of those producers who are entirely dependent on beef production, especially in the northern part of Australia where they have a sole dependence on beef production and have been hit heavily by the decline in the export market to the United States of America. [More…]

• I refer to the Deputy Prime Minister’s pending visit to the United States and other countries to persuade overseas enterprises to invest in Australia. [More…]

• The studies have been conducted in the United States of America at Boston under the Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Program, in Finland and in the United Kingdom. [More…]

• The second point is that the complication was first recognised in the United States of America. [More…]

• In the United States of America 6 deaths were reported to the Food and Drug Administration which is the authority responsible for regulating therapeutic substances in the United States. [More…]

• As the company involved has voluntarily suspended sales of the device in the United States, why has it not suspended sales in this country? [More…]

• What is the virtue in protecting the women of the United States of America and not offering the same protection to the women of Australia? [More…]

• I think it appropriate under these circumstances for the company to apply to Australia the same kind of standards that it has applied in the United States and that is to withdraw the substance, to clarify the situation, to find whether this is a true complication of the apparatus and, if it is a complication, to withdraw it completely. [More…]

• In fact, if it is good enough to take this product off the market in the United States there is no real justification for keeping it on the market here. [More…]

• We saw high inflation in the United States of America and in England. [More…]

• It was very interesting that he said that the vote lamentably betrayed Australia’s interests, so admirably defended by the representatives of Great Britain, the United States and France. [More…]

• I was very pleased to note that countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States of America and France did veto such a motion. [More…]

• Would not Mr Butz, the Secretary of Agriculture who represented the United States, or Dr Kissinger have rung through and spoken to President Ford if he saw the need to do so? [More…]

• Normally, a central element in the financing arrangements is the participation in them by the Export-Import Bank of the United States, which specialises in providing credit on terms tailored to assist in financing the purchase of such items of capital equipment as Boeing 727 aircraft. [More…]

• A central element in the financing arrangements has been the participation in them by the Export-Import Bank of the United States, which specialises in providing credit on terms tailored to assist in financing the purchase of such items of capital equipment as Boeing 747 aircraft. [More…]

• It is a new development in Australian politics, similar to the politics of certain well known places in the United States of America. [More…]

• I know that in the United States of America the Quakers have written a manual on it called The Struggle for Justice’. [More…]

• United States have formed associations and they are now campaigning for alterations in the law and especially in the prison system. [More…]

• Whereas the Government of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]

• The association between Rauwolfia derivatives and breast cancer was first drawn to the Committee’s attention late in September 1974 following publication in the ‘Lancet’- 21 September issue- of the results of 3 epidemiological studies, one based on United States hospital admissions, another on Finnish data, and the third on United Kingdom data. [More…]

• But there has been some delay in releasing that report and allowing the product back on the market in the United States. [More…]

• Referring specifically to an incident during the recent visit to China of the Deputy Prime Minister (Dr J. F. Cairns), the Deputy Leader of the Country Party called on the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) to comment on whether a member of the Deputy Prime Minister’s staff had punched an exhibitor at the Aus.tralian Trade Fair in Peking, had assaulted the Australian Ambassador Dr. Stephen Fitzgerald and had also assaulted an American diplomat attached to the United States mission in Peking. [More…]

• The Deputy Prime Minister has this week been visiting the United States. [More…]

• The Deputy Prime Minister has this week been visiting the United States. [More…]

• 1 ) Did the Minister for Defence promise a delegation of shipbuilding workers on 20 September 1972 that a series of small naval vessels would be built in Australia to patrol the Australian coast-line in a manner similar to that of the United States Coast Guard. [More…]

• Has the Government now ordered two patrol frigates from the United States of America. [More…]

• The answer to the honourable senator’s question is as follows: (1), (2), (3) and (4) The Government’s decision to purchase two patrol frigates from the United States of America was taken only after a thorough examination of all the factors involved. [More…]

• By entering the United States program the Australian Government will be sharing in a larger ship production run based on a well researched development program with the attendant benefits of lower technical risk, cost savings, and product support. [More…]

• A contract for the purchase of the vessels has not yet been negotiated with the United States. [More…]

• A Memorandum of Arrangements has been signed with the United States Deputy Secretary of Defence which meets our firm intent to proceed with the purchase only if satisfactory technical, financial and contractual conditions can be negotiated. [More…]

• I ask: Is it not a fact that Australian-American relations were always excellent until last year when Dr Cairns and other senior Ministers severely criticised the United States Administration? [More…]

• Does this indicate a change of view on the part of Dr Cairns and other senior Ministers towards the United States? [More…]

• -The implication of the question is, of course, that there has been some deterioration in the relationship between this country and the United States over the past 18 months. [More…]

• I have been in the United States 3 times in that period and the last impression I would get would be any sense of antagonism or frustration in relationships between the 2 countries. [More…]

• This does not mean any slavish acceptance of everything done by the United States or of United States policies. [More…]

• -Normally there is participation by the United States Government through the Export-Import Bank but this source apparently is not available at present. [More…]

• One might imagine that one of the reasons for the hurried visit to the United States, to New York, by the Deputy Prime Minister, Dr J. F. Cairns, was to discuss this, amongst other things. [More…]

• I do not think the remark made here earlier in question time to the effect that nobody had been more conducive to good relations with the United States than Dr Cairns is a satisfactorily reliable remark. [More…]

• I would have thought that the utterances of Dr Cairns in the early days of this Government and in his time in Opposition would have been most conducive to the United States regarding us as a banana republic. [More…]

• On February 14 1973 we did not depreciate with the United States of America, so in effect we appreciated by 1 1 per cent against the U.S. dollar. [More…]

• I note that according to the ‘Age’ of 16th of this month Mr Garlick, the industrial officer of the Civil Air Operations Officers’ Association, when advocating a civil aviation agency similar to the Federal Aviation Agency in the United States, said that aviation safety standards in Australia were going down hill and the best way to stop this was to establish a new civil aviation body. [More…]

• There are references to the ExportImport Bank of the United States of America. [More…]

• If the concept of a family court is derived from American experience we ought to look at what America has done and in particular, because I see him as an adviser in this chamber at the moment, at that admirable report made some years ago by an officer of the Attorney-General’s Department, Mr Yuill, in which the various family courts and the differences in concept from State to State in the United States were elaborated. [More…]

• The concept of a ‘family court’ is well established in the United States of America, Canada and Japan though there are variations in the proceedings and powers. [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…]

• -I ask the Minister for the Media whether Mr Nicholas Johnson, a former Commissioner of the United States Federal Communications Commission is in Australia at the invitation of the Australian Government and of the Minister. [More…]

• Was not Mr Johnson, when a member of the Federal Communications Commission, a controversial figure in this area of activity in the United States? [More…]

• It is true that Mr Nicholas Johnson, a former member of the Federal Communications Commission of the United States of America, now chairman of that country’s National Citizens Committee for Broadcasting, is in Australia at the invitation of the Australian Government and, in particular, at my invitation as Minister for the Media. [More…]

• Mr Nicholas Johnson, who has taken such an influential place in United States media activities, has been invited to participate. [More…]

• It is true that Mr Johnson has a reputation for being a very forthright personality in the United States, particularly in the time that he was a member of the Federal Communications Commission. [More…]

• I understand he had discussions on financial matters in the United States. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present an exchange of notes between the Australian and United States governments providing for amendments to the agreement of 9 May 1963 relating to the establishment of a United States naval communication station in Australia, together with a statement by the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) on those amendments. [More…]

• If we read the world news we see what is happening in Japan, with its enormous rate of inflation, and in the United States, but we have to come into the Senate to hear a senator actually say that it is all propaganda to claim that inflation is world wide and that inflation is being imported. [More…]

• I am advised that in the United States these compulsory powers in regard to counselling have been done away with because experience has proved that it is not the way to go about this matter. [More…]

• However, experience in the United States indicates that these are rarely used, if at all.’ [More…]

• As a result, a number of contracts have been won by Australians for recording performances in the United States. [More…]

• I understand that arrangements are being made for a number of Australian performers to take entertainment contracts in the United States. [More…]

• If the honourable senator knows anything about the entertainment industry within the United States he will know that that is an extremely difficult area for a foreigner to break into. [More…]

• There is clear evidence that significant export opportunities are being lost in this field because of the absence in Australia of export financing facilities similar to those provided in such countries as the United States of America, Canada, Japan and Britain. [More…]

• Because the contribution authorised for the United States of America is US$1,500m or one-third of the total sought, this means, in effect, that the fourth replenishment will only become effective, and other countries will only be required to contribute to IDA, as and when the United States formally notifies IDA that it has taken all the necessary legislative steps to enable it to participate on the basis of the agreement reached at Nairobi last year. [More…]

• Despite an early set-back, legislation authorising the United States to contribute a further US$ 1,500m to IDA under the fourth replenishment was eventually passed by Congress on 3 1 July 1974. [More…]

• In the meantime, the United States has not been able to give the formal notification required. [More…]

• For example, on top of the landing charge for a Boeing 747 of $A449 at Honolulu there is a communications charge of $53 Australian, a passenger holding area charge of $25, a baggage claim area charge of $13, a Customs overtime charge of $48, plus a United States transportation charge (paid by passenger) of $3 per head. [More…]

• At San Francisco where the landing fee for a Boeing 747 is $216, the communications charge is $3 1, passenger holding area charge is $109 plus amortisation and interest on capital expenditure made there by Qantas of $193, a baggage claim area charge of $41, Customs overtime $137, United States transportation tax of $3 per head plus a San Mateo County Property tax of $ 1 34. [More…]

• Whereas the governments of the United Kingdom, United States of America. [More…]

• The period of 12 months separation was selected for the United States Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act as the criterion of irretrievable breakdown. [More…]

• In the United States - [More…]

• And this is an indication of where the United States position is quite contrary to what the Attorney-General is urging on Australia, and he is urging a vastly more liberal position in Australia- [More…]

• In the United States the courts seem consistently to have held that the ground of separation is not available where the parties have occupied the same house. [More…]

• Compared to the deposit paid in the United States and other countries, I think we are going too high. [More…]

• I was interested to read a series of articles which some time ago I requested our library service to obtain from the United States about the care of elderly people in that country. [More…]

• This provision is greatly welcomed by manufacturing industry because a number of Australia’s major competitors, particularly in the United States of America, Canada, Japan and Britain are already providing similar types of financial arrangements at concessional rates of interest and on concessional conditions to assist their own exporters. [More…]

• Has the Minister seen reports that unemployment has risen during 1974 in France by 40 per cent, in Italy and in the United States of America by 25 per cent and in Japan by more than one million persons? [More…]

• The honourable senator also tries to hide the fact that inflation and unemployment are problems in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Italy and all the other developed countries. [More…]

• In recent days we have had the opportunity of meeting a guest from the United States of America, Mr Nicholas Johnson, who was brought to this country by the Department of the Media for a conference which it had arranged. [More…]

• 1 had the opportunity to meet briefly this representative of a consumer group in the United States. [More…]

• Clause 25 arises from the need to overcome a problem which virtually prevents the employment of United States nationals in Commonwealth departments. [More…]

• But if an American citizen does so he loses his United States nationality. [More…]

• As the professional and technical skills required on certain Commonwealth projects of national importance are sometimes most readily available by the use of limited numbers of United States personnel, it is desirable to permit temporary employment, without requiring the taking of the oath or affirmation, in appropriate cases. [More…]

• What I wish to put to the Attorney-General in point blank terms is: Let us take the case of Ehrlichman in the United States of America, who was an officer of the United States Government. [More…]

• He took it upon himself as an individual citizen, not as an officer of the Government, to extract all the relevant documents relating to the security of the United States of America. [More…]

• I ought to mention that according to a note which the Parliamentary Library supplied to me British civil servants, whilst they are not required to take an oath of allegiance, are nevertheless required to sign a document incorporating an oath of allegiance with certain statutory requirements of the Official Secrets Act and that a form of oath or allegience is demanded of the United States civil servants. [More…]

• An indication of this concern was demonstrated by the Endangered Species Convention which was held last year in the United States. [More…]

• They shall be unenforceable therefore in the United States of America. [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…]

• We can do things in Australia without being the sort of derivative society that we were under the Liberal-Country Party Government that borrowed all its ideas from the United States of America or the United Kingdom. [More…]

• Have we forgotten so soon the man who sent out that impassioned cry across the world to the United States of America- ‘in the name of God and humanity send us aid’? [More…]

• In developing the impact statement procedure we have noted difficulties that have accompanied its use in the United States. [More…]

• I know that there are difficulties in certain areas, and as far as the United States market in the future is concerned it may be that we will have to process our wool to a certain stage in order to enter that market to any great extent. [More…]

• Wool processing plants in the United States are going out of production. [More…]

• As the classic example of a Securities and Exchange Commission is to be found in the United States of America, due regard has been paid to the laws and practices in that country. [More…]

• In its consideration of those matters my Department has been fortunate in having assistance from eminent persons from the United States of America. [More…]

• Freedman, a former senior officer of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. [More…]

• Louis Loss, Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard University and the author of an authoritative work on the securities industry in the United States. [More…]

• There is a need, which was recognised long ago in the United States and in the First Interim Report of the Eggleston Committee, for an expert body with continuity of existence to be charged with a responsibility for seeing that the laws are kept up to date at all times. [More…]

• In the United States of America this has been recognized. [More…]

• Other countries like the United States of America have long ago prohibited insider trading and this Bill now adopts a similar approach. [More…]

• Experience in the United States of America has shown that this is an important area of securities legislation and I envisage that the Commission will give consideration to improved legislation at an early date. [More…]

• The latter provision is in line with the law in the United States. [More…]

• I refer to the Deputy Prime Minister’s pending visit to the United States and other countries to persuade overseas enterprises to invest in Australia. [More…]

• Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United States of America, Yugoslavia. [More…]

• -Has the Minister representing the Treasurer seen reports of statements by a senior Opposition parliamentarian on a visit to the United States of America denigrating Australia and its economic situation? [More…]

• Had these electorates been distributed in a way which was compatible with democracy- honourable senators will recall the great declarations by the Supreme Court of the United States of America that an election by the people means that there must be equal electoratesthe coalition would have gained 52 seats and the Australian Labor Party 30 seats. [More…]

• Has the Minister seen reports of Mr Henry Ford’s annual statement to the motor vehicle industry in the United States of America in which he has commented on the downturn in that industry? [More…]

• I think that some 100,000 workers in the United States have been laid off in the motor vehicle industry. [More…]

• To illustrate, AIDC has just announced a United States dollar public issue of 7-year AIDC notes in the European capital market. [More…]

• The amount is US$25m- approximately A$ 19m- which makes it one of the largest United States dollar issues on the market in the conditions of today. [More…]

• The AIDC notes are the first of any recent United States dollar issue in Europe to be priced at par rather than at a discount. [More…]

• With legislation for certain borrowings from the United States Export-Import Bank and with guarantees to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development for borrowings by Papua New Guinea, it has been possible to schedule to the legislation the agreements for the loans. [More…]

• If we go beyond the Australian and New Zealand situations we find that enormous subsidies are provided to the dairying industry in the United States and in Canada and that in the European Economic Community approximately $ 1,000m to $2,000m is expended on dairying subsidies- a situation which, on occasions in the past, has enabled the dairying industry from the Community countries to compete by virtually dumping in some of the traditional markets of the Australian industry. [More…]

• That whereas the Governments of the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and many European countries have not recognised the unlawful annexation of the Baltic States- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia- by the Soviet Union, the Prime Minister of Australia has authorised the de jure recognition of this annexation. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that in 1 96 1 Mr Anslinger, the head of the United States Bureau of Narcotics, alleged that the Chinese communists were responsible for the supply of at least 65 per cent of the illicit narcotic traffic throughout the world and that similar allegations were made in the 13 September 1964 issue of ‘Pravda’ and in 1972 by Dr Peter Chapple of the National Drug Administration and Drug Centre in London? [More…]

• A number of those productions are now being shown in the United States. [More…]

• Film Australia’s North American advertising campaign is due to get under way this month and there are about 30 commercial advertisements on behalf of Film Australia going into United States educational magazines. [More…]

• If one studies the works of Stewart Udall, who was an extremely distinguished United States Secretary of the Interior- he had a much bigger area of power than our fragmented system in Australia allows- one will see that there are some questions to be answered. [More…]

• 1 simply conclude my remarks with a quotation by a former United States Secretary of the Interior. [More…]

• One of the largest United States dollar issues in Europe under current market conditions, the terms are equal to that of international issues guaranteed by national governments. [More…]

• Our inflation and unemployment are to a large extent linked with the present economic recession in the United States and much of Western Europe. [More…]

• It must affect our trading relations with the Western powers and the United States of America. [More…]

• Nobody mentions the economic position in the United States today, the great image of the free traders and the people who talk about free enterprise, because unemployment there is somewhere between 7 per cent and 10 per cent, even on all sorts of variable bases. [More…]

• In the United States it was 4.8 per cent at the end of 1973 and currently it is over 7 per cent. [More…]

• The number of people out of work in the United States last month- 6.5 million- was the highest since 1 940. [More…]

• I remind the people that the unemployment figure in Germany is 5 per cent, in Belgium 5.4 per cent, in Denmark 9.2 per cent, in France 5.3 per cent, in Italy 6.3 per cent, in Ireland 8 per cent and in the United States of America 8.2 per cent. [More…]

• They are the ones who always parade the virtues of the United States of America. [More…]

• It is decided in the boardrooms of Firestone Australia Pty Ltd, Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co. (Australia) Ltd and other companies in Canada and the United States that they will stockpile tyres here. [More…]

• I remind honourable senators of one particular Liberal Prime Minister who was saying: ‘All the way with LBJ I have talked to members of the United States diplomatic corps and they admit they would sooner us be honest about ourselves. [More…]

• It is true that Australian beef faces a virtual embargo by the European Economic Community, Japan and the United States. [More…]

• It has been suggested- there may be some truth in the charge- that we have offended some sections of the political spectrum in the United States, particularly the criminals of Watergate who have since been removed from office. [More…]

• The logic of the myth falls to the ground when we realise that the United States market is closed not only to Australian beef but to beef from every other country. [More…]

• Mr Butler informs us that the Jews controlled the Nazi movement, that Adolf Hitler was the illegitimate son of Baron Rothschild, that the Jews controlled world capitalism, the United States Reserve Bank, the Nazi Luftwaffe and founded the Jesuit order. [More…]

• The policy of the Repatriation Commission on the use of acupuncture for repatriation beneficiaries was based on the report which was issued in 1974 by the National Health and Medical Research Council and which followed, as Senator Baume has reminded us, a visit by an investigating team which studied the subject in Korea, China, Hong Kong and the United States. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the United States Government has asked Australia to make up its mind about the installation of an Omega navigational transmitter in this country? [More…]

• Will the United States of America in particular accept imports if it is satisfied that Australia’s kangaroo harvesting program is designed to protect the species? [More…]

• Particular attention has been given to the experiences of the United States and Canada and in essence this Bill demonstrates the Government’s willingness to benefit from recent legislative advances made by other countries in this field. [More…]

• The Government is, of course, particularly mindful of those happenings in the United States which have been characterised collectively as the Watergate affair’. [More…]

• Under the United States of America Federal Election Campaign Act 1971, laws requiring strict financial reporting of sources of campaign funds took effect on and from 7 April 1972. [More…]

• I mentioned earlier that laws requiring strict financial reporting in the United States took effect on and from 7 April 1972. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Foreign Affairs aware that the United States of America Secretary of State, Dr Kissinger, and President Ford have both confirmed that the United States Government is, if needs be, prepared to intervene militarily in the Middle East to secure access to oil in that region? [More…]

• Further, will he give consideration to making a statement to the Parliament assuring the Australian people that in the event of the United States carrying out its threat under no circumstances will Australian military forces be committed to aid or abet such intervention and /or any consequential action? [More…]

• -My understanding of the talks that have taken place regarding the Middle East crisis in oil in which Dr Kissinger was very outspoken right from the beginning has never been- and I think there was a denial of this by the United States- that it was the intention of the American Government to use force in this situation. [More…]

• The High Court was not confined, as is the Supreme Court of the United States of America, to federal or constitutional cases. [More…]

• I have practised in the Privy Council since before the war, and I have now sat judicially both in the House of Lords and in the Privy Council in cases in which I have had to compare and cite authorities from Britain, the United States, Ireland, Canada, Australia and the Caribbean. [More…]

• He will go down in history not only in this country, not only in England, but I think I can speak for Judge Wisdom in saying, in the United States, as one of the great illuminators of the common law of this century. [More…]

• I put it to the Government that that has been the experience in the United States of America. [More…]

• There has been at least one amendment to the United States laws on this matter and there may well have been others. [More…]

• I invite the Senate to think of what the Foreign Minister of this country would say if this had happened to the Prime Minister or members of his touring party when visiting the United States of America or if they happened to be visiting Great Britain. [More…]

• As I have said, if this had happened in the United States of America I would lay odds to anybody that there would be a most outraged indignation emanating from members of the Australian Government. [More…]

• recall that it was the United States of America with the most complicated laws for the disclosure of political funds which suffered the tragic experience of the fate of both the President and the Vice-President? [More…]

• He seemed to be expressing the regret of the Opposition parties that former VicePresident Agnew and former President Nixon had been found out because of laws in the United States similar to this proposed law. [More…]

• This is a subject to which I wish to direct my attention, and during my remarks I will quote extensively from a book recently published entitled ‘No Final Victories’ by Lawrence O’Brien who is identified as a campaign director for former United States Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. [More…]

• I do not mind how hard people play politics but I resent people like Randolph Hearst, a few years ago in the United States of America, and Hancock in Western Australia feeling that they have the answer to our political ills. [More…]

• O’Brien found that when the Nixon machine was working in top gear the Democrats were virtually blackmailed off the United States television channels because Spiro Agnew and the big business people threatened to apply sanctions on the big television networks if they gave the Democrats a semblance of fair play. [More…]

• It sums up what Mr O’Brien feels is necessary to improve the electoral practices in the United States. [More…]

• People in Australia simply fill in a card and send it to the Chief Electoral Officer to get their names on the electoral roll, whereas I understand that in the United States one must go to a registry, which is tedious. [More…]

• Because it is expressed well, I should like to refer to a speech which was made by a senior Republican senator from Utah in the United States, the Honourable Wallace F. Bennett. [More…]

• He was discussing proposals in the United States which went further than the proposals contained in this Bill. [More…]

• I wonder whether Mr Whitlam in his travels overseas, in the United States, Canada and Germany, when he had the opportunity to talk to politicians and civil servants of other federations, put to them the view that they are being governed under some transitional form of government. [More…]

• It is a form of government which seems to have survived with considerable success in the United States for several hundred years. [More…]

• He referred to a 20 per cent change between the Australian and the United States dollar but the matter cannot be considered in those terms. [More…]

• The creation of an independent authority for the arts follows the approach adopted in other countries including Britain, Canada, the United States of America and New Zealand. [More…]

• that operate in the United States of Ameria. [More…]

• It has often been said in debate on electoral legislation that the laws of the United States have some relevance, but instead one should observe that there are great differences between the position in this country and that in the United States. [More…]

• Fortunately we do not have the same hullabaloo- I think you could describe it in that way- that accompanies the long elections in the United States, and we may be thankful for it. [More…]

• In addition it is significant that in 1972 the United States Federal Election Campaign Act became law and it provided, among other things, for disclosure of all contributions in excess of $100. [More…]

• This practice is followed in the United States and in Canada, and was introduced there by conservative governments with the support of all the political parties. [More…]

• It was on the Australian delegation’s initiative, seconded by the delegation from the United States of America, which was, in fact, one of the strongest conservation lobbies at that meeting that the matter was referred back to the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission to see whether better methods of conservation of whales could be introduced. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that in McGowan’s book ‘The Organisation of Judicial Power in the United States ‘ he states at page 1 3: [More…]

• While several federal constitutions have authorised a full system of inferior federal courts, only in the United States has such a parallel system been actually established. [More…]

• That is an 1 8th century conception which we derived from the United States of America m the faithful copy which was made of their judicial institutions. [More…]

• He refers to the forbidding example of the pattern of the dual court system of the United States, saying that the consequences of that system are notorious in that they have hampered and weakened the enforcement of criminal law. [More…]

• The court system of the central Government in the United States stands side by side with the court system of the States, ‘ he said. [More…]

• The judicial mechanisms of the United States in the area of crime are hampered and hindered in their function. [More…]

• He went through a series of 3 State courts and finally went to the Supreme Court of the United States of America. [More…]

• If the new court is created there will be registrars and registries and marshals to enforce the law similar to the system which exists in the United States of America, with all its inadequacies and dissatisfactions. [More…]

• We are asked now to produce at this stage a new series of courts ignoring the experience of the United States of America and the writings of our legal authorities over the years and to proceed in an era when this country is caught up with inflation and unemployment. [More…]

• It has been stated- I reiterate- that the United States’ experience of a dual court system ought not to be emulated. [More…]

• Part of the explanation of the long drawn out litigation which we all know characterises the United States lies in the existence of State supreme courts and a federal court system. [More…]

• We should endeavour to avoid the United States system where, for example, after a State supreme court has decided against a litigant he may go to a federal court and attempt to have the judgment set aside, and often succeed in doing so on a ground which was not taken in the supreme court. [More…]

• I remember so vividly discussing this matter with judges of one of the State supreme courts when I was in the United States recently. [More…]

• I have read it closely and I cannot find a word which suggests that one of his reasons was the alleged reason that has been kicked around this chamber- the possibility of the confusion and abuse of legal process which we know occurs in the United States of America. [More…]

• I think there is a very good reason why we do not find that argument advanced in any of their pronouncements and that is that the problem that exists in the United States does not exist here. [More…]

• If we get a Superior Court exercising Federal jurisdiction concurrently with the State courts we have a quite different situation from that in the United States. [More…]

• It was touched on, although he did not draw all the inferences from it, by Senator Missen when he admitted that the State courts in the United States are not invested with federal jurisdiction; so each branch of the law in the United States is administering a different corpus of law and often there is conflict between those laws and there is a possibility for litigants to jump from one system of law to the other and make ducks and drakes of the legal system in the United States. [More…]

• This is the sort of thing that happens in the United States all the time because there are competing Federal and State jurisdictions in the same fields of human activity, especially in the criminal law. [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…]

• It was acknowledged even by the United States of America that Australia ‘s contribution to the war effort was not a 25 per cent contribution but a 100 per cent contribution. [More…]

• The Minister will recall the crude public attacks made by 3 Ministers, Dr Cairns and Messrs Cameron and Uren, on the President and Government of the United States of America over the bombing of North Vietnam. [More…]

• Australia was involved in a lot of pioneering and innovative work but, as our market became saturated by films from the United States, which were able to find ready and profitable outlets in Australia, at cheap rates, the local industry was not able to flourish and declined and passed from the scene. [More…]

• I believe that the method which the United States authorities are now using against Australia in refusing to allow kangaroo products into that country- the matter of trading in products from endangered or other species- is about the only means of enforcement, apart from political or general trading sanctions. [More…]

• In this sort of situation the most likely recipient of an export subsidy- an across the board export subsidywould be the foreign buyer, particularly the United States of America. [More…]

• It shows that the price for meat per cents per kilogram for boneless manufacturing cow beef in the United States market at September 1 974 was 123.2c. [More…]

• In Canada and the United States of America, for example, schemes such as I have outlined are already in force. [More…]

• Mr Wechsler said that it was a very strong organisation financially, deriving its funds from members in sums of $20 and $40 a week each, from rich donors in the United States of America in the Socialist Workers Party of that country, from functions and from the Australian Union of Students. [More…]

• It has organised large public meetings and the International Women’s Day march, and it is selling Pathfinder books for the Pathfinder Press which is the Trotskyist publishing house in the United States of America. [More…]

• As the classic example of a Securities and Exchange Commission is to be found in the United States of America, due regard has been paid to the laws and practices in that country. [More…]

• In its consideration of those matters my Department was fortunate in having assistance from eminent persons from the United States of America. [More…]

• Freedman, a former senior officer of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. [More…]

• Later on the Attorney General’s Department was fortunate to obtain the assistance of Professor Louis Loss, Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard University and the author of an authoritative work on the securities industry in the United States. [More…]

• There is a need, which was recognised long ago in the United States and in the First Interim Report of the Eggleston Committee, for an expert body with continuity of existence to be charged with a responsibility for seeing that the laws are kept up to date at all times. [More…]

• In the United States of America this has been recognised. [More…]

• Other countries like the United States of America have long ago prohibited insider trading and this Bill now adopts a similar approach. [More…]

• Experience in the United States of America has shown that this is an important area of securities legislation and I envisage that the Commission will give consideration to improved legislation at an early date. [More…]

• The latter provision is in line with the law in the United States. [More…]

• If we compare our position with that in the United States of America, on a population basis, we can see that that country is running a deficit that is double the deficit in this country. [More…]

• Rather than face this prospect the regime in Saigon, urged on by the then United States Administration, refused to hold elections. [More…]

• The real result of foreign intervention, principally the United States on the side of Saigon and Russia on the side of Hanoi, has been to raise the level of violence, to raise the capacity for mutual destruction on both sides. [More…]

• The United States Defence Secretary, Mr Schlesinger, said on 31 March that it was Saigon’s withdrawal rather than a communist general offensive which was the primary cause of the Government of Vietnam ‘s present difficulties. [More…]

• Warmest respect, (Signed) Admiral Noel Gayler, United States Commander in Chief Pacific. [More…]

• In the orchestrated outpourings of the past week there has been just one new note- muted as yet, but clearly designed to become a grand new theme- and that .is that the United States is an untrustworthy ally. [More…]

• What else is the purpose of this attempt to blame the United States Congress and the American people for the debacle in which the Government of South Vietnam now finds itself? [More…]

• There could be only one other motive -to shame the United States back into Indo-China. [More…]

• Is this its proposal for either the United States or Australia to get back into the war, to prolong it for yet another decade? [More…]

• for Australia and for the United States, the constant challenge made in this House, not least from the present Leader of the Opposition, was ‘stand up and be counted’. [More…]

• Let the members of the Opposition now stand up and be counted and say that they believe it was wrong that we should have got completely out of the war or believe that the United States or Australia should go back into the war. [More…]

• As to the United States, she has fulfilled any obligations she assumed to the Government of Saigon. [More…]

• But the United States’ honour and interests do lie in helping rebuild a unified Vietnam, the unification of which misguided policies, mistaken policies of the past so long delayed; the United States’ honour and interest lie in helping to rebuild an Indo-China to the devastation of which those policies so greatly contributed. [More…]

• That is the way for the United States to regain her real place of leadership in our region. [More…]

• And in that task Australia, as far as this Government is concerned, will be a good partner with the United States. [More…]

• We will have no truck with those who put out the line that the United States should resume her intervention in the war. [More…]

• Above all, Australia’s security, as with the peace of the world, rests ultimately upon making the detente between the United States and the Soviet Union a success and with associating China in a wider detente. [More…]

• The requests were made by Italy, Greece, France, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, United States of America and Yugoslavia. [More…]

• Canada has established a Metric Conversion Commission and the United States of America has recently provided US$30m for training in the metric system which the United States Act says ‘will become the predominant system of measurement in America. ‘ [More…]

• Additionally it is expected that in the United States in October or November another exposition or exhibition is to be held which I think is commonly referred to as Musexpo 75. [More…]

• My Department is now negotiating with the Department of Overseas Trade with a view to seeing whether it is possible for us to engage a stand at Musexpo so that we hopefully can obtain sales of Australian records in the United States. [More…]

• The Government has always been more critical of the United States of America and South Vietnam than it has been of Soviet Russia, China or North Vietnam. [More…]

• If this Government believes in the Accords it should make public appeals for the governments of those nations to desist in their destruction of South Vietnam in the same way as it publicly called on the United States of America to halt its intervention. [More…]

• It condemned the United States for supplying troops and other aid to South Vietnam. [More…]

• Yet in the past the Government has never been remiss in revealing its protests to non-communist countries and some of its members, notably Dr Cairns and Mr Uren, equally have never been silent in their public condemnation of the United States. [More…]

• We are not calling upon the United States to enter the war. [More…]

• When the United States of America wanted to take this dispute to the United Nations it was the previous Liberal-Country Party Government which discouraged it from doing so. [More…]

• I think it is a great pity that the previous Government opposed the United States trying to bring the United Nations into the dispute. [More…]

• Even when the United States wanted to take the problem to the Security Council Opposition senators opposed that move. [More…]

• All that happened was that even more arms came in to the other side, and eventually the United States of America withdrew its enormous forces from the area. [More…]

• Resurrected again are the cold war warriors at a period in which even their own mentor, the United States, has taken energetic steps to re-establish a detente with the East to build a world free from the scourge of war. [More…]

• The declaration to which the United States placed its signature called upon all the member countries at the conference ‘to refrain from any interference in their internal affairs ‘. [More…]

• An International Security Agency letter to the United States State Department on 22 April 1955 stated: [More…]

• So the United States State Department was recognising a different indigenous position in this part of the world in Asia. [More…]

• What did General Collins say in a letter to the United States Secretary of State, Dulles? [More…]

• Heavens above, did not the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) or the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Senator Willesee) tell this Parliament how the Australian Government in 1964 and in 1968 in a memorandum requested the United States Government not to take the matter of Vietnam to the United Nations? [More…]

• This is the Opposition which when it was in Government in the early 1 960s involved us in war in Vietnam ostensibly and only for the reason that it was a United States sanctioned war. [More…]

• Because time is catching up, I turn very briefly to allegations that the United States of America and South Vietnam violated the Geneva Accords by rejecting free elections. [More…]

• The Prime Minister cynically and falsely blames the United States and South Vietnam for not agreeing to free elections during that period. [More…]

• The Prime Minister dealt with the matter of a political settlement and criticised the South Vietnamese and the United States for not agreeing to a political settlement. [More…]

• But in 1965, as part of a deal with other countries, particularly the United States of America, Australian troops were on their way. [More…]

• This is the country on which the United States of America dropped twice the tonnage of bombs that it used in the entire Second World War; the country on which was dropped, until the cease fire in 1 973, more than 3 times the tonnage of bombs that was dropped in the Second World War by everyone. [More…]

• According to the United States State Department figures, casualties in South Vietnam from 1960 to 1972 were 476 837 wounded. [More…]

• The so-called republic of Vietnam was established and the Geneva Accords were completely defied by the United States and by its puppet regime in South Vietnam. [More…]

• Fighting continued, as it was bound to continue, in the one country of Vietnam, falsely and unlawfully divided by the actions of the Eisenhower Administration in the United States of America. [More…]

• Ultimately it became apparent that the forces of the Vietnamese people were stronger than the combined forces of the puny puppet regime in Saigon and the United States of America, the most powerful country in the world, and its satraps who took part in the struggle along with the United States, were driven from that country. [More…]

• Indeed, at the time the Americans were justifying their original intervention in Vietnam- and in one of the White Papers produced before the United States Senate- it was found that only 5 per cent of the arms in the Vietcong ‘s possession came from communist sources, that the other 95 per cent were either arms captured from the southern forces, and the Americans, or primitive arms they had manufactured for themselves. [More…]

• One of the things which distresses me very greatly and which comes from this arbitrary division of the world into the communists- as if Mao Tse-tung and Brezhnev and Phan Van Quang and Kim il Sung were all going along the same path together- one of the consequences of this untutored and unsophisticated view of world politics is that we may well drive people into identifying the United States of America with all that is evil in the world, because if one were to identify the United States with the point of view we get from the Australian Opposition, that is what would happen. [More…]

• I suggest it is a travesty of the American position, because certainly the leaders of the majority party both in the United States Senate and in the House of Representatives are and always have been opponents of the American intervention in Vietnam. [More…]

• But the hazard is that the United States could well abandon what are real and constructive responsibilities that it does have for the preservation of peace in other parts of the world- for example, in the Middle East. [More…]

• In fact since the Paris Peace Accords were signed the United States of America has disengaged from South Vietnam and the size of the South Vietnamese army and its forces has decreased. [More…]

• We are aware that a securities and exchange commission has been in existence in the United States of America for 40 or more years; but how is it operated? [More…]

• An eminent member of the United States Securities Commission was employed to advise the Government on the drafting of the legislation. [More…]

• This was found to be so most glaringly in the United States at the height of the Great Depression when President Roosevelt’s Administration, after its election in 1932, determined that at least part- certainly not all but at least part and a significant part- of the great distress which had afflicted the United States during the Great Depression had been caused not by problems in the economy, in the narrow sense of the economy, but by malpractices, defects in the stock exchanges of the United States. [More…]

• It may be remembered that the first Chairman of the American Securities and Exchange Commission was Mr Joseph Kennedy, the father of the late President of the United States. [More…]

• But, indeed, none of the things which happened between 1900 and 1910, and indeed none of the things subsequently dealt with by the Securities and Exchange Commission in the United States, could have been any worse than some of the matters which were revealed by the inquiries of the Senate Select Committee on Securities and Exchange. [More…]

• I remember shortly after the Committee had been constituted I was travelling in the United States of America and happened to be invited to attend a meeting of one of the smaller American stock exchanges, the Honolulu Stock Exchange. [More…]

• I ask: Is it a fact, as reported in a section of today’s Press, that the Australian Government did not send aircraft to Vietnam for humanitarian relief purposes recently until after a request was made by the United States Secretary of State, Dr Kissinger? [More…]

• We would have expected some countries, particularly the United States of America, to be upset about the bauxite agreement. [More…]

• He goes on to refer to the attention that the United Kingdom, Canada and even the United States had given in that field following the lead of the Australian States. [More…]

• I should like to quote Mr Casey, who was speaking as Chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission to the first World Congress of Stock Exchanges which was held in Milan in March 1972. [More…]

• It gives little indication that some of the major lessons which can be learned from the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and from the approaches in Canada, South Africa, the United Kingdom and other countries, have been learned. [More…]

• To the extent that the Securities and Exchange Commission in the United States has failed, I think most would agree that its failure has been basically the development of a bureaucratic aspect related to the registration statements procedure. [More…]

• The registration statement in the United States has become a monster which serves little purpose. [More…]

• Anyone starting to study the registration statements in the United States would be inclined to the view that under no circumstances whatsoever should anyone invest in that company. [More…]

• In every other way I believe that the Securities and Exchange Commission in the United States has served an extremely useful function and again we come to one of the lessons that apparently have not been learned. [More…]

• There is no companies registry role for the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. [More…]

• If we are to have people who are to act as the statutory regulators, the statutory surveillance body, the watchdog or whatever one wishes to call it, I believe they must be people who have had experience in the securities industry and who perhaps, as they do in the United States, come into that body for a period of time and then go back to the securities industry so that there is a constant interchange between the regulatory body and the industry which it is regulating. [More…]

• I thought it may be of some interest to refer to the evidence given to a Congressional sub-committee in the United States of America on 5 October 1972 by Mr Philip Loomis, one of the commissioners with the Securities and Exchange Commission in the U.S.A. which had been involved in a very heavy consideration of the role of self regulation as applied in that country. [More…]

• The experts involved in preparing the Bill included Professor Louis Loss of Harvard, Solomon Freedman, a former high official of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and Dr John Rose, to whom Senator Rae has paid a fitting tribute today. [More…]

• He is highly regarded in the United States, as my colleague Senator Wheeldon will be able to confirm, and he has been prominent in public life in the United States for many years. [More…]

• In the United States of America several large projects have been mounted in recent years- in science, social science and the humanities- generally with Federally provided budgets of several million dollars. [More…]

• In other countries, such as Great Britain and the United States, elections are held mid-week. [More…]

• Has the Minister received a copy of a statement by President Marcos of the Philippines, which received some radio coverage this morning, and which in part conveys a change of attitude towards the United States and a possible vacation by the United States of bases and interests in the Philippines, and further makes reference to possible Japanese involvement? [More…]

• People who know about the development of FM licenses in the United States of America and elsewhere will realise that the younger generation in particular will be attracted to FM broadcasts and that in terms of commercial stations the younger generation constitutes the big advertising audience. [More…]

• Other countries, notably the United States of America and the United Kingdom, have taken a similar approach to the matter and have banned unsolicited cards. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Science aware that some new 6-cylinder cars in Australia are being sold fitted with cheap 2-ply tyres imported from the United States and that these tyres, although complying with Australian standards, do not comply with United States standards for tyres? [More…]

• What has led me to change my mind on this matter simply is the experience of the Senate of the United States of America in such matters. [More…]

• I ‘ have spent the last week sorting through the experiences which the United States Senate has had in dealing with the several occasions when accusations or allegations have been made against honourable senators in the Senate of the United States. [More…]

• Honourable senators of the United States Senate were being forced into positions in which they were taking political attitudes. [More…]

• In fact, in the United States of America, a citadel of what is rather euphemistically described as free enterprise, Canada, Sweden and France, the crop insurance cover available to farmers is considerably better than that which is available to farmers in Australia. [More…]

• Coming back to the question of crop insurance, I repeat that in the United States of America, Canada, France and Sweden there is already a much better situation for farmers than there is in Australia. [More…]

• Has the Minister seen the publication ‘Chile Today’, an official publication of the Government of Chile, which carries a report that the United States recently has sold a substantial amount of wheat to Chile on very favourable terms? [More…]

• It is true that this year Chile will import considerable quantities of wheat from the United States and also from Canada. [More…]

• However, the conditions under which the United States ships wheat to Chile are extremely generous. [More…]

• My understanding is that when the trade union problem is resolved the 300 000 tonnes to which I referred earlier will still be sought by Chile, but it is very unlikely that we would supply the wheat on the same terms and conditions as the United States is supplying it. [More…]

• Is it suggested by honourable senators that the economic problems that face this country are different from the economic problems that face countries that have conservative governmentsfor example, France or the United States. [More…]

• He said that the Government was prepared to condemn the United States of America but was not prepared to engage in any similar condemnation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]

• They are not in the same terms because while it is true that there have been gross breaches of the Paris Accords by both North and South Vietnam and by the Provisional Revolutionary Government and perhaps by the United States of America, nevertheless the breaches have not been all of the same kind. [More…]

• For example, in the United States Administration there was a large number of people who were described as hawks who supported the war in the very early days and in the middle stages of the American involvement in Vietnam and who subsequently publicly condemned not only their own attitude to the war but also America’s involvement in the war. [More…]

• In respect of men and equipment in South Vietnam at the end of the period which culminated in the Paris Agreements, I quote from one of the most authorative journals in the United States known as ‘Foreign Affairs’. [More…]

• The staff report of the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee had this to say on Vietnam in May 1 974: [More…]

• I refer to the Geneva Agreement to which all of the nations involved put their signature, with the exception of the United States, although it did give an undertaking at the time that it would honour a particular agreement. [More…]

• South Vietnamese but were attempting to toady to their great and powerful friend, the United States, and were attempting to involve the United States more and more deeply in this part of the world. [More…]

• (Quorum formed) In view of the remark that was passed by Senator Wright, although I did not intend to dwell upon the infamy of the involvement of the United States of America and Australia through political pressure, I propose to read from ‘The Pentagon Papers’ a document dated 7 February 1965 which indicates the attitude in the Pentagon at that stage to what it was going to do to Vietnam and in Vietnam. [More…]

• The communications - have been to both sides though not in the same terms because while it is true that there have been gross breaches of the Paris Agreements by both North and South Vietnam and by the Provisional Revolutionary Government and perhaps by the United States of America, nevertheless the breaches have not been all of the same kind. [More…]

• The Prime Minister made some vague reference to the United States of America in one of his statements but completely ignored the Soviet Union. [More…]

• I was in Hanoi in 1973 just after the genocidal bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong by the B52s of the United States Air Force, and I do know that one could walk around anywhere through the streets of Hanoi and Haiphong at any time of the day or night in complete safety, that one did not need to have armed police on every corner, that one would not have known there was a war on, apart from the fact that there were air raid shelters and that every now and then a convoy of troops would move through that beleaguered and smashed city. [More…]

• Those leaders are the people who defeated the corrupt clique in Saigon- the Thieus and the Kys- and not the Russian arms or the Chinese arms of which the amount, compared with what was provided by the United States of America, was microscopic. [More…]

• One of the first papers that was issued by the United States Administration concerning its intervention in Vietnam referred to the weapons that had been captured from the forces fighting for the so-called Vietcong, the National Liberation Front, and only 2V4 per cent of those weapons were manufactured in a country with a communist government, such as the Soviet Union, China or Czechoslovakia. [More…]

• He is respected not only in Asia but also through Africa, Latin America, South America and indeed in the United States of America itself. [More…]

• I can say to Senator Greenwood that the number of his supporters on the issue of Vietnam has diminished from the number that it was a few weeks ago because many Liberals now agree with the statements which have been made in recent weeks by United States leaders in their country. [More…]

• Of course, that referred to those Ministers who had so strikingly castigated the United States shortly after the Labor Government had come to power. [More…]

• ‘Commonwealth’ confuses English-speaking people connected with Britain or the United States, since the former now relate the word to the Commonwealth of Nations and the latter to the Commonwealth status formerly enjoyed by the Philippines, at present by Puerto Rico and prospectively by the Marianas. [More…]

• “Federal” applies to many countries- for example, West Germany, India, the United States, Canada and Mexico. [More…]

• He has also been reported as suggesting that the Philippines Government might have to take over the United States bases in the Philippines if this were in the national interest. [More…]

• In other recent statements, however, President Marcos has referred to the United States as the Philippines most valuable ally, although he has also indicated that the Philippines will be seeking new security arrangements which should encompass a firm and clear commitment by the United States to assist the Philippines in case of external aggression. [More…]

• Is it also a fact that TV Productions Pty Ltd is engaged in import-export and that Mr Jack Valenti of the United States of’ America is a shareholder or a nominee shareholder in that company? [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs whether the substance of the letter as given to the House of Representatives by the Leader of the Opposition was correct and in particular, whether the 2 points of the Provisional Revolutionary Government program required the resignation of President Thieu and the end of all United States support for the Government of South Vietnam. [More…]

• Those 2 points involved the resignation of President Thieu and the end of all United States support for the Government of South Vietnam. [More…]

• Those 2 points involved the resignation of President Thieu and the end of all United States support for the Government of South Vietnam. [More…]

• The Paris Agreements specifically allowed for continued United States support. [More…]

• We were receiving about 45 United States cents per lb for manufacturing cow beef towards the end of February. [More…]

• It should be reiterated that this year, even under the quota, we are actually exporting a greater volume of meat to the United States than we were last year. [More…]

• How does our fair share compare with that of the United States. [More…]

• I think the United States is talking in figures of 120 000 and it has the most massive and widespread unemployment. [More…]

• You will remember, Mr President, and honourable senators will remember, that last year the Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, contracted to buy 2 patrol frigates from the United States of America at a price of about $ 1 87m. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs whether the Government has had any communications with the Government of the United States of America or with the new Cambodian authorities about the seizure of the American ship ‘Mayaguez’? [More…]

• -Late last year the Post Office decided to experiment with an electric van which was manufactured in the United States of America- I think it was called Battronic- and at the same time to engage in trials of scooters produced by a local Victorian organisation. [More…]

• Ironically, the year before traffic started using the new Tasman Bridge there were 2 instances of ships hitting bridges within 2 months of each other- one in Venezuela with the loss of more than 20 lives, and one in Louisiana in the United States of America with the loss of 6 lives. [More…]

• I wish to refer to the situation in the United States. [More…]

• Australia was called the second most racist country in the world, eclipsing Rhodesia, the United States and Britain and beaten only by South Africa. [More…]

• Forced integration has been tried, for example, in the United States of America and it has proven a monumental failure. [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…]

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

• It is a practice which has been widely accepted in North America- in both Canada and the United States- in the United Kingdom and in New Zealand. [More…]

• If one looks at another society such as the United States, the point can be made by saying simply that black may be beautiful but black also is poverty. [More…]

• Can some idea be given now about when the Australian cattle industry will be given access to such stock, which is being provided to our competitor cattle industries of Canada and the United States of America through the quarantine station facilities currently being provided for them at the Fleming Animal Import Centre at Florida? [More…]

• There are separate organisations in Japan, Canada and the United States just as there have been in Australia for 29 years. [More…]

• In 1968 the President’s Commission on Postal Organisations in the United States of America expressed this opinion: [More…]

• We recommend that a Postal Corporation owned entirely by the Federal Government be chartered by Congress to operate the postal service of the United States on a selfsupporting basis. [More…]

• That is the position in the United States of America and in the United Kingdom. [More…]

• We have the benefit of the United Kingdom and the United States experience and I believe that if we are allowed to enter into the spirit of what is spelt out in the Vernon Commission’s report, hundreds of millions of dollars will accrue to the postal services and will transform it into a viable commercial proposition of which we in Australia will be proud. [More…]

• I believe we could gain from the knowledge of people not only in the United States of America but also in other countries. [More…]

• In the United States of America there is a different system again. [More…]

• It is very hard to make a comparison with comparable countries which do not have a situation exactly the same as there is in Australia, but in the United States telecommunications services are run by private enterprise while postal services as from 12 August 1970 have been run by the United States Postal Service which is a corporation-style federal agency. [More…]

• I ask the Minister whether he has examined the method of financing postal and telecommunications services in the United States. [More…]

• He will undoubtedly know that financing of the United States Postal Service is by bond issue up to a limit of $ 10,000m with an annual ceiling of $2,000m of which $ 1,500m is for capital investment and $500m is to cover operating deficits. [More…]

• I am quite sure that that is a world wide position even though the United States, for example, opted for a total moratorium and we did also. [More…]

• The general position, as I understand it, is that inquiries were made through United States sources, Pentagon records and so on. [More…]

• At that time there was no confirmation of intervention by United States forces in the experiments. [More…]

• He said that it was necessary to clothe the Commission with sufficient power to deal with railway rates, discrimination, rebates and all other forms of unfair treatment, as has been done in the United States of America where they have established a United States Commerce Commission. [More…]

• More particularly, perhaps, did the founding fathers look to the American institution, the Federal Inter-State Commission, which has operated with expanding authority in the Federation which was our parent so far as constitutional structure is concerned, namely, the United States of America from then to now. [More…]

• I think that in copying the old 1892 United States legislation this Government will live to regret the antediluvian mistake it has made. [More…]

• Fortunately his Party in Tasmania does not hold this view because the man about whom he said some very harsh things, Mr Sherry, 2 elections ago was opposed by a rather right wing gentleman from the southern states of the United States. [More…]

• We are well aware that the left wing of that party wishes that all United States bases in Australia be abolished. [More…]

• We are pleased that the more responsible elements in that Party imposed their will and that the United States bases remain. [More…]

• An amendment to article 2 limits United States control to the exclusive occupation of a national room. [More…]

• As one who has visited the North West Cape base on many occasions, I know that the reality of the situation is that the base always has been open to the general public except for the national room, which always has been exclusively for only United States naval personnel, and that arrangement operates for very good reasons. [More…]

• We are not quite clear about what that means, but if it satisfies the Government and it placates the opponents of United States bases, we have no quarrel with it. [More…]

• Our only concern is that the base should retain its operational functions as an important link in the United States naval communications network. [More…]

• The legislation does not in any way alter that arrangement or weaken the importance of the base as part of the United States naval radio network. [More…]

• Indeed, as Senator Wright has reminded me, the United States still has exclusive use and occupancy. [More…]

• Similarly, during the Second World War relations between the United States and Australia doubtless were of a very high standard. [More…]

• I think that President Kennedy, a President of stature, indicated in his revelations that Presidents of the United States of America have had occasion to keep their defence chiefs on a tight leash, in the same way as Prime Ministers of Australia have had to do. [More…]

• It dealt with a possible nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the United States, and a stage was reached where only about 5 people were left. [More…]

• I think even a former Prime Minister, Mr McMahon, had to exercise his sovereign powers about United States nuclear naval craft coming here if there was an element of danger that there could be some serious catastrophe. [More…]

• The only difference is that people would applaud that decision, even if it was contrary to United States policy, whereas if a Labor Prime Minister did it, certain people would question his loyalty. [More…]

• We talk about a family of nations, and I think the present Prime Minister has referred to special relations between the United States and Australia. [More…]

• I think that the United States likes the representatives of other countries to speak up. [More…]

• Some people in the United States Republican Party designated us as such. [More…]

• The construction of the United States North West Cape installation was the cause of a very famous photograph. [More…]

• The North West Cape Base agreement with the United States was obnoxious, the Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, said yesterday. [More…]

• It is an installation centre, but it ties Australia into the complete United States world deterrent system. [More…]

• Australians should be thankful that we are so linked in the United States defence system. [More…]

• The agreement did respect the sovereignty of the United States of America and of Australia and nothing which has happened since has altered that position. [More…]

• If it was said by Mr Whitlam that the agreement in 1963 was a derogation of Australia’s sovereignty, as he has said, then not one whit of the agreement has been altered in that respect as a result of what Mr Barnard supposedly achieved in the United States of America. [More…]

• Secondly, that the control of the station should rest with the United States. [More…]

• The control of the station has always been with the United States and good reasons were advanced in 1963 that it should remain with the United States. [More…]

• The control of the station remains with the United States today as it should, and no amount of words or double talk or deception will alter that fact. [More…]

• It ought to be of great value to Australia that the control of the base does rest with the United States. [More…]

• Seventhly, that, without submitting to the jurisdiction of Australian courts, or compromising its sovereignty, the United States would conform to Australian law and its personnel would observe it. [More…]

• They are the only words added to a provision which gives the United States exclusive occupancy of the land and which continues the exclusive occupancy subject to those provisions. [More…]

• We recognise that there should always be a willingness to join with the United States in the provision of bases such as this one, provided that there is reasonable access and that Australia’s sovereignty is protected. [More…]

• I think that the consequences of what Mr Whitlam said and what Mr Barnard supposedly negotiated in the United States reveal it to be nothing more than political claptrap. [More…]

• The United States has told this Government that it is willing to enter into consultations and has said that it is prepared to make North-West Cape a joint installation. [More…]

• It is a power to veto- a power to say ‘No’ and that is what the Opposition wants to be said to the United States. [More…]

• All that the agreement reveals is how little was obtained in the United States. [More…]

• An amendment to Article 1 of the agreement provides that the station at North West Cape shall be operated jointly, while an amendment to Article 2 limits United States Navy exclusive occupation to a national room and provides for a similar Australian national room. [More…]

• The second reading speech of the Minister for the Media (Senator Douglas McClelland) is somewhat uncritical in regard to large scale curriculum projects in the United States and the United Kingdom. [More…]

• Valuable assistance has been given in other countries by such groups as the National Schools Council in the United Kingdom, the Nuffield Science Project and various projects in the United States which are federally funded and which have aided teachers and pupils in many fields. [More…]

• Finally, the United States throws the whole Convention out of the window and says: ‘We will make our own arrangements in relation to racial discrimination on the grounds of religion, cast and colour’. [More…]

• The United States Government, for example, does make quite a major financial contribution towards the maintenance of crop and livestock insurance in the United States. [More…]

• I am sure that would be an additional reason for Senator Chaney to wish to emulate what is done in the United States as he would like to emulate most things American, particularly in regard to foreign policy. [More…]

• I have since had my Department check the position and, for the honourable senator’s information, I am advised that it does not cost the United States domestic telephone subscriber $43 rental a year with unlimited free local calls. [More…]

• It does not cost the United States business subscriber $54 a year with 960 free local calls a year. [More…]

• As honourable senators are aware, that citizen of that state of the United States of America was Govenor Gerry. [More…]

• I do not have the latest figures for Australia but the figures relating to congressional districts in the United States lead me to the conclusion that on the current trend of population more than one million people will change their address in a 3-year span. [More…]

• It is worth noting, particularly in the light of the Bill introduced by the Government and which is before the Senate now, that in a similar measure the United States of America reserved the right not to implement sections of the Convention which, as the Americans put it, contradicted America’s own constitutional provision for the freedom of speech. [More…]

• A United States study recently showed that learning a foreign language was a significant attitude towards people, and in particular that language learning beginning at primary level helped with the removal of prejudices and helped to develop appropriate social attitudes and social interests. [More…]

• I refer the Minister representing the Attorney-General to the Government’s proposal to introduce a Freedom of Information Bill along the lines of the United States Freedom of Information Act. [More…]

• In the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States trade union training has been proceeding in a much bigger way for a very long time. [More…]

• Having referred to England may I make a brief reference to an authority from the United States of America, Dr Schmidt, who in his recent book entitled ‘Union Power’ referred to the enormous power of trade unions. [More…]

• I ask him: How long will the Minister tolerate the agent provocateur role being pursued by the New South Wales Minister for Education, Mr Willis, in creating a surplus of school teachers in New South Wales and thereby placing United States nationals in the role of professional cannon fodder? [More…]

• Government does agree with the statement of Dr Cairns, how does the Government reconcile that statement with the statement made by the Prime Minister in the United States? [More…]

• In addition the Labor Government has secured agreement from the United States Government that if industry were unable to provide up to 25 per cent of the value of contract of work to Australian industry, the Department of Defence would use its offices to raise Australian industry participation to this level. [More…]

• The amount of the loan is expressed in United States dollars. [More…]

• When one reads the Bill one gets the clear view that we will be taking an exchange risk if there is any movement in the United States dollar position. [More…]

• I understand that a proportion of the total amount to be raised may well be borrowed in currencies other than United States dollars. [More…]

• Clause 5, which relates to this matter, defines the means by which any amounts borrowed in such currencies can be converted into United States dollars. [More…]

• As a result the United States dollar equivalent of these currencies needs to be expressed for practical reasons in terms of the prevailing market rates of exchange. [More…]

• I understand that the rate is expected to be about 9 per cent and some of the funds will be provided from the United States loan now being negotiated in New York. [More…]

• Exchange of Notes between Australia and the United States of America constituting an Agreement concerning the Discontinuation of facilities Measuring the Physical Effects of Disturbances in the Atmosphere or in space and the Transference of these facilities to the Australian National [More…]

• Treaty on Extradition between Australia and the United States of America, signed at Washington on 14 May 1974. [More…]

• The Governments of New Zealand, India, Israel and the United States of America, to name but a few, are already involved to varying degrees in providing insurance to their citizens, and some, but not all, include natural disaster insurance. [More…]

• Following the suspension on 22 March of efforts by Dr Kissinger, the United States Secretary of State, to bring about a second-stage agreement between Egypt and Israel, the Egyptian Government has formally requested the two Co-Chairmen of the Geneva Conference on the Middle East, the United States and the Soviet Union, to re-convene the Conference as soon as possible. [More…]

• The United States, it is understood, nas not excluded the possibility of further steps towards a Middle East settlement in advance of or separate from any such Conference. [More…]

• Has the Australian Government recently negotiated a loan from sources in the United States of [More…]

• I think that it says something for the limitations which our society places on the activities of some of its leading citizens that this would be almost taken for granted in a society such as in the United States, where a man who chooses one occupation is not considered to be limited for his entire life to that occupation. [More…]

• In the United States it is quite commonplace for professors of law to act as arbitrators in disputes between companies or between trade unions and companies. [More…]

• In view of Australia’s good relations with both Thailand and the United States of America, will the Minister indicate whether any official statement has been made commenting on the recent use of United States bases in Thailand over the ‘Mayaguez’ incident against the expressed wish of the Thai Government? [More…]

• Will the Minister assure the Senate that the Government supports the territorial sovereignty of both Cambodia and Thailand and will use all diplomatic means to express the attitude of the Australian Government to the United States against the use of force between friendly nations? [More…]

• On the last occasion this Bill was before the Senate, much was made by the Opposition of the United States experience as a reason why the Bill should not be proceeded with. [More…]

• The point was made that, in the United States, a person losing a case in State jurisdiction could then go to the Federal jurisdiction and have the result reversed on a point of federal law. [More…]

• It could arise in the United States, because there the State courts do not have, and cannot be invested with, any federal jurisdiction. [More…]

• I know that, away from this field, Senator Greenwood is a keen student of foreign affairs and he would know that there are many maritime disputes in all sorts of countries, even on the east and west coasts of our powerful neighbour, the United States. [More…]

• Is he aware that the loan was first sought in the United States by people who had authority from the Minister at the time? [More…]

• Is he aware that when the loan was agreed upon, the United States Treasury agreed to the loan being made? [More…]

• If the Government is going to seek support by referring to the countries I have already mentioned, it is just as valid for the Opposition to refer to the United States of America, Japan and Canada, and of course hitherto Australia, where these internal-external telecommunications services have been conducted under separate authorities, and have been conducted successfully under separate authorities. [More…]

• As I have said, we have clear evidence of the experience in other countries such as the United States, Japan and Canada, each of which has a separate organisation to run the overseas telecommunications service. [More…]

• The 2 provisions that we have had incorporated in our Constitution in contradistinction from the United States are that the High Court has been made a court of general appeal not merely from Federal courts, as is the case in the United States, but from both Federal and State courts. [More…]

• That is not possible in the United States. [More…]

• There will be a registrar, registries and marshals to enforce the law- much the same system as exists now in the United States of America with all the inadequacies and dissatisfaction that they experience in that country. [More…]

• The precautionary methods adopted to ensure that there would not be over-exploitation have been updated in the last 12 months on the initiative of the Australian Government, supported by the Government of the United States of America. [More…]

• Great supplies of money have been arranged through Europe, from Switzerland in particular and Germany, the United States of America and more recently Japan. [More…]

• But as was indicated here only a day or so ago the United States finds itself with a bigger budget deficit problem than we have in Australia. [More…]

• When the New York loan announcement is made it will establish beyond any doubt that the loan being raised in accordance with the requirements of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, which seeks the most stringent conditions from any borrower, indicates that the credibility of this country has in no way been damaged. [More…]

• the Minister for Minerals and Energy be authorised to borrow for temporary purposes a sum in the currency of the United States of America not exceeding the equivalent of Four thousand million dollars and to determine on behalf of Australia the terms and conditions of the borrowing; [More…]

• Dollars 108,679,000 confirmed by a Prime European or United States Bank. [More…]

• I think it was Senator Carrick who said something about Australia’s lack of credit rating in the United States of America at present. [More…]

• Treasury officials, is that Australia’s credit rating in the United States is at an all time high. [More…]

• The United States Securities and Exchange Commission is guided in its assessment of the rating of nations by these agencies. [More…]

• Despite what the Opposition has said, on the record of evidence available to the whole world, Australia’s credit rating in the United States is at an all time high. [More…]

• The notice of motion continues: to all dealings by them both prior to and subsequent to the Executive Council meeting of 13 December 1974, which authorised the Minister for Minerals and Energy to borrow a sum not exceeding $4,000m in the currency of the United States of America for temporary purposes, and because the Government refuses to appoint a royal commission with proper and adequate terms of reference to investigate and report upon all aspects of the Government’s overseas loan activities, the Senate resolves- [More…]

• After the war we began to look much more to the United States and Swiss markets, and even to Canada. [More…]

• Then, with the effective closure of the United States capital market as a result of the introduction of the interest equalisation tax in 1963, the Australian Government turned to Euro-currency raisings in the German, Dutch and Swiss markets. [More…]

• Between $20 and $25 billion of these go to the United States- the merest trickle to Australia. [More…]

• The orthodox objections that such funds could cause distortion, if admitted into the Australian economy, were answered by my proposal to domicile such funds in the United States, invested in approved securities in the name of the Reserve Bank of Australia, and with the approval of the United States Federal Reserve Bank. [More…]

• The United States interest rates then available were comparable with those of the proposed borrowing. [More…]

• Whereas the Commonwealth of Australia herein after called Australia proposes to borrow a sum not exceeding $4,000m in the currency of the United States of America for temporary purposes . [More…]

• In addition, we would like to see the Executive Council minutes authorising the Treasurer in respect of the Deutschemark loan, the United States loan, and borrowings for the Australian Industry Development Corporation, and all associated letters and documents. [More…]

• At end of motion add- but the Senate is of the opinion that the Government has failed to give to the Parliament and the Australian people a proper, full and accurate account of the activities of its Ministers, servants and agents, relating to all dealings by them both prior to and subsequent to the Executive Council Meeting of 13 December 1974, which authorized the Minister for Minerals and Energy to borrow a sum not exceeding four thousand million dollars in the currency of the United States of America for temporary purposes, and because the Government refuses to appoint a Royal Commission with proper and adequate terms of reference to investigate and report upon all aspects of the Government’s overseas loan activities, the Senate resolves- [More…]

• In view of Australia’s good relations with both Thailand and the United States of America, will the Minister indicate whether any official statement has been made commenting on the recent use of United States bases in Thailand over the Mayaguez’ incident against the expressed wish of the Thai Government? [More…]

• Will the Minister assure the Senate that the Government supports the territorial sovereignty of both Cambodia and Thailand and will use all diplomatic means to express the attitude of the Australian Government to the United States against the use of force between friendly nations? [More…]

• The use of facilities in Thailand by United States Armed Forces in connexion with the Mayaguez incident is a matter for the Thai and United States Governments. [More…]

• It is understood that on 19 May the United States Charge d ‘Affaires to Thailand delivered a Note to the Thai Government in which the United States Government expressed regret for the problems caused to Thailand by its use of facilities in Thailand during the Mayaguez incident. [More…]

• The Thai Government has expressed satisfaction with the United States Note which it considered as a formal apology. [More…]

• REVOCATION OF AUTHORITY TO BORROW THE EQUIVALENT OF 4,000 MILLION DOLLARS IN THE CURRENCY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOR TEMPORARY PURPOSES. [More…]

• AND WHEREAS by the said approval, inter alia the Minister for Minerals and Energy was authorised to borrow for temporary purposes a sum in the currency of the United States of America not exceeding the equivalent of Four thousand million dollars and to determine on behalf of Australia the terms and conditions of the borrowing; [More…]

• PROPOSED BORROWING NOT EXCEEDING THE EQUIVALENT OF 2,000 MILLION DOLLARS IN THE CURRENCY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOR TEMPORARY PURPOSES [More…]

• WHEREAS the Commonwealth of Australia (hereinafter called ‘Australia’) proposes to borrow a sum not exceeding Two thousand million dollars in the currency of the United States of America (US$2,000,000,000) for temporary purposes; [More…]

• the Minister for Minerals and Energy be authorised to borrow for temporary purposes a sum in the currency of the United States of America not exceeding Two thousand million dollars and to determine on behalf of Australia the terms and conditions of the borrowing; [More…]

• REVOCATION OF AUTHORITY TO BORROW 2,000 MILLION DOLLARS IN THE CURRENCY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOR TEMPORARY PURPOSES [More…]

• AND WHEREAS by the said approval, inter alia the Minister for Minerals and Energy was authorised to borrow for temporary purposes a sum in the currency of the United States of Amenca not exceeding Two thousand million dollars and to determine on behalf of the Commonwealth of Australia (“Australia”) the terms and conditions of the borrowing; [More…]

• AND WHEREAS for reasons concerning the proposed public issue of bonds in the United States and other future borrowings by the Treasurer on behalf of Australia it is considered that the approval should be revoked; [More…]

• PROPOSED BORROWING NOT EXCEEDING THE EQUIVALENT OF 4,000 MILLION DOLLARS IN THE CURRENCY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOR TEMPORARY PURPOSES [More…]

• WHEREAS the Commonwealth of Australia (hereinafter called ‘Australia’) proposes to borrow a sum not exceeding Four thousand million dollars in the currency of the United States of America (U.S.$4,000,000,000) for temporary purposes; [More…]

• the Minister for Minerals and Energy be authorised to borrow for temporary purposes a sum in the currency of the United States of America not exceeding the equivalent of Four thousand million dollars and to determine on behalf of Australia the terms and conditions of the borrowing; [More…]

• The Resolution, a copy of which was attached to each summons, is directed to the activities of Ministers and servants and agents of the Government, relating to dealings by them prior to and subsequent to the Executive Council meeting of 13 December 1974 authorising the Minister for Minerals and Energy to borrow a sum not exceeding four thousand million dollars in the currency of the United States of America for temporary purposes. [More…]

• That Resolution recites the Senate’s opinion ‘that the Government has failed to give to the Parliament and the Australian people a proper, full and accurate account of the activities of its Ministers, servants and agents, relating to all dealings by them both prior to and subsequent to the Executive Council Meeting of 13 December 1974, which authorized the Minister for Minerals and Energy to borrow a sum not exceeding four thousand million dollars in the currency of the United States of America for temporary purposes’ and states that the Senate resolves that a number of named persons of whom I am one be called to the Bar of the Senate ‘to answer questions upon these matters’. [More…]

• The Prime Minister and the Government in the past used to rely greatly upon the decisions of the United States Supreme Court. [More…]

• The Prime Minister has always been somewhat addicted to the United States Supreme Court. [More…]

• However, throughout the whole of this exercise, not once has the Prime Minister or any of his colleagues adverted to the decisions of the United States Supreme Court in connection with the Nixon tapes. [More…]

• I think a fair summary of what the United States Supreme Court said is that if Congress wants something there is no such thing as executive privilege. [More…]

• I hope I am not doing the United States Supreme Court an injustice in putting it in those terms. [More…]

• What that document states is that there are practices in the United Kingdom, there are practices before the courts, there is a practice in the United States of America and there is a practice within Australia under which claims which are made by the Executive in the name of privilege- to refuse to answer questions or to produce documents when requested. [More…]

• I refer to the case of President Nixon in the United States who claimed confidentiality for certain tapes and records of conversations which he did not wish to reveal. [More…]

• The District Court in the United States had said that if the special prosecutor wanted those tapes he was entitled to have them; and the United States Supreme Court unanimously decided that the District Court was right. [More…]

• What is happening in Australia at the moment is of far greater significance than what happened to President Nixon in the United States because the enormity of people in government raising billions of dollars without telling the Parliament and indeed without telling their fellow members of Cabinet, and using that as a means of subverting the Constitution and by-passing the Parliament, is criminality in the highest degree. [More…]

• Our agreement in paragraph (2) abovementioned is, of course, given on the understanding that it does not in any way whatsoever commit the Australian Government to any costs, fees or other liabilities, and it is further understood that your bank, in acting as a trustee bank, will obtain funds from the lenders in a sufficient amount to pay all operational charges or other expenses or commissions and be in a position to transfer to the Australian Government the total amount of four billion United States dollars. [More…]

• What has happened in Australia at the moment is of far greater significance than what happened to President Nixon in the United States of America. [More…]

• It is also proper that the Senate should examine its powers to appoint a special prosecutor, as was necessary in order to penetrate the cover-up in the United States last year. [More…]

• Those allegations were made before the Rockefeller Commission in the United States of America, investigating the Central Intelligence Agency. [More…]

• This follows the arrangements made in 1973 with the United States of America. [More…]

• In response to possible Australian defence purchases in the United States, the United States Government decided to set up an arrangement whereby the United States Defence Department and industry, in circumstances in which the United States Government could not meet orders for offset components, would allow Australian industry to bid for the work. [More…]

• If Senator Webster looks at the statistics he will find that the Arabs are not involved in this field at all; it is partly the United Kingdom and partly the United States, with a few other smaller interests being involved. [More…]

• Crop insurance is well known in the United States of America where competition apparently produces the goods a little more satisfactorily. [More…]

• On the other hand all-risk crop insurance is available in the United States, Canada, South Africa, Japan, Sweden, Israel and a number of other countries. [More…]

• In some countries such as Sweden and Japan crop insurance is compulsory: in others including the United States and Canada it is voluntary. [More…]

• I find it ironic, to say the least, that people who oppose the extension of public ownership with quasireligious zeal very strongly tend to be the same people who were eager to maintain the premium on what they call our insurance policy with the United States, when the premium in question was someone else’s life or someone else’s physical liberty. [More…]

• -The arrangement with the United States authorities was that the importation of Australian beef should be on a voluntary restrictive basis. [More…]

• The decision of the United States was not to impose compulsory quotas but rather to expect countries such as Australia exporting beef to that country to operate on a voluntary restraint basis. [More…]

• Since the decline in the market the scheme has been reintroduced, and it is our responsibility to ensure that the quota which has been agreed upon in relation to those exports to the United States is kept, otherwise the United States would be placed in the position of having to impose quotas. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that both Canada and the United States of America have introduced legislation along similar lines to this Bill. [More…]

• They do not draw to the attention of the Australian people the fact that our financial institutions make us a mere colony of the United States of America and England, that the views represented by those interests are not always in the best interests of Australia, and that in some instances they have reached the point of arrogance as they no longer strive to provide the fullest of covers demanded by this Government and demanded by an aware public with a developed social conscience. [More…]

• Such insurance is available in countries which are completely committed to the capitalist system to the extent that the United States of America and France are. [More…]

• Whilst I would not consider a comparable situation should exist in Australia at this stage to that which exists in the United States of America, in that country members of the Senate have up to 40 employees on their staffs- speech writers, persons doing research work and persons in offices in every major town in the State in which a senator operates. [More…]

• Does the Minister know that there are representatives of the black population on the South African Olympic Games Council and that in golf tournaments in South Africa the number of black Africans who play is higher than the number of black people who play in golf tournaments in the United States of America? [More…]

• I had letters from Congressman O’Hara of the United States House of Representatives concerning it. [More…]

• Will he, in doing so, also indicate the Government’s intentions with regard to applications for entry permits on behalf of close relatives of such persons, including such relatives now living in South Vietnam, Thailand, Guam, the United States of America or elsewhere? [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Defence been drawn to recent Press reports concerning engine failure and the subsequent grounding of the F 1 1 1 aircraft of the United States Air Force? [More…]

• Following the information which was given to the Royal Australian Air Force concerning the engine failure of the F1 1 1 aircraft of the United States Air Force on 14 August, American authorities commenced inspections of the second and third stage rotating air seal in those aircraft engines which had accumulated, I think, 300 hours or more. [More…]

• Finally in the maritime area, I am pleased to report that earlier this month the Minister for Defence inspected the guided missile frigate project in the United States and discussed its progress with the United States Secretary of Defense and his officials. [More…]

• We now await a United States Department of Defense decisionexpected shortly- which will provide us with the necessary information on which to determine our position. [More…]

• In the United States the position of Secretary of Defense, which is a most political position, has developed very much when compared with the powers that a Secretary of one of our departments has. [More…]

• -The Minister for Environment has told me about the United States report which was issued in June. [More…]

• The most recent authoritative report by the United States federal task force on the inadvertent modification of the stratosphere has suggested that action to prohibit the release of fluorocarbons should be deferred until the results of a further study by the National Academy of Science has become available. [More…]

• However, only part of the Australian economy ‘s weakness can be attributed to external causes, such as the slump in wool prices in 1974 and the exclusion of Australian beef from its major markets- Japan, the United States and the European Economic Community. [More…]

• He should look, for example, at the United States of America were inflation is down to about 8 per cent. [More…]

• We see deep recession in the United States, in the United Kingdom, throughout Europe and in Japan and, of course, it is a matter of notoriety that these are countries with a great variety of types of government, yet they all share similar problems. [More…]

• One has been the increase in the price of stock feed and the price of feed grains that has caused countries such as the United States of America and Japan as well as those in the European Common Market to divert from the lot feeding of cattle to the more traditional or past methods. [More…]

• That will further lift the price of wheat, which will further increase the difficulties of the beef producers in the United States. [More…]

• That is basic to the capitalist system, and it has been accepted in the United States as basic. [More…]

• In the United States at the present time, there is concern that the inflation rate which had declined to 8 per cent is now again starting to rise. [More…]

• In the United States the rates of increase for the same periods were as follows: 3.3 per cent, 6.2 per cent, 1 1 per cent, and again a fall back to 9.5 per cent. [More…]

• Adam Smith which were applied, I think conscientiously, in both Britain and the United States in the 1 8th and 1 9th centuries led to great misery for the people of those countries and ultimately led to breakdowns in their economic systems. [More…]

• I can remember, at that time, that unemployment in the United States of America, Britain and so on had reached about 5 or 6 per cent. [More…]

• In the United States it has increased 9’A per cent. [More…]

• In response to Senator Wright’s claim that a record amount of money was being spent on education, we said at that time that it would be necessary to spend at least 4 times as much to give Australian children a standard of education equal to that given to those attending schools in the United States of America, Sweden, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom or any other advanced nation. [More…]

• In the United States of America, where there has been so much turmoil and trouble with inflation, the rate of inflation today is coming down. [More…]

• In the United States the unemployment figure is 9.1 per cent; in Australia it is 4.7 per cent. [More…]

• Does the Minister recall that I- and, I believe, he at the same time- advocated that because of the biased nature of this report, air accident investigations should be divorced from the Department and be placed in the hands of an independent authority, as I believe is the case in the United States of America? [More…]

• The simple fact was that for years there had been a great problem in the United States in relation to the marketing of beef by United States farmers. [More…]

• He goes overseas, insults the United States of America and makes flambouyant statements. [More…]

• Tractor testing in Canada and the United States of America is undertaken, not by the Federal Governments but only by some State or Provincial Governments. [More…]

• The only information that I have had of the nature mentioned by the honourable senator concerns some research being done in the United States and I am not aware whether it is being pursued here in Australia, but I will find out. [More…]

• In 1971 and 1972 we were below even countries like the United States, and far below Canada, which is usually considered by many honourable senators opposite to be one of the greatest free enterprise countries in the world. [More…]

• The United States of America did it to the extent of a deficit of $80,000m in order to re-stimulate its economy. [More…]

• It was a British Labour Government which had escape clauses inserted into contracts when it bought such equipment from the United States of America. [More…]

• If honourable senators are going to talk about the coalmining industry and about our concept of taxation I suggest that they have a look at the United States where probably the coalmining industry had less controls than we had here. [More…]

• It did not work out that way in the United States and it will not happen here. [More…]

• The plain fact of the matter is that traditional instincts are inherent in coalminers, whether they are in Australia, Britain or the United States. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Social Security and Minister for Repatriation and Compensation whether he would initiate discussions with the United States Government in regard to the position of United States portable pension recipients who take up residence in Australia. [More…]

• I have had some inquiries made by the Department of Social Security and we are not aware of all of the provisions under which United States pensions may be paid to United States citizens or former residents overseas. [More…]

• But it does seem that the United States Government will pay old age pensions in certain circumstances where there are reciprocal arrangements with other countries. [More…]

• Some 3 years ago the previous Australian Government invited the United States Government to enter into an agreement for reciprocal portability of pensions. [More…]

• However, up to the time of the change of government in 1972 our predecessors had received no response from the United States Government. [More…]

• Meanwhile the centrally planned economies, comprising one-third of the world’s population, and the world’s largest economic area outside of the European Economic Community and the United States, have been largely unaffected by such events. [More…]

• Our three largest markets- Japan, the United States of America and the EEC- remain of the utmost significance. [More…]

• The principle reasons for the present improvement, of course, are the very strong increase in demand in the domestic market- consumption in Australia is up 40 per cent on last year- the reopening ofthe Japanese market and, of course, the allocation of a shortfall into the United States market which Australia was able to obtain. [More…]

• Further information is being sought on this matter from the United States and the United Kingdom. [More…]

• 1 ) Qantas services to Canada and the United States of America provide 1 7 per cent of its total operating revenue. [More…]

• The United States Congress recently voted $20,000m for non-nuclear energy research to be spent over the next 10 years. [More…]

• For the past 10 years we have known from what has been said by the United States Surgeon-General that there is very good evidence linking a whole series of diseases with smoking. [More…]

• In 1 974 a report was published by the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare entitled ‘The Health Consequences of Smoking’. [More…]

• For instance, the price of coal in Australia today is something like $20 a ton less than the cost in the United States. [More…]

• So if our industry is accused of making a windfall profit, what must the circumstances be in the United States? [More…]

• On 1 December 1972, expressed in United States dollars for ease of comparison, the per tonne f.o.b. [More…]

• In the same period, prices of leading United States of America coals increased between 120 per cent and 130 per cent. [More…]

• A great deal of research is being carried out in countries like the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Japan and the continent of Europe. [More…]

• 1 ) The records of my department reveal that in the years 1970, 1971 and 1973 a total of 53 requests were lodged in Australia by Mr Jones, the Regional Manager of the United States firm Jack Russell Company Inc. for business visitor visas for Australia to be issued overseas to persons associated with the firm. [More…]

• Theoretical analysis and planning of experiments is proceeding in consultation with the United States Department of Defense. [More…]

• The Leopard tank was chosen for the Australian Army following evaluation of it and the United States M60. [More…]

• Has the Minister for Police and Customs noticed the appearance of a new type of United States manufactured crossbow with fibreglass components that launches an arrow with much greater velocity? [More…]

• The United States Federal Register of 6 December 1974, reported that, in 1970, a study group of 10 scientists concluded, on the basis of their experience in Sweden and Finland where there had been a great deal of investigation regarding mercury hazards, that the FDA action level of 0.5ppm was a sound basis for the protection of the health of the public. [More…]

