votes - hofreps - 1970

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

What was the number of informal votes in (a) each State and (b) Australia in each of the past five elections for (i) the House of Representatives and (ii) the Senate? [More…]
What was the percentage of informal votes in each case? [More…]
Has a check been made in any electoral division to ascertain what percentage of postal votes which Divisional Returning Officers were satisfied had been recorded prior to the close of the poll on 25th October 1969 were posted in envelopes stamped after the close of the poll. [More…]
If so, what divisions and how many votes were involved. [More…]
What percentages of votes at the House of Representatives election on 25 October 1969 were (a) ordinary, (b) postal and (c) absent votes. [More…]
What percentages of votes for candidates whose names were placed first on the ballot papers at that election were (a) ordinary, (b) postal and (c) absent votes. [More…]
If it was not for the Government’s fear of losing votes from that kind of result, this would be the appropriate situation, even if export income is going up. [More…]
But if the Government was not afraid of losing votes it would bc actual, it is hypothetical today because of that. [More…]
The honourable member for Reid claimed that during an election campaign in Western Australia I advised Country Party voters to give their second preference votes to the Labor Party candidate. [More…]
During the election campaign in 1966 the Deputy Prime Minister, speaking in the electorate of Canning, asked Labor Party voters to give their second preference votes to the Country Party candidate because, he said, there was no real difference between the policies of the 2 Parties. [More…]
Any money that is available could be distributed according to the number of honourable members in the House, or the number of votes received at the last election, or the amount of money that has been spent. [More…]
The Minister will remember that since this matter was first raised by the honourable member for Farrer and me there has again been a debate on it in another place, where it emerged that the majority of members there were still of the opinion which they expressed by their votes a year earlier that the ban should not be lifted. [More…]
I will not go over the reasons again, but if the Committee votes against the amendment of the Minister I shall move accordingly that the amendment be accepted by the Committee. [More…]
I would not want the votes of honourable members to be complicated because of this issue. [More…]
What number of votes was cast for each subdivision of each Brisbane metropolitan Federal electoral division at the Brisbane City Hall on the occasion of the 1969 general election. [More…]
What percentage of the primary votes was received by each candidate whose name appeared in the first position on the ballot paper in each electoral division in Australia at the 1969 Federal elections. [More…]
What was the average percentage of the votes for these candidates’ in (a) each Slate and (b) Australia. [More…]
In the light of the gratifying and intelligent response of 18, 19 and 20 year old men and women to the opportunity to exercise their right to vote - for the first time in Australia - in Saturday’s elections in Western Australia., can he say when the Government expects to make a decision on giving these people votes in Federal elections? [More…]
Did the West Australian member Association, at a special general meeting on August 10, by 43 votes to 7, veto the draft Honey Equalisation Scheme, thus farcing ils abandonment and in effect disenfranchising the remaining 5,427 Australian beekeepers. [More…]
How many votes have; been assigned to the Commission’s participating governments and how have its expenses been apportioned among them. [More…]
He said that certain members did not have an absolute majority and he included the member for the Mallee electorate who, he said, received 46 per cent of the votes. [More…]
and (2) As official statistics are not maintained by the Electoral Office showing the number of votes recorded for the several political parties, the answer to the question has been compiled in relation to the candidates as grouped on the ballot-papers. [More…]
What number and percentage of the formal votes were recorded for the several political parties in each State and Division, of the Senate election on 21st November 1970. [More…]
What number and percentage of the total votes were informal. [More…]
Votes at Senate ‘Election (Question N. 2478) [More…]
that at such a joint meeting there be no debate on the subject matter of the alternative sites and that the question be decided by a majority of votes; [More…]
If he votes for the amendment and it is carried the Bill will not be read a second time and the scheme will be defeated. [More…]
I think the Labor Party will lose votes as a result of this and I think the fact that these are Whitlam’s views should be made known.’ [More…]
I ask the Minister for the Interior: Has he seen a report that the Secretary of the New South Wales branch of the Australian Labor Party, Mr Peter Westerway, told a Labor Youth Rally in Sydney that at the next elections flying squads would be formed by the Australian Labor Party, to visit polling booths in key electorates to see that there was no substitution of ballot boxes and ballot papers and no miscounting of votes by the Commonwealth Electoral Office? [More…]
Inquiries that I had made of both Whips and of the honourable member for Gellibrand (Mr Mclvor) showed that he was not at any time paired with the honourable member for Angas (Mr Giles) last Tuesday evening in votes on a motion relating to the abolition of the excise on wine. [More…]
Votes are assigned to the South Pacific Commission’s participating governments in the following manner: [More…]
The costs of this assistance are met by the Commonwealth through votes of the Department of the Interior. [More…]
I leave that thought with the Committee before it votes on our amendments. [More…]
The previous Government dictated these priorities on the basis that it could buy votes for itself in electorates represented by its members. [More…]
The figures show that the honourable member for McMillan received 8,282 primary votes in the last Federal election which amounted to 16.63 per cent of the vote in the Division of McMillan. [More…]
However, it is interesting that the honourable member received 8,000 votes and won whereas a person like myself had to get 36,000 votes to win. [More…]
I assume that if I were a member of the League of Rights I would not have received 36.000 votes; I probably would have received less than 8,000 of the votes cast in my electorate. [More…]
Indeed, of the 4 Federal Country Party members in Queensland, three polled more than 50 per cent of the primary votes- and two polled more than 50 per cent of the electors enrolled. [More…]
In the 6 elections which I have contested on behalf of the Country Party I have obtained more than 50 per cent of the primary votes on 2 occasions. [More…]
From memory, not one member of the Country Party has ever won more than 50 per cent of the primary votes before being elected to this Parliament. [More…]
In 1966 I received a record majority for my electorate of some 10,000 votes. [More…]
not one member of the Country Party has ever won more than SO per cent of the primary votes before being elected to this Parliament. [More…]
We were told earlier that this was to be a free conscience debate and vote, and on the 2 votes which have taken place honourable members on this side of the chamber have been seen to support various sides. [More…]
I have not seen free votes from the Country Party corner on issues earlier today either. [More…]
The point I seek to make is that if we are to have free votes in this place they should be legitimate free votes because eventually the Parliament- [More…]
I have here a copy of the Votes and Proceedings for the House of Representatives for 4 May 1971. [More…]
Does the Prime Minister agree that in view of the current rate of inflation there is urgent need for a preChristmas increase in pensions to enable pensioners to cope with rising prices, including rents, rates and taxes, and to prevent their pensions from falling behind the announced goal of 25 per cent of average weekly earnings, or does he see himself as a law broker, willing to act only in return for support, on this occasion in the form of votes at the forthcoming referendum? [More…]
What was the percentage of (a) votes gained and (b) seats won by (i) the Liberal Party, (ii) the Country Party and (iii) the Australian Labor Party at the General Elections for the House of Representatives in (A) 1963, (B) 1966, (C) 1969 and (D) 1972. [More…]
I suggest that this last ditch stand of trying to buy votes will not succeed. [More…]
The Government won power in 1972 on 49.7 per cent of the votes. [More…]
Will he consult with his colleague, the Minister for Services and Property, to see whether there can be included in the coming legislation some provision against such obtaining of votes by false pretences? [More…]
Did the International Court of Justice pass a resolution by 11 votes to 3 expressing its strong disapproval of the making, circulating or publishing of statements by him purporting to anticipate or forecast the manner in which the Judges of the Court would cast their votes, and reiterating its view that such statements are incompatible with the fundamental principle governing good administration of justice. [More…]
Section 7 enables copies printed by the Government Printer of the Votes and Proceedings or Journals or Minutes of either House of the Parliament, or of papers presented to either House, to be admitted as evidence in the courts. [More…]
more than one-half of the members who record formal votes of those ballot papers vote in favour of the amalgamation. [More…]
The amendments to which the honourable member has referred in the Hansard record will be brought into line with what is contained in the ‘Votes and Proceedings’ of the House. [More…]
Referring to the House of Representatives Elections on 18 May 1974; (a) how many first preference votes were recorded for each candidate, and (b) what was the percentage of first preference votes to formal votes recorded for each candidate in each Subdivision of each Electoral Division in Australia. [More…]
The amendments that were moved here were fully debated and votes were taken. [More…]
Such is the manipulation of the electoral laws in Queensland that the present Premier and his Party could win an absolute majority in the Queensland Parliament with 33 per cent of the total votes in that state. [More…]
That a committee be set up to inquire into and report upon allegations that some Members of this House are under obligation to give their votes in this House at the direction of an outside body or bodies. [More…]
I was stressing that one of the reasons the Labor Government wants to introduce this optional preferential voting system is simply that the Labor Party now has realised that it no longer will be the beneficiary of preference votes. [More…]
-This is a matter relating to the postal votes which we debated to some extent earlier. [More…]
I think it is pointed out in the memorandum that it would create delay if the new proposal were incorporated into the Act, that is, that postal votes cannot be counted if they are received after the close of polling on polling day. [More…]
We oppose this clause believing that all divisions should be capable of receiving postal votes for other divisions; that it is part of the facilities, the rights, and the convenience that should be allowed to citizens; that to pass this clause will again increase the postal votes which will be invalid because they cannot be included in the count; and that it will deny the opportunity to electors to have their votes recorded. [More…]
He can say what he likes outside this Parliament as long as he votes with the members of the Party inside the Parliament. [More…]
Australia had not supported an earlier proposal to reduce the catch quota to 750 as it clearly did not have wide acceptance, in fact only four affirmative votes out of fifteen. [More…]
Because the Senate amendments have the effect of removing from the Bill the electoral reforms agreed to by this House, in particular the major reforms contained in the clauses dealing with optional preferential voting for Senate and House of Representatives elections, the printing of party affiliations against the names of candidates on ballot papers for the purpose of clarifying the choice open to electors when they cast their votes, the drawing for positions on ballot papers at House of Representatives elections, and those reforming postal voting procedures. [More…]
Will the Prime Minister use his good influence to encourage the establishment of a representative government in Portugal, including the Socialist Party which received the largest number of votes in the only elections held there? [More…]
539, asked by Senator Missen in the Senate, why is it that the details of the aggregate votes recorded for all candidates of political parties in respect of each State and Australia as a whole in relation to the 1974 House of Representatives Elections are not yet ready. [More…]
I refer the honourable member to the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives issued daily from which this information is readily available. [More…]
I draw attention to clause 31 (5) which gives the member presiding a deliberative vote and, in the event of votes being equal, a casting vote. [More…]
-The result of the ballot is: Mr Snedden, 90 votes; Mr Scholes, 37 votes. [More…]
He is sitting on only 56 votes and I can assure him that that will not be enough to keep anyone as lightweight as he is in this place. [More…]
Six persons are employed full-time in a civil staff recruiting capacity by the Department and annual charge against Departmental salary votes is of the order of $60,000. [More…]
It was rejected by 98 to 23 votes. [More…]
1 ) Direct expenditure from the votes of the Department responsible for Norfolk Island matters was as indicated in the table attached. [More…]
How many votes were recorded at each of those elections. [More…]
and (2) The information sought by the honourable member in part ( 1) of the question is publicly available in the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives and in the Journals of the Senate. [More…]
The Speaker may exercise discretion when the incorporation is by leave, but when, as in this case, the House by motion, after suspension of Standing Orders, votes for the incorporation of a document, the discretion which the Speaker may exercise on that consideration is overridden. [More…]
That in the opinion of this House trade union votes in elections should only have validity when a reasonable pro- . [More…]
The information requested is contained in the Australian Electoral Office interim publications ‘General Election for the House of Representatives 1977, Result of Count of First Preference Votes and Distribution of Preferences’, and ‘The Senate Election 1977, Result of Count of First Preference Votes and Distribution of Surplus Votes and Preferences’. [More…]
What was the number of informal votes in each electoral division at the elections for the House of Representatives and Senate on 10 December 1977. [More…]
The information requested is contained in the Australian Electoral Office interim publications ‘General Election for the House of Representatives 1977, Result of Count of First Preference Votes and Distribution of Preferences’, and ‘The Senate Election 1977, Result of Count of First Preference Votes and Distribution of Surplus Votes and Preferences’. [More…]
What were the total number of first preference votes and the percentage of votes for each political party in each State and Territory in each House at the elections on 10 December 1 977 (Senate Hansard, 30 March 1976, page 897). [More…]
I announced that I had changed the recording of votes in the last division. [More…]
The Votes and Proceedings indicate that in fact the motion to suspend the Standing Order was on a sessional basis, for the remainder of the session, so I was in error in upholding the point of order. [More…]
As far as I know he has only one fault, that is, that he votes for the Liberal Party. [More…]
The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: (1), (2) and (3) The information sought by the honourable member may be obtained by an examination of documents available to the public, such as Commonwealth legislation, tabled annual reports, and Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives. [More…]
If one Member only calls for a division, that Member may inform the Speaker that he wishes his dessent to be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings and in Hansard and his dissent shall be so recorded. [More…]
If you vote for the Lusher amendment you will lose our votes. [More…]
He is trying to ascertain how many Chinese votes he can get, now that the Greek community has been prosecuted for fraud. [More…]
The motion appears on page 247 of the Votes and Proceedings of this House. [More…]
) Who votes for (a) the boards of management and (b) the executives, of each of the private health funds in Australia. [More…]