• I am aware of a report by Dr Yamaguchi and others at the Kurume University School of Medicine in Japan, published in the United States Health Services and Medical Health Administration Health Reports in October 1 97 1 . [More…]

• In 1972 inthe United States of America the unemployment rate was 5.2 per cent. [More…]

• Is it true that some drugs listed under the national health scheme are accompanied in Australia by less comprehensive literature than is required in the United States and other nations for exactly the same drugs? [More…]

• Does the Minister know that there are representatives of the black population on the South African Olympic Games Council and that in golf tournaments in South Africa the number of black people who play is higher than the number of black people who play in goff tournaments in the United States of America? [More…]

• This rule which is based on the motor vehicles safety standard enforced in the United States of America includes strength, endurance and high speed tests as well as dimensional and labelling requirements. [More…]

• It is in line entirely with the Constitution of the United States of America. [More…]

• The Constitution of this country and, indeed, of the States should make absolutely sure that we have in this country the type of fair play that exists in the United States of America where the electoral system operates on the basis of population. [More…]

• That principle has been upheld for many years by the Supreme Court of the United States, and that is the type of representation to which people are entitled. [More…]

• Yet if we look at the figures relating to inflation we find that between December 1973 and December 1974 inflation in the United Kingdom was running at some 18.4 per cent, in Italy at some 25.8 per cent, which is highly inflationary, in the United States at 12.1 per cent, and in Japan at the frightening figure of some 23.4 per cent. [More…]

• In that period many countries were affected adversely, particularly the United States and Japan. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that whereas the United States had an inflation rate, of some 12. [More…]

• Earlier, when the United States of America was involved in ethnic problems with the vast waves of migrants entering the United States of America, it made it quite clear that when a migrant came to the United States of America, applied for citizenship and was granted that citizenship by swearing to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America, he had fulfilled the constitutional requirements of the United States of America to become an American citizen. [More…]

• At that stage, he or she was entitled to the care, observation and protection of the United States wherever they went in the world. [More…]

• They quote to us countries such as the United States of America and Canada, as well as European countries, because there are so many Yugoslavs in other countries. [More…]

• In the famous constitutional case of Marbury v. Madison, Chief Justice Marshall presided over the United States Supreme Court and ruled on the validity of events in which he had participated as Secretary of State [More…]

• Has the Minister representing the Treasurer seen reports that the United States of America and Japan have reduced inflation to approximately 8 per cent? [More…]

• fate in that country has been more than that in the United States but, from memory, the inflation figures in the United States are still running at about 12 per cent or 13 per cent, and I think in. [More…]

• I think that a week or two ago the Minister for Tourism and Recreation, Mr Stewart, issued a statement on this matter in which he discussed a proposal that a Boxing Commission should be established in Australia, presumably similar to that which functions in the United States of America. [More…]

• The Age, in its assessment of whether Australia was stepping out of turn and whether Australia was making incorrect economic judgments and management decisions, was able to produce a graph showing that Australia was in the same category as Germany and the United States of America and that New Zealand and Great Britain were in a worse position than Australia in their Budget deficits. [More…]

• Australia was in line with the United States of America and Germany which also had Budget deficits which represented 4 per cent of their gross national product. [More…]

• For example, government expenditure as a proportion of gross domestic product was 33 per cent in the United States, 39 per cent in Canada, 42 per cent in France and 50 per cent in Sweden. [More…]

• In the heartland of capitalism in the United States, it was 33 per cent. [More…]

• 103 of 1 97 1 , which was cited as an Act to approve the raising by way of loan of moneys in the currency of the United States of America and to authorise the expending of those moneys for defence purposes and for purposes connected therewith. [More…]

• The work will be carried out in the United States by the Pratt and Whitney organisation. [More…]

• That was 2c above the ruling United States price at that time, so no one could suggest in the light of the very depressed beef market in the world at that time that that was a give-away price. [More…]

• Further, I remind honourable senators that while he was a justice of the High Court of Australia, Sir Owen Dixon, who later became Chief Justice, was appointed Australian Minister to the United States in 1942 and the Judiciary (Diplomatic Representation) Act 1942 was passed to enable him to hold that office in addition to his judicial office. [More…]

• In registering parties and printing political affiliations on ballot-papers we are joining the following countries: Argentina, Austria, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Denmark, Gambia, West Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, South Korea, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Sierra Leone, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America. [More…]

• -Senator Wright has referred to the situation which exists in the United States of America. [More…]

• It shows quite clearly that the cost of drugs in the United Kingdom and Canada has stayed about the same, the cost in Australia has fallen dramatically and costs in the United States and Sweden have risen markedly. [More…]

• But we cannot sit here, as Senator Sheil is doing, and say that because they are wonderful, big, free enterprise companies with all this purity and light therefore they are managed by great gentlemen, because some of us remember that, following an investigation by a committee of the Senate of the United States of America, five of the companies, all of whom were involved in supplying the drug market in Australia, had to pay a total of $4m. [More…]

• The Minister acknowledges that our trade with Japan, the United States of America and the European Economic Community should be left to private enterprise endeavour. [More…]

• There was an election in 1963 and the then Government sent its Minister for Defence, Mr Townley, to the United States of America to sign an agreement for Fill aircraft which had no escape clause- nothing like that obtained by the British Government. [More…]

• On the question of estimates and information, I say to Senator Carrick that in two successive years I had information from United States congressman O’Hara about corruption in Vietnam, but I could never get an answer from the Government about how Australian aid was being spent in Vietnam. [More…]

• If we had $4,000m sitting in a bank somewhere in the United States of America, we could selectively pay the responsibilities of government at this time, bypassing the Parliament. [More…]

• We have decided- and this has been after close consultation with the Government of the United States- to provide an infantry battalion for service in South Vietnam. [More…]

• In the United States it is 3.5 per cent and it is estimated that it will climb to 5.3 per cent during this financial year; in Canada it is 2.5 per cent; in Japan it is 3.7 per cent; in the United Kingdom it is 8.4 per cent; in Germany it is 3.9 per cent and in New Zealand it is 4.9 per cent. [More…]

• United States NSF/NASA Solar Energy Panel report on solar energy as a national energy resource. [More…]

• We got our Embassy to confer with Great Britain, the United States and Canada- all of us have nationals there- to try to co-ordinate and to keep in touch with one another’s thinking. [More…]

• One has not been adopted by the United States of America or Japan. [More…]

• The United States of America has a variety of similar facilities. [More…]

• The people referred to in the HEMA report and the Age newspaper of 28 May this year gave a few details of arrangements for the trading of United States grain for oil with Russia. [More…]

• American Export-Import Bank report of 1974 makes the claim that its operations in overseas territories accounted for the creation of one million jobs throughout the United States. [More…]

• According to the February edition of Chile Today Chile has secured wheat from the United States on 20-year terms at 4 per cent interest. [More…]

• The purpose of this was that the lobbyist would activate consumer groups inside the United States of America and make American consumers aware of the fact that due to import restrictions, overt or covert, beef in particular was far more expensive than it needed to be in a free market situation. [More…]

• In reference to the Opposition claims that none of the major trading countries has seen a need for a state trading enterprise to conduct trade with the centrally planned economies yet do well without it, I ask: How about the United States of America, the bastion of free enterprise? [More…]

• The United States Government and the Japanese Government have entered into a 3 year agreement for the supply of 42 million tons of grains and soya beans to Japan. [More…]

• What does the Opposition think of the massive wheat/oil deal just concluded by the United States Government with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]

• They find some support for this view in the prominent and powerful position of the United States Senate. [More…]

• But comparisons with the position in the United States are not very helpful. [More…]

• But the United States Senate has, in public acceptance, and by virtue of certain special powers, a status and authority superior to that of the House. [More…]

• In the same way, the United States Senate controls the appointment of ambassadors, judges of the Supreme Court and a series of public officers. [More…]

• In the United States, the President (in whom is vested the Executive power) cannot be removed from office by a hostile Congress, unless he is removed from office ‘on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors’. [More…]

• In the United States the political heads of the Department, that is those who hold office under the President, do noi sit in Congress. [More…]

• So attached were the founders of the American Constitution to the principal of the ‘separation of powers’ between legislature and executive that section 6 of that Constitution expressly provides that ‘no person holding any office under the United States shall be a member of either House during his continuance in Office. [More…]

• What are the facts concerning reports that the Australian Meat Board has curtailed approvals to ship meat to the United States of America? [More…]

• Our market in the United States this year is about 290 000 tonnes, and until the first week in October the amount shipped was about 266 000 tonnes. [More…]

• Australia received a shortfall from the United States of 10 000 tonnes, that is, meat which the United States was unable to get from its other sources of supply, and that has enabled us to export the additional amount of 10 000 tonnes. [More…]

• That means that at the present time about 23 000 to 25 000 tonnes remain of our allocation to the United States market, and I understand that that will be completed by about the third or fourth week in November, which would place us approximately a fortnight ahead of the shipping program. [More…]

• I am quite sure that there will be no noticeable detrimental effect on our export trade to the United States as a result of this. [More…]

• Consider in the first place his position: He is President of the Australian Labor Party; President of the ACTU; a highly placed and favourably placed individual; a trade union official committed to involving the ACTU in business enterprises- in retail selling, travel, insurance and other activities; a person who in the past has used industrial muscle or trade union power to advantage the profitability of those ventures and as I have said in this place previously, a true twentieth century robber baron in the style of the commercial and industrial muscelment of nineteenth century United States of America. [More…]

• Extensive research has been carried out not only in Australia but also overseas, especially in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. [More…]

• The basic pattern in the United States is the salaried neighbourhood law centre. [More…]

• If, as has happened in the United States, there is a high turnover of professional staff because of limited career possibilities, the standard of service available to the public must fall. [More…]

• I think Senator Greenwood and everyone will agree with me that in the United States of America unfortunately there has been a proliferation of security agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agencythere are one or two others- and these agencies have been competing with one another. [More…]

• We do know that on occasions this year processed potatoes from Canada and the United States of America were being sold at a retail price that was about 10c lower than the local product. [More…]

• What is even more disturbing is a telegram dated 25 July 1975 which was sent to one of the people in the trade regarding potato stocks and prices in the United States of America. [More…]

• Following the partial lifting of the United States embargo on arms for Turkey, talks between the Turkish Government and the United States Administration on United States bases in Turkey are expected to resume shortly. [More…]

• Some years ago it began to dawn on some countries that telexes and cables sent to them from their official representatives in Washington were secretly being monitored by the United States Government. [More…]

• Yet do honourable senators on the government side stop and think about the fact that those same arguments are not applied to the United States Senate? [More…]

• The United States Senate is elected in the same way as the Senate of Australia. [More…]

• The United States Senate has great constitutional powers, as does this Senate. [More…]

• I know of no argument in the United States that that is undemocratic. [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…]

• They would be ashamed of the way that information has had to be forced out of the Government by journalists in a repetition, of the Watergate situation in the United States of America where the wrongdoer owned up only after the truth had been revealed by an inquiring journalist. [More…]

• One of his financial ventures, which was of quite some interest to those who participated in it, was the selling of tickets for the first flight to the moon which, apparently, some people in the United States of America agreed to buy. [More…]

• More and more the Whitlam Government resembles the discredited Nixon Government in the United States. [More…]

• I think we should remember that it took approximately 2 years and 4 months- from April 1972 to September 1974-before Richard Nixon was driven from office for the crimes he had attempted and for the misleading of the Congress and the people of the United States of America. [More…]

• We heard Senator Greenwood talk earlier about Mr Richard Nixon, the former President of the United States of America. [More…]

• But it was not taken up, I understand, because Dr Cairns had such a dislike for the United States of America. [More…]

• I recall reading in terms of the trauma which was hitting the United States after the corruption of the Nixon Government had become apparent how people in the United States wished that they had the power to take President Nixon and his Government to the people before the allotted period of 4 years had expired. [More…]

• Just as Richard Nixon was the last to go in the United States, so will Gough Whitlam be the last to go in Australia. [More…]

• But both the United States of America and Canada enjoy- or do not enjoy- unemployment rates higher than we have in Australia. [More…]

• The rate in the United States is 8.3 per cent and in Canada 7.2 per cent. [More…]

• The United States had an increase of 1.9 per cent, Canada 1.2 per cent, Japan 3.2 per cent, West Germany 0.6 per cent and the United Kingdom had a negative growth rate- minus 7.5 per cent. [More…]

• I understand that late last year an international priority paid mail service was introduced for urgent mail to the United States of America and the United Kingdom. [More…]

• Since that action was taken, several countries have expressed interest in the service which currently provides for delivery of mail within 48 hours to many places in the United States of America and selected cities in the United Kingdom, and a reciprocal service to Australia is available in the United States of America and the United Kingdom. [More…]

• Did a recent court case in Sydney indicate that some United States criminals are using the same method to circumvent our passport laws? [More…]

• Mr Kulakov I understand, has been to the United States, France and Austria since the beginning of 1974. [More…]

• Specifically, does the Government have overt contact from time to time with United States Central Intelligence Agency agents? [More…]

• -I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate: Are reports correct that the Government is using large numbers of public servants and spending a great amount of money on operation ‘dirty tricks’, which is similar to that which was being conducted by President Nixon in the United States of America in an endeavour to obtain any issue the Government can use against any member of the Opposition? [More…]

• I ask the Special Minister of State: What is the purpose of the United States Bicentennial Fellowship Scheme, which has been advertised in the national Press by his Department? [More…]

• -The United States Bicentennial Fellowship Scheme is part of a series of activities planned by the Australian Government for 1976 in recognition of the bicentennial year of American independence. [More…]

• The objectives of the Scheme are to allow an exchange of knowledge and to provide an opportunity for cultural and social interchanges between the people of Australia and the people of the United States. [More…]

• Under the Scheme up to 15 Australians will visit the United States and it is proposed that 15 Americans will be invited to Australia next year. [More…]

• 1 ) Is the Electricity Trust of South Australia now using General Electric single phase 240 volt watt-hour meters made in the United States of America in preference to using Emco single phase 240 volt watt-hour meters made by Email Ltd in Australia. [More…]

• This highlights the importance of what was said in the GovernorGeneral’s Speech yesterday, namely that Australia wholeheartedly supports the building up by the United States of a naval capacity on the island of Diego Garcia, which admittedly is somewhat south of the Maldives but is certainly in the general area. [More…]

• I am advised that on a per capita basis our expenditure is reasonably close to that of the United States. [More…]

• The difference is, of course, that a great many more people benefit from the United States service because of the population density there and correspondingly more people are available to pay for the service. [More…]

• The ships will be procured from the United States Navy construction program for guided missile frigates. [More…]

• The sail-away cost for the 2 ships as procured from the United States is $A195m in January 1976 prices. [More…]

• The Navy itself has been deeply involved in the United States FFG program and has also conducted its own independent and very searching investigations. [More…]

• Over the last 3 to 4 years the United States Navy has developed the guided missile frigate to have a capability much closer to the DDL than that of the original patrol frigate design. [More…]

• I might add that some of the improvements have been influenced by the input of Australian professional judgment through RAN participation in the United States Navy program. [More…]

• Substantial effort has been exerted by United States and Australian authorities in developing an adequate level of Australian industry participation against an FFG purchase. [More…]

• In this regard we will be supported by the United States Department of Defence and I have directed that my Department make every effort to increase the scope of participation. [More…]

• The United States Navy FFG program consists of a lead ship prototype and a series of follow-ships. [More…]

• The lead ship was funded in the United States Budget for fiscal year 1973 and is now under construction. [More…]

• The United States 1976 Defense Appropriation Bill which includes funds for a further 6 ships was signed by the President on 9 February 1976. [More…]

• In the proposed budget for fiscal year 1977 presented to Congress on 21 January 1976, the United States Department of Defence has sought funds for a further 8 follow-ships. [More…]

• The total projected United States program is 70 ships including the lead ship. [More…]

• Because it is a major United States program we will reap the benefit of concurrent procurement with the United States and the economies of scale. [More…]

• It was Chou En-lai who laid the way to the visit to China of Dr Kissinger and United States President Nixon. [More…]

• We have a close and long standing relationship with the United States of America. [More…]

• In many ways our relationship with the United States is fundamental. [More…]

• One does not abuse one’s friends, but the Whitlam Government saw fit to pour abuse on the United States of America. [More…]

• Honourable senators opposite talk about offending our great friend, the United States of America. [More…]

• Senator Young talked today about offending our great ally, the United States of America, while the Labor Government was in power. [More…]

• There is evidence from statements made by the former United States Ambassador Green that relations between himself and the Labor Government were good. [More…]

• He talked about the good relations between the United States Government and the Australian Government. [More…]

• With the march towards independence and the consequential opportunities of involvement of the great powers, there has been an extension of interest and participation especially by Russia, the P.R.C., the United States and Japan. [More…]

• It is vital to the United States of America and is likely to become more vital as the United States requires greater oil resources. [More…]

• Today Russia has a naval fleet which rivals that of the United States and is in many respects a more modern fleet. [More…]

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

• Recently committees of both the United States Senate and the House of Representatives found that when Anally completed the Berbera facility will represent the most complex naval support facility available to the Soviet anywhere outside the U.S.S.R. [More…]

• When the United States Congressmen were there they asked to be allowed to enter this facility. [More…]

• The Soviet Union with its agents or lackeys, as it used to refer to anybody who supported the United States, has taken over Angola. [More…]

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

• The plan by the United States to develop Diego Garcia into a modest facility is no more than a response to the rapid build-up of Soviet facilities in the Indian Ocean region, not to forget of course the buoying facilities that the Russians have in the Seychelles and other parts of the Indian Ocean. [More…]

• All that the Diego Garcia base will do is enable the United States to operate in the Indian Ocean if it needs to operate there. [More…]

• It is no more than a facility, but it gives the United States a capacity to operate and to resupply should the need arise. [More…]

• Any move to decrease the influence or will of the United States can only create a decided imbalance in favour of the Soviet Union, and one about which we should be concerned. [More…]

• For those who fear United States-Soviet escalation, I point out that competitive escalation is better than single escalation by a non-sympathetic power. [More…]

• Common sense demands that we support the development by the United States of Diego Garcia and the use by friendly powers of a newly developed HMAS Stirling, which I hope will be developed rapidly. [More…]

• I hope that in the near future in the peace talks that will take place the Australian people and their Parliament will give as much service to the cause of the Cypriots as has been given by senior United States Democrats such as Senator Egerton. [More…]

• Senator Sim dealt with the defence concept and the general idea was that he hitched his wagon to the United States’ star. [More…]

• That might be all right if the United States had continuity of ideas but anybody who has studied events over the last few years will begin to wonder. [More…]

• A gentleman who has retired now, I think, from the United States foreign service, Mr Elsworth Bunker, was able to con the Menzies Government into agreeing to a transfer of a portion of Dutch New Guinea to Indonesia. [More…]

• There is no doubt that at some stage the rivalry between China and Russia may be used effectively by the United States on some issues, and- what is much more important- it could be used on the new nation of Vietnam, Thailand or any of those countries which will go left. [More…]

• The United States made errors when it first went into Vietnam. [More…]

• There was a complete reversal of our foreign policy away from our traditional friends of the United Kingdom, the United States, South Africa and Rhodesia. [More…]

• It has been overcome in some countries, particularly the United States of America. [More…]

• I believe that we need to introduce legislation along the lines of the legislation introduced in the United States of America. [More…]

• I remind honourable senators opposite that a very great American Adlai Stevenson, who stood unsuccessfully as his Party’s candidate for the presidency of the United States of America, said without bitterness and in a sense of magnanimity after the 1956 elections: [More…]

• As a consequence of the December election, I believe that the Senate now stands confirmed as probably the second most powerful upper house in the world, exceeded in its power only by the Senate of the United States, on which it is modelled. [More…]

• I am intrigued that in the United States an economic committee of the Congress recently devised what it called a “misery index”. [More…]

• For example, in the United States in 1960 that combined figure was 7 per cent and in the bad days in America in 1 974 it was 1 6.6 per cent. [More…]

• Our position is worse than that of the United States. [More…]

• Will the Government urgently introduce aerial cyclone reconnaissance along the lines now working most efficiently in the United States of America? [More…]

• A special squadron of 3 Orions or a special squadron of 3 similar aircraft that are functioning most successfully in the United States could be employed to detect cyclones hundreds of miles from the Australian coast and give the much needed warnings. [More…]

• The Orions, or some similar aircraft of the type which has proved successful in the United States, could be strengthened with highly sophisticated navigational and radar instruments. [More…]

• That is what is done in the United States of America, and it could be done here. [More…]

• When two or three intrepid journalists in the United States of America sought to determine what had happened in the famous event that has come to be described as Watergate the same conservative forces in that country in the media, Congress and public office endeavoured to silence those who were seeking to unravel that mystery. [More…]

• The regrettable feature is that I believe the Australian people did not understand the issues, just as they would not have understood them if they had been in the United States at the time of the start of the Watergate inquiry. [More…]

• I recall reading an article in a publication called Nucleonics Week which was published in the United States on 6 November and which was received in Australia on 12 November. [More…]

• We should examine the whole sordid story of the interference in the internal affairs of other countries by the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States. [More…]

• On 13 December 1974 the Honourable Edward Gough Whitlam QC, then Prime Minister and Minister for Environment, the Honourable Reginald Francis Xavier Connor, the then Minister for Minerals and Energy, The Honourable James Ford Cairns, the then Treasurer, and the Honourable Lionel Keith Murphy Q.C., then Senator and Attorney-General of this Commonwealth, purporting to act as and in a meeting of the Commonwealth Executive Council signed and/or caused to be signed a certain Minute Paper headed ‘Department of Minerals and Energy’ recommending for the approval of His Excellency the GovernorGeneral, inter aiia, that in pursuance of Section 61 of the Constitution the Minister for Minerals and Energy be authorised to borrow for temporary purposes a sum in the currency of the United States of America not exceeding the equivalent of $4000m and to determine on behalf of Australia the terms and conditions of the borrowing. [More…]

• If so, will he give consideration to the situation in the United States of America and West Germany where, I understand, rural banks are run on cooperative lines and managed by the users of this facility? [More…]

• As an indication of the Australian Government’s sincerity to combat white collar crime, will the Minister provide an explanation of the circumstances which enable former Sydney barrister and tenant basher Peter Clyne to continue to possess an Australian passport, mindful of his chequered career in Australia and his latest taxation evasion escapade in the United States of America? [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that in the United States people of the Mormon persuasion who do not smoke or drink but who have several wives are less susceptible to cancer than those who indulge, more or less, in these pleasures? [More…]

• I am sure also that honourable senators will be most interested to learn of the recent decision of the United States Congress to adopt the metric system. [More…]

• The biggest countries in the world, such as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, China and the United States of America, have completely different economic problems from those of the smaller countries, such as Ireland and Chile, which have less government in terms of the way in which the lives of the people are determined by government actions. [More…]

• I move on to a question that I raised last night, not because I am in any position to affirm what I say, other than to traverse the ground of the interference in the internal affairs of other countries by the Cental Intelligence Agency of the United States of America. [More…]

• In the current inquiries that are being undertaken by a Committee of the United States Senate, admissions have been made by high ranking officers of that organisation which indicate that the CIA has not only seriously interfered in the internal affairs of other countries but also has misled the President of the United States of America, the United States Congress and in fact withheld information. [More…]

• Admissions have been made before the United States Senate Committee that the CIA was responsible for the murder of President Diem of South Vietnam, a President of whom all of those on the other side of the Senate in the then Government, which was of the same political complexion as the present Government, expressed their support when that Government involved Australia in the Vietnam war in 1964. [More…]

• When I go back and read now the accounts of the McCarthy period in the United States in the 1950s, I see that the truth is finally coming out. [More…]

• Since international currencies started to fluctuate Australia has fared considerably worse than its 2 main competitors in overseas markets, South Africa and the United States of America. [More…]

• The effective loss on the South African rand is only 12 per cent and on the United States dollar it is 27 per cent. [More…]

• Governments must realise, as I realise, having worked on and off in the area for some time over the last 10 years and particularly over the last 2 years, that, with the withdrawal of the United States influence in the area and its recent failure to match its military capabilities with political commitment, the individual nations in South East Asia are becoming a prey to the protagonists of the Sino-Soviet dispute. [More…]

• If the New York Times and the Washington Post had accepted the facile, never-look-backwards hypothesis now being offered by people in Australia who call themselves conservatives the villainies of Watergate never would have been exposed and Richard Nixon still would be President of the United States of America. [More…]

• Only the United States of America operates aircraft on a regular basis to detect and measure the intensity of tropical cyclones. [More…]

• A similar provision was contained in the Judiciary (Diplomatic Representation) Act 1942 which provided for the appointment of Sir Owen Dixon, then a justice of the High Court of Australia, to be Australian Minister to the United States. [More…]

• In my period of study overseas- following the time when Senator Grimes was a student of mine- I worked in the United States of America and, as I am sure Senator Grimes will agree, I was appalled at the complete lack of benefits for people in need in the hospital where I worked. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of statements in the Sunday Independent of 29 February relating to the use of the Stirling naval facility in Cockburn Sound by the United States Navy as a rest and recreation centre? [More…]

• As there would appear to have been little or no consultation with the authorities in Western Australia, will the Minister advise whether an approach has been made by the United States Government to the Australian Government to ascertain whether we- that ‘we’ means we in Western Australia who may not care to become part of another Las Vegas or even another King’s Cross- would be prepared to make this facility available for that purpose? [More…]

• I do not know whether the United States Navy wishes to be invited to Western Australia. [More…]

• I am quite certain that if the United States Navy wishes to come to Western Australia, whether for recreation leave or any other purpose, it will be welcomed by all the decent people of Western Australia, and they comprise the overwhelming majority of the people of Western Australia because at the last election the people of Western Australia returned not only six of the ten senators to this side of this House but also nine of the ten members to our side of the other place. [More…]

• That is an indication of how the people of Western Australia feel towards the United States and our policies in respect of the United States. [More…]

• The United States of America, which has now by law decided that it will convert to the metric system, has requested that the Chairman of the Metric Conversion Board and others go to the United States and give advice as to how the United States should proceed with its conversion. [More…]

• That concern has been expressed both here and in the United States of America. [More…]

• In the United States it led to the appointment of the Church Senate Committee. [More…]

• I believe that the thing which concerns people both in the United States and here is the belief that intelligence agencies have sometimes developed to a point where they have almost become the tail wagging the dog. [More…]

• A previous government established a body which has reached such proportions and whose ramifications and activities have been so great that in the United States the Government has in fact found itself embarrassed by the activities of that agency, namely, the Central Intelligence Agency. [More…]

• It deals with the awful situation in the United States of America in relation to the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. [More…]

• I hope that we have done so because it is most important that we avoid the mistakes which were made in the United States. [More…]

• I simply say to the Minister: I sincerely hope we will learn from what is happening in the United States. [More…]

• It is interesting to look at the subsequent course of events and at what happened to the principal intelligence organisation in the United States and the experiences of the American people as a result of the activities of that organisation. [More…]

• It is clear that last year it was in the mind of the then Prime Minister, when this legislation was drafted, that it should follow the direction taken by the United States. [More…]

• It has been modelled upon the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States. [More…]

• But I do wish to refer to a number of articles that have been published in Australian newspapers indicating that the intelligence organisation in the United States, upon which we based our intelligence organisation, has been the subject of a very constant and long overdue review by the American parliament. [More…]

• We know of the activities of the Senate committee on the Intelligence Agency in the United States as well as of the Congressional committees, and it is alarming to read the reports which indicate that a variety of suggestions were made; for instance, that President de Gaulle ought to be removed from the political arena by a poison, that President Sukarno should be framed by the making of a pornographic film, that the President of South Vietnam, Mr Diem, be murdered, that Mr Trujillo, the President of the Dominican Republic, be murdered. [More…]

• -Of course it was established by the Australian Labor Government and it was established at the request of the United States State Department- Senator Sim may laugh- for the purpose of swapping information of an intelligence nature. [More…]

• In point of fact, the United States had the temerity to send to our departments and organisations cables which sought in some way to intimidate them into keeping information from the Prime Minister. [More…]

• The Opposition sees the appointment of a judge in this area as a step forward in the ultimate democratisation of the security organisations and, based on the experience in the United States, as a development where the sort of excesses which have taken place in past years will be avoided. [More…]

• If one examined the evidence presented to Senator Church’s inquiry in the United States and if one examined the files of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation one would find reams and reams of paper expressing points of view about the activities of decent Australian people who wished only to express their views about a particular political situation. [More…]

• One waits with interest the publication of further information from the United States of America. [More…]

• I conclude on the point made by Congressman Moss recently when he was asked whether such a right would not in some way endanger the security of the United States. [More…]

• Because the United States of America is a free country, the CIA is under investigation. [More…]

• Senator Gietzelt looked at what has been revealed in the United States about the activities of the Central Intelligence Agency. [More…]

• I hope that in due course there will be a balance displayed which will reveal that for all the things which the CIA did which cannot be sustained and justified it also did a power of good in difficult years to protect the United States and, in protecting the United States, to protect a host of other countries which depend upon the stability and integrity of that country. [More…]

• By its hasty and ill conceived decision to support an escalation of the arms build-up in the region, by encouraging the United States Government to increase its military presence on the island of Diego Garcia and then proceeding to offer the United States naval access to Cockburn Sound for its nuclear armed and nuclear powered vessels, the Government at almost a single stroke has brought to an end the rational and productive foreign policy of the previous Labor Government. [More…]

• Labor initiatives between 1972 and 1975, which had resulted in a relationship of trust and confidence between Australia and other littoral states of the Indian Ocean, have been replaced by a policy which seeks to ignore, indeed more accurately to reverse, the passage of time in order to return to the futile era of confrontation between the major powers- the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]

• In this conservative scenario Australia has only one function to fulfil, that of a loyal, obedient, unthinking minor partner of the United States, a minor partner failing to identify and hence failing to take advantage of the many available opportunities which require independent initiatives. [More…]

• The salient point of whether a time will emerge when Australia’s interests will not coincide, perhaps will even clash, with those of the United States is not even considered. [More…]

• In place of Labor’s reasoned approach to the question, which sought strenuously to encourage mutual restraint in military commitment to the region by the United States and the Soviet Union, one now discovers that the present Government has adopted the curious position of both encouraging the United States to increase its arms strength in the region while at the same time asking that the super powers display mutual restraint. [More…]

• Labor ended that, and the merit of Labor’s more rational foreign policy attitude was acknowledged publicly by the former United States Ambassador to this country, Mr Marshall Green. [More…]

• This is surely the case at present with regard to the issues pertaining to the Asian region where Labor’s reasoned approach is attuned to the progressive elements within the United States Congress and the United States Administration and is not, unlike our conservative opponents’ policy, the product of an outdated irrelevant ideology. [More…]

• For example, the United States economic report of the President, January 1976, said : [More…]

• He was replied to on 25 November by Professor D. P. O ‘Connell, Professor of Public International Law, All Souls College, University of Oxford, supported by Mr J. M. Finnis, Rhodes Reader in the Laws of the Commonwealth and the United States, University of Oxford. [More…]

• M.FINNIS, Rhodes Reader in the Laws of the Commonwealth and the United States, University of Oxford. [More…]

• In anticipation of the decision of the United States Department of the Interior to lift its import ban on Australian kangaroo hides which should encourage the emergence of a rather sadistic commercial interest to dominate the market, I ask the Minister whether he contemplates an early meeting with all State Ministers responsible for wildlife protection to evolve an effective code which, if anything, would be more stringent than that established by the Minister’s predecessor. [More…]

• As a result of the previous Government’s representations, following satisfaction that the harvesting and management program was in existence, an approach was made to the United States Government to relax its ban on imports of kangaroo products. [More…]

• I think it is generally accepted that the United States used to be the main importer of kangaroo products. [More…]

• In those circumstances I understand that the United States of America will not permit the entry of kangaroo products into that country until there is a satisfactory position in Australia. [More…]

• I also have a secondary barrow to push, and I refer to a recent article in the Canberra Times relating to the rising number of Australians who, like their United States counterparts, feel that much of our wildlife which faces extinction has to be maintained. [More…]

• Has the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development seen reports that Australia proposes to order the United States guided missile system which has the capacity to launch missiles with nuclear warheads? [More…]

• The amount to be borrowed is the equivalent of 80 per cent of the total of the aircraft, spares and related equipment and represents the amount of loan finance normally sought jointly from the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Eximbank) and from other commercial sources overseas. [More…]

• The Eximbank otter is for a 10-year credit amounting to the equivalent of 40 per cent of the United States area cost of the aircraft (US$4,392,400 or $A3.481m approximately) at an interest rate of 9 per cent per annum with 10 semi-annual repayments to be made during the last 5 years of the loan. [More…]

• A common complaint in sheep is cysticercus ovis which is held, particularly in the United States, to be highly objectionable. [More…]

• Indeed, to earn an entitlement to sell meat in the United States of America, which is the highest priced market, it is necessary for an exporter to earn a credit by selling meat in some other part of the world in some very much lower priced market. [More…]

• The reality is that in all of our major markets- that is Japan, United States of America and Europerestrictions are imposed by the respective governments arbitrarily on the quantity of meat which Australia may sell. [More…]

• Indeed, Australian exporters are compelled to sell a couple of tonnes of meat elsewhere in order to earn an entitlement to sell on the United States market. [More…]

• Of course, all honourable sentors know that in January 1973 the price being received on the United States market, which was accounting for 69 per cent of the total exports, was 112c a kilogram. [More…]

• We know that it is a cut throat industry; that has been demonstrated time and time again by the United States of America imposing restrictions on imports of beef. [More…]

• On examination particularly in the United States, if any carelessness is found it is likely that the penalty will be that the whole consignment is condemned. [More…]

• As people have wisely said, when there is a sneeze in the United States there is roaring, rampant influenza in Australia. [More…]

• In view of prospective beef demand, particularly in the United States of America and Japan, it cannot be expected that beef prices in Australia will fall to any significant extent on a long term basis. [More…]

• The estimate comes from the United States of America. [More…]

• I have practised medicine in 3 countries- in Australia, in the United Kingdom and in the United States. [More…]

• Yesterday the Minister for Transport made an announcement that, on agreement with the United States of America, the installation of the Omega radio navigation system was to be completed, but I believe that no announcement has been made as to where in Australia the installation will be sited. [More…]

• Australian canned pears have already had antidumping duties imposed in the United States market. [More…]

• I believe it is interesting that in this country and in the United States of America a revolution is building up against this attitude within the profession and amongst medical students. [More…]

• On the point of accreditation I refer to the United States of America, the land of free enterprise, the land of the free where, we are told, individual freedom is precious above all things. [More…]

• In the United States surgical and medical audits are carried out in the hospitals. [More…]

• We do not hear much about complaints in the United States against these accreditation schemes in terms of abrogation of the freedom of the individual. [More…]

• The undertaking was constructed at a cost of about $80m, of which half was supplied by the Japanese- about $40m- $37m was supplied by the United States of America and about $3m by Australia. [More…]

• The undertaking’s main imports are bentonite clay, which comes from the United States, and oil for the furnaces. [More…]

• The table refers to Australia, New Zealand, the United States of America, Canada and the European Economic Community and states the position at 1 July in the years 1973, 1974 and 1975. [More…]

• There was a change in the trading position of the United States of America which suddenly discontinued butter and skim milk imports in 1974 and there was a sharp reduction in the use of skim milk powder for animal feed in the EEC associated with the decline in the beef industry. [More…]

• The summary states that when the international Dutch, French, United States consortium, Aurukun Associates, which is composed of Tipperary Land Corporation, Billiton Aluminium B. V. and Aluminium Pechiney Holdings Pty Ltd, first went to the Aurukun Reserve to prospect in 1968 it appears that there may have been some negotiations with the company although there is no real evidence to indicate that at any time were there ever any negotiations with the Aboriginal people in the form that is acceptable to them and that is acceptable to everybody else. [More…]

• These events would not have caused much note except that this time the West reacted and the United States Ambassador, Mr Moynihan, got up and defended the stand of the West. [More…]

• The United States and its co-sponsors thought that this was a field for fertile co-operation between the nations. [More…]

• The United States and its co-sponsors expected that they had found a field for fertile cooperation; but immediately, the conference was turned into a bitter political conflict. [More…]

• As a matter of fact, this situation regarding the Cape Barren geese was almost on a par with that of the whooping crane in the United States. [More…]

• I know that people like Senator Sir Magnus Cormack, who keeps a finger on overall policies, would well know that a senator who may aspire to greatness in the United States Senate in the near future- I refer to Senator Ed. [More…]

• Muskie who will be succeeding Senator Mike Mansfield- has always played an important role in regard to the coast of Maine in the United States. [More…]

• Has recent severe flooding in Queensland and resultant transport dislocation meant that the southern States are rapidly filling the United States meat import quotas, while Queensland waits for fine weather to allow meatworks’ kills to restart. [More…]

• Will Australia have shipped almost half its 1976 quota entitlement to the United States by the end of March, leaving only a small share for Queensland. [More…]

• 1 ) to (3) There were large shipments of Australian meat to the United States market in January and February 1 976. [More…]

• On 24 February 1976 the Australian Meat Board took action to slow down the flow of beef to the United States of America for the balance of 1976. [More…]

• The action taken will ensure a continuous flow of meat to the United States market while at the same time providing all areas of Australia reasonable access to the market. [More…]

• As a result of that a team led by Air ViceMarshal F. S. Robey visited the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Sweden and France in March-April 1973 to investigate several contenders for the Mirage replacement and to report on their suitability, cost and technical risk. [More…]

• Outside Western Europe, the United States is in the same category as the list of countries I have mentioned and Canada is just outside. [More…]

• It would reduce the standard of broadcasting in Australia to the very low standard which we know to be common in places such as the United States of America where there is no Broadcasting Control Board. [More…]

• Some consideration was given particularly to the system operating in the United States of America as there was a guest speaker from the Library of Congress. [More…]

• I think it is fair to say that she is recognised as being one of the leaders in the United States in the field of providing library services to blind and physically handicapped people. [More…]

• I refer to an article in today’s Australian headed Bribes Probe Pacts Signed’ wherein it is stated that the United States Department of Justice had on Monday signed agreements of mutual cooperation with Italy and the Netherlands in the investigations of alleged Lockheed Aircraft Corporation bribes. [More…]

• I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate: In view of evidence given before a United States Senate committee by the chief executive officer of the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation that some moneys were paid to Australians, is Australia one of the other countries entering into agreement with the United States Department of Justice to assist that Department in its investigations into alleged Lockheed bribes of public officials in trying to sell its planes abroad? [More…]

• I imagine- I put it no higher than that- that if the United States desires the co-operation of Australia in this matter that co-operation certainly will be forthcoming. [More…]

• I think I indicated to Senator Mulvihill last week with regard to certain species of kangaroos that not only are we prepared to export, but also the United States of America is prepared to import kangaroo products because it is satisfied that we do have harvesting programs which will ensure a continuance of the species. [More…]

• Perhaps the Government could look at the situation that exists in most of the towns and cities of Indonesia where it is found that young people were not fully aware of their date of birth or how old they were but they were the most astute bargainers and they knew exactly the value of the United States dollar and the Australian dollar in Indonesian rupiahs. [More…]

• I refer to Japan and perhaps the United States of America and Australia. [More…]

• Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to statements made by the Minister for Primary Industry in a speech to the Central Coast Graziers Association concerning beef exports to the United States of America? [More…]

• Accepting that Australia has been joined with New Zealand in the allocation of United States beef shortfall contracts this year, has the Minister’s statement placed in jeopardy Australia’s continuing negotiations to obtain previously exclusive contracts? [More…]

• There has simply not been the basis for the sort of instinctive understanding of how the other society works and how it goes about its business, how its people think and organise their affairs, which underlies Australia’s relations with, for example, Britain, the United States, Canada, New Zealand- or indeed all the other countries that share the European tradition and civilisation to which Australia also belongs. [More…]

• We are both concerned with the role of the United States of America in the Pacific and particularly the nature of its continuing role in the Western Pacific. [More…]

• Last year as Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Finance and Government Operations I was provided with some comments and conclusions which had been reached in the United States Senate about the use of subsidies, bounties and general assistance that was given to various groups and companies in the United States of America, whether they were in the pastoral industry or in secondary industry. [More…]

• The point which the United States Senate made very strongly was the need for public identification of the recipients of such government assistance. [More…]

• Does the Minister still hold to his original view that he had no intention of interfering with the currency of the existing Australian passport held by Mr Peter Clyne, a former Sydney solicitor, despite the remarks of Judge Sarah Hughes, following the conviction of Mr Clyne for contravening the revenue laws of the United States of America. [More…]

• Mr Clyne is at present in custody in the United States and it can be assumed that the local prison authorities, as is usual, are holding Mr Clyne ‘s passport along with his other personal possessions. [More…]

• Unless brucellosis is eradicated from our herds before it is eradicated from herds in the United States we will find that the United States will close its markets to our meat. [More…]

• The Labor Party supports this subsidy because of the necessity to maintain a nitrogenous substance industry for the continued growth of the sugar and other horticultural industries, and, more importantly, in order to gain independence from the fluctuation of supplies from major nitrogenous substance exporting countries such as Japan and the United States of America. [More…]

• I am led to believe that present indications are that, by the end of the decade, one-quarter of the sweetening used in the soft drink industry in the United States of America could be from this source. [More…]

• Overseas prices for sugar per kilogram by comparison are: Britain 39c, Norway 93c, Canada 47c, United States 40c and Japan 68c. [More…]

• We do not normally argue about the manner in which these loans are negotiated, because the same mechanisms were available to both the Liberal and Labor governments, and they were utilised through the Export-Import Bank of the United States. [More…]

• Even that percentage does not put us at the same level as such citadels of the free enterprise system as the United States of America, with 38 per cent of its national income derived from the public sector, Germany with 36 per cent and Sweden with 38 per cent. [More…]

• I hope that is a negotiable interest rate in view of the fact that there appears to be some upturn in the economy of the United States of America. [More…]

• One of the things that disturbs me is that in the information that was readily available to me through our services here at Parliament House I was not able to find out exactly how much profit had been sent by Kellogg (Aust) Pty Ltd to its parent company in the United States of America, nor could I find out whether that profit had been taken into consideration when the determination of the Prices Justification Tribunal was brought down. [More…]

• I refer to the percentages of taxes raised by the various governmental authorities in the United States compared with those in Australia, as I think they highlight the growing centralism which has occurred and which is evidenced by the figures which I have just given for the last 26 years. [More…]

• In the United States the proportion of income tax raised by the Federal Government is of the order of 70 per cent; State taxation is about 16 per cent; and local government taxation is 13.5 per cent. [More…]

• In broad terms the level of State government taxation in Australia is roughly equal to that in the United States. [More…]

• Local government taxation in Australia, however, is of the order of only 4 per cent of total taxation, which means that it is some 9 per cent less than that raised by local government in the United States. [More…]

• In contrast to that, of course, is the heavy involvement of the Federal Government in Australia which raises nearly 80 per cent of total taxation compared with the level of 70 per cent in the United States. [More…]

• Are pollution control devices planned for the two new frigates on order from the United States for the Australian Navy; if so, will these devices completely eliminate pollution sources from the ships. [More…]

• Pollution control devices are planned for installation on the guided missile frigates (FFG’s) on order from the United States. [More…]

• Whilst it is impossible to completely eliminate all pollution sources from the ships, all reasonable steps have been taken by the United States Navy to minimise pollution. [More…]

• Dingwall, indicating that the limits set by the Australian Meat Board for the export of quota meat to the United States of America are at this time too high I ask the Minister: What effects will the Board’s decision have on the operations of the Queensland and northern New South Wales meat works whose operations commence later in the year? [More…]

• With the probability that the quota will be filled earlier than planned, is not the Board’s decision effectively excluding the Queensland and northern New South Wales meat works from the higher priced meat market of the United States, to the detriment of the meat producers in those areas? [More…]

• Will the Australian Government give a directive to the Australian Meat Board to review as a matter of urgency the current United States export limits set, in order to prevent the needless discrimination against sections of the meat producing industry which are likely to be confronted by a drastic slump in Australian cattle prices later this year if immediate action is not taken? [More…]

• -I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs: Is the Government aware that the new American Ambassador to Australia, Mr James Hargrove, was with the United States military intelligence during World War II? [More…]

• The great countries of the western world- Canada, the United States, West Germany, to name just a few- are rejecting centralism as being completely wasteful, being completely oppressive to the taxpayer and they are moving towards federalism, as Australia now is, thank God, in order to bring government closer to the people. [More…]

• But this is not the case in the United States of America or Canada. [More…]

• I refer to a very interesting piece of writing by Daniel J. Elazar of the United States. [More…]

• Mr Elazar points out what has happened in the United States since the Second World War and how the criticisms of the States as being incapable of doing various things and of exercising various powers are shown to be faulty. [More…]

• There is more than enough evidence to show that the States and localities, far from being weak sisters, have actually been carrying the brunt of domestic governmental progress in the United States ever since the end of World War II, and have done so at an accelerated pace since the advent of America’s direct combat involvement in Vietnam. [More…]

• Moreover, they have been largely responsible for undertaking the truly revolutionary change in the role of government in the United States that has occurred over the past decade. [More…]

• In other words, in the States and localities of the United States there is a real development away from federalism. [More…]

• In fact, it is a system from which we must move away on the basis of what the United States found and has done for many years now. [More…]

• We are now moving towards a similar system- something which has been tried and has been operating successfully in Canada and, as I said, also in the United States. [More…]

• I ask: Since the Government is on the verge of determining the 1976-77 migrant intake, can we have an assurance that in depth discussions will be held with the various teachers’ associations to ensure that we do not have a repetition of some States recruiting teachers from overseas such as in the case of New South Wales, which recruited teachers from the United States and virtually created an impasse? [More…]

• If the United States is to be regarded as displaying a step forward in the evolution of relationships between the different arms of government then clearly it is remarkable that in that country about 33 per cent of the gross domestic product comes in the form of taxation, whereas in this country even under Labor, only 30 per cent of our gross domestic product comes from taxation. [More…]

• Cancer Institute in the United States in 1945, stating that hepatomas had been induced in female mice by feeding them chloroform over a four month period. [More…]

• Will the Minister assure the Senate that the person known as ‘Bluebells’ is not allowed to use the current amnesty extended to illegal immigrants to remain in Australia to avoid her standing trial in the United States of America, so as to determine her participation, or otherwise, in the murder of actress Sharon Tate and four other persons in the actress’ Hollywood home. [More…]

• Those inquiries have disclosed that the person concerned is not wanted to stand trial in the United States for any offence. [More…]

• If one is to question the independence of this Government in foreign policy, one might point out that on that occasion Australia was not on the same side as the United States of America and New Zealand. [More…]

• In the United States of America when an Act was being prepared on bilingual education the drafters of the Act used this definition: [More…]

• Will the Minister obtain, through the Foreign Affairs office and through Senator Church, the Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Multinational Corporations in the United States, a transcript of the evidence submitted in the United States Senate hearing into alleged bribes by American corporations and table that document in the Australian Senate to inform the people of this country fully on the matter of Lockheed operations in Australia and in other parts of the world? [More…]

• I do not know whether he was absentminded on this subject or whether his memory failed him, but he would know also that regardless of the machinations of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or any other country, the United States of America was implicated to the extent that Mr Ellsworth Bunker, a top negotiator who at this very hour is endeavouring to salvage the United States reputation in regard to the future of the Panama Canal, was equally involved in the West New Guinea matter. [More…]

• Does the Department have any liaison with the United States Federal Aviation Agency. [More…]

• 3 ) Have any strictures imposed by the United States Federal Aviation Agency on the design of the DC-10 been passed on to the Department. [More…]

• The Department maintains a continuing liaison with the United States Federal Aviation Administration. [More…]

• Has the Department of Health received details of reports issued by the Ralph Nader Organisation in the United States of America that seriously call into question the safety levels of chloroform used in toothpaste. [More…]

• My Department has received copies of the reports from the United States. [More…]

• How many officers ofthe (a) United States Secret Service and (b) the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation accompanied Vice-President Rockefeller on his recent visit to Australia. [More…]

• Were the United States’ officers permitted to carry weapons whilst on Australian soil. [More…]

• By agreement with the appropriate authorities in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory a limited number of United States officers were permitted to carry hand-guns while performing protective security duties with the Vice-President. [More…]

• As a result, it was planned that Victoria would recruit 600 teachers from the United States and Britain- approximately half from each source- of whom 300 would be primary and 300 secondary. [More…]

• Can the Minister give an assurance that a study will be made of the successful ‘Farm Credit System’ of the United States of America and the ‘Raiffeisen’ system of West Germany? [More…]

• But I am aware of the 2 systems that he mentioned, that is, the one in the West German Federation and the work done in the United States. [More…]

• The United States and Australian submissions are not competitive but are complementary. [More…]

• The ICAO has agreed to consider the Australian and United States proposals as a joint submission. [More…]

• If the TRSB system to which I referred is chosen, Australia and the United States will be ahead of the rest of the world in TRSB hardware development. [More…]

• In the 146th report the Committee had commented adversely on the arrears that had accumulated in verifying accounts received from the United States armed services for equipment and stores purchased for the Australian armed forces. [More…]

• What is required in this respect is action by the Brisbane Sunday Sun through a person who has access to and knows the method of operation of the machine and scanning system from the United States to which I made earlier reference. [More…]

• But I know that on one occasion a great American President, President Roosevelt, had a clash with the United States Army over an artillery range. [More…]

• On 22 August 1974, Australia became the fifth nationfollowing Egypt, Iraq, Bulgaria and the United States- to sign this Convention. [More…]

• Is Australia represented at current trade talks in Geneva sponsored by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade; if so, has the Chief United States negotiator at the talks, Mr W. N. Walker, proposed a 50 per cent to 60 per cent cut in tariffs by all industrial nations. [More…]

• The United States, in the context of work to develop a tariff negotiating formula with as wide an application as possible, has tabled an in principle proposal based on the provisions of the United States Trade Act. [More…]

• This Act provides, inter alia, authority for a reduction in United States tariffs of up to 60 per cent in the course of the Multilateral Trade [More…]

• It carries one back to 1926 when Calvin Coolidge was the President of the United States of America. [More…]

• Senator Jessop who, no doubt, has just recently caught up with Calvin Coolidge ‘s thinking will remember that the late President said on that occasion in the era of the pre-depression boom of the 1920s that America’s business is business’, that the role of the United States Government was to do nothing which interfered with business and to do everything which would benefit business. [More…]

• I would say to Senator Jessop that not only is this Government of which Senator Jessop is one of the junior supporters reversing completely what it undertook to do but at the same time it is completing reversing what has been the consensus of every advanced Western capitalist country since Roosevelt was elected to the presidency of the United States in 1932- that is, a modern country cannot be conducted on the basis that the business of the country is solely private business. [More…]

• It is only in recent years, when people like Reagan have achieved some prominence in the United States as political figures, that there has been any tendency in the heartland of capitalism to reverse those processes. [More…]

• President Ford was saying if I remember correctly I think his advisers, on the whole, would be a little more sophisticated than those of Mr Fraser- only a short while ago in the United States of America when he was running his rather ill-fated WIN campaign- the Whip Inflation Now campaign- that people should not go out and spend because to do so would increase the rate of turnover of money and that in itself increased inflation. [More…]

• It is higher than that of the United States. [More…]

• There was a much ridiculed figure who occupied a position in the Eisenhower Government in the United States in 1957 who rejected Keynesian economics and stuck by this simplistic notion that the management of national finances was analogous to the management of household finances. [More…]

• This is going in the face of economics in relation to the motor vehicle industry across the world and the Government, as much as the previous Government, in this regard should consider how many manufacturers in the United States make over 50 000 motor cars a year, how many in Sweden, how many in [More…]

• I was told by a prominent motel operator recently that the wages of a dishwasher in the United States of America are lower than they are for dishwashers in Australia. [More…]

• The cost of production in this country is something that the Bulletin article has dealt with and there have been many references to the growing cost of production compared with that in the United States of America, Japan and others of our trading partners. [More…]

• It is fair to say that no greater environmental impact study could have been made than that which was carried out in the United States where in recent years an immense study has been done into the whole technical and technological factors involved. [More…]

• Whilst there may be some limitation on airports for various purposes, Concorde at this moment is flying into the United States and into other parts of the world. [More…]

• To answer questions about changes would require regular testing with appropriate time intervals in between, such as has been undertaken in the United States through the National Assessment of Education Progress. [More…]

• In order to assist countries to deal with this new economic situation, the United States Administration and the secretary-general of the OECD independently made similar proposals in late 1974 for the establishment among industrialised countries of a financial safety net in the form of the Fund. [More…]

• Whilst some efforts have been made by the previous Government and the present Government to stabilise the market position, particularly in Japan, the United States of America and Canada- the countries to which we principally export- we still have a very grave problem of providing some stability in the beef industry. [More…]

• It has an extreme degree of urgency for 3 reasons: Firstly, many of the countries to which we export our meat, particularly the United States of America, have programs for the eradication of brucellosis and tuberculosis. [More…]

• The United States has forecast that it will complete its program by ‘.983. [More…]

• Honourable senators would appreciate that this is getting alarmingly close to, if not beyond, the date when the United States expects to be free of the disease. [More…]

• Mr Dempster told the Commission that exporters were ruining the Japanese market in a bid to earn diversification entitlements to sell meat to the United States. [More…]

• In the United States the campaign was commenced in 1934. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that while we will be spending something like $20m this year on our eradication campaign, the United States will be spending $ 1 50m. [More…]

• As I said before, the first there wins, and as far as Australia is concerned, we must finish ahead of the United States because that is where the greatest risk lies. [More…]

• However, during the latter part of 1975 the Corporation undertook two relatively small projects involving the processing of wool in the United States of America, and there is now a need to provide appropriate accounting procedures. [More…]

• In the United States of America, health insurers have made substantial progress in developing methods of monitoring the usage of services, in cooperation with the medical profession, in order to eliminate unnecessary expenditure and so restrain costs to contributors. [More…]

• Thirdly, there has been a spate of criticism, often ill-founded, of the United States which has reinforced domestic disputes within that country. [More…]

• Australia lives in a world where predominant power is controlled by the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]

• On the other hand, it is not, presumably, in the Soviet Union’s interests that relations between China, Japan and the United States should be too close. [More…]

• Mr Calwell pointed out the dangers of the policies in respect of which the Liberal and Country Parties were aiding and abetting the United States in South East Asia in 1965. [More…]

• The United States was embarrassed by that exercise, which was encouraged by the Liberal-Country Party Government at the time and which eventually put half a million American troops into Vietnam and left 50 000 of them dead on the battlefield. [More…]

• It is no wonder that the United States is cautious now about any involvement in South East Asia or any other part of the world. [More…]

• I do not believe that this document will be welcomed necessarily by the United States; it may be welcomed by some people in the United States. [More…]

• We should consider statements which have been made recently by leading United States figures, including Dr Kissinger. [More…]

• Instead, detente has helped to place our alliance ties on a more enduring basis by removing the fear that friendship with the United States involved the risk of unnecessary confrontation with the U.S.S.R. [More…]

• Cannot the same question be asked of China and the United States? [More…]

• I do not know where Chinese warships happen to be but if the information given to us by the Research Section of the Parliamentary Library is any indication, the countries with the biggest naval force in the Indian Ocean are France and Iran rather than the Soviet Union or the United States. [More…]

• We find repeated reference with every justification to the United States or any other country ensuring the proper safe passage of its merchant shipping and to protect its trading interests. [More…]

• That country is something like the United States. [More…]

• Naturally it is concerned with communications between both ends of the country exactly as is the United States with its communications and exactly as we are in this country with ours except that in Russia those communications are over a much greater distance. [More…]

• It is analogous to the United States having a hostile neighbour, Canada, with a railway line that ran along the border between Canada and the United States. [More…]

• The United States also would protect its sea lanes in the Gulf of Mexico and the Panama Canal. [More…]

• In fact, if we look around the world we find that countries with such high average incomes, with such good economic growth rates and with such reasonable records of control of inflation and unemployment I refer to countries such as the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and even the United States of America have considerably higher levels of taxation than prevail in Australia. [More…]

• Why did the Minister refer only to research in the United States of America when initially announcing the quarantine ban. [More…]

• The research at the Plum Island Animal Disease Centre, United States Department of Agriculture established that, contrary to previously held views, the virus of foot and mouth disease could survive in cheese. [More…]

• Will the Minister consider directing the Board to immediately draw up an acceptable plan to control beef shipments to the United States of America after November 1 976, as suggested by the Australian Meat Exporters Federal Council. [More…]

• It inspected postal services in the United Kingdom, Sweden, the United States and Canada. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Science aware that there is a report by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the United States of America to the effect that water hyacinth may be nature’s answer to man’s sewerage pollution problem as it has been shown to be able to absorb pollutants from sewerage and literally to clean the water? [More…]

• The charging of specific fees for specific operations and treatment leads to the performance of unnecessary procedures, a fact recognised all over the world and even in the home of free enterprise, the United States of America, where the development of health maintenance organisations has caused a new look in medical practice. [More…]

• At a time when the Australian Government is seeking the extradition of the Bartons from Paraguay, does the Government intend to condone the overseas actions of Peter Clyne- the disbarred, bankrupt Sydney barrister- particularly his latest exploit of absconding from the United States before his taxation evasion charges were finalised? [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry aware of the problems of the survival of the goats’ milk producing industry in Victoria occasioned in part by the reduction in the age limit applicable to infants eligible to receive a powdered goats’ milk product known as Caprilac under the pharmaceutical benefits scheme, and also occasioned by the importation of powdered goats’ milk products from the United States of America and New Zealand? [More…]

• Even in the United States, the Federal Government has in recent years had to play a part, and government support for the arts is an accepted fact in the cultural life of Western Europe. [More…]

• Subsequent to the Warsaw Convention and Hague Protocol, under an arrangement, initiated by the United States Government and the International Air Transport Association, and known as the Montreal Agreement, a large majority of international airlines, including Qantas Airways Ltd, now accept higher liability limits for each passenger carried on an international flight starting, ending or stopping at a point in the United States. [More…]

• It is a paper back book about the American Steel Workers Union and some of the devious things that happen in the United States. [More…]

• Except for Australia and the United States, the estimates for Western World uranium resources contained in the 1974-75 Annual Report of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission are based on an earlier NEA/IAEA report and are, therefore, not comparable to the above estimates. [More…]

• 1 ) Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to an article in the Brisbane Courier Mail of 10 May 1976, in which it is claimed that statistics provided in a paper to be presented by two Brisbane medical practitioners to an international ear disease conference in the United States of America in May indicate that only thirty per cent of Aboriginal children in Queensland have normal hearing; if so, has the Department of Health undertaken any research that would indicate the extent of ear abnormalities amongst Aboriginal people in Australia. [More…]

• Is this despite the fact that voucher schemes have been generally abandoned in the United States and that they increase educational inequalities and are administratively very difficult? [More…]

• Can the Minister tell us whether that represents the total allocation for the Organisation or whether the process has developed in this country, as it has in the United States, where there are other items within the appropriations in which certain padding takes place which is not identifiable by the Parliament? [More…]

• What concerns democratic-minded people throughout the world, and in the United States Senate particularly, where discussions have taken place, is that there have been departures from normal funding operations. [More…]

• Anybody who reads well to the centre publications like Time and Newsweek will know that in the United States Senator Church and a host of other senators are getting up now and saying: ‘We do not want the whole of the Senate to get everyone’s dossier, but we believe that three or four highly placed senators every year at least should talk to the security agencies on their principles and operations’. [More…]

• Whilst it is hoped, and it has been predicted, that the outlook for the wool industry for 1976-77 is good, with clear indications of a revival for the wool industry based on Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development predictions of economic recoveries led by the United States and followed by other major trading partners, the situation is by no means certain. [More…]

• It seems quite prophetic that the Senate should be discussing this Bill today when yesterday the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment presented its report on air pollution in this chamber and also, as I understand, tomorrow is environment day- or e-Day- in the United States of America. [More…]

• Has the Australian Ambassador to the United States of America, or any members of the Australian diplomatic staff stationed in the United States, contacted any of the current contenders for the Democratic Party or Republican Party nomination for the United States Presidency to ascertain details of those candidates’ stated policies on the subject of United States- Australian relations; if so, which candidates have been contacted, and will the Minister outline details of the policy statements provided by the candidates concerned? [More…]

• If no candidates have so far been contacted, will the Minister instruct the Australian Ambassador to the United States to do so at the earliest possible opportunity? [More…]

• It would not be appropriate for the Australian Ambassador to the United States or members of his staff to make such contacts. [More…]

• However, our Embassy in Washington is following closely political developments in the United States and is keeping the Government fully informed. [More…]

• I have no reason to believe that there will be any substantial change in the very close United States- Australian relationship, irrespective of who is elected as the next President of the United States. [More…]

• l ) Is the Prime Minister aware of reports in the United States that the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States was involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, and that the members of the Warren Commission which investigated the assassination were involved in a cover-up of certain aspects of the assassination: if so, will the Prime Minister personally ascertain from the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, the Joint Intelligence Organisation, the Australian Security Intelligence Service, the Commonwealth Police Force, and other Australian security organisations that may be relevant, whether those organisations have received any information on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s involvement in the Kennedy assassination. [More…]

• 1 ) Will sixty Australian radio stations be linked directly to radio stations in the United States of America through the Overseas Telecommunications Commission for an Australian-American Broadcast Weekend’ from 23 July 1976 to 25 July 1976 as pan of the United States Bicentennial Celebrations; if so, is the Australian Government meeting any of the costs involved in this operation. [More…]

• Has Telecom placed an order in the United States of America for two devices which can be linked to telephones and used by deaf people; if so, (a) on what principle do these machines operate, (b) what is the cost of purchase and installation, (c) to what use will the 1 100 machines be put, (d) are additional machines to be purchased and (e) has there been any unnecessary or unavoidable delay in the provision of telephone facilities for deaf people in Australia. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of a new meningitis vaccine which has been approved for use in the United States of America? [More…]

• What instructions has the delegation received in relation to any discussion on the request from the United States for a moratorium on the killing of whales. [More…]

• United States Naval Communication Station (Civilian Employees) ACT [More…]

• That leave be given to introduce a Bill for an Act to amend the United States Naval Communication Station (Civilian Employees) Act 1971. [More…]

• Since Australia maintains a fairly flexible policy as regards work visas for United States boxers, wrestlers and entertainers generally, does the Minister feel that the apparent United States restrictions applied to Australian boxers Lionel Rose and Paul Ferreri justify this easy visa system or that we should review it unless the United States reciprocates in the spirit that we manifest to her nationals? [More…]

• -Will the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs either confirm or deny reports that United States Military aircraft have been and are continuing to use Australian facilities on Cocos Islands on stopovers while en route from Clark Air Base in the Philippines to Diego Garcia? [More…]

• I quote as an example a major company in Australia which has analysed a major investment in this country ofthe order of $200m to $300m and which has found that it is about 25 per cent cheaper to build a plant on the west coast of the United States of America. [More…]

• The governments involved in the OECD are: The governments of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Republic of Austria, the Kingdom of Belgium, Canada, the Kingdom of Denmark, Finland, the French Republic, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Hellenic Republic, the Republic of Iceland, Ireland, the Italian Republic, Japan, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Kingdom of Norway, the Portuguese Republic, Spain, the Kingdom of Sweden, the Swiss Confederation, the Republic of Turkey, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America. [More…]

• In addition to this the Soviet Union was one of the signatories a year ago to the Helsinki Agreement, an agreement signed by 35 nations, mostly in Europe but including the United States of America and the Soviet Union. [More…]

• Is the Minister now in a position to explain the reason for the apparent hardline work visa attitude adopted by the Government of the United States of America towards Australian boxers Paul Ferrerri and Lionel Rose when in comparison Australia has a remarkably flexible work visa policy for American nationals visiting this country, whether they be boxers, wrestlers or pop singers? [More…]

• May I have an assurance, in view of the vagueness of the treatment accorded these boxers, that there will be some liaison between Mr Mackellar, the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, and Mr Peacock, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, so that if necessary we can talk to Washington about this double standard that apparently is being applied by the United States? [More…]

• The Convention is not yet in force but the United Kingdom and the United States of America have also signed it and have announced their intentions to implement it and ratify it. [More…]

• I point out that any watering down in relation to trade practice legislation which this Government attempts is the sort of watering down which would not be tolerated in a country like the United States of America where there is less ambivalence about the desirability of legislation of this kind and less ambivalence and confusion about what the Government really intends to do, about what the Government really supports in terms of business interests and what it really supports in terms of consumer interests. [More…]

• I hope that he takes this letter seriously and adopts the suggestion made in it, that a simplified form of the system in the United States of America which provides taxpayers with an option to be taxed as married couples with joint returns is the likely equitable answer. [More…]

• Since 1973 the cost of employing a male process worker has increased by 40 per cent in Australia compared with 1 5 per cent in the United States of America. [More…]

• When we look at the cost of wages in Australia without considering what is known as the social wage- and I have seen a graph on this matter- it is pretty clear that in 1972 the Australian wage on a weekly basis and adjusted for currency differences and so on works out at something of the order of $3 or $4 a week below the United States wage. [More…]

• Today the Australian wage adjusted on the same scale is running at the order of $30 ahead of the United States wage. [More…]

• I only mention that point because for 3 years we had to put up with bleating accusations from the then Opposition that in some way we were responsible for consumer habits of countries like Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom which adversely affected the rural industry in this country. [More…]

• The latest consumer price index figures are very encouraging; but Australia’s inflation rate is still running at 12.3 per cent compared to 6.2 per cent in the United States of America - [More…]

• When Mr David Jull spoke during the debate on this matter in another place he quoted statistics relating to the United States of America, the United Kingdom and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]

• In the United States of America the per capita consumption of tobacco did go down but at the same time as cigarette advertising was banned they also had a very heavy campaign against smoking. [More…]

• Advertising of cigarettes on television and radio was banned in Canada as early as 1 January 1 972; in the United States of America it was banned in January 1971 and in the United Kingdom in August 1 965. [More…]

• Lifts in most States of the United States carry a notice stating that a fine of $50 will be imposed on anyone smoking in them. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs whether the hearing of a claim by Aboriginals for traditional and other lands at Borroloola in the Northern Territory was abandoned as a result of a discussion at a function in the United States of America at which the Prime Minister and representatives of certain mining interests were present? [More…]

• In the United States loans are regularly made available to students . [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of the explosion at the Richland uranium plant in the United States on 30 August this year as a result of which several workers were contaminated by radio active waste? [More…]

• The second comparison was made with the United States of America. [More…]

• It was said that inflation is on the down-turn in the United States and that that was due to wages policy. [More…]

• The recession in the United States and the upturn in economic activity is attributed by almost every international economic commentator to one thing- a growth in consumer demand which was stimulated in the United States by slashing indirect taxes. [More…]

• It has happened in the United States and that is responsible for their climbing out of their economic problems. [More…]

• Australian wages increased by 162 per cent between 1968 and 1976 compared with 64 per cent in the United States of America. [More…]

• Having convinced themselves, particularly the Treasurer, Mr Lynch, that the whole cause of our trouble was the size of the Budget deficit- we had great speeches in this place on this subject last year- the Government has single-mindedly taken the axe to all Government expenditure in an effort to reduce this deficit- a deficit which, incidentally, expressed as a percentage of gross domestic product, was very little greater last year than that of West Germany or the United States of America, which are comparable countries in the Western world. [More…]

• What assistance has Australian Coal Industry Research Laboratories Ltd received from the Pittsburgh and Midway Coal Co. of the United States which, I understand, is engaged in similar research activity? [More…]

• The only major democratic countries, apart from Australia, and New Zealand where there has been a recent change, in which there are not parties affiliated with the socialist internationale in office are the United States of America and Canada, but even in Canada 2 provinces, Manitoba and Saskatchewan, have socialist governments. [More…]

• Even in the United States such legislation was adopted more than 40 years ago. [More…]

• That doctrine used to be expounded by the General Motors Corporation in the United States of America. [More…]

• His meeting in 1972 with the President of the United States was a significant and deliberate step in this process. [More…]

• Sixtyfour years later it was the same Mao who invited the anti-communist President Nixon to Peking, which was a significant step in easing tension between China and the United States and in bringing China into the realm of international relations. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs a question concerning suggestions that Australia should be non-aligned and that our security cooperation with the United States is ‘detrimental to Australia’s safety’. [More…]

• Does the Minister recall references to ‘our policy of alignment’ and the statement that ‘the maintenance of our alliance with the United States . [More…]

• Does the Minister also recall the following statement with respect to United States installations in Australia: [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, follows a question I asked of him on 3 1 March this year concerning pacts that had been signed by various countries and the United States Department of Justice in connection with the alleged Lockheed Aircraft Corporation bribes to which the Leader answered that he would seek the information for me. [More…]

• In view of the reports in today’s Press and on the Australian Broadcasting Commission news services that Australia and the United States of America have signed an agreement to exchange information on the alleged pay-offs I now ask: Was it the Australian Government or the American Government that initiated the moves to exchange this information? [More…]

• The agreement which has just been signed arose as a result of a request to the United States of America for assistance in respect of Lockheed activities in Australia. [More…]

• The agreement is in similar terms to those entered into by the United States Department of Justice with law enforcement agencies of other countries. [More…]

• The United States is the only nation with the power and influence and, we trust, will provide a credible matching presence. [More…]

• That newspaper produced a graph showing that Australia, in terms of its Budget deficit, was in the same category as Germany and the United States of America and claimed that New Zealand and Great Britain were in a worse position than Australia in their Budget deficits. [More…]

• As I said, that newspaper said that Australia was in line with the United States of America and Germany, which had Budget deficits of a similar nature, whereas the deficit of New Zealand represented 5 per cent of its gross national product and that of Great Britain 8.5 per cent. [More…]

• I took the opportunity today to speak to the United States Embassy and to ask what the United States deficit position had been over the last 3 years. [More…]

• Let us face it, the Government takes the view that everything that happens in the United States is good for Australia. [More…]

• In June 1974, under a Republican government, whose philosophy was much closer to that of this Government than would be that of a Democratic government with which perhaps we would have closer affiliations, the United States had a Budget deficit of $3.5 billion, which jumped in June 1975 to $43.6 billion and in June 1976 to $76 billion. [More…]

• So there has been an increase in the United States deficit from $3.5 billion to $76 billion- twenty times greater in a space of some 3 years. [More…]

• That deficit is so small in comparison to that of the United States in its deficit budgeting arrangements. [More…]

• If that is the case, and if Senator Maunsell has any relevance in this debate, how can he relate to the fact that the United States economic position has improved? [More…]

• Whilst it is true that, at the moment, the United States economy is somewhat stagnant, its inflation rate has fallen. [More…]

• Will the Minister obtain, through the Foreign Affairs office and through Senator Church, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations in the United States, a transcript of the evidence submitted in the United States Senate hearing into alleged bribes by American corporations and table that document . [More…]

• Volumes 3 to 12 of transcript of evidence admitted in hearings before the Sub-committee on Multinational Corporations of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, have been lodged with the Parliamentary Library. [More…]

• -I thought Senator O ‘Byrne had been a member of this place for long enough to know the difference between evidence produced before a Senate committee, whether in Australia or in the United States, and evidence which law enforcement agencies gather and use in a prosecution for a breach of the law. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that the Government of the United States of America has won support for this basic democratic principle from the United Kingdom, French and other European governments as well as the South African Government? [More…]

• Its members seem to spend most of their time abusing the Government for having anything to do with the United States. [More…]

• Larry O’Brien, a leading Democrat campaign director not merely for the late President Kennedy but also in the unsuccessful Democrat campaigns, in the Nixon era pointed out how in the United States of America the National Broadcasting Corporation and the Colombia Network- in the United States of America there is no government agency to strike a balance- had prostituted that country’s political television shows in favour of the artful dodger, Richard Milhous Nixon. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Treasurer, refers to an advertisement which was published in the Merredin Mercury on 2 September last and to a nearly identical advertisement published in the Countryman of 16 September of what is euphemistically called a study tour of the John Deere factory at Moline, Illinois, United States of America, being available to anyone who buys a John Deere 8430 or 8630 tractor before the end of December this year. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence: Can the Government inform the Senate whether any discussions have been held between Australia and the United States of America on the proposed utilisation of the Learmonth air force base in Western Australia? [More…]

• Further, have there been any discussions with the United States in relation to the reported usage of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands for an air force base designed to provide an air link between Guam and Diego Garcia? [More…]

• Every country, including the United States, realises that one of the biggest problems in health services is unnecessary operations, unnecessary pathology and unnecessary prescribing. [More…]

• I just make the remark which was made by the President of the United States: ‘If you cannot stand the heat please get out of the kitchen’. [More…]

• Currently the PSRO issue is quite a hot little number in the United States presidential election. [More…]

• To return to the PSROs and their trials overseas, I do not see why Australia should have to go through the miseries of other countries such as Canada, the United States of America and even Great Britain. [More…]

• It was produced to help medical workers and paramedical workers in their assessment of injuries incurred in various industries in the United States. [More…]

• He then, with quite heroic disregard for the rules of logic, as evidence of the validity of all his allegations, stated that iatrogenic illness in the United States was at extraordinarily high levels. [More…]

• What he neglected to mention and what totally destroys the argument he tried to put forward is the fact that the United States is held up by the medical profession in this country, the United Kingdom and by those reactionary sections of the medical profession anywhere in the world where a national health scheme operates as a perfect model of the practice of medicine incorporating the system of free enterprise. [More…]

• It is precisely for that reason that iatrogenic illness in the United States is rampant. [More…]

• It is because the rules of free enterprise apply to the practice of medicine in the United States; because the doctors are marketers of medical services, just like someone marketing automobiles or soap powder. [More…]

• The doctors market medical services and create their own demands for those medical services just as the car manufacturers of Detroit and the denizens of Madison Avenue create demands for any other commodity or service that is sold in the market place of the United States. [More…]

• I could take them across the Pacific to the United States and talk about the failure of the Blue Cross system. [More…]

• I suppose Senator Edward Kennedy would not be regarded as a Marxist senator, but he and Senator Mondale, who will probably be the next Vice-President of the United States, have been unremitting critics of the Blue Cross system. [More…]

• Let us take the United States situation. [More…]

• Can the Minister also say whether consideration might be given to the establishment of a National Library service for the visually and physically handicapped along the lines of services provided by the United States Library of Congress? [More…]

• By way of preface, I point out to the Minister that it is claimed that the United States of America has the nuclear capacity to destroy the Soviet Union 35 times and that the Soviet Union has the nuclear capacity to destroy the United States 15 times. [More…]

• No doubt the Minister is also aware that in the United States of America a large number of people in their teens and early twenties already suffer irreversible brain damage and, whilst their ability to function improves if they abandon cannabis - [More…]

• In August this yearabout 3 weeks ago- the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare published a document entitled Forward Planning for Health, Fiscal Years 1978 to 1982. [More…]

• At page 30 of the article we find the statement that in the past decade daily hospital costs in the United States went from $US41 to SUS136. [More…]

• The United States investigators have identified the American experience further, as follows: [More…]

• The United States has a very considerable problem in determining how it is going to contain the rising hospital costs in that country, and we share that problem. [More…]

• I return to the United States document Forward Plan for Health, issued last month by the United States Departments of Health, Education and Welfare. [More…]

• Talking about the United States experience, the following statement appears: [More…]

• It is not in Canada, not in the United States, not in Great Britain and not in New Zealand, because the calls on the public purse are unlimited. [More…]

• The McCarthy era in the United States of America in the 1950s springs to mind. [More…]

• We only have to look at what is happening in the United States, at the Lockheed scandal, Watergate and the Central Intelligence Agency. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the text of an arrangement between the United States Department of Justice and the Australian AttorneyGeneral ‘s Department dated 13 September 1976 intituled ‘Procedures for mutual assistance in administration of justice in connection with the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation matter’. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of the explosion at the Richland uranium plant in the United States on 30 August this year as a result of which several workers were contaminated by radioactive waste? [More…]

• I refer to the question without notice which you directed to Senator Guilfoyle, as the Minister representing me in the Senate, on 8 September 1976, concerning the explosion at the Richland Uranium Plant in the United States on 30 August 1976. [More…]

• The attached report which was obtained by the Government is in the form of an official news release from the Hanford office of the United States Energy Research and Development Administration, which states, inter alia … we will be issuing no further statements until significant findings have been made . [More…]

• Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to the work undertaken by the Victorian Country Roads Board whereby this crumbed rubber product is amalgamated with bitumen emulsion for road surfacing as this process is used extensively in the State of Arizona in the United States, and is a proven technique, and in consideration of the high costs of bitumen in Australia and the consequent savings in money and bitumen that would result from this type of road surfacing, will the Minister take action to initiate discussions with the object of providing encouragement for expanding the use of this technique, not only in Victoria but also in the other States and the Commonwealth Territories. [More…]

• Will the Minister give consideration to the provision of funds sufficient to enable a visit to the Arizona Roads Authority in the United States by a representative of the federal Department of Transport and a roads engineer of the Victorian Country Roads Board, with the view to making the information obtained by such a visit available to the State and Commonwealth road authorities. [More…]

• In view of these statements, I ask the Minister the following question: How does he reconcile his view that ‘there is no military significance’ attached to Omega with the United States Navy reports and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Defence Ministry reports which give a high strategic value to the Omega system in coordinating nuclear strikes? [More…]

• The main thrust of evidence before the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence of this Parliament was against the honourable senator’s first premise which was that both the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics regard Omega as being essential for nuclear strikes. [More…]

• I have told the Senate before that what the United States Secretary for Defence, Tug Wilson, said was right for General Motors-Holden was not even right for a Republican president. [More…]

• We do not mind giving aid but we probably should emulate the approach of the United States. [More…]

• The United States of America, from the days of Marshall Aid, always insisted that the bulk of that aid was transported in American ships. [More…]

• Has the Department of Transport studied the report prepared by the United States National Transportation Safety Board relating to the susceptibility of some aircraft to damage by birds. [More…]

• The majority of the recommendations concern the certification or modification of the engines and these are being rechecked in the United States of America. [More…]

• On this basis, and with particular reference to reported effectiveness on United States Air Force Bases in the United Kingdom, a study to test the effectiveness under Australian conditions was initiated. [More…]

• I refer to a recent report of a nuclear test conducted by the People’s Republic of China and a further report of heavy radioactivity fall-out in the United States following the reported test. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the Minister has agreed to send an officer of his Department to the United States of America to examine analytical techniques used in that country? [More…]

• It is correct that the Director of the Analytical Laboratories at Adelaide will visit the United States of America for approximately 3 weeks commencing about 1 8 October this year. [More…]

• The prime purpose of his visit will be to attend the United States Association of Official Analytical Chemists. [More…]

• I understand that the visit will bring Mr Bates into contact with United States chemists who are responsible for analytical procedures used in the enforcement of standards and regulations applicable in the United States. [More…]

• I refer to the recent controversy in the United States of America where, it is reported, some 1 1 000 American companies have been threatened by the Arab boycott arising out of trade with Israel and where it is further reported that some 10 000 of those companies have given in to the threat. [More…]

• In view of the serious decision of the President of the United States of America to impose further quotas on Australian beef to the extent of 8 million lb on our previously determined quota, will the Minister obtain the names of those exporters who shipped excessive and unauthorised quantities of Australian beef to the United States through Puerto Rico and Canada and so jeopardised the quotas available to orthodox exporters? [More…]

• The body which this Bill proposes to establish has been modelled on the United States Advisory Commission on Inter-governmental Relations. [More…]

• The United States Advisory Commission is a 17-year-old bipartisan body in which representatives of national, State and local governments and private citizens study the operations of the federal system in the United States. [More…]

• My understanding is that the first of the stations was established 4 years ago in North Dakota in the United States of America. [More…]

• The Government’s failure to establish a definite trade relationship with the Government of the United States and the limiting effect of this failure upon access to the United States domestic market for Australian beef. [More…]

• The Government’s failure to establish a definite trade relationship with the Government of the United States and the limiting effect of this failure upon access to the United States domestic market for Australian beef. [More…]

• The motion which the Opposition submits for the consideration of the Senate is designed to enable a public debate on the problems besetting the Australian beef industry and the very recent decision taken by President Ford- probably endorsed by the other Presidential candidate, Mr Carter- to suspend the importation of beef into the United States of America from all beef exporting countries. [More…]

• Yet in its subservience to its big brother trading partner, the United States of America, it has done no more than to raise a mild protest at the latest decision of the United States of America. [More…]

• Report after report has appeared in Australian newspapers of pressure by American cattlemen firstly on the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party and secondly on the United States President himself. [More…]

• United States cattlemen have made demands for some shutdown on imports of overseas beef. [More…]

• You, Mr Deputy President, as a representative of them in this place would know that about 45 per cent of all production in the meat industry is destined for export markets and that the United States market accounts for half of this tremendous amount of production in Australia. [More…]

• For example, in June 1 974, 291 548 tonnes ship weight were shipped from Australia to the United States of America. [More…]

• In the following year, the export to the United States fell to 289 000 tonnes. [More…]

• Last year, 298 000 tonnes of beef was exported to the United States. [More…]

• This means that in the 3 years in question there have been very little differences in the amounts of beef exported to the United States market. [More…]

• The decision of the United States President to impose statutory quotas on beef imports from Australia without prior consultation on an official or relevant level with Australian officials indicated the type of trade relationship and the lack of rapport into which this Government has quickly plunged Australia’s relations with one of our major trading partners. [More…]

• The decision effectively means that Australia will have to renegotiate its quotas with the United States Government which, in the present conditions of surplus exports, can only mean the likelihood of a substantial fall in Australian beef exports. [More…]

• Australian conservative governments have claimed consistently in post-war years that they have a special relationship with the United States. [More…]

• It is a peculiar sort of special relationship if the actions of the United States President in an election year are such as to demonstrate that he has little consideration of his responsibility to us in Australia and that he places our trading goodwill at the bottom of his priority list. [More…]

• Already, the United States has a trading advantage roughly 2 times in its favour over Australia. [More…]

• The action of the United States Government is contrary to the spirit of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to which both Australia and the United States are signatories. [More…]

• His empty thunder when in Opposition is well illustrated by his call for- I quote from a statement he made in a speech at Wangaratta on 5 September 1975- bi-lateral government to government talks with the United States of America aimed at ensuring adequate Australian access to these markets. [More…]

• The Japanese Government crumbled when the cattlemen moved, just as President Ford crumbled when the cattlemen in the United States moved over the last several weeks. [More…]

• Prices in the United States for Australian meat have fallen back in recent weeks. [More…]

• It is expected to be a very temporary dip, but even allowing for the dip our prices in the United States are still well above what they were a year ago. [More…]

• He did not say that as a result of those renegotiations less beef would be exported to the United States. [More…]

• Is he suggesting that when the President of the United States or the Prime Minister of Australia makes a decision it is not a political decision? [More…]

• The Government’s failure to establish a definite trade relationship with the Government of the United States and the limiting effect of this failure upon access to the United States domestic market for Australian beef. [More…]

• Our meat trade with the United States of America has developed over many years. [More…]

• We have a very large bilateral trade with the United States, and it is essentially a problem-free and happy relationship which is of mutual benefit to both countries. [More…]

• The United States is not free at times in protecting its own producers; neither are we. [More…]

• History would demonstrate that it is ridiculous to say that we have failed to develop a definite trade relationship with the United States or to suggest that a relationship does not exist, as does the operative part of the motion we are debating. [More…]

• I have a table which sets out the general exports of Australia and the United States meat imports over a period of time from various countries. [More…]

• In 1971 Australia had 46.8 per cent of the United States’ market; currently it has 51.7 per cent. [More…]

• The figures demonstrate that except for the Central American area our trade with the United States has improved both in tonnage volume and in percentage volume. [More…]

• It is not really a bad record for a nation that is said to have no relationship with the United States or has made a disaster of its trade relationship. [More…]

• I turn now to what I suppose is really the substance of this motion- our trade with the United States. [More…]

• Our trade with the United States is not only important in absolute terms but also it is relatively important to other trading partners of ours. [More…]

• The United States is our main source of imports, valued at about $1.7 billion in 1975-76. [More…]

• Of our agricultural exports, valued at $500m in 1975-76, half of our total exports to the United States, beef and veal, accounted for $287m. [More…]

• The United States market for beef and veal is almost 3 times as valuable as it is for sugar. [More…]

• There has been some decline in our overall trade pattern over the past 10 years in percentage of our exports to the United States of agricultural products, but there has been a great rise in the value of the exports. [More…]

• The United States share of our exports has changed relatively little from 12 per cent to 10 per cent over the last 10 years. [More…]

• Our trade relationship with the United States is not only strong but also static. [More…]

• Japan has no formal trade agreement with the United States and the United States is its largest partner. [More…]

• The fact is that the United States is a long-established trading partner of ours and it is not necessary to have formal bilateral agreements with it. [More…]

• Japan and the United States have found this to be similarly true. [More…]

• We have close contact on trade matters with the United States, with consultations taking place in Canberra and Washington and also in other overseas countries and in many international fora in which we are involved. [More…]

• We are the largest supplier, as the table will show, of meat imports into the United States, and the United States is the largest importer of our beef. [More…]

• However, the United States has a very large domestic cattle population and a very large domestic cattle production. [More…]

• The United States situation is often much more involved in problems concerned with its seasons and the ratio of the price of grain to the price of beef in the market than it is with what we might believe to be discriminatory acts against Australia or other exporting countries. [More…]

• The absence of a formal trade agreement with the United States has had no bearing on the action that the United States has taken in respect of beef imports. [More…]

• The fact of the matter is that the United States since 1964 has had a statute- the meat import law- which imposes certain mandatory requirements regarding the level of meat imports permitted into the United States. [More…]

• A formula included in the meat import law calculates the level of various types of meat which may be imported into the United States in any calendar year. [More…]

• It provides that imports of fresh, chilled and frozen beef, veal, mutton and goat meat should be limited to about 5 per cent of the United States domestic production of these items. [More…]

• The President may, however, suspend the operation of quotas if he determines that a level of imports higher than that which triggers the quotas is required in the national interest of the United States. [More…]

• In other words, the United States could have been more restrictive under its own laws than it has been. [More…]

• The calculations and the comments about Canada, for instance, failed to take into account in some of the observations that were made that there is a common boundary between Canada and the United States and that a great amount of trade passes over that border between one side and the other. [More…]

• It is so because the rules are quite simple: If a message is to go to the President of the United States it must come from the Prime Minister of Australia. [More…]

• Such a message has been sent to the President of the United States. [More…]

• It is a long message and it makes our situation quite clear to the United States. [More…]

• It certainly does nothing for our relations with the United States which, after all, is a large customer for our beef. [More…]

• If people in the United States were to read the speech of Senator Gietzelt I do not think they would feel that they were dealing with friendly sellers; theymight think that they were dealing with other hostile people. [More…]

• The onlyother comment I wish to make is that again it would have been useful to have had a discussion on what is an important matter in this context, and that is the trilateral relationship in trade between ourselves, the United States and Japan. [More…]

• Trade between the United States and Japan has a marked effect upon the trade both those countries have with us. [More…]

• Trade between the United States and Japan is out of balance bilaterally. [More…]

• If he did he would accept the motion as being a valid one, endeavouring to bring to the attention of the people, especially those who live in the rural sections of the country, the Government’s failure to establish with the United States a firm agreement on beef imports. [More…]

• If Senator Gietzelt is to be accused of making anti-American statements during his speech, then perhaps I ought to refer to the Premier of Queensland who engaged in some very sharp comments about the American decision to limit beef imports into the United States. [More…]

• Perhaps also I ought to refer to the reverse situation of equal culpability, namely that the Minister for National Resources (Mr Anthony) rather glowingly anticipated the possibility that imports into the United States would be increased beyond the basic import figures of the previous year. [More…]

• The present problem that we face with the export of our beef to the United States is one which we face continually. [More…]

• The United States either imposes import restrictions of some sort or uses the indirect method of imposing certain health or hygiene conditions on abattoirs causing them to close down, thus preventing the export of Australian beef, mainly to the United States. [More…]

• -The United States Government. [More…]

• By various devices the United States has hindered the flow of Australian beef to the United States market and I am blaming the present Government. [More…]

• The Government’s failure to establish a definite trade relationship with the Government of the United States and the limiting effect of this failure upon access to the United States domestic market for Australian beef. [More…]

• There must be a real measure of irony in a circumstance which sees the promotion of this motion tonight suggesting that we are failing to establish a better relationship with the United States of America. [More…]

• In the present context there are difficulties related to over-production in America, to the strength of the cattlemen ‘s lobby and, indeed, there are difficulties which all of us understand- I am sure the Opposition understands also- which are related to the sort of political pressures that exist at present in the United States. [More…]

• The motion states that we should seek a definite trade relationship with the United States. [More…]

• We have had a definite and excellent trade relationship with the United States. [More…]

• What I am saying is that such a relationship has been dominantly and clearly the very essence of our trading relationship with the United States over practically the 70-odd years of federation. [More…]

• Of course, there is a great urgency for Australia to consolidate the market for beef in the United States because the United States takes more than half of our export beef. [More…]

• If this motion has a political increment in it- of course, no one would suspect that that was so- it must surely seek to suggest that the problems of the Australian beef industry are directly referable to our failure to negotiate with the United States of America. [More…]

• To the contrary, as recently as 1975-76 Australia exported to the United States of America the second greatest amount of beef in the last 5 years. [More…]

• The problems of this industry relate not to our failures to negotiate with nor our failure to understand the United States of America but rather to a number of other things. [More…]

• But I do most strongly say that the motion that is before us suggesting that we have not a proper trading relationship with the United States is utter and complete piffle. [More…]

• It was first diagnosed in the United States of America in 1961. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Science aware of the recently drafted Statement of Affirmation of Freedom of Inquiry and Expression by the United States National Academy of Sciences? [More…]

• Is the Minister also aware that members of the United States National Academy of Sciences have urged their scientific colleagues around the world to join them in signing the statement? [More…]

• In the light of information that I have received, that the attention of the chairman and the members of the executive of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation has recently been drawn to this document, I ask: Will the Minister ascertain whether they have signed or intend to sign the statement and notify the Senate accordingly, bearing in mind that a failure to sign the statement could adversely reflect on the CSIRO and jeopardise joint United States-Australian scientific research projects? [More…]

• To the best of my knowledge, there has been discussion about this matter, and a minute concerning the decision by the United States authority has come to me. [More…]

• I do not recognise the disadvantage that may flow to Australia from the United States-Australia science agreement. [More…]

• The exchange of information between Australia and the United States has been very freely given over a period of years. [More…]

• We should attempt to take the greatest advantage of the results of research that takes place in the United States. [More…]

• I understand that the United States of America noted an object which was said to be 5000 million light years away from earth. [More…]

• It was mentioned in the second reading speech that the United States Advisory Commission on Inter-governmental Relations has been taken as a model for the body which this Bill will establish. [More…]

• It certainly has published many reports, but what influence it has had in the United States of America is doubtful. [More…]

• The Government spokesmen in the second reading debate have informed us that the Advisory Council is modelled on the United States Advisory Commission which was established in 1959. [More…]

• However, I think it should be realised that the United States Advisory Commission is in no respect either a powerful or influential institution within the framework of American administration. [More…]

• One only needs to think of the social problems and the infrastructure problems in the United States of America, least of all refer to them, to appreciate the grave difficulties that exist in that country. [More…]

• The great nations of Europe and nations such as Canada, West Germany, the United States of America and even the United Kingdom have tested centralism, have found it failing and are setting up internal structures today to decentralise power, to devolve duties and to bring in federalism. [More…]

• So in fact the socialist concept of centralism is being moved aside, particularly in Western Europe, the United States and Canada, and in its place is a new and exciting concept of bringing government closer and closer to the people. [More…]

• If the Australian authorities don’t act to clear them much more quickly the United States will. [More…]

• According to Mr Bond, not only is the United States willing to take these people; it is eager to do so. [More…]

• Perhaps as Mr Bond suggested the United States, which we will all remember was itself born as a nation out of revolution and defiance of the British Crown, would welcome these people. [More…]

• I recently met a family from the United States which had every right to dispute their country’s policy on Vietnam. [More…]

• Whether these Americans are in Sweden, Canada or Australia they have permanent domicile in the United States. [More…]

• They talk patronisingly and say that they do not want Australian citizenship but want to retain their United States status. [More…]

• Colby cheese is a variety which originated in the United States of America and which is separately named in the Schedule for Named Cheeses’ appended to the Standard for Cheese approved by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council. [More…]

• The observations will provide additional information for United States scientists at the same site, and broaden our understanding of the corona. [More…]

• -Can the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry advise what steps have been taken to check the allegations made by the Canadian Minister for Agriculture that Australia is currently selling meat to Canada at prices unacceptably below the prices applicable to the United States? [More…]

• Is this indicative of the type of welcome that would be offered to any United States warship and its crew, particularly in Hobart but also in most other areas of Australia? [More…]

• If there have not been discussions, will the Government initiate negotiations so that the slack in the meat industry in Australia arising from the United States and Canadian restrictions will not be repeated in respect of exports to Japan? [More…]

• I am told that in the United States the development of water hyacinth as a possible means of converting solar energy to a usable form is being considered. [More…]

• Apparently it is becoming a valuable crop in the United States. [More…]

• This Conference consists of 1 8 European Ministers, with Australia and Japan being associate members and the United States and Canada having observer status. [More…]

• It was like the old Indian blanket concept that was developed in the United States of America. [More…]

• At the same time there is a stranglehold on the creative production process in Australia, very extensive arrangements for the cheap importation of commercial television programs from the United States and a situation in which there is not one body in Australia, including the Government, which seems to be seriously concerned with the sort of cultural development we get when, as I said, children of primary school age are watching television for more hours than they are attending school. [More…]

• Ultimately the question of whether Australian children will be brought up with a secondhand culture and secondhand experiences obtained from television or whether they are to be involved in more creative experiences of a first-hand kind will of course depend on Australians; it will not depend on the importation of pap from the United States- or it might do, tragically. [More…]

• Legislation was brought in both in France and in the United States preventing the importation of wild turtle meat. [More…]

• Does the Minister support these projects; if so, will the Minister ensure that funds are immediately made available to enable these scientists to continue their research by financing a trip to the United States of America to make use of the United States National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Arizona. [More…]

• I can appreciate that these scientists are keen to visit the United States National Astronomy Observatory in Arizona to search space for the finger print radio pattern of glycine. [More…]

• The United States of America, the United Kingdom and France and practically every other country in the Western world are in a desperate position when it comes to unemployment. [More…]

• But in the United States, as I pointed out earlier to Senator Walters, in the United Kingdom and in most other Western countries the problem of unemployment is inherent. [More…]

• I think it is quite relevant that these matters should be discussed today when one considers the United States Presidential elections. [More…]

• Although the people of the United States went to the polls only yesterday or early this morning Australian time, probably nearly all the votes for governors and senators have been counted, and with perhaps 80 million votes to be counted, the new President of the United States is probably known. [More…]

• Again I do not want to dwell on what is happening in the United States of America today but it is an example of how millions of votes can be computed quickly. [More…]

• During the recent United States presidential election campaign Mr Carter seemed to indicate quite different priorities with regard to trade from those of the policy presently practised by that country. [More…]

• Is the Minister confident that Australia will be able to maintain at least our present trade with the United States? [More…]

• Australia is the fourth largest shareholder of the ADB after Japan, India and the United States and has played a leading role in the Bank since its inception. [More…]

• He will recall that some time ago he told me, following my testimony before Mr Justice Hope who was looking at the restructuring of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, that he thought that reports were coming through to the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), that they could be released, and that probably they would indicate that we should have what they have in the United States. [More…]

• In the United States there are at least 4 leading senators who are on talking terms with members of certain security agencies. [More…]

• While mistakes have been made by the United States security agencies, those senators know more about their security agencies than we know about ours. [More…]

• If one looks at what has happened recently in the United States I think one will see that, had there been a proper surveillance or an earlier surveillance of the Central Intelligence Agency, the congressional inquiries into that organisation that have been going on for the past 12 months or 2 years would not have occurred. [More…]

• In the parliamentary recess, when I was in the United States, I had the opportunity to talk to Representative Otis Pike who was one of the leading members of the congressional inquiry into the CIA. [More…]

• One of the strong points he made was that, in his opinion, had there been proper surveillance of the funds being spent by intelligence agencies in America at an earlier date perhaps the present situation in the United States would not have arisen. [More…]

• TTCP was established following an exchange of notes between the Governments of the United States, Britain and Canada in 1958. [More…]

• Was not the plant at Evandale, Port Pirie, built for the purpose of treating uranium from Radium Hill to supply the requirements of the United States and the United Kingdom Combined Development Agency? [More…]

• Special studies have been conducted by United States Government agencies and other investigations are being carried out by the WHO, WMO, UNEP and the OECD. [More…]

• The most recent reports on this subject was presented in September by the United States National Academy of Science. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Industry and Commerce aware that the governments of the United States and Russia are currently attempting to negotiate a treaty to deal with the arbitration of international business disputes? [More…]

• Information has not yet been provided by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company as to the cost of landline links in the United States of America but this has been estimated to be $5,000. [More…]

• Those honourable senators who ever get access to United States dollars or Japanese yen will find that the notes of various denominations are remarkably similar in colour and that it is difficult to differentiate between $1, $10 and $50 notes. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs aware that the annual conference of the National Organisation for Reform of Marihuana Law is being held in Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America on 10 and 12 December 1976? [More…]

• Have any steps been taken to send a suitably qualified Australian delegate to attend this conference’ to gather the latest information available from the United States of America at this centrally organised forum? [More…]

• I am advised that it would be unlikely that the conference is recognised by responsible authorities in the United States of America as they would most certainly have notified their counterparts in Australia. [More…]

• I commend as ideal reading for Senator Walters Labor Baron, the history of John L. Lewis the tzar of the United States United Mine Workers’ Union. [More…]

• In Vietnam the United States had air superiority, but the war was finally decided by who had the better infantry. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister representing the Treasurer: Is it possible for, say, a United States company with an overseas subsidiary to remit funds from the subsidiary to the United States prior to a devaluation of currency in the host country of the subsidiary, to transfer the funds back to the host country after devaluation and to secure a windfall capital gain proportionate to the devaluation? [More…]

• 1 per cent only is collected whereas in the United States 13.52 per cent is collected. [More…]

• That OECD report says that the rate of economic recovery in the United States of America and other major industrial countries will fall markedly this year unless they adopt exceptional economic policies. [More…]

• I now seek leave to incorporate the second one which shows public expenditure on education as a percentage of gross national product for 4 countries- the United Kingdom, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United States of America and Australia. [More…]

• 1 per cent in the United Kingdom, 7.3 per cent in the United States of America and 7.9 per cent in the Netherlands. [More…]

• Not only that, when West Irian was ultimately incorporated into Indonesia, the man who was primarily responsible for the ultimate efforts and the ultimate negotiations which led to West Irian’s incorporation was none other than Mr Ellsworth Bunker, a prominent official of the United States State Department who had been until very shortly before that time the United States Ambassador to Indonesia. [More…]

• In view of the serious decision of the President of the United States of America to impose further quotas on Australian beef to the extent of 8 million lb on our previously determined quota, will the Minister obtain the names of those exporters who shipped excessive and unauthorised quantities of Australian beef to Puerto Rico and Canada and so jeopardised the quotas available to orthodox exporters? [More…]

• United States Naval Communication Station (Civilian Employees) Amendment Bill [More…]

• -The Senate is debating the Compensation (Commonwealth Government Employees) Amendment Bill 1976, the Seamen’s Compensation Amendment Bill 1976 and the United States Naval Cummunication Station (Civilian Employees) Amendment Bill 1976. [More…]

• If one looks at a country such as the United States of America one can see how it has retained its history and its villages, how it has taken pride in what its forebears have done. [More…]

• Overseas experience shows that similar organisations in the United Kingdom and the United States of America have had considerably larger memberships then seven. [More…]

• I think one of the greatest centralists of all time was United States Union General Sheridan. [More…]

• The immediate need for this Bill has arisen out of certain legal proceedings that are being taken in the United States under the anti-trust legislation of that country. [More…]

• The United States proceedings relate to arrangements alleged to have been made for the marketing of uranium in 1972. [More…]

• Claims are being made that the United States anti-trust laws have an operation outside the United States to an extent which is beyond what is generally conceded in international law and beyond what other countries are presently prepared to concede in relation to the pending proceedings. [More…]

• I shall indicate briefly the nature of the proceedings that have been instituted in the United States. [More…]

• Secondly, civil proceedings claiming treble damages- which could be of the order of some $7 billion- have been instituted by Westinghouse Electric Corporation against 29 United States and foreign uranium producers including 4 Australian companies. [More…]

• Thirdly, proceedings have been instituted against the Westinghouse Corporation by 16 United States utilities in respect of the non-supply of uranium under contracts entered into with Westinghouse, and Westinghouse is resisting those claims on grounds that involve allegations of contraventions by the uranium producers of the antitrust laws. [More…]

• In all of these proceedings, claims are being made that the antitrust and related laws of the United States have an extremely wide operation outside the United States. [More…]

• But the claims that are being made for extra-territorial operation of the United States laws go further that this. [More…]

• They go so far as to assert that persons who are not United States nationals or residents or persons carrying on business in the United States are subject to those laws by reason only of some economic effect of their conduct. [More…]

• In particular, such claims were resisted by the United Kingdom in 1964 in connection with an attempt by the United States authorities to regulate shipping between the 2 countries. [More…]

• Legislation was enacted to ensure that the United States claims would not be effective, and I refer honourable senators in this connection to the United Kingdom Shipping Contracts and Commercial Documents Act 1964. [More…]

• In connection with the present dispute concerning uranium, Canada has recently made a regulation indicating that it rejects the jurisdiction being asserted by the United States authorities as an unjustified invasion of its sovereignty. [More…]

• It will be available also in relation to countries other than the United States. [More…]

• Insofar as the current United States proceedings relating to uranium are concerned, I can inform the Senate that the Attorney-General is satisfied there is a need to make orders under the proposed legislation and he will be taking action in this regard as soon as the legislation has been passed. [More…]

• He asked, among other things, a question about the current United States inquiry in relation to uranium price fixing or other breaches of United States antitrust laws. [More…]

• I should have thought- and I detect in the second reading speech a suspicion on the part of the AttorneyGeneral (Mr Ellicott)- that it would have been possible for us to rely on our courts to assert the limitations on the extra-territorial operation of the United States anti-trust laws which is spelt out more definitely in this Bill [More…]

• I think that the United States would have no real opportunity and no real chance of asserting the claims which the Westinghouse Corporation is purporting to assert in these proceedings but I think that it is high time that the Government of Australia had something to say about its notion of these limitations on extra-territorial operation of the United States anti-trust laws. [More…]

• I am advised that the letters of request which are issued by the United States court which is seized of the matter were issued by that court on 25 October and that no advice was even received by anybody in Australia until 28 October. [More…]

• Probably more important than the position of certain Australian companies is the very principle of the United States anti-trust legislation and the wide impact it has on conduct outside the United States and on citizens of other countries. [More…]

• I entirely agree with him that it is something that the Government ought to be closely considering and discussing with the United States of America. [More…]

• United States Air Force Plane: Landing in Rockhampton (Question No. [More…]

• Did a United States Air Force transport plane mistakenly attempt to land on Musgrave Street, north Rockhampton during the recent Kangaroo II exercises in Queensland. [More…]

• I ask: Is either of the Ministers aware that the Iranian Government recently cancelled a US$5.6 billion project to export liquefied gas to the United States and Europe, the American company named being the El Paso Natural Gas Company? [More…]

• If so, has either of the Ministers explored the feasibility of further developing our country’s reputed vast reserves of this commodity on a viable basis so as to capture part of the lucrative overseas market in the United States and selected European nations, thereby providing a further valuable international market for Australia? [More…]

• In the last 6 years, wages in Australia’s manufacturing industry increased by 130 per cent, compared with 53 per cent in the United States and 70 per cent in West Germany. [More…]

• The Esso company, for one, took money back to the United States. [More…]

• How many other companies took money back to the United States as a direct result of that leak? [More…]

• Compared with the United States, which accounts for about one-third of our overseas trade, our competitive price position deteriorated by about 33 per cent between 1972 and 1975. [More…]

• They are based on a comparison of the size of Australia with the United States of America and the United Kingdom and the fact that the United States has a similar body of about 1 8 or 1 9 members and the position in the United Kingdom is the same. [More…]

• Since then we lived, first, at the United States and at Tegucigalpa, Honduras. [More…]

• I refer to the recent controversy in the United States of America where, it is reported, some 1 1 000 American companies have been threatened by the Arab boycott arising out of trade with Israel and where it is further reported that some 10 000 of those companies have given in to the threat. [More…]

• 1 ) Has the Minister seen the assertion in the Australian of 8 November 1976 by Mr Peter Clyne, a well known Sydney legal figure, that his Australian passport is still in the hands of the United States authorities. [More…]

• If Mr Clyne ‘s passport is in the hands of the United States authorities, was he issued with a travel document to return from the United States of America to Australia. [More…]

• Mr Clyne travelled from the United States to Canada without a travel document. [More…]

• Having in mind that citizen band operators are licensed in other parts of the world- as an example, it is reported that some 13 million CB transmitters in the United States of America are licensed and have been accommodated on 40 channels- what is the attitude of the Australian Government to bringing about a licensing scheme to allow CB operators in this country to operate legally? [More…]

• 1 am advised also that the United States Federal Communications Commission agrees with unofficial estimates that there are about 13 million sets of this equipment in that country where it has been legalised in recent years. [More…]

• My advice is that the venture of legalisation of CB radio in the United States and elsewhere has struck very many difficulties and very many problems, most of which are not resolved as yet. [More…]

• Because of interference with the technical operation of other equipment, including hi fi sets and electronic organs, so I am advised, new specifications for that equipment are to be introduced into the United States from 1 January next. [More…]

• I draw the Minister’s attention to an article in the Australian Financial Review by Robert Hangst which refers to the export of beef to the United States. [More…]

• I ask: Why did the Minister’s advisers, in a recent letter to me, deny that some Australian exporters are trying to beat the system and are disadvantaging the legitimate exporters of Australian beef to the United States? [More…]

• -I do not know how much beef the writer for the Financial Review has ever produced or tried to sell but I was interested in the proposition that what we needed was a good negotiating hand in this matter in the United States of America. [More…]

• Be that as it may, there has been much conjecture about what has been happening in the area of beef exports to the United States. [More…]

• For my own interest I have tried to find out about them to get a true picture and I could not help feeling from a study of the situation that the Japanese position and the United States position were partly connected with the current elections in both those countries. [More…]

• I ask: Is the Minister aware that in 1974 an agreement was entered into between Australia and the United States for the exchange of information concerning the development of solar energy? [More…]

• In education, teaching in all grades is now in metric units though some imported texts, notably from the United States, use non-SI metric units. [More…]

• These texts should be revised now that the United States has passed an Act to convert to the metric system. [More…]

• My colleague Senator Sibraa saw the United States settlement of Vietnamese refugees and, from his report, the United States has been far more successful than we have, despite the huge numbers it took. [More…]

• During the last parliamentary recess I was in the United States looking at the presidential elections. [More…]

• I was amazed at the number of people who commented to me on a series of television advertisements that were then being shown in the United States by Qantas. [More…]

• Also anybody who went to a travel agency in the United States or who went into any of the major places to purchase tickets was confronted by some extremely good brochures which were on display and which were the basis of promotional efforts to sell package tours and to attract people from the United States to Australia. [More…]

• 1-124, was sunk on 20 January 1942 by United States and Australian warships. [More…]

• There are one or two places in the United States of America that have developed this form of transport and it is proving to be quite satisfactory. [More…]

• That has relevance insofar as it affects our arrangements with the United States of America and Canada in relation to our double taxation agreements. [More…]

• Another point is that there is no clear statement that as yet an agreement has been reached with the United States and Canada over whether or not they have the same corresponding definition of royalty as is set down in this Bill. [More…]

• A further point was raised by Senator Messner that there have been discussions with Canada and the United States to revise the double taxation agreements. [More…]

• The countries we know Japan investigated as potential suppliers of coal were Canada, Russia, Poland, the United States of America and South Africa. [More…]

• Let us look at just 2 companies- 2 closely related companies- which are operating in this field in Queensland, namely, the Utah Development Corporation, which is 89 per cent owned by Utah International of the United States of America, and Central Queensland Coal Associates, 85 per cent of which is owned by Utah Development and 15 per cent by Mitsui. [More…]

• Australia is the third largest black coal supplier after the United States of America and Poland. [More…]

• Some sections of the industry are unable to compete favourably with other suppliers such as the United States of America, Poland, Canada, South Africa and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics because of the duty. [More…]

• It is presumed that the second part of the question relates to exports to the United States market. [More…]

• Apart from special arrangements made for five Northern Territory and Kimberley meatworks entitlement to export to the United States market is not determined on a geographic basis. [More…]

• In recognition of shipping difficulties from north-west Australia the Australian Meat Board has been specially reserving a part of the United States of America import quota for these and certain other meatworks. [More…]

• Did the Minister hear on the AM program this morning a report from the United States of America of apparent intentions to film some impending executions in that country? [More…]

• The source of this information is the Eximbank of the United States of America. [More…]

• The document shows the rates being charged for December 1975 and June 1976 in several countries, namely, Canada, France Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. [More…]

• The restriction of access of our beef, for example, to the United States, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines and Canada is a more recent example of the fact that it is not so much the price factor that affects us as the decision made domestically within other countries to protect their own domestic production. [More…]

• We have had questions and discussion and public comment about the dumping of beef on the United States market. [More…]

• Firstly, there was the United States, then Canada, then the Philippines and then Japan. [More…]

• If they do, why did the Government not use them against the United States? [More…]

• After all, the United States is supposed to be the country with which this Government has philosophical, ideological and close working relationships. [More…]

• However, it did not make any threats against the United States, although trade between the United States and Australia is 2 times in its favour. [More…]

• More than 52 per cent of our beef exports is destined for the United States. [More…]

• It has so little intelligence information from the United States, Japan, the Philippines and other countries that we were not able to ‘guestimate’ what was to happen; we were not able to understand the pressures under which the Government would be placed. [More…]

• The recent decision of the Minister on the way in which the export quota to the United States of America is to be allocated may seriously disadvantage the industry in Tasmania and Northern Queensland, where the killing is seasonal. [More…]

• It has had quota problems relative to political situations and lobbying in the United States of America, Canada and other parts of the world. [More…]

• Somewhat unscrupulous exporters, who no doubt were in league with their counterpart importers in America, were caught sending meat into the United States against the law, resulting of course in cuts in Australia’s export quota to America- a country which traditionally has taken more than SO per cent of our meat exports. [More…]

• The VFU pastoral division is concerned over the recent announcement by the United States President, Mr Ford, that the U.S. meat imports will be limited this calendar year. [More…]

• The second problem- I call it a problem because I think it is a problem- is the dependence on the United States market. [More…]

• United States, mainly in what is called the ‘certain class’ of beef which is desired by the United States. [More…]

• The second reason why I think it is a problem that we are related so much to the United States is that United States standards of slaughtering are very high. [More…]

• It has been indicated that most freights to the United States will rise by 22 per cent on top of the 12 per cent announced in October. [More…]

• This will make it almost impossible for producers in the Territory to ship out to the United States. [More…]

• The figure given to me was $83.60 and this was based on United States standards. [More…]

• When considering the United States markets and some of the Territory’s other markets, one wonders whether the devaluation will be of any help at all. [More…]

• Senator Gietzelt talked about the United States beef market and the 1976 quotas. [More…]

• In effect, quotas were set by the United States Government at the level of voluntary restraint quotas under which Australia was already exporting to the United States. [More…]

• While the Government does not favour quotas for many reasons and fought them very hard at the highest level, the fact remains that our exports to the United States in 1976 will be similar to the levels of last year. [More…]

• Our shipping program to the United States was almost complete when the quotas were announced by President Ford. [More…]

• Senator Gietzelt and I had a quite amicable chat across the chamber about this when I observed that I thought part of the problem at the moment with Japan and the United States was the fact that they were involved in election situations. [More…]

• Senator Gietzelt spoke about the Australian Meat Board’s new export scheme for the United States of America in 1977. [More…]

• In that context- with the United States levelling itself off, with our numbers expanding and with our being denied access to the European Economic Community market- a very difficult position arose. [More…]

• We do not want to introduce a new Federal court which will denude them of a great deal of their work and thereby go a long way towards creating a system such as has developed under the federal system in the United States of America where there are parallel court systems. [More…]

• a warning label, similar to that required by the United States Food and Drug Administration, drawing attention to the possible dangers of taking phenacetin should be required on all preparations containing phenacetin when sold without prescription; the warning should read as follows: [More…]

• If wool costs to the overseas buyer in terms of United States dollars, yen, Deutschmarks or sterling had remained constant, would prices in Australian dollars have increased by 21.9 per cent? [More…]

• -Immediately the construction of an off-shore quarantine station is completed it will be possible to import cattle, sheep, pigs and goats through the station from the United States of America, Canada and Europe, including areas where foot and mouth disease is present, and also Japan. [More…]

• I ask the Minister whether reports in the Dunedin Evening Star and the Christchurch Star of Saturday, 9 October 1976 that the United States planned to ship 6500 cubic metres of soil contaminated by radioactivity from the McMurdo Sound nuclear power generator in the Antarctic are accurate. [More…]

• This was particularly so either yesterday or the day before when he asked whether I knew about some scientific agreement with the United States of America on solar research. [More…]

• There was no such agreement, but perhaps he thought there was or perhaps he was mistakenly referring to the United States-Australian agreement generally. [More…]

• Without being at all boastful, I point out that in my maiden speech in August 1965 I did lean heavily on the thoughts of Stewart Udall, who was the Secretary of the Interior in the United States, as expressed in a book he wrote called The Quiet Crisis. [More…]

• He came from the middle-west of the United States of America. [More…]

• I encompass the United States and Britain in that remark. [More…]

• Countries like the United Kingdom and the United States have one pharmacist for about every 4500 people in the community. [More…]

• We know the problems that are created when industry is disrupted, particularly the intensive industrialised countries such as Japan, Germany and the United States of America, to cite but three. [More…]

• Looking further at the crude oil situation, Russia and the United States of America are today conserving their crude oil as much as possible because there is a need for the longer term production of industrial feed stocks of such things as drugs and fertilisers which will be needed in future years, fertilisers to assist in food production and drugs to assist in the welfare of humanity itself. [More…]

• The escalation in nuclear energy is taking place in the United States of Amenca, where there are 54 nuclear power stations and another 168 are proposed. [More…]

• Other countries like the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United States of America, Canada and Iran have opted for nuclear power to a certain extent to protect their dwindling fossil fuel sources, their dwindling oil sources. [More…]

• In fact the Tokamak experiments in the U.S.S.R. and other experiments m the United States are showing the way; we will have fusion power in perhaps 20 or 30 years. [More…]

• Dr Alvin Weinberg, who was the Director of the nuclear laboratory at Oak Ridge in the United States until 1973 and who is in favour of nuclear power, has said that we need to recruit a dedicated priesthood to guard nuclear wastes and reactors and keep them nonpolluting in perpetuity. [More…]

• The serious concern about nuclear reactor safety, especially after the incident at Browns Ferry in the United States, where an electrician with a candle almost caused a tragedy, and what to do with reactors after their 30 or 40 years’ life is up are real problems. [More…]

• Fortunately it would seem that the costs of nuclear power production are escalating so much that in the United States and other countries orders are being cancelled. [More…]

• I would regret it if the arguments about the export of a few thousand tonnes from Mary Kathleen, which will make no difference to the world ‘s attitude to nuclear power and which will make no difference to the supplies which go to Japan, West Germany and the United States, should become the basis of the very real argument which Mr Justice Fox and the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry have brought up. [More…]

• For example, official United States figures show that the annual death rate in the coal industry is 1 1 times greater than that in the nuclear industry (including mining), injuries 7 times greater, and man days lost some 10 times greater. [More…]

• Senator Maunsell should ask the people in Kentucky in the United States what mining did for them. [More…]

• Kentucky has the highest unemployment rate of any State in the United States. [More…]

• Anyone who has studied industrial diseases knows that that same story was told in the United States and elsewhere with regard to asbestos mining. [More…]

• Honourable senators should have a look at the United States figures relating to the devastation of the lungs of those poor men. [More…]

• Time and time again the present Government has argued that we have a powerful alliance with some of the super-powers, including the United States and Britain. [More…]

• The first plant in the United States was established in 1954. [More…]

• In Australia we have had experience in the mining and processing of uranium This dates back to 1944 when the United Kingdom Government and the United States Government suggested that we ought to search for uranium in this country. [More…]

• What do we do in 10 years time if the United States of America finds that there is no ultimate disposal of waste? [More…]

• The figures in the United States of America for 1975 are very interesting. [More…]

• The United States nuclear power plants saved utilities over $2 billion in generating costs in 1975, compared with burning fossil fuels. [More…]

• In 1975 United States nuclear power plants saved the equivalent of the burning of more than 238 million barrels of oil or more than 50 million tonnes of coal. [More…]

• The average nuclear generating cost in the United States in 1975 was 1.227c per kilowatt hour which was 63 per cent less than oil and 30 per cent less than coal. [More…]

• A housing allowance experiment with different aims from the Australian one is being conducted in the United States of America. [More…]

• Has the Minister, or the Australian Electoral Office, investigated the possibilities of introducing the use of electronic voting machines in Federal Elections in Australia, similar to machines used in United States elections. [More…]

• I have not considered in any detail the possibility of introducing electronic voting machines, but when the then Chief Australian Electoral Officer was overseas in 1973, he did examine systems and machines which were available in the United States and in France. [More…]

• Canada (Montreal) and the United States of America (Washington, New York, Boston): 22 July-6 August 1976 [More…]

• Canada and the United States of America: Charter- San Francisco/Montreal/Washington and New York/Boston; Commercial aircraft- Sydney/San Francisco and Boston/Edmonton/San Francisco/Sydney. [More…]

• In view of the statement of the Minister for Primary Industry in Mackay on 3 September that the Australian Government had adopted what is known as the dirty float and the Government’s decision announced this morning to revalue the Australian dollar by 2 per cent, could the Minister indicate the maximum and minimum United States dollar values to which the Australian dollar will be allowed to rise or fall? [More…]

• -The Australian Meat Board has met and composed changes to market entitlements in regard to exports to the United States for the year 1977. [More…]

• By way of illustration, in the last 6 years wages in Australia’s manufacturing industry increased by 130 per cent compared with 53 per cent in the United States and 70 per cent in West Germany. [More…]

• In addition to the increases in wage levels in Australia compared to those occurring with our trading partners, since December 1 97 1 the value of the Australian dollar had, prior to devaluation, increased relative to that of the United States dollar, notwithstanding the devaluation by the Labor Government of 12 per cent in September 1974. [More…]

• I have seen humans living in poverty in many places in the world- in Asia, Europe, the United States of America and South America. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Health whether she has seen the report that the United States of America is concerned that a dangerous type of influenza may hit that country this winter and is spending some $135m on universal vaccination. [More…]

• Some uranium mines are in hot arid parts of the world such as Africa, some are located in cool temperate and cold regions such as Canada and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and others are in mountainous regions, for example in the United States of America. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Industry and Commerce aware that 44 currencies have moved since the present Government came to power and that the Australian dollar has depreciated 19.5 per cent against the United States dollar? [More…]

• Is the Minister also aware that the depreciation against the United States dollar is larger than that of sterling and the New Zealand dollar and less than only that of countries such as Chile, Mexico and Uruguay? [More…]

• Large parts of South America are notorious for their instability, and their currency values as related to the United States dollar would not have great relevance to the Australian scene. [More…]

• In the last 6 years wages in Australian manufacturing industry increased by 130 per cent compared with 53 per cent in the United States of America and 70 per cent in West Germany. [More…]

• The Senate will recall that this Act was passed as a matter of urgency on 18 November 1976 because proceedings were then pending in the Supreme Court of New South Wales to take evidence for the purpose of proceedings in a court of the United States of America. [More…]

• On ABV2 in relation to programs for children there is one hour and twenty five minutes from the United States, half an hour from Britain and half an hour from Australia. [More…]

• On ATVO there are 3 te hours of programs from the United States of America and one hour from Australia. [More…]

• Films that came from the United States of America and were shown in peak viewing time accounted for 168 hours in one week. [More…]

• (a) The United States Federal Energy Administration in its report National Energy Outlook published in March 1976 estimates that energy consumption between 1974 and 1985 is likely to increase by an average of 2.8 per cent per annum, assuming the continuation of current energy prices. [More…]

• The arrangement between the United States Department of Justice and my Department for mutual assistance in connection with the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation matter and tabled in the House of Representatives on S October last requires that information made available pursuant thereto should be kept confidential and not disclosed to third parties or to government agencies having no law enforcement responsibilities. [More…]

• Has the Minister sought details of the deaths of at least 33 people in the United States of America that apparently resulted from the swine flu vaccination campaign in that country, as was urged by Professor Tony Basten, Head of Immunology at the University of Sydney and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, reported in the Australian dated 16 November 1976. [More…]

• Information recently received from the United States indicates that there is no evidence to suggest that the deaths of a number of people following immunisation with the swine influenza vaccine in America were caused by the administration of the vaccine. [More…]

• I understand that Mrs Ritzell has since left Singapore to travel to the United States of America. [More…]

• The article was written in response to information that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Commission of the United States had sent an aircraft to Australia to assist in the monitoring of the quality of the equipment we were using in Australia to test the atmosphere and its pollutants. [More…]

• In view of reports that the United States Agriculture Department has proposed that foreign beef entering the United States from a duty free foreign trade zone next year be counted against the originating country’s quota for the year, can the Minister say whether Australia is one of the 12 countries which have agreed to restrain their beef shipments to the United States next year? [More…]

• In the last six years wages in Australia’s manufacturing industry increased by 130 per cent compared with 53 per cent in the United States, and 70 per cent in West Germany. [More…]

• The experience of a number of countries (including the United States, Germany, Japan and Canada) has clearly demonstrated the important role that a managed exchange rate can play in the pursuit of domestic policy objectives. [More…]

• Our Ambassador to the United States has reported that our emphasis on the anti-inflationary objectives accompanying the devaluation is being applauded, and that the devaluation has been seen as removing a significant disincentive to investment in Australia. [More…]

• I refer, for example, to the decline in consumption of beef in the United States and Japan after the oil crisis in 1973 as the domestic levels of inflation increased in those countries. [More…]

• what contact has the Minister, or officers of his Department, had with representatives of the United States Federal Grand Jury and the Senate and Congressional Committees of the United States Congress named in the Nation Review article. [More…]

• Attempts that were being made by United States authorities to procure evidence for the purposes of proceedings in the United States of America caused the Government to introduce the Foreign Proceedings (Prohibition of Certain Evidence) Bill 1976. [More…]

• The United States proceedings which led to the introduction of that Bill and the considerations involved were indicated in the second reading speech of the Minister representing the Attorney-General (Hansard, 18 November 1976, page 2186). [More…]

• Nuclear Power: Use in United States of America (Question No. [More…]

• What percentage of nuclear power currently generated in the United States of America is used for (a) electrical generation, and (b) transportation. [More…]

• 100 per cent of commercial nulcear power currently being generated in the United States is fed into the electricity systems of various utilities. [More…]

• The transportation sector consumes about 0.25 per cent of all utility electricity distributed in the United States. [More…]

• If so, (a) how did the Australian delegation vote on the recent decision by the Committee to censure the United States of America for maintaining military installations in Guam and to reaffirm the right of the preople of Guam to self-determination and independence, and (b) what were the reasons for the Australian delegation adopting the line it did. [More…]

• It did so because the emphasis of the resolution was on condemning the presence of the United States military installations on the island of Guam rather than on reflecting the situation in the territory and the aspirations of the people of the territory as to their future. [More…]

• Studies in the United States have indicated that to maintain the same standard of living an aged single person would require about 67 per cent of the combined income of an aged married couple. [More…]

• Has the Australian Government officially supported the proposal made by the United States Secretary of State, Dr Henry Kissinger, at the World Food Congress in Rome, 1974, that a world grain reserve bank be created. [More…]

• 1 ) At the World Food Conference in Rome in November 1974, the United States Secretary of State proposed that a Reserves Co-ordinating Group be established to negotiate an agreement on an international system of nationally held grain reserves. [More…]

• Beef Exports to the United States of America [More…]

• I draw the Minister’s attention to an article in the Australian Financial Review by Robert Haupt which refers to the export of beef to the United States. [More…]

• I ask: Why did the Minister’s advisers, in a recent letter to me, deny that some Australian exporters are trying to beat the system and are disadvantaging the legitimate exporters of Australian beef to the United States? [More…]

• I am informed by the Acting Minister for Overseas Trade that the suggestion made in the article by Robert Haupt that Australian exporters had ‘beaten the system’ of United States import controls is misleading. [More…]

• Trade with United States Foreign Trade Zones is lawful and outside the terms of any agreement with the United States. [More…]

• 1 ) Is it correct that, in relation to the United States StateLocal Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972, the United States Congress rejected the proposed concept of the automatic tie-in of general revenue-sharing payments as a fixed percentage of either the annual federal personal income tax base or of annual federal personal income tax revenue. [More…]

• Is it correct that the United States State-Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972 makes possible a system of federal collection of State personal income taxes through the machinery of the Federal Internal Revenue Service similar to the proposal that the present Australian Government has made. [More…]

• If so, (a) can the Minister provide any details of the United States system concerned; (b) can the Minister explain why, as at the end of 1974, no State personal income tax in the United States was being collected by the Internal Revenue Service; (c) does the same situation exist today, and, if so, why; and (d) what ramifications does the United States experience have for the present Australian Government’s federalism proposals. [More…]

• Has the Prime Minister’s Department investigated the feasibility of developing research, along the lines of the Southern Governmental Monitoring Project carried out by the Southern Regional Council in Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, in 1 973. [More…]

• If so, ( a) what are the details, and (b) do the results of the United States research have any application to Australia. [More…]

• Has the Prime Minister’s attention been drawn to the article entitled ‘Uncle Sam Lends Musicians a Hand’ in Rolling Stone magazine dated 2 December 1976, which gives details of the work of the United States Advisory Panel on Folk Music and Jazz, a body that evaluates the eligibility of United States musicians who have applied for State Department assistance while travelling overseas. [More…]

• If so, will the Prime Minister consider establishing a service for Australian entertainers travelling overseas similar to that offered by the United States Government, which apparently includes advice and assistance through United States Embassies and Consulates abroad, and direct financial assistance. [More…]

• Limited assistance has also been given through the Australian Exhibitions Organisation to some Australian musicians in the pop field to enable them to visit the U.S.A. as part of Australia’s contribution to the United States Bicentennial celebrations. [More…]

• Has research into revenue sharing in the United States of America shown that Federal money has been used by local authorities to reduce taxes; it has reduced the pressure on local governments to explain what they have been doing; and has also dampened citizen interest in local government. [More…]

• The matters raised by the honourable senator are dealt with in a report to the United States Congress on 25 April 1974 by the Controller-General of the Department of the Treasury entitled ‘Revenue Sharing: Its use and impact on Local Government’. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence and relates to allegations in the United States of America, particularly in the Washington Post, that sub-standard parts have been sold to foreign military forces which use United States parts in their helicopter fleets. [More…]

• There have been a number of incidents in South America involving United States diplomatic personnel, one incident in Sweden and at least one incident in the Middle East- The Lebanon- involving a United States diplomat. [More…]

• There was a classic case in the United States of America not so long ago in which a small- I emphasise the word ‘small ‘; perhaps it was even minute- group of Croats for a propaganda exercise hijacked a United States aircraft. [More…]

• I do not know what the United States has done in that situation; but I know that if the boot had been on the other foot a different type of government might have taken a different attitude. [More…]

• On 30 November Senator Bonner asked me as Minister representing the Minister for National Resources whether I was aware that the Iranian Government had recently cancelled a SUS5.6 billion project to export liquefied gas to the United States and Europe, the American company named being the El Paso Natural Gas Company and if so, whether the feasibility had been explored of further developing our country’s reputed vast reserves of this commodity on a viable basis so as to capture part of the lucrative overseas market in the United States and selected European nations. [More…]

• The Acting Minister for National Resources has advised me that he is aware of reports of the cancellation of the 2 billion cubic feet a day LNG project involving export from Iran to El Paso Natural Gas Company of the United States and Distrigaz of Belgium. [More…]

• Secondly, it would take 20 to 24 months to obtain the Federal Power Commission’s approval to import the gas into the United States, thus further endangering the economics of the project. [More…]

• As this work has attracted considerable interest overseas, it is hoped that the results obtained by CSIRO will provide the basis for a fruitful information exchange between Australia and other countries, such as the United States, which are devoting impressively large sums to oil-from-coal research. [More…]

• Are reports in the Dunedin Evening Star and the Christchurch Star of 9 October 1976 that the United States of America plans to ship 6500 cubic metres of soil contaminated by radioactive material from the McMurdo Sound nuclear power generator in the Antarctic accurate; if so, does this proposal involve a violation of Article 5 of the Antarctic Treaty. [More…]

• According to information provided by United States authorities, a routine inspection in 1972 of the McMurdo Sound nuclear reactor revealed some evidence of wetting of insulating material by shield water. [More…]

• Concerning the 6500 cubic metres of soil mentioned in the honourable senator’s question, it is understood that the United States has advised the New Zealand authorities that it proposes to ship approximately this amount of soil from McMurdo Sound through Lyttleton in February 1977. [More…]

• The Minister no doubt is well aware of the recent oil spillage around the coast of the United States of Amenca from vessels with rather questionable safety standards. [More…]

• If not, will the Minister ask the Treasurer to investigate the feasibility of pressing special one dollar coins as is done in other countries such as Canada and the United States of America? [More…]

• In the United States one can buy from a copying machine company a machine to print money in a bank note form. [More…]

• Secondly, there appears to be, according to the Paper, little prospect of an agreement between the 2 super-powers, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America, to limit existing armaments in the Indian Ocean or to deal with any possible build-up in the Pacific. [More…]

• Thirdly, it indicates that Australia might be forced politically to re-assess its defence arrangements with the United States. [More…]

• Following the election of the new President of the United States, there appears to be a move towards making the strategic arms limitation discussions effective. [More…]

• If any agreements can be reached then the United States, for example, although remaining strong militarily, might not be able to supply as much manpower, technical and equipment support to the countries with whom it has normally been associated as friendly powers as it has done in the past. [More…]

• The possibility is more likely if the United States President is able to achieve an effective reduction in the United States defence expenditure. [More…]

• We find that the major powers such as the United States of America, Japan and probably the Soviet Union regard as important free and unhindered access to certain areas such as the Arabian Gulf, Indonesia, Malacca and the Sunda and Lombok Straits. [More…]

• The White Paper implies that Australia would rely on the United States to deploy a force based on Diego Garcia or its Middle East fleet to maintain freedom of access to these areas. [More…]

• The United States is a country which over the years has dealt in a much bigger way with the problem of the enormous cost involved in maintaining this type of vessel. [More…]

• First of all, in order to simulate an attack by a sporadic raid on the Australian coast we had to obtain from the United States of America a force to represent a regimental combat team. [More…]

• So we had a United States marine regimental combat team to produce that portion of the exercise, with its vertical take-off and landing aircraft, its cover coming from the vast resources of the nuclear carrier Enterprise, and so on. [More…]

• Had it been left to honourable senators opposite and had there been people in the United States of America, Great Britain and France who were as silly as they are, China would still be isolated. [More…]

• I would recommend to supporters of the Government that they peruse some of the recent very well informed statements of one of the Democratic members- probably the best informed Democratic member- of the United States House of Representatives Committee on the Armed Services. [More…]

• We are spread across an area as great as that of the continental United States, exclusive of Alaska. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that Senator Wheeldon felt that the capacity of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was so infinitely below the capacity of the United States of America. [More…]

• There is not the evidence to suggest that the U.S.S.R. military, naval and air capacity is so far below that of the United States of America. [More…]

• I certainly gained the impression there that the United States Navy places a very low priority on the Indian Ocean. [More…]

• They also pointed out to me that whenever the Enterprise is in the Indian Ocean the balance of power- if one wants to use that expression- because of fire power is overwhelmingly in favour of the United States. [More…]

• In the briefing that I received the officers gave me the impression that they thought that if there were any major conflict in which the United States Navy was involved, that conflict would take place in the Atlantic Ocean. [More…]

• In fact they said that if a conflict took place in the Atlantic, both the Soviet Union and the United States would pull whatever ships they had out of the Indian Ocean and return them to the Atlantic. [More…]

• I know that there has been a lot of talk and speculation that Australia needs the F16 from the United States at a cost of approximately $ 17m each. [More…]

• It has been put to me on more than one occasion, and it has also been mentioned in the Senate of the United States of America by a member of the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee of the U.S. Senate, Senator John Culver, that in evidence taken by the U.S. Committee it was shown that the U.S. had not criticised the Soviet’s buildup in Berbera as might have been expected for the simple reason that it did not want a public outcry until it had completed the facilities at Diego Garcia. [More…]

• No matter what we have to say about that now, because the United States took this low posture on the Soviet Union’s stance in Berbera, Diego Garcia as a base is practically completed and we do have a super power buildup in the Indian Ocean whether we like it or not. [More…]

• Our alliance with the U.S. gives substantial grounds for confidence that in the event of a fundamental threat to Australia’s security United States military support would be forthcoming. [More…]

• It is known that insurgents in the north-east of Thailand and indeed m the south of Thailand are now being armed with some of the most modern United States weapons which were left behind in Vietnam. [More…]

• The main concern at the moment is the policy of the new administration in the United States of America and what priority it will give to its relations with South East Asia. [More…]

• The fear is that, if the United States regards South East Asia as an area of low priority, the only two major powers left to compete are the Soviet Union and China, without the balancing effect of the United States. [More…]

• For example, the United States has a distinct advantage in trade and technology. [More…]

• It would be quite unreal not to expect the United States to exploit this advantage. [More…]

• We must not rely on our so-called allies whether they be Great Britain or the United States. [More…]

• By way of preface, I refer to a plea that I made to the Minister in January to discourage Liberian and Panamanian flag oil tankers on the Australian coast and to encourage, under the provisions of the Navigation Act, only double-bottomed tankers, as is the policy in the United States of America. [More…]

• The cost disability of Australia compared with its normal trading partners, compared with the United States for instance, which accounts for one-third of our overseas trade, deteriorated by 33 per cent between 1972 and 1975. [More…]

• It has seen to it that there is a division of responsibility that is the counterpart of the more advanced management practices of treasuries in the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Scandinavian countries. [More…]

• He is taking a course of action which is being pursued by this Government But it is quite contrary to the course of action being taken by the President of the United States of America where similar problems of inflation and unemployment exist. [More…]

• Unemployment and inflation increased in every one of those countries, whether it be Australia, the United States of America, Japan or West Germany- the land of the post-war economic miracle, the so-called wirtschaftswunder. [More…]

• In the past 10 years average weekly earnings in Australia rose by 178.3 per cent, compared to a rise in the United States of America of 72 per cent- over 100 per cent more. [More…]

• When Mr Fraser announced devaluation he stressed that from then on our currency would be on a managed float, the same as the currencies of many other industrial countries in the West such as Japan, Canada, the United States of America and West Germany. [More…]

• In the United States that rate is some 5 per cent; in Japan it is about 9 per cent; and in Germany it is about 3.7 per cent. [More…]

• Some justification of Labor’s economic plan as laid down by Mr Hurford has been claimed on the basis that the new President of the United States, President Carter, has decided to adopt a plan involving big spending, the creation of a deficit and tax cuts. [More…]

• The figures that I have just cited make quite clear the difference in the nature of the problem between the United States and Australia. [More…]

• This resurgence has been clearly evident in the United States and West Germany where the rates of inflation for the first 9 months of 1976 were 3.9 per cent and 2.9 per cent respectively. [More…]

• The Convention is now in force and the three depository States, the United States, the United Kingdom and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, are actively encouraging all signatory nations to proceed to ratification. [More…]

• But Dr Richards gives a history and some proof of the theory that during the investigation of atomic expansion after the Second World War a tripartite agreement was entered into at Quebec between Canada, Great Britain and the United States of America for the exchange of information on atomic energy, chemical and biological warfare and rocketry. [More…]

• In this development of parliamentary law we were most advantaged by the fact that in the United States of America, that great federal democracy, the constitution of whose Senate might be looked for more than this item of current events, the Senate of the United States and the courts of the United States have had to deal with the problem of transcendent invasion of the integrity of government in that state. [More…]

• Then followed the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States of 1 974. [More…]

• The most interesting point about that decision is not that it discovered the secrets of the President and compelled his confidential aides to disclose their scandalous conduct but that the decision of the great judicial authority of the United States Supreme Court considered the confluence of 2 streams of authority, one applying to the courts of law and the other applying to the legislature, namely, Congress itself. [More…]

• When the Supreme Court of the United States was asked to order the discovery of the President’s confidential diaries- increasingly in the form of tapesdictated by him to his aides and their response, the Court stated that in the absence of a claim of need to protect military, diplomatic or sensitive national security secrets, the confidentiality of the President’s communications is not significantly diminished by producing material for a criminal trial under protected in camera inspection by the court and that the President’s claim for privilege on the ground of a generalised interest in confidentiality- precisely the same ground as put forward by Mr Whitlam when he was Prime Minister and by his learned Ministers -must yield to the exigencies of a criminal trial, and that the tapes should be produced. [More…]

• Thus was resurrected a strength in the judicial administration of the United States which redeemed it from the disgrace to which it had descended. [More…]

• Senator Cavanagh referred to an agreement between the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada. [More…]

• It seems that Senator Cavanagh probably had in mind the articles of agreement governing collaboration between the authorities of the United States and the United Kingdom in the matter of tube alloys signed by Messrs Roosevelt and Churchill in Quebec on 19 August 1943. [More…]

• United States, the United Kingdom and Canada relating to atomic energy which was signed in Washington on 15 [More…]

• There is nothing wrong in a government bringing in its own men, however partisan they may be or however dedicated to a particular political view, provided that with a change of government their services can be terminated, as happens in the United States. [More…]

• During the course of his remarks Senator Baume tried to draw an analogy between what is proposed in this Bill and what happens in the United States. [More…]

• In the United States those who are appointed by the President as secretaries of departments are akin to Ministers of the Crown in this country. [More…]

• In the United States, when a government goes then those secretaries of departments who have been appointed by the President for the life of the government go with the government. [More…]

• Of course one would have thought this until he drew the analogy, quite wrongly, of what is happening under this legislation and what happens in the United States of America and until he referred to the Department of the Media as Labor’s propaganda department. [More…]

• It seems to be very much accepted in the United States system that public servants are appointed with governments and that public servants also fall with the fall of governments. [More…]

• The reason for that seems to be protection of the people of the United States against an entrenched bureaucracy. [More…]

• Those countries have proved to be more efficient in this industry than most of the shipbuilding industries of Europe including the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Canada. [More…]

• He was making a case concerning the difference between section 24 of the Australian Constitution and Article 1 of the United States of America Constitution. [More…]

• On behalf of my Party I think I can pay tribute to the High Court for in many ways its attitudes and decisions find a parallel in the United States Supreme Court under Chief Justice Warren in the time of the Republican era of President Eisenhower. [More…]

• I suppose that, in the New South Wales context, the electorate of Robertson in many ways has become like Miami, Florida, in the United States with a high percentage of its residents being people who have reached retirement age. [More…]

• In our inner city seats we do not have the problems of the big United States cities where racial tensions are manifest. [More…]

• It will emulate the Warren Court in the United States. [More…]

• In the period to which I referred, 1968-69, it was futile for the then Senator Murphy to refer to certain cases in the United States because he might have had cold comfort from the judiciary. [More…]

• The figures of voters in Great Britain, Canada, the United States of America and elsewhere show such loadings but in this nation, which is probably the most centralised on earth, we go the opposite way when the principle of loadings should apply more here than in other countries. [More…]

• Much has been said about the 1969 Supreme Court ruling in the United States of America which gave credence to the one vote, one value principle. [More…]

• Between 1958 and 1968 the AAEC leased from the United States of America 4 kilograms of plutonium-aluminium alloy plates which have since been returned. [More…]

• The AAEC also purchased approximately 1.5 kilograms of plutonium from the United States of Amenca for fundamental research into the feasibility of a high temperature gas cooled reactor using beryllia as a moderator. [More…]

• A further 778.98 grams of plutonium has been imported from the United States of America in the form of 14 plutonium-beryllium sealed neutron sources for use in standardising equipment and providing neutrons for scientific experiments. [More…]

• Of this approximately 2.28 kilograms came from the United States of America, 6 1 1 grams were generated in Australia in fuel elements in the AAEC’s reactor HIFAR, 690 milligrams originated in the United Kingdom and 320 milligrams were obtained from France. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Industry and Commerce aware of the new budgetary strategy of the Carter Administration in the United States of America which is to increase public expenditure to create employment? [More…]

• Is he aware also of a United States Congressional committee report by Professor Brennan which states that unemployment is a key factor in creating inflation through a fall in consumer spending leading to higher prices? [More…]

• It is not necessary for us to take action with regard to the passport he held because that would be something for the United States authorities to deal with. [More…]

• From 1933, after Mr Roosevelt became President of the United States of America, there commenced the growth of presidential power. [More…]

• It was only under the threat of impeachment by the Senate of the United States of America that President Nixon finally met his Waterloo and had to resign. [More…]

• The reorganisation which then went on in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and which is still continuing means that there is imbedded in the Prime Minister’s office all the paraphernalia that in the last 20 years normally was found in the office of the President of the United States of America. [More…]

• Senator Sir Magnus Cormack went on to say that in 1933 President Roosevelt established big government in the United States. [More…]

• It looks as though President Carter will be supporting the Hawkins-Humphrey Bill which is aimed at creating Government spending to help lower unemployment in the United States. [More…]

• I want to go on now to the United States situation to which Senator Sir Magnus Cormack referred. [More…]

• In the case of the United States, the first 100 days when Washington rode over the States saved the United States which was on the verge of economic anarchy. [More…]

• I advise the Senate tonight that the executive of the parliamentary group of Amnesty International met earlier today to discuss the sending of a petition to President Carter of the United States of America. [More…]

• I should like to read firstly the petition that we intend presenting to the President of the United States and then a number of paragraphs from his inaugural address on 20 January which we find most pertinent to this petition. [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…]

• Because of what he has said and done already, we may have some hopes that the United States will take some further interest in the problem nearest to us, in our region. [More…]

• It may well be that the President of the United States will be able to do something under the terms of this petition. [More…]

• Does Australia intend to await the results of the Law of the Sea discussions in the United Nations before making any final decision on the 200 nautical miles exclusive economic zone including the 200-mile fishing zone which already has been claimed by both Russia and the United States of America and some other countries? [More…]

• 1 ) Did a uranium oxide reprocessing plant that was being built in the United States of America run into severe technical difficulties while still under construction. [More…]

• The currencies in which the Commonwealth Government borrowed on international capital markets in 1976 were Deutschemarks, Swiss francs, Netherlands guilders and United States dollars. [More…]

• But I note that the United States of America is spending about $240m this year on solar energy research. [More…]

• I refer to reports that the State of Oregon in the United States of America has banned the sale of aerosol sprays that contain fluorocarbons which are claimed to have adverse effects on the earth’s protective ozone layer. [More…]

• United States government agencies are certainly carrying out investigations. [More…]

• She also said that United States child pornography was a multi-million dollar business. [More…]

• Some United States delegates who attended the Black African Festival of Arts and Culture in Nigeria JanuaryFebruary this year have developed malaria. [More…]

• The answer to that statement is that inflation has grown to nearly 6 per cent, a figure almost as high as that in the United States and certainly much higher than that of many European countries. [More…]

• All they have done in the United States is to produce a strong organisation of States. [More…]

• Similar experiments are being conducted in the United States of America. [More…]

• Today the inflation rate in Australia, which at the underlying rate is of the order of 10.8 per cent, is approximately double the rate in the United States. [More…]

• I think that in this proposed legislation, we will have to watch the exemptions which apply in the United States of America legislation. [More…]

• I trust that our Bill will be based substantially upon the United States experience. [More…]

• The operation of the legislation introduced in the United States some 10 years ago was not terribly successful at first because of the extent of the exceptions. [More…]

• This is an area likewise in which in the United States it was found very necessary to have provisions to enforce the disclosure of government rules and procedures so that members of the public could not be fobbed off and not be able to get to the actual material they wanted. [More…]

• -I draw the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Transport to an article appearing in the March 1977 edition of Modern Motor concerning the installation of ‘hi-dro cell cushions’ along hazardous sections of roadway in the United States of America. [More…]

• To date, all Australian road authorities have relied for assistance on receiving reports of tests made in the United States and the United Kingdom and we have not conducted them here. [More…]

• -Is the Leader of the Government in the Senate aware of the United States law which prohibits a country from using American military equipment for operations not based on legitimate self defence? [More…]

• In view of the possible use of Australian military aid by Indonesia in East Timor, is the Government willing to review Australia’s requirements for military aid and implement prohibition clauses similar to those currently in operation in the United States. [More…]

• How does the Government intend to respond to the impertinent reprimand by the Indonesian Foreign Ministry to the Australian Ambassador concerning the evidence intended to be given by an Australian citizen to a United States Congressional committee? [More…]

• -The honourable senator asks about Landsat which is the name given to the United States satellites which obtain data from the earth’s surface in the form of photographic images. [More…]

• Of course these images have to be obtained from the United States of America which has receiving facilities. [More…]

• I understand that recent Press reports have indicated a decision by the United States of America and Canada to phase out the use of saccharin in foods and beverages. [More…]

• I do not know of any national leader whom I have observed on television who has not aged visibly before my eyes, whether it be a President of the United States, a Prime Minister or any national leader. [More…]

• The continental United States is about the same size as Australia but senators and representatives from California do not attempt to go home from Washington every weekend. [More…]

• I find it very difficult to accept that one United States senator has available staff far in excess of the staff available to Ministers of State in this country. [More…]

• I am led to believe that a budget of up to a quarter of a million dollars is provided for United States senators to pay - [More…]

• -I am told by Senator Sibraa that some United States senators employ more. [More…]

• It is being affected by world market changes, denial of access to markets and the tremendous growth of output by the United States of America. [More…]

• Mr Argiri took as an example the United States and West Germany. [More…]

• If that was not enough, General Yoga Sugama, the head of the infamous intelligence service, added fuel to the fire- that is, if he is reported correctly- by saying that Indonesia was taking steps to prevent Mr Dunn’s appearance before a United States congressional committee. [More…]

• They face scrutiny in the Netherlands and in the United States. [More…]

• Perhaps it is in the United States that the Indonesians fear most the repercussions. [More…]

• The atrocities, as reported by Mr Dunn, prompted the international relations sub-committee of the United States House of Representatives to invite Mr Dunn to address it on 23 March. [More…]

• That could lead to moves in the United States to bring pressure on the Indonesian Government to cease its military activities in East Timor. [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…]

• It is obvious that the United States Government is concerned about this matter and that the Indonesian Government is concerned that this public scrutiny could lead to Congress cutting back on aid, particularly military aid to that country. [More…]

• This would be especially so, I believe, if it is proved that United States military equipment was in any way used in the initial attack on East Timor or in the continuing war there. [More…]

• All of us realise that to use American military equipment in a situation such as this contravenes the United States laws relating to the use of American military equipment. [More…]

• Can the Minister say whether the Government is in receipt of any information from President Carter as to the likely effect his decision to neutralise the Indian Ocean will have on the United States base at Exmouth in Western Australia? [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that the Government’s position on the current situation with respect to super power naval presence in the Indian Ocean is currently at variance with the attitudes of both the United States and Britain? [More…]

• They sought funds from the First National City Bank in the United States of America to establish this clinic. [More…]

• Probably the one that is best known to all Australians is the United States. [More…]

• He would have some political feelings if we elected him in the same way as the President of the United States is elected. [More…]

• The United States is a nation which we have all looked up to. [More…]

• In the United States of America a highway, I think it was called the Roosevelt Highway, was constructed by such workers in a similar situation. [More…]

• In 1974 we find that in the United States of America there was a downturn in productivity of 3.65 per cent but their inflation was running at 1 1 per cent. [More…]

• But if we go further and relate these figures to the changes in the hourly wage rates in manufacturing between 1972 and 1976 we find that in that period in the United States of America there was an increase of nearly 39 per cent in that rate; in Japan a 53 per cent increase; in Germany a 43 per cent increase; in the United Kingdom an increase of 109.5 per cent; and in Australia an increase of 100.6 per cent. [More…]

• Unfortunately, I have no figures for the United States of America. [More…]

• Of the 1 1 countries shown- Canada, the United States of America, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom- where the gross domestic product was divided by the labour force to produce the gross domestic product per member of the labour force, Australia rated seventh. [More…]

• However, recently activities in the Netherlands and the United States of America have threatened directly the brutal activities of the Indonesian Government in East Timor. [More…]

• There is a great possibility that the congressional inquiry will lead to a reduction in United States military aid to Indonesia. [More…]

• We cannot pass the buck to the United States.’ [More…]

• Mr Peacock, as evidenced in his reply last week to the Timor issue and Mr Dunn’s visit to the United States of America, obviously showed that he is adopting a position which I believe is reasonable. [More…]

• Unfortunately, many governments of other ideologies just as stupidly took the same line about us and about the United States simply because the U.S. was the ultimate expression of imperialism and therefore everything the United States did and said had to be wrong. [More…]

• In the same speech, as recorded on page 145 of Hansard, there is a paragraph concerning the United States to part of which I take exception. [More…]

• I turn now to our relations with the United States. [More…]

• The first thing to be said about them is that the uncertainty about the future course of Australian policy, the doubts, reservations and acrimony which were so much a feature of the previous Government’s dealings with the United States, have been removed. [More…]

• It is not true to say that there was any deterioration in the relationship between Australia and the United States in that time. [More…]

• I had the good futune to be in that country on 3 occasions during those 3 years and at no time was there any evidence of any concern, with one exception which I will mention, about the relationship between Australia and the United States. [More…]

• It should be remembered also that the Australian Labor Party over the years has consistently supported the ANZUS Treaty believing it to be the proper, intelligent and fair treaty by which we should have our ties with the United States rather than through the South East Asian Treaty Organisation which virtually is meaningless these days and which we in the 1950s and 1960s predicted would become meaningless. [More…]

• So I do not know in what areas the Minister proposes to improve our relationship with the United States. [More…]

• I hope that in some respects he will be able to convince the United States to take more of our exports, particularly beef, as time goes by. [More…]

• I think one of the great problems we face in the region at the moment is the uncertainty as to the policies of the new United States Administration towards ASEAN and the region in which we live. [More…]

• With this uncertainty as to United States policies there appears to be a desire amongst ASEAN members to have much closer relationships with Japan and Australia. [More…]

• We must recognise that one ofthe great problems which face ASEAN countries is that if the United States takes little interest in them there will arise the problem ofthe Sino-Soviet conflict which at the moment is very real in competing for influence amongst the ASEAN countries. [More…]

• Therefore there is a strong desire not only to maintain United States presencean investment presence as well as a political presence- in the region as a balancing factor but also to ensure that there is a growing Japanese interest in the region, again to balance the presence of the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China which in itself creates uncertainty and some degree of instability. [More…]

• If there is a danger of a third world war, a major conflict, taking place I do not think that any longer can we look at the disputes between the United States and the Soviet Union, between the so-called capitalist world and the so-called socialist world, or between the democratic world and the authoritarian world; we have to look at something about which we as members of the Australian Parliament can do very little, and that is the problem of the dispute between Peking and Moscow. [More…]

• One of the most important changes, one ofthe most revolutionary changes, one of the most heartening changes that has taken place or appears to be going to take place- it is early at this stage to say whether it will really take placehave been the statements made and the actions taken by President Carter since he was elected to the presidency ofthe United States of America. [More…]

• The Socialist Party in the United States of America is very small. [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…]

• Therefore, I suggest that not only is it right and proper that the United States should object to the deprivation of civil liberties in South Africa and Rhodesia, but in the long run it is in the best interests of the United States to do so. [More…]

• It behoves Australia to align itself with, and if anything to strengthen the stand taken by, the United States of America Government on these issues because not only is that stand right and moral, but also it is in our own interests to take such a stand. [More…]

• So far the Government of the United States has not given real assistance either. [More…]

• Trying to press the United States to expand its naval and military presence in the Indian Ocean is not a way of dealing with the existing problems in the Indian Ocean. [More…]

• I do not believe that we should feel embarrassed when it appears that the President of the United States is putting forward a policy contrary to that which this Government has expressed. [More…]

• We will not be taking steps towards demilitarising the area if we encourage the United States to create a new base in Diego Garcia. [More…]

• The relationship of this country with Japan, with the United States of America and with the European Economic Community is of extreme importance. [More…]

• The United States of America, of course, is basic in some real measure to the security of Australia. [More…]

• We will retain with the United States of America the sort of co-operation and communication which it has always been our intention to have. [More…]

• guidelines, his sail or his flag towards achieving a decrease in military activity around the world and a rapport with the previous enemies of the United States, in particular the Soviet Union. [More…]

• We seem to have a great hang-up about a requirement to fawn on the Pentagon in the United States, and over the years we have fawned on the U.S.A. [More…]

• There have also been changes in the United States of America, one of the superpowers of the world. [More…]

• I turn now to our relations with the United States. [More…]

• The first thing to be said about them is that the uncertainty about the future course of Australian policy, the doubts, reservations and acrimony which were so much a feature of the previous Government’s dealings with the United States, have been removed. [More…]

• He said that relationships between the United States and Australia had never really changed and that they have not changed now. [More…]

• Many honourable senators opposite may think that but, unfortunately, certain senior members of the Labor Party saw the need to pass derogatory remarks about certain senior people and leaders within the United States of America. [More…]

• The United States has done so much in so many ways and, as is often the case, there is very little recognition of it and very little appreciation. [More…]

• By working with the United States of America perhaps we can play an ever increasing role in this very important area. [More…]

• Some people have been critical of the fact that within that alliance we tended again to trot along like the little dog behind the giant United States. [More…]

• I hope we continue to have that alliance with the United States. [More…]

• It will be up to countries like Australia, Japan and the United States of America to do all they can to assist in the further development of nations in this very important region. [More…]

• 1 hope we will do what so many other countries, including the United States of America and Russia, have already done, and that is to lay claim to the 200 miles. [More…]

• I refer to that section of the foreign policy statement that dealt with the United States. [More…]

• I turn now to our relations with the United States. [More…]

• The first thing to be said about them is that the uncertainty about the future course of Australian policy, he doubts, reservations and acrimony which were so much a feature ofthe previous Government’s dealings with the United States, have been removed. [More…]

• Ambassador to Australia, Mr Marshall Green, who said that after an initial period of some difficulty with the new Labor Government he felt that relations between the 2 countries, the United States of America and Australia under that government, perhaps had never been better and had never been more frank. [More…]

• However, the Minister has not taken into consideration statements continually made by political leaders in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and leaders of past and present United States Administrations that the present Western military strength is at least equal to and in many respects far superior to that of the Soviet Union and its allies. [More…]

• United States strategic forces are superior in accuracy, diversity, reliability, survivability and numbers of separately targetable nuclear warheads. [More…]

• The United States of America, as the Committee found, has a low commitment in the Indian Ocean. [More…]

• I was in the United States during the Presidential campaign. [More…]

• Despite statements concerning consultations with traditional allies, I think we have to recognise that Australia may be even more on the periphery of United States policy than it has been in the past. [More…]

• That will require a reassessment of our relationship and our alliance with the United States. [More…]

• In fact, our relationship with the United States may need to be supplemented by a more integrated relationship with Japan and the countries of ASEAN. [More…]

• I believe that our relationship with the United States will be more diverse and complex and possibly a much more substantial relationship in the future. [More…]

• The first is that the United States should agree to the proposal; secondly, that the Soviet Union should agree to the proposal; and, thirdly, that both super-powers then should completely remove all their forces, bases and any other facilities from the Indian Ocean. [More…]

• I emphasise again my belief that, as the United States had a bigger military force in that country than we did, it has a bigger obligation than we do. [More…]

• He was able to gain the confidence of countries which were a little wary of the super powers, whether it was the United States, the Soviet Union or China. [More…]

• For a long while, until the Whitlam Government came to power, we were always asking what the United States thought. [More…]

• Between the wars it used to be Britain; at that time it was the United States. [More…]

• A great United States General, Matthew Ridgway, the man who had to take over after General MacArthur and get the United States out of Korea, suggested that one of the lessons to be learnt was that the United States should never again send its infantry to mainland Asia. [More…]

• I suppose that when I am paying tribute to people who tried to steer the United States of America away from becoming involved in war I should refer to Senator Eugene McCarthy. [More…]

• He did not gain a place in the White House but he was one of the first of the few people who questioned whether the United States foreign policy was correct. [More…]

• That was very important in the United States. [More…]

• The Western United States has the technology to harness water to grow much more food but Gov. [More…]

• Reliable statistics from the United States of America state that 127 000 baby harp seals from a total population of 200 000 were slaughtered in 1976 to provide furs. [More…]

• Can the Minister say whether the Government has investigated reports which indicate that the Carter Administration in the United States of America has accorded de jure recognition to Indonesian incorporation of East Timor? [More…]

• If so, what do these investigations indicate with respect to the United States’ stand on this matter? [More…]

• The Government understands that in answer to a question from a member of the United States House Asian and Pacific Affairs Sub-committee on 17 March, Mr Robert Oakley, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, said, among other things, that the Carter Administration had accepted the decision of the Ford Administration ‘to go along with’ the incorporation of East Timor into Indonesia. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Science and refer to the Australian visit of a specialised plane from the United States of America. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Science: Is it a fact that at the meeting of the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research in the Argentine last October the United States was asked to make every effort to obtain Landsat imagery over the whole of the Antarctic? [More…]

• Can the Minister indicate what progress the United States has made? [More…]

• For a number of years not only the United States but also this country and a number of other countries have been interested in gaining satellite imagery of resources and, indeed, of the whole earth surface. [More…]

• The thrust of the question from the Leader of the Opposition was whether the United States had been successful. [More…]

• Obviously the honourable senator would agree that I would be unable to state whether the United States considered it had been successful in this matter. [More…]

• Since that time these causes have been identified, recognised and wiped out within the whole of Western Europe, the United States and white Australia. [More…]

• It is addressed to Mr Hurford, and dated 2 1 February, on the letterhead of the Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois, in the United States of America. [More…]

• The concept of a ‘family court’ is well established in the United States of America, Canada and Japan though there are variations in the proceedings and powers. [More…]

• Is it a fact that five other nations, which include both the United States and the Soviet Union, believe that there should be no territorial claims by any individual nation under that agreement? [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs and refer to an answer which he gave yesterday on United States policy toward East Timor. [More…]

• I ask the Minister: Is he aware that Mr Oakley, the United States official whom he quoted yesterday, stated to the United States congressional hearing on East Timor this morning Australian time that the United States did not formally recognise the incorporation of East Timor into Indonesia. [More…]

• In view of this position, as stated by Mr Oakley, will the Minister ascertain the attitude of the United States from the United States authorities and inform the Senate accordingly? [More…]

• Australia in this matter, which is at present before a congressional committee in the United States. [More…]

• What we are debating here is a proposal for a maximum price of $2 a box of apples up to 2 million boxes sold at risk in markets in Europe, including the United Kingdom, and a maximum subsidy in relation to pears of 80 cents a box up to 1.4 million boxes for sale at risk in markets in Europe and the United States. [More…]

• At this very moment one of the members of the staff of the Legislative Research Service in this Parliament is attending a committee of the United States Congress to give evidence. [More…]

• In fact I recall that when I was a member of the Senate Select Committee on Securities and Exchange the General Counsel of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission came to Australia and gave evidence to our Committee. [More…]

• The Indonesian Government itself has been providing evidence or information to the United States House of Representatives Committee which is examining this matter. [More…]

• The United States Committee cannot compel anybody outside the borders of the United States or anybody within those borders who has diplomatic immunity to give evidence but it is still managing to hold an inquiry about a country much farther from the United States than Timor is from Australia and much less important to the United States than Timor is to Australia. [More…]

• The United States House of Representatives has agreed to hold this inquiry. [More…]

• Even the United States has already indicated a virtual de facto recognition of Indonesia’s presence in East Timor. [More…]

• Only 2 days ago Australia was accused in the United States of America of not having done anything about this matter. [More…]

• The answer should be sent back by the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) to the United States: ‘Australia has not set up an inquiry because we want mature and adult relationships with Indonesia and we do not want to offend the Indonesians in any way’. [More…]

• I quote from the transcript of the interview with Congressman Fraser in the United States relating to a congressional committee hearing in America. [More…]

• Congressman Fraser: While the United States has been a principal military supplier to the Government of Indonesia for the past decade, there appears now to be substantial evidence that United States military equipment was used by the Indonesian forces in East Timor. [More…]