The entity of the United Nations might be very unworthy, but by 87 votes to none and by about 127 votes to none the instructed delegates of other governments at the United Nations have said that Papua-New Guinea ought to be independent. [More…]
I make it only to indicate that we are wrong in plucking something out of the air as a social welfare service because we think This will be very good for votes at the next election. [More…]
Let me now deal with an industry in which there are not many votes. [More…]
There are not many votes in the industry, but in terms of the number of people in it it is just as important as any other primary industry. [More…]
May I quote from the United States Catholic Bishops’ pastoral letter on war approved at their national conference in November 1968 by 180 votes to 8 as it is clearly applicable to us. [More…]
That the Chairman have a deliberative vote and, in the event of an equality of votes, also have a casting vote. [More…]
That the Deputy Chairman, when acting as Chairman, have a deliberative vote and, in the event of an equality of votes, also have a casting vote. [More…]
He can say anything he likes outside the House as long as he votes with the Government inside the House. [More…]
We understand now that the Leader of the Opposition, who resigned and was re-elected by 38 votes to 34, heads an executive that is controlled by the left wing. [More…]
Funds should be spent where they will satisfy a need, not where someone thinks they might buy votes. [More…]
How many Government supporters know how the votes were cast in the election of their Prime Minister? [More…]
Who checked the votes? [More…]
The votes of the jury, the electors, were not of equal value. [More…]
It was elected with a minority of votes. [More…]
Engadine is an area that votes Labor. [More…]
As Australian Governor in the Fund, I recorded Australia’s votes in favour of the resolution proposing the increase in Fund quotas mentioned above. [More…]
Any honourable member who votes against the amendment is casting a vote of no confidence in himself. [More…]
The General Assembly carried 12 resolutions last November and December relating to trusteeship and non self-governing territories - Fourth Committee matters - on recorded votes or roll-calls. [More…]
At the United Nations at least, the Government consistently votes in favour of isolationism in our region. [More…]
I remind the honourable member for Sturt (Mr Foster), who, I hope, will have an opportunity to entertain us with his wonderful flow of illogicality, that anyone who votes against this Dartmouth agreement legislation threatens South Australia with a situation in which within a few years it will not have ample water. [More…]
May be there are votes in this, although I am glad to see an awakening awareness in South Australia that this is not a good way to behave. [More…]
My point is that a number of votes have been taken in this House and during the Committee stage on the subject that is before us in this Bill. [More…]
There is no need for the Government or any future government to proceed in secrecy unless it is doing things about which it is not convinced or is doing things for political reasons, unless it is concerned about the cost value of votes. [More…]
Some examples are given in connection with specialised forms of procedure such as bills particularly in committee, votes in supply and business motions. [More…]
The Government does not represent the Australian people, because the Australian Labor Party received 250,000 more votes than it did at the last Federal election. [More…]
I hope that this is so, because I would not like to think that every member on the other side willingly votes for the gag every time the Leader of the House chooses to move it. [More…]
The Liberal Party did this to get votes. [More…]
Three years after he had won the largest majority of votes accorded a democratic leader, not only in the history of the United States but in the history of the world, he had to announce his abdication. [More…]
It is for those to explain their conduct who conscript others whilst they avoid any cost, inconvenience or embarrassment for themselves, and who as well gain votes, profit and promotion from their militaristic attitudes and policies. [More…]
I think 6 votes decided the leadership of the Labor Party at that time. [More…]
The figures of the last Federal election show that the Liberal Party which supplies most of the members of the Cabinet polled 2,125,000 votes. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party, which is vigorously opposed to the war in Vietnam and our participation in it, polled 2,870,000 votes. [More…]
Even when the 500,000 votes for the Country Party are added to those of the Liberal Party the figure is a long way short of the total number of votes for the Labor Party. [More…]
If the votes for the DLP are thrown in the anti-Labor forces do edge slightly in front. [More…]
We know that the last election for this House returned a Government majority only on second preference votes. [More…]
By our votes in the United Nations, by our trade with Rhodesia and by the establishment of an embassy in Lis bon recently, for example, we have appeared to align ourselves with the minority white regimes in southern Africa. [More…]
Many honourable members, particularly those who live in the Sydney metropolitan area, know that it is very difficult to get a block of land in an area which votes conservatively, if I can use that term, or which supports Government members, whether it be areas of Belrose, St Ives, West Pymble or Pennant Hills. [More…]
Might I say that we shall be very happy to support other legislation which I gather is near to his heart, such as giving votes to persons at 18 years of age or abolishing capital punishment? [More…]
In fact, a majority of this Parliament decided - I think it was by 83 votes to 64 - that the site should be Capital Hill. [More…]
The Bill provides that the Acts cannot be implemented unless a simple majority of the votes cast at a poll of producers is in favour of this course. [More…]
If the honourable member for Macarthur (Mr Jeff Bate) feels so strongly about some of the problems that he has mentioned, I would suggest that he take more constructive action and show what he feels in the House when votes are taken. [More…]
Party and the Government and votes against worthwhile propositions from this side of ‘he Parliament. [More…]
If so, will he consider allowing the Assistant Returning Officers at major polling booths power to receive interstate absentee votes during the hours of polling. [More…]
Since then there has again been a debate on the matter in another place where it emerged that the majority of members were still of the opinion, which they expressed by their votes a year earlier, that the ban should not be lifted. [More…]
President Thieu received 1.6 million votes. [More…]
His closest opponent received 817,000 votes in a first past the post ballot. [More…]
We would probably soon reach the position that is applying in Canada, where the Minister for National Health and Welfare has announced that reductions of 25% in votes for both emergency health services and emergency welfare services will be effected in 1970-71. [More…]
That the Chairman have a deliberative vote and, in the event of an equality of votes, also have a casting vote. [More…]
That the Deputy Chairman, when acting as Chairman, have a deliberative vote and, in the event of an equality of votes, also have a casting vote. [More…]
The first thing he referred to was a 25% cut in the votes for emergency health and emergency welfare services which were effective during this financial year. [More…]
My Leader has just handed me a copy of the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party, in almost all of the speeches it has made over recent years, being in opposition has found itself appealing to the Australian people for votes and has encouraged, probably in the view that this would be the most successful political gesture of all, the development of what is a pacifist outlook. [More…]
That the Chairman have a deliberative vote and, in the event of an equality of votes, also have a casting vote. [More…]
That the Deputy Chairman, when acting as Chairman, have a deliberative vote and, in the event of an equality of votes, also have a casting vole. [More…]
On that occasion - it was during the elections of 1966 - he said that there was no difference between his policy and that of the Labor Party and he advised Labor voters to give their second preference votes to the Country Party candidate. [More…]
He consistently talks one way but votes the other. [More…]
However, if an honourable member endorses the charges of the honourable member for Farrer and then votes that the Government should continue in office after having broken its promises to the States, he is in a very peculiar position. [More…]
If he votes for that because he fears that if there is a general election there will be a Labor Government in office, surely that is not sufficient justification for it. [More…]
A few of the -initiatives that still remain open to the Opposition relate to moves for the discussion of matters of urgent public importance, votes of no confidence and votes of censure. [More…]
During the course of the whole afternoon today the Gorton Government was at the brink of disaster and was dependent on the votes of 3 or 4 people who were worked on in various ways during the course of the afternoon. [More…]
If honourable members look at the record of votes on page 2328 of Hansard they will see that the first division is headed (Mr Howson’s amendment)’. [More…]
The way in which an honourable member votes is determined even before he steps inside this chamber and his vote is uninfluenced by anything that happens in debate thereafter. [More…]
If the honourable member claims that the Government won it on the basis of 102 votes to 4, then I hope that a lot more propositions in Australia will be won in the same way. [More…]
In order to con a few votes in the countryside the Liberal Party is now offering an extra 166 external courses. [More…]
This will have an adverse effect on the electors’ votes in the country areas of South Australia, if the State election is left until March of next year. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party wasted votes in areas like Port Melbourne and elsewhere, and well honourable members opposite know it, to the point at which if an election was held tomorrow in this nation, it would take the Australian Labor Party marginally more figures as a percentage to form the Government than it would us. [More…]
But he will give South Australia a big shake-up in terms of past votes - a vote that will put the seat of Adelaide, federally, in dire jeopardy for the Australia Labor Party. [More…]
6/5/1936 - Votes and Proceedings p. 590- [More…]
8/9/ 1949- Votes and Proceedings p. 381 - [More…]
17/11/1 964 - Votes and Proceedings p. 235. [More…]
13/8’ 1903 - Votes and Proceedings p. 93. [More…]
know that there are votes in constructing dams. [More…]
The main question seems to be how many votes can be bribed, rather than a commitment to people and to society which guides what is being done. [More…]
It is done for votes, not for human good. [More…]
The argument was put in this place at that time that the Commonwealth Parliament would be out of step with the other Parliaments in Australia if votes were introduced for 18-year-olds. [More…]
Events have shown the inevitability of votes being given to 18-year-olds in at least 3 State lower Houses. [More…]
Accordingly, we may anticipate that there will soon be Bills introduced into the Parliaments of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, to give votes to 18-year-olds at least for the lower Houses. [More…]
The onus therefore is on those in this place who want to delay this reform to say why in the 2 larger States and in 1 other State votes should be available for 18-year-olds in State elections and not in Federal elections. [More…]
Furthermore, the United States Administration is still of the mind that votes at 18 years of age should apply to the United States Congress. [More…]
The forthcoming British elections will see votes for all of 18 years of age. [More…]
Mr Guise - and the present committee have recommended votes at 18 years of age for residents of the Territory. [More…]
If it does not it will have to produce separate rolls for the great majority of elections in Australia, because the 2 larger States and South Australia are legislating for votes at 18 years of age. [More…]
It will be noticed from the second answer that votes are now given in 3 of the Canadian provinces al 18; in another 3 at19, and in New Zealand the vote is given at 20. [More…]
It is not only my own Party which has had the policy of votes at 18 for quite some time. [More…]
I think, therefore, we must acknowledge that the resistance to votes at 18 is due to the fear among a great number of conservative persons in this country that their interests and their supporters would be diminished if votes were given at 18. [More…]
Having said that and not wanting to canvass the merits of those 2 matters, I do believe that I should identify what I feel is the only ground for resisting votes at 18 for this national Parliament. [More…]
1 believe the number of countries which are now giving votes at 18. the number of countries which are allowing marriage without consent at 1 8 and the number of Australians who will now get the vote at 18 for their State parliaments, now make this Bill a matter of urgency. [More…]
I was uncertain whether 1 should set out to get more votes from my electorate or to tell the people of my electorate and the House what I think. [More…]
The easy way to get votes out of this exercise is to say, firstly, that we are going to protect the small farmer, because obviously there are more small farmers than big farmers and so there are more votes in the exercise. [More…]
The other way to get votes is to say that we are going to help safeguard the position of the traditional wheat grower. [More…]
There is almost nothing in what I have said that will help me win votes in my electorate. [More…]
The referendum provided for in this Bill is important because the associated Bills cannot be implemented unless a simple majority of the votes cast at a poll of producers is in favour of giving statutory backing to the equalisation plan. [More…]
How many of these votes dealt with ques tions of (a) racism, (b) South Africa, (c) Rhodesia and (d) the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. [More…]
He is keen and will do everything for these people, but because not many political votes are involved and because war service land settlement is a hot political potato, he finds he can do little. [More…]
seats such as mine, have to dash back to their electorates and go to the Bandiwallop picnic races or some such thing because it is going to win a few votes. [More…]
I believe, as the honourable member for Angas (Mr Giles) and the right honourable member for Melbourne (Mr Calwell) stated, that we have a responsibility to be here even if it means losing a few votes because we could not go to this fete or that ball. [More…]
Why cannot we have proper electronic devices to deal expeditiously with recording our votes? [More…]
As far as their electorates are concerned, honourable members do not lose votes by being here. [More…]
They lose votes by not being here. [More…]
Honourable members will find that, if a telegram is sent in reply to an invitation to some function or other saying that they cannot attend because of parliamentary duties, it is twice as good as being at the function so far as votes are concerned. [More…]
I reiterate that the Senate is based on equal representation for the States and while ever that situation obtains there can be no good grounds for arguing about the value of votes between States in Senate elections. [More…]
Everybody votes. [More…]
The Government Ministers and those from the major political parties who have been Ministers, have considered the maintaining of a standing order which prevents the suspension of the Standing Orders to be of such importance that unless an absolute majority of members is present and votes for the proposition the Standing Orders cannot be suspended. [More…]
The Chairman shall have a deliberative vote and, in the event of an equality of votes, also have a casting vote. [More…]
We will still meet here, the 125 of us, and there will still be the votes and decisions that have to be taken in this place. [More…]
Is it because it is merely looking for votes in Australia knowing that everyone would prefer to have troops here if this were the responsible and proper course to undertake? [More…]
The honourable member said: ‘At least I say what I think and I do not speak to earn votes’. [More…]
Apart from the first election in 1954 it can be fairly said that they have not failed in their political ambitions to attract Australians by the process of earning votes by promises. [More…]
It was this type of policy to which the honourable member for Corio was referring when he said: T do not speak to earn votes’. [More…]