• Congressman Fraser: Well implicitly they have because we’ve discovered now, to our surprise, that is those of us in the House, that last year, the United States Government suspended new commitments to Indonesia for a period of 6 months, apparently because our Government believes that our military equipment was being used in East Timor. [More…]

• I think we should recognise that as far as the United States is concerned, it is perhaps catching up from a position somewhat behind ours. [More…]

• I do not think there has been the same sort of concentrated interested in this little speck north of us- an important part of an island as far as we are concerned- by the United States as it is probably of less importance to the United States. [More…]

• But I think the United States is now catching up and taking interest. [More…]

• He went on to refer to later reports of which we know, one now being the subject of inquiry in the United States, and concluded: [More…]

• -Is the Minister representing the Prime Minister aware of an announcement by Congressman Fraser that the United States House of Representatives Subcommittee on International Relations proposes to interview East Timorese refugees who now reside in Portugal? [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Science seen reports that a mechanical device has been developed in the United States of America which can be fitted to a petrol driven motor and which it is claimed will greatly increase efficiency? [More…]

• The basis of the existing pollution control legislation on these lean fuels should be acceptable in the United States. [More…]

• Our major competitors in those markets are Chile, the Argentine, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States of America. [More…]

• With the exception of the United States of America, I understand that the countries I have mentioned export this commodity under a single brand concept, enabling shipping and distribution costs to be decreased in comparison with those of Australia. [More…]

• There has to be much more detailed investigation of Middle East and far eastern markets so that we can compete with Chile, New Zealand, Argentina, South Africa and the United States. [More…]

• Australia’s present subscription of $US256m, of which $US82m is paid-in and the balance callable, is exceeded only by those of the United States of America, Japan and India. [More…]

• By way of preface I refer to a Press report this morning indicating that InterScan now has the backing of the United States and also of the International Civil Aviation Organisation. [More…]

• The Panel has recommended by a six vote to one vote that the time reference scanning beam format which InterScan uses and which the United States adopted in its proposal to the International Civil Aviation Organisation be used for the new standard international approach and landing guidance system for aircraft. [More…]

• -Has the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs seen reports of a recent statement by President Carter to the effect that his Administration may take steps to prevent the export of manufactured products from the United States to the Republic of South Africa, if those manufactured products are used in racially segregated facilities? [More…]

• In view of the Government ‘s professed distaste for apartheid and support for the American alliance, will it consider taking the same sorts of steps as are envisaged in this regard by the President of the United States of America? [More…]

• A man who became a fine SolicitorGeneral of the United States, Homer Cummings, opened the case and her son was exonerated. [More…]

• Of the regional members and the non-regional members-the non-regional members including the United States- Australia is the fourth largest subscriber after the United States, Japan and India. [More…]

• After Japan the next 2 largest contributors are the United States and India. [More…]

• Of course the United States is rather out of our area but obviously as everybody knows it has commitments and involvements in our area. [More…]

• When one considers the capital structure one sees that the United States is entitled to make a higher claim against Japan for the presidency of the Bank than Australia is. [More…]

• The statement we are looking at does note some change in the position of the United States of America following President Carter’s election and this needs to be examined by an Australian delegation for the Australian Government. [More…]

• The law in the United States prohibits recruitment of any persons as mercenaries within the United States but does not prohibit a citizen or other person in the United States leaving the country to enlist in a foreign military service. [More…]

• I believe that in the United States there is a current proposal by President Carter to remove the office of Attorney-General from the American Cabinet to try to sustain that kind of view. [More…]

• They were openly recruited in democratic western European countries, Great Britain and the United States of America. [More…]

• He was commenting on a report from Washington broadcast on Radio Australia which quoted unnamed United States State Department sources as saying that Indonesian forces had used napalm against the nationalist Fretilin movement late last year. [More…]

• An official State Department spokesman was quoted as saying that the United States Government believed that napalm was not being used now and that the United States had not supplied any napalm to Indonesia. [More…]

• Nobody is sure how many people were killed but in another type of invasion, assisted by the United States Central Intelligence Agency, in Indonesia some years ago at the time of the overthrow of Sukarno a large number of people were killed. [More…]

• Both the previous Ford Administration in the United States and the present Carter Administration have accorded de facto recognition to Indonesian incorporation of East Timor. [More…]

• I think it is worth noting that the Carter Administration in the United States has accorded what seems to me to be very clearly de facto recognition of Indonesian incorporation of East Timor- a position with which the Australian Government does not agree. [More…]

• I was one of a group of senators which recently asked the United States President to take action on this particular matter. [More…]

• In sending that petition it was my hope that the United States Administration might take some action on this matter along the lines that the Australian Government has taken and, thereby, add weight to those representations. [More…]

• On the basis of evidence of the Indonesian representative in the United States I think we must seek clarification from the Indonesian Government. [More…]

• It involves Portugual, Indonesia, Timor, Australia and the United States in different ways. [More…]

• Congressman Fraser of the Congressional Committee in the United States which is examining some aspects of this matter said recently: [More…]

• The United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics are obvious examples of this sort of thing occurring. [More…]

• For example, the United States and Brazil are examining its value as an energy source and a number of countries are studying its use in paper pulp manufacture, an outlet of increasing importance. [More…]

• Also, has the Minister’s attention been drawn to the situation which developed in the United States of America in 1973 following the voluntary price freeze, when food prices rose by 20 per cent, wholesale commodity prices rose by 22.2 per cent and wholesale farm produce prices jumped by nearly 50 per cent? [More…]

• That is a very high ratio to population compared with the United States of America. [More…]

• The suggestion of multilevel regional colleges in the context in which Dr Armstrong developed it and which has been developed in the United States and elsewhere has a lot of sense. [More…]

• He is quite correct in indicating that a news release which I put out approximately a week ago stated that some United States scientists from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration- that is, a group called NOAAare in Australia at the moment to hold discussions with both my Department and the Bureau of Meteorology. [More…]

• It commenced in the United States in 1961. [More…]

• Apparently in the United States modification of 4 storms has been attempted during the period of operation of the project by the technique of cloud seeding. [More…]

• I am informed that the multiple seeding of a cyclone named Debbie in the United States in 1969 yielded the most encouraging results in that a reduction of maximum wind velocity by about 31 per cent was observed. [More…]

• Whilst the United States is interested in extending the operation of project Stormfury into the southern hemisphere, no commitment has been entered into by the respective governments. [More…]

• Apart from legal and political considerations, extension to Australia will proceed only if the nature and frequency of the type of storm that is experienced here suggest that they are suitable for the project and the necessary logistic arrangements can be made and the present United States team feels that the situation is satisfactory. [More…]

• Following Senator Drake-Brockman ‘s question, which related particularly to Carnarvon, I give the honourable senator an assurance that I shall immediately seek to influence the United States team to call at Carnarvon and take advice from the Carnarvon Shire Council. [More…]

• The discussion of a 10-year moratorium was first suggested by the United States in 1972. [More…]

• The United States now supports the management regime suggested by Australia in 1974. [More…]

• When Dean Roscoe Pound speaks of the immunities of labour unions- they are not the same in the United States of America as they are in Australia but they are very similar with a different but not dissimilar history- he points out in the opening gambit of his treatise: [More…]

• A comment made years ago on the scene in the United States of America was that a person will change his occupation 6 times during his lifetime. [More…]

• Further, there is increasing opposition to the military intervention in East Timor throughout the world- in the United States of America, the Netherlands, Sweden and [More…]

• Certainly the relationship between the United States and Indonesia does not appear to have been harmed by the recent United States Congressional International Relations Committee holding an inquiry into the allegations of atrocities in East Timor. [More…]

• The congressmen who were responsible for the inquiry acted openly, forthrightly, and yet we see no evidence that this has damaged the relationship between the United States and Indonesia. [More…]

• We recall the allegations made by Mario Carascallo who appeared before the United States Congressional Committee. [More…]

• It is based on a fundamental constitutional theorem which exists in the English speaking world, whether it be in the United States of America or in Australia in 1977, and that is that in circumstances of peace the conduct of foreign affairs lies in the area of the prerogative power; it does not lie in the area of the parliamentary power. [More…]

• The first message that came over was a call for the United States team to ask to visit Fretilin leaders and the reaction around that group of 7 people was that that was a good idea; let the Americans talk to the Fretilin leaders and find out what was going on. [More…]

• The other worry that came up was the false impression being created for the benefit of the visiting United States team. [More…]

• I think honourable senators might recall that this concept was supported by the United States team when it said that its members were going on a guided tour. [More…]

• It is not sufficient for a United States congressional inquiry to make a determination. [More…]

• This publication reviews the results of the studies made by the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (a joint enterprise of the Japanese and United States Governments), on the Japanese populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki who incurred radiation exposure consequent to the atomic bomb explosions over those cities in August 1945. [More…]

• The Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission was dissolved in April 1975 to be replaced by the Radiation Effects Research Foundation which also operates as a joint enterprise of the Japanese and United States Governments to continue the surveillance of the Japanese atomic bomb survivors. [More…]

• To the contrary a number of reports have been produced in recent years, including the 1972 Report to the UN General Assembly on the ‘Effects of Atomic Radiation’; the 1976 OECD Nuclear Energy Agency Report on ‘Estimated Population Exposure from Nuclear Power Production and Other Radiation Sources’; the 1973 Report of the United States Environmental Protection Agency on ‘Environmental Analysis of the Uranium Fuel Cycle’; and the United Kingdom Royal Commission on ‘Environmental Pollution on Nuclear Power and the Environment’; all of which give objective and comprehensive assessments of the environmental and health impact of the nuclear power industry. [More…]

• 1 ) Is the Minister aware of an announcement by Congressman Fraser that the United States Congressional Committee on International Organisations proposes to interview East Timorese refugees who now reside in Portugal? [More…]

• In view of the decline in Australia ‘s self sufficiency in crude oil and the eventual need for greater dependence on imported crude, is Australia eligible to become a member of the International Energy Agency of which 17 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan and Germany are already members? [More…]

• I draw the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations to a recent report that President Carter of the United States of America intends to spend in the vicinity of SUS 1.5 billion during the next 18 months in a 3- pronged attack on unemployment, one suggestion being the revival of the youth conservation corps which will pay the minimum wage to young people willing to work in national parks and forests and in towns on community conservation projects. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence: Is it not a fact that military decorations given by the United States of America and by former South Vietnam to Australian servicemen while on active duty in the Vietnam war are not to be worn officially by the recipients? [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Science seen a report which has also received some publicity in newspapers relating to a solar scheme for irrigation in the United States of America which is described as the world ‘s largest solar-powered irrigation system? [More…]

• In view of the persistence of the presence of cholera organisms in water reservoirs near Brisbane and the undesirability of salmonella spreading through our community, and since it is reported that the sale of pet turtles has been banned in the United States of America, can the Minister advise the Senate of current knowledge in Australia on the safety of pet tortoises and any risk of disease which they could represent ? [More…]

• This compares with an increase of only 22 per cent during that period in the United States. [More…]

• After all, industry manages to flourish in Japan and the United States with people getting as high or higher wages as members of our work force. [More…]

• We are also having trouble competing with the higher developed countries such as the United States of America and New Zealand. [More…]

• It is having no more success than the governments of France, Germany, Japan or the United States. [More…]

• This rate of increase was greater than in any major trading partner and compared with a rate of about 6 per cent per annum in the United States of America. [More…]

• The Government must realise, as I realise, having worked on projects relating to the role of co-operatives in the economic and social development of developing countries, that with the withdrawal of United States influence in the area and its failure to match its military capability with political commitment, the individual nations in South East Asia are becoming a prey to the protagonists of the Sino-Soviet dispute. [More…]

• Did it include matters relating to United States concern about changes in Australian security arrangements? [More…]

• The United States Science Foundation has recently encouraged our work by the loan of a very large launching truck. [More…]

• The prime interest rate in the United States is about 7.5 per cent. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the joint defence facility at Pine Gap near Alice Springs is under the control of the Australian Government and that all movement of personnel, either United States or Australian personnel, is regulated by the Australian Department of Defence? [More…]

• Is there a United States installation in the Defence signals barracks in Melbourne and is it manned by members of an organisation known as SUSLO? [More…]

• What is the function of the United States computer installation in the St James complex in St Kilda Road, Melbourne, to which only United States citizens are admitted? [More…]

• These documents fell into the hands of the United States at the end of World War II. [More…]

• These facts will be fed into the United States federally operated computer at Oakridge Energy Centre and the resultant information is to be made available to all interested parties. [More…]

• I preface my question by saying that our exports of meat, particularly to the United States, are likely to be at risk if these 2 cattle diseases are not eradicated by 1984 when the United States is expected to be free of them. [More…]

• Unless the board of General Motors acts out of concert with the rest of private industry, the decision must have been the subject of discussion at a management level and possibly of consultation with the management and board of the parent company in the United States prior to a final decision being taken on the proposal. [More…]

• In addition its parent company has received substantial payments on dividends which have been remitted to the United States. [More…]

• My colleague, Senator Button, will show at a later stage in this debate that the action as an industrial relations exercise is out of line with action which would have been taken in similar circumstances by other major motor vehicle manufacturers in the United States and probably, more particularly, in countries such as Japan and West Germany. [More…]

• If Australian motor vehicles were marketed in the same way as they are in the United States General Motors’ solution to its present over supply position obviously would be a reduction in prices. [More…]

• It has been common practice in the United States for years for slow selling models to be heavily discounted. [More…]

• The report said: of the four manufacturers and the three assemblers in Australia, only two achieved production volumes which are in any way comparable with those of even the smaller producers in the United States of America and Japan. [More…]

• His observation about the behaviour of the company in the United States was perfectly valid. [More…]

• One Premier made what I believe to be a telling point when he suggested that a compulsory holiday was a common practice in the United States of America to meet overproduction problems, but was a most unusual measure to adopt in Australia. [More…]

• The original paid up capital was split between $1,120,000 Australian-owned capital and $1,930,000 United States-owned capital. [More…]

• Since that date GM-H has been a totally-owned subsidiary of the giant United States multi-national corporation. [More…]

• It is very interesting to note a report in today’s newspaper to the effect that in the first quarter of this year, 1977, General Motors in the United States returned a profit of $903m. [More…]

• If the company has been aggressive to its work force in times of trouble, it has been no less aggressive in its maintenance of being fully owned by the United States parent company. [More…]

• In fact, in 1945 during the discussions with the Government concerning a Holden car project Mr Laurence Hartnett, the Managing Director of GM-H, made it clear that the United States parent company was not going to spend a cent of United States finance on this project. [More…]

• We ‘re not going to spend one cent of United States money on this. [More…]

• The Prices Justification Tribunal report on General Motors-Holden’s dated 21 December 1973 referred to other payments to the United States parent company. [More…]

• It compares most unfavourably with the 6 per cent sales tax applicable in the United States, for example. [More…]

• I recall that in the days of the Eisenhower presidency in the United States there was a man named Charles Wilson who had been the General Manager of General Motors in the United States. [More…]

• He delivered himself of a statement which became the laughing stock of the United States when he said: ‘What is good for General Motors is good for the United States.’ [More…]

• It is almost as though this wealthy family, centred on the United States, is treating GM-H in Australia as some sort of a poor relation. [More…]

• He mentioned that in the United States of America through an automation process, although he did not use that term, 3 people with sophisticated plant can do a spraying operation which in the Australian industry would involve some hundreds of workers. [More…]

• If the United States parent company was able to make a profit of $903m in the first quarter of this year then I think that all of that $ 1 6m should be staying right here. [More…]

• We all remember when Khrushchev visited the United States. [More…]

• Even Canada and the United States, which have federal systems and interstate commerce authorities, have much more effective controls than we have. [More…]

• The researchers, when attending seminars on an international basis, are made aware of projects being undertaken within the United States of America, West Germany and other countries. [More…]

• In view of the serious nature of these allegations that the CIA has been tapping telephone and telex messages from Australia and the fact that such information would be a grave intrusion, providing United States business interests with major advantages over Australian businessmen, will the Government cease doing nothing and establish a full investigation to ascertain the truth or otherwise of these allegations? [More…]

• The decision by the United States and Canada to phase out the use of saccharin in foods and beverages was the result of a study conducted by the Health and Welfare Branch of the Canadian Ministry of Health and Welfare in which saccharin was shown to cause bladder tumours in rats. [More…]

• It should be noted that the intention to ban saccharin in the United States was based on the Delaney Clause legislation which requires a food additive to be banned if the development of cancer in experimental animals can be attributed to that substance, irrespective of the level of ingestion. [More…]

• Some relaxation of the ban is now being considered by the United States. [More…]

• I draw the Minister’s attention to the recent report of the United States National Transportation Study Board dealing with an intensive study of the lifestyle of pilots, in and out of the cockpit, to see whether fatigue and imprecise crew communications are major factors in airline accidents. [More…]

• We were lucky that we were following in the footsteps of the United States Senate, which has advocated advisory councils in the interests of better relations between the United States forestry service, conservation groups and the public in general. [More…]

• As pan of our defence relationship with the United States, there have grown up extensive arrangements for exchanging information and views with a wide range of United States Government agencies including those in the intelligence and security field. [More…]

• Under these arrangements officers from United States agencies are declared to the Australian authorities and work with various Australian agencies. [More…]

• They are an important aspect of the close and intimate relationship which we have with the United States. [More…]

• Through these arrangements we have access to and exchange valuable information with the United States on a wide range of international strategic developments as well as security and intelligence matterssuch as espionage and international terrorism to name 2 examples- which contribute in the broadest terms to the protection of Australia and the Australian community. [More…]

• In this connection I wish to reassure the nation that I have carefully reviewed the activities of the United States Government in Australia and have found them to be fully consistent with the interests and policies of the Australian Government and people. [More…]

• I am satisfied with the assurances I have received from elements of my own Government and from President Carter personally through his Ambassador that neither the United States Government not its representatives are involved in improper or inappropriate activities here. [More…]

• They will also be aware that, in recent times, the activities of the CIA, unlike most other foreign intelligence services, have been kept under close scrutiny by the United States Congress; and that allegations of improper activity will be investigated as a matter of routine by the Congress. [More…]

• I note that the Leader, when Prime Minister, sought and was advised of the names of representatives of United States intelligence agencies then in Australia. [More…]

• I refer, for example, to the references to persons sitting opposite wanting to make political capital out of this issue and to one other reference in the statement about people who are opposed to our alliance with the United States seeking to exploit the issue for their own purposes. [More…]

• When we read reports from the United States Coast Guard and speeches by Senator Edmund Muskie we see that the general idea to standardise safety equipment and safety techniques is of paramount importance. [More…]

• I believe that an Australian parliamentary committee rather than the United States Congress should be looking at that situation. [More…]

• Again, at their recent summit meeting, the Heads of Government of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, West Germany, France, Japan and Italy committed themselves to increasing nuclear energy to help meet the world’s energy requirements while reducing the risks of nuclear proliferation. [More…]

• They are issues on which I have already written to President Carter and Prime Minister Trudeau and on which the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) and Australian officials have held detailed consultations with the United States, Canada and other countries. [More…]

• In line with the positions taken by the United States and Canada Australia would retain the right to cease supply of uranium to any country which breached safeguards undertakings. [More…]

• The United States has proposed an International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation Program to consider various nuclear fuel cycles in terms of their implications for proliferation control. [More…]

• As I noted at the outset, I have already initiated an exchange of correspondence with the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Canada expressing this wish, and extremely valuable consultations have already taken place. [More…]

• The policy I am now announcing incorporates the Government’s consideration of these consultations and represents a very similar approach to safeguards to that adopted by the United States and Canada. [More…]

• Some Vietnamese have the choice of going to the United States of America. [More…]

• We should be looking at voting by means of machines as in the United States. [More…]

• I think one has to look only at the United States, Great Britain or western Europe to see how quickly results are able to be obtained. [More…]

• This ranges from sophisticated systems like that in West Germany, to a developing system like that in the United States, or the more elementary system that is just beginning to be evolved in the United Kingdom. [More…]

• As I said, in the United States this system is just starting. [More…]

• People are able to go into the election commission office in Washington- I went there myself- and for 10c a copy get a list of all the donations being made to any of the candidates who are running in the primary elections for the Presidency of the United States. [More…]

• I know that people will say that it is only for the presidency of the United States; it is a separate question. [More…]

• I believe that in time there will be public funding throughout the electoral system in the United States. [More…]

• When one compares the situation which confronts our parliamentarians with, for example, the situation in the United States, one would say that there is a great need for rethinking our attitudes to parliamentarians, their duties, their obligations and the work loads that they are expected to carry. [More…]

• Much emphasis today is given to and the spotlight has been placed upon many of the statements made by President Carter of the United States of America about the energy shortage in that country, the heavy dependence of the United States upon imported crude oil and the concern at the dependence of that gigantic country whose requirements of overseas crude oil run into many millions of barrels of oil per annum. [More…]

• Not only the United States but also the world at large is facing a crisis at the present time. [More…]

• On 24 February 1976 a call was made to the United States of America, 9357824- that is the number we had before- for $25.20. [More…]

• Calls were made to Switzerland again on good old 7481820 for $61.20, and to the United States of America to 9354262 for $46.80 and $32.40-two telephone calls on the one day. [More…]

• On 15 October 1975 and 12 October 1975 calls were made to the United States of America to the same number, 3424490, both for $72, both lengthy conversations indeed. [More…]

• These phone calls came from the United States of America, Austria, the United Kingdom, West Germany, New Guinea, Ireland- southern, I think; not northern Ireland-Switzerland and various places in Australia. [More…]

• For the year 1976-77 what are the projected numbers of migrants sought to be obtained from India, Great Britain and Ireland, Italy, Greece, France, Chile, Malta, Argentina, South Africa, Lebanon, Brazil, United States of America, New Zealand and Indonesia. [More…]

• Has the Indonesian Government or the United States oil company Oceanic Exploration made any approach to the Australian Government regarding the right to explore 15 million acres off the south coast of Timor extending to the mid-point of the sea between Timor and Australia? [More…]

• I ask: Is the Minister completely satisfied that the Australian Government has been fully informed about the role and functions of the United States facility at Pine Gap? [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that President Carter of the United States of America intends to grant substantial tax relief to families and businesses that install solar energy equipment? [More…]

• -Is the Leader of the Government in the Senate aware of a report in the Canberra Times of 21 May that United States military aid to Indonesia will be terminated at the end of the current financial year and that this decision was conveyed by the United States Ambassador on 18 May? [More…]

• In view of continued breaches of United Nations resolutions on East Timor, is the Government prepared to take an attitude similar to that of the United States? [More…]

• I inform the Senate that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) will be absent from Australia from later today until 28 June, during which time he will attend the meeting of Commonwealth Heads of Government in London and have discussions in Europe and the United States. [More…]

• -I draw the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for National Resources to a recent report that some overseas countries are making heavy investments in the United States fishing industry to circumvent the newly introduced 200-mile fisheries conservation zone. [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…]

• This influx of foreign investment has stirred Congress to move next July to investigate the regulation of ownership of the United States fishing industry. [More…]

• However, unlike the United States of America Australia has not declared a 200-mile fishing zone. [More…]

• If it happens to be that which was given publicity when the Premier partook of an egg breakfast at Sydney University, my understanding is that that patent was taken out many years ago in the United States. [More…]

• It is perfectly obvious that the raising of this bogy is designed to undermine the anti-communist fight within the Labor movement and the relationship with our major ally, the United States of America. [More…]

• As I said last evening, to the extent that there is any United States influence within the trade union movement, it tends to be counterproductive. [More…]

• The growth of unionism in the United States of America has followed paths quite different from the paths followed by the trade union movement in Australia and the trade union movement in Great Britain. [More…]

• I believe that the Federal Government tends to look uncritically at the statements that emanate from United States labour attaches and State Department areas so far as that question is concerned. [More…]

• We know that the system of collective bargaining in the United States is a highly developed system which imposes grave responsibilities on the parties. [More…]

• Labour attaches, as anybody knows, at both the United States Embassy and other embassies are officials of the State Department. [More…]

• First he is going to pay his respects to the new President of the United States of America. [More…]

• The United States, for instance, is graduating only thirty people a year and the average for a country such as Australia would be about ten a year. [More…]

• I think we have to recognise that in recent years the United States Congress and the United States Senate have involved themselves more and more in the control, the auditing of the funding and the day to day activities of intelligence organisations, without involving themselves in what the intelligence organisations are doing. [More…]

• It is up to the Senate or the Parliament, as it has in the United States, if it wants to go further and examine the activities of the organisation in much more detail. [More…]

• I refer to the intelligence agency in the United States commonly known as the CIA, the Central Intelligence Agency. [More…]

• Jim Dunn’s visit to Portugal produced some evidence as did the subsequent inquiry by the United States Congress. [More…]

• Some of us have even written to the United States congressional inquiry. [More…]

• We should not expect the United States Congress or the United States Senate to investigate this matter because, as has been said by so many people on so many occasions, the responsibilities rest within our own region. [More…]

• Apparently, one firm is importing a considerable quantity of processed potatoes and dehydrated potatoes from, I believe, the United States. [More…]

• I say respectfully that a tender should be held up until the firm is given a clean bill of health because Senator Wright would know as an advocate of senators having certain watch-dog responsibilities that in the United States there is much closer supervision by senators on committees over tenders for government contracts. [More…]

• As a matter of fact, the rural workers of the United States are not strongly organised. [More…]

• The only protection they have is in the codes which the United States Senate polices to ensure that the code on minimum wages is observed. [More…]

• I also inform the Senate that the Minister for Transport, the Honourable P. J. Nixon, leaves Australia today for discussions in Europe, Canada and the United States. [More…]

• On 23 March this year he appeared before the United States House of Representatives Sub-Committee on International Organisations and Asian and Pacific Affairs- [More…]

• It is expected that the effect of this insect in the coming years is likely to be particularly serious, as it was apparently in the United States of America in the 1950s. [More…]

• It has brought in from the United States 3 parasitic wasp species which have been used successfully there to keep down the population of the spotted aphid. [More…]

• This approach has become a standard one in the United States and there is little doubt that in future it will be essential in Australia. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware also that the United States Federal Power Commission has recommended that a planned pipeline to carry natural gas from Alaska’s north slope be built across Canada and that the Commission’s economic study indicated that the cost per thousand cubic feet delivered to Chicago would be 80c? [More…]

• Senator Mcintosh suggests is the estimate by the United States Federal Power Commission of the cost of the transport of gas in the Alaska-Canada area, which he suggests is a lesser cost. [More…]

• Has the Government received any information about when the report of investigations in the United States into activities of the Central Intelligence Agency in Australia will be released? [More…]

• I have in front of me an informative article out of the Nation which is a progressive United States journal. [More…]

• The article in the Nation suggests that in the United States of America at the moment one has only to say that one is a victim of a government of the left and no questions are asked. [More…]

• It has been indicated by the United States of America that by 1984 it expects that the program it has carried out will be completed and it then intends not to purchase cattle from overseas that are not brucellosis free. [More…]

• The point I am making today is that if we wish to protect our export marketthe big question these days is whether it will be the European Economic Community, Japan or sending live cattle to northern countries such as the United States of America- we have to take more notice of this desperate situation. [More…]

• What arc the comparable figures for these years in respect of countries such as Great Britain, the United States of America, West Germany, the Netherlands. [More…]

• In view of recent reports that Gulf Oil of the United States of America will assist an Australian company, Oil Processors Ltd, to establish recycling refineries in Melbourne and Sydney, will the Minister examine this matter to assess whether a regional recycling plant is necessary or whether further measures might be taken so that all waste oil produced in the Australian Capital Territory is made available for reprocessing in Melbourne or Sydney as this would be an important contribution to energy conservation in Australia? [More…]

• In view of reports which indicate that sales of meat to the United States of America are running at less than our United States quota average due to the poor American prices being paid, can the Minister ascertain what steps will be taken to encourage exporters to fill the total quota? [More…]

• In 1963-64 over 90 per cent of total exports of beef and veal, the major meat export items, were shipped to the United States of America and the United Kingdom. [More…]

• The United States continues as our single most important beef market, taking slightly more than half of beef exports in 1976. [More…]

• Examples are the actions over the past few years of the Governments of the United States of America, Japan, Canada and the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Without broad control powers it would not have been possible for the Australian Meat Board to have fulfilled Australia’s obligations to regulate meat exports to the United States of America under the voluntary restraint and quota arrangements which have existed at various times since 1968. [More…]

• Whether the intention is to conform with similar legislation or laws operating in the United States of America, I do not know. [More…]

• Perhaps we can look upon these officers as something akin to the federal marshals in the United States who helped to break down segregation in the southern State universities. [More…]

• Senator Wright talked about collective bargaining in the United States of America. [More…]

• I think he had confused collective bargaining in the United States with the industrial arbitration system that operates in this country. [More…]

• In the large industries in the United States- I refer specifically to the automobile, coal and steel industries- there are strikes that last months while negotiations are taking place after agreements run out. [More…]

• Recently I was looking at a publication which stated that the United Automobile Workers in the United States had something like $90m in its strike fund and was asking for more money because large sums of money would be given to its employees during the prolonged strike that was taking place at the time when the United Automobile Workers came to negotiate with the automobile industry employers. [More…]

• -Maybe I did, but I thought that Senator Wright did confuse collective bargaining in the United States with our industrial arbitration legislation. [More…]

• It does not matter whether we are talking about West Germany, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Australia or New Zealand. [More…]

• If he did he would not last very long and people would say that these sort of trade unionists are like the Jimmy Hoffas of the United States. [More…]

• The Sherman Act was interpreted by the Supreme Court of the United States as covering boycotts of this character as restraint of trade only in 1909. [More…]

• In a unanimous judgment, after a terrific travail of litigious controversy, the Supreme Court of the United States held that the effect of the union boycotting the goods of the employer as against other firms was a restraint of trade that was struck down by the Sherman Act. [More…]

• Lest it be thought that I am taking too much time, let me remind this Senate that the United States Senate committee inquiring into that Act took 56 days, if I remember correctly, to debate the provisions of that Act. [More…]

• Capital intensive industries in Australia have much greater problems than do their counterparts in competing countries, such as Japan and the United States of America, which have much bigger populations and therefore greater domestic markets. [More…]

• When we talk about private enterprise and the special safeguards that are in the minds of some honourable senators, I point out that the concept of business enterprise as it operates in the United States economy has always been put forward in this place as one that we should emulate. [More…]

• It is even said that the United States trade unions are not smeared with or involved in the goal of socialism; but, in respect of some of the things about which Senator Wright has been talking, secondary boycotts were morally justifiable. [More…]

• The firms that felt the full impact of the secondary boycotts finally had to learn that, as a part of the United States, they had obligations under the United Nations charter. [More…]

• The situation here is no different from the situation in the United States involving the people who picked the grapes in California. [More…]

• They did not want the new union which was largely composed of Mexican-United States citizens to be part of the Teamsters Union, preferring to have a separate independent union. [More…]

• The other countries, the United States of America, England, France, Italy, West Germany and New Zealand, paid far more for their food than we did. [More…]

• The United States does not challenge the position of the Indonesian Government that East Timor has become an integral pan of the Republic of Indonesia. [More…]

• Kissinger tells Reuters that ‘the United States understands Indonesia’s position on the question of East Timor. ‘ [More…]

• The United States abstains on the vote. [More…]

• According to the New York Times, Indonesia’s position is ‘discreetly backed by the United States.’ [More…]

• An article in the Washington Post says that the United States is concerned that Australia’s relations with Indonesia have become strained as a result of Australia’s position on the question of East Timor, and that ‘American diplomats in the area are working overtime to contain the dispute. ‘ [More…]

• According to Richardson, the U.S. believes that control of East Timor by a ‘ friendly anti-communist ‘ government is of direct strategic interest to the United States, because one fast and safe way for American nuclear-armed submarines to pass undetected between the Pacific and Indian Oceans is through the Ombai-Wetai straits north of Timor Island. [More…]

• The United States votes against the resolution. [More…]

• Nations opposing the resolution include Chile, Iran, Thailand, the United States, and Uruguay. [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…]

• 1 ) What are the names of all firms which have contracted for defence work at Pine Gap, Narrungar and Tranet Station 1 12 since 1967, including contractors engaged solely by the United States Department of Defence. [More…]

• Is Narrungar one of the two ground stations which receive, process and transmit satellite mission data for the United States Department of Defence program 647. [More…]

• 1 ) In view of a statement made by the Minister on 14 September 1976 that ‘there is now strong evidence that in the past five years information about the operation of the bases has been withheld from Australian political leaders’ and further information since revealed by Victor Marchetti at the trial of Richard Boyce, will the Minister carry out a full investigation into the activities and purposes of all United States bases in Australia. [More…]

• 1 ) Is program 647, currently being carried out at Narrun.gar and Pine Gap, a joint operation between Australia and the United States. [More…]

• 3 ) Were contracts with Thomson Ramo Wooldridge Corporation drawn up jointly by the United States and Australian Governments. [More…]

• Did a United States Starlifter aircraft airlift vast quantities of intelligence gathering electronic equipment when the Australian Labor Party won power in 1972; if so, what was the reason for this. [More…]

• In respect of flights from Woomera and Alice Springs of United States’ Government aircraft the answer is no. [More…]

• 3 ) If not, in view of the fact that the United States Senate Intelligence Committee had asked the Agency for a full report on its alleged activities in Australia, will the Government now undertake to carry out such an inquiry and furthermore, will it ask for a report of the Committee’s findings when it becomes available. [More…]

• 1 ) Is it a fact that the inner bunker system and monitoring equipment of the defence system at Pine Gap can be reached only by United States Defence Department personnel having the highest security clearance. [More…]

• If so, how does the Australian Government ensure that projects carried out within this area comply with the agreements made between Australia and the United States for the establishment of the Base. [More…]

• Could the United States be using the defence base at Pine Gap for projects without the Australian Government’s knowledge. [More…]

• Did Sir Arthur Tange in 1973 cable the United States seeking information on what role Tranet Station 112 at [More…]

• Was Ed McHale, a United States Labor Attache in Melbourne, from November 1973 until January 1 976, on the Defence or Foreign Affairs list of Central Intelligence Agency agents. [More…]

• Was this action contrary to both the ANZUS treaty and the United States Naval communications station agreement. [More…]

• I refer to an answer I received to a previous question in relation to military decorations given by the United States of America and the former government of South Vietnam to Australian servicemen while on active duty in South Vietnam. [More…]

• Of course, it has been used in the United States for some time. [More…]

• In Australia there are about 9 times as many miles of road per head of population as there are in the United Kingdom and 3 times as many as there are in the United States. [More…]

• In Australia there are about 2 2 times as many miles of railway tracks per head of population as there are in the United Kingdom and about twice as many as there are in the United States. [More…]

• The impact of this is highlighted when we recall that the population of the United States is about 15 times that of Australia. [More…]

• 1 ) What have been the daily buying and selling rates for the Australian dollar in terms ofthe United States dollar, the Japanese yen, West German deutschmark and the pound sterling, since 28 November 1976. [More…]

• For the years 1975-76 and 1976-77, how many assisted passages were granted to migrants from the United States of America, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Cyprus, Malta, the United Kingdom, India, Vietnam and Indonesia. [More…]

• 1 ) Do United States personnel enter and leave Australia by direct flights to and from Alice Springs without undergoing normal immigration and Customs procedures. [More…]

• ) If the answer to ( 1 ) is in the negative, where and when does the Government carry out immigration and customs checks on United States personnel arriving at Alice Springs on direct flights from Guam. [More…]

• In the wake of the outbreak of salmonella poisoning in infants, will the Minister give a firm undertaking that the Government will take those steps necessary to establish a national reference system on infectious diseases along the lines of the United Kingdom public health laboratory service or the United States centre for disease control? [More…]

• I wish to acknowledge that this action would not have been possible without the prompt and most generous assistance of the United States Government and the United States Navy. [More…]

• The great difficulty is that Australia, Canada and, to a lesser degree, the United States are the main countries which accept political refugees. [More…]

• These documents fell into the hands of the United States at the end of World War II. [More…]

• These facts will be fed into the United States federally operated computer at Oakridge Energy Centre and the resultant information is to be made available to all interested parties. [More…]

• Professor Wainerdi has some 300 000 documents to study, and it will be some time before all the information is processed and stored in the computer at the Oak Ridge Energy Centre in the United States of America. [More…]

• Following the announcements in the White Paper on Australian Defence in November 1976 (Chapter 4, paras 88 and 91, page 24) Requests for Proposals were forwarded to eleven manufacturers in the United States of America and Europe inviting proposals for the provision of a new tactical fighter aircraft for the Royal Australian Air Force. [More…]

• The detailed investigations mentioned in the Defence White Paper are proceeding but they have been affected by a number of factors including the late submission of proposals by the United States companies, due to a U.S. legislative requirement that such proposals be submitted through the U.S. Department of Defense, and the lack of detailed information provided by some of the prospective suppliers. [More…]

• In the United States alone, more than 200 000 potential travellers see these films each year. [More…]

• As I have mentioned previously, it is reported that the United States of America will be spending approximately $200m this year on this research. [More…]

• I am informed that Canada in May 1977 had 7.7 per cent unemployed; in the same month the United States had 6.4 per cent unemployed; Australia had 5. [More…]

• I notice in an article in the Time magazine of 1 5 August 1977-1 mention this by way of interpolation- that Italy has imposed curbs on Japanese motor cycles; Washington has signed accords whereby Taiwan and South Korea have promised to restrict their export of shoes to the United States; Japan now limits its sales of colour television sets in America; United States Steel and Zenith are suing the United States Government in an endeavour to force it to impose countervailing duties on imports of European steel and Japanese colour televisions on the grounds that rebates of value added tax in foreign countries constitute illegal export subsidies. [More…]

• So far the courts and the United States Treasury Department have sided with the 83 nation General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade which holds that such tax rebates are not violations of international trade rules. [More…]

• I recently visited the United States. [More…]

• The United States is blessed with a very large market of some 240 million people. [More…]

• So far as textiles are concerned, the quality of the United States product is far superior and much cheaper than comparable products in Australia. [More…]

• Senator DOUGLAS McCLELLANDWhether Senator McAuliffe likes it or not, the quality of products in the United States is superior and they are sold at much cheaper prices. [More…]

• Only the United States among major Western countries has cheaper petrol than Australia and the thrust of President Carter’s energy policy is to increase the price of oil products to American consumers. [More…]

• I think the United States took a substantial share of the windfall profits which flowed from an increase in the price of Middle East oil. [More…]

• Do any of the importers and distributors of coffee, tea and cocoa lodge their purchases on United States or United Kingdom futures markets; if so, what was the value of stocks and purchases lodged at I April and 1 May 1977. [More…]

• 1 ) Did the Minister express any views in Manila about continued United States of America military involvement in the Philippines. [More…]

• Has the Australian Government made any decision about its attitude to the retention by the United States of America of the Subic Bay Base; if so, when was the decision made. [More…]

• Was the decision about the base made after an approach from the United States of America or unilaterally; if the former, when was the formal approach made by the United States and from whom did it come. [More…]

• If the Australian Government has reacted to a United States of America request for the attitude to the retention of the Subic Bay Base, did the Australian Government consult with the Philippines Government prior to giving an answer; if so, what was the nature of the consultation and when did it take place. [More…]

• Has the United States of America formally communicated to Australia its intention to withdraw American troops from South Korea; if so, when. [More…]

• 1 ) During discussions in Manila with Philippines leaders, the Minister for Foreign Affairs expressed views on the subject of the United States military presence in the Philippines. [More…]

• The report to which he refers was apparently gleaned from a press conference which the Minister gave in Manila on 16 April 1977 in which he stated, inter alia, that there was a desire on the part of the Australian Government to see a United States presence remain in the region. [More…]

• As you know, negotiations are in train between the Philippines and the United States on the future of the Subic Bay Base. [More…]

• The question of the United States troop withdrawals from the Republic of Korea has been the subject of exchanges of views at various levels between the United States Government and the Australian Government since the election of President Carter in November 1 976. [More…]

• 1 ) Has the Government received any information as to when the report of investigations in the United States of America into the activities of the Central Intelligence Agency in Australia will be released. [More…]

• At the present time the aphid is being found in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia but it is expected to spread throughout Australia very rapidly as it did apparently in the United States in the early 1950s. [More…]

• The first of three parasitic wasp species attacking the spotted alfalfa aphid has already been received from the United States of America and is under quarantine at present in preparation for breeding up and field release. [More…]

• Because the contribution for the United States is SUS2.4 billion or more than 30 per cent of the total, this means, in effect, that the fifth replenishment cannot become effective and other countries will not be required to contribute to IDA without formal notification from the United States to the IDA that it has taken all the necessary legislative steps to enable it to participate on the basis of the agreement reached for the fifth replenishment. [More…]

• As the United States was not able to give the required formal notification by that date, and thereby enable the IDA to maintain the continuity of its lending operations in the interim, other donors have been asked, and have generally agreed, to make voluntary advance contributions on a collective basis totalling not less than SUS1.2 billion to IDA, in anticipation of the conditions of effectiveness for the agreement being fulfilled and to cover lending operations for a substantial part of 1977-78. [More…]

• This compares with pledges by the United States of America of $US200m, the United Kingdom of stg 15m Canada Can$3Om and New Zealand $NZ2m Amongst the pledges of the OPEC countries are Saudi Arabia’s pledge of $US 10Om and Iran’s pledge of $US 104m. [More…]

• At this time it might be considered to be rather ironic that in the very week in which we are debating this nationally and internationally important issue influential scientists in the United States of America are pressing for a ban on the use of pressure pack sprays because of their likely effect on or severe damage to the earth ‘s ozone layer. [More…]

• Indeed it appears obvious that since the last visit by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to Europe and the United States of America uranium is to be used as a carrot, waved in front of other nations in order to obtain markets, particularly in the European Economic Community countries and the United States. [More…]

• Recently I was in the United States and there I learnt from reading a publication called the National Enquirer, which was published in March this year, that since 1969 there had been 170 threats and acts of violence against atomic plants, causing millions of dollars of damage in the United States, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. [More…]

• Britain, I suggest, represents only some 7 per cent of the world nuclear power generation capacity- this is taken from the second table of the first Fox reportwhile the United States represents 5 1 per cent of the world ‘s total capacity. [More…]

• Recently I was in the United States. [More…]

• I assure the Senate that there is great concern in the United States about radio-active nuclear waste disposal in that country. [More…]

• That, I suggest, gives the Senate some idea of the concern and the controversy that is raging in the United States on this vexatious and controversial problem of the disposal of radioactive nuclear waste material. [More…]

• The Minister for Science (Senator Webster) in this chamber yesterday announced that the Government will spend a mere $ 1.4m on solar energy research carried out by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation compared with $200m which is being spent on solar energy research by the United States of America. [More…]

• Firstly, in terms of per capita spending, Australia is down compared with the United States by a factor of about 10. [More…]

• Nuclear power stations appear to be designed only for highly developed areas such as the East Coast of the United States or large cities like Chicago and large cities in Europe. [More…]

• A lot of them are not using nuclear power but are reverting to the use of coal, as is set out in the Carter policy in the United States. [More…]

• The great majority of those problems have been created more by the United States Army than by anyone else. [More…]

• This solidification is being carried out not only in France, but in Germany, the United States of America and the United Kingdom. [More…]

• Now the United States has come to our rescue. [More…]

• Canada cut off its source of supply but in the last few months the United States of America has told India that she will again be able to receive supplies of fuel from America so long as she promises to talk about the safeguards that could be brought into being. [More…]

• In January 1961 the reactor in the Idaho Falls complex in the United States of America experienced a power excursion that lasted one fivethousandths of a second. [More…]

• The Fox Committee reported that it was apparent that there was a great deal of scope for reducing the rate of energy consumption required for a given level of economic activity, particularly in countries such as the United States of America and Canada which historically have had access to cheap energy and have therefore not been economically motivated to conservation. [More…]

• For example, only three reactors were built in the United States of America last year- not the large number that had been indicated would be built. [More…]

• In the United States of America, of course, the need for nuclear energy has fallen away-so much so that the nuclear energy industry itself is saying that it is in disarray, that it does not know where it is going and that it would rather get out of the industry before any more problems arise because it cannot handle the problems facing it at the present time. [More…]

• Show to me any mining council, any mining manager or any mining director, whether that organisation or person is in the United States of America or Latin America, and I will show you an organisation or a person without a soul. [More…]

• At present the United States Senate is looking at a carve-up of Alaska. [More…]

• When my colleague, Senator Douglas McClelland, was in the United States I was in Japan, and it was common knowledge that Sir Charles Court was prepared to concede that there was a case for conservation in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• I do not think that anybody can be sure that some of the men in these mines will not be affected by the ravages of cancer of the lung because it has happened in the United States. [More…]

• We are working with the United States which is looking to us for our expertise in solar power, and we are looking to that country also. [More…]

• It is estimated that the United States will spend $300m on solar power exploration this year. [More…]

• It should be remembered that the OECD includes most energy-hungry industrial countries and, more importantly, the nuclear powered countries of Germany, France, England, Japan, the United States of America, Sweden and others. [More…]

• Dr Flood listed the breaches in the nuclear power industry under the following headings: Attacks on nuclear installations or facilities; threats to nuclear installations or facilities; vandalism and sabotage to nuclear installations or facilities; security breaches of nuclear installations or facilities; United States nuclear companies fined for noncompliance with security regulations. [More…]

• The most important markets at present envisaged are the highly developed industrial countries, particularly Japan, the United States of America, and countries of Western Europe. [More…]

• In the United States of America, a multitude of booklets, pamphlets, leaflets and even calendars devoted to popularising energy conservation have been produced recently. [More…]

• They are Argentina, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Finland, France, East Germany, West Germany, India, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]

• The report deals with a study of uranium miners in Colorado conducted by the United States National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. [More…]

• Honourable senators will be aware that 42 million people or about 20 per cent of the citizens of the United States of America, in seven States, had a chance to vote at referendums giving them a chance to say in their own States whether there would or would not be use of nuclear power in their own areas. [More…]

• In the United States, where the government had terrific trouble in the immediate post war years of 1947 and 1948, after great consideration of the Taft-Hartley Act, the government introduced the following provision: [More…]

• It shall be unlawful for any individual employed by the United States or any agency thereof including wholly owned Government corporations to participate in any strike. [More…]

• Any individual employed by the United States or by any such agency who strikes shall be discharged immediately from his employment, and shall forfeit his civil service status, if any, and shall not be eligible for reemployment for three years by the United States or any such agency. [More…]

• by leave- Honourable senators will be aware of the announcement by the Government of the decision to establish facilities in Australia to receive and process photographs from the United States Landsat earth resources technology satellites. [More…]

• The contribution will not be made until the United States passes through Congress legislation for the payment of its portion. [More…]

• An amount of one billion United States dollars was raised. [More…]

• The rest are well behind, with the United States 0.25 per cent, the Federal Republic of Germany 0.37 per cent and Japan 0.25 per cent. [More…]

• I wish to make some comments about the situation in the United States because the United States Commission on Population Growth and the American Future has done some valuable work in looking at population trends in the light of social and environmental circumstances. [More…]

• I think we must accept that our handling of refugees does not compare with the handling of refugees by countries such as the United States and Canada especially. [More…]

• I think it is certainly time that Australia took an initiative to conduct a national population inquiry along the lines of the United States Commission on Population Growth and the American Future which was established in 1970. [More…]

• The provision of an intercontinental airstrip at one of Australia ‘s Antarctic stations will continue to be examined and there is the possibility of supplementing the present ships’ capacity by flying personnel through the existing airfield at McMurdo in a co-operative venture with the United States and New Zealand. [More…]

• The plan is for the Royal Australian Air Force to undertake a number of CI 30 flights from Christchurch to McMurdo in exchange for United States flights from McMurdo to Casey using a ski- wheeled aircraft. [More…]

• It is hoped that the RAAF will take part as observers in this year’s airlift of United States and New Zealand expeditions from Christchurch to McMurdo. [More…]

• It is a nuclear powered ship and I know that the United States of America, which operates ice breakers in the Antarctic, is interested to find out just how this feat was performed. [More…]

• We have used the services of the United States on occasions. [More…]

• The information coming from most of the northern European countries shows that the rate of recovery, excluding the United States of America, is not what we would have expected some 12 months ago. [More…]

• Even the United States which we are so often inclined to denigrate took the measures necessary to ensure that windfall profits flowed back to the consumer, flowed back to the society rather than to the companies concerned. [More…]

• Production at these sites was exported to the United States and the United Kingdom both for defence purposes and for electric power generation. [More…]

• Production and export of uranium is continuing at Mary Kathleen and to date 690 short tons of uranium oxide have been exported for electric power generation in Japan, the United States and West Germany. [More…]

• Similar agreements with the United States Energy Research and Development Administration and with the United States Bureau of Mines are at an advanced stage of negotiation. [More…]

• These processes have been proved to be technically feasible at pilot plants at Hanford in the United States of America and Marcoule in France. [More…]

• The landscape with the dominant sandstone escarpment some 300 metres high, over which waterfalls tumble to the alluvial plains below, contains panoramas rivalling the attractions of the Grand Canyon and Yosemite national parks in the United States of America. [More…]

• Account was also taken of current radiation protection standards and practices in the mining and milling of radioactive ores in other countries, notably Canada, France, South Africa and the United States of America. [More…]

• I know that the United States Senate has very competent committees which from time to time examine transfers of land from, say, an Indian reservation to a forestry reserve or even to a national park. [More…]

• I noticed earlier this year that the State of Oregon in the United States of America has banned spray cans. [More…]

• This problem is currently under expert study in the United States and Britain. [More…]

• United States Central Intelligence Agency: Attendance of Officers of Department of Defence at Courses (Question No. [More…]

• How many officers of the Department of Defence have attended courses at the Central Intelligence Agency’s headquarters at Langley, Virginia, United States of America, in the past ten years. [More…]

• the United States of America, (b) the European Economic Community, (c) Japan, (d) Hong Kong, and (e) all other countries. [More…]

• Contributions from member states totalled $US 10.092m, with the major share of that amount coming from the United States of [More…]

• It has the backing of the United States of America. [More…]

• Recently somebody sent me a set of figures showing the cost involved in flying between the West Coast and the East Coast of the United States compared with the cost involved in flying between Sydney and Perth. [More…]

• It was very expensive to fly in Australia as compared with the United States. [More…]

• Overseas, particularly in the United States and West Germany, the re-refining of oil is a very considerable matter. [More…]

• In the United States something like 30 per cent of oil is re-refined and in West Germany by law 30 per cent of oil is required to be re-refined oil. [More…]

• The AustralianUSSR Society is one of many friendship societies in this country which are aimed at improving relationships between Australia and the USSR, Australia and the United States of America, and many other countries. [More…]

• Production and export of uranium is continuing at Mary Kathleen and to date 690 short tons of uranium oxide have been exported for electric power generation in Japan, the United States and West Germany. [More…]

• For example, wholesale prices in the United States currently average about $A4. [More…]

• The International Narcotics Control Board has reported that manufacture in the United States of America fell from 980 kilograms in 1974 to 702 kilograms in 1975, the latest year for which data are available. [More…]

• The United Kingdom, which obtains its material from the United States of America, is Australia’s usual supplier, but is unable to fill orders at this stage. [More…]

• 1 ) Did a joint Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and Department of National Resources Mission visit the United States Energy Research and Development Agency and other United States energy centres last year. [More…]

• What organisational and financial aspects of United States energy research were investigated and recorded. [More…]

• What degree of collaboration and co-operation was discussed and/or agreed to between the Australian mission and the United States energy groups. [More…]

• What is the type, nature, and level of energy research being carried out in the United States, and any other country that Australia co-operates with on these matters. [More…]

• With which countries, other than the United States, does Australia have arrangements for exchanging information and views with intelligence and security agencies? [More…]

• Australia took the position (with the United States and the United Kingdom) that the use of non-lethal harrassing agents, herbicides and defoliants did not contravene the Geneva Protocol. [More…]

• Australia, Portugal and the United States voted against the resolution; the NATO countries, Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines, among others abstained. [More…]

• I refer to a newspaper report to the effect that several Government members presented a letter and a petition to the United States Ambassador addressed to President Carter concerning Indonesia’s refusal to grant them- the Government members- visas to enter Timor. [More…]

• It has been suggested that at the present time the United States is investing some $200m per year in solar energy research. [More…]

• The uranium in question was destined for use by power generating utilities in Japan and the United States of America. [More…]

• The material destined for Japan will be converted into uranium hexafluoride in Canada and enriched in the United States prior to being shipped to Japan. [More…]

• Canada and the United States, in which countries the material will be processed to uranium hexafluoride, are parties to the NPT and require stringent safeguards on the material processed. [More…]

• Furthermore, in this regard as the Australian uranium will be finally processed into enriched uranium in the United States it will attract the full force of the safeguards policy recently announced by President Carter. [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…]

• I am sure that the Minister will agree with me when I say that the United States of America is recognised as being the world’s leader in nuclear technology. [More…]

• However, notwithstanding the validity of that statement, I ask: Is the Minister aware of a 73-page report by a congressional sub-committee which reveals that the United States has been accumulating thousands of tons of nuclear waste for more than 30 years and that even if all nuclear activities were halted today there would be an immense problem in finding a permanent safe storage for all that accumulation? [More…]

• Has the Government been approached by either the United Nations or individual powers such as the United States and Britain with a view to Australia’s providing troops for a peace-keeping mission in Zimbabwe during the transition to majority rule? [More…]

• I have been advised by my colleague as follows: The uranium in question was destined for use by power generating utilities in Japan and the United States of America. [More…]

• The material destined for Japan will be converted into uranium hexafluoride in Canada and enriched in the United States prior to being shipped to Japan. [More…]

• Canada and the United States, in which countries the material will be processed to uranium hexafluoride, are parties to the NPT and require stringent safeguards on the material processed. [More…]

• Furthermore, in this regard, as the Australian uranium will be finally processed into enriched uranium in the United States, it will attract the full force of the safeguards policy recently announced by President Carter. [More…]

• I have previously inquired into the question of the likely fulfilment of the quota for the supply of Australian beef to the United States of America. [More…]

• Of course the honourable senator will be aware that American cattle producers tend to take the view that nobody should have any meat at all admitted into the United States. [More…]

• Equally, imports of Australian meat into the United States are very important to that country because it produces a mix that allows people in that country to buy beef at a reasonable price. [More…]

• The volume of it rests upon two factors- demand in the United States as determined by how the consumers are moving, and the state of supply in Australia and other supplying countries such as the Argentine. [More…]

• I ask the Minister: Is he aware that over 100 years ago when the same situation occurred in the Black Hills of South Dakota, the United States Government had to send in Phil Sheridan with his cavalry to protect the Indians’ land from the mining companies? [More…]

• I was not aware of these fascinating details of the history of South Dakota, or of the United States for that matter, until Senator Mulvihill was good enough to send me advance notice of the question- perhaps Senator Georges ought to take note of that fact. [More…]

• I ask the Minister Is it not true, as stated by the recent United States congressional inquiry on nuclear energy costs, that in the United States alone over 7 1 million gallons of high level radioactive waste is currently being temporarily stored in two localities in the United States and that thousands of tons of other radioactive waste has also accumulated over the last 30 years? [More…]

• Does not this information recently announced in the United States make a mockery of the assumptions this Government made of waste disposal when it announced its decision on uranium? [More…]

• The particular question arising out of what was alleged to be in the United States congressional report was put to the witnesses by one of the members of the Committee and they said that they would go away, study the report and let the Committee have a considered answer. [More…]

• The degree of understatement in 1976 was not high by international standards; for Australia as a whole it was 2.7 per cent, compared with, for example, 2.5 per cent in the United States census of 1970. [More…]

• The cost disability as compared with the United States, for instance, fell against us by 33 per cent. [More…]

• In Australia, as in the United States, about 75 per cent of the total transportation energy consumption is consumed by road transport and since 75 per cent or more of the population live in urban areas, conservation effort has been logically addressed in the first instance, to urban highway use. [More…]

• Our present peace-time strategy is to support as best we may over a range of policies the continuation of the presently favourable prospects for our national security; to maintain effective defence relations with our friends and allies, especially the United States and in our neighbouring regions; and to maintain a substantial and efficient force-in-being that demonstrates our military capability to deal with situations that could develop with shorter warning and to expand in time should the need for this arise during the longer term. [More…]

• One student to the United States of America $1,000. [More…]

• In particular, what change has occurred in the Reserve Bank’s holdings of gold and foreign exchange in the last week and also to the premium being charged by trading banks on forward purchases of United States dollars? [More…]

• Secondly- and I refer to an article in a newspaper distributed in another State, the Sydney Sun- has the Minister any information on the apparent trade blockade that has been imposed by Canada and the United States of America on 1,200 tonnes of Australian sperm whale oil? [More…]

• The apprehension was made under specific United States legislation prohibiting the entry of whale products. [More…]

• Obviously the owners and the master of the chemical tanker Stott Landass did not appreciate that the carriage of such oil could lead to action by the United States authorities. [More…]

• The United Nations charter clearly states that decisions should be taken with the affirmative votes of the five permanent members of the Council- the United States, Great Britain, France, Russia and China. [More…]

• Several Western membersthe United Kingdom, the United States, and Italy- have deplored the increasing frequency of recourse to the Security Council on issues which present little or no threat to peace while it is debarred from discussing issues which are real threats. [More…]

• It has been hindered only by the role played by the United Nations, the United Kingdom, the United States, and other outside interference. [More…]

• This was the view of the super power leaders, irrespective of who was the United States President. [More…]

• It might be argued that the economy of the United States was such that even in the Johnson era, belatedly after riots, the colour situation eased somewhat. [More…]

• There was discussion about the capacity of the United States tanker fleet to bring oil from Alaska. [More…]

• The Utah company, which emanates from the United States, is subject to US laws regarding a monopoly on tanker traffic. [More…]

• I mention in particular the United States Mercantile Marine. [More…]

• The point I make is that wage differences between the United States and Australia would be infinitesimal. [More…]

• It might be argued that there may be better leave provisions under Australian awards but the hourly rates in the United States would be higher than ours. [More…]

• The project was initiated by the United States about 1960. [More…]

• The same type of complaint has been made by other organisations including the Amnesty organisation of the United States of America which has called upon the President of the United States and requested that he should end aid to the military junta in Thailand; prevent any military or economic aid going from the United States to the Thai Government. [More…]

• I think it would be useful if I mention the fact that the United States House of Representatives Committee on International Relations has been meeting. [More…]

• That Committee considered the human rights situation in Thailand and its effect on the policies of the United States Government. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that a number of measures are undertaken by State governments in the United States of America in support of the development and commercial utilisation of solar energy to the extent that it is expected that 7 per cent of that country’s energy needs will be met by solar energy by the year 2000? [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that income tax credits and deductions ranging from 10 per cent to 100 per cent are allowed by various United States State governments and that the United States Congress is considering a Bill to allow income tax credits of 40 per cent on the first $1,000 expenditure with a $2,000 limit to the allowance? [More…]

• -I know of the intense interest in solar energy in the United States of America. [More…]

• What ought to be understood is that it is affected by the change in value of the yen and by the change in value of the United States dollar. [More…]

• The level of unemployment, for instance, in Canada is 7.7 per cent; in the United States it is 6.4 per cent; in West Germany it is 4.1 per cent; and in the United Kingdom it is 5.6 per cent. [More…]

• 1 ) Was a treaty signed in 1967 additional to and relating to the same matter as the 1966 treaty between Australia and the United States of America for the establishment of a Joint Space Defence Research Facility. [More…]

• 1 ) Does the United States of America operate an establishment known as Transit Station 1 12 at Smithfield, South Australia. [More…]

• Has the Government been approached by either the United Nations or individual powers such as the United States and Britain with a view to Australia’s providing troops for a peacekeeping mission in Zimbabwe during the transition to majority rule? [More…]

• I understand that in the United States in the Mississippi Valley, an area which is particularly prone to severe storms of this kind, because of the dense population in that area and perhaps because that country has more funds than we have, the meteorological authorities are able to operate a very sophisticated system of weather radars and other ground observation stations supported by photographs from geostationary satellites which they have. [More…]

• In Australia severe storms are reported infrequently but are thought to occur over a very wide area, and because of our comparatively sparse population it is impossible to establish in Australia the system that operates in the United States. [More…]

• It will be of interest to the Senate to know that my Department is proposing to send an officer of the Bureau to the United States to attend a conference later this month on severe local storms, and the knowledge he gains from this visit will be valuable in adding to our understanding of this type of storm. [More…]

• I do not regard the word ‘profit’ as repugnant, but in that respect I recall an occasion in the United States of America when the then Attorney-General, Robert Kennedy, took on Bethlehem Steel on the matter of prices. [More…]

• Kennedy and his brother, the President of the United States, said that the company’s profits were excessive and they produced before a Senate committee a table which showed that the extra wages for the steel workers and coal miners of the United States would come to about $1 lm or a little more but the price hike- that is an American term- would mean that Bethlehem Steel would get back $17m. [More…]

• Whether it be in Kentucky in the United States or Queensland in Australia, in order to entice industry, including coal operators, sometimes there is a tendency to go a little soft on the safety regulations and then there is a mine disaster. [More…]

• I make that point because anybody who studies Newsweek and Time and looks at the batting record of both those companies, not merely in the United States but in all Latin American countries, would know that they live with all sorts of governments. [More…]

• I respectfully suggest that if one looks at the balance sheets of Clutha and Utah and sees the money that has been remitted to the United States, it will be accepted that they can well afford to carry those taxes. [More…]

• The United States of America insisits on it and writes it into its contracts. [More…]

• When we compare our facilities and our degree of professionalism with what happens in the United States and in Western and Eastern Europe we come off very badly. [More…]

• In the United States and Western Europe, talented athletes are enjoying university scholarships, special jobs in private enterprise or special positions in the armed forces. [More…]

• He has recently returned from this overseas visit during which he consulted more than 200 peoplerepresenting overseas agencies and individual interests-in various countries, amongst others the European Economic Community countries, Sweden, Austria, Brazil, the United States, Canada and Japan, regarding safeguards against nuclear weapons proliferation and has reported to me on those discussions. [More…]

• One of the most important is the International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation which is being undertaken on the initiative of the President of the United States. [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…]

• The United States of America currently has a cattle population of about 123 million and that number is falling. [More…]

• In the Stock and Land of 8 September Baden Cameron mentioned that in Australia the producer gets about one-third of the retail price of the meat; in the United States the figure is about two-thirds; in Canada it is about three-quarters. [More…]

• Even in the United States of America it is admitted that private investment capital is declining and has been for some time. [More…]

• Given that economic recovery in Australia- and the rest of the world, for that matter-is so dependent on an upturn in the United States, a recent survey of American business economists makes gloomy reading. [More…]

• A Fortune article in August 1 976 lists the increase in unit costs in United States constant dollars in the period from 1970 to 1975 in various countries. [More…]

• In the United States there was a 35 per cent, increase, in Canada a 43 per cent increase in West Germany a 116 per cent increase and in Japan a 141 per cent increase. [More…]

• The United States insists on a protected shipbuilding industry. [More…]

• It wants to see a shipbuilding industry with the same zest that is shown in the United States. [More…]

• As I have said, the title Office of National Assessments is somewhat verbose and pompous compared, for example, with the title of the equivalent body in the United States which, I think is the National Security Agency, which incidentally employs some 25,000 people. [More…]

• One hopes that the Public Service growth rate in this area will not be as large as it apparently has been in the United States, having regard to staff ceilings. [More…]

• For many years in the 1960s we in Australia suffered from governments which were not content to obtain any posture of self-reliance in international affairs but which, on the other hand, were quite disposed to adopt a totally supine posture to the United States in particular. [More…]

• The first Australian initiative came, however, from the Ambassador in Washington who reported on S December that demonstrable Australian support for the Republic of Vietnam would make a very favourable impression on the United States Administration and suggested that Australia might supply counter-insurgency training personnel, small arms and ammunition. [More…]

• On 16 February the Ambassador in Washington cabled a recommendation that any American request should be considered favourably because the provision of even a handful of instructors would help make Australia’s mark with the United States Administration, [More…]

• Whatever the defence interests of Australia and the defence interests of our friends and allies may be there is no reasonable ground for suspecting for one moment that the economic interests of, for example, the United States of America and Australia will necessarily coincide at any time and will, in fact, be anything other than in direct conflict with each other on particular matters. [More…]

• It seemed to us and it seems from the information contained in Mr Hamer ‘s interjections that in those days our intelligence assessments and our interests were considered to be exactly the same as those of the United States of America and that we were getting most of our intelligence information on the situation in IndoChina from the United States of America. [More…]

• It was obvious- it seemed obvious to us- that our interests were considered to be coincident with those of the United States, that their judgments were automatically our judgments and that their information was automatically our information. [More…]

• One would hope, as I said previously, that this is in fact an evolutionary step and that a continuing evaluation will be made of the performance of the new Office and the difficulties that the new Office may get into, and that eventually even a committee of this Parliament will be able to perform what I think is its rightful duty and keep an eye on the efficiency, effectiveness and legality of our intelligence operations, as exists in the United States of America and other countries. [More…]

• I hope that a repeat of the sort of problems that we had before and the sort of problems that the United States has had with its intelligence agencies will not occur in this country. [More…]

• Action was taken ultimately not as a result of the assessment by the National Security Council of whether there was or was not a threat to the United States of America, but simply because one of the important elements in the National Security Council ‘s analysis of what was happening in Cuba related to the then Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, who was not even in the United States of America. [More…]

• I recollect some time in September 1965, about 12 years ago, being asked by the United States Ambassador to the United Nations what was happening in Jakarta. [More…]

• Is it a fact that Australia annually spends more than $100m in purchasing United States films for the domestic market? [More…]

• Australia and Japan are bilaterally totally out of balance, and so are Australia and the United States of America, and Japan and the United States of America. [More…]

• The major importers included the United States, Japan, Canada and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]

• Furthermore, the United States of America, the world’s largest free market importer of sugar, has indicated its intention of joining this Agreement. [More…]

• It will also help enable the United States Administration to avoid the inevitable harsh alternative of tariff or quota action. [More…]

• And it would come at a time when the world is looking to major industrialised countries, like the United States, to liberalise trade in the context of the multilateral trade negotiations under way in Geneva. [More…]

• With its common agricultural policy, it has been a thorn in the side of many of the efforts that have been made around the world in recent years to reach agreements and to break down the trade barriers which exist and which so many more forwardlooking countries, particularly the United States of America, wish to see broken down. [More…]

• If necessary, this energy could be stored in caverns similar to what is occurring in South Africa and the United States of America. [More…]

• This method of creating a reserve at present world prices is actually operating in the United States now. [More…]

• I appreciate also the emphasis that the United States of America is placing on this area of technology. [More…]

• I think Senator McLaren stated that the United States was spending about $240m this financial year on research and development in this area. [More…]

• Technical assessments by experts in the United States of America- the National Science Foundation/National Aeronautics Space Administration in 1973, Atomic Energy Commission in 1973, Federal Energy Agency m 1974, NSF in 1974 and the American Petroleum Society in 1975- all broadly agree that a significant fraction of energy supply could be taken up by diverse solar technologies within this century and far more shortly thereafter. [More…]

• Starting in the 1990s, these solar energy estimates considerably exceeded the United States Atomic Energy Commission ‘s most sanguine projections for the contributions of nuclear fission. [More…]

• Indeed, the United States AEC’s own report-that is, the MASH Report 1535- December 1974- concedes that in 2020 A.D. new non-fission technologies could supply five times as much electricity as the United States now uses. [More…]

• The article continues: he also said he doubted the feasibility of Australia taking the lead over such countries as the United States in the development of solar energy. [More…]

• To illustrate the point, the solar energy research of the United States Energy Research and Development Administration alone is of the order of $US100m per annum’, he said. [More…]

• I have just quoted the figure of $ 100m so far as the United States is concerned. [More…]

• We should look not just at the research effort of the United States of America, as great as it is and commendable as it is, but also at the taxation attitudes of state governments and the Congress in the United States. [More…]

• In addition to simple tax concessions in that sphere, the United States Government is involved in great many areas of support of solar energy on a wider basis than probably has been mentioned in this debate. [More…]

• Secondly, I make a plea for the Government to be far ranging in its attitudes and to introduce tax concessions for solar energy installations and, further, for the saving of energy in general, as does the United States Government. [More…]

• With regard to Senator Keeffe ‘s point about the expenditure of the United States on solar energy research, I point out that in the current year 1976-77, although the United States is spending about $180m on solar energy research it is spending $ 1,401m on nuclear research. [More…]

• Having visited the state of Washington in the United States I went to a little place called Shelton just outside Olympia where Simpson’s timber industry had been operating for well over 150 years. [More…]

• Some relevant figures for 1973 of the per capita consumption of coal in kilograms of coal equivalent are as follows: World average, 2,074; developed countries, 6,531; developing countries, 388; United States of America, 11,887; Australia, 6,064; United Kingdom, 5,558; European Economic Community, 5,000; Western Europe, 4,339. [More…]

• I raise the question: Can the world afford to have countries such as Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America living with such high standards? [More…]

• I understand that France will spend $30m in the field this year, that Japan has pledged $100m a year from now until the year 2000 and that the United States, although spending $300m this year, estimates that by the year 2000 only 7 per cent or 8 per cent of its total energy requirement will be met by solar power. [More…]

• -On 8 September 1977 (Hansard page 704) Senator Brown asked me, as Minister representing the Minister for National Resources, a question without notice as to whether there is any substance in an allegation that there is a proposal that Australia enter into an agreement with the United States and Canada for the purpose of dumping the western world’s nuclear wastes in this country. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that this circular draws attention to a United States tariff applied to Australian built aircraft? [More…]

• Is the Minister aware also that one such aircraft has been in the United States for over a year for evaluation and that an early response from agricultural operators in America indicates a potential market for 30 aircraft a year in that country? [More…]

• As Australia does not apply a tariff to American-built aircraft coming to this country, will the Minister make representations to the United States Government with the object of having the tariff on Australian aircraft removed? [More…]

• I think it is fair for us to be given access to the United States market if we give access to our market to overseas countries. [More…]

• Another recent attempt to benefit developers is a decision of the Victorian Government to allow Kaiser Aetna Australia Properties Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of the United States developer Kaiser Aetna, to develop rural buffer zoned land in the Lilydale area. [More…]

• It is just as pointless to inquire into whether the Jewish people should have settled in Palestine as it is to inquire into whether English people should have settled in Australia or the United States, whether Dutch people should have settled in South Africa- that may not be the happiest of examples- or whether the Celts should have migrated from Central Asia across to Ireland. [More…]

• They are Australia, the United States, New Zealand, India, Italy and the United Kingdom. [More…]

• Australian conditions for workers are immeasurably superior to those existing in the United States of America and Great Britain, to name just two other countries. [More…]

• In the United States the trade union movement is one of the most well recognised bodies by Congress and by the President. [More…]

• President Carter has made it mandatory for a certain percentage of American exports to be carried in United States flag ships. [More…]

• In February this year he told a news conference in the United States that reports of strikes and industrial unrest in Australia are exaggerated. [More…]

• This compares, for example, with an estimated 4 per cent of intermittent and regular users identified in the United States in 1972. [More…]

• That in regard to the existing drug abuse situation in Australia the first consideration should be a humanitarian approach and that any legislative action contemplated should draw on the wide experience of other countries such as the United Kingdom and United States. [More…]

• The majority of the present Standing Committee believes that the positive features of some recent laws relating to the use of cannabis in the United States offer guidelines for Australia. [More…]

• It should perhaps be noted that in this respect the majority of the Committee finds itself in line with the recommendations made by major drug inquiries in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and elsewhere. [More…]

• Dr Gerald Milner, the Director of the Alcohol and Drug Dependence Persons Unit in Victoria, from whom the Committee took evidence, pointed out that our analgesic problem was between 20 and 80 times greater than the problem in the United States of America at the moment. [More…]

• I think the experience of the period of prohibition in the United States between 1 92 1 and 1 933 showed clearly that if there is public demand for a drug, and if there is acceptance amongst a substantial group of citizens that it is acceptable to use that drug, any penal provisions are bound to end in failure. [More…]

• A few years ago a former United States Attorney for the northern district of California wrote a book entitled ‘Marihuana- The New Prohibition’. [More…]

• Indeed, there are still many areas in the United States- the socalled bible belt; large areas of the Mid-West and the South- where very little alcohol is consumed right up to the present day. [More…]

• Amongst the allegations that were levelled against Smith was the allegation that Smith, as a Catholic, was the sort of person who would favour the occasional drink and who would open the floodgates to alcohol in the United States. [More…]

• The former United States Attorney, whose name was Kaplan, made a similar point with regard to the prohibition of marihuana in the 1960s, that is, that it was a campaign mainly by older, more settled and conservative people against a lifestyle, again to a certain extent that of ethnic minorities, particularly among the socalled Chicanoes- the immigrants from Mexico and other Latin countries, who have taken marihuana traditionally as part of their culture in the same way as people in other parts of the world were smoking tobacco- and also against the young people who had taken up marihuana in the 1950s and 1960s. [More…]

• The point that the United States Attorney made was that the damage which was caused to the health was, if it were a motivation, not the primary motivation of those who favoured prohibition in the 1920s and 1930s, in the same way as the question of whether marihuana is damaging to the health was not a primary motivation in the 1960s and 1970s among a number of those people who were in favour of heavy penalties or penalties for the use of marihuana. [More…]

• In the United States, which in many ways has been the pathfinder, both in the use of marihuana and the banning of marihuana and in turn in the relaxation of the laws with regard to marihuana, in a great many States already there has been considerable relaxation. [More…]

• But whether South Dakota has just come back again or not, the fact remains that over the last 10 years there has been a tendency in the United States towards a relaxation of the laws relating to marihuana. [More…]

• I suggest that if she compared the laws in the United States now with those of 10 years ago in relation to the use of marihuana she would find them considerably more liberal now than they were 10 years ago, whatever may be the position in South Dakota, on which I am afraid I am not presently well advised. [More…]

• I think it is an oversimplification of the situation to say that, simply because the legalisation of alcohol in the United States got rid of the bootlegging problem and all that went with it, we ought to do the same thing in Australia with marihuana. [More…]

• Apart from the matters I have mentioned, the major difference between ourselves and the view of the majority on the national strategy is that we disagree with the inferences drawn by the majority from recent United States experience. [More…]

• The first objection is that we do not think it follows as a matter of course that what is good for the United States of America is good for Australia, whether in regard to lowering penalties and lessening the gravity of offences in relation to marihuana or the other wider and different fields of human experience. [More…]

• In any case, it indicates that people in the United States are having second thoughts. [More…]

• The penalties for drug use have varied, depending upon where a person lived in the United States of America or the sort of class to which a person belonged in this country. [More…]

• This change was suggested in all honesty and was backed up by actual evidence in the United States of America. [More…]

• They include the New York Mayor’s Committee report in 1942, the Wootton Report in the United Kingdom, the Le Dain Report in Canada, the Shafer Report in the United States of America and various other studies. [More…]

• I know of the trials and ordeals that the United States has gone through in this respect, and there it has been thought desirable to broaden the consultation to the majority and minority leaders in both Houses. [More…]

• In West Germany, Japan, Canada or even the United States of America the unions are part of the decision making process. [More…]

• We had a cost disability with the rest of the world that moved from a surplus in our favour with our principal trading partners, such as the United States, to a deficiency against them. [More…]

• The latest figures indicate that our record is better now than that of the United States, Japan, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy or Canada. [More…]

• I conclude by referring to some comments made in an address given in Sydney on Monday by Professor Gramm of the United States of America. [More…]

• Some States of the United States of America, in particular, have departed from that practice. [More…]

• Honourable senators may know that the previous Liberal-Country Party Government- that is, the one in office before 1 972- received overtures from the United States of America about the building in this country of an Omega station. [More…]

• This was despite the fact that even immediately after the United States denial the representative of the intelligence service of the military general staff repeated the conclusion that Omega was linked to missile-carrying submarines. [More…]

• When the Omega case was being considered in Norway in 1971 there was not a single representative in the Norwegian Parliament who asked any question or made any criticism, even though it was evident to them surely that the installation was to be financed by the United States Defence Department. [More…]

• The Schei report shows clearly that neither of these military systems were being proposed through NATO but were the subject of purely bilateral arrangements between the United States and Norway. [More…]

• This potential is significant and every assistance should be given to ensure that Australian producers are technically competitive with their counterparts in Canada, the United States and Europe. [More…]

• One should look at the figures for the United States of America, which has backed off from the principle of one vote one value, and for Great Britain and so forth. [More…]

• That may relate to my opening remarks, when I drew an analogy with the United States senator from Missouri and how he saved LBJ. [More…]

• The United States requires an Observatory in this location to complete a global network of such Observatories established in the United States and other countries to allow continuous solar observations on a 24 hour per day basis. [More…]

• Under the agreement, the Australian Department of Science and the United States Air Force are the designated cooperating agencies of the Australian Government and the United States Government respectively, and the Observatory will be operated under the joint management of the cooperating agencies. [More…]

• It will be manned by officers of the Air Weather Service of the United States Air Force, civilian personnel from the United States National Oceanographic and [More…]

• The major costs of the Observatory will be met by the United States Government for the duration of the Agreement. [More…]

• The Australian Government welcomes the establishment of the new Observatory and looks forward to close cooperation with the United States on this project which will provide improved data on solar activity for the benefit of radio communicators and the scientific community. [More…]

• I do not know whether that is United States dollars or Australian dollars. [More…]

• For example, in the United States of America the policy of the Senate is stated quite clearly. [More…]

• It is the situation in the United States of America and it is the situation in Great Britain. [More…]

• But here we have this nice little in-club arrangement whereby Ministers in the Fraser Government notify Mr Fraser himself whether they have any pecuniary interests which might be in conflict with the sorts of principles which have been enunciated by parliaments in Britain, the United States and here. [More…]

• Westminster Parliament and the United States Congress. [More…]

• It is not good enough when one compares it with the situation in the United States, which has a presidential election system. [More…]

• In the United States at the last presidential election there was public funding for the first time. [More…]

• I believe that in time this aspect will spread to all the Congressional and Senate elections which are held in the United States. [More…]

• Very few people are aware that in the United States, France, and other democratic countries Estimates are subject to very close scrutiny before they are passed and are liable to be drastically amended against the wishes of the Executive. [More…]

• I ask: In view of the distinct hardening of attitude of the President of the United States of America, Jimmy Carter, and his Government to all forms of whaling, including the impounding of an Australian cargo of that source, does the Minister not feel that, in the light of the attitudes of his party and my own, it would be wise to cut our losses and convert the Albany whaling station into a marine research station rather than affect relations with out large and powerful ally? [More…]

• I am delighted that the honourable senator, almost alone among his colleagues, is a follower of the policies of the United States of America. [More…]

• It amazes me that the Minister wrote to this Society on 13 December 1976 at which time he had all the records from the United States. [More…]

• If we leave it in the ground we have done nothing about the dangers, the disposal of nuclear waste, about terrorists acquiring weapons, nothing about people occupied in the generating plants in West Germany, Japan and the United States. [More…]

• In the United States of America it is possible for a voter to vote by making cross marks to indicate that he is voting in accordance with a party ticket. [More…]

• I might add that I doubt the feasibility of Australia taking the lead over countries such as the United States in the development of solar energy. [More…]

• To illustrate the point, the solar energy research expenditure of the United States Energy Research and Development Administration alone is of the order of $US100m per annum. [More…]

• In view of the two facts that Mr Justice Fox has reported, namely, that there is general opposition overseas to the United States and Canadian propositions that there could be no reprocessing of uranium supplied by those countries without the specific approval of supplier countries and that there is concern overseas that the International Atomic Energy Agency may not be able to administer nuclear safeguards satisfactorily, how does the Australian Government intend to maintain the fictional assurances given to the Australian people that Australian safeguards will be met completely by overseas takers of our uranium exports? [More…]

• -I thought that the honourable senator would welcome the views of both the United States and Canadian governments on uranium reprocessing. [More…]

• Internationally there was recognition that the United States and Canadian nuclear policies had drawn attention to the particular dangers associated with re-processing and breeder reactors. [More…]

• Australia will in no circumstances enter into any arrangements with any other country that is not prepared to abide by our safeguards, not necessarily the United States or Canadian safeguards, but Australia’s. [More…]

• -Has the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations noted a report in today’s Press that the United States has withdrawn from the International Labour Organisation? [More…]

• -I heard yesterday of the decision of the United States to withdraw from ILO. [More…]

• I refer to the statement made last week by the Government of its intention to inquire into the repatriation of very large sums of money by Utah Development Co. to the United States. [More…]

• Is he aware that a recent report from Conzinc Riotinto of Australia Ltd stated that the demand for uranium will depend on the rate of growth in nuclear power generating capacity and advances in nuclear technology; that m the United States of America there have been only four orders for new nuclear plants in 1 977, two for tentative preliminary contracts only; and that Howard Winterson, Vice-President of Combustion Engineering in America has said recently: ‘In about two years you will see this business disintegrate’? [More…]

• The Japanese satellite is one of five to be placed in geostationary orbit at intervals around the equator by the United States of America, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and a group of European countries as well as Japan. [More…]

• Similar agreements with the United States Energy Research and Development Administration and with the United States Bureau of Mines, which have recently been subsumed with the new United States Department of Energy, are at an advanced stage of negotiation. [More…]

• Sir John Latham was appointed Ambassador to Japan in the late 1930s and Sir Owen Dixon was appointed Ambassador to the United States of America during the war years. [More…]

• When Sir John Latham took up his duties and when Mr Justice Dixon went to the United States of America this country was in the darkest throes of one of the greatest struggles in history. [More…]

• For instance, in the United States of America a comparable rate would be of the order of 30 per cent. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that the report allegedly states that far from being primarily a civilian installation Omega was basically designed for the United States Navy’s nuclear submarines? [More…]

• Has the Minister any further information on the matter and, in particular, on this Government’s attitude to the decision of the United States of America? [More…]

• I confirm that I am now in a position to answer that part of Senator Lajovic ‘s question which he asked yesterday concerning the attitude of the Australian Government to the International Labour Organisation following the announcement by the United States of America of its intended withdrawal from the ILO. [More…]

• Australia understands the reasons for the decision of the United States and notes that initial moves in the United States for withdrawal originated with employer and union associations. [More…]

• On the matter of electoral boundaries, one can look at the congressional districts in the United States. [More…]

• In 1973 the International Committee on Coal Research was formed by members of the European Economic Community and the United States of America. [More…]

• The Organisation for EconomicCo-operation and Development (OECD) in their publication ‘Energy Prospects to 1985’, estimated long-term price elasticity coefficients for motor spirit of between -0.3 and -0.4 for the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Treasurer aware of reports emanating from the Brookings Institution following an international conference of economists last week that representatives of the seven countries represented at the conference, who came from Europe, the United States of America and Japan, had called for governments to stimulate economic growth to combat increasing unemployment? [More…]

• Earlier in this session my predecessor, Mr Ellicott, was in the United States of America and had some very useful discussions with officials in that country on the subject of freedom of information and the Bill which had been prepared for introduction into this Parliament. [More…]

• During the recess senator Missen was also in the United States of America and had similar discussions with officials there. [More…]

• I am most grateful to Senator Missen for the close attention that he has given to this subject and for the reports that he has made to me on his studies and the result of his discussions with the officials of the United States to whom I have referred. [More…]

• However, the Yale Arbovirus Reference Laboratory in the United States of America advised on 24 October 1977 that an Australian virus isolate had been diagnosed as indistinguishable from bluetongue’. [More…]

• Although the most prominent countries in this activity were Britain, the United States of America, Norway, France and Australia, other nations also sent expeditions, including the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Argentina, Chile and Japan. [More…]

• We all know that President Carter is having enormous difficulty in placating the different elements in the United States community in order to get the best of two worlds. [More…]

• The laser complements radio tracking systems at the Orroral Valley Tracking Station which is operated by the Department of Science, with the assistance of Australian industry, under a co-operative agreement with the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that, as a result of disclosures under the Freedom of Information Act in the United States of America, reports have revealed that there is a substantial danger of causing cancer in the use of chloroform in various forms? [More…]

• If the Minister for Health will not act to ban or curtail the use of chloroform will he at least reveal to the Parliament details of the known chloroform content of substances, including toothpaste, in order that the public can make its own judgment on the use of toothpaste taking into account the divergent views of medical authorities in the United States of America and elsewhere? [More…]

• The Minister states that he is aware of disclosures in the United States of America that chloroform when fed to mice and rats in very high doses resulted in increased kidney and liver tumours. [More…]

• Sport is becoming one of the very big things in television in the United States of America. [More…]

• Did the Minister write to the United States Secretary of State, Mr Cyrus Vance, suggesting that considerable uneasiness exists in the South East Asian region, particularly in the ASEAN countries, regarding future United States foreign policy towards the area; if so, can the Minister inform the Senate of the contents of the letter. [More…]

• 1 ) The Foreign Minister wrote to the U.S. Secretary of State, Mr Cyrus Vance, on 31 August about United States policies in South East Asia, in response to a request by Mr Vance for an elaboration of views expressed to him during the visit to Washington of the Prime Minister and the [More…]

• As the letter was a personal and confidential communication it would not be appropriate to divulge its contents, beyond noting that it underlined again the well known view of this Government that a continuing positive role by the United States in South East Asia is important for the region’s peaceful development. [More…]

• How will the Australian Government ensure that Aus.tralian safeguards will be completely met by overseas takers of our uranium exports, in view of Mr Justice Fox’s report of 29 September 1977, recorded in a Foreign Affairs Departmental minute made public on 2 November 1977, that: (a) there is general opposition overseas to the United States and Canadian proposition that there could be no reprocessing of uranium supplied by these countries without the specific approval of supplier countries; and (b) there is concern overseas that the International Atomic Energy Agency may not be able to administer safeguards satisfactorily. [More…]

• The United States kept Australia fully informed well in advance of developments relating to the malfunctioning of the satellite, including the fact that it was carrying a nuclear powered source. [More…]

• Whilst Australian and United States officials maintained close contact with developments, all necessary contingency arrangements were made by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission against the remote possibility that the satellite would reenter the atmosphere over Australia. [More…]

• In this connection the United States has canvassed the need for improved safety precautions and the possibility of United States-Soviet agreed measures. [More…]

• Three- Canal boats are absolutely essential to the defence of the United States. [More…]

• The members, in their report, said that the code or register which they suggested should be the same as that which existed in the United States and Great Britain and that it should be implemented in this country without delay. [More…]

• Apparently Liberal politicians in this country have to have a code of conduct which is different from the code of public conduct used in the United States and Great Britain. [More…]

• It is important that when this legislation comes forward it be full blooded legislation and be similar to that legislation which now operates very successfully in the United States of America. [More…]

• There is no reason to accept Senator Button’s somewhat cynical view that, because it has not been seen yet it will be, as he described it, an anatomical freak and will not be comparable with the United States legislation. [More…]

• Although the United States apparently was refusing to give wartime supplies to Indonesia at one stage, it now admits that at that time it was continuing to make those supplies available to the Indonesian Government. [More…]

• This is not a revolutionary proposal; it is something which the United States of America has had throughout its history. [More…]

• Having recently been in the United States of America and Japan and having looked at their political systems and the way in which members of Parliament are paid and political parties financed, I am not too happy that we should follow along their lines. [More…]

• The evidence contained in the article supports documents emanating from the United States and Australia concerning the role that oil politics may have had in determining Mr Peacock’s sudden announcement. [More…]

• I conclude with the remarks of United States Congressman Fraser at the hearings of the Congress Sub-committee investigating East Timor on 1 9 July 1 977. [More…]

• The United States was apprised, at least in general, perhaps specifically because . [More…]

• of the intention of the Indonesian Government, but we made no serious objection to what they proposed to do; what I would regard as a facade of self-determination was expressed, the United States immediately indicated it was satisfied with what had transpired and resumed shipments of military assistance it never told Indonesia it was suspending . [More…]

• There is a degree of complicity here by the United States that I really find to be quite disturbing. [More…]

• It was necessary to carry out tests at Yale in the United States and in South Africa to establish that whilst the disease appeared to be of the bluetongue strain it was unknown to science throughout the world. [More…]

• It is interesting that the United States Congress has now decided that all its committees in their work will have specified regard to the future impact of their recommendations. [More…]

• In the United States the future impact of those decisions has become a standard part of the operation, a matter to be specifically adverted to and assessed, where we have technology raging ahead in the development of new and different opportunities for mankind we must be careful to ensure that we look far enough ahead in the decisions that we take. [More…]

• They are Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Chile, France, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]

• Recent United States reports claim that there are recoverable reserves of oil there similar to those in the Alaskan oilfields. [More…]

• The United States reports say that the extraction problems are not insurmountable. [More…]

• In the past five years, according to evidence recently given to a United States Senate committee there have been 1 ,800 major acts of terrorism around the world involving 512 deaths, 551 injuries and 363 kidnappings. [More…]

• Recent United States reports show that there could be as much oil in Antarctica as there is in the whole Alaskan field, and the Americans estimate that the extraction problems are not insurmountable. [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…]

• In addition, 1 5 per cent of the area has never been claimed by anyone, but that portion is tacitly regarded as a United States area. [More…]

• The treaty was signed in 1951 and became operative in 1961, when it was signed by all 12 participating powers- the seven original countries as well as Belgium, Japan, South Africa, the United States and the USSR. [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…]

• The United States favours it, and the position of other nations lies somewhere between the two. [More…]

• He also said that there was a United States estimate that there was hydrocarbon in the Antarctic probably exceeding that available at the other end of the world. [More…]

• In the United States of America and Australia massive demonstrations took place against the involvement of those countries in the Vietnam war. [More…]

• Today we know that France, West Germany, England and the United States of America- but particularly France- have made the statement that with vitrification or glassification the storing of waste will be a commercial exercise by 1985. [More…]

• I want to quote one further comment that Dr Spock made because although he was talking about the scene in the United States the same applies in Australia. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators, I present an exchange of notes between the Australian Government and the Government of the United States of America, constituting an agreement regarding the management and operation of the Joint Geological and Geophysical Research Station, at Alice Springs. [More…]

• Consequently, Australia and the United States have concluded a new agreement which provides for the Station to be operated in a completely open way and under joint United Sates and Australian management. [More…]

• Under the new agreement the Department of Science and the United States Air Force will be the co-operating agencies for the management and operation of the station. [More…]

• The United States will continue to man the Station for its basic nuclear non-proliferation monitoring purpose, and Australia will provide the effort required to adapt the results to research in earth sciences, as well as participating in overall management and providing services for the station. [More…]

• I followed closely the proceedings in the United States of the committee chaired by Senator Church that examined some of the shortcomings of the United States security agencies. [More…]

• About three weeks ago I had the pleasure of meeting Senator Scott, the retiring leader of the Republican Party in the Senate of the United States. [More…]

• I asked him his views on all that had gone on recently regarding security in the United States. [More…]

• Senator Scott of the United States, who is a very blue-veined Republican and who would be the last to want to upset US security, said to me: Senator, after what we have gone through it would have been much better if, whenever a senior security officer abused his trust, we were to nip his actions in the bud’. [More…]

• Only this morning we heard from Mr Schultze the Chairman of the United States Economic Advisory Council, which is a senior body that advises the United States Government. [More…]

• Mr Schultze reflects the type of policy which is now gaining greater strength in the United States of America as that country sees that governments must take the initiative. [More…]

• I invite honourable senators to look at the GovernorGeneral’s Speech where they will find a few bromides and a few platitudes about Australia’s friendly relations with the United States of America and about how the Commonwealth of Nations is going from strength to strength. [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…]

• It would look at not only those countries with which in the past it was unfriendly- countries such as the Soviet Union or China- but also countries with which the United States had had friendly relations, countries such as Argentina and Uraguay. [More…]

• It is not so long ago, only a decade or two, that the ‘Free World’ was the expression used by the United States and the supporters of the United States. [More…]

• John Foster Dulles, that powerful figure in the formulation of American foreign policy and for so many years Secretary of State in the United States Administration, when asked to define what he meant by the ‘free world’ said he meant those countries which were free from Soviet domination and undue Soviet influence. [More…]

• Once again, as throughout the 1 950s and the 1 960s we find Australia taking a more conservative, reactionary and unproductive position on human values than that of the United States, even in that country’s most conservative era under the Eisenhower Administration. [More…]

• That was its problem during the 1950s and the 1960s when Australia followed in the wake of the United States of America; when we had a Prime Minister who said that his motto was ‘All the way with LBJ’; when we had governments which did not step out of line with the United States of America except on those rare occasions when they could find someone farther to the right than the United States. [More…]

• That was the only time they disagreed with the United States of America, then the United States took a sensible position on the withdrawal of Anglo-French forces and Australia took a position which seemed to suggest that Eisenhower was an undercover communist. [More…]

• Apart from that occasion when they disagreed with the United States from the right they did not vary from the policy of the United States in any significant way whatsoever. [More…]

• For a mixture of reasons, including, I think it is fair to say, the genuine humanitarian convictions of people such as Mr Young, the present United States Ambassador to the United Nations and probably Mr Carter and Mr Mondale, the United States feels sympathy for the various national liberation movements in Africa- a sympathy which I do not doubt is accentuated by the fact that those people know that there is a 20 per cent non-white electorate inside the United States of America which would also have some views on this subject. [More…]

• The United States of America has now taken a position in which it is certainly in opposition to if not in confrontation with the present regimes in Rhodesia or Zimbabwe and the Republic of [More…]

• Other meetings are taking place at which the United States and Britain appear to be taking the leading role as the foreign powers- this is not an occasion when the Soviet Union, China, Cuba or other forces are involved- that are pressing for the so-called external settlement with the Patriotic Front in Rhodesia. [More…]

• Countries such as Australia which are geographically closer than the United States and which have a historical association with many of the white South Africans and the white Rhodesians ought to be playing a part in the settlement of these disputes. [More…]

• The phasing out of the levy contributed close to $25m of Utah’s profits this year, or about 20 per cent of the $126m Utah sent to its United States parent, Utah International Inc. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Science aware of the operation of a subsidy system in the United States of America which provides a financial inducement for private individuals to install approved solar heating devices for approved purposes as a means of encouraging energy conservation? [More…]

• Whilst I am not fully aware of the scheme that the honourable senator suggests may be used in the United States, there certainly has been discussion in this country on whether encouragement should be given by way of assistance with the capital cost of installing solar heating and cooling systems for domestic use and whether there could be greater industrial usage of some solar heating and cooling systems. [More…]

• It is very difficult in Australia, more difficult than it is in the United States and the United Kingdom where studies have been done, to find out why people vote in a particular way. [More…]

• The time has therefore well arrived when the monopoly control of Australian media has to be looked at very seriously, as has been happening in the United States of America. [More…]

• -No, but there should be a diversity of ownership of media interests throughout Australia, as is occurring in the United States. [More…]

• Whilst in the United States there are some 66 newspaper-television station cross-ownerships, in this nation a mere five or six own and control the whole of the media operations of this country. [More…]

• Our hopes for the future lie in the scientific exploration of the resources in that area, as I think I pointed out in the early part of my speech, and consideration must be given to upgrading our communications systems so that we can match other countries which currently, as is the case with the United States of America and the Soviet Union, do not recognise our claims to sovereignty over the areas in the Antarctic which we believe are our possessions. [More…]

• Recently I was in the United States and I discussed with people at the Library of Congress in its Division for the Blind and Physically Handicapped the network of services throughout the United States for such people. [More…]

• It is a comprehensive service and takes in more than 100 libraries throughout the United States. [More…]

• The National Library in Canada and the Library of Congress in the United States concentrate their efforts on the blind and physically handicapped. [More…]

• Libraries in countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, are compiling union catalogues and registers of services. [More…]

• There are already similar institutes in the United States and in the Caribbean. [More…]

• It is worth noting that in the United States aged persons make an enormous contribution through voluntary programs or through ‘voluntarism’. [More…]

• The United States has a federal agency for voluntary services which is known as Action. [More…]

• These voluntary programs for aged persons in the United States provide the dignity and satisfaction of making a continuing contribution to the community. [More…]

• We have territory there with New Zealand, the Soviet Union and the United States, and there are real questions as to who has the right to that territory. [More…]

• I refer to the pact that we have with the United States and New Zealand which is known as ANZUS. [More…]

• Thus, our relationship with the United States is seen as being based on a security-style military pact which was signed and ratified in the early 1950s. [More…]

• It is important that our relationship with the United States be seen in the context of the more than 100 agreements, conventions and exchanges of letters- we had an example of the latter presented in this chamber today- which form the relationship between us. [More…]

• It is a much broader and more mature relationship than that, and I hope that some measures might be taken to ensure that all of us, the Australian community generally would perceive our relationship with the United States in that broader context. [More…]

• We have a treaty of friendship and co-operation with Japan, and perhaps we ought to be looking toward a treaty such as that with the United States, while maintaining the ANZUS Treaty. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that his colleague has called for a new United States initiative to do more than make what he called ‘adjustments to the margins’? [More…]

• Is it a fact that entry to Australia has been refused to a Mr Fred Mazelis, a United States citizen? [More…]

• The law in the United States prohibits recruitment of any persons as mercenaries within the United States but does not prohibit a citizen or other person in the United States leaving the country to enlist in a foreign military service. [More…]

• Export licences for the profitable United States market are granted on the basis of credits earned from exporting to other markets. [More…]

• I believe that a considerable amount of favouritism is being exercised by the Minister for Primary Industry in the granting of United States export licences and export orders to companies which have not earned sufficient credits. [More…]

• For example, I cite the granting of an United States export contract to a Mr Whitaker of Wales Meats, to operate out of an Alice Springs abattoir, just recently. [More…]

• Further, was Mr Sinclair in any way responsible for the granting to Norwest an extra quota worth $1.5m, for export to the United States of America? [More…]

• The United States has now designated Continental Airlines as a second US carrier on the South Pacific, despite the earlier disastrous losses of $25m by American Airlines and those of other carriers. [More…]

• Has the Minister received a report following inquiries that I understand have been made into the disastrous grain silo explosions in the United States of America in December last where many people lost their lives? [More…]

• It is my understanding that United States Government authorities have not made an official report on the explosions to which the honourable senator referred. [More…]

• I do not expect it is widely realised that the explosions in the United States, which were so widely publicised at the end of last year and in January this year, were by no means the first to occur in that country. [More…]

• At present we are seeing incursions by Cuban and Soviet troops into the internal affairs of various African countries- incursions of such a nature as would, I think, arouse a great deal of uproar if they were to be committed by, for example, the United States of America. [More…]

• For example, I imagine that in 1939 the Australian Government may have decided that it was quite proper for the French Army or the Polish Army to recruit Australians to serve in their forces, just as the Americans served in the British and French forces in the First World War and in the Second World War until the United States of America entered the war. [More…]

• The United States Government took no action against those Americans who volunteered to serve in the British Forces in 1939, 1940 and 1941, and a similar situation could arise in our case where we could say we were giving moral support to some other country. [More…]

• It has been assisted by investment from Japan, the United States of America and other countries. [More…]

• In pursuit of the economies of scale, countries like the United States of America, West Germany and Japan have carried out a major investment policy. [More…]

• Whilst our structural problems may vary, they still have their counterparts in countries such as Japan, West Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Economic Community countries. [More…]

• If we are to have a coastal surveillance organisation similar to the United States Coastguard, whether or not it is under the aegis of the armed forces, its funding should come from sources other than the defence appropriation. [More…]

• Could that Australian coastguard be modelled on the highly efficient and professional United States coastguard? [More…]

• Without delaying the Senate, I should like to have incorporated in Hansard two short pages comprising an extract from a United States Senate committee hearing of 1977, which details the functions of the United States coastguard. [More…]

• FUNCTIONS OF UNITED STATES COASTGUARD [More…]

• The Coast Guard employs multipurpose vessels, aircraft, and shore units, strategically located along the coasts and inland waterways of the United States and in selected areas overseas to carry out its duties. [More…]

• Most Coast Guard operating facilities have the capacity for promoting safety on or over the high seas and on waters subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. [More…]

• Loran stations are operated in the United States and abroad to serve the needs of the armed services and marine and air commerce. [More…]

• Administrative control is exercised over the construction, maintenance, and operation of bridges across the navigable waters of the United States to insure that the safe passage of navigation is not unreasonably interfered with. [More…]

• Why is it that the United States and Canadian coastguards have assumed a particular organisational role? [More…]

• One suspects that it was only because of the peculiar processes of United States democracy that there began to be very serious concern in most democratic communities about these issues. [More…]

• It was only as a result of developments in the United States in 1975 that the suspicions of many people, who 10 or 15 years ago might have been regarded as being a bit paranoid about the whole question, were very largely confirmed. [More…]

• Might I illustrate what I mean about the suspicions of people by referring to the United States agency journal Almanac 1975 dealing with national security in the United States. [More…]

• It refers to the United States Government probe of intelligence agency activities, and the summary of the revelations, as the article is called, is in these terms: [More…]

• In regard to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, another organisation concerned with internal security within the United States as distinct from the Central Intelligence Agency, which by its own charter is precluded from the sort of internal actions in which it took part and which were summarised in the passage I read, the article states: [More…]

• As I say, those sorts of activities have been revealed by the peculiar processes of United States democracy which we all sometimes criticise but which I believe on occasions we have reason to envy. [More…]

• Of course such people were also regarded as peculiar people in the United States. [More…]

• The United States Congress has revealed that they were not peculiar people at all. [More…]

• I have referred to the sorts of principles which have been enunciated in Britain and I have referred to the inquiries which have been conducted by the Congress in the United States in relation to this sort of confusion. [More…]

• As a result of the inquiries conducted in the United States, President Carter has sought to establish a much more responsible overview of the activities of intelligence services. [More…]

• In addition he has established in the United States what is called the Congressional Intelligence Committee. [More…]

• That information is taken from a document entitled ‘Administration of Jimmy Carter 1978’ which was obtained from the United States Information Service. [More…]

• So in the United States there is the development of a system which seems much more responsive to Congress and the executive arm of government than the confused system that we have here. [More…]

• However, compared with the suggestions in the Denning report and the United States Congress report, the Hope report strikes me as being extremely vague on this issue. [More…]

• That is an extraordinarily vague and unsatisfactory provision compared with the quite clear statements which Lord Denning was prepared to enunciate in England and which President Carter’s committee seems to have been prepared to enunciate in the United States. [More…]

• We also have cause to be concerned about the revelations in this country in the last couple of months which are totally consistent with the revelations in countries such as the United States of America over a number of years. [More…]

• President Carter has initiated the international fuel cycle evaluation to study the non-proliferation aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle and the United States for the time being has suspended the reprocessing of nuclear fuel. [More…]

• I refer to an article appearing in the Sunday Mail in Queensland on 12 March which described how a 200 series Boeing 727, on a domestic flight from Miami to Newark in the United States of America, sequentially suffered complete power loss on all three engines. [More…]

• The information indicated that no cause for the occurrence had been established and that further investigation was being pursued by the United States National Transportation Safety Board. [More…]

• The Federal Government, through its coal research agreement with the United Kingdom and others under negotiation with the United States of America, will be able to assist Australian research workers to be fully informed of the latest overseas developments in coal conversion and so ensure that Australia will be able to take full advantage of the developments in technology in this very important area. [More…]

• What is needed is a national water quality reference document of the kind published by the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States of America in the publication entitled Quality Criteria for Water’, which is quite a large document. [More…]

• Of course, the United States of America has adopted very stringent rules and laws with respect to water quality. [More…]

• Under a federal system, legislation in Canada dealing with the improvement of the St Lawrence Seaway and legislation in the United States dealing with the Hudson River seemed to be more comprehensive. [More…]

• About onethird of it is desert; more than half of it receives an average annual rainfall of less than 15 inches; and the average annual rainfall on the mainland is 16.5 inches, compared with 26 inches for all land areas in the world and 29 inches for the United States. [More…]

• This represents an average depth of i’A inches, compared with 9% inches for all land surfaces of the world and 9 inches for the United States. [More…]

• Because some parts of the world receive very high rainfalls, I do not think that the world average is nearly as relevant as the comparison of our situation to that of the United States. [More…]

• It is well known that the United States has substantial desert areas and yet it has just on eight times the run-off of the continent of Australia. [More…]

• The Concerned Citizens Group of Alice Springs has called for an immediate inquiry into the activities of intelligence people from Pine Gap, and last Wednesday members of the group tried unsuccessfully to enter the United States section of the geological station at Alice Springs. [More…]

• I said earlier that apparently the military personnel who belong to the United States Army are carrying out a similar civilian surveillance. [More…]

• In 1968 the United States Tipperary Corporation took out a prospecting licence on Aurukun, and I believe that the problems facing the people of Aurukun at the moment started when that licence was taken out. [More…]

• There is no reason why we could not copy what is done in other countries if we wished to do so, why we could not take on some of the parliamentary scrutiny on a continuing basis as is the case in the United States of America. [More…]

• I have also been heartened by my recent discussions with Ambassador Strauss in Washington, the United States Special Trade Representative, who confirmed to me the United States Government’s intention to strongly press in the Multilateral Trade Negotiations in Geneva for improved market access into the EEC for agricultural products, including, most importantly, beef. [More…]

• Over the years there has been a great deal of criticism by other nations, especially the United States of America, about this policy, particularly the common agricultural policy which is of so much concern to us. [More…]

• The disputes that often occur on the Atlantic coast of the United States are of longer duration than our disputes. [More…]

• The Prime Minister said that according to evidence given recently to a United States Senate Committee, in the last five years there have been around the world 1800 major acts of terrorism, which have resulted in 512 deaths, 551 injuries and 363 kidnappings. [More…]

• When I worked in a hospital in the United States I was surprised at first to discover that one had to have identification. [More…]

• If there is no basis upon which we can say that international terrorism has spread to this country, we face no greater risk than did the United States of America when John Wilkes Booth perpetrated his crime or other famous actions were carried out by people who could only be regarded as individual aberrations in the life of a society. [More…]

• I suggest that any honourable senator who has been to the House of Commons or the Congress of the United States of America in recent years - [More…]

• Records of the Authority in relation to the 99 deceased contractors’ employees are incomplete but indicate that workers from at least the following countries were included in the fatalities: Austria, Australia, Belgium, Estonia, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Spain, United Kingdom, United States of America, Yugoslavia. [More…]

• by leave- I inform the Senate that the Minister for Special Trade Representations and Minister for Veterans’ Affairs (Mr Garland) left Australia yesterday for discussions in Europe and the United States. [More…]

• Is the Leader of the Government aware that for the first time a research project of the world respected Club of Rome is being initiated in Australia, all previous projects having been carried out in Europe or the United States of America. [More…]

• Japan and the United States did not oppose it, nor did the countries of Europe. [More…]

• The UK Government, for example, and the United States of America Government have not found it necessary to make any statement to the effect that they give de facto recognition to the incorporation of East Timor into Indonesia. [More…]

• Then the policy changed and they would do whatever the United States of America Government wanted them to do. [More…]

• That figure has been accepted by the United States Congressional Committee. [More…]

• There are lessons to be learned here from the experience of countries such as the United States of America. [More…]

• We are not unaware of a similar situation in the United States with the Florida Everglades where the United States army was involved in a reclamation plan which drastically affected the ecological balance in that region. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that in the United States of America and Canada, two of our major competitors for the export of agricultural products, the on-farm price of automotive distillate and gasoline is below the Australian on-farm price, although the price for crude oil in these two countries is above the price of crude oil in Australia. [More…]

• In regard to the agreement, is the Government satisfied that the reservations expressed by the United States of America Government agencies and Congress committees in respect to the technical experience of the Philippines in this area are such as to warrant any agreement? [More…]

• The Tipperary Corporation, which is based in the United States, owns 40 per cent; Billington Aluminium (Australia), which is owned by the Shell Co. of Australia Ltd, owns 40 per cent; and the Pechiney company owns the other 20 per cent. [More…]

• Sister Kenny went to the United States and started a number of clinics there, Eventually our doctors agreed that there was something to her methods. [More…]

• Further to my question without notice on 14 March concerning the sequential complete loss of power of the three jet engines on a 200- series Boeing 727 in the United States, I ask the Minister: Has any additional information as a result of the investigation into the incident yet been made available to either the Department of Transport or our internal airlines? [More…]

• The United States National Transportation Safety Board has accepted this explanation for the incident and as a possible explanation for several other reported incidents of erratic engine operation. [More…]

• The honourable senator asks whether I am aware of a contract for $ 10m being let in the United States of America for research into a particular type of generator. [More…]

• I do not know of the contract in the United States relating to research into power generation. [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…]

• In view of the code that Mr Street gave us last year, can we have an immediate evaluation to see just what uranium mining hazards really mean in relation to cancer in the light of recent United States statistics? [More…]

• -Has the attention of the Leader of the Government in the Senate been drawn to the recent commencement of a practice in the State of Colorado in the United States of America, which is rapidly being applied by other States in the United States, and which requires governmental regulatory bodies to go out of existence each six years unless they justify their existence to the legislature in open public inquiry? [More…]

• This follows a report that Exxon Nuclear in the United States of America has been carrying out research in the area of laser enrichment which, it is reported, could revolutionise the nuclear industry. [More…]

• This is evidenced by the recent decision of the United States to increase its enrichment capacity very greatly. [More…]

• It is unlikely that the United States would adopt this process if the laser technique would in any way be a competitive process at that time. [More…]

• -Will the Minister representing the Minister for National Development make available to the Senate for tabling the 104-page report on nuclear energy prepared by the Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Sub-committee of the United States Congress? [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that the cost of nuclear energy in the United States is climbing astronomically and that this cost spiral, plus the waste problem, are already causing some American States to back away from nuclear power development? [More…]

• Will the Minister draw the attention of the Minister for National Development to these new attitudes in the United States? [More…]

• -I have not seen the 104-page report of the United States Congress to which Senator Justin O ‘Byrne alluded. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that the nations to attend that conference include Britain, France, West Germany, Italy, the United States of America, Canada and Japan? [More…]

• The United States, Canada and other nuclear supplier countries have in recent times taken initiatives to strengthen nuclear safeguards. [More…]

• Since the announcement of Australia ‘s decision to proceed with further uranium development, a number of countries, including the United Kingdom, the Philippines, the United States, West Germany, France, Finland, and Japan, have registered their desire to secure uranium from Australia for their nuclear power programs. [More…]

• The Minister for Special Trade Representations (Mr Garland) recently returned from overseas and presented an excellent detailed paper on the grave economic problems which the attitude of the EEC towards what were our traditional markets is causing not only to Australia but also to a vast number of producing nations, such as Japan and the United States of America. [More…]

• Indeed, the pear export industry is now selling about half of its fruit in the South East Asian region, and good sales to the United States of America have also been reported. [More…]

• A number of naval colleges have been established throughout the world but almost no real merchant service colleges covering the whole field of training have been established other than the one in the United States of America which is at Kings Point on Long Island. [More…]

• We are doing it in a way which perhaps will mean that we have a national Maritime College before any nation other than the United States of America. [More…]

• At present the United States and other countries are indulging extensively in the mining of manganese from the seabed and we must be prepared to join in when necessary. [More…]

• Have sales to the United States of America for the five months, November to March, averaged 32,000 tonnes a month? [More…]

• To keep within the quota limits applying to the United States market, will monthly sales for the rest of the year have to be restricted to 20,000 tonnes? [More…]

• What action, if any, has the Government taken to secure a sale to the USSR or some other market to avoid the severe beef price reduction which would follow the diversion of 12,000 tonnes a month from the United States market? [More…]

• I am unable to verify the figures suggested by the honourable senator as being the sales made to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Eastern Europe and the United States. [More…]

• I believe the general comment made by the honourable senator relating to sales to the United States is correct. [More…]

• Is it also a fact that such tertiary loan schemes work with significant popularity and effect in Canada, the United States and Scandinavia? [More…]

• Does the Minister approve of this, bearing in mind that Australia is not yet an American State and in any case it has social, educational and cultural issues and needs different from those of the United States of America? [More…]

• I mention specifically the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- neither of which recognises our sovereignty claims- Britain, New Zealand, Chile, and others. [More…]

• Particularly in the case of the United States and the Soviet Union, and to a somewhat lesser extent other countries, summer teams of between 850 and 1,000 are engaged, and these numbers are substantially reduced when climatic conditions between March and October make operations hazardous, costly and minimally effective. [More…]

• We have to reflect that blacks all over the world, whether they be in the United States of America, Africa or any other countryor indeed in our own country- have had to struggle for the basic right to be recognised as human beings, as being part of a community. [More…]

• For the first time in recent years, the United States is a member of an International Sugar Agreement. [More…]

• The United States Administration looks to the Agreement as providing a cornerstone for a new domestic United States sugar policy which is being established. [More…]

• The United States Sugar Act, which for many years limited total United States imports and provided little access for Australian sugar, expired in 1974. [More…]

• After a period of trading wholly as one of the world’s largest free markets the United States has found it necessary to find ways to protect its own producers of cane and beet sugar against the disruptive effects of low world prices. [More…]

• For this reason, the United States Administration took a very important part in the Sugar Conference. [More…]

• The United States was largely instrumental in developing some of the provisions of the new Agreement, including its stocks provisions and the stock financing fund to which both importers and exporters will contribute. [More…]

• The United States has a special interest in ensuring the successful operation of the Agreement. [More…]

• Has the Attorney-General considered the problems affecting the legal profession in the United States where class actions have developed rapidly in the last few years? [More…]

• This Conference was called by the Inter-Governmental Marine Consultative Organisation following the large number of tanker accidents which occured about 12 months ago off the coast of the United States of America. [More…]

• It ought not to be forgotten either that the United States of America, while in effect a metropolitan power- as are the United Kingdom and France- has a substantial interest in the Pacific. [More…]

• While the United Kingdom is probably withdrawing its Pacific interest fairly substantially and France is changing its status, the United States is a Pacific nation of consequence. [More…]

• It has a substantial stake in the Pacific, and it has a particular interest in Hawaii, which is a State of the United States located in the North Pacific in about the same location as the Cook Islands are located in the South Pacific. [More…]

• It is important that the United States should be encouraged to take an active part in the development programs and the assistance programs in the interests of the South Pacific. [More…]

• Far more activity may be needed from joint nations such as New Zealand-Australia-United States of America in helping with banking activities within the range that the island state chooses to have helped. [More…]

• The scheme is similar to that which has been established in the United States for over 20 years. [More…]

• We are often proud and we say what a great country the United States is. [More…]

• Senator Bishop intruded a question about the United States scene. [More…]

• As a matter of fact, a man who has almost been canonised in industrial relations and a man who suffered lots of ups and downs, namely, Mr Bridges, has led strikes on the West Coast and on the East Coast of the United States which have gone for much longer than any strikes here. [More…]

• That has not caused the United States Congress to flap about it; it has let people talk about it. [More…]

• It is prompted by the national campaign in the United States to alert people in all industries who are involved with asbestos in packing and insulation to a broad campaign to detect any respiratory diseases. [More…]

• It is very difficult to say at present how much competition manufacturing industry in this country will face from countries such as the United States, Japan, Russia and perhaps the United Kingdom when the production of the software and hardware for this instrument commences. [More…]

• I understand that a very high level group from the United States of America is in Australia at present discussing the development, perhaps on a joint basis with Australia, of features of this system. [More…]

• Is that not sufficient ground for the Minister to deny reports that the present deputation from the United States is here virtually to tell us how InterScan will be developed and that Australian industry might receive 10 per cent of the total production of the InterScan system? [More…]

• As the Minister has had so much to say about InterScan in the past 12 months, can he now say on behalf of the Government that what has been developed in this country will receive proper recognition and that the Australian Government will stand by it irrespective of the pressures from United States companies? [More…]

• At that time both Australia and the United States of America had proposed a time reference scanning beam system to ICAO. [More…]

• The point is that for some time it has been a joint development by the United States of America and Australia. [More…]

• For instance, as I understand it, more than 50 per cent of the whole of the installations in the United States will be of this type of system. [More…]

• I think it would be very foolish for this country to believe that it would be able to deliver its system to the United States in that volume. [More…]

• It is a very wise proposition to be involved in joint operations with the United States and I am pleased that we are so involved. [More…]

• The fact is that it is wise for us to be associated with the United States of America. [More…]

• The honourable senator may know that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics came in behind the United States of America and Australia in regard to this matter. [More…]

• The very fact that representatives of the United States are in Australia to discuss with us some of the developments indicates that a very major user is going to seek Australia’s assistance and that we will mutually benefit from it. [More…]

• Did the Prime Minister state at a dinner of American businessmen in the United States last year that Dillingham Mining Company was running out of orders at the time sand-mining on Fraser Island was suspended, and that the Company might have concluded its Fraser Island operations even if the decision to ban mining on Fraser Island had not been taken, as reported in the Brisbane Sunday Mail on 26 June 1977; if so, what evidence can the Prime Minister provide to support his claims. [More…]

• Has the United States established defence research installations in Australia which are not jointly operated with Australia. [More…]

• 1 ) How many joint defence research installations within Australia has the United States established jointly with Australia. [More…]

• Are any of the installations, or sections of the installations, manned solely by United States staff; if so, which installations. [More…]

• Does the Australian Government have access to intelligence output from all United States defence research installations in Australia; if not, which installations withhold intelligence output from Australia. [More…]

• There are no United States bases in Australia. [More…]

• 1 ) Has the United States of America set aside a sum in excess of$US10 million for a four-year program to test a 10 megawatt M.H.D. [More…]

• The United States of America is spending$US72 million in 1978 on magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) generation. [More…]

• I believe that the $US 10 million referred to by the honourable senator concerns a joint project between the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]

• The United States has loaned to the Soviet Union a magnet weighing 45 tonnes and valued at approximately $US10 million. [More…]

• The aircraft will carry both passengers and cargo as part of a pooling arrangement between Australia, New Zealand and the United States. [More…]

• Some of the passengers will be United States and New Zealand personnel and it is not known at this stage how many would be taking up clerical and scientific positions on their Antarctic bases. [More…]

• Representatives from New Zealand and the United States will almost certainly be included on the passenger list with the possibility of nationals from other nations who are flying down to New Zealand and United States bases. [More…]

• What inquiries have been made by the Minister’s Department, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation or the Commonwealth health authorities to ascertain, firstly, whether the herbicides are contaminated with the highly toxic chemical known as ‘Dioxin’ and what systematic checking is done to ensure that this contaminant is kept below dangerous levels; secondly, the extent of available overseas investigation and reports and in particular the evidence which caused United States District Judge Otto Skopil on 7 March 1977, to grant an injunction against the United States Forest Service restraining the use of phenoxy herbicides, including 2, 4, 5-T, in the Siuslaw National Forest and whether such ban of its use has since been extended to all 19 forests in the States of Oregon and Washington; and thirdly, whether the authorities are aware of the claims by Kevin Twigg a Kyabram dairy farmer, of illnesses suffered by him through the Victorian Lands Department’s use of such herbicides on his property in Victoria in 1976? [More…]

• The herbicide 2,4,5-T as used by the United States as a defoliant in the Vietnam war, in conjunction with 2,4-D, contained significant concentrations of dioxin, an impurity virtually eliminated in Australian production between the mid-1960s and the late 1960s. [More…]

• Is he aware that last year Chrysler Australia made a loss of $27m, Chrysler in the United Kingdom made a loss of Stg2 lm, which brings their total accumulated United Kingdom losses up to f Stg 1 1 7m, and the parent company in the United States made a loss of $236m? [More…]

• Further advice I have is that information is being sought by the Department of Primary Industry on the circumstances surrounding the injunction by the United States District Judge Otto Skopil on 7 March 1977 against the use of phenoxy herbicides by the United States Forest Service. [More…]

• Information is available on numerous similar injunctions sought and several granted against the United States Forest Service prior to this date for failure to conform with a National Environmental Policy Act requirement for the filing of environmental impact statements. [More…]

• Last year, or even before, there was a leading article in La Fiamma about certain mishaps in the pension portability system operated by the United States of America which is similar to ours. [More…]

• I simply say that when the abuses of the pension portability system in Italy at least 12 months ago were detected by the United States authorities the Australian Government should have alerted people to check on that. [More…]

• The United States of America Defence Department called tenders for the supply of a large transport aircraft. [More…]

• It is estimated by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics that timber prices have been rising in real terms in the United Kingdom by about 2 per cent per annum and by about 1.8 per cent per annum in the United States, in addition to which freight rates, in real terms, also seem to be rising. [More…]

• If I may give some brief examples- I have no wish to detain the Senate- turning to page 1 1 of the report, and the reference to the United States of America’s regional supply and demand for wood, we find that that section speaks of the availability of softwood and hardwood roundwood and states that, in using various price projections, it is estimated that by the year 2000 the total annual demand for roundwood will be between 46 1 million and 63 1 million cubic metres, whilst supply will be about 551 million cubic metres. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Prime Minister aware of the existence in the United States of America of what is termed sunset’ legislation which was first instituted in the State of Colorado in 1976 and which is now followed in 22 other States? [More…]

• There is a possibility that Australian citizens will have to compete, for land surrounding this resort at Yeppoon, against the power of the yen, which is considerably stronger than that of the Australian dollar and, for that matter, the United States dollar. [More…]

• Is it strongly in favour of the United States? [More…]

• I refer to reports that contracts have been let in the United States for the establishment of a ground station for the United States defence satellite communications system. [More…]

• -Has the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs seen a report that the United States Administration estimates that more than 3,000 boat people arrived in Australia last month? [More…]

• I have not seen a report that 3,000 boat people entered Australia last month, which Senator Douglas McClelland told us has been released in the United States. [More…]

• -Earlier today Senator Button asked me a question about a possible United States military installation to be built on the North-West Cape in Western Australia. [More…]

• It has been said that a financial sneeze in tha United States ends up as economic influenza in Australia. [More…]

• It seems that security in the United States has created a fear of terrorists syndrome in Australia. [More…]

• Was this subject discussed by Mr MacKellar and the United States Vice-President? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Prime Minister and the Minister for Foreign Affairs and refers generally to the visit yesterday by United States VicePresident Mondale, and Press reports about the subject matter of talks between the Prime Minister and/or other Ministers and the United States Vice-President. [More…]

• As an example, a few days ago the Press was saying that the United States Vice-President was here to make sure that we take more Vietnamese refugees. [More…]

• The Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) in his statement to the Parliament during March last year sought to analyse our relationships with the developed democracies, including Japan, the United States of America and Western Europe; our changing relationships with China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; and our developing relationships in our own region. [More…]

• One matter is the critically important strategic arms limitations talks which have been going on between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for some time. [More…]

• It requires the signatories not to exceed their export quotas if prices for 75 consecutive days are below 1 1 United States cents per pound ex Caribbean ports. [More…]

• But there is some doubt whether the United States of America will participate in the agreement. [More…]

• If the United States does not participate in the agreement, it provides even less security for the Australian industry than we previously thought. [More…]

• The Agreement establishes a price range of 1 1 to 2 1 United States cents per pound- equivalent to SA2I7 to $A414 per tonne. [More…]

• But once again the significant point is that the Deputy Prime Minister misrepresented this Agreement as being something which established a price range between 1 1 and 2 1 United States cents per pound. [More…]

• We fell for this in the early 1960s after the conflict between Cuba and the United States of America had disrupted the world sugar market. [More…]

• I suggest that the Government of Queensland ought to have made a more astute assessment of the likely potential market for sugar at that time, given that the cycle of high prices caused by either crop failure or some other market disruption like the United States-Cuba dispute of the early 1 960s induces boom prices, which in turn induce an expansion of acreage planted in most of the major sugar-producing countries and, consequently, another depression. [More…]

• The Agreement also tries to stabilise sugar prices within a range of 1 1 United States cents and 2 1 United States cents per pound, financed by a levy on all trade in sugar by members of the Agreement. [More…]

• It was a major accomplishment to get the United States of America to become a party to the agreement in the first place. [More…]

• The third marketing arrangement which affected Australia’s sugar industry and which we might consider was the United States Sugar Act. [More…]

• Like the Commonwealth Sugar Agreement, the United States Sugar Act terminated in 1974. [More…]

• When I look at this Bill I think I agree with one of the previous speakers who said that it is encouraging that this Agreement has the United States as one of its signatories. [More…]

• Did the United States Navy offer the Royal Australian Air Force the use of the American-made Difar system prior to the installation of the Barra Sonor Buoy system; if so, was that offer accepted; if not, why not, and what would have been the cost of installing the Difar system. [More…]

• (a) The aircraft are being procured through the United States Government. [More…]

• 1 ) Did the Prime Minister refuse, on 20 October 1 977, to make public his appeal or submission to the President of the United States regarding the desirability of Continental Airlines being permitted to fly to Australia: if so, why. [More…]

• The Government’s views on this matter were outlined in a note I presented to the President of the United States. [More…]

• It is obvious from the Acting Minister’s News Release that negotiations between the Australian Government and the Government of the United States on this matter are incomplete. [More…]

• Is it a fact that entry to Australia has been refused to a Mr Fred Mazelis, a United States citizen? [More…]

• When Sir Denham was Leader of the Government in the Senate he visited the United States of America and he became aware of a number of very serious problems, one relating to air pollution and one to water pollution. [More…]

• In view of the importance of the United States beef market to Australia, will the Minister check on the accuracy of this article? [More…]

• I take it that so far the legislation has passed only the United States Senate. [More…]

• There is no indication as to whether it has also passed the United States House of Representatives. [More…]

• I take it that there is no indication of whether the United States President will exercise his veto. [More…]

• So, even if it has passed the United States Senate, it may still have two hurdles to go. [More…]

• Those people who want to get into an argument about the ‘wicked multinationals’ should read through the newspapers and Congress reports from America for the early twentieth century, when American dialogue was continuously to the effect that it was quite clear that the United States of America was being taken over by British and European capital. [More…]

• The United States by its regulatory powers was able to use that capital for good and to mitigate harm. [More…]

• When I was at the McMurdo base and travelled to the South Pole I was alerted to the fact that even there medical research was being undertaken by the United States of America. [More…]

• We are aware that the United States plans to replace the existing terminal with an improved terminal possibly in 1980-81. [More…]

• The matter would in these circumstances be considered in the context of the United States-Australian agreement but specifically concerning the north west coast. [More…]

• Four of those people whose names I read out a few moments ago wrote a letter to the Vice-President of the United States when he was in Canberra a few days ago. [More…]

• We ask for your help as President of the United States as one of the reasons we are losing control of our land and way of life is because the Queensland Government wants our land so that the Tipperary company- [More…]

• For it to be suggested that it would be more fruitful to hand letters to the Vice-President of the United States of America for presentation to the President of the [More…]

• United States of America overlooks the Australian Government’s commitment to see that the terms of the referendum which was carried overwhelmingly by the Australian people in 1967 are upheld. [More…]

• He then goes on to say that when he made further inquiries he was informed that the pictures of the flames were in fact pictures of the flames from a flare stack at a coke works in Sheffield, miles away, and that the pictures of the radiation victim had been taken from a medical journal and represented the victim of an accident in connection with the weapons industry in the United States of America. [More…]

• That estimate comes from an atomic industrial forum which was held in the United States in 1975. [More…]

• If we leave it in the ground, we have done nothing about the dangers, the disposal of nuclear waste, about terrorists acquiring weapons, nothing about people occupied in the generating plants in West Germany, Japan and the United States. [More…]

• Examples of the use of uranium in the United States have shown the impossibility of being certain that waste resulting from the treatment of uranium can be disposed of safely. [More…]

• But the vast quantity of accumulated waste that already exists in the United States is such that it would challenge the ability of scientists more than ever to find the proper technique by which to dispose of it. [More…]

• Quite a number of authorities from the United States took part in a seminar on the mining and exporting of Australian uranium, and it was concluded that the matter is far from settled in the minds of the Australian people. [More…]

• In the United States, the White House, Congress, and the nuclear industry itself are trying to answer some of the questions still unresolved. [More…]

• One of the participants in this Four Corners program, Jeff McMullen, a commentator of the Australian Broadcasting Commission based in the United States, made this observation: [More…]

• They should realise that minor accidents have occurred at reactors in the United States. [More…]

• One of the people interviewed on this Four Corners program was a man who has devoted himself to the public good in the United States. [More…]

• There is enough radioactive waste now, enough plutonium in the United States and other countries to produce hundreds of nuclear bombs or if they are exposed to the atmosphere to destroy hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people, so that that’s the criteria by which we judge whether there should have been radioactive waste disposal solved before the nuclear power plants were on line. [More…]

• Firstly, it has to go either to the United States of America or Great Britain where it is converted into a gaseous form known as uranium hexafluoride. [More…]

• I am surprised and disappointed that he has not seen fit to give evidence to the United States Congressional Committee which has expressed its concern, for example, about the establishment of a nuclear reactor in the Philippines. [More…]

• I have before me a report from the Committee on Government Operations of the United States Congress entitled Report on Nuclear Power Costs’ which was recently provided in the United States Congress. [More…]

• The report went on to say that in the United States construction costs of nuclear plants have risen 10 times faster than the cost of living over the last two years. [More…]

• -And in the United States of America, as my colleague Senator Gietzelt from New South Wales reminds me. [More…]

• It is being conducted on several levels and I think it is of great importance to the future of food production in this country, lt is considered generally within the public area to be something of a health risk because of legal action on the matter which has been taken in the United States of America. [More…]

• Let me refer to the report of the United States General Accounting Office. [More…]

• It states that if all the nuclear activities were halted the United States would still have major radioactive waste disposal problems because of the accumulation of waste for decades. [More…]

• I refer to a document entitled ‘Conclusions and Recommendations of Report “Nuclear Power Costs” Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Sub-Committee of Committee on Government Operations, United States Congress’. [More…]

• With those sorts of costs coming up, the United States has a real problem with the disposal of waste. [More…]

• Why are countries such as the United States, Canada and Japan, which have problems with the disposal of waste, not proposing to use the plant? [More…]

• In the United States of America in 1976 there were 36 orders for nuclear plants. [More…]

• It seems to us that s. 4 1 is a special power which was enacted at a time when the need to secure Australian uranium for use by Great Britain and the United States of America in nuclear weapons was uppermost in the minds of those concerned. [More…]

• I do not think that the Deputy Prime Minister knew that plutonium was a component of the nuclear field until the President of the United States of America, Mr Jimmy Carter, mentioned it in a Press release, saying that he did not want a plutonium-based economy. [More…]

• The United States of America, Canada and other nuclear supplier countries have in recent times taken initiatives to strengthen nuclear safeguards. [More…]

• Since the announcement of Australia ‘s decision to proceed with further uranium development a number of countries, including the United Kingdom, the Philippines, the United States, West Germany, France. [More…]

• This proposed legislation compares very poorly with nuclear regulatory processes in the United States where public rulemakings hearings are mandatory and public access to information is guaranteed by Freedom of Information legislation. [More…]

• Another article in the Canberra Times reported that Mr Marcos was piqued at newspaper reports of questionable financial arrangements and was talking of cancelling the United States order. [More…]

• Coincidentally, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was offering a reactor to replace the United States model. [More…]

• We pointed out what had happened in the United States of America and in other countries and came to the conclusion that this industry peculiarly needed a single control within Australia in the national interest. [More…]

• Australians will have many memories of Sir Robert Menzies- memories of him as a Prime Minister who led this country for 1 6 consecutive years; memories of him as a Prime Minister who strove to enrich the resources, the opportunities and the talent of the country; memories of him as a Prime Minister who cemented and extended our relations with Britain and the Commonwealth, memories of him as a Prime Minister who continued to nurture our relations with other allies such as the United States of America, and memories of him as a Prime Minister who saw the need for and fostered the highest standard of professionalism and integrity in the Public Service. [More…]

• Some of the particular interests identified with Sir Robert Menzies and with which might therefore be drawn within the purposes of the fund are the law, with particular reference to constitutional matters and Federal-State relationships, studies concerned with Australia’s role within the British Commonwealth and with AustraliaBritain relations, studies of Australia and the United States, studies of relations between Australia and the Pacific Nations. [More…]

• Such a system has been used in the United States for years and has been under considerable criticism there. [More…]

• The recently enacted United States Copyright Act permits certain performances of non-dramatic literary works for blind and handicapped persons to be carried out in specified circumstances. [More…]

• United States of America [More…]

• That is the British system and what the article refers to as the United States system- [More…]

• We approached the United States to join with us in this project. [More…]

• Without the influence of the United States, probably a scheme such as the one Australia has been able to put forward would not have got ofl” the ground. [More…]

• If it had not been for that work would the Minister not agree that the United States of America, Russia or any other nation today would not have any chance of benefiting from such an innovative scheme as InterScan? [More…]

• Will the Minister, in conjunction with the Minister for Productivity, give the Parliament a detailed statement of the negotiations which took place here over the past two or three weeks when a United States delegation came here to negotiate certain arrangements for the development of InterScan? [More…]

• Senator Knight asked a direct question whether my attention had been drawn to an article which used words suggesting that the United States of America system had been adopted. [More…]

• Senator Wriedt asked me the most important question of whether I would be prepared to bring before the Parliament a statement relating to the negotiations with the United States’ company in relation to the development of the equipment that may be used in InterScan installations. [More…]

• If the Minister says that that is not on, I commend to him the comments I made during the second reading debate on this legislation, when I mentioned the role which the United States Senate played when the United States Army reclamation engineers ran unchecked. [More…]

• There is now growing evidence in the United States, as told to the Congressional inquiry in February last, that those who have been in contact with uranium, for instance in mining, in reactor operation, and in the maintenance of nuclear reactors for submarine propulsion, may develop leukemias and other forms of cancer, 20-30 years after initial exposure. [More…]

• Mr Fry spent quite a long period of time in the United States of America where he worked in the radiological department of a prominent hospital. [More…]

• There are some 30 trillion cancer doses under the surface of the United States- the deposits of uranium and its daughters. [More…]

• Unless I am mistaken and unless the amendments to which Senator Jessop referred are specific, as a conservationist I cannot see that our national parks will be as well protected as those in the United States of America. [More…]

• It is an article dealing with the current United States Congress debate on the cutting up of Alaska. [More…]

• I want to prove that in the debates between the developmentalists and the conservationists in the United States the real argument has been whether certain areas in Alaska will be defined as wilderness areas. [More…]

• The United States Secretary of State went on record as saying that at present the United States appears to be deficient in petroleum and natural gas resources but the last place in which exploration would occur would be these wilderness areas. [More…]

• I shall await with interest the reply by the Minister for Education to see whether he will be able to give me an iron clad assurance that if the Government has its way with the three mining enclaves it will not in either phase 1 or phase 2 of the project mine in areas which will destroy the concept of a national park but that it will be influenced to emulate the feelings which prevail in the United States of America. [More…]

• I have never heard either the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) or the Minister for the Northern Territory (Mr Adermann) echo the sentiments of the present United States Secretary of the Interior, who has said that, whatever America’s fuel demands might be, wildlife refuges will not be mined. [More…]

• During the Kennedy era, the United States had a problem about the rights of negroes to enter universities in the southern states. [More…]

• If the United States Attorney-General Kennedy had not put the federal marshals into Alabama, they would never have moved. [More…]

• I refer to the United States Army reclamation engineers. [More…]

• Some queer happenings occurred in Florida with the United States Army reclamation people. [More…]

• In seconding with the strongest force at my command, the amendment moved by Senator Ryan, I say that I believe that there are not enough safeguards to make the park what it should be and that would emulate the philosophy that seems to premeate the United States Congress. [More…]

• I emphasise again that I agree with what Senator Carrick said at the commencement of his second reading speech concerning the vision splendid for Kakadu National Park, but I remain unconvinced that there are safeguards for this or any other national park in comparison with what appears to operate in regard to the wilderness concept in the United States. [More…]

• If it is as easy as his authority makes out and if there is as little danger as his authority would have us believe, why is it that in Washington a congressional study has raised once again some old questions about the future of nuclear energy, at least in the United States. [More…]

• The Congressional report charges that no permanent acceptable storage method has yet been found for radioactive waste and that this disposal problem, more than any other factor, threatens the future of nuclear energy in the United States of America. [More…]

• I understand that the properties of these chemicals have been most extensively examined by the World Health Organisation and in the United States and recently in New Zealand. [More…]

• Among these are the United States of America, Japan, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, New Zealand, Canada and the European Economic Community countries- in short both major fishing nations and nations with fisheries resources. [More…]

• Has the Minister seen details of an interview given to the New York Times by Mr Brzezinski, who is the United States national security adviser, in which he stated that he had given an unprecedented briefing to Chinese officials on the status of the Soviet-American strategic arms talks? [More…]

• Can the Minister say whether the Australian Government has been kept similarly informed by the United States and whether it is satisfied with the amount of confidential information it is receiving from the United States in respect of the talks? [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development been drawn to reports of the findings of a United States Congressional committee last week, which are set out in a document entitled Nuclear Power Costs? [More…]

• I understand that substantial advances have been made in brucellosis eradication in Canada, the United States of America and New Zealand and that advances have been made in eradicating this disease in Australia over the last few years. [More…]

• I think it is most likely that our export trade in beef and dairy products will be affected if Canada, the United States of America or New Zealand achieve total eradication of brucellosis before Australia does. [More…]

• It appears that our export trade in these products will be most affected if the United States of America eradicates the disease before we do; that is, if it is more successful than we are. [More…]

• This is illustrated by the current requirement by the United States armed forces for brucellosisfree certification of dairy products. [More…]

• Let me go back in history to the time when the United States bought Alaska from Russia. [More…]

• Under the old system Mount Lyell was one of the most expensive copper mines in the world but now, with what the company has already achieved, the costs of mining are lower than the average for the United States of America. [More…]

• -I ask Senator Withers, the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs, whether he is now in a position to answer a question that I asked yesterday concerning discussions between the United States of America and Chinese governments concerning the strategic arms limitation talks. [More…]

• -Yesterday Senator Wriedt asked: First, whether I had seen a New York Times report of a briefing of Chinese officials on SALT by United States National Security Advisor, Mr Brzezinski; secondly, whether the Australian Government has been kept similarly informed by the United States; and thirdly, whether the Australian Government is satisfied with the amount of confidential information it receives from the United States on SALT. [More…]

• Secondly, the Government maintains a close and regular contact with the United States Government on the whole range of arms control questions and current arms control negotiations. [More…]

• This includes adequate and timely briefings on strategic arms limitation talks between the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]

• Thirdly, the Government is entirely satisfied with the confidential briefings it receives from the United States on SALT. [More…]

• In the latest round of talks currently being held in the United States the two countries are trying to resolve the few remaining issues in the SALT II agreement. [More…]

• SALT is central to the achievement of stability in the nuclear balance and the relaxation of tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]

• Australia and Japan both have important relationships with the United States. [More…]

• As the two most important economically advanced countries in the Asia-Pacific region, Australia and Japan are the two most important allies of the United States in this part of the world. [More…]

• Both countries have a high stake in the security and prosperity of other economically advanced democratic powers in the world; in the continuation of the process of detente between the super-powers; in maintaining an open and nondiscriminatory regime in international trade; in encouraging a continuing United States presence in the Asia/Pacific region to the extent necessary to maintain a sound balance of power there; in opposing any attempt by the Soviet Union- or any other major power- to establish hegemony in the Asia/Pacific region; and in encouraging China to continue to play a constructive role in regional affairs. [More…]

• The Committee recommends and the Government agrees, that Australia should support the evolution of a visibly independent Japanese foreign policy which is broadly compatible with that of the United States. [More…]

• We also know that fairly recently citizen band radio hit the United States of America. [More…]

• Even after events such as these nations have been involved often in bloodcurdling civil wars- for example, Great Britain and the United States of America. [More…]

• For example, the policy of the United States of America is ‘Thou shalt integrate’; the policy of the Government of South Africa is ‘Thou shalt segregate’. [More…]

• It was used against the Indians in the United States and Canada, the Maoris in New Zealand, and the Aborigines in Australia. [More…]

• In that context, in the United States scalping was not an Indian pastime; it was white man’s pastime. [More…]

• Canadian and United States Indians cannot look forward to a long and prosperous life. [More…]

• The article shows that these Crows do not regard themselves as American citizens but as another people with another government within the United States of America. [More…]

• Obviously these historical events are not the responsibility of those whites who today occupy Canada, the United States, New Zealand and Australia. [More…]

• In the United States another racial problem is posed by the negroes who were first taken there as slaves following another well known pattern of inter-racial relations. [More…]

• The United States Government has mobilised mammoth organisations, released mass propaganda and enacted legislation in favour of the negroes. [More…]

• Only the black man fits the world pattern of international political warfare directed against the West by the East, ls it any wonder that the countries most clamant against racial discrimination are those who practise it most, that is Great Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. [More…]

• In the United States racial hatred is welling up in negroes who are the victims of this misguided policy of integration. [More…]

• Such a translation can end only in tragedy for the blacks, as seen in the United States. [More…]

• There is no majority to believe that the minority is holding up its progress as is now the case in regard to schooling in Britain and the United States where the blacks now are resented. [More…]

• Their only genuine intention is to use us for their own ends, as the reds and other left-wingers have operated in the United States. [More…]

• As well as the countries I have mentioned so far in this discussion on inter-racial relations- Britain, Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand- mention must be made of the Portuguese and their efforts in the East Indies, Mozambique and Angola. [More…]

• For one reason or another, the Portuguese stood steadfastly against segregation and for integration, as steadfastly as do the United States, Britain and other countries now. [More…]

• Integration cannot work, as shown by the experiences of Britain, the United States, Spain in the Americas, and Portugal. [More…]

• Has the Minister reached any agreement with the United States of America about the conduct of any aspect of the negotiations at the Multilateral Trade Negotiations; if so. [More…]

• During the April visit, the Minister met with Ministerial level representatives from a number of participating countries including Ambassador Strauss, the United States Special Trade Representative, Mr Nobuhiko Ushiba, Minister for External Economic Affairs in the Japanese Government, and Mr Haferkamp, Vice President and Commissioner for External Relations in the European Commission. [More…]

• The Minister met with officials of the United States Administration and a number of Congressional leaders during two visits to Washington in February and April 1978. [More…]

• On both occasions he had discussions with the United States Office of the Special Trade Representative. [More…]

• He was able on both occasions to review the respective stances of the two Governments in relation to the MTN and to confirm and build upon the understanding reached with Ambassador Wolff, the United States Deputy Special Trade Representative, when he visited Australia earlier in the year. [More…]

• Of particular significance in the discussions in February was the agreement that Australia and the United States should work together on developing proposals to limit the predatory dumping of subsidised agricultural products upon the commercial markets of traditional exporting countries like Australia and the United States. [More…]

• The Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry will recall my question to him on 24 May in regard to hedging by the Australian Wheat Board on the Chicago grain futures market and his reply to me on 26 May to the effect that the Board has the facility to hedge individual contracts in the futures market in the United States of America and that the facility was provided in conformity with the exchange controls exercised by the Reserve Bank of Australia. [More…]

• The third marketing arrangement affecting Australia’s sugar industry was the United States Sugar Act. [More…]

• Under that Act Australia was allotted a percentage share of United States foreign sugar requirements. [More…]

• Like the Commonwealth Sugar Agreement, the United States agreement also terminated at the end of 1974. [More…]

• It refers to the possibility of the United States Congress not ratifying the Agreement and, in particular, to the possibility of the Congress not approving of the contributions to this stockholding fund. [More…]

• It goes on to say that without the contributions of the United States the International Sugar Organisation will have great difficulty in getting the fund off the ground. [More…]

• The article then refers to the possibility of the United States having a legitimate legal excuse for withdrawing entirely from the levy and stockholdings provisions contained in the Agreement. [More…]

• The Agreement establishes a price range at 1 1 to 2 1 cents United States per lb. [More…]

• He also raised the problem of the United States of America. [More…]

• He said he was concerned about the delay in the ratification of the Agreement by the United States. [More…]

• The fact of the matter is that the United States has until the end of June to ratify the Agreement. [More…]

• The United States Administration is committed to ratification and regards an international sugar agreement as ‘the cornerstone of its domestic policy’. [More…]

• For example, in the United States not only are death duties payable but also a capital gains tax is payable. [More…]

• The United States does not have a net wealth tax but it has both death duties and a capital gains tax. [More…]

• While the citadels of capitalism, as some people on the far Left might call them, like the United States and similar countries are going one way Australia is going the other way in relation to this matter. [More…]

• Honourable senators will recall the occasion when a Lithuanian sailor, Simas Kudirka, sought refuge on a United States coastguard vessel in 1970 and was later sent back and sentenced to 10 years hard labour for having made an attempt at freedom. [More…]

• Antitrust enforcement action that has in recent years been taken in other countries, notably the United States, has made it clear that Australian producers could jeopardise their positions under the anti-trust laws of other countries by resorting to restrictive trade practices in their marketing operations with overseas buyers. [More…]

• We are also aware of the enormous decline in the construction of nuclear power plants in the United States of America. [More…]

• A recent congressional report on nuclear power costs in the United States of America stated: [More…]

• The Australian Government has consistently held the view that a necessary condition if the status of the SDR as a reserve asset is to be enhanced is an increase in the yield accruing to holders vis-a-vis the yield on established reserve assets such as the United States dollar. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that the United Kingdom, the United States and many other countries bring in their budgets in April, well before the end of the financial year, so the parliaments in those countries examine the expenditure well before the money is to be spent. [More…]

• I remember talking to a member of the United States Congress, Representative Otis Pike, who was a member of a committee that investigated the Central Intelligence Agency in America. [More…]

• I talked with some members of the United States Congress who had, in fact, been serving on these sorts of committees. [More…]

• If this situation goes on and on and there turns out to be some sort of scandal within ASIO concerning the Government, there will be a situation similar to the situation that has occurred in the United States with the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. [More…]

• The virus was isolated from biting insects collected by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation near Darwin in 1975, and was identified as belonging to the bluetongue group of viruses by tests carried out in South Africa and the United States of America in 1977. [More…]

• As for the word ‘special’ itself this is part of the jargon of international trade- the United States has a Special Trade Representative’- and is well understood by the Europeans. [More…]

• Is the Minister also aware that of the top trading countries, the United States of America and Saudi Arabia have full diplomatic relations and that Japan, the United Kingdom, Indonesia, Canada, West Germany, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand all maintain a de facto relationship? [More…]

• I ask: As Australia does so much trade with Taiwan- a trade that has increased greatly in the last few years- why will Australia not afford some recognition to Taiwan instead of virtually trading through the back door, particularly as it is good enough for countries such as the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Canada and Japan to afford such recognition? [More…]

• I now ask: Has the Minister seen the plans of the United States to issue a small new $ 1 coin which will be about the size of a 10c coin which, it is said, will save the government considerable money and also be of great use to the public in things like telephones and vending machines? [More…]

• At the end of this year we will almost certainly have an inflation rate lower than the United States of America and lower than the average of member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. [More…]

• Yesterday from far distant New York the Australian Prime Minister announced to the United States of America and to the American people that so far as he, as the political leader of Australia, was concerned Australia and Australians were in for tougher times in fighting the battle of inflation. [More…]

• We have seen that as a result of our policies our increase in the consumer price index is falling below that of nations such as the United States of America and Japan and below the average figure for OECD countries. [More…]

• Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to the situation in New Zealand and the United States of America where there are active and heavily funded energy research and development organisations. [More…]

• The Minister for Primary Industry has given me the following information: The United States Government has reached a decision to permit substantial quantities of additional beef to enter the United States market in order to stem the rising beef prices. [More…]

• I understand that the President of the United States will announce the actual figure shortly; therefore I do not wish to say any more at this moment about the details. [More…]

• The additional quantity to be permitted to enter the United States of America should be equivalent to the opening of a new major market. [More…]

• I draw attention to an answer given by the Minister for Primary Industry in the House of Representatives on 22 February in which he drew attention to the need for the United States to relax meat import restrictions to meet Australian Government representations to that end. [More…]

• The Minister will know that on 20 March this year the Minister for Primary Industry stated that a beef export entitlement for the United States market could be- 1 use his words- worth as much as 31.5c per lb. [More…]

• The 31.5c per lb is obviously the difference between the United States price and the lowest alternative export market price. [More…]

• Does this therefore mean that the maximum income gain to Australian cattle producers from a higher United States quota- if all the gain were passed on to the cattle producers- will be 70c a kilo or $7m for each 10,000 tonne increase in the quota? [More…]

• Senator Walsh is attempting to have the Minister or me suggest that a certain price will be reached in this very expansive market that is likely to open up with the United States of America. [More…]

• The Government holds the view that, when people in other competing markets realise the interest of the United States of America in taking extra volumes of meat, it necessarily follows that they will be alerted and interested in bidding. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations aware of a report which appeared in yesterday’s Australian Financial Review and which stated that the Prime Minister, in a meeting with United States businessmen in New York, said that Australia had a better record of industrial relations than do the countries of North America? [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry aware of reports that the United States Congress is delaying ratification of the International Sugar Agreement? [More…]

• Will its failure to ratify the agreement mean that the levy to establish the Sugar Stock Holding Fund cannot be collected from United States importers and that Australian sugar cane growers and producers could have to pay the entire cost of holding the 400,000 tonnes of raw sugar which Australia is committed to hold under the International Sugar Agreement? [More…]

• I think it is well to remember that tax legislation retrospectivity is forbidden in the United States and in France. [More…]

• I hope that the Government will attempt to look into the question of overseas law in respect of the United Kingdom, the United States and perhaps even New Zealand, where the law has recently been amended to provide that tax avoidance schemes are individually proscribed. [More…]

• I have now been provided with the following answer: Recent Press reports have spoken of a Soviet takeover of the former United States naval base at Cam Ranh Bay in southern Vietnam. [More…]

• Its actions led to the resignation of a President of the United States and the gaoling of ministers and officials in that country. [More…]

• The United States is aiming for an outline package of decisions by mid-July. [More…]

• Nevertheless, for the reasons I have already mentioned and having regard for the determination expressed by the United States that a significant liberalisa’tion of agricultural trade should be achieved in the MTN, it is clear that the Aus.tralian stance must be predicated on an assumption that the negotiations will bring benefits to all participants. [More…]

• Most of the developed countries participating in the negotiations including the United States of America, Japan and the European Economic Community have already decided to adopt a formula approach to the reduction of tariffs on industrial products. [More…]

• The United States, for. [More…]

• The need for this balance was expressed in the report on the United States Freedom of Information Bill by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary in the following terms: [More…]

• In the present Bill, the Government has tried to achieve that workable formula referred to in the report of the United States Senate Committee. [More…]

• Thus, for example, the freedom of information legislation in the United States operates in a quite different administrative context. [More…]

• I should say that this positive obligation on agencies to assist applicants is a feature of the Australian Bill, not found in the United States legislation. [More…]

• In this time, samples had to be sent to laboratories in the United States and in South Africa and wait their turn for processing. [More…]

• Has the Attorney-General considered the problems affecting the legal profession in the United States of America, where class actions have developed rapidly in the last few years? [More…]

• 1 understand that the Commission is examining the experience the United States of America has had with class actions and I expect that this aspect of the matter will be dealt with in the Commission’s report. [More…]

• 1 ) Is the Australian Government currently investigating the possibility of a joint agreement with the United States of America to encourage joint co-operation in coal technology and research. [More…]

• Memoranda of Understanding between the Department of National Development and the United States Department of Energy and the United States Bureau of Mines providing for co-operation in this area, are in the final stages of negotiation. [More…]

• Inquiries have been addressed to all suitable civilian operators of Boeing 727-100 aircraft and to all aircraft brokers in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe. [More…]

• -On 9 May 1978 (Hansard, page 1479) Senator Bishop asked me, as Minister representing the Prime Minister, a question without notice concerning the visit of the VicePresident of the United States. [More…]

• In 1965, when the United States of America was becoming more and more involved in the disastrous war in Vietnam, the Pope became publicly involved in the international moves for peace. [More…]

• In December 1967 he met President Johnson and made a special plea that the United States should stop bombing Vietnam as a prelude to peace negotiations. [More…]

• the development of an educational and media campaign designed to inform all Australians of the experience of countries and States such as Switzerland, California and 22 other States in the United States of America in initiating legislation; [More…]

• Australia could see the effects of the amendments in the very near future and they will be tested severely if the United States dollar continues to weaken in the world currency markets. [More…]

• The currencies of the member countries other than the United States were kept stable in terms of dollars and therefore in terms of each other with the aid of official buying and selling of dollars by the central banks concerned in order to prevent an appreciation or depreciation of the respective currencies. [More…]

• The United States continues to follow the policy, which does not seem to have varied regardless of the President in power, of benign neglect with regard to its balance of payments after a very aggressive policy it had adopted in August of 1971 of attempting to realign exchange rates by devaluation of the United States dollar. [More…]

• There are two schools of thought about the continuing position of the United States dollar as a major currency. [More…]

• One is that assuming the United States is able to keep inflation at relatively low rates, the pure dollar standard could work reasonably well without imposing hardships on other countries. [More…]

• The greater part of the sales of oil are made in United States dollars. [More…]

• If the OPEC countries decided to move quickly into another currency as their major unit of reserve, the dollar would continue to slide further and the stage might well be reached where 150 yen equals one United States dollar- a psychological barrier which would not have been contemplated two or three years ago. [More…]

• If the United States dollar continues to slide there will be every incentive for the OPEC countries to change. [More…]

• It will also mean that further increases in imported crude oil prices are possible as the present relationship of the Australian dollar to the United States dollar would drag down the dollar and make our imports dearer. [More…]

• In this context, the declining value of the United States dollar is a direct consequence of the view of foreign exchange markets that in the United States the rate of inflation is once again increasing and that the balance of payments deficit is too large. [More…]

• Did the Department state that a further 1 1 of the 16 aircraft ordered from the United States of America would require major overhaul. [More…]

• 1 ) What is the current estimated total cost of purchasing the 16 Tracker aircraft from the United States, referred to in the Minister’s statement of 1 April 1977, expressed in Australian dollars. [More…]

• What is the average age of the Tracker aircraft purchased from the United States of America. [More…]

• As might be expected the total of 32 engines purchased in the 1 6 S2G aircraft had varying hours remaining to next inspection but all were fully serviceable, as witnessed by the aircraft flight delivery across the United States. [More…]

• One Sydney newspaper interpreted this in both an article and an editorial as the cancellation of the British order at a cost to the public purse of $450,000 with the United States order replacing the cancelled tenders. [More…]

• They were built by the Walter Truck Company of Boorheesville, United States of America, specifically for airport fire-fighting and are among the most modern in the world. [More…]

• I say here and now that if the United Kingdom High Commissioner’s residence here in Canberra or the accommodation of the United States people had copped the lot with demonstrations we would have received some pretty strong complaints from the United Kingdom and United States people. [More…]

• In conclusion may 1 simply say that 1 note that on 9 March President Carter told President Tito, in Washington, that the United States ‘continued support of the independence, territorial integrity and unity of Yugoslavia’ and also that he indicated that the United States would ‘take firm measures to prevent and prosecute criminal terrorist activities’. [More…]

• Knowing how concerned this Government is to identify itself with United States policy, I trust that this Government will be no less firm. [More…]

• There has been a bombing attack on a building in the United States of America. [More…]

• I rise because I noticed recently an action which had been taken in one of the courts in the United States by an aggrieved person who was proceeding under the consumer protection law applicable in at least one of the states of the United States. [More…]

• He said that not only was splendid protection provided for those who were fortunate enough to be insured with VIP Insurances but also that no one had anything to worry about, it being such a safe and secure company because it was re-insured with one of the biggest reinsurance companies in the United States. [More…]

• This has been corrected in the United States by legislation- as I said, I am not sure whether it was by Federal or State legislation - which provides for damages to be obtained from somebody who has done this. [More…]

• This can be partly explained because the metropolitan powersFrance, the United Kingdom and the United States of America in particular- were the dominant powers in the region. [More…]

• I refer to a recent report that the members of a congressional delegation from the United States of America which visited the People’s Republic of China in July were informed that China now recognised the existing realities in regard to Taiwan. [More…]

• I have been advised by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation of recent announcements in the media that a research team in the United States has conducted a nuclear fusion experiment which, for a brief period of about one-tenth of a second, exhibited a net output of energy. [More…]

• What impediments did the United States Government place upon the Australian silver medallist in the Commonwealth Games pole vault event, Don Baird, when he went from the University of California to Edmonton? [More…]

• Mr Don Baird is studying in the United States. [More…]

• Much research has been undertaken into emission control standards in the United States of America, where it is claimed that by 1 977 the controls had brought about a 75 per cent reduction in emissions of carbon monoxide and a 50 per cent reduction in emissions of nitrogen oxides in that country. [More…]

• The interdepartmental committee which looked into this matter was told to use the United States Freedom of Information Act as the basis for its proposals. [More…]

• In countries such as the United States the provision of freedom of information legislation has been seen as a solution to some of these problems. [More…]

• In my view there was no hope of this Government introducing legislation for freedom of information which would have any significant teeth and which would go anywhere near as far as did the legislation in that unusual and, in a way, great democracy, the United States, where legislation of this kind was first brought into existence after the Scandinavian countries. [More…]

• His degree of diligence has taken him to the United States of America to study the freedom of information legislation there. [More…]

• the development of an educational and media campaign designed to inform all Australians of the experience of countries and States such as Switzerland, California and 22 other States in the United States of America in initiating legislation; [More…]

• Only in this week’s Press- in Monday’s Sydney Morning Herald if I recall correctly- it was stated that two-way cable television will be available in substantial parts of the United States within five or six years. [More…]

• It is of some interest to note that when so many of the States of the United States of America introduced citizen initiative about the turn of the century it was regarded then as a radical solution to the problem of a decline in faith in representative democracy. [More…]

• Two types of initiative apply in the United States. [More…]

• However, a recent study in the United States showed that for every 100 women who were laid off, 70 of themthat is 70 per cent of women who had lost thenjobs dropped out of the labour force and were no longer counted. [More…]

• In the United States Western Union also has its problems, like any other postal system. [More…]

• For many years the program was available only to those Australians who could afford to take their children to the United States of America or to Britain. [More…]

• If the Treasurer really means what he says, I must assume that he does not understand the implications for Australia flowing from such things as the rapid and serious decline in the value of the United States dollar. [More…]

• The re-appearance of inflationary pressures in the United States of America and the weakening of that country’s balance of payments is more likely to mean that world trade will contract. [More…]

• Importantly for Australia, the rise of the value of the yen relative to the United States dollar means that Japanese exports to the United States have been declining rapidly. [More…]

• It is fruitless to argue that as the Australian dollar moves down in sympathy with the United States dollar, the Japanese will hold larger stocks of Australian materials. [More…]

• It would cut in at around $200,000 and would have exactly the same effect as the United States capital gains tax. [More…]

• We have also seen the possibility that the United States may have some cut backs in its usage of imported materials. [More…]

• But this issue really overrides the major point and it is one which Senator Wriedt completely overrode, namely, that tied to the question of whether there will be increased volume of materials, resources and goods from this country sold to Japan, to the United States or to other countries is the fact that there is a rising trend in the prices which we gain for these goods. [More…]

• -Joan McCord is from the University of Drexell in the United States of America. [More…]

• For instance, the exclusion from this scheme of minerals, wheat, sugar and so on sold to the United States of America and Canada under quota is likely to occur for this reason. [More…]

• In the United States, when President Carter had settled down after his election, he established a Metric Conversion Commission. [More…]

• Overseas governments, particularly those of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and even South Korea, lend massive help to companies and corporations from their countries in tendering for these contracts. [More…]

• In the November 1976 edition of the journal Overseas Trading published by the Department of Overseas Trade the point was made that the imports of goods and services by Middle East countries in the five years 1976 to 1980 was expected to amount to $294,000m, which is equivalent to more than three times the level of exports from the United States of America in 1974. [More…]

• the Exchange of Letters constituting the Interim Agreement between the Government of Australia and the Government of the United States of America on Peaceful Nuclear Co-operation, of 8 August 1978, together with the text of a statement by the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) relating to the agreement. [More…]

• My question related to reports in Australian newspapers and in particular reports of United States Congressional hearings regarding the development of the nuclear power industry in the Philippines. [More…]

• While I was in the United States of America in July this year I took the trouble to find out what the United States Congressional Committee which was looking into the development of nuclear reactors in various countries had determined. [More…]

• There has been a great deal of concern by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission and by the Foreign Operations Sub-Committee of the House Appropriations Committee relating to the development of the nuclear reactor in the Philippines which Australia is now to supply with uranium. [More…]

• Let me just go back to some of the concerns which have been expressed by the United States congressional committee in relation to the development of the nuclear reactor in the Philippines. [More…]

• First of all, in September 1972 at the instigation of the United States the International Atomic Energy Agency visited the Philippines Atomic Research Centre to make a health and safety inspection. [More…]

• A further piece of information which was advanced by the United States congressional committee and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission was the point that industrial, military and transportation facilities’ are nearby the reactor and that a special study of the situation ought to be conducted. [More…]

• The Nuclear Regulatory Commission also noted that the same sort of situation pertained in the State of Maryland in the United States where it was proposed to establish a reactor at Perryman near a weapons proving ground. [More…]

• The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission prevented work from proceeding on that nuclear power station in the United States because of the presence of the proving ground. [More…]

• In 1976 the Filipino Energy Development Board- and this was also reported to the United States congressional committee- found nuclear power to be much more expensive than coal, geothermal or hydro power in the Philippines. [More…]