If I were to rely for my interpretation of the reaction of the people of Australia to the 1970 Budget of the Commonwealth upon the comments of members of the Australian Labor Party and the Press, I might come to the conclusion that this could be fairly said of the Commonwealth Government, because the Commonwealth Government’s Budget has not attracted in the Press what I would describe as political reaction, which would be indicative of a great swing of votes towards the Government. [More…]
The criticism levelled this week that the Treasurer’s gesture is designed to earn votes seems peculiar when one remembers that less than 12 months ago the leaders of the Labor Party were arguing that the Government’s commitments were not sufficient. [More…]
However I feel that, when my friend the honourable member for Corio said that he did not speak to earn votes, he was being a trifle unfair to honourable members on this side of the House. [More…]
The paltry assistance to primary producers has cost untold votes for the Government in country areas. [More…]
The Liberal Party polled 2,126.987 votes in the last election. [More…]
The Country Party polled 523,242 votes, making a total of 2,750,229 votes for the Government parties. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party polled 2,870,792 votes. [More…]
1 ask honourable members to work out who received the most votes. [More…]
It is obvious that the Labor Party polled more votes than the Government parties. [More…]
Late preferences in absentee and postal votes enabled Mr Speaker to defeat our candidate in the last couple of days of counting. [More…]
All the pupils who have left will no doubt remember this when they cast their votes in future. [More…]
1 trailed him by 10,000 votes at the election in 1966 but after taking more time to argue the point 1 defeated him at the last election by 1.054 votes. [More…]
He talks as he likes but votes as he is told, and he does it again and again. [More…]
Last night the honourable member for Newcastle (Mr Charles Jones), I think, made great play on the fact that at the last general elections the Australian Labor Party received a greater number of votes than did any other party. [More…]
It is true that the Labor Party may have received a greater number of votes, but it did not receive anything like 50% of the total number of Australian votes. [More…]
I have seen conditions as a result of collecting postal votes and from many other contacts before I was elected to Parliament and since. [More…]
What I am urging is that we get away from the traditional practices of the current Government of bidding for votes with handouts to sectional pressure groups and that we start working responsibly in handling the public’s money. [More…]
He said that he wanted the votes of women in the next Federal election. [More…]
At a meeting the other day I heard a person who ordinarily votes Liberal say that it would have been better if the Government had given nothing at all because, as my friend the honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson) pointed out today, the Budget contains in essence things that are insulting to the people of Australia. [More…]
Will the honourable gentleman tell the House before it votes whether he has decided to introduce a Receipts Duties Bill in the form in which it was previously passed by the House but rejected by the Senate, or in a different form, or not at all? [More…]
To put the position bluntly, the Government apparently puts votes before principles even if it means creating wide misery amongst primary producers in Australia. [More…]
This is passing the buck, a principle firmly inherent particularly in the Country Party philosophy of putting votes before sound economic policy. [More…]
If there were 10 closures - the Opposition traditionally votes against a closure - it would mean 10 unnecessary divisions, and 10 honourable members would not have been able to speak. [More…]
That the Chairman have a deliberative vote and, in the event of an equality of votes, also have a casting vote. [More…]
That the Deputy Chairman, when acting as Chairman, have a deliberative vote and, in the event of an equality of votes, also have a casting vote. [More…]
But the Communist Party candidates invariably get something like 90 per cent of the votes. [More…]
I refer to the part of the book where David Halberstam writes about the elections in which Diem always received a vast majority of the votes and indeed Diem’s candidates received more votes than the number of people who turn up to vote. [More…]
Of those whose votes were admitted as valid, 1,578 voted in favour and 859 voted against the plan. [More…]
The table to which 1 have referred shows that 9 votes were rejected as informal and 84 votes were rejected for other reasons. [More…]
It is literally a level of deprivation for so many social service beneficiaries, for which this Government is responsible by manipulating pensions at election time in an effort to bribe votes and then neglecting the welfare of beneficiaries at crucial moments subsequently. [More…]
Programmes are undertaken by Australia’s Conservative Government out of either sheer necessity because public opinion will brook no longer the indolence of the conservative national government towards clear human need or else they are presented for the brazenly cynical purpose of bribing votes - and this latter example is mostly the case. [More…]
The Labor Party did not want to buy votes at the last general election by giving away a few favours on the eve of polling day. [More…]
I opposed the taking of any action by the Labor Government on the eve of a general election that might have gained a few extra votes for its candidates in return for favours granted. [More…]
Such action just prior to an election was misleading and taken with a view to winning votes. [More…]
I for one would hate to see a Labor government using this power so cynically to buy votes. [More…]
The attempt to take advantage of pensioners by misrepresenting the Government’s attitude is a typical example of political opportunism to gain votes. [More…]
We can only move at the pace of the most sluggish and the most conservative of the State Houses, which in most cases are not based on equal votes and in some cases not even on adult votes. [More…]
This will be spread over the votes for the Colombo Plan, the SEATO aid programme and the new item of special aid to South Vietnam. [More…]
While a committee is away, although its members are paired in terms of votes, the Government may have to muster a quorum, which is its responsibility. [More…]
Moreover, support for the removal of a sanction is often interpreted as support for the behaviour previously punished: If a person votes for the legislation of consensual adult homosexual conduct he must be homosexual. [More…]
I suggest to the honourable member that he should have another look at the figures for the Chisholm by-election and ask himself how the combined Australian Democratic Labor Party and Liberal vote, which represented approximately 61 per cent of the total votes cast in Chisholm 9 months ago, has dissipated to 53 per cent in a very short time. [More…]
He received it on Saturday when the vote for the Liberal candidate in the New South Wales by-election dropped by some 6,000 votes. [More…]
Largely, it is due to foolish, opportunistic policies of the conservative Federal Government of the past 20 years concerned more about bargaining for votes than strengthening a balanced growing economy in which economic resources are allocated and used accordingly to rational, responsible criteria. [More…]
I very much suspect that it is the younger section of the community which votes for the Defence of Government Schools organisation. [More…]
There are no votes to be gained here in Australia for such a policy but there are much graver issues at stake. [More…]
Even under this electoral system we would have had a majority of seats in this House if votes had been available to men and women of 18, 19 and 20 years of age - a reform in relation to the introduction of which members on the other side have so long stalled. [More…]
They are outraged when every supporter of the Liberal and Country Parties votes against the establishment of a parliamentary committee to investigate their pay and allowances. [More…]
In the United Kingdom the votes of the Prime Minister’s Department bear the expenditure for office rent and maintenance and general administrative expenses. [More…]
He quoted the United States Catholic Bishops’ pastoral letter on war approved at their national conference in November 1968 by 180 votes to 8. [More…]
I ask him whether or not those who have religious beliefs and fall into the category that I have just described could perhaps be catered for with postal votes. [More…]