• The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission was concerned about the justification for the erection of a nuclear power plant in the Philippines in view of the findings of this body of the Philippines Government as to the costs of nuclear power in the Philippines. [More…]

• The other points I wish to raise were also raised, as I have said, by the United States congressional committee and they, of course, basically involve the question of the siting of a nuclear power station so close to a volcanic fault line. [More…]

• That volcano has not been active for some time but it was said by experts who gave evidence to the congressional committee in the United States that there is a very real problem in terms of the volcanic fault line near Subic Bay. [More…]

• I am talking about evidence that was given to the United States Congressional Committee on the siting of the nuclear power station near Subic Bay. [More…]

• A question was asked at the United States congressional committee hearing about safety because of the proximity of two volcanoes to the plant site. [More…]

• In September 1976 the Philippines Atomic Energy Commission asked the United States Embassy to determine whether the NRC would be willing to undertake a technical review of the preliminary report since it did not have the technical expertise nor the breadth of experience in the Philippines. [More…]

• Yet in May 1977 an official of the NRC expressed his concern that ‘we are being asked to provide two man-weeks worth of safety review for a foreign reactor when our average effort to review a licence application in the United States is in excess of six man years’. [More…]

• It is a matter of substantial concern to the committee of the United States Congress but, in the light of the agreement which has been tabled today, I doubt whether the same concern has been shown by the Australian Government. [More…]

• Again my information comes from evidence before the United States Congressional committee. [More…]

• The only public discussion which has taken place in any open forum was in the United States Congress which predominantly is concerned not only about the contractual arrangements between the United States and the Philippines to provide hardware for the nuclear reactor but also about United States military personnel at the naval base in Subic Bay. [More…]

• I hope that everything I have said is wrong and that the agreements indicate that the Government has taken cognisance of the various points which have been of great concern to the United States Congress and clearly, in a more limited way, to the people of the Philippines. [More…]

• Ostensibly they have come through reputable banking intermediaries in Europe, the United States of America and Japan. [More…]

• It has not spelt out to the Australian community what has been the cost of borrowing in European currencies, while the United States dollar and the Australian dollar with it have been falling substantially against those currencies. [More…]

• It is worth mentioning to the Senate that this report produced last October is already being used as a textbook in medical schools in this country, chapters from the report have been reprinted in the United States and Canada and have been widely distributed to members of the medical profession and other people who are likely to use it, and organisations concerned with the control of drugs and abuse have turned to this document in exactly the way that we hoped they would- to regard it as a flag driven into the ground, as the statement of a clear policy about which they can rally if they happen to agree with the propositions which we have advanced. [More…]

• The remarks in the Lancet, the remarks in the Australian Medical Journal and the favourable remarks from drug authorities in the United States were very pleasing. [More…]

• Public broadcasting has well been established in countries like the United States of America since the late 1950s but it was not until 1972 that the first public report on public broadcasting- the report on FM radio- was made by the old Australian Broadcasting Control Board and accepted in principle by the McMahon Government. [More…]

• I emphasise that in referring to Alaska that legislation is before the United States Senate. [More…]

• We have said that we will try to control uranium extraction whereas the United States legislation to which I am referring, which is a Bill that was introduced into the United States Congress by Representatives Udall and Seibellin. [More…]

• If one reads the article entitled ‘Preserving Alaska’ which I had incorporated in Hansard one will see that an area has been set aside for the bald faced eagle which is the symbol used on the United States coat of arms and kindred designations related to that country. [More…]

• The two passports were impounded by the United States authorities in Guam at the request of the Department of Foreign Affairs and a document of identity, valid for a single journey to Australia, was issued to Miss Biggs. [More…]

• We can learn a lesson in this regard from the United States of America. [More…]

• In Nebraska in the United States of America experiments are being conducted with maize ethanol. [More…]

• The cost per litre of motor spirit in the United States of America is 15c; in New Zealand, 25c; in the United Kingdom, 26.2c; in Sweden, 30.9c; in Spain, 32.9c; in West Germany, 34.2c; in Austria, 35.8c; in The Netherlands, 38.9c; in France, 40.1c; and in [More…]

• I refer to a recent report that the members of a Congressional Delegation from the United States of America which visited the People ‘s Republic of China in July were informed that China now recognised the existing realities in regard to Taiwan. [More…]

• A delegation from the United States Congress, led by Representative Lester Wolff, visited China 3 July to 13 July. [More…]

• On the delegation ‘s return to Hong Kong Mr Wolff gave a press conference at which he is reported to have said that Chinese Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-Ping had told the delegation that China ‘recognised the realities’ of United States involvement in Taiwan. [More…]

• Other members of the delegation are reported to have emphasised, however, that China had not altered the main conditions for the normalisation of the United States relations with China. [More…]

• Further, will the Minister investigate why officers of his Department came up with specifications which appear to be tailor made for a United States aircraft? [More…]

• Has China purchased approximately one million tonnes of United States wheat to make up for a shortfall in deliveries of wheat from Australia and Canada? [More…]

• Further to the honourable senator’s question, I am advised that China recently has purchased wheat from the United States. [More…]

• This official photograph of a Russian TU9S long range strategic bomber cruising off WA’s coast was released this week by the United States Defense Department. [More…]

• I remind honourable senators of the United States of America edition of the Reader’s Digest published in January 1977. [More…]

• I said that the article was in the January 1977 edition of the United States Reader’s Digest and is titled ‘The Sobering Story of Australia’s Big Spending’. [More…]

• This year we will be spending $4.2 m on the installation of equipment for the receiving and processing of data from the United States series of LANDSAT satellites. [More…]

• The honourable senator has asked whether I would table a copy of the United States Readers’ Digest. [More…]

• He is well aware that I said during my speech that I was quoting from the January 1977 United States edition of the Readers’ Digest and gave the title of the article. [More…]

• Madison, the principal author of the United States Constitution, campaigned for a strong Senate ‘as a check on the democracy: It cannot therefore be made too strong’. [More…]

• This has been a common worry both in old federations such as the United States and in new ones such as West Germany and Australia. [More…]

• For instance, the United States Senate for the last year or more has been holding hearings on President Carter’s energy package. [More…]

• If it is power we are talking about, we have only to compare the power of a chairman of a major committee of the United States Senate with the power of a Minister in one of our recent governments. [More…]

• In the War of Independence for the United States of America, some fundamental principles of democracy were enumerated. [More…]

• We have an example of the most powerful country in the world, the United States of America, right before us in that regard. [More…]

• I would venture to say that under our present type of government, with encouragement of that nature, in 50 to 100 years Australia will be in a similar position to that of the United States of America. [More…]

• I am talking about the truth, something that the honourable senator does not like: He does not like the success that has been demonstrated by private enterprise in the United States of America. [More…]

• Taiwan is buying materials from Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Japan, Canada and the United States and is even getting uranium from South Africa. [More…]

• A note of warning was given by President Carter of the United States of America when he said that we should be providing uranium to those countries in order to fulfil their energy requirements. [More…]

• As honourable senators probably know, I took the opportunity in the two-week parliamentary recess to visit Washington with senior officers of not only my own Department but also the Department of Business and Consumer Affairs and the Department of Trade and Resources for the purpose of having consultations with the United States AttorneyGeneral and representatives of his Department, the Department of State and the Federal Trade Commission concerning the extraterritorial application of antitrust laws. [More…]

• The Senate will recall that concern about the extraterritorial application of United States antitrust laws led to the enactment of the Foreign Proceedings (Prohibition of Certain Evidence) Act 1976. [More…]

• Orders were made under that Act prohibiting Australian based evidence from being used for the purpose of United States legal proceedings concerning marketing arrangements for uranium. [More…]

• Since the orders were made the Australian Government and primarily my Department have had detailed exchanges with the United States Government in relation to the grand jury inquiry. [More…]

• I believe that submissions that we made to the United States Government in connection with the grand jury inquiry assisted the United States authorities to reach their decision not to institute any such proceedings. [More…]

• The aim was to explore how, for the future, the enforcement policies of the United States authorities might take account of the laws and policies of the Australian Government and the national interest of Australia. [More…]

• It is anticipated that the heads of agreement on which the consultations took place will be considered in detail over the next two or three months by the Department of Justice and the other United States departments involved. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry aware of the situation in the State of Michigan in the United States where a large stockfeed firm- the Michigan Farm Bureau- inadvertently mixed with stockfeed a highly toxic industrial chemical known as PVB, instead of the normal supplement, resulting in the poisoning of millions of people and the slaughter of tens of thousands of head of livestock? [More…]

• It was stated that the photograph had been taken by a United States Navy Phantom aircraft from the USS Midway when off the Western Australian coast. [More…]

• The table of OECD countries shows that for the six months to July 1978 the inflation rate of Australia was 6.9 per cent; the United States of America, 10.5 per cent; Japan, 5.8 per cent; France, 1 1.9 per cent; the UK, 9.3 per cent; and Canada, 12. [More…]

• At the time I was put in possession of materials which related to an action in the United States in respect of which Judge Skopil had made an order restraining the use of one of the two herbicides in the State forests of Oregon. [More…]

• I refer, firstly, to a letter from Robert L. DuPont, M.D., who is the Director of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in the United States. [More…]

• Mindful of the rightful protest that we made to the French Government over atomic tests in the Pacific, I ask: Are we now making a protest to the United States Government about its proposal to utilise islands to the north of Papua New Guinea to dump atomic waste? [More…]

• I am advised that inquiries have been made in Washington about recent Press reports that the United States plans to dispose of nuclear waste on South Pacific islands. [More…]

• The reports appear to reflect a misinterpretation of a study the United States has been making of the possibility of establishing regional repositories for spent nuclear fuel. [More…]

• The United States consideration of the idea of a spent fuel repository in the Asia-Pacific region apparently has gone no further than a preliminary examination. [More…]

• No proposal has been made by the United States to locate such a repository in the South Pacific. [More…]

• We would not expect the United States to do so without prior consultation with Pacific countries. [More…]

• We would expect the United States to be responsive to their views. [More…]

• The United States is fully aware of Australia’s position, as stated by the Prime Minister on 25 August 1977, that there is no intention of Australia’s storing other countries’ radio active wastes, nor, of course, has Australia given the United States any encouragement to believe that a spent fuel repository in the South Pacific would be acceptable to regional countries. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs aware of a report that Prime Minister Smith and the African leaders in his Government have been invited to the United States to discuss the problems of Rhodesia? [More…]

• I draw the Minister’s attention to a recent report that a United States agricultural laboratory has begun to mass produce an improved version of a little known seed innoculant called Azobac, which it claims will reduce the dependence of farmers on expensive nitrogen fertiliser by up to 20 per cent in the first year of use and increase crop yields by up to 50 per cent. [More…]

• My question to the Minister representing the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs relates to a recent decision by the United States Federal Trade Commission in which judgment was given against manufacturers of Anacin for a $24m bill for advertising to tell consumers that the manufacturer’s best selling analgesic was not a tension reliever. [More…]

• I have no information in regard to the decision by the United States Federal Trade Commission to which Senator Lewis has referred. [More…]

• -On 2 March 1978 (Hansard, page 269) Senator Archer addressed a question without notice to the Minister for Science concerning incentives for the installation of solar heating devices, possibly along the lines of a subsidy scheme formulated in the United States. [More…]

• I add that, according to the latest advice I have, the American subsidy system to which the honourable senator has referred is a provision in a Bill which, along with other energy Bills, is still in conference between the two Houses of the United States Congress. [More…]

• The petition of the undersigned citizens respectfully showeth that the Seismic Station situated at Schwartz Crescent in Alice Springs is a United States of America Station operated by the United States of America Air Force Detachment 42 1 . [More…]

• On the 28th February 1978, a Government statement issued in the Senate indicated that the Seismic Station would be partly operated by the United States of America and Australian Governments from then and would be “open” to the public. [More…]

• An acceleration of inflation in some of the major countries- that is, the United States of America, Canada, France and the United Kingdom- is evident from the latest six monthly figures. [More…]

• -Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Finance been drawn to the United States Government report that solar power will be able to supply 20 per cent of America’s needs by the year 2000? [More…]

• Is he aware that the United States Congress is strongly backing the further development of solar energy and that the United States Government is planning to give tax credits up to $2,000 for the installation of domestic solar heating units? [More…]

• I am unaware whether the Minister for Finance has had his attention drawn to the United States Government report on solar power or whether any consideration has been given to the matter of tax deductions for the installation of solar heating units. [More…]

• It is based on submissions I made during the adjournment debate a fortnight ago when I sought information on the acreage of the proposed Kakadu National Park as set out in the second report of Mr Justice Fox’s Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry as compared with the Alaskan parklands provided for in legislation of the United States of America. [More…]

• I am informed that the Government is aware through media reports that a spokesman for Mr Smith and his three black colleagues in the Executive Council has announced that they have been invited to visit the United States of America and that the invitation has been accepted in principle. [More…]

• The decision on whether Mr Smith and his colleagues will be allowed to enter the United States will of course be for the United States Government. [More…]

• Although Bishop Muzorewa and Reverend Sithole were recently in the United States the other black member of the Executive Council, Chief Chiaru, is understood to have twice been refused visas earlier this year, presumably because of his former status as Rhodesian senator and a Minister in the Smith Government which would bring him into the ambit of United Nations sanctions against those who are deemed to have furthered or encouraged the regime. [More…]

• From 1860 onwards, Vermonts were imported from the United States of America. [More…]

• Hence,- we had new industries come to South Australia, not only from within Australia but also from the United Kingdom, the United States of America and other countries. [More…]

• I would have thought that the chairman of a Congressional committee under the system in the United States of America has far more clout, far more authority, far more prestige and far more influence over decisions than a junior Minister has under the Australian Westminster style of government. [More…]

• I will explain that statement in due course by referring to what has happened in the United States. [More…]

• In the United States, an increase in the number of jobs available has been seen to attract to the work force people who had not previously sought employment. [More…]

• The United States could hardly be called a socialist country. [More…]

• This does not occur only in the United States. [More…]

• As I understand it, Mobil’s work is being funded in part by the United States Department of Energy, and I would hope that the more confidential aspects of the breakthrough would become available to Australia through the arrangements that this Government has made for the exchange of information on energy research, referred to in the Senate recently, that are being fostered by my colleague the Minister for National Development. [More…]

• Under successive American presidents, the United States has made strenuous efforts to promote a settlement. [More…]

• the failure of the Australian Wine Board to use its long-standing power to trade overseas as an agent for wine producers, to organise the effective penetration of new markets in the United States, Japan and countries in South East Asia, and to establish Government retail wine centres in cities other than London, despite the potential for such outlets in numerous other locations; and [More…]

• The report, commenting on Australia’s wine future in the United States, says: it must be re-emphasised, that the US markets are large and quite accessible to enterprising Australian winemakers. [More…]

• With such an expanding market, the careful promotion of Australian wines, in particular areas of the United States, could be very successful and highly profitable. [More…]

• I believe that one must realise that in the United States there is a somewhat sophisticated market and, therefore, there is a demand for different types of goods. [More…]

• In other words, it shows that there is a great desire and demand for imported wines in the United States. [More…]

• From my inquiries I have found that many members of the industry seem to agree with these comments relating to the possibilities in the United States. [More…]

• I do not emphasise just the potential markets in the United States and Canada because it seems to me that, with our vastly growing tourist trade with countries on the other side of the Pacific, such as Japan, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and so forth, there are great opportunities for Australia if our wine industry can get out and sell and if it can get more encouragement from the Government to do so. [More…]

• The letter mentions the difficulties of promotion that arise in a number of countries and the fact that the Wine Board allocated a high proportion of its funds for overseas promotion in order to establish Australian wine in the promising United States market through the appointment of a full time consultant. [More…]

• I believe that in 1 973 the Australian Wine Board spent $100,000 on a marketing campaign in the United States but, as I said, it failed to follow up on the exercise. [More…]

• Wherever a person goes on the Continent, in the United States of America or in Canada he will find that he is able to buy wines from different countries. [More…]

• I discussed the problem of the wine industry and wine imports and exports in Canada, the United States, France, Italy and Austria. [More…]

• Whenever I have been able to get an Australian wine on the Continent, in the United States of America or Canada and I have had my friends present to drink it they have all admitted that it is of a superior quality to all others. [More…]

• However, I am sure that if our industry were more efficient in promoting our wines in Europe, the United States of America and Canada there would be the same reaction and people in those countries would buy Australian wines not only because of their quality but also for the snob value. [More…]

• It is of some interest that in the United States of America between 1973 and 1976 the voluntary $ 1 check-off on income tax had provided a fund of $95m. [More…]

• This is a mechanism wherby people in the United States of America may merely indicate that they want to have $ 1 taken from thentax and put into this fund. [More…]

• Is he aware that, under existing United States- Japanese nuclear power agreements, Washington ‘s approval is necessary for transport overseas of spent fuel from American uranium? [More…]

• Several articles of the Japan-United States Nuclear Cooperation Agreement are relevant to these matters. [More…]

• In particular, Japan is required by that agreement to obtain the prior agreement of the United States to re-transfers of nuclear material supplied by the United States. [More…]

• As to reprocessing of irradiated fuel containing uranium received from the United States, such reprocessing may be performed in Japanese facilities upon a joint determination of the parties that the safeguards provisions may be effectively applied, or in such other facilities as may be mutually agreed. [More…]

• Since a joint determination cannot be made without the United Slates consent, this gives the United States a consent right for reprocessing in Japan or elsewhere. [More…]

• The conclusion of the type of long-term commercial arrangement which Japanese power companies are reported to have reached with a British company would in no way lessen the treaty obligations of the Japanese Government to obtain the prior consent of the United States Government before actual retransfers or reprocessing takes place. [More…]

• In view of the assertions made by Mr Richard Hall in a new publication called The Secret State- specifically those that allege that the KGB and other foreign intelligence organisations have infiltrated Australian intelligence organisations- will the Government consider establishing a confidential joint party parliamentary committee to review the activities and staffing of all Australian intelligence organisations along similar lines to the current practice in the United States of America? [More…]

• He made the further observation that such industries often consist of oligopolistic firms, as is the case in the motor industry in the United States of America, or I suppose anywhere else, where an individual firm, firstly, has a very large income which can fund significant research and development expenditure and, secondly, has a sufficiently large share of the total market to ensure that the firm will be a principal beneficiary of any technical progress which might result. [More…]

• In fact, as I found out on my visits overseas in the last year or so- it matters not whether one goes to Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States or even Japan- that somewhat similar types of problems face the economies of those countries. [More…]

• It has been said by no less an authority than the United States Chamber of Commerce that by the end of this century almost all trade in the Western world will be dominated by about 200 major international corporations. [More…]

• Many transnational companies, especially those from the United States, entered the Australian economy to maintain their market share when tariff barriers hindered their exports to the Australian domestic market. [More…]

• It uses equipment from the United States of America. [More…]

• This may be one case in which an Australian industry is enjoying the results of a declining United States dollar. [More…]

• In the United States Indians receive from 13-18 per cent. [More…]

• When will the Attorney-General table, and make available to the public, the documents presented to the Fifth International Trade Law Seminar held in Canberra at the Academy of Social Sciences on 15 July 1978, and, in particular, the paper by Professor K.. W. Ryan on the international application of United States anti-trust legislation. [More…]

• 1 ) What, if any precautions are in force in Australia to prevent an accident similar to an accident in Michigan, United States of America, where a large stockfeed firm- the Michigan Farm Bureau- inadvertently mixed a highly toxic industrial chemical known as PVB with stockfeed, instead of the normal supplement, resulting in the poisoning of millions of people and the slaughter of tens of thousands of head livestock. [More…]

• Has the Government’s decision to increase its overseas borrowings in Euro currencies instead of United States dollars been on the basis of Treasury advice? [More…]

• I ask: In view of the renewal of aid by the United States to Turkey and acting on the assumption that justice is coming to Cyprus, will the Minister make a statement during the next three-week sitting as to what role Australia has played at the United Nations? [More…]

• They are in line with the Government’s policy to have a co-ordinated structure of State and Federal courts in Australia and to avoid the disadvantages of a dual court system which could easily develop under a federal system and which has caused so many problems in the United States. [More…]

• The specified categories are children under the age of 1 8 years; crew members; diplomats; persons who arrive in Australia but are deemed under the Migration Act 1958 not to have entered Australia, that is persons who remain at the airport and persons who do not disembark from a ship; persons covered by the Status of Forces Agreements with the United States of America and Papua New Guinea; and persons being deported or extradited from Australia. [More…]

• A second category is the straight passenger service charge and some examples include the United States of America, $US3 a head; Hong Kong $A3 a head; Israel $5.70 a head; Singapore $4.00 a head and Malaysia $2.00 a head. [More…]

• Whilst it is somewhat above the charge being levied by countries such as the United States, where it is $3, and even Israel, where it is $5.70, it certainly is not going to be a huge burden on the community. [More…]

• I make this point with particular feeling because, to this day, I still cringe with the embarrassment which I personally experienced back in 1965 when I was obliged to stop over for three days between planes in Tahiti on my way back home from a student exchange visit to the United States. [More…]

• The Australian people are being told less than they ought to know about the joint United States of America-Australia defence-space research facility at Pine Gap. [More…]

• It appears that it is due to the fact that the United States of America, which owns the area even though it is supposed to be a joint United States-Australian facility, is probably either not telling the Department of Defence and the Australian Government precisely what is going on at Pine Gap or is misleading them. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence, Mr Allen Fairhall, announced on December 1 1 that the Australian and United States Governments had agreed to establish a joint United StatesAustralian Defence-Space Research Facility in the vicinity of Alice Springs, Northern Territory. [More…]

• This facility, the Minister said, would be operated by the Australian Defence Department and the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the United States Department of Defence. [More…]

• In the United States of America, the Lanham Trademark Act of 1946 included service marks as entitled to statutory protection under the Act. [More…]

• In addition to the United States, 42 other countries including major industrial countries, such as France, Italy, Sweden, Canada and the USSR and neighbouring countries, such as the Philippines, Taiwan and Korea had, by the end of 1970, introduced legislation providing statutory protection for marks for services. [More…]

• While legislation of this kind has been in operation in Sweden for a long time and in the United States for some 1 1 or 12 years, this is the first Bill on the subject to be introduced into any country with a system of government that clearly parallels our own. [More…]

• In order to achieve the reasonable objectives of open government in the British context, where the policies and decisions of the executives are under constant and vigilant scrutiny by Parliament and Ministers are directly answerable in Parliament, it may be neither necessary nor desirable to proceed to legislation of a kind which may be justifiable in other and often very different contexts- for instance, that of the United States . [More…]

• Since the Bill was introduced I have had an opportunity to see at first hand some of the administrative problems arising from the freedom of information legislation in the United States. [More…]

• I ask honourable senators to compare this with the situation in the United States of America where an agency is obliged to respond initially to any request within 10 working days. [More…]

• There is no explicit provision, as there is in the United States legislation, for waiver of those fees when information is sought, for example, in the public interest. [More…]

• The system in the United States is that there are far fewer officials with the authority to withhold information than there are who can grant it. [More…]

• Last week I read out the comments of Dr R. L. DuPont, who is the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse in the United States. [More…]

• Similar findings were contained in the Shafer report published in the United States in 1972. [More…]

• Other studies, such as the Greek study which was conducted by the United States and the Costa Rican study, did a lot to destroy the myths surrounding the use of cannabis. [More…]

• We have also received encouragement from as far afield as the United States of America from Robert DuPont. [More…]

• They come mainly from the United States of America. [More…]

• Some that have been found in the United States of America have had an even higher content. [More…]

• That is a tremendous figure, particularly when it is compared with the United States and the United Kingdom, where the figure is only 0.2 per cent. [More…]

• The Committee found that the amount of advertising in the United States and the United Kingdom was nowhere near the amount of advertising that went on in Australia, and we felt that this was really attributable to the advertising market here. [More…]

• -If the honourable senator were a little more au fait with some of the literature from the United States about the way in which this matter could be proven he would not make such a statement. [More…]

• All the lessons of the total prohibition era in the United States seem to have been unlearned. [More…]

• Has the Minister seen reports that Mr Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, and the Reverend N. Sithole, a black member of the Interim Rhodesian Executive Council, are visiting the United States of America to put their case for a peaceful settlement in Rhodesia? [More…]

• An overseas mission of 8 officers comprising 3 members of the RAAF, 1 official from each of the Departments of Defence, Administrative Services and Transport and a representative from both Trans-Australia Airlines and Ansett Airlines visited the United States. [More…]

• Did the Deputy Prime Minister project on his return from the Philippines in August (the Courier Mail 10 August 1978) that more countries ‘would follow Finland, the Philippines and the United States and sign nuclear safeguards agreements with Australia’; if so, to which countries was the Minister referring. [More…]

• Negotiations have commenced and are continuing with Japan, the Republic of Korea and the United States. [More…]

• (The agreement we have concluded with the United States is an interim agreement pending the renegotiation of the 1936 Australia/United States nuclear co-operation agreement to bring it into line with the new safeguards requirements of both countries.) [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…]

• 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…]

• By way of comparison the Soviet Union spends of the order of 11-13 per cent of GNP on defence against 6 per cent by the United States. [More…]

• Yesterday Senator Young asked me a question regarding the visit of Mr Smith and the Reverend Sithole to the United States of America to seek support for the internal agreement signed in Salisbury on 3 March this year. [More…]

• Honourable senators will be aware that for some time now the United States has been deeply involved in negotiations to find an acceptable settlement to Rhodesia’s problems. [More…]

• The decision of the United States to admit Mr Smith on this occasion should be seen in this light and is consistent with the continuing efforts by the United States Administration to use its considerable influence to bring about a peaceful, negotiated solution in Rhodesia rather than in the strict context of the United Nations sanctions against Rhodesia. [More…]

• The interests of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation are also keenly involved and have led, for example, to renewed efforts by the United States to try to reconcile the conflict of interests and attitudes in the eastern Mediterranean which undoubtedly have complicated the Cyprus problem. [More…]

• It supports the view of the Commonwealth Depanment of Health, the United States [More…]

• I ask the Minister whether he will now arrange for a national inquiry into the manufacture and use of 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T in Australia which is open to the media and the public and which: (1) ensures it receives evidence or depositions from scientists outside Australia, especially from the United States of America, Sweden and Holland; (2) considers the implications of the volatile bases on which these herbicides are manufactured, which permits the spray mist to remain in the air for long periods and to drift many miles in some circumstances; (3) considers the desirability of larger spray nozzle aperture sizes or other methods of use that might reduce air retention and spray drift; (4) considers the desirability of banning the use of herbicides in urban areas or within one kilometre of a dwelling place, as is the practice in some European countries; (5) considers the current practice of packagers of printing directions for use on packages in very fine type; and (6) considers the desirability of an indefinite delay in conversion of instructions for use on such herbicide packets to metric measurements. [More…]

• The use of these substances as herbicides was introduced into the United States of America and Australia in the 1940s. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister representing the Minister for National Development whether he has seen reports that President Carter has now reversed his previous views with regard to expenditure on research into and development of fast breeder reactors; that over the next three years $ 1,550m will be spent to enable the United States of America to keep up with western European countries, and Russia, in the development of and research into fast breeder reactors. [More…]

• As a matter of fact, I have not heard of this report, but it is a matter of considerable interest and I will make it my business to ascertain as soon as possible and provide to the Senate information on the policy of the United States Government in relation to the development of fast breeder reactors. [More…]

• That is the question of whether a referendum proposal should be put to the people of Australia to amend the Constitution to provide, as happens in the United States of America, that there shall be no retrospectivity in any law which imposes a penalty. [More…]

• In case he is not aware of this, I preface my question by telling him that the Prime Minister announced in the House a short time ago that the Minister for Primary Industry would be leaving this evening for the United States. [More…]

• Will the Minister for Primary Industry be making that statement before he leaves tonight for the United States? [More…]

• I inform the Senate that the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair) is leaving Australia today to undertake discussions in the United States of America concerning the Countercyclical Beef Legislation passed by the American Congress. [More…]

• The Minister will later be having discussions in Britain, the United States and Japan. [More…]

• In view of the decision by the United States Congress to block the sugar Bill for domestic reasons, how long is this decision expected to prolong the United States ratification of the International Sugar Agreement? [More…]

• Will the ratification of the International Sugar Agreement be discussed during the visit of the Minister for Primary Industry to the United States? [More…]

• The Government certainly is very concerned that the United States has not yet passed legislation to enable it to participate fully in the International Sugar Agreement before the end of this year. [More…]

• The Government remains confident that the United States will ratify the agreement, although this cannot now occur this year. [More…]

• The Government has no doubt that the United States recognises the importance of the agreement and of its responsibilities to the international sugar community. [More…]

• During the last couple of days officials of the Department of Trade and Resources have been in touch with senior officials of the State Department in the United States. [More…]

• The failure of the United States to become a full member this year has implications for the successful operation of the Agreement, but it is obviously in the interests of the exporters that the members of the Agreement should continue to apply its full disciplines. [More…]

• Australia will continue to be in close contact with other interested countries and will continue to liaise closely with the United States Administration in order to ensure that the Agreement is maintained and continues to operate as effectively as possible. [More…]

• With the continued tragic deaths in Rhodesia of so many black and white people being killed by black guerrillas, will the Australian Government encourage the major powers- the United Kingdom and the United States of America- to take steps to stop the current butchery by the insurgent guerrillas which is doing nothing to bring about a peaceful solution in Rhodesia, but rather is only bringing about increasing and continuing tragedy to all people in that country? [More…]

• It concerns the present excursion to the United States of America of Mr Sinclair with the announced intention of rescuing the Australian beef industry from the effect of the United States beef legislation now awaiting presidential assent. [More…]

• Is it not the case that it has been widely known and acknowledged among United States political and agricultural writers for months that this legislation was essentially a domestic, political stunt motivated primarily by a desire to appease midwestern beef producers in the congressional election due in the first week of November? [More…]

• Is it not the case also that it is universally anticipated in the United States that the President will make use of this so-called pocket veto and the legislation will lapse accordingly and that, as a result, Mr Sinclair’s visit will make no conceivable difference whatsoever to the outcome? [More…]

• What action did the Government take four months ago when it was common knowledge around the world that the United States Congress intended to introduce the legislation referred to? [More…]

• I ask why no Minister went to Washington earlier this month to try to head off congressional rejection of the ratification of the International Sugar Agreement which has at least equally serious implications for Australian exports as the beef legislation passed in the United States of America last week. [More…]

• I ask: Does the Minister have any power similar to that recently adopted in the United States of America to ban- I repeat ‘ban’- foreign vessels which have a history of pollution accidents? [More…]

• My understanding is that initial tests conducted within the United States of America on the FI 1 1 weapons bay gun system indicated that both the aircraft gun and the airframe needed minor modification to solve problems associated with gun vibrations and aircraft skin rippling in the vicinity of the gun muzzle. [More…]

• That in the opinion of this House a national department of agriculture and productive industries on the same lines as that of the United States of America ought to be organized and maintained in connection with the Government of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• The Parliaments of Holland, the United States of America and the United Kingdom have science forums composed of members of the Parliament. [More…]

• Five or 10 years ago it was assumed that in its development Australian society, as it had done traditionally, would follow the pattern that had been set by the United States. [More…]

• It was said, therefore, that if there were a decline in the Australian manufacturing sector it would be taken up by the service or tertiary sector of the economy, just as it had been in the United States. [More…]

• One can follow the pattern movement of employment from the secondary sector to the tertiary sector in the United States and Australians blithely assumed that the same would happen here. [More…]

• Unfortunately we are always 10 years behind the United States. [More…]

• I spoke today with a member of the embassy in the United States of America. [More…]

• That is what other countries are doing, not only the countries of Europe which have social democratic governments but also the United States where vast numbers of people are looking at this sort of system. [More…]

• Australia’s expenditure on health used to be roughly mid-way between the high expenditure in the United States of America and the relatively low expenditure in Britain. [More…]

• As Mr Chu is reported to have said, the Taiwan Power Company currently purchases its nuclear fuel from the United States. [More…]

• The United States’ requirements as to nuclear safeguards are similar to Australia’s. [More…]

• It is that the United States, unlike Australia, recognises the ‘Republic of China Government’ and is therefore able to have a nuclear co-operation safeguards agreement with it and to export nuclear material to Taiwan. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that the United States of America has received what amounts to a snub from the Australian Government when seeking top level talks with Australia on cut-rate fares for the Pacific? [More…]

• A contract was let in the United States of America. [More…]

• I would like to know whether the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) was informed because I understand that there is an obligation by the United States of America to supply the Australian Government with full and timely information about strategic and operational developments relative to the station. [More…]

• United States Senate, Military Construction Authorization, Fiscal Year 1973,(May-June 1972), page 299. [More…]

• As has been well known, for the last few months several Bills have been floating around the United States Congress, the object of which, in this United States congressional election year, was to impose, or seem to impose, further restrictions on the importation of beef to that country. [More…]

• It was also fairly widely recognised that most of this political activity in the United States Congress could be described as political stunting, grandstanding by politicians who represented the cattle States and who, prior to the congressional elections of next month, were attempting to ingratiate themselves with their electors. [More…]

• On 13 October the news came through to Australia that the United States House of Representatives had, in fact, passed a Bill which at least opened the possibility that, in addition to the restrictions already in force, Australian beef imports would be restricted if not immediately then at some time in the future. [More…]

• The Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Anthony, issued on 13 October a statement in which he referred to having just received news from Washington that the House of Representatives had passed a Bill that would modify the present law governing the United States meat imports. [More…]

• I have recently made strong representations to the United States Government on this matter and am hopeful that these representations will be taken into account by the United States administration. [More…]

• The United States Congress had refused to ratify that Agreement. [More…]

• The United States Congress had the week before refused to ratify the International Sugar Agreement yet no action that we are aware of was taken by the Australian Government. [More…]

• Certainly, no Minister was despatched to Washington to lobby the Congress or the United States Administration, either prior to or subsequent to the congressional rejection of the ratification. [More…]

• No Press statement on the ISA appears to have been issued by Mr Anthony or Mr Sinclair when the United States Congress failed to ratify it. [More…]

• For example, in the Melbourne Age of 1 9 October in an article with respect to Mr Sinclair’s visit to the United States- Mr Sinclair was that day arriving in the United States- Creighton Burns said: although they - [More…]

• I observe again in passing that I would have expected a journalist who has spent as much time in the United States as Mr Costigan had done to be a ware of that strong probability. [More…]

• If that is Mr Anthony’s view it begs the question: Was not the Government grossly negligent in completely ignoring the passage of this legislation in the couple of months it was kicking around the Congress, in taking no action in the time it was actually before the Congress, in taking no action on the day it was passed by the United States House of Representatives and no action in any of the three days thereafter? [More…]

• One would need to have an extraordinarily poor opinion of the competence of the United States Embassy in Canberra to believe that it had not fully briefed the American Administration on the article which had appeared in the Bulletin on the day it was published and on other matters pertaining to the investigation of Mr Sinclair’s business affairs. [More…]

• I would have expected that to be the normal reaction of the governments of the United States, the United Kingdom or just about any other country with which we have a substantial trade to visits by Australian Ministers on trade negotiations in the past. [More…]

• It does not involve just the specific matter of beef imports by the United States. [More…]

• For three and a half days the Government rested on the statement which Mr Anthony had made on 13 October which referred to his past representations to the United States Government. [More…]

• My question, which is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, relates to the construction in the United States of America of three patrol frigates for the Royal Australian Navy. [More…]

• Is the Government aware that the United States Government is currently investigating the liquidity of the Todd Shipbuilding Corporation which is constructing the three frigates? [More…]

• The memorandum of arrangements provides for a withdrawal by Australia from the FFG program for a number of contingent reasons, including a significant change in cost factors and poor performance in lead ship trials, in which event the United States shall consider accepting the Royal Australian Navy ships and associated equipment with equitable reimbursement to Australia. [More…]

• The contract for the Royal Australian Navy ships is between the United States Government and the United States shipbuilder. [More…]

• Twenty-nine ships, including three for the Royal Australian Navy, are on order from the three United States shipbuilders. [More…]

• The United States Department of Defence fully expects that 50 FFGs will be built over the next decade. [More…]

• Has the Minister become aware that the continued decline in the score of the scholastic aptitude tests taken in the United States by candidates for higher education has not been uniform and that some schools have maintained their scores in that test? [More…]

• As to the first question, I am aware that the decline in the score of the scholastic aptitude tests taken in the United States by candidates for higher education has not been uniform and that some schools have maintained their scores in the SAT. [More…]

• Research undertaken in the United States points to many causes for the decline in the aptitude scores of students. [More…]

• In Australia no scholastic aptitude tests have been used nationwide, as occurs in the United States, although an Australian scholastic aptitude test has been used in Queensland, Western Australia and the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• It follows a question I asked yesterday concerning the cost of construction of two Australian patrol vessels in the United States of America. [More…]

• I am advised that the United States Government has formally advised the Australian Government of the financial difficulties of the Todd Shipbuilding Corporation. [More…]

• The contracts for the Royal Australian Navy FFG ships are between the Australian Government and the United States Government which, in turn, has placed United States Navy contracts, including contracts for three ships to be constructed by Todd. [More…]

• Todd Pacific has orders worth over $US845m for FFG ships including 14 of the 26 FFG ships on order from the United States Navy. [More…]

• The United States Navy has advised that it is confident of Todd’s ability to improve its financial health and that it is continuing to place naval overhaul contracts with the shipyard. [More…]

• Is it a fact that in the United States of America some companies have developed arrangements with secondary schools to afford youngsters the opportunity to learn about the real world of work before they make their own career decisions? [More…]

• The Chairman of the Tertiary Education Commission, Professor Karmel, at this moment is leading an OECD evaluation study on related matters in the United States. [More…]

• With Royal Australian Air Force aircraft now providing services to the Australian Antarctic bases by operating out of New Zealand in conjunction with and supplementing the United States and New Zealand air force transport pool, will the Minister advise for how long these arrangements are to continue and whether it is proposed that consideration be given to the eventual establishment of a base in Tasmania for these operational flights? [More…]

• My advice is that the Royal Australian Air Force, at the request of the Department of Science, has accepted a commitment to fly four flights to Antarctica in the summer of 1978-79 in conjunction with United States and New Zealand forces participating in what is known as Operation Deep Freeze. [More…]

• The present RAAF involvement in Antarctica is a small part of what is essentially a large United States operation. [More…]

• The RAAF relies upon United States facilities and equipment to support its involvement. [More…]

• For the same operational reasons as affect RAAF aircraft, the United States Navy must operate from Christchurch and consequently would not contemplate a shift of location. [More…]

• The Minister will be aware of negotiations between the United States Boeing aircraft company and the Government Aircraft Factories and Hawker De Havilland Australia Pty Ltd, Sydney, for the manufacture of the internal wing ribs of the new Boeing 767. [More…]

• During the last 12 months a major manufacturer mentioned to me that during his visits to places such as the Philippines, Korea, Hong Kong, Japan, Italy and the United States of America, despite ‘sweat workhouse’ conditions in some of those countries, he could not find one case where the output per employee for a certain packaged lingerie item exceeded on average production in his own plant. [More…]

• The Polish Government representing the Polish Nation has lodged a strong, formal protest to the United States Government. [More…]

• I think it is agreed that the United States of America, Australia and Canada are all multi-cultural communities and that the people in these countries have played a big role in the development of these countries. [More…]

• It was not so long ago when the only role in a film played by a negro in the United States was that of a very humble and servile person. [More…]

• The United States and Australia have some identical ships, American built guided missile destroyers. [More…]

• For instance, the United States of America has an average annual growth in its labour force of about 2 per cent. [More…]

• One of the pressures during that period in the United States of America and Canada, unlike Australia perhaps, came from that fast growing teenage labour force which within Australia was being absorbed very largely into the education system. [More…]

• The teenage labour force of both the United States and Canada grew at an average rate of 4.3 per cent during that period whereas Australia’s teenage labour force grew at an average rate of only 0.4 per cent. [More…]

• In Australia there is likely to be a very significant growth in the number of teenagers coming into the labour market whereas in the United States and Canada the reverse will be true. [More…]

• Are plans being prepared by the United States of America to upgrade further the seismic station at Pine Gap; if so, have the plans been prepared in consultation with, and with the approval of, the Australian Government. [More…]

• Expressed in terms of Australian dollars Australia’s imports in 1975 and 1976, respectively, were 2.14 per cent and 2.43 per cent compared to 0.63 per cent and 0.88 per cent for the United States; 0.51 per cent and 1.44 per cent for the European Economic Community; and 0.25 per cent and 0.3 1 per cent for Japan. [More…]

• -Is the Minister representing the Minister for Health aware of the statement on 4 October 1978 by Joseph Califano, the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the United States, concerning a goal in that country for the elimination of measles there by 1 October 1982? [More…]

• Have the United States of America and Canada negotiated similar treaties? [More…]

• My further advice is that the United Kingdom, the United States and Canadian Governments concluded bilateral treaties with the Government of the Polish People’s Republic in 1954, 1960 and 1971 respectively, providing for compensation for their nationals whose property was nationalised or expropriated by Polish measures. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs aware that of the 1 1 9 Australians currently in gaol overseas some 77 are in gaol on drug related charges including, for instance, 17 in the United Kingdom, 1 1 in Thailand, six in the United States, five in Belgium, eight in Malaysia, five in Spain, four in Japan, four in Indonesia and three in Italy? [More…]

• I remind the Senate that prior to 1880 neither in the United States nor in Australia was there any legislation or legislative prohibition of any kind on abortion. [More…]

• It was only in the 1 880s and 1 890s that in the United States, because the medical profession felt that so many abortions were being performed by totally unqualified people, pressure was engendered for the introduction of legislation which made an abortion a criminal offence. [More…]

• There was no criminality for abortion, as I have said, in this country or in the United States prior to 1880. [More…]

• One-third of the abortions performed in the United States and one-third of the abortions performed in Australia, according to the best available evidence, are performed on teenage girls. [More…]

• I give the following information: Firstly, concerning escalation in the contracts for the ships, as explained earlier, the contracts for the Royal Australian Navy FFGs are between the Australian Government and the United States Government which in turn has placed United States Navy contracts including our three ships with the shipbuilder, Todd Pacific. [More…]

• These estimates are subject to day to day review and control by the Defence Department in Canberra and by Australian personnel who are placed in the United States Navy FFG project office in the United States. [More…]

• Concerning notification of the financial situation of the shipbuilder, official advice of Todd Pacific’s present difficulties was provided by the United States Navy in a letter dated 23 March 1978. [More…]

• The United States Government, as a matter of routine, investigates the financial soundness of all bidders on major defence contracts and makes several such investigations of the ship builders involved when awarding FFG contracts. [More…]

• Project liaison staff have been watching closely the United States Government’s activities in this regard and senior departmental officers have kept the matter under review. [More…]

• The United States Navy has placed orders for 14 of its 26 FFGs on order with Todd. [More…]

• In October 1977, with United States Government assistance, Todd restructured its organisation, including forming a subsidiary company to operate the building yards at which the United States Navy and the Royal Australian Navy work is undertaken. [More…]

• Governments in many overseas countries for example United Kingdom, United States of America and Japan, have recognised the limitations of the commercial sector in this area and are facilitating the provision of performance guarantees through their official export credit and financing agencies. [More…]

• It is important, firstly, because Australia as a major trading country cannot isolate itself from the forces which are at work, especially in the major industrial countries of Japan, the United States of America and countries in Europe. [More…]

• The Bretton Woods Agreement had effectively been scrapped and the United States dollar was under threat and so on. [More…]

• In the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany, which are the major suppliers of private capital to this country, interest rates are now increasing. [More…]

• He predicts the impossibility of this Government, or of the United States Government for that matter, finding a way in the foreseeable future out of the economic morass into which the system is leading them. [More…]

• 1 ) Avocado fruit is imported only from Norfolk Island and California, United States of America. [More…]

• The seedborne virus disease sunblotch and the disorder black streak do not occur in Norfolk Island but do occur in the United States. [More…]

• Will he obtain information on the cost of electricity produced from nuclear power compared with power produced from oil and coal in the following countries: The United States, Canada, countries of the European Economic Community, Sweden, the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc countries? [More…]

• Now he wants to extend the inquiry to the United States, Canada, Sweden, the Eastern Bloc and so on. [More…]

• In view of the fact that the average teacher load of Victorian secondary school teachers is already only 16.2 hours a week compared with an average of between 2 1 and 25 hours a week in the United States, Canada and England, the further fact that the overall student population is now on the decrease in Australian schools and the final fact that no evidence supports a contention that lower teacher loads provide any better quality of education anyway, I ask: What action has been taken or is being considered to encourage these potential surplus teachers to transfer to other activities which offer reasonable job prospects and which would assist in containing soaring education costs? [More…]

• Yesterday the Minister provided further information about three Navy patrol frigates which are being built in the United States of America for the Royal Australian Navy. [More…]

• The Australian air traffic control system’s separation procedures and standards are similar to those used by the United States of America ‘s air traffic control system. [More…]

• As stated in my answer to Question 7SS, the Australian National Group nominated Ambassador J. Sette Camara (Brazil), Professor Roberto Ago (Italy), Dr Abdullah El Erian (Egypt) and Professor Richard Baxter (United States). [More…]

• I ask: Has the Government’s attention been drawn to the report on nuclear power costs which is the twenty-third report by the Committee on Government Operations of the House of Representatives, United States Congress, made on 26 April this year? [More…]

• These include its continuing reliance on the United States security guarantees and on outside supplies for its planned large scale peaceful nuclear energy program. [More…]

• The United States, whose strong support for nuclear non-proliferation and stringent safeguards is well known, is co-operating in the development of South Korea’s nuclear energy program. [More…]

• In 1976 we spent on promotion in the United States $7,000, and in 1977 the amount fell to $1,600. [More…]

• I am appalled to think that in 1976 we spent only $7,700 in promoting Australian wine in the United States, and a year later, in 1977 the amount dropped to $1,600. [More…]

• Frankly, that would not pay for a one-page advertisement in a newspaper in the United States. [More…]

• It concerns the construction in the United States of three patrol frigates for the Royal Australian Navy. [More…]

• Originally the Labor Government, in April 1974, decided to order two of these vessels in the United States. [More…]

• In August of that year the then Government entered into a memorandum of arrangements with the United States Government. [More…]

• In particular, clause 8 of that memorandum obliges the United States to provide certain information. [More…]

• It says that Todd Pacific, the shipbuilders, has orders worth over $845m for FFG ships, including 14 of the 26 ships on order for the United States Navy. [More…]

• But at the same time we find that the escalation of the cost of construction of these vessels for the United States Navy in the United States has been approximately the same. [More…]

• They are currently estimated to be costing the United States Government $200m also. [More…]

• In the United States this new system of detection has been under very severe criticism. [More…]

• United States Government has decided that it is necessary to augment it with an additional type of submarine detection equipment. [More…]

• Because of the limited time available to me I want to read an extract from the transcript of the United States Congressional hearings. [More…]

• It is a letter written by Melvin Price, the Chairman of the Committee on Armed Services of the United States House of Representatives and in the letter he had some comments to make about this program. [More…]

• It is important to remember that two of the three contractors for these vessels in the United States in fact are the same company. [More…]

• In all probability it will be worse in terms of the escalation of costs and I believe that the Government is obliged to ascertain from the United States Government the exact position in respect of these vessels and to advise the Parliament accordingly. [More…]

• In correspondence with the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), as a result of certain statements made in the defence estimates, he reminded me that the Australian ratio of civilians to servicemen is half that of the United Kingdom and 20 per cent below that of the United States of America. [More…]

• The United States has commitments to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation as well as global commitments. [More…]

• The United States at no stage has rejected ratification of the International Sugar Agreement. [More…]

• The House of Representatives rejected domestic sugar legislation to which was appended machinery provisions to enable the United States to fulfil it obligations under the Agreement. [More…]

• However, separate Senate acceptance of the International Sugar Agreement would have been and still is required before the United States could ratify the Agreement. [More…]

• The Administration has expressed its unqualified support for the International Sugar Agreement and in fact the United States is a provisional member of the Agreement. [More…]

• The United States Administration remains committed to ratification of the International Sugar Agreement and I am confident it will achieve that objective early in 1979 when the new Congress is convened. [More…]

• I understand that there are practical problems in defusing cyclones although in recent months I have had discussions with people from the United States who are in charge of what is known as the United States Storm Fury Project. [More…]

• Of course, we have a different sixmonthly cyclone season from the United States and tins will enlarge world information about the extent of cyclones and perhaps lead to an ability to moderate cyclones in future years. [More…]

• Australia is playing a part and certainly the expensive equipment that is required for this research and which is available to the United States will add to our information here. [More…]

• Is it a fact that anticipated problems have been so significant as to cause the national governments of Japan, the United States and Switzerland to reject proposals for broad based taxing of consumption? [More…]

• -Has the Minister representing the Minister for Transport seen a report in today’s Australian newspaper stating that Qantas Airways Ltd will be banned from flying to the United States unless Continential Airlines Inc. is allowed to land in Australia and that the Federal Government has decided to back down on its opposition to the Continental Airlines application to fly to Australia? [More…]

• Escalation in direct material costs is calculated on changes in the Index of Steel Vessel Contracts, sometimes called the Material Index, furnished by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor. [More…]

• Indeed, so confident is the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) that he has been prepared to lecture a number of governments, including the United States Government, on how to handle their economies. [More…]

• However, with the uncertainty still surrounding the United States dollar and the slow pace of economic recovery in the Northern Hemisphere, it would be presumptuous of us- and I dare say shortsighted- to believe that the mine’s problems will have disappeared by the early 1980s. [More…]

• It is disappointing to us that the Government has not adopted the approach which has been taken both in the United States and in Europe to canvass openly the options that are available to us. [More…]

• We cannot understand why the Laker application was rejected out of hand, why Mr Brown came from the United States of America, made a number of inflammatory statements, withdrew them the next day, and a few days later we had the announcement by the Minister that there would be a reduction in overseas travelling costs. [More…]

• The Australian Government has not discussed this issue, as I understand it, with the Dutch Government, with the United States Government, with the Japanese Government or with any other government which has substantial economic interests in Indonesia. [More…]

• The strains occurring in Australia at the present rime lack the virulence of bluetongue strains in Africa, the United States and the Middle East; [More…]

• The effect of such a withdrawal by the AMLC or a reversion to the free market so far as we, the sellers, are concerned, would, of course, be to transfer enormous profits to those who manage to import the meat into the United States. [More…]

• Although beef producers have received a reprieve as a result of domestic action taken by the United States President in the last few months, this does not mean that the problems of the beef industry in Australia have been overcome- not by any means. [More…]

• I point out to the Senate that there were many indications in the newspapers just two or three months before the increase in the rate of exports to the United States resulting in a lifting in beef prices, which showed a different and extremely pessimistic attitude. [More…]

• Meatworks will lay off more employees soon because they cannot get beef past quota barriers in the United States, Japan and Canada or find payable markets elsewhere. [More…]

• That would seem to indicate that the recent- and possibly temporary- change in the United States market does not so quickly eliminate the problems of the beef industry. [More…]

• Despite the beef producers’ position and exports to the United States having improved, producers have decided not to ignore the basic problems of their industry. [More…]

• In contrast, I note that the New Zealand, French, Japanese and United States governments all have organisations capable of fulfilling the role of head contractor, and in no case could any of those countries be regarded as being centrally planned by its ideological bent. [More…]

• 14 per cent, compared with European contributors, France and Germany, with contributive shares of 5.24 per cent and 6.56 per cent respectively, and Japan and the United States of America with 33.69 per cent and 22.25 per cent respectively. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that Australian suppliers of solar appliances to the market in the United States of America obtain tax incentives in that country aimed at proliferating the use of energy conserving appliances? [More…]

• I was not aware until this moment of the arrangements whereby exporters of solar appliances to the United States of [More…]

• The United States makes sure that its eagle emblem is not degraded. [More…]

• I know that a United States zoo once appeared to be negligent in its treatment of a wallaby. [More…]

• I believe that it is time the Australian Government emulated the United States and gave significance to any animal on our Coat of Arms. [More…]

• Its working aperture of almost 3.9 metres is exceeded by only three other optical telescopes: The Russian 6 metre, the Palmar5 metre, and in Chile, the United States owned Cerro Tololo 4 metre. [More…]

• Many of the scientific discoveries that have been made by the AAT have demonstrated the opportunities for astronomers in Australia and United Kingdom to participate in active collaboration with space scientists in the United States of America and United Kingdom. [More…]

• On behalf of the Opposition, I wish to put the minority view, as I think it is termed in the United States of America, in relation to this report. [More…]

• They ignored the split that had occurred between Russia and the United States, the split which occurred at that time between Russia and China and the split between Russia and Vietnam. [More…]

• Now there are splits between Russia and the United States, Russia and China and Russia and Viet Nam and these do not appear to be any immediate threat to our peace. [More…]

• Secondly, there is a misunderstanding, apparently based on and influenced by reports of United States developments, that the liability of manufacturers or importers will be considerably greater than that which already applies to retailers. [More…]

• I believe it is true that the low rate of mishap associated with nuclear power houses over the last two decades has been due in no small part to the fact that it is the highly developed nations technologically, such as the United States, West Germany and Japan, amongst others, which have built and maintained the reactors. [More…]

• This is not my own personal view; it has been stated repeatedly by nuclear scientists in the United States who have pleaded with their Government to intervene and try to persuade the Marcos family, which is dominating ownership and control of this reactor, to move the reactor to a safer area. [More…]

• Orders are down to an extraordinarily small number in the United States- something like four- and those four are doubtful. [More…]

• Later it says that the Environment Energy and Natural Resources Sub-Committee of the United States Congress published its findings on the cost of nuclear power. [More…]

• In the War of Independence for the United States of America some fundamental principles of democracy were enunciated. [More…]

• The 10 airlines with the best safety record were: TAP, which is a Portuguese airline; Qantas Airways Ltd; Delta Air Lines; American Airlines; SAS; Trans-Australia Airlines; Japan Airlines; Continental Airlines; United States Airlines, and Ansett Airlines of Australia. [More…]

• It is closely related to the Parliamentary Library and, in the international field, to the Library of Congress in the United States and to the British National Library. [More…]

• The amendments to the trade practices legislation represent basically a pinch from the United States of America, where a totally different industrial situation obtains. [More…]

• He was also the Australian Commissioner General for Expo 74 in Spokane, United States of America, and for Expo 75 in Okinawa. [More…]

• Defence Department Personnel in the United States (Question No. [More…]

• What other Australian Defence personnel are currently working in the United States and where are they located. [More…]

• There are a further 13 permanent and 53 temporary positions associated with procurement activities and located elsewhere in the United States, as follows: [More…]

• Will the United States SQS 56 sonar system be used. [More…]

• What were the real cost increases since 1976 for the three FFG patrol frigates being purchased in the United States, in respect of: [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs aware that the 1 1 9 Australians currently in gaol overseas some 77 are in gaol on drug related charges including, for instance, 17 in the United Kingdom, 1 1 in Thailand, six in the United States, five in Belgium, eight in Malaysia, five in Spain, four in Japan, four in Indonesia and three in Italy? [More…]

• Is it a fact that the Australian Government has now succumbed to pressures from the United States to curtail the already relatively small- in world production terms- Tasmanian industry? [More…]

• Secondly, will he insist also that the new super apron net invented by the United States will be used? [More…]

• My understanding is that the destruction of marine mammals is not a problem in waters off Australia as they do not aggregate within the target tuna species and that it is not necessary to require the use of the super apron nets developed by the United States National Marine Fisheries Service. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Transport and refers to the recently negotiated excursion air fares for people travelling between Australia and the United Kingdom and between Australia and the United States of America. [More…]

• One method of overcoming this problem is ‘sunset’ legislation, now widely used in the United States of America, whereby the enabling Act for an authority imposes a time limit at the end of which the authority automatically disbands unless specifically authorised to continue by new legislation. [More…]

• The five Western members of the Security Council (the United Kingdom, the United States of America, France, West Germany, Canada) in 1977 advised South Africa that its constitutional proposals arising out of these consultations would not gain international approval. [More…]

• If we are not prepared to participate in an initiative sponsored, amongst others, by the United States and Great Britain, adopted by the United Nations and accepted by the conflicting parties, how can we expect others to fulfil their obligations to act responsibly and co-operatively in efforts to settle disputes and restore stability in areas of conflict? [More…]

• What is the business address in the United States of such person or organisation. [More…]

• When did it first become known to the Australian Meat and Livestock Corporation that certain Bills proposing further restrictions on beef imports would be presented to the United States Congress. [More…]

• The MICA is a trade association concerned with the importing of meat into the United States. [More…]

• That whereas the facility for citizen initiated referenda exists in many other countries, notably the United States and Switzerland, but does not exist in Australia, and whereas no steps are at present being taken to investigate the ways in which this right could be granted to the Australian people. [More…]

• Also, what operational costs may be estimated for regular flights and is there advantage for Australia in exploring joint arrangements with New Zealand and the United States of America in respect of the provision of these flights? [More…]

• The Senate would be aware that following a visit I made to the Antarctic in 1977 I negotiated with representatives of New Zealand and the United States of America the integration of our transport system with the transport system that they had arranged. [More…]

• An example may be cited that this year in exchange for four-wheeled Hercules Royal Australian Air Force flights from Christchurch to McMurdo, which is a distance of about 3,800 kilometres, the United States, with ski equipped Hercules aircraft, took flights across the continent, which is a distance of about 2,200 kilometres, to our Casey Base. [More…]

• Is it also a fact that the study found that advances in engine design used in the United States and [More…]

• It is of interest to note that in the United States today it has been put to the motor industry that it should re-think completely the design of the motor car, and I think that relates to whether niters for lead should be fitted or whether there should be other devices, which of course have been bringing about greater fuel consumption, as the honourable senator suggested, and less efficiency in the standard engine produced today. [More…]

• Will the Government endeavour to correct those anomalies or do what the United States Government has done recently in removing government involvement from the industry altogether except in matters of safety? [More…]

• In fact, until recently the suicide rate in Australia was even higher than that in the United States. [More…]

• However, as my predecessor, Mr Ellicott, explained in introducing the 1976 Bill, the need for it had arisen out of legal proceedings that were being taken in the United States of America under the antitrust legislation of that country. [More…]

• The proceedings included a grand jury inquiry and civil proceedings by the Westinghouse Corporation claiming some $7 billion from 29 United States and foreign uranium producers, including four Australian companies. [More…]

• Mr Ellicott ‘s second reading speech in relation to the Foreign Proceedings (Prohibition of Certain Evidence) Bill also explained that in the proceedings I have just mentioned claims were being made that the antitrust and related laws of the United States had a greater extra-territorial operation than that generally conceded in international law, and beyond what other countries were prepared to concede in the proceedings. [More…]

• The orders have been effective in preventing the Australian-based evidence from being used for the purpose of the United States proceedings. [More…]

• I am pleased to be able to inform the Senate, moreover, that the grand jury inquiry into the uranium marketing arrangements has been concluded and that no proceedings by the United States Justice Department have been instituted against any Australian company in consequence of that inquiry. [More…]

• In those proceedings nine non-United States defendants declined to enter appearances: They did this because they considered there were jurisdictional objections to the proceedings against them and that they might be taken to have waived those objections if they were to enter appearances: The effect of their not entering appearances has been the entry by the United States court of a default judgment against them. [More…]

• However, with the exception of the South Australian legislation, the applicability of their provisions in relation to a judgment of a particular country is dependent on an order in council being made upon satisfaction that substantial reciprocity is assured from that country, and no such order in council has been made in respect of the United States of America. [More…]

• The Senate will recall that on 14 September last year, in answer to a question by Senator Young, I reported on the outcome of certain consultations that had just been had in Washington with the United States Attorney-General and representatives of his Department concerning the extraterritorial application of antitrust laws. [More…]

• That allowed for a period during which the heads of agreement on which the consultations took place could be considered in detail by the Department of Justice and other United States departments involved. [More…]

• The present position in relation to those consultations is that we are still awaiting the response of the United States authorities on the proposed heads of agreement. [More…]

• The response will not, however, render the present Bill unnecessary, because the proposals we are exploring with the United States authorities will be applicable only in respect of future marketing arrangements. [More…]

• It is to be hoped that it will prove possible to obtain a better understanding with the United States authorities in relation to the enforcement of their antitrust laws. [More…]

• In the heartland of capitalism, the United States of America, the place of the big corporations where the private sector is so sacrosanct that one is not even allowed to think about the public sector, 35.1 per cent of the gross domestic product is spent in the public sector. [More…]

• Wherever it can make investments, whether it be in Singapore, Taiwan, the United States or in any of our own cities, it will concern itself with the objective because that is what it believes in. [More…]

• The Minister will be aware of negotiations between the United States Boeing aircraft company and the Government Aircraft Factories and Hawker De Havilland Australia Pty Ltd, Sydney, for the manufacture of the internal wing ribs of the new Boeing 767. [More…]

• In view of the decision by the United States to abrogate its treaty with Taiwan and the recent statement by Admiral Zumwalt, a United States Admiral, in Australia that signalled a clear warning to this country that we have to rely more on our own efforts for defence, has the Government considered the possible implications for United States commitments to the ANZUS Treaty? [More…]

• Does the Government remain firm in its belief that the United States is as committed to the ANZUS Treaty as has been the case in the past? [More…]

• The Government has always believed, and I think the Australian community does also, that the ANZUS Treaty with the United States of America is a significant cornerstone of our national security. [More…]

• What is the Government doing to emulate the United States of America in eliminating tankers that are obsolete or accident prone? [More…]

• -Has the Minister representing the Minister for National Development noted the statement by the Vice-President of Exxon Chemicals of the United States, Mr Ron Grandy at a meeting yesterday of the Australian Chemical Industry Council, pointing out that there is a tendency towards increasing international trade in chemicals and that this trend is likely to intensify away from nations in Western Europe, and Japan and the United States? [More…]

• Is it not a fact that in Britain and the United States credit card laws protect the consumer in those circumstances? [More…]

• The United States and China have established full diplomatic relations. [More…]

• This is a welcome move that will assist the United States to pursue a more fully developed policy in Asia. [More…]

• United States policy has in the past been inhibited by a lack of formal recognition. [More…]

• This year we have achieved the best access ever to the United States for our meat exports, and we are approaching the end of the bilateral negotiations for long term access to the American market. [More…]

• This is a most significant progress, especially since while our interest rates fell over 1978 United States interest rates were rising by up to 4 per cent, those in the United Kingdom by up to 5 per cent. [More…]

• The statement referred to the three guided missile frigates being purchased from the United States, but it did not point out that the Government has had no information about the cost of those frigates since mid- 1977, it did not point out that those frigates are going to be used for purposes for which they were not even designed, it . [More…]

• The Australian export industries have benefited from the decline in the value of the United States dollar because of its pre-eminence in the index system used for adjusting the value of the Australian dollar. [More…]

• What the Prime Minister has failed to say is that the Australian export industries are benefiting from the problems of the United States economy and the outlook in that direction is not at all hopeful. [More…]

• We have to be realistic and as the Prime Minister is now starting to recognise, Australia cannot insulate itself from overseas influences, particularly those of the United States. [More…]

• I shall now make just a few comments about the United States. [More…]

• No matter what policies this Government adopts, the prospect for improved exports lies ultimately with the policy of the United States to sustain powerful economic recovery. [More…]

• In addition, this Government has failed to fulfil its commitment to complete an International Grains Arrangement and the International Sugar Agreement is teetering on the edge of failure because the United States has not yet ratified the Agreement. [More…]

• In the United States of” America with its new-found energy consciousness that realisation is growing. [More…]

• That is a problem which has dogged the United States judicial system for so many years. [More…]

• Quite clearly the printing was far too small in terms of numbers and far too many of them were immediately despatched to major philatelic outlets in the United Kingdom and the United States so that in Australia, bearing in mind the relationship between the Australian Postal Commission and the philatelic services of Christmas Island, there were very few, if any, of these sets available. [More…]

• To my mind- I think this is so in many other countries, including the United States- legal aid should not be regarded as being just for the pensioner. [More…]

• We all know the situation of exPresident Nixon in the United States but also I think one could say that the main reason for the resignation of the ex-Chancellor of West Germany, Willy Brandt, was an aide’s deception for which he took full responsibility. [More…]

• There are a number of laws now in force in the United States that I should think would be opposed by a large number of Government members in the Senate. [More…]

• One of the things that impressed me very much was to be able to go to the United States electoral commission and be able to purchase for 10 cents a page a list of all the donations for that day ranging from $5 upwards that had been made to Presidential candidates. [More…]

• They include Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Great Britain, France, Japan, the United States of America, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, West Germany and Italy. [More…]

• This motion calls for the essential preliminary steps in the development of a balancing House of review somewhat along the lines of the United States Senate. [More…]

• I am sure we do not want to go the whole way of the United States system with its rigid separation of powers. [More…]

• When I was in Washington last year I looked with some care at the procedures of the United States Senate. [More…]

• There is much we can learn from the United States Senate procedures although, of course, we must recognise that it operates under a very different political structure. [More…]

• If it is power we are talking about, I invite honourable senators to compare the power of a chairman of a United States Senate committee with the power of a Minister in one of our recent governments. [More…]

• This is the practice in the United States Senate. [More…]

• Rather than delay the Senate I had preliminary talks this afternoon with departmental staff and I now ask that a four-page document dealing with the history of this society and naming the United States national who is seeking a conversion of his visa from tourist to working status be incorporated in Hansard. [More…]

• This centre is affiliated with International Babaji Yoga Sangam with headquarters in Madras, India and American Babaji Yoga Sangam with headquarters at 1 12 East Seventh Street, New York, New York, United States of America. [More…]

• Of course, it is through the Department of Science that matters *br the United States Government in relation to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration organisation are conducted in Australia. [More…]

• I am advised by the Minister for Health that requests for curtailment have arisen, not from the United States of America as might have been suggested in some reports, but from the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs. [More…]

• Over the last few years, and for a variety of reasons, one of the superpowers, the United States, has adopted a lower posture and a strategically less active policy towards the Third World. [More…]

• Many, inside the United States and outside it, have welcomed this. [More…]

• In the case of the United States there were special problems in the aftermath of the war; but it seemed that these were gradually being resolved. [More…]

• Last week, the Government with other governments including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and Japan called for an urgent meeting of the Security Council. [More…]

• Some of the changes which have taken place at that level- the establishment of full diplomatic relations between the United States and China, the expansion of Japan’s relations with China- are in themselves desirable; but what significance they will ultimately have will depend on how they fit into a picture which is not yet complete. [More…]

• There were the tens and perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars which Australia expended in the effort by the United States of America to try to determine the course of events within Vietnam- actions unacceptable on the world scene which should never have been condoned and which should never have been embarked upon in the first place. [More…]

• China has now taken the view, for reasons best understood by itself, that it wishes to take a much different and more conciliatory approach towards the United States. [More…]

• Those who took the trouble to read the interview with the Chinese Vice Premier, Deng Xiaoping, in Time magazine only two or three weeks ago would not be left with any illusions as to the reason for China’s new approach to the United States of America. [More…]

• It is true that the United States has adopted a lower posture so far as the Third World countries are concerned and we all know the reason. [More…]

• It was said then that it will take generations of United States presidents to overcome the effect of that war on the United States community. [More…]

• No American president is going to leave himself open to that again, hence the reason for this much more cautious approach now being taken by the United States. [More…]

• What a sorry record this Government and the governments of the United States and Western Europe have in this area. [More…]

• The United States then moved into that country and bolstered up various puppet regimes which clearly again did not have the support of the population. [More…]

• Thousands upon thousands of people from our own country and the United States as well as from Indo-China died trying to preserve regimes which obviously could not last, whatever the morality of it may have been, and were bound to be destroyed. [More…]

• Here I refer specifically to the United States of America and even more specifically to the Central Intelligence Agency. [More…]

• It did intervene on behalf of the United States. [More…]

• I think we and the dithering Administration in the United States are embarked on precisely the same course. [More…]

• By basing our approach to the Government in Iran on what served the short term economic interests of the United States and other Western countries, we finished up with the debacle with which we are now faced. [More…]

• It is likely that the fighting in Vietnam will bog down, as it did between the French and the Vietnamese and the United States and Vietnam. [More…]

• Over the last few years, and for a variety of reasons, one of the superpowers- the United States- has adopted a lower posture and a strategically less active policy towards the Third World. [More…]

• Many, inside the United States and outside it, have welcomed this. [More…]

• Would these struggles and wars have reached this tempo if the United States had not stepped back several steps and if it had not, as the paper stated, adopted a lower posture? [More…]

• Perhaps some people in the United States felt that by taking this action there would be less trouble in the world. [More…]

• The United States reduced its posture by stepping backwards. [More…]

• I believe what the United States has done is to allow the communist countries to exercise their full power in many countries throughout the world. [More…]

• I am glad to see that Great Britain and the United States are not going to support a puppet regime which I believe will fail regardless of the results in that election. [More…]

• I think that for once the foreign policies of Great Britain and the United States will be proved correct. [More…]

• This conflict marks the entry of Sino-Soviet rivalry into the politics of the region on a scale greater than the rivalry between those two powers in Africa, or that of the United States and the Soviet Union in other part of the world. [More…]

• It amazes me that some government back benchers, some of the very same people who gave unqualified support to the United States in its wars in Vietnam, are now giving unqualified support to Chinese military action in the very same country. [More…]

• One has only to read in the newspapers some of the comments from the former hawks in that last conflict to see that there is muted admiration that somebody else has taken up the military position of the United States in Vietnam. [More…]

• If the United States had had a decent intelligence operation going in Iran, surely it would have known that the key to the whole of the conflict in that country was the political control of the 30,000 oil workers who brought down the former government and who could bring down the present government if they decided to take more political action and not to get the oil moving again. [More…]

• The United States gave him unqualified support a matter of 24 hours after he was made Prime Minister. [More…]

• He worked with Mossadegh, whom the United States had helped to overthrow in August 1953. [More…]

• This nation stands for the further development of peace in the world and consequently supports the United States and the USSR in seeking to find ways to enter into the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty. [More…]

• Every person who has followed politics since the end of the Vietnam war knows of the promise made prior to the end of hostilities by the then President Nixon of the United States, that America would supply large sums of aid to Vietnam to rehabilitate it. [More…]

• Despite what is happening in Vietnam and despite the argument between the Soviet Union and China, we still have an acceptance by the United States and the Soviet Union that detente ought to be achieved and that the SALT discussions ought to be concluded. [More…]

• Over the last few years, and for a variety of reasons, one of the super powers- the United States- has adopted a lower posture and a strategically less active policy towards the Third World. [More…]

• Many, inside the United States and outside it, have welcomed this. [More…]

• It is an encouragement for people to assume that one way or another the United States may well employ a military action, as it has done in the past. [More…]

• As has been pointed out by members of the Opposition with regard to the origins of trouble in this area, certainly the United States, Australia and other countries saw the Vietnam war as one which must have a military solution. [More…]

• We should be assisting in reducing tensions and we certainly should make sure that the present encouraging relationship between the Soviet Union and the United States of America is preserved and pointed to. [More…]

• For example, it is not hard to see that the Soviet Union might feel that Europe, Japan, the United States of America, and China are in fact in many ways aligned against it. [More…]

• I only add that in the context of the tendency towards alignment between Europe, Japan, the United States of America and China, Australia obviously falls into that group along with members of the Association of South East Asian Nations and the countries of the South Pacific. [More…]

• It is in that context also that we ought to look at our treaty with the United States of America. [More…]

• The Minister, in his statement this afternoon referred to the United States in the following terms: [More…]

• Over the last few years, and for a variety of reasons, one of the super powers- the United States- has adopted a lower posture and a strategically less active policy towards the Third World. [More…]

• Many, inside the United States and outside it, have welcomed this. [More…]

• The Minister’s words are very diplomatic but I think that statement reflects the fact that the United States must inescapably adopt a position of active leadership. [More…]

• If that is to happen it is important that the United States should give a lead in that process. [More…]

• I think we must say that we, like many others, look to the United States for more effective leadership, for more decisive action, and it may be worth recalling that in 1976, the Foreign Minister, in his statement to the National Press Club, to which I have already referred, made the following statement: [More…]

• Strange as it may seem, having heard the sort of emotional talk that has gone on today, no well-established damage to reefs by oil can be quoted and drilling is carried out in South East Asia, the Middle East, the Red Sea, the southern United States and so on. [More…]

• Concerning the environmental effects, there is no doubt that the series of tanker accidents off the coasts of the United States, French and Spanish coasts and the blow-out in the North Sea have reinforced public concern and scientific interest in the long-term effects of oil on marine and estuarine ecosystems. [More…]

• On many occasions committees of the United States Senate, have had to protect that area from certain greedy commercial interests. [More…]

• The first is a Newsweek clipping that deals with the ecology cycle when an oil spill occurred in the Nantucket area on the coast of the United States of America. [More…]

• To indicate how we have to have forward thinking, I ask that a letter which “I received from Senator Ed Muskie, who, as honourable senators know, represents the coastline State of Maine, also be incorporated in Hansard, together with a further clipping from the New York Times which refers to the current climate in the United States Congress. [More…]

• In United States coastal and inland waters alone there are as many as 13,000 spills, large and small, every year, aggregating around 20 million gallons. [More…]

• Also .before Congress is a tanker safety bill laying down requirements for construction, personnel and navigation equipment for any vessels that want to enter United States ports. [More…]

• It is long past the rime for comprehensive legislation which provides not only for adequate liability for oil spills but also for establishment of minimum standards for the construction, operation and maintenance of vessels which want to use the ports of the United States. [More…]

• If the ships are going to use the ports of the United States- if they are going to ply our waters- then they should meet the same level of performance demanded for ships which operate under the American flag. [More…]

• Given the difficult and sensitive nature of the settlement process in Namibia, the negotiations initiated by the Western Five- the United States, the United Kingdom, France, the Federal Republic of Germany and Canada- have been long and exhaustive. [More…]

• Why did we not support the proposal by the United States and France to ban the exploitation of the sperm whale? [More…]

• Is it a fact that during the last 12 months ISO New Zealand scientists and 300 United States scientists were able to do valuable research work at their bases due to excellent transport facilities being available to them? [More…]

• Although I readily acknowledge that citizen initiative does enjoy some current popularity in certain overseas countries, particularly the United States, it is true that the idea of citizen initiative and a referendum dates from the time, and was most fashionable at the time, when nations were essentially run by elites elected by rich and powerful minorities, when full adult franchise was unknown, when representative democracy was not fully developed, and when there was genuine frustration at the absence of an opportunity for the popular voice to make itself heard in the business of government. [More…]

• To take a familiar and recent United States example, it is widely accepted that the defeat of a Californian initiative proposal for a ban on smoking in public places was primarily due to a massive $5m advertising campaign by the tobacco industry. [More…]

• 89 on the Notice Paper- by Senator Mason relating to the whole subject of democracy by referendum as against representative democracy, which is a question that has arisen in the United States in particular in recent times. [More…]

• The Senate will, I think, recall that on one previous occasion, in an atmosphere of high drama, we met here to deal with legislation relating to the action by Westinghouse Electric Corporation in the United States which was brought against 29 companies, some of them domestic United States companies, and some of them foreign companies registered in the United States. [More…]

• In that case Westinghouse alleged price fixing agreements contrary to the United States anti-trust laws. [More…]

• Its purpose was to deal with the particular proceedings in the United States courts to which I referred earlier. [More…]

• It seems that the prohibition against certain evidence being given in those proceedings in the United States does not, however, go far enough to exempt the four Australian companies, to which I have referred, from the provisions of the United States anti-trust laws. [More…]

• The purpose of the present Bill is to provide that certain anti-trust judgments made in United States or foreign courts- but the United States courts in particular- are not recognised or enforceable in Australia. [More…]

• One would like to think that we lived in a perfect world in which we in Australia fully respected the rather forceful antitrust legislation which exists in the United States and were prepared to enforce their judgments here, but of” course we do not. [More…]

• said, to assist the courts of the United States in anti-trust proceedings, and while we should be ready to meet with United States officials to explore means of limiting any harmful effect on their economy which may originate in this country, the limits of our ability to co-operate must be set by two principles: that we cannot co-operate where the action proposed by the United States is inconsistent with our conception of international law, nor can we permit action here which we judge to be contrary to our public interest. [More…]

• -The Foreign Antitrust Judgments (Restriction of Enforcement) Bill 1979 brings to a sort of finality a dispute which has been festering between the Australian and United States Governments for some years, particularly in relation to the United States Department of Justice. [More…]

• I say that it brings the matter to a sort of finality because no doubt this Bill, if it becomes law, will be seen to be only a step in the further negotiations with the United States Attorney-General in particular over the enforcement in Australia of judgments of United States courts in anti-trust proceedings. [More…]

• The answer is very clearly given, namely, that Australian companies will be affected by United States judgments within Australia only if the Government thinks it is desirable. [More…]

• The damages awarded, particularly under treble damages provisions, against Australian companies for colluding in arrangements which force up the price of metals sold in the United States, for example, may be so astronomical that the effect of allowing the enforcement of the award in Australia would be crippling to the companies concerned. [More…]

• There is, and no doubt there always will be, a basic conflict of interest between say, the United States purchasers of Australian resources, whether they be alumina, zinc, uranium or natural gas, and the Australian business enterprise exporting the commodity. [More…]

• Clearly a cartel of cooperative bidders in relation to a particular commodity is the last thing with which the United States purchaser wants to be confronted. [More…]

• This legislation is our legal system’s answer to the use by United States consumers of their legal system to protect their interests. [More…]

• There is no doubt in my mind that the decision by the United States Department of Justice to enforce vigorously its anti-trust legislation against overseas resource companies selling minerals and energy products in the US is simply a part of the US consumers’ effort to strengthen their bargaining position in the world market for the sorts of commodities that we can provide. [More…]

• For example- I pose this question so that the Attorney-General (Senator Durack) may be able to help the Opposition- if the Attorney-General were to decide that it is not in the national interest that some Australian company should pay some millions of dollars awarded by way of punitive damages in a United States judgment, but that in his view compensation might properly be payable to the US plaintiff for loss actually proved, and as a consequence ordered that the amount of damages for which the judgment could be enforced in Australia be reduced from say $3m to $500,000, then on publication in the Gazette would not the judgment for the reduced amount become immediately enforceable? [More…]

• Whilst we understand that the basic purpose of the Bill is to ensure that certain anti-trust judgments passed in foreign courts are not recognised and are not enforceable in Australia, we have some difficulty with the general principle that the United States law, as judged by that country in regard to its own sort of national interest, ought to apply in respect of operations of companies whose activities are designed chiefly with the Australian national interest in mind. [More…]

• There are a number of circumstances in which Australia’s national interest in respect of the export of minerals and the activities of the various firms which are engaged in exporting certainly needs to be protected against the sort of law that applies in the United States. [More…]

• It arises out of rather unhappy circumstances which have arisen as a result of the wide application that the United States of America gives to its anti-trust laws. [More…]

• To that end, we have been holding very extensive consultations with the Department of Justice in the United States to try to see whether there are ways of preventing conflicts of this type arising. [More…]

• Nevertheless, in one sense the damage has been done in that judgments have been entered, but there does not seem to be any way under American law and from negotiations we have had with the United States Government to undo that situation. [More…]

• I think it is only fair to say that even if we do reach agreement with the United States on this matter it still will be very difficult to apply that situation to civil proceedings and to gain damages in those proceedings, because this is a case between private litigants. [More…]

• It would be difficult to gain an intervention by a Government- in this case the United States Government- into those proceedings or to provide for a court to take account of the sorts of considerations which basically are political considerations. [More…]

• As I said, in theory it would be better if they could be exercised by a court in Australia, but we recognise that really that is not feasible and in discussions we have had with the United States Government it has expressed the same concern about how it could introduce these sorts of considerations into its private civil processes. [More…]

• That might also be of importance in relation to achieving comity with the United States. [More…]

• In the light of the discussions that we have had, the United States authorities may be prepared to accept more readily that treble damages judgments not be enforced. [More…]

• In the United States where computer technology is much advanced we have seen a number of examples where both private and government employees have been able to fiddle the system- I suppose that is the correct term to use- for a long period of time. [More…]

• It has been operating in commercial enterprise in the United States for many years and subsequently has been introduced into government agencies in other northern hemisphere countries. [More…]

• They also are well established in the United States and in some European countries, certainly in Sweden and Germany. [More…]

• It is a system, as has been said, which was pioneered in the United States and indeed is so well entrenched there now, that the Government Auditing Office in the United States devotes only about 10 per cent of its resources to the traditional financial audit and 90 per cent of its resources to efficiency and program auditing. [More…]

• They will need to be gained by the Auditor-General over a period just as the Comptroller-General in the United States had to gain his knowledge when efficiency audits were introduced some 1 5 years or 20 years ago in the United States. [More…]

• Of course, somewhat similar arrangements have been followed for many years in other countries- for instance, the United States of America- in relation to secret expenditures. [More…]

• He made the point that so often statistics can be conveniently used and that really one could show that the progression in the rate of lung cancer in the United States equated with the increase in the consumption of cigarettes, but it also equated with the increase in the number of Toyota or Japanese cars and that, if you like to graph them both out, you could prove equally that it was caused either by the consumption of cigarettes or the increase in the number of Toyota or Japanese cars. [More…]

• They show that, in the United States of America, for every 100 people in the population 55.2 have a television set. [More…]

• It can therefore be seen that the television set, as a means of communication and thereby as a means of influencing both development and behaviour, is so widespread throughout the Australian community that only the United States may be said to be in a worse position- and I use that term advisedly. [More…]

• The report itself draws attention to this behaviour of parental authorities by quoting evidence from the United States in which a committee responsible for producing a report entitled ‘Television and Growing Up: The Impact of Televised Violence’ reported as follows: [More…]

• It is certainly true that if one were to observe over a prolonged period the nature of social relationships, the nature of physical relationships and the nature of sheer physical conditions of living in which most of these television soap operas and most of the television programs tend to be shown, one would get without doubt the most unrealistic picture of life in the United States, Great Britain, Australia or anywhere else. [More…]

• I am afraid that neither the United States nor other powers have made any attempt to assist in this regard. [More…]

• In view of the decision by the United States to abrogate its treaty with Taiwan and the recent statement by Admiral Zumwalt, a United States Admiral, in Australia that signalled a clear warning to this country that we have to rely more on our own efforts for defence, has the Government considered the possible implications for United States commitments to the ANZUS Treaty? [More…]

• Does the Government remain firm in its belief that the United States is as committed to the ANZUS Treaty as has been the case in the past? [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that Mr Kelly has called on the Commonwealth Government to close down the tobacco industry in Australia so that the Government can trade off cuts in the tariff on United States tobacco imports for lower United States duties on Australian wool? [More…]

• Has he seen that Qantas has now developed a new advertising style for the United States of America based on the premise that Americans are unable to understand the language, grammar and slang of Australians, and should therefore be made familiar with the way in which the average Australian talks? [More…]

• We have reached an interim agreement with the United States which has resulted in quite dramatic reductions in fares between Sydney and Melbourne and the American West Coast. [More…]

• The figures show that as of November 1978 the average air fare in Europe, expressed in United States cents per mile, was 31.7c; in the United States of America the average air fare was 13.4c per mile; and in Australia the average normal economy fare was 13.7 US cents per mile. [More…]

• That means that Australia’s air fares are fractionally above those of the United States and less than half the average in Europe. [More…]

• Examples are given for varying distances in Europe, and the United States and Australia. [More…]

• The wisdom of that advice can be seen in the light of the mistake that the United States of America made in taking sides with the previous regime in Iran. [More…]

• I should have thought that Australia should not blindly follow the advice of the United States of America. [More…]

• I was disappointed that the Prime Minister of this country did not publicly deplore the recent statements by the beleaguered President of the United States during the conflict in Vietnam that the United States could not stand by and see this happen. [More…]

• I have little doubt that if Australia’s territorial integrity were attacked by a neighbour the United States would come to our aid in some form or other. [More…]

• As I said, we could have deplored the United States President’s inflammatory brinkmanship, the rather pathetic statement that they cannot stand by. [More…]

• The United States gives tax credits of up to 55 per cent of the total cost of solar devices as an encouragement to conserve energy resources by using energy from the sun. [More…]

• A view expressed principally in the first instance by the United States of America, and to some extent by the United Kingdom and certainly by the conservative governments in our part of the world is that we have a bounden duty to take a position opposite to whatever may be the point of view expressed by certain countries. [More…]

• It seems to me from the document to which I have referred that this Government is following very closely, the policies being pursued by the United States. [More…]

• He says that the United States has adopted a lower posture and a strategically less active policy towards the Third World. [More…]

• The might of the United States of America was thrown into Vietnam, with our support. [More…]

• There are those in our country and in the United States who believe that the United States has the power, the wisdom and the obligation to decide the future of nations everywhere in the world. [More…]

• Yet in the United States there are Democrats and Republicans who have changed from being hawks to doves in respect of that war. [More…]

• We continue therefore that same sort of superficial analysis which has been spoken of by those who give a huie more attention to the issues and which clearly is reflected in different attitudes, even in the top echelons in the United States. [More…]

• I am very pleased that there are people in influential positions in the United States who take a much broader view than that which is found in this document. [More…]

• It was then involved in a war with the United States and Australia. [More…]

• The United States, the real villain in the whole picture, contributed nothing- no money at all. [More…]

• He reported back to the American Government that Vietnam desired to resume economic links with the United States despite the subjectivism that obviously existed at the end of the long drawn out war, during which the mighty United States of America had been humbled. [More…]

• This was of course done in the face of a United States trade embargo. [More…]

• We then went to the appropriate Minister and asked him to exercise his good offices to persuade the United States to accept part responsibility for the devastation and the problems that existed in Vietnam. [More…]

• Nothing but ignorance of what our responsibilities were, nothing but ignorance about what our role should be, nothing but ignorance about attempting to influence the United States and nothing but anti-Soviet hysteria- that is what has emanated from this Government. [More…]

• Firstly, we call for an immediate withdrawal of all Chinese forces from Vietnam to allow negotiations to begin and call on United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to avoid any action or statement that could provoke a further escalation or inhibit the resolution of the conflict. [More…]

• He said that it is all the fault of Australia that the Vietnamese are the friends of the Soviet Union because we and the United States have not given support to the Vietnamese and have forced them into the arms of the Soviet Union. [More…]

• I wonder what Senator Gietzelt would have said if the United States of America had given to Vietnam the support which he accused the United States of America of not giving. [More…]

• I am sure that he would have said that the United States was again wanting to buy another country and take it over. [More…]

• He is saying that because the Vietnamese turned to the Soviet Union the United States is one of the bad boys. [More…]

• I commence by referring to the section at the bottom of page 5 of the statement made by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), in which the Minister drew attention to the very low posture that the United States of America has maintained in the present conflict. [More…]

• No wonder the United States is a bit dubious about being involved in those sorts of situations. [More…]

• If Australia and the United States had adopted the same posture as Britain did in Vietnam and had stayed out of it, no doubt we would have had an amalgamation of Vietnam then. [More…]

• If that had occurred, would the United States and Australia not have been in a far better position to provide United Nations peacekeeping troops if our hands had been clean? [More…]

• We know that sometimes the United States of America bails them out. [More…]

• The situation in Portugal could be changed if the United States in particular played a more vigorous role. [More…]

• Of course, one only has to look at Guatemala and other places to realise the ruthless way in which the United States responded. [More…]

• To me the question is not whether the United States, the Soviet Union or China are involved. [More…]

• I think that it was a combined British and United States effort. [More…]

• As a National Times article March 6-11,1978, stated: Australia is to play a much more significant role in the strategic weapons plan of the United States, the Soviet Union and China. [More…]

• If, in the past, we criticised the United States for its position in Indo-China, then surely we should be criticising today the position that China takes against Vietnam. [More…]

• Those criticisms which I levelled against the United States in adjournment debates early in the morning, I level now against China. [More…]

• Australia will be one of those expendable targets because it has upon its soil at the present time a number of United States bases which are aimed at monitoring the strength of the USSR and of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]

• They are paranoic in their fear of an encirclement of their nation, of their people, by the United States of America, by the People’s Republic of China and all the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation forces. [More…]

• One thing that emerged from that revolution was the cancellation of armament contracts with United States, France and the United Kingdom worth billions of dollars. [More…]

• As a result the industrialists and the armament makers in the United States, France and the United Kingdom benefited greatly. [More…]

• They were betrayed by the British in the agreements that were made, and they fought again- this time the French again and subsequently the full forces of the United States. [More…]

• Perhaps I should amend that, because the United States could not bring to bear the massive armaments it had at its disposal. [More…]

• Having defeated the United States, the Vietnamese people set themselves a program of reunification and economic recovery. [More…]

• Senator Gietzelt has already explained how that was frustrated by the United States, by countries such as Australia supporting the United States, and by the Chinese. [More…]

• They wanted the United States influence to remain in that area as a counterbalance to Soviet influence. [More…]

• On the other hand the Soviet Union did not believe that the Vietnamese could succeed and, as is now history, the United States folded before that last assault and the Vietnamese were victorious. [More…]

• If the United States had assisted in reconstruction and if Australia had supported it in doing so, Vietnam would possibly have reached an independent position, but it was not allowed to do this. [More…]

• I believe that the United States also is engaged in the same dangerous exercise of encouraging China and is taking sides against the Soviet Union. [More…]

• As a result of the lack of interest in the Parliament and in the media, the fact that in the past we have felt secure in view of our geographic isolation and that we considered ourselves under the protective umbrella of the United Kingdom or the United States, Australia has had little interest in or knowledge of world affairs. [More…]

• Will the Minister establish whether Telecom has given consideration to installing vandal-proof telephones of the sort widely used in the United States of America? [More…]

• In September 1978, the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare published a report which stated that 40 per cent of all cancer deaths in the United States were due to exposure to occupational carcinogens such as asbestos, uranium, benzine, nickel oxide, chromium and petroleum factions, to mention just a few. [More…]

• -Has the AttorneyGeneral noted a recent United States Supreme Court decision which waived alimony awarded in a divorce case on the ground that the male appellant would be suffering sex discrimination if his wealthy wife were to receive maintenance from him? [More…]

• I really do not have any information except that I have heard some vague rumour about the decision of the United States Supreme Court to which Senator Messner refers. [More…]

• However, the law applicable to a situation of this kind in Australia is, of course, not determined by the United States Supreme Court but by the Family Law Act passed by this Parliament and interpreted by the Family Court of Australia or ultimately the High Court of Australia. [More…]

• I believe that the United States Congress report of 26 April 1978- hardly a year old- deals with three particular aspects, namely, safety, costs and jobs. [More…]

• Dealing with the question of safety, the United States Congress says that there is still no demonstrated technology for permanently and safely disposing of this waste. [More…]

• -Before the suspension of the sitting I was referring to chapter XII of the findings and conclusions contained in the report of the United States Congressional Committee on Government Operations which was presented in April of 1978. [More…]

• This indicates the uncertainty that exists in this industry and confirms the view of those people involved in the industry in the United States of America. [More…]

• Representatives of the Japanese, United States and Philippines nuclear industries have already suggested in public comments that Australia is a good site to dump nuclear waste. [More…]

• As all the conditions for majority rule laid down by the United States of America and the United Kingdom have been met by the Smith regime, will the [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of a telex message sent this morning in which a Health Department spokesman in Brisbane expressed anger about the slowness of the National Health and Medical Research Council in getting the facts on the Alsea incident which has led to additional restrictions being placed on the use of 2,4,5-T in the United States of America? [More…]

• That has been attempted in the United States. [More…]

• The editorial resulted from a visit, which I think was just prior to Christmas, by the New Zealand Minister for Overseas Trade, Mr Talboys, to the United States, Canada and Brussels to seek a continuation of New Zealand’s sales in the United States and to try to open up markets in Canada. [More…]

• With a continuing sensitive and unstable export market which continues to be influenced to a large degree by the policies of support prices, and subsidies for exports to the European Economic Community and the United States of America, it is particularly important for the domestic market to be maintained and indeed to be developed, as Senator Lewis indicated. [More…]

• In countries such as the United States of America and Great Britain, governments are concerned at the health risks which are presented by the increasing use of chemicals in food. [More…]

• Its other members comprise Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Federal Republic of Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States. [More…]

• The General Dynamics F-16 has now started to enter service with the United States Air Force. [More…]

• The Soviet Government’s case against Shcharansky was unusual because it involved alleged United States subversion and espionage and because it led to President Carter’s flat denial that Shcharansky had ever worked for US Intelligence. [More…]

• I refer to the answer given by Senator Carrick to Senator Bonner’s question and, in that context, to this statement by Senator Inouye in the United States Senate: [More…]

• In view of this situation, and the concern expressed in business, political and other circles in the United States as to the decision of the Australian Government, can the Minister indicate whether the deadline to which he referred, and the appointment of an independent arbitrator with respect to compensation, might be reconsidered by the Government? [More…]

• I told the Senate earlier how the Navy tried to meet this problem by providing our United States-built destroyers with one captain and four commanders while United States sister ships had one commander. [More…]

• In many ways we can be compared with the United States of America and, I suppose, in sport and recreation we can also take America as a comparison. [More…]

• Last Friday week the United States Environmental Protection Agency imposed an emergency ban on the use of 2,4,5-T. An article on this ban, published in the Age of 7 March, states: [More…]

• The EPA said immediate suspension was considered necessary to avoid the use of 3,176 tonnes of the defoliant and weed killer during the spring spraying season in the United States. [More…]

• Here we have a situation where the United States has taken a position, concerned as it is with the state of health of those who may be affected by this chemical. [More…]

• It is the attitude that has been adopted in the United States. [More…]

• However, there is enough evidence, surely from the United States conclusion, to say that until we are reasonably sure that there is no problem then that conclusion ought to apply so far as Australia is concerned. [More…]

• Generally we seem to take many of the bad influences of the United States in these matters. [More…]

• From time to time many senators and people in our community have expressed concern about some of the violence and racial difficulties which are so much part of the scene in the United States and the way in which we allow our society to deteriorate. [More…]

• But when the United States takes some steps of a positive nature that have as their objective the protection of public health and individual health, we seem to be reluctant to follow the particular lead. [More…]

• Firstly, and most recently there is an 800-page draft report of a committee formed last May by President Carter of the United States, in response to higher cancer rates amongst those living near nuclear facilities and bomb sites. [More…]

• I would like to make reference to people like Professor Manucso and Drs Stewart and Kneale who have made extensive studies of cancers amongst workers at the United States Hanford nuclear facility. [More…]

• It is not a copy of the Parliament of the United Kingdom; it is not a copy of the Congress in the United States of America. [More…]

• 1 ) Has there been a drop in reported rubella activity in Australia similar to that which has occurred in the United States since 1969. [More…]

• The policy concerning rubella immunisation in Australia differs from that being followed in the United States of America. [More…]

• During the period 15 January 1979 to 5 February 1979, the Director-General of the Department of Social Security visited the United States of America, Canada, Great Britain, Italy, Switzerland, Yugoslavia and Greece. [More…]

• My understanding is that the report of studies on 2,4,5-T, which claimed a possible linkage with high miscarriages and perhaps the ill health suggested by Senator Missen, has been received from the United States of America. [More…]

• by leave- In May 1978 honourable senators were informed that when a formal United States proposal was placed before the Government to install a replacement satellite ground terminal at the Harold E. Holt Naval Communication Station, it would be considered on its merits. [More…]

• A formal United States proposal was received on 17 February 1979. [More…]

• The Government accepts that a need exists for the communication equipment at Harold E. Holt to be sustained at levels of technical performance fully compatible with the United States Defense Communication System of which it forms an integral element. [More…]

• this transmission and reception would be done by the MSC61 through the United States Defense Satellite Communication System of which it, like the TSC54 terminal would be a part. [More…]

• Yet the fact of the matter was that the United States had decided to install the terminal and had called for contracts for its installation. [More…]

• Cabinet directed the Foreign Affairs Minister to express its concern to the United States Ambassador and complaints were made at an official level. [More…]

• At that time, the then Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, and the United States Defence Secretary Schlesinger, stated that the Australian Government would have full and timely information about strategic and operational developments relevant to the station. [More…]

• At the time the issue was being debated a series of Press reports indicated that the new system being constructed at North West Cape will substantially upgrade the United States defence satellite communications system. [More…]

• The history of this matter would indicate that he has very little idea of the overall plans of the United States of America for the base. [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…]

• It has not been good in Germany and it was not good in the past in the United States, with an organisation such as the Central Intelligence Agency, certainly until the procedures for the control and review of that agency were overhauled. [More…]

• I am particularly mindful of the submissions made by a former Attorney-General of the United States of America, Mr Levi. [More…]

• In his submissions to the United States investigation of the activities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation he indicated that FBI investigations should be authorised only on the basis of information or allegation that an individual or individuals acting in concert may be engaged in: activities which involve or will involve the use of force or violence and the violation of federal law for one of five designated (criminal) purposes. [More…]

• overthrowing the government of the United States or the government of a State; [More…]

• interfering, in the United States, with the activities of a foreign government or its authorized representatives; [More…]

• the functioning of the government of the United States; [More…]

• depriving persons of their civil rights under the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States; or [More…]

• It is certainly true that in the United States the point of almost no return was faced as far as the Central Investigation Agency or the Federal Bureau of Investigation were concerned. [More…]

• In Richard Hall’s book The Secret State on Australia’s spy industry there is considerable discussion on the nature of the relationship between ASIO and the United States authorities. [More…]

• The United States did take seriously Australian security lapses. [More…]

• I think it is important to understand that although relationships with Great Britain or the United States might be an important and significant part of the work of ASIO they are in fact subsidiary to the protection of Australian interests and the extent to which one gets information from overseas or the extent to which one provides information to people overseas can be judged only by the criteria of what is necessary in the defence of Australia and in the defence of Australian citizens. [More…]

• As we all know, the lack of financial control and accountability has been enormously important in the United States of America in allowing the Central Intelligence Agency to run amok as it did for so many years. [More…]

• In the 1975 Australian Law Reform Commission report on Criminal Investigation to which Senator Button has already referred, a calculation was done based on United States experience of the effect that the 107 telephone tappings that had taken place in 1973 in this country would have had so far as the number of people caught up by such telephone tappings are concerned. [More…]

• The calculation that the Law Reform Commission came up with was that applying the sort of ratio of the number of conversations and the number of people overheard to each tap, based on United States experience and bearing in mind that the Act authorises and most taps stay on for periods of up to six months, that number of taps in 1973- telephone alone, nothing to do with listening devices and so on- may have resulted in as many as 12,000 different people being overheard having as many as 68,000 different conversations. [More…]

• We have seen in the United States of America where all the scrutiny which is available to the members of the United States Senate, the members of the United States House of Representatives and the United States courts has been unable to prevent completely improper conduct both by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and by the Central Intelligence Agency. [More…]

• I certainly think that there are a number of people who have their own reasons and quite dishonest reasons for alleging that they did, but the fact remains- and it is quite evident and everybody knows it- that a large number of instances particularly during the administration of President Nixon, but not only during that administration, the FBI and the CIA were used for completely improper purposes and sometimes without the knowledge of the United States Administration. [More…]

• I do not want to go into it now but from some recent experiences I have been having, I am not entirely sure that the United States Freedom of Information Act is quite as effective as some of its enthusiastic admirers might believe, well intentioned though it is. [More…]

• I am sure that there were many people in the United States of America who would have said that it would have been impossible that the CIA or the FBI would have done the things that it did. [More…]

• That is one of the reasons why the United States Congress has endeavoured through measures such as the [More…]

• Prior to 1973 Australia had a 30 per cent cost advantage over the United States of America. [More…]

• The United States of America has been doing a great deal of work and spending a great deal of money on this. [More…]

• What is quite clear is that where agreements have been concluded, as they have been with respect to the United Kingdom and the United States, there has been a vast benefit to the travelling public and a consequential great increase in the number of bookings. [More…]

• On reading the United States 1979 Master Tax Guide, the situation which apparently exists in the United States seems to be somewhat different from the Australian position. [More…]

• In the United States a citizen can contribute any amount, large or small, to a charitable institution within the United States and can claim it as a tax deduction provided that in any one income year the cumulative contribution does not exceed 50 per cent of what is described as his ‘adjusted gross income’. [More…]

• The arrangement in Canada is similar to that in the United States. [More…]

• We have been reinforced in this view by the recent comments of Admiral Zumwalt, the former chief of naval operations for the United States Government. [More…]

• It is true that until recently the United States Navy did not depend on this type of craft although the United States Navy is now developing a class of 340-tonne hydrofoils, each of which will carry eight Harpoon ship-to-ship missiles. [More…]

• The Committee obtained evidence from Dr Hoffman that United States and English studies on the relationship; between tyre failure and accidents do not show a consistent pattern. [More…]

• United States data suggested that not more than 2.42 per cent of all accidents were contributed to by tyre disablements. [More…]

• The Committee obtained evidence from Dr Hoffman that United States and English studies on the relationship between tyre failure and accidents do not show a consistent pattern. [More…]

• United States data suggested that not more than 2.42 per cent of all accidents were contributed to by tyre disablements. [More…]

• The price in the United States was 1 5c a litre, in Sweden 30c, in Spain 32c, in West Germany 34c, in Austria 35c, in Switzerland 36c, in Denmark 37c, in the Netherlands 38.9c, in France 40c and in Italy 48c. [More…]

• I refer to comparative costs between Australia and the United States and note that, probably because of the remoteness of the areas in which drilling has taken place in Australia- which adds to the costs and risks- compared with the United States, on-shore in Australia in 1975 the cost of drilling per metre was some $609 whereas in America the cost per metre was $274. [More…]

• The business brains behind this company which runs a multi-million dollar chain of hospitals for profit throughout the United States and throughout the world was a Mr Massey who built the Kentucky Fried Chicken Corporation empire into the world ‘s largest commercial prepared food organisation. [More…]

• That is, the Securities and Exchange Commission of the United States: . [More…]

• That is in the United States. [More…]

• That is the United States- we could shift the commitment of our money, cash flow and reinvestment from the United States to other areas. [More…]

• I also drew attention to the fact that Australia ranks only second behind the United States of America in terms of the number of television sets per 100 people in the population. [More…]

• I quoted from a United States report entitled ‘Television and Growing Up’ which stated: [More…]

• I was therefore not surprised at the cover story of Time magazine of 12 March 1979 which dealt with the relative profits and policies pursued by the three mammoth United States commercial television stations. [More…]

• The report deals with the American Broadcasting Company, the American ABC, which is by far and away the most successful of the commercial broadcasting organisations in the United States. [More…]

• In a recent issue of Time magazine one could read some more disturbing news about a new film called The Warriors which has been released by Paramount Pictures in the United States. [More…]

• Indeed, attention was drawn to it in the report of the United States Surgeon General. [More…]

• Secondly, at a lower level, the Minister would know of the case of an Australian on a serious narcotics charge who was given back his passport as he was granted an adjournment of his case to enable him to go to the United States on a business commitment. [More…]

• HCAs S45m hospital acquisition and development project in Australia is pan of the company’s plan to develop foreign markets in case the United States and State governments apply controls which severely limit the profitability of domestic hospital operations. [More…]

• This indicates that the United States Government is taking very close notice and cognisance of the expansion of these profiteering hospitals and there is a possibility that it will do something to control them. [More…]

• This is the same firm as is seeking to expand in Australia because it foresees increasing government regulations in its home base in the United States. [More…]

• If down the road a moratorium were put on building hospitals in this country - meaning the United States- we could shift the commitment of our money, cash flow and reinvestment from the United States to other areas. [More…]

• Because of its rapid expansion outside the United States into foreign markets it expects to double its size in five years. [More…]

• Evidently over half of its revenue in the United States came from Medicare Medicaid. [More…]

• Its pre-tax profit margins were about 8 per cent of revenues for United States hospitals, 1 6 per cent for foreign hospitals and 1 3 per cent for established health care services. [More…]

• We are talking about the cost escalation which was part of the agreement with the United States Government and which I will come to, if the honourable senator will bear with me. [More…]

• Once again, I point out- especially for Senator Knight’s benefit- as I did on the last occasion, that under the memorandum of arrangements between the United States of America and Australia, the Australian Government is entitled to information on costs on a continuing basis. [More…]

• I would refer any honourable senators to the evidence that was given on this very point by experts in this area before the Armed Services Committee of the United States Congress. [More…]

• This would not be so bad if the costs of the vessels were an average cost spread over the whole purchase of this type of vessel for the United States Navy. [More…]

• If our vessels are being built by a less efficient yard under contract to the United States Government and by a corporation which is in some financial difficulty, it is logical to assume that our ships are to cost more than the unit cost of a vessel being built for the United States fleet. [More…]

• The patrol frigates were designed for very specific purposes under the concept promoted by Admiral Zumwalt, a former Chief of the United States Navy. [More…]

• However, the following recent developments in the United Kingdom and the United States of America, as reported to me, may be of interest to the honourable senator [More…]

• United States of America- [More…]

• I inform the Senate that the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) left Australia yesterday to undertake discussions in the United States, Canada, Japan and New Zealand. [More…]

• Nonetheless, does the Minister not agree that this is a matter on which the Federal Government could be of assistance to State governments in view of the present pressing economic crisis that faces Australia, as it does the United States and the United Kingdom? [More…]

• Has this cult recently been involved in an organised campaign in the United States to harass law enforcement agencies? [More…]

• I have some information that the Church of Scientology has been involved in the United States of America in campaigns to criticise United States law enforcement agencies and their activities. [More…]

• He refers to the submissions made based upon the Freedom of Information Act in the United States of America and he points out that even under that Act many of the records of ASIO would be confidential information. [More…]

• At a time when the citizens and the Government of the United States of America are concerning themselves with an investigation into one of their own secret organisations- the Central Intelligence Agency- in relation to the pruning of some of its powers, we have the Government of this country being prepared to give a similar organisation greater powers. [More…]

• When it entered the Cold War era, some things went wrong, although the United States media had to accept some responsibility for what happened. [More…]

• Regarding the use of 2,4,5-T in controlling many of our noxious weeds, particularly in open pasture conditions, but more importantly its exclusive ability to control brigalow regrowth, which of course is of great significance in central Qld, has our National Health and Medical Research Council been able to justify reports from the United States America on the supposed deleterious effect of this weedicide on human life? [More…]

• Mr Deputy President, I know that you will note that the United States at no time banned use of 2,4,5-T, for instance, in open range country. [More…]

• I mentioned last week that a working party of the National Health and Medical Research Council would be looking at the United States report, and my advice is that the ad hoc committee of the Council on the use and safety of 2,4,5-T met in Adelaide on 23 March to formulate a report to the Council on the current position with regard to this herbicide. [More…]

• Besides reviewing its past conclusions and the scientific reports which had since become available, this meeting specifically examined the documents from the United States of America which contained details of the action taken by the environmental protection agency in that country to suspend registration of the herbicide for certain applications. [More…]

• It also noted evidence and a number of specific documents which had been received from the United States of America and which formed the basis of several emergency suspensions of the distribution, sale and use of 2,4,5-T for forestry areas, right-of-ways and pastures. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Health whether the Government is aware that one of the American investor owned chains of private hospitals seeking to take the place of public hospitals in Australia is in a list of 53 companies which made disclosures to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission indicating that they had either made foreign pay-offs or were investigating to determine whether they had made foreign pay-offs. [More…]

• Has the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs seen reports that the United States Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee has supported the sending of a United States observer team to Rhodesia for the elections of 20 April? [More…]

• Has he also seen reports that Sir Harold Wilson, the former British Prime Minister, stated in an international television interview that Britain and the United States should recognise the new government in Rhodesia following the elections, provided they are satisfied that the result reflects the wishes of the majority of black and white Rhodesians, and that Britain and the United States should send official observers to the elections? [More…]

• The Government is aware of reported statements by the former British Prime Minister, Sir Harold Wilson, that, provided they were satisfied that the results of the forthcoming election in Rhodesia reflect the wishes of the majority of black and white Rhodesians, Britain and the United States should recognise the postelection government and that Britain, the United States and independent black African states should send observers to the elections in April. [More…]

• At this stage no Western governments, including Britain and the United States, have advocated sending official observers to monitor the Rhodesian elections. [More…]

• The United States Secretary of State, Mr Vance, issued a similar statement the same day. [More…]

• It is likely, however, that a number of British members of parliament and members of the United States Congress will observe the elections. [More…]

• The Government therefore supports the continuing efforts of the United Kingdom and United States governments to bring all parties together to discuss a settlement within the framework of the Anglo-American proposals. [More…]

• Has the Minister for Science and the Environment read the report from the United States authorities on the use of 2,4,5-T in Oregon? [More…]

• Is the Government concerned that despite the actions of authorities in the United States of America, the National Health and Medical Research Committee in Australia has advised the Government that there is insufficient evidence to warrant withdrawal of the herbicide 2,4,5-T even if only as a precaution until Australian authorities can carry out their own research? [More…]

• If the Minister has not done so already, will he read the findings of the United States Environmental Protection Agency that led to the bans on 2,4,5-T in March 1979? [More…]

• I have read the United States report and noted what it said. [More…]

• Indeed, the Government has acted in a proper way to obtain the information from the United States and to have the best of our brains in Australia evaluate that and other reports that have come through in relation to 2,4,5-T. [More…]

• The information which I gave the Senate earlier indicated that a working party of the National Health and Medical Research Council devoted its time to this issue on 23 March and made an evaluation of all the information which had come forward, including the United States report. [More…]

• The recent action of the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States of America in restricting the use of 2,4,5-T had led to the matter of the use and safety of 2,4,5-T being again referred to Council for advice. [More…]

• In particular a special working party of Council had investigated in detail the material on which the actions of the United States Environmental Protection Agency were based. [More…]

• Council noted the acknowledgement in the documentation from the United States of deficiencies and difficulties in the investigations performed, and the conclusion of the report that ‘For all its complexity, however, this analysis is a correlational analysis, and correlation does not necessarily mean causation’. [More…]

• The aircraft will also be used to transport troops on overseas exercises- for example, the annual exercise in Canada and for other exercises in Britain, New Zealand and the United States. [More…]

• In order to assist the judiciary in the administration of court systems and to provide information and advice which would enable the judges to keep the rules of their court practical, simple and up-to-date, the Committee recommends that the Government give consideration to establishing an institute of judicial administration along the lines of those already operating in the United Kingdom and the United States. [More…]

• A leading authority in medicine has estimated that a doctor would have to attend at least 15 meetings a year and read 20 to 30 journals regularly if he were to learn about only three-quarters of the research going on in his field in the United States alone. [More…]

• During its period of operation the interim ASTEC provided valuable advice to the Government on a wide range of matters, including: Australia’s participation in the first world-wide series of experiments of a major international research program known as the global atmospheric research program; whether Australia should install facilities to receive and process information from Landsat, the United States of America’s earth resources satellite and arrangements for surveys of our biological resources, particularly our unique and extensive flora and fauna. [More…]

• To be sure, the Soviet Union has the capability to attempt the invasion of virtually any country in the world, as for that matter does the United States. [More…]

• Augmenting our maritime forces, starting next year, will be the three FFGs, guided missile frigates, being built in the United States of America. [More…]

• The aircraft will serve us well for some years to come, overlapping later with the new tactical fighter aircraft to be selected from types either in inventory, or still to be developed, in the United States or France. [More…]

• In the United States, for example, they are 57 per cent when calculated on the same basis as our own; in Canada, 60 per cent; in Britain, 45 per cent. [More…]

• In the United Kingdom, there are 825; in the United States of America, 490; and in Canada, 420. [More…]

• It was right, for instance, to decide to buy FFGs and P3Cs from the United States. [More…]

• Three patrol frigates- FFGs as they are so styled- are being built for Australia by United States naval shipbuilders. [More…]

• I can now inform the Senate of the latest position after a review with the United States Navy. [More…]

• The contract which the United States [More…]

• The performance of the lead ship has fully justified the confidence of the United States and Australian navies in the capabilities of these ships. [More…]

• In the case of purchasing from the United States, these arrangements provide our Services with the great advantage of direct access to the large stocks of the United States Services without the necessity to re-negotiate with manufacturers. [More…]

• For the greater part of our national existence we depended substantially for the preservation of our national integrity upon the United Kingdom and the United States. [More…]

• It is perhaps ironic, as part of the inconsistency of the Minister for Defence, that the Government is presently maintaining in the United States of America, what could only be described as a small army of defence officials supposedly responsible for the review of defence purchases and equipment. [More…]

• At a time when the Minister for Defence has had a number of overseas tours reviewing possible purchases in Great Britain and Europe, it seems strange that is is necessary to have such a large contingent for this purpose in the United States employed full time. [More…]

• Mr Barbour has had this matter under review for some time and has been studying the procedures already in use in other countries such as Britain, the United States and New Zealand. [More…]

• The Central Intelligence Agency in the United States of America is a great security organisation but one cannot walk down the streets of New York at night. [More…]

• Victor Marchetti, a former CIA agent who resigned in 1969, was introduced to the intelligence business in 1952 while serving with the United States Army in Germany. [More…]

• In Britain it is apparently quite widely practised, as it is also in the United States; Canada and South Africa. [More…]

• It may not be simply coincidence that the United States has one of the most violent societies of our time. [More…]

• Recently we had a visit from the United States by Dr Virginia Satir who conducts an advisory consultancy firm in San Francisco. [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…]

• I have asked that our missions in Washington and Ottawa forward any information they may have been able to obtain on the problems faced by Greek communities in the United States of America and Canada arising out of the non-recognition in Greece of civil marriages performed in those countries. [More…]

• Consideration should be given to the repeal of the Whaling Act 1960 and its replacement by new legislation directed to the protection of cetacea, and if thought desirable other marine mammals, along the lines of the marine mammal protection legislation of the United States and New Zealand. [More…]

• In the Bulletin of 28 February of this year, under the heading ‘The marvellous bean that will save the whale’, there is a lengthy discussion about the development of the jojoba bean, which is a native of some very dry climates, particularly the south-west of the United States and Mexico, and which is now being grown in commercial quantities in Mexico, the southwest of the United States and the Negev Desert. [More…]

• He went on to say that it would be possible for Australia, if it wished, to indicate after a two-year adjustment period that the importation of sperm oil, spermaceti and other whale products would be prohibited as has already occurred in the United States and elsewhere. [More…]

• In the Audubon magazine of January 1977 it is clearly indicated that implementation of the United States 200-mile fisheries limit next summer will deal a crippling blow to the north Pacific, Japanese and Soviet whaling fleets. [More…]

• I summarise the principal recommendations as follows: That Australia should oppose the continuance of whaling; that whaling by other nations should be prohibited within the Australian 200-mile fishing zone; that consideration should be given to the repeal of the Whaling Act 1960 and its replacement with legislation better able to protect all forms of marine mammal along United States lines; that the importation of whale products or goods containing whale products should be banned in Australia from 1 January 1981; that Australia should seek to achieve a world wide ban on whaling; that both in its planning and in international discussions on the management of marine resources Australia should ensure that any implications for whales are given serious consideration; and that the Commonwealth Government should promote research on whales by Australian scientists and research institutes. [More…]

• The expenditure of the United States is approximately $50m. [More…]

• Such protection has been available in the United States since Congress created the Overseas Private Insurance Corporation for investors and contractors. [More…]

• However, I think the question asked was whether the Commonwealth Government has introduced a scheme similar to the Overseas Private Insurance Corporation in the United States. [More…]

• Dr Knight also has made specific contact with United States Government officials. [More…]

• I think that I should refer the question to the Minister for National Development to get a more detailed answer for Senator Bishop; for instance, information on the nature of the technology of the plant in the United States and matters of that kind. [More…]

• On two occasions he passed the examination for qualification to practice in the United States of America. [More…]

• I am suggesting also that we must get away from our chauvinistic attitude that only medical graduates of Australia, the United Kingdom and some odd universities in the world are considered satisfactory medical practitioners in this country and others are excluded because they come from such undistinguished medical schools as Vienna and other leading medical schools in Italy, the United States and all over the world. [More…]

• These papers and the addresses by Ambassador Akhund and Mr James P. Grant, President of the Overseas Development Council of the United States of America, are attached, along with the opening addresses by Mr Van Lennep, Secretary-General of the OECD, and Mr de Koster, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. [More…]

• In particular it is contrary to practice in the United States of America, a country which has learnt from bitter experience the dangers of an unrestrained political police force. [More…]

• The recent American Freedom of Information Act, the Church report and the Pike report all show the direction which the United States is taking to deal with this very question. [More…]

• The public ventilation of the abuses in the United States in the reports to which I have referred has contributed to a curbing of the oppressive powers of organisations such as the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. [More…]

• It was the practice in the United States of America; but, fortunately, the legislative arm and public opinion in that country have brought about a sufficient change in attitudes to lead the American Congress to exercise some control over the activities of its intelligence organisations. [More…]

• In looking at security organisations and the people who really make the decisions for our society, the only experience I can draw upon, in addition to the United States experience, is what happened in Europe prior to World War II. [More…]

• We are concerned with what has happened in the United States these last few days. [More…]

• Such evidence as is available- it is neither overwhelming nor compelling; we are dealing with a clandestine organisation about whose operations we can get only a glimpse- is sufficient to show that it ought to be investigated in the same way as, in the United States, the Church Committee has examined the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. [More…]

• Surely no one will suggest that Senator Church, Mr Pike and the other members of the United States Congress who have been involved in the public scrutiny of these organisations have improper motivations, or that they are actuated by any but the highest ideals. [More…]

• Surely no one would suggest that those disclosures and that penetration of the way in which those organisations have operated in that country have weakened in any way the security of the United States of America. [More…]

• I believe that Senator Missen referred to that and spoke of the situation that exists in the United States. [More…]

• We have only to look at the example provided by the Central Intelligence Agency in the United States. [More…]

• One has only to look at the standard of United States intelligence on a world-wide basis, and in particular at what has happened in Iran, to become very worried about it. [More…]

• I refer to the fact that the United States was receiving poor reports, or none at all, on what was happening on the oil fields and among the oil workers in Iran. [More…]

• In that regard, I recall spending some few hours with Congressman Otis Pike in the United States. [More…]

• I believe that one of the big potential markets for our uranium ore is the United States. [More…]

• This was at a meeting in Washington which is only 240 kilometres south of the scene of the near disaster- maybe yet a disaster- with the United States Energy Secretary Dr Schlesinger. [More…]

• Today those who listened to the radio programs would have heard that the United States Energy Secretary is under assault by the American people with his resignation being called for. [More…]

• The United States has 70 nuclear power plants. [More…]

• The United States does have another 75 plants under construction and about another 60 on order. [More…]

• That is why the United States Government has looked at the possibility of moving probably a million people from this area. [More…]

• I am appealing to this Government to do the very best it can, under extremely difficult circumstances, to ensure that people with basic scientific knowledge, not pro-Government people, are sent to investigate all aspects of this disaster in the United States. [More…]

• As is known, the Government is monitoring closely the situation and United States authorities have been most helpful in this regard. [More…]

• Its conclusions will then be examined by the United States and by this Government. [More…]

• Well, Senator Keeffe, I think the discussion is best kept to the facts concerning the situation which has arisen in the United States. [More…]

• -Has the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs read reports of clandestine activities having been undertaken by the South African Government’s Ministry of Information, the so-called Muldergate affair, involving the payment of bribes to members of parliament, public servants and businessmen in the United States, Britain, France, West Germany, Holland, Norway and Japan, and claims that the list is not complete? [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Science and the Environment, relates to project ‘Storm Fury ‘ and a recent statement by the head of his Department that many advantages had been gained from the visit of the United States aircraft which took part in some experiments during a cyclonic situation in Australia. [More…]

• -Project ‘Storm Fury’ is one in which the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration- NO AA- is involved in attempting a moderation of cyclones. [More…]

• As I understand it, in the United States there is a six-month period in which the Administration’s aeroplanes are able to fly into the eyes of cyclones. [More…]

• An agreement is yet to be reached between the Australian Government and the United States as to whether Australia will proceed with any cyclone modification. [More…]

• I will leave honourable senators with this happy thought: I have noticed that in the past the United States of America often sent a couple of parliamentarians to these IWC meetings to watch United States interests. [More…]

• A number of speakers have said that Mr Justice Hope did not appear to have advanced very much reason for using that criterion or definition, but one can find this if one examines Volume 2 of the fourth report, and looks at the draft submission of the United States Department of Justice and the testimony of the Hon. [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…]

• For example, the United States Congress and the United States legislative processes exercise a great deal more power, influence and control over the activities of their intelligence organisation. [More…]

• However, the United States was not as up-to-date in some of its nuclear technology as some countries. [More…]

• It is obvious from that statement that Sir Charles does not think much of the United States technology. [More…]

• In 1958 in Los Alamos in the United States of America one death was caused by radioactivity in a uranium enrichment plant, and again in 1958 - [More…]

• I was listing the number of reported accidents in nuclear energy stations and what is now described as the first major reactor accident in the United States of America in 1961. [More…]

• Let us talk about a uranium enrichment plant at Wood River Junction in the United States of America where in 1 964 there was one death from radioactivity. [More…]

• 1 plant in the United States of America two deaths occurred following the blowout of a valve. [More…]

• In 1 975 in Oklahoma, United States of America, workers contracted plutonium poisoning in an enrichment plant, and a chief witness died in mysterious circumstances. [More…]

• In a study of some 35,000 workers at the Hannaford nuclear facility in the United States- this was the first careful study ever carried out on workers in the industry- it was established that there is an increasing incidence of leukaemia, bone marrow cancer and lung cancer amongst the workers. [More…]

• We can talk about a transient worker who was employed for something like three months at the West Valley plant in the United States in a particularly high radiation level room. [More…]

• We can talk about studies in the United States which show that there is a slight increase in radiation levels in rabbits and fish around reactor sites in the United States. [More…]

• It has already been proven in the United States and other countries that nuclear energy is no longer cheap. [More…]

• At Question Time, in first reading debates and by way of questions on notice, I have tried, to no avail, to elicit some information from the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt) relating to the intrusion of the largest hospital corporation in the United States of America, the Hospital Corporation of America, into the acquisition of a chain of hospitals. [More…]

• Why can he not supply the Senate, the Parliament and the people of Australia with reasons for his reticence in answering these questions when the track form of this organisation in other parts of the world is such that it is using methods not tolerable in this country to intrude into other countries outside the United States of America? [More…]

• The United States had an inflation of 10 per cent for most of 1978. [More…]

• He has opened the United States to a tremendous influx of beef to keep domestic prices down simply because- I remind Senator Baume of this- a presidential election is coming up and he wants to keep his cost structure down. [More…]

• I submit that as soon as this presidential election is over we will be in a situation in which, because of the powerful United States lobby, many of these beef markets could be lost. [More…]

• Between 1968 and 1978 the United Kingdom pound was worth only about 60 per cent of its former value in terms of the United States dollar. [More…]

• I ask the Minister: As the Christian League of Southern Africa, which was set up to conduct this campaign, plans to open offices in the United States and Britain, has our Government any knowledge of plans to extend this campaign or to open an office in Australia? [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that dental film of sensitivity lower than speed Group D is no longer being manufactured in or imported for use into the United States or other countries for use because of the established high level of patient exposure and the subsequent risk to patients’ health? [More…]

• An order for a SIROTEM instrument has been placed by the United States Geological Survey and there are strong prospects of sales to other countries and to other Australian mining exploration companies. [More…]

• At Question Time today I reminded honourable senators that the Government was proceeding with its interest rate policies, whereas the governments of the United States of America and Great Britain had policies which had resulted in significant increases in interest rates. [More…]

• We know that there were such Ministers and officials in the United States in the Johnson-Nixon era. [More…]

• The Government also has to be concerned about how the DirectorGeneral himself might be tempted to use such information, not given the character and antecedents of the present Director-General but certainly given what we have been inclined to fear about Directors-General in the past and what we know about the track record of people such as Hoover in the United States. [More…]

• Surely we should have emulated similar legislation in the United States which provided that about 40 per cent of Alaska is off limits forever-more to any prospecting whatsoever. [More…]

• My views are fortified by the present United States Secretary of the Interior. [More…]

• Although the United States is faced with fuel problems, he pointed out that even though they thought natural gas existed in that area it would not be exploited. [More…]

• He said that the United States would have to be at the end of its tether, resources-wise, before it would rescind that legislation. [More…]

• I inform the Senate that the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt) left Australia on 21 April 1979 for the United States of America and Canada where he will attend a meeting of Commonwealth Health Ministers, and for Switzerland where he will attend the 32nd World Health Assembly. [More…]

• The Government, therefore, supports the efforts of the United Kingdom and the United States to look for opportunities to bring the internal and external Rhodesian parties together to discuss a settlement. [More…]

• Insofar as he said that we should show caution in this matter, did he really mean caution or did he mean procrastination until such time as the Government has discovered what is the policy of the United States Administration on this question? [More…]

• ADR 27A was developed from a rule adopted by the United States of America. [More…]

• It thus appears that breast cancer incidence in Australia is a little lower than that in the United States. [More…]

• There is a publication, ‘Comparison of age-specific mortality from breast cancer in males in the United States and Japan’- Moolgavkar S. H., Lee J. [More…]

• A., and Hade R. D., which shows that breast cancer mortality in Japan is about one-quarter of that in the United States, but the disease is so rare in males that it would be difficult to conclude that there were different secular trends in incidence in these two countries. [More…]

• Are Australian Banks experiencing difficulties in obtaining visas for their Australia-born employees from United States Immigration authorities: if so, what steps have been taken by the Australian Government to remedy the situation. [More…]

• I have no information about any difficulties in relation to obtaining visas for the United States. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that in the United States of America the direct cost of selling stamps is 1 7c from each dollar received from the sale of stamps? [More…]

• Is the Minister able to say whether the cost of selling stamps in Australia is comparable with that in the United States? [More…]

• I am not aware that in the United States of America the direct cost of selling stamps is 1 7c in the dollar. [More…]

• One such safeguard that ought to be mentioned specifically, because it has occasioned a degree of public comment, is that the warrants that are to be issued to enable the exercise of these powers should not be granted by the Minister, but rather by a court, as is the situation by and large in the United States. [More…]

• In the United States of America, in the Public Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, 1968, which is the omnibus legislation governing most of these provisions, in the discussion of that particular public law, under Title III entitled Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance, section 801 (c) reads: [More…]

• This ratio of persons and conversations to wire-taps, if indeed accurate for the United States, may, it is conceded, in fact be wildly astray for Australia. [More…]

• The reason I say that is the well established and accepted argument, certainly in the United States, that the implications of the use of these powers go primarily to the chilling effect that their use has on the political activity which is essential to the workings of democracy. [More…]

• It was necessary for the process to be one which was subject to the subsequent approval of the United States authorities. [More…]

• The stipulation that the sale was subject to the United States Government’s indicating its concurrence was a condition of the original government to government agreement covering the initial purchase of the aircraft. [More…]

• Action is being taken to seek such concurrence from the United States Government. [More…]

• As far as I know, that action has not yet been completed and the United States Government has not yet given its approval to the sale to the successful tenderer. [More…]

• Mexico, with oil reserves which are about 12 times those of Australia and are continuously being upgraded, exports some 700,000 barrels a day, mainly to the United States of America. [More…]

• The United States is likely to remain the major customer. [More…]

• Those notions which the Green report put forward and which could be regarded as impeccable in a society such as the United States, which has a very strong tradition with which we are perhaps unfamiliar in Australia of the need for public accountability in organisations and areas of this kind– [More…]

• We are indebted to the Director-General of Social Security for making available recently a publication which recounts some State experiences and approaches in evaluation in the United States of America. [More…]

• Secondly, at a lower level, the Minister would know of the case of an Australian on a serious narcotics charge who was given back his passport as he was granted an adjournment of his case to enable him to go to the United States on a business commitment. [More…]

• The national eradication campaign against bovine brucellosis and tuberculosis is aimed at Australia’s being tuberculosis and brucellosis free by 1984 so as to meet with United States requirements to cover export meat. [More…]

• From a newspaper report in the West Australian of 9 April it appears that the Brazilian Government is taking seriously a claim that a multi-millionaire, Mr Daniel K. Ludwig, intends leaving his vast holdings in the Amazon jungle to the United States Government. [More…]

• Mr Pericles Goncalves, an Opposition member of the Chamber of Deputies, believes that this would mean that the United States would own an enclave in Brazilian territory. [More…]

• I inform the Senate that coinciding with the introduction in February 1979 of substantially reduced international air fares between Australia and the United States of America and Australia and the United Kingdom, there has been a significant increase in applications for Australian passports. [More…]

• 1 ) Has the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs noted the speculation surrounding the identity of United States boxer Greg Stephens, who defeated Queensland boxer, Hee Thompson in Brisbane on 9 December, 1978. [More…]

• Inquiries by my Department give no cause to doubt that he was Gregory Scott Stephens who was born in the United States of America on 1 January 1953. [More…]

• The Government will be aware of President Carter’s recent proposal to levy a windfall profits tax on United States oil companies which are enjoying huge profits as a result of the pricing policy of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries. [More…]

• Further, will the Government, in preparing this year’s Budget, seriously consider levying a resources tax on certain energy resource enterprises in this country, thus coming into line not only with Labor Party policy but with that of the President of the United States? [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Science and the Environment aware of the report published in the Age on Friday last released by the United States National Academy of Scientists which concluded that there was no known threshold below which radiation ceased to have adverse effects on human beings? [More…]

• If what the honourable senator mentions is something that the United States National Academy of Scientists is criticising, I accept it. [More…]

• Was a letter also sent to the President of the United States asking him to intervene? [More…]

• 1 have seen reports that on behalf of these people somebody wrote to the President of the United States of America. [More…]

• We have said on a number of occasions in the course of this debate that in preparing new legislation in relation to a security organisation in Australia we have a unique opportunity to benefit from the experiences of the past in the United States of America, Germany, the United Kingdom and, indeed, in [More…]

• In the hope of encouraging some economic independence from the Soviet Union and Vietnam, will the Minister also urge the Government to provide whatever aid is possible to Laos for the development of its untapped resources and to request other Western nations, particularly the United States, to do likewise? [More…]

• Further, has the Minister seen the report that the United States Federal Trade Commission has recommended that all television advertising aimed at children under the age of eight be banned, and that all television advertising of presweetened and artificially sweetened products aimed at children under the age of 12 be banned? [More…]

• Will the Minister, as a matter of urgency, instruct Telecom to provide this service to subscribers in areas where it has this equipment installed, so that some Australian subscribers may enjoy a service which private enterprise has supplied to subscribers in the United States of America for many years and which, if provided, would go a long way towards dispelling the public disquiet about Telecom? [More…]

• As I think will be readily understood, these requests have come particularly from the United States of America, where there is also a widespread and growing public concern about televisions impact on children. [More…]

• Honourable Senators will be aware that the prime purpose of this overseas visit was to finalise important bilateral negotiations with the United States and Japan. [More…]

• The time table for the formal finalization of the MTN is linked to United States Congressional examination and approval. [More…]

• The bilateral agreements which have been concluded with the United States and Japan are an important part of the overall MTN package for Australia. [More…]

• And well over half of our beef exports are marketed in the United States and Japan where there have always been strong protectionist pressures. [More…]

• In the following year the United States imposed restraints on imports at a level significantly below that of the immediately preceding years. [More…]

• In our two major beef markets of the United States and Japan we have negotiated access commitments of at least 380,000 tonnes a year- or almost a third higher than our actual exports in 1974-75. [More…]

• The agreements just concluded with the United States and Japan will guard against a return to this situation. [More…]

• The settlement concluded with the United States is particularly significant and I would like to give the Senate more details of it. [More…]

• Since 1964 the United States has had legislation to restrict imports of beef by means of quotas. [More…]

• We have never had any continuing formal understanding with the United States as to a minimum or floor level for those quotas. [More…]

• At a time when protectionist pressures were increasing in the United States this was a matter of particular concern to the Australian beef industry. [More…]

• In addition, we have received renewed assurances that the attitude of the United States Administration towards any new countercyclical meat import legislation is unchanged from that announced in 1978. [More…]

• The MTN arrangements reached with the United States have also achieved most useful concessions on a range of other products. [More…]

• After generations of effort on the part of successive Governments we have at last succeeded in negotiating a reduction in the United States duty on raw wool. [More…]

• This was the maximum reduction which, under their legislation, the United States negotiators were authorised to make, and over the shortest period permitted. [More…]

• While we have not achieved all our objectives in the MTN, I am satisfied that the bilateral settlements reached with the United States and Japan are fair to both sides and will facilitate an expansion of trade on a mutuallyadvantageous basis. [More…]

• We were able to impress upon Dr Schlesinger and other senior U.S. officials Australia’s potential as a stable supplier of LNG and have suggested further detailed discussions at official level aimed at enhancing Australia’s opportunity to supply natural gas to the West Coast of the United States. [More…]

• It is clear that, even if the current world oil supply situation can be brought into balance in a relatively short time, the future economic growth of the United States- and therefore of the Western worlddepends upon developments aimed at producing energy as economically as possible. [More…]

• Naturally I attach particular importance to the MTN settlements reached with the United States and Japan. [More…]

• 1 am sure they will be of lasting economic value to Australia and will help underpin the broader bonds of friendship which exist between the United States, Japan and Australia. [More…]

• Last October Mr Sinclair, the Minister for Primary Industry, when under the hammer in the House of Representatives, suddenly took off to the United States of America, his excuse being the Bill that was then before the United States Congress. [More…]

• In January the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) returned from the United States after one of his world tours. [More…]

• Mr Anthony went off to the United States last March and sent a message from Washington on 30 March which said: [More…]

• Now, of course, we have this statement which is, in fact, a rehash and an exaggeration of all the previous boasts and bragging by assortments of globetrotting Ministers about what they have allegedly achieved with access, particularly for beef to the United States and the American market. [More…]

• If one reads between the lines of the statement and if one reads other statements that have come from the Government, it has been admitted that the threat of counter-cyclical legislation with respect to Australian beef exports to the United States still hangs over the industry. [More…]

• The Minister has somewhat dishonestly presented some figures relating to exports of Australian beef to the United States and Japan in past years and in this year. [More…]

• In our two major beef markets of the United States and Japan we have negotiated access commitments of at least 380,000 tonnes a year- or almost a third higher than our actual exports in 1 974-75. [More…]

• If we look at the exports to the United States and Japan during 1974, we find that 268,000 tonnes were exported and that 380,000 tonnes does almost represent a 50 per cent increase on that figure. [More…]

• If one cares to look at the Minister’s statement more closely, one finds that all of these conditions are subject to ratification by the United States Congress in accordance with its normal procedures. [More…]

• Of course, one could and ought to add that there is no absolute guarantee or even a virtual guarantee, to use the Minister’s selfcontradictory terminology, that at some future time the United States administration may not change its policy on these matters. [More…]

• Contrary to the glib assurance which Mr Anthony gave towards the end of 1967, the United States has not ratified the International Sugar Agreement. [More…]

• Mr Anthony makes no comment whether the United States is going to ratify the International Sugar Agreement. [More…]

• Superficially that sounds significant until we recognise that Australia has exported to the United States over recent years only about 100,000 bales of wool and that the total duty levelled on those quite small exports of wool amounts to approximately $5m. [More…]

• Significantly, Mr Anthony says nothing about whether the natural gas which Sir Charles Court at least hopes to sell off to the United States will be accepted by the United States. [More…]

• Of course, sales of natural gas to the United States or the future development of the North West Shelf gasfields almost certainly depends on whether sales can be made to the United States. [More…]

• Mr Ware is saying there; and his comment is correct; that what we have been guaranteed is 75 per cent of the present level of exports to the United States. [More…]

• It is also worth noting that what we have virtually been guaranteed, to use the Minister’s phrase, is a level of imports of Australian beef significantly lower than the levels actually imported from Australia by the United States during the slump years of 1975, 1976 and 1977. [More…]

• The agreement would set the stage for the introduction of a counter-cyclical import system in the United States, with the United States pointing to Australia’s agreement on a base figure as justification. [More…]

• One wonders why the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair) is not ducking off to the United States again to do a bit of grandstanding, to save the Australian beef industry from the threat of counter-cyclical legislation, as he alleges he did last October. [More…]

• If the Opposition in the House of Representatives started talking about the Finnane report, again we would find him ducking off to the United States. [More…]

• Considering the Australian Government last year saw fit to lobby hard against the United States Congress’ passing of a counter-cyclical Bill this would seem inconsistent with previous policy . [More…]

• All we have to show as a result of four junketeering visits to the United States by senior Ministers of this Government is this document which has been placed before us and which is a piece of political grandstanding. [More…]

• Regretably, in Australia we just had no machinery anything like as sophisticated as the uniformity machinery which has been established and has long existed in the United States and Canada- two similar federal systems. [More…]

• I suppose that all honourable senators have read about the history of Harry Bridges and the ordeal which he went through before he obtained citizenship of the United States of America. [More…]

• Accordingly, the Opposition has moved these two amendments which together provide for a proper system of financial accountability, a condition which one would have thought would have been beyond argument, given the experience in particular in recent years in the United States of America in relation to the activities and operations of both the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, whose extravagant misbehaviour very often has been attributed in the past to the quite uncontrolled way in which particular budgets or sections of budgets were able to be voted and spent by those organisations without any effective kind of congressional or other oversight. [More…]

• The kind of oversight that the Opposition is seeking to provide in these amendments is not a congressional or parliamentary oversight in the way that operates in the United States or in our own system in respect of other departments. [More…]

• The United States experience and everything else have shown us the importance of that principle being observed. [More…]

• If honourable senators look at the figures over the five or six years for which they were made available, they could say that, contrary to the views of those people who are totally opposed to the existence of ASIO as an organisation, it is quite clear that the Organisation is not going mad in terms of the number of warrants that have been issued as is the Central Intelligence Agency, for example, which appeared to be going mad in the United States of America. [More…]

• Sunset legislation in this country and even in the United States is still very much an experiment, although, in many ways, it is a very valuable experiment. [More…]

• I find grave difficulty- having heard the arguments advanced by Senator Missen in favour of what, in some circumstances, one might justifiably describe as this trendy aberration from the United States- in understanding how he can vote on and oppose a number of Opposition amendments to various clauses of this Bill on the grounds of practicality, and then suggest this provision as one which he would otherwise regard as being practical. [More…]

• Is it the case that the Government of the United States of America has made a decision to take up or espouse the Dillingham case before the International Court of Justice, and accordingly to sue Australia in that forum? [More…]

• Does this decision, if it has been made, not represent a spectacular failure of Mr Peacock’s attempts at diplomacy in that area, and make nonsense of any claim of a special relationship with the United States of America? [More…]

• I think it is interesting that a question raised in Canada, the United States of America, Britain and other places has been: Can government govern itself? [More…]

• I produced and tabled in the Senate no so long ago, figures showing the comparative situations in regard to cents per kilometre flown in the United States, Europe and Australia. [More…]

• Those figures show that the normal economy fares of Australia’s domestic airline services are comparable with those of the United States. [More…]

• That could be done through a plan which was developed by Louis Kelso in the United States and which is operating successfully in a large number of cases in that country. [More…]

• In the United States of America and in other countries the practice is to open up the skies. [More…]

• In Korea, new assessments of the north’s military strength have placed this at a significantly higher level than had previously been estimated, and concern over security in the Korean Peninsula has led to adoption of a longer time scale for United States ground troop withdrawals from the Republic of Korea. [More…]

• Australia welcomes the conclusion of agreements between the Philippines and the United States on military bases. [More…]

• In addition to Australia’s actions in international forums, the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister (Mr Peacock) were active in discussions with the United States Secretary of State, the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, the Secretary-General of UNCTAD, and with others, in advancing the idea that countries must be prepared to move if the Common Fund were to become a reality. [More…]

• On a per capita basis, Australia’s imports of manufactured products from developing countries, excluding petroleum, more than doubled between 1973 and 1977, a better performance than that of the United States, the EEC, or Japan. [More…]

• In spite of the fact that the figures he has given indicate that our per capita level of imports from developing countries is high compared with the United States of America, the European Economic Community or Japan, it is pertinent to note that it is in the most sensitive areas, such as textiles, timber, white goods and small electrical goods, that we have adopted policies which are as restrictive as those of EEC and some other countries. [More…]

• What he fails to say is that the major impediment to the successful operation of the International Sugar Agreement is the failure of the United States to ratify the Agreement. [More…]

• The United States is the world’s largest sugar importer and, as such, it has very considerable influence on the effectiveness of any international commodity agreement. [More…]

• For quite valid domestic reasons the United States has yet to ratify the International Sugar Agreement. [More…]

• One son and one daughter were accepted by the United States of America after being rejected by Australia. [More…]

• That document explains just how vulnerable the American population is to some of the cancer causing agents which are available in the United States. [More…]

• Cancer is now killing and disabling 53 million people in the United States. [More…]

• He says that over a quarter of the population will develop some form of cancer, from which approximately 20 per cent of the United States population will die. [More…]

• In 1975 alone cancer deaths were five times higher than the total United States military deaths in the Vietnam and Korean wars combined. [More…]

• Eventually after we had collected sufficient information the then assistant secretary of the Waterside Workers Federation went to a medical convention in the United States and con- vinced people at the convention that carbon monoxide gas did not dissipate out of the body but actually built up over a period and eventually caused brain damage and death. [More…]

• 13th April-9 May, 1977: Switzerland (sugar talks); United States (trade discussions). [More…]

• 27th March-12th April, 1979: United States (MTN negotiations and trade and energy discussions); Canada (discussions on wheat trade and general trade discussions): Japan (MTN and trade and energy discussions): New Zealand ( NAFTA talks). [More…]

• I therefore ask: Has the United States Public Health Service Advisory Committee on Immunisation Practices recommended the use of measles vaccine in children exposed to natural infection up to 72 hours previously? [More…]

• The Minister for Health advises that the United States Public Health Service Advisory Committee on Immunisation Practices, in the weekly bulletin of the United States Centre for Disease Control dated 3 November 1978, stated in a discussion on measles immunisation: [More…]

• Has the AttorneyGeneral recently agreed to the extradition to Australia from the United States of a former Philippines charge d’affaires in Australia, Mr Joselito Azurin, following a complaint by the Philippines Government alleging the embezzlement of Philippines Government funds? [More…]

• Is he aware of suggestions that this complaint is a politically motivated attempt to have Mr Azurin eventually forcibly returned to the Philippines because of his active public opposition to the Marcos regime since his arrival in the United States last August? [More…]

• An application has been made to the United States authorities for the extradition of Mr Azurin to face certain charges arising out of alleged breaches of Australian law. [More…]

• The point I am making is that we do not want a repetition of what happened in this Parliament 12 months ago when Senator Button, I believe, asked about the increased installation facilities at North West Cape and in the other place the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) berated the United States Government for not telling him about it. [More…]

• We could have rushed in and ended up with the National Television Standards Committee system- the NTSC system- which is used by Japan and the United States of America. [More…]

• 1 ask the Minister: As the Christian League of Southern Africa, which was set up to conduct this campaign, plans to open offices in the United States and Britain, has our Government any knowledge of plans to extend this campaign or to open an office in Australia? [More…]

• Equally, to judge the seriousness or otherwise of this matter, one has to say that in any assessment of the terms of any alliance with our one great friend, the United States of America, one must have in mind that bipartisanship is the essential strength. [More…]

• He was a Minister in the Whitlam Government which had the ability at any time to discuss every aspect of the bases in complete confidence with the United States of America. [More…]

• The honourable senator will be interested to know that Professor Landsberg, an eminent United States climatologist, pointed out in an article in 1974 that in making such assessments records for 40 or 50 years would be required. [More…]

• If my memory serves me correctly, a CSIRO officer has been to the United States, the United Kingdom or to South Africa for the purpose of studying the particular projects being undertaken. [More…]

• Is it the case that the United States Government- our one great friend, as the Minister put it- will be suing Australia for $23m or more in the International Court of Justice for Australia’s supposed unlawful expropriation of Dillingham operations on Fraser Island? [More…]

• If so, does this not represent a major failure in Australia-United States diplomatic relations, one that should be causing very great concern to this Parliament and the Australian people. [More…]

• I am not aware that a commercial problem between a company and the Australian Government regarding compensation is in any way weakening the relationship between the United States of America and Australia. [More…]

• What is the present strength of the Soviet Navy in the Indian Ocean and how does it compare with the strength of the United States Navy in that area? [More…]

• The United States Navy currently has deployed an aircraft carrier and seven surface combatants in the Indian Ocean. [More…]

• No doubt, comment will be made about the additional that Zorn included for protection of the environment, which brings the 4Vi per cent to a higher level; but, compared with the 1 5 per cent royalty that is paid to Indians in the United States and the royalty that is paid by the Bougainville copper mine in Papua New Guinea, it is certainly a pitiful amount. [More…]

• 1 ) How many permanently established positions has the Australian Department of Defence had in Washington and elsewhere on the United States mainland in each year from 1967 to 1977. [More…]

• I ) Permanently established Service and civilian positions in the United States during the period 1967 to 1977 were as follows: [More…]

• 8 1 5 as at 1 September 1978 there were 13 permanent and 53 temporary positions established at locations in United States of America in addition to those established in Washington. [More…]

• I am aware ofthe restricted use of this type of film in other countries, including the United States, and ofthe advisability of using high speed film wherever possible. [More…]

• I inform the Senate that the Minister for Transport (Mr Nixon) left Australia on Sunday for a visit to Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States, on a range of transport matters. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that the United States National Cancer Institute has warned that a chemical, selenium sulphide, contained in antidandruff shampoos may cause cancer, and that these products are on sale in Australia? [More…]

• Can the Minister say why the Australian Government has ignored the rulings given by the United States Government medical authorities on 2,4,5-T and now on selenium sulphide? [More…]

• Has the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs seen a report in the Press supporting previous accusations that the Soviet Union, through Swiss agents, has been buying large quantities of chrome from Rhodesia and reselling it to the United States at a considerable profit? [More…]

• Now we are moving to the creation of more and more jobs with the policies which have been acknowledged internationally and nationally as being successful and, indeed, as more successful than the policies of the Government of the United States of America or of the previous Labour Government of the United Kingdom. [More…]

• It believes that a responsible government could follow the example of many democracies in Europe, the United States of America and Canada, and embark upon job creation and proper training schemes. [More…]

• We have 1,600 bed days per 1,000 people per year, which can be compared with 1,207 in the United States of America, 1,100 in England and 900 in Scotland. [More…]

• Almost half of the cancers in the United States have been caused by exposure to chemical carcinogens in the work place. [More…]

• Senator Baume, from studies undertaken in the United States, it is estimated that 400,000 people in the United States will die of cancer next year and it is recognised that 25 per cent of those deaths will be caused by smoking. [More…]

• So it costs him as much to visit another place in Australia as it does to travel all the way from the west coast of the United States. [More…]

• If there were an amalgamation of Qantas and TAA, perhaps those people who come into Australia not only from the United States but also from Europe would be able to see Central Australia, the Great Barrier Reef, Tasmania and Western Australia for a special fare which would be worked out with the international airline company- in this case Qantas. [More…]

• If we deregulated the east coast of Australia we could then compare our situation with the situation which exists on the west coast of the United States at the moment. [More…]

• Those are the sorts of prices which the airlines in the United States have been able to get down to for those distances. [More…]

• All of a sudden those people found that for the same price they were able to go to the United States and to Europe. [More…]

• Indeed, the criticism in the preamble mentioned only United States airlines. [More…]

• While it is not unusual for one of the Metropolitan Powers to bc singled out for criticism at these conferences it appeared that on this occasion criticism was to bc directed towards the United States- [More…]

• The Senate will be interested to know that in 1970 the United States of America suspended all imports of Australian sheep meat until the standards of hygiene and inspection in Australia were improved. [More…]

• As yet there is no indication of the cause of the incident because the investigation in the United States in to the actual incident has not been completed. [More…]

• Is it also a fact that the Royal Australian Air Force VIP Boeings will become too noisy for civil airfields in the United States of America from 1 January 1985 and that after 1985 they would not be allowed to operate in Australia either if they were not RAAF registered and thus not subject to civil aviation regulations? [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Transport a question concerning the crash of a DC 10 in the United States of America, in which all 27 1 people on board the aircraft were killed. [More…]

• By the mid-1950s the spread of nuclear weapons had rendered this strategy no longer credible and the concept changed to a limited non-nuclear war with China in which we would be a contributor to a predominantly United States force. [More…]

• This soon shifted to counter insurgency on the mainland of Asia in co-operation with allies, primarily the United States. [More…]

• This communications station is primarily intended to communicate with United States missile firing submarines in the Indian Ocean which are second strike weapons intended because of their invulnerability to survive a surprise attack on the United States and to be capable of inflicting unacceptable damage on the aggressor. [More…]

• Compare this with 7 per cent in the United States and 10 per cent to 1 2 per cent in Japan, a country usually thought to be peculiarly dependent on overseas trade. [More…]

• It may be of interest to honourable senators that, by value, only 13 per cent of our exports go to the European Economic Community and less than 8 per cent to the United States of America. [More…]

• This might be compared with 5 per cent in Britain, 6 per cent in the United States of America, and about 1 3 per cent in Russia. [More…]

• There is a petrol shortage in the United States of America now. [More…]

• Some have gone to the United States of America, some to France, and some have come to Australia. [More…]

• He would be aware, however, that in the United States of America, as in this country, there are stringent standards of airline inspection and control. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs been drawn to recent reports by various groups of jurists in the United States about the number of persons alleged to have disappeared, been tortured or imprisoned by the fascist regime in Argentina? [More…]

• With the exception of that company, all are owned by the United States. [More…]

• The fact that they are United States owned is not pertinent to my opposition and the opposition of the Australian Labor Party to oil exploration on the reef. [More…]

• Not only did China bring aid to an end, but also the United States of America did not keep the promise given by President Nixon of substantial reconstruction aid for Vietnam. [More…]

• In my view we can correct it if the United States of America, the People’s Republic of China and all the South East Asian countries are prepared to assist in the reconstruction of Vietnam. [More…]

• The United States Bar Association says that 10,000 Argentinians are missing. [More…]

• I understand from Dr Boden of the Department that representatives of the States had to submit a report to the Department on the kangaroo population in their States and whether they thought the United States Government should through its Department of the Interior support a limited export of our kangaroo products. [More…]

• I say to people like Senator Maunsell who say that there are plenty of kangaroos: ‘Do not forget that in the 1929 era President Hoover of the United States of America, who might have had his minuses in the economic field, refused to allow Australian possums into the United States’. [More…]

• Has the Government made a submission to the United States Government that our effective tagging and controlled culling is justification for a sort of opening-of-the-door for the reintrod uction of kangaroo exports? [More…]

• If the answer is yes, what response have we got from the United States? [More…]

• Of equal importance, has the United States pledged to keep a close watch to see that the pendulum will not swing the other way and there is a virtual extermination of the animal concerned? [More…]

• Throughout the United States of America and Great Britain security checks are maintained al airports as a matter of routine and are strictly enforced. [More…]

• The cost will not be great in comparison, for example, with that borne by the United States and could, of course, quite properly be borne by the passengers, lt will be too late to contemplate this obviously necessary precaution after the first hijacking or bombing of an aircraft. [More…]

• I have been told that from next year in the United States there will be stringent noise abatement provisions required for Boeing 707 aircraft which operate in the United States. [More…]

• I then went on to ask Air Vice Marshal Cornish how these aeroplanes would operate in the United States. [More…]

• There will not be any restrictions on military aircraft in the United States. [More…]

• Similar aircraft are operated by the United States military, lt will not apply to them. [More…]

• Is it also a fact that the Royal Air Force VIP Boeings will become too noisy for civil airfields in the United States of America from I January 1 985 and that after 1 985 they would not be allowed to operate in Australia either if they were not RAAF registered and thus not subject to civil aviation regulations? [More…]

• The people who live near Botany Bay and near the Kingsford-Smith International Airport- the constituents of the electorates of Barton, St George, Grayndler, Sydney and KingsfordSmith are demanding to know whether the aircraft will be modified to prevent the excessive noise levels that will not be tolerated in the United States or anywhere else in the Western world after 1985. [More…]

• The main thrust of what is said is that Australian business has shown little or no interest and the inventors have had to go to the United States of America where, to the contrary, a great deal of interest has been shown. [More…]

• What effect would such a proposal have on discussions between the Soviet Union and the United States for a reduction of naval forces in the Indian Ocean region? [More…]

• While the Government is aware of the report in Time magazine to which the honourable senator refers, it is not aware of any proposal to form a joint United StatesEuropean fleet based on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia. [More…]

• I am reluctant to speculate on the effects that such a proposal might have on the negotiations between the Soviet Union and the United States concerning stabilisation of their military presence in the Indian Ocean. [More…]

• The Government is on record as supporting an agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union on mutual arms limitation in the Indian Ocean. [More…]

• Yesterday Senator Keeffe and Senator Townley asked questions about the crash of a DC 10 aircraft in the United States of America and about certain matters which might relate to the operation of aircraft in Australia. [More…]

• This point is quite obvious if one looks at the level of sophistication of education of United States naval officers, for example, compared with that currently available to their Australian counterparts. [More…]

• It is owned, through its subsidiaries, by King Ranch of Texas, United States of America. [More…]

• An appeal was made by the Lake Nash people- I have referred to it previously in this place- to the United States President. [More…]

• I related how people had sent a letter to the United States President and to the United Nations. [More…]

• For nearly 100 years, Australia has experienced difficulties in getting its raw wool into the United States of America because of the high levels of protection which have been set up in that country. [More…]

• But due to continuing efforts climaxing in the negotiating skills of Ministers Sinclair, Anthony, Garland and latterly our Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the United States has now agreed to a 60 per cent reduction in duty over a three-year period. [More…]

• If it becomes apparent abroad that the Fraser Government is much less competent in internal monetary management than its boasts in the United States would imply, then there is danger that run-out on private sector capital account will offset the significant improvement now occurring on trade account. [More…]

• New Zealand and the United States. [More…]

• There arc other international exercises with the defence forces of the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia and others in which the R.A.A.F. [More…]

• I inform the Senate that the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) left Australia on Sunday for a visit to China, Europe and the United States of America. [More…]

• The Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) left Australia on 1 June to attend the International Conference of Women Leaders in Israel and to take up activities associated with the International Year of the Child in the course of visits to Europe and the United States. [More…]

• dealt with precisely the same matter being taken to litigation in the United States of America, where the parents of gifted children are taking the school boards to court for denying their gifted children the opportunity to excel within the ordinary State school system. [More…]

• Finally, one could cite as an example the La Guardia project which has taken place in the United States and to which my colleague in the other place, Mr Peter Fisher, referred in his speech on the Bills. [More…]

• United States of America [More…]

• The Minister for Transport advises me that airworthiness directives issued by the United States department concerned do not make any differentiation on the basis raised by the honourable senator in his question. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Post and Telecommunications, lt refers to the death in Melbourne recently of a 32-year-old Telecom technician whose death was diagnosed by a United States agency as being due to legionnaires disease. [More…]

• I ask: Is it a fact that both Federal and State authorities investigating this complaint received an opinion from the United States agency that the disease was due in part to the air conditioning system in one of the Telecom exchanges in Australia spreading bacteria? [More…]

• If so, what action is being taken by the Australian Government in respect of the matter and what precautions are being taken in respect of any other air conditioning system which might present the same hazard as that featured by the United States agency’s expert opinion? [More…]

• This infection was first recognised in the United States of America in an outbreak of severe respiratory infection in a group of legionnaires attending a conference in Philadelphia in July 1976. [More…]

• 1 percent in the United States, 10.7 percent in the United Kingdom, 10.5 per cent in Canada, 15.4 per cent in Italy, 10. [More…]

• The use of this type of aircraft made it possible for Qantas to pioneer low fares on the Australia-Europe routes in 1972 and for the introduction of the new low fares to the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Europe which the Minister for Transport (Mr Nixon) has recently announced. [More…]

• The aircraft will also be used between Australia and the United States of America. [More…]

• Aircraft 19 is to be in the normal passenger configuration and is required to cope with the anticipated peak summer traffic to the United Kingdom-Europe and the United States of America expected to occur in 1980-81. [More…]

• What is happening now is that we are getting the same sort of money but it has been laundered through the United States of America or the United Kingdom. [More…]

• I have drawn to the attention of the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) extracts I have taken from the London Economist and Time magazine of parallel debates dealing with the current debate in the United States Congress on the allocation of land in Alaska. [More…]

• I am sure that Senator Kilgariff, who is to speak after me will have something to say about my aspersions concerning the mining moguls, but I have noted that the United States Secretary of the Interior has called them ‘those that rape and run’. [More…]

• If the United States Congress passes the Ways and Means Committee’s recommendation that United States beef imports be restricted to 1.2 billion lb, does this mean that the Multilateral Trade Negotiations agreement entered into by Mr Anthony and the United States Administration will have to be renegotiated? [More…]

• The answer to the question is as follows: The Government was most concerned to hear last Friday that the United States Congress Ways and Means Committee on 3 1 May recommended a counter-cyclical meat import Bill providing for a floor on meat imports of 1.2 billion lb. [More…]

• The Minister for Trade and Resources (Mr Anthony) only recently concluded Multilateral Trade Negotiations with the United States in which he received renewed assurances from the Administration that, as in 1 978 with similar legislation, its position would be that any such legislation must contain an access level for meat imports of at least 1.3 billion lb annually. [More…]

• The Minister has pointed out that the adoption of a floor at a lower level could have serious implications for our MTN settlement with the United States. [More…]

• It would seem clear that if the United States Administration did accept a law which involved such a substantial change in a major element of our MTN settlement, Australia would be forced to look carefully at the whole package. [More…]

• Regulatory and safeguards measures should be undertaken by and be the responsibility of an absolutely independent authority, as is the case in the United States, the United Kingdom and in any nation to which Australia would look for models of the best organisational structure for this peculiarly hazardous industry. [More…]

• I am quoting the best source I can get- we are awaiting the results of the full inquiry in the United States of America- and my information at this stage is that the radiation fall-out, and there was some around Harrisburg was said to be something like the equivalent of two chest x-rays. [More…]

• After the incident at Three Mile Island in the United States, where it was substantiated that it was not purely human error but also the unexpected functioning of the equipment in the reactor that caused the problem, one wonders how on earth a country could go ahead and build a nuclear reactor in an area which can be affected by earthquakes. [More…]

• The reactor at Three Mile Island in the United States was badly damaged. [More…]

• If such an accident can happen in a country which is as scientifically efficient as the United States, what can happen in a country such as the Philippines? [More…]

• I might as well cite the United States position because that is where it all began. [More…]

• Not only does it not provide a real and worthwhile percentage of the electricity produced in the United States, but also it has some hidden charges that are not always taken into account. [More…]

• That shows what the position is in the United States, but it is not just in the United States that the market is falling away, thus making it an unreliable area in which Australia should invest. [More…]

• As John Aherne, a senior aide to Energy Secretary Schlesinger, in the United States, said: [More…]

• We are told in the article that Dr Wagoner is angry at the way in which the United States of America has dealt with uranium mining and uranium miners. [More…]

• The United States National Academy of Science in its BEIR Report, published in May 1979, denies that there is any real threshold of radiation levels to which men can be subject. [More…]

• For example, the United States of America generates 13 per cent of all its power from nuclear sources. [More…]

• There is no way that the United States can suddenly overnight withdraw 13 per cent of its power segment which comes from nuclear sources. [More…]

• Senator Melzer quoted Mr Schlesinger of the United States Administration as saying that the great nuclear boom will never come. [More…]

• I regret that I do not have with me the figures released by the United States Department of Public Health on the effect of coal-fired thermal stations on the health of the American population, but that effect is considerable. [More…]

• Any comparisons that I have made of our standard economy fares against those of the United States of America or Europe indicate that the travelling public in Australia are served pretty well. [More…]

• I understand that at this stage Australia has a better fare structure system than the United States of America. [More…]

• Air safety is a very topical issue, especially in light of the DC 10 crash in Chicago and the subsequent grounding of DC 10 aircraft throughout the United States of America. [More…]

• I would like the Government to make a statement as to whether the inspections that have now been recommended in the United States are being carried out in this country, or whether they are being carried out in the country of origin of the carrier that flies into Australia. [More…]

• With the introduction of the new cheap air fares these people found that they were able to go to Europe or to the United States. [More…]

• We have the ludicrous situation that somebody could pay as little as $480 to fly from the West Coast of the United States to Sydney on a package tour. [More…]

• I understood Senator Sibraa to say that he understood that a traveller from the United States to Sydney could enjoy a cheap international fare but then, if he wanted to go on to Perth, would have to pay the domestic economy fare. [More…]

• The United States of America has gone in the opposite direction. [More…]

• The retiring age in some States of the United States has been lifted to allow people to continue working after the age of 65. [More…]

• I was told that a similar authority was abused by the Nixon administration to undermine the independence and political neutrality of the public service in the United States of America. [More…]

• We see some validity here in comparisons which have been drawn with the United States Administration in the Nixon era. [More…]

• This legislation will probably also create, if it goes ahead, a complete United States style politicised Public Service. [More…]