1 give this simple illustration: if candidate A polls 40 per cent of the total votes cast and candidate B runs him a close second with 38 per cent of the total votes cast and candidate C polls 22 per cent of the total votes cast, it is obvious that candidates B and C between them have polled 60 per cent of the votes. [More…]
Yet under the first past the post system candidate A would be elected with a small minority of 40 per cent of the votes. [More…]
We know that the Senate votes on party lines although it was considered by those who drafted the Constitution that it should represent the States. [More…]
After all, the honourable member for Mallee has only to tot up a total of 19,914 votes and he is elected. [More…]
The honourable member for Wills has to run up a total of 25,000 votes to be elected. [More…]
The honourable member for Gellibrand (Mr Mclvor) who represents a city seat for the Australian Labor Party, has to run up a total of 31,458 votes. [More…]
Everybody over the age of 25 years who votes for this Government in support of national service is abdicating his or her responsibility and is exercising national selfishness. [More…]
1 would ask that the Prime Minister should use another form of communication by himself to the 6 State Premiers asking them to expedite the legislation which all of them have promised to give votes and adult rights to men and women at. [More…]
They also attempt to catch the voles of the whole range of objectors, whether they be objectors in reasonable form or unreasonable form or whether they be syndicalist members of the Labor Party seek to attract the votes of these people by taking this course. [More…]
Election matter means matter commenting on or soliciting votes for a candidate at an election. [More…]
Nothing in my view, and in the view of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board, which is more important, in the Press conference I had could be said to be commenting on or soliciting votes for a candidate in a Victorian upper House election. [More…]
Then there is the amount that is coming into hostels from votes that we are making under other heads. [More…]
As a result of their votes in the ballot the scheme was not accepted. [More…]
Since then the Australian Wool Industry Conference has voted for this proposal by 47 votes to nil, with 3 abstentions. [More…]
The Country Party which would have some 20 seats in this House gained only a small percentage of the votes cast at the election. [More…]
On the percentage of votes that it obtained that Party should not be represented in this chamber and, Mr Deputy Speaker, even though you may be a member of the Country Party, neither should that Party be represented here. [More…]
If there are a lot of people, they have a lot of little votes. [More…]
However, as I will not be a candidate at the next election for the seat of Bradfield I wish to refute any suggestion that 1 am concerned with winning votes from people whose suffrages ! [More…]
I believe it is nonsense that at this stage in a country such as Australia, in a community which in the past has always established fairly advanced attitudes on what representation means - votes for women and so on - we are being more conservative than most other countries. [More…]
Unless they have a potential majority of votes, they do not have power; they have only the appearance of power. [More…]
In the Government’s view in a, council as large as this one the strength of the representation of the students will depend not upon the number - because 3 would not have a much greater proportion of 42 votes than would 2 of 41 - but on the quality of the representatives. [More…]
Secondly, the accommodation requirements of schools cannot be attributable only to newly arriving migrant children, and expenditure on additional classroom space is appropriately, in the view of the Commonwealth, a charge to the States’ capital works votes. [More…]
What was the (a) informal vote in each Commonwealth electoral division in Australia and (b) percentage of informal to formal votes in each case, in the last Senate elections. [More…]
If honourable members opposite believe the people are not interested in the state of the economy they should look at the election results in New South Wales and at the number of votes received by the Liberal Party at the last Senate election. [More…]
The 2 Government Parties rated about 32 per cent of the votes. [More…]
Of course, we will take all votes to a division. [More…]
He says that they must not see violence and must be protected from it, but he is one who consistently votes to send our young men to the battlefields where the most extreme examples of violence can be seen. [More…]
A series of votes in principle were taken on the various matters with the intention that subsequent substantive appropriate action would be taken to give effect to the whole of the members of the House expressed in a free vote. [More…]
This amendment was carried by 38 votes to 34 votes. [More…]
There are now 2 contradictory votes. [More…]
if Britain’s Opposition, as an opposition, decides to go against entry when the vote is taken and 30 Conservatives join with the Labour Party, it will be a neck and neck struggle as to who will win that vote, lt could go either way by 5 or 10 votes. [More…]
Even so, such was the indignation of the area that Mr Beale, whose normal majority in the South Coast electorate would be between 4,000 and 5.000 votes, escaped defeat on this occasion by between 200 and 300 votes. [More…]
The Liberal Government in South Australia was defeated because it received only about half as many votes as the Australian Labor Party received, and even the gerrymander which the Liberal Government had been able to organise was not able to overcome that debacle. [More…]
The fact is that the election in South Australia was like the election in Western Australia where the Labor Party received 49 per cent of the votes, the Liberal Party received 29 per cent and the Australian Country Party received 5 per cent. [More…]
The Liberal and Country Parties in Western Australia received 34 per cent of the votes as against 49 per cent by the Labor Party, but, bless me, we are struggling to win. [More…]
How many votes do we have to get in order to beat the political arithmetic of the honourable member for Mallee? [More…]
In last year’s General Assembly, for instance, votes were recorded on 12 resolutions from the Fourth Committee relating to trust and nonselfgoverning territories. [More…]
One would assume that he will further delay in this Parliament votes for men and women of 18. [More…]
At the Conference 60 per cent of the votes to elect the Executive come from members of the trade union movement, whether they be right wing, left wing or anything else. [More…]
Let him put his own position as leader on the line and see what measure of support he has in his own Party because the public will have an opportunity of saying what it thinks of Labor’s policies when it votes in the byelection for the electorate of Murray on Saturday next. [More…]
The Liberal-Country Party Government obtained fewer votes in the 1969 House of Representatives elections and the 1970 Senate elections than did the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Trie figures for the 1969 House of Representatives elections were as follows: The ALP under the leadership of Mr Gough Whitlam gained 2,870,792 votes or 46.95 per cent of the formal votes cast, and for that the Labor Party got 59 seats. [More…]
The Liberal Party under the leadership of Mr Gorton and the deputy leadership of Mr McMahon gained 2,126,987 votes or 34.79 per cent of the formal votes, and for that .it got 46 seats. [More…]
The Country Party under the leadership of Sir John McEwen got 523,342 votes, 8.56 per cent of the formal votes, cast, and for that it got 20 seats. [More…]
The total LiberalCountry Party vote was 2.650,329 votes or 43.35 per cent of the formal votes cast. [More…]
Therefore on a strict party basis the Labor Party was 220,463 votes in front and received a vote of 3.6 per cent better than the combined vote of the Liberal-Country Party, yet we have 7 fewer seats. [More…]
There are no votes in this legislation. [More…]
But tragically this matter is often shuffled into a ministerial pigeonhole because these areas rarely, if ever, attract public support or votes. [More…]
Mr Speaker, in welcoming the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) to the august body of which you are the chairman, I express the hope that he will continue the practice of the former Prime Minister, the present Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton), in permitting and encouraging free votes by members of the House on questions relating to the Standing Orders. [More…]
Surely we cannot continue for much longer to see a situation in which a party that receives a smaller percentage of votes in House of Representatives elections than does even the Democratic Labor Party wins 20-odd seats in this place. [More…]
In Western Australia the Australian Labor Party gained 50 per cent of the votes and the combined Liberal and Country Parties gained about 35 per cent of the votes. [More…]
Labor lost one seat by 85 votes, another by 120 votes and a third by a couple of hundred votes,’ even though on first preferences the Labor candidates had led their nearest opponents by anything from 800 to 1,500 votes! [More…]
However preferential voting applied and the votes of all the other candidates combined were sufficient to remove from Labor’s grasp seats which otherwise would have been held comfortably. [More…]
Votes are counted as though each elector has carefully weighed up in his mind the exact order in which he wants to vote for all candidates. [More…]
By this means we might diminish the value of the votes of such groups as the United Farmers and Graziers Association, whose candidates stood for the first time in Western Australia during the recent elections, and the Democratic Labor Party whose candidates contest most seats throughout Australia. [More…]
We polled more votes at the last Federal election than the collection of nondescripts who govern the country from that side of the House at this stage. [More…]
A statutory number of votes was required, not just a simple majority, so the stabilisation plan suggested by the Government on that occasion lapsed. [More…]
It is a Bill of expedience which is designed to try to retrieve a lost reputation and to gather a miserable handful of votes. [More…]
The Bill is designed to get votes and nothing else. [More…]
In the present Queensland Parliament the Labor Party has 31 seats, although it won 46 per cent of the votes in the 1969 State election. [More…]
The Country Party gained about 20 per cent of the votes but it has 25 seats in the present Parliament. [More…]
Clauses 10, 11 and 12 amend sections 133, 136 and 181a of the principal Act, being complementary to the introduction of first past the post voting under clause 9, and provide for informal votes, for the candidate with the highest number of votes to be elected and for the casting vote of the divisional returning officer to be made in the event of candidates receiving an equal number of votes. [More…]
Members of the Country Party have a vested interest in doing so because the present system allows their Party, which on only one occasion has received more than 10 per cent of the votes, to dominate the Government and to gain rewards well beyond their entitlement in the determination of national policy. [More…]
The principal arguments advanced in support of preferential voting are, firstly, that it ensures that only a candidate who polls a majority of votes - that is more than 50 per cent - is elected, thus reflecting the majority view and, secondly, that it gives a voter the exercise of a preference or second choice on the basis that voters are concerned with who will actually win, even if their first choice is rejected. [More…]
Does it mean half the number of votes plus one or a majority for any of the candidates contesting the election? [More…]
For instance, it may ensure that a constituency will elect a member with a majority of the final votes, but it does not ensure that the Party with the overall majority of the votes will obtain a majority of the seats. [More…]
In 1961 the Labor Party polled 2,534,640 votes, or 46.76 per cent of the votes, and in 1969 polled 2,870,792, or 46.95 per cent of the votes, in both cases having a clear majority over the combined totals of the present Government Parties, but was defeated in the elections. [More…]
In the recent State election in New South Wales under this system the Labor Party gained a majority of 70,000 votes over the Liberals but is still out of office. [More…]
It is aggravated by the careless, or what is known as the ‘donkey’ voter, the person who votes straight down the ballot paper. [More…]
Then there is the question of informal votes. [More…]
What was the number of informal votes in (a) each State and (b) Australia in each of the past 5 elections for (i) the House of Representatives and (ii) the Senate. [More…]
What was the percentage of informal votes in each case. [More…]
What was the (a) number and (b) percentage of informal votes in each electoral Division in Australia in the last Senate election. [More…]
What was the (a) number and (b) percentage of informal votes in (i) each State and (ii) Australia in the last Senate election. [More…]
A review of the results of the 1969 elections showed that no fewer than 40 members of this Parliament and 35 or more than 50 per cent of Government supporters, received less than 50 per cent of the first preference votes. [More…]
It will prevent splinter groups or parties polling only a small percentage of the votes yet holding the electorate and the nation to ransom. [More…]
Surely the principle of equality in the value of votes would also be infringed by the 10 per cent margin proposed in the honourable member’s Bill. [More…]
The honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Daly) says he sets out to establish a principal of equality of votes by abandoning the 20 per cent margin. [More…]
With this Bill Labor would abolish country seats, and this is perfectly in line with the philosophy and policies utterly dominated by the big city votes, by Mr Hawke and the left wing union supporters and by the blind urge for power at any price. [More…]
He points out that in the election for the Legislative Council held this year the Labor Party polled 50 per cent of the votes and gained 5 seats while the Liberal Party-Country Party coalition polled 35 per cent of the votes and gained 10 seats. [More…]
We want a democratic distribution of electors so that the people elect as the government the Party to which they give the majority of their votes. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party polled 45.47 per cent of all votes cast and gained 50 seats. [More…]
It took 49,783 votes to elect a Labor member. [More…]
The Liberal Party polled 37.09 per cent of all votes cast and gained 52 seats. [More…]
It took 39,054 votes to elect a Liberal member. [More…]
The Country Party gained 8.9 per cent of the votes. [More…]
It took 24,474 votes to elect a Country Party member. [More…]
To elect a Country Party member to this Parliament required fewer than half the votes needed to elect a Labor Party member. [More…]
In Queensland in the election of that year the Labor Party polled 337,928 votes and gained 26 seats. [More…]
It took 12,997 votes to elect a Labor member. [More…]
The Liberal Party polled 183,185 votes and gained 20 seats. [More…]
It took 9,159 votes to elect a Liberal member. [More…]
The Country Party, which is the majority party in the coalition in Queensland, polled 156,621 votes and gained 26 seats, the same number as the Labor Party. [More…]
It took 6,023 votes to elect a Country Party member of the Parliament. [More…]
I propose to deal with the percentage of votes recorded for the governing Parties. [More…]
In 1932 Labor went into office under Forgan Smith and polled 49.89 per cent of the votes. [More…]
In 1935 Labor polled 53.43 per cent of the votes, in 1938 it polled 47.17 per cent, in 1941 it polled 51.41 per cent, in 1944 it polled 44.67 per cent and in 1947, the low point for Labor in Queensland, the Labor Party polled 43.58 per cent of the votes whereas the Liberal and Country Parties polled 45.22 per cent of the votes. [More…]
In 1950 Labor polled 46.87 per cent of the votes, in 1953 it polled 53.21 per cent and in 1956 it polled 51.22 per cent of the votes. [More…]
In 1957 the Country Party-Liberal Party Coalition was elected with 43.22 per cent of the votes. [More…]
In 1960 it was re-elected with 43.52 per cent of the votes under electoral gerrymanders that still stand. [More…]
In 1963 they polled 44.06 per cent of the votes and in 1966 they got 44.4 per cent of the votes. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that if we take the test of saying that a Government can reasonably, taking into account minority groups, expect to claim a mandate from the people when it has 45 per cent of the votes, over this whole period of Labor Party government in Queensland, with 2 exceptions only, the Labor Party met that standard, but on no occasion in the last 40 years of government in Queensland has the Country Party-Liberal Party Coalition Government met that standard. [More…]