• In the hope of encouraging some economic independence from the Soviet Union and Vietnam, will the Minister also urge the Government to provide whatever aid is possible to Laos for the development of its untapped resources and to request other Western nations, particularly the United States, to do likewise? [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, deals with the summit meeting in Tokyo of the industrialised nations- the United States, Japan, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Canada and Italy- which is to take place at the end of this month. [More…]

• If there is one country that has overdone the establishment security forces it is the United States. [More…]

• As Senator Hamer would know, the various United States defence services have their own security. [More…]

• I do not want to see the mistakes that have occurred in the United States where there are security service rivalries. [More…]

• On 9 May 1979 (Hansard, pages 1730-1 ), Senator Coleman asked the Minister for Science and the Environment a question without notice concerning a newspaper report released by the United States National Academy of Scientists which concluded that there was no known threshold below which radiation ceased to have adverse effects on human beings. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs been drawn to recent reports by various groups of jurists in the United States about the number of persons alleged to have disappeared, been tortured or imprisoned by the fascist regime in Argentina? [More…]

• In view of the loss of overseas forward naval bases by the United States of America in recent times and the vulnerability of its island base in the north Indian Ocean, would the Government favourably support the establishment of a United States naval base in Australia? [More…]

• -It is of very considerable interest to Australia that the United States of America, which must be regarded as our major ally in any defensive situation, have throughout the world - [More…]

• The fact of the matter is that we do have an interest in the deterrent role of the United States in keeping peace in the world by having effective defence installations throughout the world. [More…]

• The United States has never requested, to my knowledge, base facilities or installations of that kind from the Australian Government. [More…]

• We, along with other countries, including ASEAN and the United States, have appealed to the Vietnamese Government to act to regularise the outflow of people. [More…]

• Both judgments were entered by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division. [More…]

• The proceedings relate to arrangements for the marketing of uranium alleged to have been made in 1972 in violation of the antitrust laws of the United States of America. [More…]

• The judgment was entered against nine non- United States defendants- including the Australian companies mentioned above- which have declined to enter appearances. [More…]

• United States except as provided in the injunction. [More…]

• What has happened is that there has been a conflict of interest between United States consumers of our energy resources on the one hand and Australian producers of certain energy primary products on the other. [More…]

• Whereas the United States legal system has been manipulated by United States consumers in order to achieve benefits for those consuming these energy resources within the United States, that manipulation is now being confronted by an Australian government which at last, somewhat belatedly, has recognised its obligation to ensure that Australian producers, whether of energy resources, iron ore, bauxite or alumina, et cetera, can themselves present a united front to the united buying power of groups abroad, of which United States utility companies and Japanese steel companies are perhaps the best known examples. [More…]

• The ANZUS pact provides the only treaty support for Australia, and that is a very qualified document which certainly does not provide a water-tight commitment for the United States. [More…]

• The United States support for Australia could conceivably be compromised by another nation’s interests. [More…]

• There are also circumstances where, if the United States wished to help, it would not be able to do so because of higher priorities. [More…]

• In a major conflict the United States has defined its priorities as being Western Europe, Japan and then Australia- in that sequence. [More…]

• They follow up this argument with statements to the effect that only the United States of America and Soviet Russia have the logistic resources to land an army on this continent. [More…]

• The Soviets spend 13 per cent, and the United States of America 6 per cent. [More…]

• The United States is another area from which the Government is encouraging emigration to Australia. [More…]

• However, there is a stark difference when these figures are compared to those of South Africa, Northern Europe, Britain, the United States and Canada. [More…]

• I have previously brought to the attention of the Opposition Whip, and I now bring to the attention of the Senate, a segment from Consumer Reports, the journal of the United States Consumers Association, for July and August 1978. [More…]

• Our major export market, the United States of America, and a number of other countries which are either markets or competitors for Australian beef are well on the way to tuberculosis and brucellosis eradication. [More…]

• Unless the program is completed in 1 984, Australian beef could be banned from the United States markets and other markets. [More…]

• Just a few hours ago the President of the United States of America announced that, in spite of the recent elections in Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, the United States would not recognise that country, nor would it take off the international sanctions imposed on it. [More…]

• Far from upsetting Britain, the United States, New Zealand and Canada we should be putting spurs into them to recognise and cut sanctions. [More…]

• Given a fair go, it has shown that it can be more than competitive even against the European and United States marketing machines which are involved in this sort of industry. [More…]

• One has to read only what President Carter and the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Andrew Young, have said to realise that they know it too. [More…]

• It is for that reason that the United States will not lift the sanctions that apply at the moment and bring about instant recognition of ZimbabweRhodesia. [More…]

• The predominantly white Boeing, a Boeing 727/100, was owned by the Fluor Corporation, of the United States. [More…]

• Has the United States Government made a decision to take up or ‘espouse’ before the International Court of Justice the Dillingham Corporation’s claim to compensation from the Australian Government in respect of the closure of its sand-mining operations on Fraser Island? [More…]

• Does this decision represent a spectacular failure of the Minister’s attempts at diplomacy in this area, and make nonsense of Australia’s so-called special relationship with the United States; and [More…]

• and (b) The Australian Government received a communication from the United States Government in March 1979 in which the United States Government advised that it was prepared to espouse the Dillingham Corporation ‘s claim for compensation and that, if the different views existing between the two Governments could not be resolved, it was willing to have the matter decided in an international forum. [More…]

• In response, it advised the United States Government that, while it did not agree to a United States proposal to refer the matter to arbitration, if the matter were to be referred by the United States to the International Court of Justice, Australia would not insist on the normal requirement that Dillingham Corporation first exhaust any legal remedies in Australia. [More…]

• The Australian Government would not invoke the United States reservation to the compulsory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice, as it would be entitled to, in order to challenge the Court’s jurisdiction in this case. [More…]

• The Australian Government made it clear that it would be prepared, if it was thought that this would assist in resolving differences of opinion, to engage in discussions with the United States Government with a view to explaining the reasons for the Australian Government’s position. [More…]

• Will the Minister establish whether Telecom has given consideration to installing vandal-proof telephones of the sort widely used in the United States of America? [More…]

• Has the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs seen a report in the Press supporting previous accusations that the Soviet Union, through Swiss agents, has been buying large quantities of chrome from Rhodesia and reselling it to the United States at a considerable profit? [More…]

• 1 ) Has the Minister read a report by United States authorities on the use of the herbicide 2,4,5,T in Oregon. [More…]

• Is the Government concerned that, despite the actions of authorities in the United States, the National Health and Medical Research Council in Australia has advised the Government that there is insufficient evidence to warrant withdrawal of 2,4,5,T even if only as a precaution, until Australian authorities can carry out their own research. [More…]

• Is the Government concerned that, while in the United States precautions have been taken since 1970 to prevent pregnant women, and women of child-bearing age, making contact with this material, in Australia pregnant housewives can purchase the herbicides from supermarket shelves, with no warning of the physical damage which can result from excessive use of the chemical involved. [More…]

• page 1 102), I have read the United States report on the use of 2,4.5-T in Oregon and noted what it said. [More…]

• When can a considered, detailed comment be expected from the National Health and Medical Research Council on reports provided to it in early 1 979 of events at Alsea, Oregon, which led to the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s extension of bans on the use of 2,4,5T. [More…]

• Has the United States Environmental Protection Agency requested information or reports from the Council relating to possible associations of 2,4,5T with birth defects or foetus malformations in Australia; if so, has the Council given the United States Environmental Protection Agency the requested information or reports; if not, why not. [More…]

• In relation to (2), 1 understand that a special meeting of the National Health and Medical Research Council was held on 26 March 1 979 to consider the United States report. [More…]

• Is the advertising for major public utilities and statutory authorities, such as the Australian Wool Corporation, the Australian Dairy Corporation and the Overseas Telecommunications Commission, handled by United States agencies. [More…]

• It might bc noted, however, that the Canadian position has been greatly influenced by the proximity of the United States and the strength of competition from advertising agencies and suppliers based in that country. [More…]

• Does the Minister realise that in countries such as Canada and the United States, where there are a great many more cars than in Australia, cars are allowed to turn to the right through a red traffic light after coming to a stop if the way is clear. [More…]

• Is it now Government policy to encourage Australian car makers to go on indefinitely marketing vehicles such as the Holden Commodore S/LE and the Ford Fairlane which have fuel consumptions as low as 1 1 1/2 miles to the gallon, even though their parent companies are already marketing in the United States of America the new generation of high economy, light weight, front wheel drive cars? [More…]

• But the imported cannabis, the Buddha grass or Thai sticks from the United States of America, has a the content of between 4 to 14 per cent. [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…]

• These are facts which have been presented before the United States Senate and which are available on record if Government senators are prepared to carry out a survey to see the way in which breaches have taken place. [More…]

• That is what the United States Senate has insisted upon in its deliberations on the operations of its intelligence organisation. [More…]

• For example, are we told about the sort of bugging device which brought about the resignation of the United States representative to the United Nations, Mr Andrew Young? [More…]

• The end of the world did not come in respect of our relations with the United States, and there is absolutely no evidence, except in the thinking processes of this Government or of the intelligence organisations, that these sorts of consequences would flow from any attempt by the elected representatives of the Australian people to exercise some surveillance, some control and some influence over what we on this side of the House believe ought to be the correct and responsible role of the legislator. [More…]

• It would seem certain that the incidence of heroin addiction in a city in Australia at this time is higher than in any corresponding city of the United States of America. [More…]

• I have mentioned this to health investigators and narcotics investigators, and a cross-section of sociologists who have studied the problem both here and in the United States of America. [More…]

• That does not mean to say that we are less healthy than the United States, because in that country there now seems to be a turn away from narcotics to other forms of drugs, particularly alcohol; but, in terms of heroin addiction, that is the information that I have. [More…]

• The Law Reform Commission has estimated, based on the application to those figures of what we know about the United States experience, that this may have already created a situation in which as many as 12,000 different Australians, engaging in as many as 68,000 or 75,000 different conversations, are being overheard each year. [More…]

• I believe that the somewhat simplistic belief that harsher penalties are the answer to the considerable drug problem in Australia in fact will turn out to be as ill-founded in Australia as it has been in the United States and elsewhere. [More…]

• It is common to believe that the United States of America has an essentially liberal system of dealing with penalties and with narcotic offences in general compared with countries such as Australia. [More…]

• In an article by Eugene Dolescha in a journal called Crime and Delinquency it was pointed out that, in fact, the United States is one of the most punitive of all the free nations. [More…]

• The author says: the United States had an imprisonment rate of 244 per 100,000 population, the highest in the free world. [More…]

• When we compare the United States with countries that are known to have the most advanced and most humane criminal justice systems in the world, the differences are striking. [More…]

• It is perhaps useful to look specifically at the United States and the experience of that country in dealing with the drug problems by the sheer imposition of harsher penalties. [More…]

• Glanville draws attention to the fact that in that year the United States introduced legislation which has some parallels with the legislation we have before us today. [More…]

• For instance, let us look at the testimony of the Honourable Jacob K. Javits, a United States senator for New York, in talking about the work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation with harsher penalties being imposed in regard to marihuana. [More…]

• In a statement to the Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control of the United States House of Representatives on 15 March 1977 he said: [More…]

• Sometimes even now the United States of America exhibits an attitude of economic imperialism towards us. [More…]

• When we look at the United States congressional record we see listed a host of congressional committees which do grasp the immigration nettle. [More…]

• The United States has an executive government, and I am not suggesting that this Senate is in a position to direct the activities of a Minister, whether it is my party or those of honourable senators opposite which is in government. [More…]

• I have been talking with one of our highly competent officers of the Senate and it appears that the United States has on-going committees looking particularly into immigration. [More…]

• The United States, Canada and Australia have been the recipients of the greatest number of migrants. [More…]

• In the history of the United States, at times some of the quotas have not been filled. [More…]

• In the 1920s and early 1930s a lot of Irishmen went to the United States. [More…]

• For three or four years they filled their quota into the United States but for the next five years the quota was not filled, and an argument developed over whether the quota should be transferred to the Poles or some other group. [More…]

• Immigration is always a hot potato, but the Canadian Parliament and the United States Congress have dealt with the matter. [More…]

• Mr Renouf, as we know, was the Secretary at one stage of the Department of Foreign Affairs, and more recently was our Ambassador to the United States of America. [More…]

• One would not expect that Australia would have the facilities of, say, the United States of America or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]

• Those sorts of facilities and language training could be indulged in only by super-powers like the Soviet Union or the United States of America. [More…]

• I was having lunch in the United States earlier this year with a former Secretary of State. [More…]

• In the United States of America, the inflation rate was 14 per cent, in France it was 1 1.3 per cent, the United Kingdom 15.7 per cent, Canada 10.5 per cent, Italy 15.8 per cent and New Zealand 14.3 per cent. [More…]

• I am advised that these allegations have been comprehensively rebutted, in terms that have been supported by the Australian Government, by spokesmen for both the United States State Department and the United Nations Secretariat in New York. [More…]

• Was he foisted on us by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees or by the United States Government, or was he a selection of one of our own people? [More…]

• With regard to the second part of Senator Mulvihills question as to whether he was foisted upon us by either the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees or by the United States Government, I am advised that the answer is no, he was not. [More…]

• The agreement between the Government of Australia and the Government of the United States of America concerning peaceful uses of nuclear energy, together with an agreed minute; [More…]

• There has been a substantial abandonment of principle on this question by the United States of America. [More…]

• African countries but also to countries such as Australia, Great Britain and the United States, will not be able to retain the limited advances they have made. [More…]

• If they see that even what Smith and Muzorewa were able to agree to in Salisbury is unacceptable to the African countries and also to countries such as Australia, Great Britain and the United States, they will say: ‘This is the sort of world in which we live. [More…]

• The protocol was adopted at the Tanker Safety and Pollution Prevention Conference convened by IMCO at the request of the United States last year following a number of serious pollution incidents off the US coast. [More…]

• Surely the experience of Prohibition in the United States earlier this century - [More…]

• Experience in the United States in the second and third decades of this century should have taught us that to act only on the supply side is the quickest and surest way of ensuring the emergence of a criminally controlled illegal supply situation. [More…]

• The most recent surveys from the United States of America do not indicate rising rates of use of heroin over the last year or so. [More…]

• It differs little from the levels of use in other east coast cities in the United States. [More…]

• That study in one city in the United States did not yield a promising result that deterrent follows from increasing the penalties which are imposed. [More…]

• What worries me about increased penalties is that the same development might occur here as occurred in the United States: When heavy penalties are imposed, the age of the pusher becomes progressively lower. [More…]

• I know that this will shock people, but it was done in the United States. [More…]

• That method was used during the 1920s and 1930s to catch the worst criminals in the United States, the most notorious of whom was Al Capone, who committed the most heinous crimes against society for a decade. [More…]

• That has been the experience in the United States. [More…]

• With this legislation we will create the Al Capones who were created during the prohibition period in the United States. [More…]

• In the United States of America, the inflation rate was 14 per cent, for France it was 1 1.3 per cent, for the United Kingdom it was 15.7 per cent, for Canada it was 10.5 per cent, for Italy it was 1 5.8 per cent, for New Zealand it was 14.3 per cent and for Australia it was 9 per cent. [More…]

• Internationally, at the end of July interest rates in various countries were as follows: The United States 10 per cent, Japan 5.25 per cent, Germany 5 per cent, the United Kingdom 14 per cent, Canada 1 1.75 per cent and Australia 9 per cent. [More…]

• In the United States of America, as recently as late last year, a committee of the House of Representatives recommended: [More…]

• Well, senator, committees of the United States Congress are very important. [More…]

• Is the honourable senator questioning, for instance, the statements of Robert Barker of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Department of Tansportation of the United States of America, in his summary before the Warren Committee hearings of November 1974? [More…]

• United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission ordered the closure of all Babcock and Wilcox reactors in the U.S. [More…]

• officials in the United States have disclaimed methods and findings of their own Agency ‘s 3-year reactor safety study. [More…]

• The United States interests stem from the giant parent company of Wyoming and Delhi- the Westinghouse Corporation- which builds and maintains nuclear reactors and nuclear armaments. [More…]

• Most are Australians but the key position is held by an American who is answerable to his bosses in the United States. [More…]

• If he is still not satisfied I ask him to come back to me and I will then talk to him about the Nugget file, which contains excerpts from the United States Government’s special internal file on nuclear power plant accidents and safety defects, as obtained in January 1979 by the Union of Concerned Scientists under the Freedom of Information Act of that country. [More…]

• It had to be uncovered because this fellow in charge of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission was hiding facts, not only from the people in the United States but also from the world, as to what really was happening. [More…]

• At the public inquiry the Tribunal sought information about Mr Gordon’s personal, family and business interests and associations both in Australia and the United States, with particular attention given to Mr Gordon ‘s contract with Paramount Pictures which expires in September 1 98 1 . [More…]

• One thing that has become evident is that the Law Reform Commission in some cases has a staff of one or one and a half workers doing what would be investigated in the United States by 100 people. [More…]

• I should point out that those figures are in United States currency. [More…]

• At page 66 there is a reference to the Children of God and to a report which estimated that in 1 974 there were 120 Children of God communes in the United States. [More…]

• Since 1 974 it appears that the Children of God have toned down their United States operations and are mainly witnessing from travelling communes in other parts of the world, particularly Europe, South America and Australia. [More…]

• That is in the United States- and anti-cult groups have been set up to fight them. [More…]

• Australia abstained on the resolution, along with such countries as Canada, France and the United States. [More…]

• In June of this year did two Commonwealth Police officers visit the United States of America and make inquiries in reference to the disposal of two Royal Australian Air Force Hercules aircraft? [More…]

• What progress has been made towards the establishment of a trade office in Taiwan on a similar basis to that used by the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan and many other major trading nations? [More…]

• Professor Rosemary Sarri wrote two papers, one on the history and development of evaluation in the human services- a view from the United States- and the other on methods of evaluating effectiveness of human services. [More…]

• We are not at the head of the queue for higher profits, but we are in a fairly prominent place in the queue and we can see from what we are witnessing in the United States of America, in West Germany and in Japancountries where profit levels are at an all time high- that that does not solve the problems of inflation or create jobs. [More…]

• In the United States, 49 serious injuries occurred in crew training in the period January 1976 to February 1979. [More…]

• What role is the United States Government playing through its attitude to kangaroo products exports. [More…]

• The United States Fish and Wildlife Service on 21 May 1 979 served notice of intention to review the Status of animals listed under its Endangered Species Act 1973. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government through the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service, has coordinated detailed replies to the United States authorities on the current status of these species in Australia. [More…]

• Some years ago the Australian Deafness Council raised this matter with the Australian Broadcasting Commission and with commercial television stations and suggested that captions be used during the broadcast of television news, as is the case in the United States of America and the United Kingdom. [More…]

• The Minister has been regularly briefed on those developments, particularly those in the United States of America, and an officer in his Department has recently held discussions with British officials of ITV and the British Broadcasting Corporation concerning their experiments with closed captioning using the teletext system. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Health, relates to reports in today’s Press concerning the United States Senate subcommittee’s inquiry into the use of the drug Valium, in the course of which 8 witnesses are said to have testified that they had become addicted to the drug. [More…]

• Senator Primmer asked whether I was aware that the InterScan system was now being jointly developed in West Germany and the United States of America and being published as an American development. [More…]

• That has been shown clearly by a study made by the United States Congress to be the process that operates. [More…]

• This figure is higher than we would like and higher than we believed at this time last year it would be; but we all know what has happened since … On an annualised basis, inflation in the United States is now running at around 14 per cent. [More…]

• In making this point, may I note in passing that this distinction between taxation and criminal laws generally is one that has appealed very much to the United States Supreme Court, where retroactive taxation laws in fact have been upheld on a number of occasions as not unconstitutional or not otherwise bad in principle. [More…]

• In the United States of America, the inflation rate was 14 per cent, for France it was 1 1.3 per cent, for the United Kingdom it was 1S.7 per cent, for Canada it was I0.S per cent, for Italy it was 1 5.8 per cent, for New Zealand it was 1 4.3 per cent and for Australia it was 9 per cent. [More…]

• Internationally, at the end of July interest rates in various countries were as follows: The United States 10 per cent, Japan S.2S per cent, Germany 5 per cent, the United Kingdom 14 percent, Canada 1 1.75 percent and Australia 9 per cent. [More…]

• They will cost $40m, all because the Prime Minister wants to have an aircraft that is something like Air Force One, of the President of the United States of America. [More…]

• We are constantly in touch with the United States Air Force to maintain an awareness of opportunities to sustain the technology level of the FI I IC in areas relevant to our strategic circumstances. [More…]

• The failure of the Government’s trade negotiations was exposed in the most dramatic way in a report on the front page of last Saturday’s Age regarding the outcome of last week ‘s discussions with United States officials in Canberra on beef quotas. [More…]

• Among other things it was reported that we have won from the United States a firm commitment to import at lest 590 million kilograms of beef a year. [More…]

• The report also stated that the United States delegation involved in the Canberra talks refused to alter the proposed counter-cyclical legislation but Australia did not expect to win such a concession. [More…]

• I do not propose, and I have not time, to review the whole three years of that propaganda exercise, but I would like to start at last December with the return of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) from his post-Christmas but pre-Boeing trip to the United States when he boasted that he had won new access to the United States beef market. [More…]

• In March Mr Anthony globetrotted off to the United States. [More…]

• Commenting on the multilateral trade negotiation talks, he said that he was satisfied from discussions with Mr Bergland that the United States Administrative was firmly committed to a base import level of 1.3 billion lbs, which, incidentally, is 590 million kilograms, the figure that was mentioned earlier. [More…]

• For Australia, possibly the most significant part of the settlement with the United States involves guarantees covering US imports of beef. [More…]

• Even back in Australia, some months later, Mr Anthony continued to boast about his alleged achievements in the United States beef market. [More…]

• As from January the 1st next year, duty on imported tobacco will be reduced by 60 per cent following the multilateral trade negotiations between Australia and the United States which gave a 60 per cent drop in the US wool levy and guaranteed exports of beef. [More…]

• It is highly significant that there was no ministerial announcement that this concession had actually been implemented for the United States. [More…]

• What, in fact, the Government is doing is offering an industry to the United States without insisting on any trade-off at all. [More…]

• Now that it is an accepted fact that counter-cyclical legislation will be approved by the United States Congress and Administration there are no hastily-arranged dramatic flights to Washington such as we saw last October. [More…]

• In this matter we are not just concerned with the United States and beef markets. [More…]

• We have won from the United States a firm commitment to import at least 590 million kilograms of beef a year. [More…]

• The Labor Government dismantled the growth formulas of the export incentive scheme, one of the major incentives for export trade; it presided over the shutout of Australia from one of our major traditional markets, the European Economic Community; and it was also in power during the disastrous shut-outs of beef from the United States and Japan in 1 974. [More…]

• Indeed, that Government made no approach at all to the United States for an access commitment when that tragedy hit the beef industry in 1974and 1975. [More…]

• I refer not only to the special trade negotiations with the European Economic Community- I will deal with some of the positive benefits that have come from those later- but also to the bilateral negotiations and bilateral agreements with a number of other countries, particularly the United States of America, Japan and the Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia. [More…]

• Senator Walsh commenced his remarks by saying that the negotiations with the United States had been a failure. [More…]

• In fact, what we have got from the United States is a firm general agreement on tariffs and trade type commitment to a minimal global level of imports of 1.2 billion tonnes of beef of which 5 1 per cent will come from Australia. [More…]

• Australia has the right to adjust the overall settlement if United States imports fall below 1.3 billion lb in the event of counter cyclical measures being introduced. [More…]

• We have also obtained a United States duty reduction of lc per lb, phased in over a two-year period. [More…]

• Certainly, a problem could arise in the event of counter cyclical legislation coming into force in the United States but that would not affect the basic allocation or commitment of 1.2 billion tonnes which I have mentioned. [More…]

• As far as wool is concerned, in negotiations in the United States we have gained a 60 per cent reduction in the duty on wool, to be phased in over three years. [More…]

• This has removed what all honourable senators know has been one of our longest-standing trade problems with the United States. [More…]

• Based on his own experience and on projections of United States figures, he believes that probably 20,000 Australian children are abused sexually each year. [More…]

• It is shown from statistics in the United States. [More…]

• Does the Minister for Transport, Mr Nixon, intend emulating the example set by the Government of the United States of America and utilise the provisions of our Navigation Act in order to ban Liberian flag tankers which have a shocking record of maintenance, bad navigation and poor crewing? [More…]

• It went on to point out that, of the 134 member countries, only the United States of [More…]

• Has the Attorney seen reports that the Mafia and other United States criminal elements may be involved in the bird smuggling racket which has now seen a Customs officer charged with being part of this conspiracy? [More…]

• I am advised that unfortunately efforts made to obtain congressional approval of legislation that would enable the United States to particiate fully in the International Sugar Agreement have been proceeding now for in excess of a year. [More…]

• Although there appears to be no real opposition within the United States to the international legislation, it has become tied to other legislation for the implementation of a new domestic sugar policy. [More…]

• The Minister for Trade and Resources has made representations to the United States Government at the highest level, pointing out the adverse effects which this delay is having on the operation of the International Sugar Agreement. [More…]

• A further disturbing factor is that the European Economic Community has indicated that it has no intention of joining in the Agreement until the United States has ratified it. [More…]

• In view of the great concern of the Australian sugar industry at the delay in the United States ratification, I understand that the chairman of the Queensland Sugar Board, Mr Lloyd Harris, will be visiting Washington next week to have discussions with the Australian Embassy and the United States officials and congressmen. [More…]

• It is the Government’s hope that the United States Congress will quickly pass the International Sugar Agreement legislation in order to enable the full provisions of the agreement to become effective. [More…]

• It is motivated by the information that we have on the incident involving the Air Canada DC9 aircraft structural deficiency experienced off the coast of the United States of America on a flight from Boston. [More…]

• I am advised that detailed information is being sought by the Department from the Canadian and United States authorities, and from the manufacturer, in respect of the present occurrence, to determine whether any new aspects are revealed as a result of it, and whether those new aspects, if revealed, might require additional action on our part. [More…]

• There is no doubt that recent developments in credit extension and facilities in the United States will be repeated in Australia. [More…]

• Some of the more unsavoury and exploitive United States developments will also soon be manifested in Australia unless some action is taken nationally and in co-operation with the States. [More…]

• In the United States there has been a very marked development and a change in the whole marketing and purchasing processes. [More…]

• In the United States it is now difficult to subsist without a pocketful of plastic credit cards. [More…]

• United States credit card companies have adopted hard sell tactics to gain more customers. [More…]

• In the United States, the largest part of the average consumers pay cheque is now used to pay off interest and capital principal on loans. [More…]

• AVCO Financial Services, a subsidiary of a United States corporation, reported an increase in net after-tax earnings for the half year to 3 1 May of 17.5 per cent. [More…]

• The interbank agreement would be illegal in the United States of America and Canada. [More…]

• The United States equivalent of Bankcard, Visa, is available to all banks and financial institutions which satisfy certain criteria. [More…]

• For example, interest rates in the United States between December 1975 and July 1979 increased by four percentage points, and since then have skyrocketed. [More…]

• They were probably taken out of the brochures of those who might criticise the fact that they were made in the United States. [More…]

• During the late 1 940s, the proven reserves of uranium in the United States were only 2,000 tons- about enough to run one large reactor for 10 years. [More…]

• In the United States, nuclear reactors produce about 15 per cent of all electricity generated. [More…]

• Further, has the Minister seen the report that the United States Federal Trade Commission has recommended that all television advertising aimed at children under the age of eight be banned, and that all television advertising of presweetened and artificially sweetened products aimed at children under the age of 12 be banned? [More…]

• I repeat: Australia, which some 5 years ago was costed out of world markets by the previous Labor Government and was put into the bracket of the top inflation nations of the Western world, is now costed back into world markets and is now in a very good competitive position compared with other countries, notably our main competitors, such as the United Kingdom and the United States of America. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that a number of drug control authorities throughout the world have refused to endorse such a use of the drug and, specifically, that the Food and Drug Administration of the United States refused to endorse it after its attention had been drawn to the fact that the drug was associated with cancer, temporary or permanent involuntary chemical sterility and birth defects in children? [More…]

• The concept of a wider Pacific community is one of growing interest in Japan and the United States and has recently been discussed at ministerial level between Japan and Australia. [More…]

• -Has the Minister representing the Minister for National Development seen a report of the United States Department of Energy, which states that energy consumption by American industry will be 13 to 17 per cent less per unit of output in 1980 than it was in 1 972? [More…]

• If the United States is able to make energy savings of that substantial character, it is certainly a major development and it would have major effects on the worldwide energy supply situation. [More…]

• I draw the Minister’s attention to this morning’s Press report concerning the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s ordering the immediate closure of an atomic fuel fabrication plant in Tennessee, which reported the loss of uranium suitable for making nuclear weapons. [More…]

• Will the Leader of the Government give an undertaking that this incredible attitude over Kampuchea will not in any way delay the airlifting of substantial quantities of aid, of the magnitude of 700 tonnes of food a week which was flown into Cambodia by the United States at the height of the Vietnam war? [More…]

• As stated in that article, at a meeting between the Prime Minister and the United States Ambassador, Mr Philip Alston junior, on 7 February 1979 at Parliament House, Canberra, did the Prime Minister make a threat that if Australia did not receive Washington’s support on agriculture in the multilateral trade negotiations the future of the United States defence facilities in Australia could be jeopardised? [More…]

• The Government has approved a number of ventures involving interests from Japan, the Republic of Korea, the United States of America and Poland to carry out these projects. [More…]

• I point out that in the United States of America, as has been made apparent in the report of the Pike Committee, which is the House of Representatives Select Committee on Intelligence, the secret vote associated with security activities in the United States very substantially exceedsindeed, by a factor of five said the Pike Committee- what had been acknowledged publicly to be the size of the actual expenditure. [More…]

• When one takes into account all the different personnel, equipment and property costs that are hidden away under other departmental appropriations and under different items of a more innocent looking character, the Office of Management and Budget in the United States found that the real cost was of an order of five times greater than the officially acknowledged cost for intelligence activities. [More…]

• Here one must quote the United States experience. [More…]

• It is the case that the United States revelations about the operations and activities of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have amounted to a devastating indictment of the kind of lack of accountability that is here involved in the Audit Act and in these regulations made under the Audit Act, the disallowance of which I am now moving. [More…]

• In referring to the United States record I draw attention to the report of the Church committee, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence which reported in 1975, the Pike committee, which I have already referred to and which reported in 1 976, and the Inouye committee, which is the name of the committee which took over the subsequent sessions or the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and which has conducted more recently hearings on whether the disclosure of funds authorised for intelligence action is in the public interest. [More…]

• In referring to these United States committees, I am not referring to the information which has emerged about assassination plots, about mail openings, about FBI break-ins or about the kind of scurrilous disinformation campaigns which have been associated with Martin Luther King and in much more recent days with actress Jean Seberg. [More…]

• Let me list some of the illustrations to have emerged from these United States reports. [More…]

• Secondly, I refer to the revelation by the Church committee as to the precise dollar-worth of the support given by the United States Government to the overthrow of the Allende regime in Chile after 1970, namely $8m. [More…]

• They were able to get away with it because of the total lack of effective accounting auditing scrutiny by the Government Accounting Office in the United States or anywhere else. [More…]

• Finally among this fairly random list of examples from the 1975 ‘Report to the President by the Commission on CIA Activities within the United States’, there is a fascinating illustration of funds under the CIA vote being used not for intelligence but for political purposes. [More…]

• They are a diverse set of examples of varying magnitude and of financial significance but equal degrees of significance in terms of the lessons for Australia about what can happen if we do not have proper accountability mechanisms of an independent kind- of the kind that have been universally urged by all of those United States congressional committee reports to which I have referred. [More…]

• Except for the UK-owned CIG, the parent company of each of the other three companies mentioned in ( 1 ) is based in the United States of America. [More…]

• The Minister for Health advises that, despite immediate requests to the United States authorities following Australian Press reports of the proposed withdrawal of methapyrilene in that country, it was many weeks before the detailed scientific data on the animal studies conducted in the United States was made available for consideration by the Australian Drug Evaluation Committee. [More…]

• The Pol Pot Government took over in Kampuchea in early April 1975, following the collapse of the previous Lon Nol Government which had been propped by United States support for the previous five years. [More…]

• We do not hang on their coat tails in that sense any more than we would hang on the coat tails of the United States of America in recognising neither regime. [More…]

• Do we say that we must never do anything to offend the United States of America because it wants us to recognise the Pol Pot regime? [More…]

• During that time the United States flew into Kampuchea- then known as Cambodia- 700 tons of rice a week plus probably twice the amount of bombs. [More…]

• I believe, however, that it is not possible for me to achieve anything for as long as the non-aligned countries and all of the Western countries, except the United States, France, Canada and West Germany, continue to recognise the Pol Pot Government and the Cambodian seat in the United Nations is occupied by a Pol Pot representative. [More…]

• Politics will stand in the way if we as a nation continue to follow blindly what the United States says we must do, if we follow blindly what China says we must do, or if we adopt the attitude that we must not offend China because we want to sell our wheat to China, and so on. [More…]

• In 1964 an advisory committee to the Surgeon-General of the Public Health Service in the United States published a report entitled ‘Smoking and Health’. [More…]

• This was the committee of the Surgeon-General of the United States. [More…]

• The latest report to come out is another from the Surgeon-General of the United States of America which appeared this year. [More…]

• It states that the 1979 report reinforces the major conclusion from 1964 that cigarette smoking is a health hazard of sufficient importance in the United States to warrant appropriate remedial action. [More…]

• Early in 1978 Mr Joseph Califano, then Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the United States, had this to say about smoking? [More…]

• The plain fact is that we have the worst of two worlds: On the one hand, perhaps private enterprise benefactors in the United States of America are more generous than they are here; and, on the other side of the coin, people back off in horror if it is suggested that we might emulate the attitudes of Eastern European countries to sports training. [More…]

• I refer honourable senators to the other side of the coin, namely, the present commitments which Australia, Canada and the United States have towards political refugees. [More…]

• It closed down abruptly following a decision made in the United States boardroom. [More…]

• When Khrushchev visited the United States he said that he was in probably the greatest capitalist country in the world. [More…]

• He said that people could say that there were things wrong with his country but he said that the United States had an excessive duplication in its trucking industry. [More…]

• The United States will have to return to using its railway system for heavy haulage. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Transport aware that in striking contrast to airlines in other parts of the world, notably the United States of America, the two airlines in Australia rarely serve fresh fruit to their passengers? [More…]

• Will the agreement signed by United States Vice-President Mondale and the Chinese Government on that country’s expanded hydro-electric program mean that the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation, despite visits to China by senior Ministers of the [More…]

• In view of the conflict, will the Prime Minister take this opportunity to release sufficient parts of what has been termed the agreed record of the meeting, signed by Australian and United States representatives, so that we can know what was the conversation in which so many people consider a threat was made? [More…]

• In particular I refer to books written by a most courageous experienced journalist, Bob Bottom, and a former senior officer of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, Bernard Delaney, which allege that organised crime has now reached near catastrophic proportions in Australia similar to that prevailing in the United States and that profits to the syndicates each year are running into hundreds of millions of dollars. [More…]

• Our performance is not quite as good as that of Japan or West Germany but is better than that of competitors such as the United States of America and England. [More…]

• Is it not also a fact that the recent sharp increase in interest rates in the United States will have repercussions in Australia? [More…]

• It is true that, sadly, in the United States of America and the United Kingdom there has been an upward trend in interest rates. [More…]

• It is reported that the Hanoibacked Government of Kampuchea has admitted that more than two million of its people are facing starvation but has said that offers of aid from the United States and Japan are tied to unacceptable political conditions. [More…]

• As far as I am aware, the United States has not yet made a specific offer of aid to Kampuchea but has indicated that it would be prepared to contribute to international relief efforts. [More…]

• -On 27 September Senator Mulvihill asked me a question relating to an agreement signed by United States VicePresident Mondale and the Chinese Government on that country’s expanded hydro-electric program. [More…]

• It is the understanding of the Government that the recently signed agreement between the United States and China for the hydroelectric work does not preclude the possibility of services of other companies, such as the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation, being also used in China. [More…]

• China has an enormous potential for development in the hyrdo-electric field and a number of countries, in addition to the United States, are interested in offering assistance to China. [More…]

• I think it is particularly important that we draw attention to the fact that recently the Carter Administration in the United States has recognised the importance of fostering a strong domestic shipping industry and the employment which can be created as a result of such a stable and prosperous industry. [More…]

• I have had correspondence with Senator Muskie, an outstanding authority in the United States Senate. [More…]

• I know that Senator Muskie was adamant that the United States legislation was not keeping up with the magnitude of some of the disasters. [More…]

• Fortified by the views not only of the Merchant Service Guild but also of the United States Government, I believe there is a need to cull out some of these rather old, accident-prone vessels. [More…]

• I wish to quote from the 1978 newsletter of the United States Department of Commerce National Marine Fisheries Service at La Jolla- the South- West Fisheries Centre. [More…]

• This is a very well known marine research facility in the United States. [More…]

• The Australian Department of Transport, the United States Federal Aviation Administration, and other authorities have granted certification of airworthiness to the Nomad. [More…]

• The Australian and United States certifications were granted after the respective authorities had conducted critical and intense evaluations of the aircraft’s flying qualities and design characteristics, with particular attention to flight safety standards laid down by those authorities, standards which are acknowledged throughout the world to be most rigorous. [More…]

• In addition, information on pesticides is exchanged with the relevant authorities in other countries such as New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. [More…]

• 1 ) Are Canada, the United States and the USSR conducting programs to search for intelligent extra-terrestrial life through the detection of artificial extra-solar radio signals; if so, what funds have been allocated to these programs by each of these nations. [More…]

• There has been increasing uncertainty about the United States dollar, the value of gold has skyrocketed to record prices, and other precious metals have followed suit. [More…]

• If the International Monetary Fund report is correct and the United States Administration is unable to halt the recession in that country, then there is a very real chance that our current account will deteriorate further and that overseas borrowings and the repayments of interest and capital will become a major problem and hamper the flexibility of Government economic management. [More…]

• Honourable senators will recall that immediately the Whitlam Government came to power in December 1972 there was a revaluation- an upward valuation- of the Australian dollar of about 7 per cent against the United States dollar on the world market. [More…]

• The ranking is: The United States, West Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Canada, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Norway and then Australia. [More…]

• We know that in recent times the world ‘s money markets have been affected very greatly by the dramatic increase in the price of gold, which was related to a decrease in the value of the United States dollar on the world’s markets. [More…]

• The fact is, as he would know- that is, I hope he knows- that Australia trades mostly in United States dollars; consequently, the Australian dollar and the United States dollar are tied together through the basket-weighted system. [More…]

• It is 34 per cent in United States dollars, ‘23 per cent in Deutschemarks, 1 5 per cent in yen, 16 per cent in Swiss francs, 8.4 per cent in guilders, and 2.8 per cent in other currencies. [More…]

• That was absolute rot because the money was to come through the Moscow Narodny Bank, be deposited in the United States of America and to come into this country by way of equipment. [More…]

• Has the Minister seen a report in one of this morning’s newspapers that authorities in the United States of America will now require that type of aircraft to be specially scrutinised? [More…]

• I do recall that in the earlier answers which I gave I indicated not only that action was being taken within Australia to ensure that everything was satisfactory but also that close communication was being maintained with the relevant United States authorities. [More…]

• I have little doubt that whatever is happening in the United States in this case is being considered by the Australian authorities, but I will get a proper and definitive reply from the honourable senator as soon as possible. [More…]

• I have now received advice, and this confirms the comment I made earlier, that the Department of Transport has been keeping close contact with the United States Federal Aviation Administration and with the manufacturer following the Air [More…]

• No inspection directive has yet been issued by the United States Federal Aviation Administration for the version of the DC9 with ventral stairs, which is the only type in use in Australia. [More…]

• The Department will review the inspection program when the United States Federal Aviation Administration issues an inspection directive. [More…]

• Those 18 countries are Ghana, Greece, Brazil, Philippines, Bangladesh, Tanzania, Vietnam, Pakistan, Jamaica, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Soviet Union, Botswana, Burma, Sweden, Iran, Austria and the United States of America. [More…]

• They included Ghana, Greece, Brazil, the Philipines Bangladesh, Tanzania, Vietnam, Pakistan, Jamaica, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Union of Soviet Social Republics, Botswana, Burma, Sweden, Iran, Austria and the United States of America. [More…]

• The aim is to bring research spending by France’s public and private sectors up to the levels of the United States, the German Federal Republic, the United Kingdom and Japan. [More…]

• The United States has dealt with much the same problem. [More…]

• I want to make the point quite clearly that the use of bodies such as the British NRDC and the United States NSF has led to a situation in which the government has been able to make substantial investment in the private sector and has been able to make substantial progress in reversing the trends that have taken place in the decline in research and development expenditure in those countries. [More…]

• The comparable figure for the United States was 29.29 per cent. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the ore body of the Western Mining Corporation’s copper and uranium field at Olympic Dam on Roxby Downs sheep station in South Australia extends for more than 30 kilometres inside the security zone defined by the United States and Australian defence authorities? [More…]

• My understanding is that the Roxby Downs uranium deposit does not come within any security zone in which the United States Government has an interest. [More…]

• For example, the United Kingdom and United States of America charge for cables is identical with that now proposed. [More…]

• The United States of America charges $20 for immigrant visas and also charges for documentary evidence of status. [More…]

• Will this decision in any way delay the air-lifting to Kampuchea of substantial quantities of aid, at least to the extent of the 700 tonnes of food per week which was flown into Cambodia by the United States at the height of the Vietnam war. [More…]

• Can the Minister explain why the Government does not adopt the policy of non-recognition of any of the various regimes in the country as has been adopted by the United States Government? [More…]

• One of the countries that did not sign the agreement was the United States. [More…]

• I noted quite recently from a newspaper source that a spokesman on behalf of the Federal Government said that in no time at all the United States would be doing this. [More…]

• The United States still has not signed it. [More…]

• The Agreement seeks to regulate the supply of sugar to the world free market with the objective of stabilising sugar prices within an agreed price range of 1 1 to 2 1 United States cents per lb by the implementation and regulation of quota and stockholding obligations. [More…]

• -On 19 September Senator Maunsell asked a question of the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) relating to congressional approval for the United States to sign the International Sugar Agreement. [More…]

• What is the present position in respect of the United States Congress ratifying the International Sugar Agreement? [More…]

• I am advised that unfortunately efforts made to obtain congressional approval of legislation that would enable the United States to participate fully in the International Sugar Agreement have been proceeding for in excess of a year. [More…]

• Although there appears to be no real opposition within the United States to the international legislation, it has become tied to other legislation for the implementation of a new domestic sugar policy. [More…]

• The Minister for Trade and Resources has made representations to the United States Government at the highest level, pointing out the adverse effects which this delay is having on the operation of the International Sugar Agreement. [More…]

• A further disturbing factor is that the European Economic Community has indicated that it has no intention of joining in the Agreement until the United States has ratified it. [More…]

• I understand that the chairman of the Queensland Sugar Board, Mr Lloyd Harris, will be visiting Washington next week - that, of course, was some time ago now- -to have discussions with the Australian Embassy and the United States officials and congressmen. [More…]

• No government can continue to live on hope- that the United States Congress will quickly pass the International Sugar Agreementlegislation in order to enable the full provisions of the agreement to become effective. [More…]

• Has his attention been drawn to Press reports today which state that the United States Government is refusing to allow shipments of aviation gasoline from Texas to Australia? [More…]

• If this is the case, may I assume that the Public Service and the appropriate Ministers have been unable to get a response from the United States Government officials? [More…]

• I commend to the Senate the story of representative Hatcher, a Kentucky congressman, who in some instances had to fight the United Mineworkers as well as the Mining Department in Washington over safety issues in the United States. [More…]

• We have always boasted that our trade unions were more militant than their counterparts in the United States. [More…]

• Does his Department have charge of the matters involving four Australian uranium companies which are currently subject to litigation in the United States and on whose behalf the Attorney announced on Monday that Australia had intervened? [More…]

• Has his Department consulted the Department of Foreign Affairs on the wider implications of this issue for relations between Australia and the United States? [More…]

• The Government’s response to the problems that have been presented by the Westinghouse anti-trust proceedings in the United States is primarily my responsibility but is carried out in very close consultation with the Department of Trade and Resources, the Minister for Trade and Resources and the Department of Foreign Affairs. [More…]

• As I announced at the weekend, what is known as an amicus curiae memorandum has been lodged in the United States Court of Appeals, which is hearing an appeal in respect of an order made by a judge in these proceedings against the four Australian companies concerned. [More…]

• The Minister will be aware of a report now published in the United States, written in mid- 1 975 by William Colby, the then Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, on the overall United States intelligence requirements up to 1981. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Science and the Environment aware of recent studies in the United States which indicate that anti-pollution devices installed in smoke stacks to clean air are discharging highly charged electrical particles into the atmosphere? [More…]

• That paragraph states that the Australian Government is concerned that the effect of a judgment for damages against the Australian defendants and the continuing enforcement of that judgment may constitute a serious irritant of indefinite duration to bilateral relations between Australia and the United States. [More…]

• Has it been communicated to the United States Government? [More…]

• The memorandum to which Senator Wriedt referred is one which has been submitted to the Court of Appeals in the United States to impress upon the court the seriousness with which the Australian Government considers its proceeding to assess against [More…]

• It is based upon the view that international comity would require that American anti-trust laws be administered in a way which does not reach out to conduct which has been alleged to be entered into outside the United States by companies that are not nationals of or resident in the United States. [More…]

• What we are seeking to point out in that paragraph of the memorandum to which Senator Wriedt referred is the fact that if courts in the United States do not have regard to these matters and pronounce treble damages or make judgments which award enormous amounts of money, they naturally will continue to cause great irritation and concern. [More…]

• These matters have been brought to the attention of the United States by the Australian Government on several occasions. [More…]

• Prior to that we had had a long series of discussions on criminal proceedings that were being contemplated under the United States anti-trust laws but which, fortunately, have not been proceeded with. [More…]

• We have brought to the attention of the United States, by way of a note to the State Department, the circumstances of this memorandum, the concern we have about it and what we hope to do. [More…]

• When I was there a year ago we tried to persuade the United States Government to intervene in these civil proceedings and to put to the United States courts the proposition that the courts should have regard to these international considerations when they are hearing civil suits under the anti-trust laws. [More…]

• For instance, a year or so ago we were spending a few million dollars on solar energy research and the United States of America was spending, I recall, some $200m. [More…]

• The United States of America is considering the possibility of establishing facilities for the storage of spent nuclear fuel on a number of islands in the Pacific. [More…]

• I have no first hand knowledge of any detailed proposal of the United States to dispose of spent nuclear fuel and nuclear wastes in any particular area of the Pacific. [More…]

• If, for example, there is a sudden downturn in exports from Iran, its major customers, such as Japan and the United States, will have to look elsewhere for their supplies. [More…]

• As any regular viewer of television will know, already it is not uncommon for Australia to receive the benefits of international satellite technology by way of satellite reports of important world events in Europe and the United States of America. [More…]

• Australia, Canada and the United States of America are the three major countries which would have the most complications in this regard. [More…]

• The statements we get remind me of the United States Marine Corps saying ‘Gung ho’ and in they go. [More…]

• As I said in speaking to the Migration Amendment Bill 1979, Australia, the United States and Canada have been aware of the fact that expansion called for an intake of migrants. [More…]

• United States Defence Facilities in Australia (Question No. [More…]

• Did the Prime Minister state at a meeting with the United States Ambassador, Mr Phillip Alston, Jnr, at Parliament House, Canberra, on 7 February 1979, as reported in the publication Inside Canberra, that if Australia did not receive Washington’s support on agriculture in the multi-lateral trade negotiations, the future of the United States defence facilities in Australia could be jeopardised. [More…]

• These reports have arisen out of comments by a spokesman for the United States State Department on 19 September 1979 to the effect that 400 Soviet troops had been stationed at Bagram air base, 35 miles north of Kabul, and appeared to be providing security for the base. [More…]

• I refer him to a recent statement by Mr Farouk Khaddoumi, head of the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s political department, that the Arab oil producing states would use the oil weapon to influence next year’s presidential elections in the United States. [More…]

• I am informed that the figures for the United States of America and Sweden are significantly higher- about 9 per cent or more of their gross domestic product. [More…]

• In line with what apparently is done within the United States 200-mile fishing limit, it proposed that the country utilising the area fund the cost of inspectors on board the vessels. [More…]

• -Yesterday Senator Georges asked me what attitude the Government had adopted towards the United States consideration of the possibility of establishing facilities for the storage of spent nuclear fuel on a number of islands in the South Pacific. [More…]

• The United States has sought consultations with Pacific basin countries on the possible interim storage of spent fuel on a Pacific island. [More…]

• The United States is undertaking preliminary studies of the possibility of locating a facility for about 30 years on Palmyra, Midway or Wake islands. [More…]

• The facility would handle spent fuel from commercial nuclear power reactors located not in the United States but in other countries of the Pacific area which have nuclear power programs. [More…]

• The studies derive from the requirements of the United States non-proliferation Act and are aimed at providing an alternative to reprocessing of spent fuel by giving those countries a means to store their spent fuel. [More…]

• The United States has made clear that a primary consideration in deciding whether to proceed will be the health, safety and environmental impact of such a project. [More…]

• In the early sixties, the United States and Soviet Union had some hundreds of nuclear warheads each. [More…]

• The recently concluded SALT II agreement took seven years to negotiate and has still not yet been ratified by the United States Senate. [More…]

• For example, the comprehensive test ban treaty is being negotiated by the United States, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Great Britain, while the treaty on the prohibition of chemical weapons remains the province of the two super-powers, the United States and the USSR. [More…]

• For a start, as progress on reaching agreement occurred, both the United States and the USSR developed a vested interest in concluding the treaty which caused them to act with restraint in other areas to prevent negotiations breaking down. [More…]

• The deployment of these missiles by NATO is based on distrust of the Soviet Union and a growing realisation that the United States would not necessarily risk a nuclear war in the event of Western Europe being attacked by Warsaw Pact forces. [More…]

• This deployment is supported by the United States which has gone so far as to launch a concerted campaign to win public support for the use of these missiles. [More…]

• The Soviet offer has been seen by the United States and some European countries as a trick, as the reduction in Russian forces stationed in East Germany would be almost meaningless. [More…]

• The price of the ratification by the United States Senate of the SALT treaty will be almost certainly a substantial increase in expenditure on arms by the [More…]

• United States. [More…]

• Only last month, a report produced in France by the Prime Minister of that country proposes that France modernises its nuclear arms to match the quality of the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]

• The now discredited doctrines of mutually assured destruction and counterforce, both of which were developed by the United States, were used at that time to justify the rapid build-ups in weaponry. [More…]

• Recent pressures to build up forces in the United States of America and in Europe have arisen because of the decrying by senior defence planners of the credibility of the United States nuclear umbrella. [More…]

• That 1969 decision was made some ten years after the President of the United States, General Eisenhower, had this to say: [More…]

• General Eisenhower was a life-long soldier, devoted to the study of war, and to the build-up of United States military might. [More…]

• President Carter was quoted in Aviation Week and Space Technology of 26 February this year, somewhat the same period, as saying that SALT II would allow the United States to pursue all the defence programs it believed it may eventually need. [More…]

• In the United States Senate, Senator Mark Hatfield said that SALT was another one of those escalating steps in the nuclear arms race which would stimulate production of new weapons. [More…]

• The United States and the Soviet Union would race to reach the maximum levels of nuclear weapons allowed under the Treaty, including missiles suitable for destroying the other nation’s offence. [More…]

• Its increased accuracy would give the United States the potential by the 1980s to destroy Soviet land-based missiles. [More…]

• It is clear that the nuclear arsenals of the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics will be growing, not shrinking. [More…]

• We could talk at length of the fact that a first strike would probably destroy 140 million people in the Soviet Union in a major nuclear war and that, similarly, something like 105 million to 1 30 million would be destroyed in the United States. [More…]

• The bulk of the annual arms expenditure is accounted for by six countries- the United States, the USSR, China, France, Britain, and West Germany. [More…]

• Of this expenditure, Russia and the United States of America together account for about 60 per cent. [More…]

• At the moment the United States spends about 5 per cent of its gross domestic product; the United Kingdom, 4.7 per cent; Sweden, a country with which we often compare ourselves, 3.4 per cent; and Australia, 2.6 per cent. [More…]

• It is probably proper for the United States to ratify them but I cannot think of any marked effect they will have on the likelihood of a global nuclear war. [More…]

• Both the United States and Russia, for the foreseeable future, will maintain enormous arsenals of immensely destructive nuclear weapons. [More…]

• It is designed to communicate with American ballistic missile submarines, which because of their invulnerability, are second strike weapons designed, to enable the United States to retaliate if a surprise attack is launched on it. [More…]

• Senator Hamer also brought up the matter of the United States of America bases. [More…]

• The issue is not simply about United States bases in Australia. [More…]

• President Carter, when trying to convince the United States Senate that he was not undermining United States security, made this point in 1979: [More…]

• I think it was Senator Sim who pointed out that the consumption of petroleum products by the United States military machine alone is equivalent to all of that consumed in Africa in any one year. [More…]

• That would be easy to demonstate by a comparison of the growth of the United States economy, as opposed to the Japanese economy since the Second World War. [More…]

• The Japanese national product of course has expanded very rapidly because funds have been available for research and development and for capital expenditure in the civilian sense, whereas in the United Statesalthough starting from a higher base- the gross national product has not grown as rapidly. [More…]

• In the 1930s in the United States there was a situation similar to the situation we have now. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of complaints about diversion of some Australian aid supplies to soldiers in Kampuchea and of negotiations currently under way in Phnom Penh for United States aid to be distributed by truck convoys which are planned to proceed across the Thai-Kampuchean border at Arunya Pratet into areas of northern Kampuchea which are reported to be among the worst affected by famine? [More…]

• Is he further aware that the percentage of GDP spent on research and development is declining substantially in both the United Kingdom and the United States? [More…]

• Does he understand the relationship between investment in research and development and general economic growth indicated by the relative performances of West Germany and Japan, on the one hand, and of the United States and the United Kingdom, on the other hand? [More…]

• The other parts of his question were a little complicated in that they asked whether I was aware of certain percentages of expenditure by certain countries and, in particular, whether I was aware that research expenditure is declining in the United States and the United Kingdom, compared with that of some other countries. [More…]

• Another part of the honourable senator’s question- I think I understood it correctlyasked whether I understood the factors relating to the decline in research expenditure in the United States and in the United Kingdom compared with the expenditure of some other countries which appear to have quite large budgets. [More…]

• We on this side of the House consider the only future for disarmament, for reduction in world tension and reduction in hostilities throughout the world, is through international agreement, even though international agreements of the type that this Committee is trying to achieve are made difficult by the fact that the world is dominated in this area by the two super-powers, the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]

• There is little point in pointing to the United Kingdom and the United States, as some Government speakers did, and saying that they impose such charges. [More…]

• Queensland is controlled to a large extent out of the United States. [More…]

• -Is the Attorney-General aware of an article published recently in the newspaper The National Student produced by the Australian Union of Students outlining the production process of the hydrogen bomb, which raised considerable controversy in the United States when it was first published? [More…]

• The idea of retrospectivity in recommendation (c), that there should be a right of access to prior documents, I think would prove of great enlightenment to the public in this country as it has in others, especially in the United States of Amercia. [More…]

• But not only that; I believe that in the United States it has proved to be a great factor in helping to provide a new awareness of the value of democracy. [More…]

• 1 ) Have drug control authorities in a number of countries, including Australia, refused to grant approval to the drug Depo-Provera (depo-medroxy progesterone acetate) for contraceptive purposes and, in particular, has the United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) so refused on the grounds of dangerous side-effects; if so, what side-effects. [More…]

• Did reports in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 September 1979, refer to a United States Senate Sub-Committee’s inquiry into the use of the drug valium, in the course of which eight witnesses are said to have testified that they had become addicted to the drug. [More…]

• Did the Chairman of the company which manufactures valium in the United States, Hoffmann la Roche Inc., admit at the inquiry that his company was now embarking on a programme to warn users of possible withdrawal symptoms. [More…]

• and (5) The press reports were the first indication which my Department had of the inquiry into the use of valium by the United States Senate Sub-Committee. [More…]

• It is worth just reminding the Senate that this contemporary development in the United States of America, in Australia and in all of the Western countries was identified in a decision of the United States Congress. [More…]

• The United States Committee in its report described the process of price mark-ups as the cause of inflation in a period of recession and unemployment in the following way: [More…]

• In Australia, there have been a number of reports on industries by various and different bodies which indicate that the correct conclusions of the Congress decision which was made in the United States were borne out in the [More…]

• It is one of the two super powers, along with the United States of America. [More…]

• It is much more important to know what is happening inside the United States of America and inside the Soviet Union than it is to know what is happening inside Bolivia or Uganda, or for that matter in Cambodia. [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…]

• 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…]

• Whatever its faults may be, the United States is a relatively open society. [More…]

• Kingdom Government in Northern Ireland; it has talked at length about the situation of the black population of the United States, and indeed it is entitled to, because that is what we are doing. [More…]

• If it is free to comment on the situation in Northern Ireland and the situation in the United States and the situation in Australia and the situation in Chile, as I believe it is entitled, then we are entitled to comment on the situation inside the Soviet Union. [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…]

• There are deprivations of human rights in our country- of course there are- in the United States and in Great Britain. [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…]

• The participants include major industrialised countries, such as the United States of America, the countries constituting the European Economic Community, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Japan; middle order countries of the kind to which Australia belongs, such as Sweden and Austria; major developing countries such as Brazil; and underdeveloped countries, such as Cameroon, Congo and Madagascar. [More…]

• In that role, the Australian Patent Office will join the European Patent Office, and the Patent Offices of the United States, USSR, Japan, Sweden and Austria in providing other member countries with the technical services established by the Treaty. [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…]

• Who would have thought that Article 1 of the United States Constitution, which makes the statement that it is necessary to have a well regulated militia should be used as the basis for striking down all gun control legislation in the United States or indeed that the provisions of Article 1 which relate to free speech should be used in the case of Buckley v. Valeo as the basis for saying that there can be no limit on election campaign expenditure. [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…]

• What progress has been made towards the establishment of a trade office in Taiwan on a similar basis to that used by the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan and many other major trading nations. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Industry and Commerce aware that statistics of experience in the United States indicate that six million jobs created in the non-government sector over the last 10 years have been in the small business sector while none of these has been created by the top 1,000 companies? [More…]

• -I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Trade and Resources whether the Australian Government agrees with the insanity prevailing in Iran, whose government is at present holding 100 United States citizens prisoner and also holding the world to ransom with respect to oil supplies. [More…]

• It relates to the siege of the United States Embassy in Tehran. [More…]

• However, we find that a member of the Australian Broadcasting Commission not only ignored Mr Carter’s appeal but also ran the risk of jeopardising the security of Australian citizens in Iran on Monday by ringing the United States Embassy there and speaking to one of the Iranian students, causing emotional irritation, the consequence of which was completely unpredictable. [More…]

• I would not have thought that it would have caused excitement in Tehran, the United States of America or, indeed, here in Australia. [More…]

• Can he provide the Senate with any information in relation to a meeting between United States and Australian authorities on the claim for damages by Dillingham-Murphyores and, in particular, as to the level at which negotiations are taking place? [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…]

• 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 United States of America had a war of independence which was based on the slogan ‘No taxation without representation’. [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…]

• 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…]

• 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…]

• For example, I cite the gun laws in the United States. [More…]

• He is now being taken out of that country despite the United States asylum laws. [More…]

• Chapter 7 powers may only be exercised by the Security Council in which the great powers- the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, China and France- have a veto. [More…]

• On the other hand, the United States of America entrenched a Bill of Rights into its Constitution. [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…]

• If Senator Durack, the Attorney-General of Australia- I know that he reads extensively- had read much about the career of Bobby Kennedy when he was the Attorney-General of the United States of America and a student named Meredith who was seeking to enter the University of Alabama, he would have seen the difficulty. [More…]

• In Australia the Executive can, quite without any parliamentary approval, ratify international treaties, unlike the situation in the United States where any treaty ratification has to be with the advice and consent of the Senate. [More…]

• United Nations, this Parliament ought to be involved and a practice ought to grow whereby this Parliament, whilst recognising that entering into treaties in our tradition as opposed to that of the United States is a matter for the Executive, nevertheless ought to give its approval to such ratification. [More…]

• The transition of jojoba from a wild plant to a cultivated crop has been the subject of considerable research in both the United States of America and Israel since the late fifties and more recently in Australia. [More…]

• Has the Attorney-General seen reports that a federal judge in the United States of America has, for the first time, rejected the Australian Government’s claim that United States courts should respect the protection given by the Australian Government to Australian companies from the far-reaching claims and extreme penalties of the United States anti-trust laws? [More…]

• As other countries, such as Canada and the United Kingdom, could also be involved in the matter of the United States anti-trust laws, does the Australian Government intend to work in concert with these countries in defending national interests? [More…]

• In respect of those proceedings, orders have been made under the Foreign Proceedings (Prohibition of Certain Evidence) Act 1976 prohibiting the production of documents located in Australia for the purpose of the proceedings in the United States court. [More…]

• Judge Marshall was thus placed in a situation in which the relevant laws of the United States were in conflict with the law of Australia and of certain other countries. [More…]

• The judge decided to apply the United States law, although in doing so he made it clear that the matter may call for further consideration if his order is not complied with and the question of sanctions arises for consideration. [More…]

• Nonetheless, increasing attention is being given to it, especially in Australia, Japan and the United States. [More…]

• I draw to the attention of the Senate that when an Estimates committee was dealing with the Department of Science and the Environment- and with the role of Senator Webster’s officers who were more or less acting in concert with the State- it was told that the United States Government had not made a decision in regard to the importation of kangaroo products from Australia. [More…]

• However, assuming that the States meet only biannually and that targets have been established for each of them, in view of the obvious profitable export market in the United States, what assurance will we have that the moment the target is reached there will be a cessation of slaughtering? [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Science and the Environment and ask whether the Minister has read an article in the Press of 5 November reporting a claim by an eminent United States scientist Dr Roy that he has discovered a process to reverse phenomena that occur during nuclear fission chain reaction thus making radioactive waste harmless. [More…]

• -Has the AttorneyGeneral’s attention been drawn to an article in the Australian on 13 November in which it is claimed that the Federal Government is under pressure from mining industry leaders to introduce tougher legislation to protect Australian companies from United States anti-trust laws? [More…]

• It is a fact that in Washington State there are wastes which are the result of the United States atomic bomb program and which have been in short term storage for 30 years or more. [More…]

• Of course, more recently the United States Government suspended reprocessing at its plants due to safety and other problems. [More…]

• In its April 1978 report on nuclear power costs, the United States Congressional Committee on Government Operations concluded: [More…]

• The reasons it was mooted by Justice Fox are set out at length in the report, in which there is also reference to the precedents for such institutes of judicial administration in various overseas jurisdictions, notably the United States of America and Britain. [More…]

• While bodies of this kind exist in the United States and the United Kingdom, the Government is not satisfied that there is any demonstrated present need for the establishment of a new body to deal with judicial administration in Australia. [More…]

• If members of the Senate would have a look at the report and what we have said in this recommendation, they will see that there is nothing unique in Australia about having such an institute, that a number of them are operating very effectively in the United States and in England doing excellent work. [More…]

• How many individual subscriber telephony circuits, operating through satellites, are there (a) world-wide, (b) in Canada and (c) in the United States of America. [More…]

• Plants for the enrichment of uranium in the form of its compound uranium hexafluoride (UF6) for use in nuclear reactors are in operation in the USA, USSR, UK, France and the Netherlands; the three United States plants have been in use for almost 30 years. [More…]

• Would it not be more sensible, in both cases, to withdraw recognition from both sides- as the United States, for instance, has done in Kampucheaand to work for a genuinely independent national government in each country? [More…]

• Is he aware of the publication in the United States this month of a book called The Falcon and the Snowman by Robert Lindsey, who is the Los Angeles Bureau Chief of the New York Times, in which Mr Lindsey claims that the American Central Intelligence Agency heavily financed Australia’s Liberal and National Country Parties in 1975? [More…]

• In view of spiralling interest rates overseas, can the Minister advise the Senate of the current situation in Australia in relation to interest rates in comparison with the United States and the United Kingdom? [More…]

• Following the increase in the United States Federal Reserve Board’s discount rate from 1 1 per cent to 12 per cent on 6 October and associated measures to reduce the growth in the money supply, commercial prime lending rates in the United States have risen to around 15Vi per cent. [More…]

• Where customary United States banking arrangements for compensating balances apply, prime borrowers are paying effectively higher rates than this. [More…]

• The access fee is related to the value of fish taken by Japanese tuna longliners in the Australian fishing zone and compares favourably with fees charged by other countries in the region and the fees charged by the United States and Canada. [More…]

• We have a direct parallel in regard to this biennial review with what happened in the United States. [More…]

• About six or seven years ago the United States introduced a similar scheme, and a statistical analysis of that scheme shows that since the biennial, review came into existence the accident rate has actually gone up. [More…]

• Air navigation charges for international operations were provided for at the Convention on International Civil Aviation held at Chicago, United States of America, in December 1944. [More…]

• Yet for some unknown reason we send them to the United States of America to become endorsed to examine airmen flying commercial aircraft such as the DC9 and Boeing 727. [More…]

• In the United States of America, air fares are subjected to an 8 per cent tax, but that is not obvious in the air fares per se. [More…]

• In the United States? [More…]

• My attention has been drawn to the International Civil Aviation Organisation ‘s bulletin General Aviation of August 1979 and to an article therein by Mr Malcolm S. Harned, Senior Vice-president of Technology, Cessna Aircraft Company of the United States. [More…]

• Certainly, to my knowledge, this has been the practice of members of the Securities and Exchange Commission in the United States of America, where it has been felt that they should be completely above suspicion of possible personal gain arising out of that position and the information to which that position gives them access. [More…]

• In 1 975 the SenateHouse Conference Committee of the United States Congress, when dealing with the Securities Act amendments, said: [More…]

• The securities markets of the United States are an important national asset. [More…]

• Unless we achieve that uniformity, we are not likely to be successful in achieving the sorts of objectives which the United States Congress referred to in 1975 when considering amendments to its securities legislation, which had arisen as a result of the creation in 1933 and 1934 of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. [More…]

• If the Commission has the goodwill of the ministerial council made up of the six Attorneys-General from the States and the Commonwealth Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs and provided it also is composed of people who are keen and who have the capacity and the vision to make it work, it can play the part that was envisaged by the Senate Committee in its report and which was envisaged by people in other countries such as the United States which introduced the system which has worked extremely well in that country. [More…]

• The United States Securities and Exchange Commission, which has not been able to develop its own special prosecutors, complains bitterly that there is a lack of expertise and experience. [More…]

• -On 18 October 1979, Senator Bonner asked the Minister representing the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs the following question without notice: 1 refer … to a recent report of the Department of Transportation in the United States which showed that 65 per cent of American cars and 25 per cent of imported cars tested would not protect the front seat passenger from fatal injuries at a speed of 60 kilometres an hour and the subsequent recommendation of the head of this department and the head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that a rating system to assess at a glance a particular vehicle’s measure of safety protection in the event of a crash. [More…]

• If, for example, there is a sudden downturn in exports from bran, its major customers, such as Japan and the United States, will have to look elsewhere for their supplies. [More…]

• This year the United States has reduced its dependence on Iranian oil from about 12 per cent of its oil imports to about 4.5 per cent. [More…]

• The cessation of trade in oil between Iran and the United States should be seen in the light of this trend. [More…]

• Moreover, any oil that is not sold to the United States is likely to be sold to other buyers. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of complaints about diversion of some Australian aid supplies to soldiers in Kampuchea and of negotiations currently under way in Phnom Penh for United States aid to be distributed by truck convoys which are planned to proceed across the Thai-Kampuchean border at Arunya Pratet into areas of northern Kampuchea which are reported to be among the worst affected by famine? [More…]

• As regards the proposal by the United States for a convoy of trucks carrying relief supplies from Thailand into Kampuchea, I now understand that despite earlier optimism, the idea has been rejected by the authorities in Phnom Penh. [More…]

• In addressing a question to the Attorney-General I invite him to take his mind off telephone taps and informers for a moment and to focus on perhaps the most sensitive single issue in Australia- United States relations at the moment. [More…]

• Is the Attorney-General aware that the former Australian Ambassador to the United States, Mr Alan Renouf, has stated in a letter to appear in the shortly forthcoming issue of the Australian Law Journal that in his view the Australian Government made an ‘error of magnitude ‘ in choosing to go to the International Court of Justice in this matter rather than to arbitration and that the Australian Government is quite likely to be seriously politically embarrassed, over time, as a result of this decision. [More…]

• I further ask what is the general state of negotiations on the Dillingham claim, there having been in recent days, I understand, a visit by United States Government representatives to Australia to discuss the progress of this litigation. [More…]

• The discussions to which Senator Evans referred took place recently in Canberra between representatives of the United States Government and representatives of the Commonwealth Government led by the Solicitor-General, Mr Byers. [More…]

• So the object of the discussions held in Canberra was not to undertake further negotiations to reach a settlement about any other figure, but was simply to endeavour to convince the United States officials that the Australian Government was taking a firm stand in relation to the matter and was confident of the correctness of the stand it was taking. [More…]

• The Middle East situation, which is always fragile, makes special demands on the United States’ diplomatic, military aid and financial resources. [More…]

• Because of this, West Germany, France, the United States of America, and New Zealand now are using taxation to encourage the use of solar devices, insulation and anything else that could be a reasonable energy conserving method. [More…]

• The United States offers the buyers of solar, geothermal or wind generated equipment a tax credit of 30 per cent on the first $2,000 spent and $2,000 on the next $8,000 spent. [More…]

• This seems to me- although I admit we did not see the project on the ground- to be an example of the destructive sort of aid which has been a feature of much of the aid from the World Bank and countries such as the United States: The bigger is better approach, and be damned to pilot studies and the social consequences. [More…]

• After all, the United States willingly devoted 1.67 per cent of its gross national product to the Marshall Plan for the reconstruction of Western Europe because it was clear that the job could be done and was being done. [More…]

• In Harlem in the United States there was a ghetto where people were deprived and depressed. [More…]

• I believe also that the Government works closely in concert with influences similar to the Dirty Tricks Department’ of the Nixon Administration in the United States of America. [More…]

• We can think ourselves fortunate when we look at the financial troubles which the United States of America and Great Britain are in today. [More…]

• The exercises involve personnel of the defence forces of the United Kingdom, New Zealand and the United States. [More…]

• There are other international exercises with the defence forces of the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia and others in which the RAAF B707s could be used for personnel movement. [More…]

• Prompt assistance is usually provided by the United States of America and Canada. [More…]

• We applied only a few days before we actually went to Phnom Penh and with the difficulties of communication over there it is clear that the Kampuchean authorities were very swift indeed in giving us approval to join the United States congressional delegation to enter their country. [More…]

• It ought to be reported to the Parliament that when we went into the country in a United States Air Force plane with what had originally been a United States congressional delegation, the Kampuchean authorities accorded us as Australian members of Parliament totally equal status with the United States congresswomen and made a point of ensuring that whenever they referred to the delegation they mentioned both the Americans and Australians. [More…]

• I will briefly report the issues that he chose to raise with us, that is, a delegation of representatives from the United States of America and Australia. [More…]

• Moshe Dayan, after all, has found it convenient and desirable to engage in negotiations with the Organisation and the United States Government has recently found it desirable to seek its good offices in the context of the appalling affair in Tehran. [More…]

• My first question to him is whether, accepting for the moment the good faith of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, it had available to it the report to the United States President resulting from the Harrisburg incident. [More…]

• It was definitely reported to the United States President, after very exhaustive surveys of the incident at Three-Mile Island, that there had been severe failures in construction methods and in management techniques in relation to the operation of that nuclear facility. [More…]

• He has failed to bring before the Senate in this so-called balanced view the very important findings of the United States commission of inquiry into the Harrisburg incident which, in its report to the President, found that there were grave failures both in the engineering and management techniques applying to the operation of nuclear reactors. [More…]

• In regard to the Harrisburg disaster certainly there were reports in the report to the United States President of bad management. [More…]

• Japan gets about 20 per cent of its power from nuclear sources; Belgium gets about 18 per cent; Britain about 13 per cent; and the United States of America about 13 per cent. [More…]

• I went quickly through those 1 78 references which Senator Coleman incorporated in Hansard and I found that in 1 96 1 at Idaho Falls in the United States of America three men were killed instantly in a nuclear reactor. [More…]

• This was reported as the first major reactor accident in the United States of America. [More…]

• We find that in 1 964 at Wood River in the United States of America there was one death from radioactivity in a uranium enrichment plant. [More…]

• A further reference shows that in 1972 at Surry 1 in the United States of America there were two deaths due to the failure of a valve and that an investigation detected more than SOO faulty welding spots. [More…]

• There is reference to an incident in the United States of America on 12 January 1976-1 will not read it because no doubt Senator Young has read it- and the source is the Legislative Research Service of the Parliamentary Library. [More…]

• I understand that the United States of America will not make a decision until January in regard to kangaroo products that are listed as prohibited imports. [More…]

• If this is so, does it mean that if the United States lifted the present bans we could have a situation in which the targets for all the States would be boosted in anticipation of a bigger American market or would we wait until the end of the financial year to increase exports? [More…]

• I think that the simple point which is made in that information is that training in Australia will be significantly more expensive than in the United States. [More…]

• At a time when there is considerable concern about the overall costs, it is understandable that the United States option is adopted. [More…]

• Disasters have not occurred in Sydney or Melbourne but have in some major United States cities. [More…]

• This planning has been undertaken in concert with the United States Air Force, whose earlier models FI 1 1A and FI 1 IE aircraft were also to be fitted with advanced technology weapons. [More…]

• I refer the Leader of the Government to attacks in the last 24 hours on the United States Embassy in Islamabad and the burning of the American centre in Rawalpindi. [More…]

• The studies that have taken place over the last few years do not necessarily support the latest publicity that has come from the United States of America. [More…]

• There is a great deal of public interest here at the present time in relation to this matter, and I am pleased to say that it is developing in the United States. [More…]

• Is it true that the use of cyclamates in foods has now been banned in the United States? [More…]

• In 1969 the Food and Drug Administration of the United States of America prohibited the use of cyclamates in foods. [More…]

• But we note that the Government has not pursued very actively the United States Government in an attempt to have it ratify the International Sugar Agreement. [More…]

• Of course, had the United States ratified the Agreement the stock financing fund would have come into operation and in the current circumstances the overseas sugar users would be bearing some of the costs of storing sugar stocks. [More…]

• We express some concern that the Government has not been as active as it might have been in attempting to influence- I suppose that is the proper word to use- the United States to ratify the Agreement. [More…]

• Not so many years ago the fact that sugar was not available in restaurants and cafes in the United States of America attracted a great deal of publicity in this country. [More…]

• They were below the target prices of the International Sugar Agreement and they were below the average returns to the producers in the United States and the EEC. [More…]

• The United States price is 49c a kilogram and the New Zealand price 57c a kilogram. [More…]

• The further question raised by Senator Wriedt related to the situation in the United States of America in relation to its ratification of the International Sugar Agreement. [More…]

• I understand the Commonwealth has maintained close contact with the United States Administration to press Australia’s viewpoint that the United States should ratify the International Sugar Agreement as soon as possible. [More…]

• We know that recently the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee supported the ratification of the International Sugar Agreement. [More…]

• That Treaty has about 25 signatories, including the United States and major countries in the European Common Market. [More…]

• I know- the Attorney-General (Senator Durack) would know better than I dothat the fact that the United States, with us, is supposed to be part of the free world does not mean that the Dillingham corporation is prepared to accept the initial compensation that the Government offered it. [More…]

• Without straying too far from the Bill, it is because of that sort of attitude that I remain unconvinced about membership of this body together with the European Economic Community nations and the United States of America. [More…]

• and (4) Four grants have been awarded for research overseas: Three for work overseas by Australian residents and one for work by a citizen of the United States of America. [More…]

• What consideration has the Minister given to allowing the handicapped to earn additional income without forfeiting their pension entitlements, noting that in the United States, pensioners may earn up to $3,000 per annum without effect on their pension. [More…]

• United States- Corporation for Public Broadcasting; COMSAT General Corporation; Satellite Business System; American Telephones and Telegrams (AT & T); Ford Aerospace. [More…]

• United States- Hughes Aircraft Corporation. [More…]

• 1 ) Why did Australia not agree to the United States’ proposal to refer to arbitration the Dillingham Corporation’s claim to compensation from the Australian Government (see answer to Senate Question No. [More…]

• There is also the question of whether the United States Government has standing to espouse the claim. [More…]

• The view of the United States Government diners. [More…]

• Most recently, as you are aware, the United States Government accepted an Australian offer to discuss the matter and United States and Australian Government officials met in Canberra on 8 and 9 November. [More…]

• The Australian and United States Governments enjoy close and friendly ties and it is important that differences of view about the prevailing law be resolved expeditiously by peaceful and amicable procedures. [More…]

• The Australian Government is confident of its position and does not think it desirable to rely, as it could, on objections based on the United States reservation to the Court’s jurisdiction, thereby precluding resolution of the issues of liability and standing. [More…]

• Australia, Austria, Benin, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burundi, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Federal Republic of Germany, India, Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Peru,” Poland, Portugal, Senegal, Sweden, Syria, Uganda, USSR, United States, Uruguay, Yugoslavia. [More…]

• Is there a Bill in the United States which would require cigarettes to self-extinguish within five minutes of the first puff. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Fire Board has advised that several fire associations are campaigning in the United States to encourage manufacturers to produce and market selfextinguishing cigarettes. [More…]

• The performance data was obtained by the manufacturer under controlled tests verified by the authorities in the United States. [More…]

• What areas of Australia are still infected, and, if brucellosis has not been eradicated by 1 984, what effect, if any, will it make on the export of beef to the United States market, in respect of: (a) individual States of Australia, and (b) Australia as a whole. [More…]

• In the United States, at 31 January 1979, only four herds in every thousand remained brucellosis infected. [More…]

• Is the United States considering the possibility of establishing facilities for storage of spent nuclear fuel on a number of islands in the Pacific. [More…]

• 1 ) The United States is undertaking a preliminary study of the possibility of locating a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel for a period of about 30 years on one of the United States territories of Palmyra, Midway or Wake Islands. [More…]

• We are in continuing consultations with the United States on all aspects of this matter, including the study of the possibility of locating a spent fuel storage facility on a Pacific island. [More…]

• The Minister will be aware of a report now published in the United States, written in mid- 1975 by William Colby, the then Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, on the overall United States intelligence requirements up to 1981. [More…]

• The Republic of Korea has also entered into nuclear cooperation agreements with the United States and Canada. [More…]

• The United States Catholic Relief Service has embarked on a relief program in Timor. [More…]

• Whether the Australian Government agrees with the insanity prevailing in Iran, whose government is at present holding 100 United States citizens prisoner and also holding the world to ransom with respect to oil supplies. [More…]

• Can the Minister explain why the Government does not adopt the policy of nonrecognition of any of the various regimes in the country as has been adopted by the United States Government? [More…]

• Does the Minister for Air recall stating during the last sessional period that there were about 6 pilots in the Royal Australian Air Force who at that stage had been trained to fly Phantom aircraft, which were to be accepted from the United States of America as the delivery date of the Fill aircraft was unknown? [More…]

• Now that Australia has taken delivery of some Phantoms from the United States, can the Minister say how many pilots in the RAAF have since been trained to fly Phantoms? [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister for Air been drawn to the Press statements appearing in the Sydney Morning Herald’ and the Canberra Times* last week concerning the loss of a Royal Australian Air Force Orion aircraft in the United States of America during 1968? [More…]

• That an Omega navigation station in Australia would be an integral part of the United States nuclear weapons delivery systems. [More…]

• I refer him to the blatantly partisan decision by President Ford to impose statutory quotas on beef exports to the United States by all countries. [More…]

• Was there any consultation or negotiations between the United States authorities and Australian authorities at any relevant level before this seemingly unilateral action was taken by President Ford? [More…]

• In view of the imbalance of trade between Australia and the United States, which favours the United States approximately two to one, is the Government contemplating retaliatory action on Australian imports from the United States in order to establish beyond any doubt Australia’s resolve to protect established Australian beef export markets? [More…]

• Some comment has been made about the experience in the United States of America. [More…]

• Let us bear in mind that the inflation rate in the United States is now well below that of most other Western democracies. [More…]

• Visit by United States Vice-President [More…]