Anyone who votes against our proposition will be making it clear that in his mind the amounts being received by social services recipients are quite sufficient. [More…]
I cannot recall when the Liberal Party of Australia won votes on this issue, so for its sake, if not for ours, the best political interests would be served if social services were removed from what appears to be an area of political bribery from time to time. [More…]
When will the Opposition be, in fact, Her Majesty’s loyal Opposition devoted to the interests of the people of Australia and not merely devoted to trying to make political capital, to win votes and to seek office? [More…]
Labor Party and to win votes by blatant political dishonesty. [More…]
It feels that votes at the United Nations are changing substantially. [More…]
The view held by Government supporters is that democracy means that a government which wins power by gaining a majority of the votes is then constitutional and has the right to do virtually as it pleases for another 3 years. [More…]
Anyone who votes against this Bill and in favour of the law as it is will be voting for life imprisonment for offences committed in the Australian Capital Territory which are covered by the provisions of this legislation. [More…]
Anyone who votes against this Bill will be voting for the sentence of imprisonment for life to remain as the penalty for these types of riot with which this Bill, amongst other things, will deal. [More…]
Of the other two amendments moved, one, to abolish regional electorates, was defeated 47 votes to 17 votes, while the other, to defer consideration of the flag, was rejected on the Speaker’s casting vote. [More…]
So engrossed apparently is the Australian Country Party in political intrigue aimed always at preserving its country votes that its leaders consistently refuse to take strong action on resconstruction. [More…]
The Council is centred in London and each participating country is represented by one delegate exercising a certain number of votes. [More…]
The producer countries- we are included in that group - hold 1,000 votes and these are allocated to producer members in accordance with their volume of exports. [More…]
Consequently, Australia holds under annexe A of the Agreement the 5 initialvotes plus 27 according to exports, making 32 out of a total of 1,000 or 2.82 per cent of the total votes allocated to producer countries. [More…]
Malaysia has447 votes or 45.83 per cent of the total as the largest exporter of tin in the World. [More…]
The Government may have gained some votes from it. [More…]
This amendment was defeated by 47 votes to 17. [More…]
This Government has been returned to office in this place time after time with the support of 22 members from a small party which at a Federal election obtained only 8 per cent of the total votes cast. [More…]
At the time of his appointment the voting is 33 all, and it is said that he has lost a few votes since he got the job. [More…]
It may be that in this case the Government does not want to bring up the debate on Bills upon which it could be forced to a division on votes for 18-year-olds or a second representative in this House for the Australian Capital Territory or senators for each of the mainland Territories. [More…]
Let no Government supporter complain that he has not been heard on these important subjects if he votes in favour of this motion. [More…]
I am on my feet for the very reason that I am asking, almost pleading, that the elected members of this Parliament - not just those whose votes support the Government - be given the right to bring matters before this House and to have those matters debated. [More…]
When a motion for the suspension of any standing or sessional order or orders appears on the Notice Paper, such motion may be carried by a majority of votes. [More…]
The extent of the distress which Labor policy has created is measured by a motion which passed through the House of Assembly by 36 votes to 11 and which stated that, if Labor won the next election in Australia and attempted to impose selfgovernment on Papua New Guinea without the consent of a majority of the people, the next House of Assembly should petition the United Nations to direct the Australian Government to act in accordance with the freely expressed will and desire of the people of Papua New Guinea, as guaranteed by the United Nations declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples, and by the policy of the present Australian Government. [More…]
These people who should be treated with proper respect and seriousness in the House of Assembly rejected by 47 votes to 17 an amendment to abolish regional electorates. [More…]
try to create deliberately the kind of political climate that it thinks might assist it in winning a few votes? [More…]
However, the point is that he cannot get votes from many primary producers. [More…]
Rural reconstruction is not a means of securing votes for the Country Party; it is a matter directed towards the survival of primary industry from which vital income is gained. [More…]
I know that the terms of the amendment proposed by the honourable member for Dawson (Dr Patterson) who lead for the Opposition in this debate seem restrictive and have been so represented, but at heart I believe that to win votes the Australian Labor Party would try to keep people on the land who ought not to be there. [More…]
By its action I believe the Government has alienated hundreds of thousands of votes. [More…]
It points up the cynical calibre of this Government that it could win votes on committing troops to Vietnam and then hope to win votes by withdrawing them. [More…]
It expects to win votes 5 years later by withdrawing these troops. [More…]
Australia has 5 votes whereas most countries of the South Pacific Commission - the new ones certainly - have only one vote each. [More…]
Tricky Dick, President Nixon, is out to win votes, they say. [More…]
If those people who come into this place on the platforms of those 2 parties are not prepared to support those platforms they should at least have the honesty to tell the organisations which they purport to represent and the electors whose votes they sought on the basis of supporting particular policies that they are not prepared to be Liberal Party candidates or Country Party candidates and that they will run as independent candidates. [More…]
There has been no action by this Govern ment to bring about prison reform or improved conditions for prisoners because there no votes to be had from such action. [More…]
The question in my mind is this: We did not leave the other system simply for the purpose of having fun, spending time and having free votes and all the rest of it in this House. [More…]
I have told Mr Whitlam that Mr Hawke would be worth 1,000 votes to me at any time. [More…]
If he brings both of them into my electorate it will be worth 2,000 or 3,000 votes. [More…]
Education is one area which must not be allowed to degenerate as it has in the past until it has become a political instrument for buying votes. [More…]
In the Maryborough electorate a government candidate previously has not got within 2,500 votes of the Labor candidate but on this occasion the Government candidate won by about 1,600. [More…]
The fact that the Government candidate won by about 1,600 votes instead of losing by about 2,500 indicates the resistance to and the rejection of the domination by the Brisbane Trades Hall, lt seems as though the labour leaders have not learned a lesson because they are still on a witch hunt. [More…]
No misrepresentation can be too big for it, no standard of political attack is unacceptable if, in its view, votes can be won. [More…]
The total votes recorded for honourable members on this side of the House in the last House of Representatives election were far in excess of the votes recorded for the Government Parties. [More…]
The Labor Party has said that children have not got votes. [More…]
We know that children do not have votes but we do think in terms of the children. [More…]
They have put up a spokesman to talk the gramophone kind of thing which they themselves talk in the hope of getting votes. [More…]
lt was worth votes galore. [More…]
the siren on the rock and his singing was absolutely superb in terms of getting votes. [More…]
So they are perfectly happy to stick the airport in areas where they will not lose any votes in the future. [More…]
Obviously there will not be any legislation in this Parliament on which formal amendments can be moved and formal votes taken in respect of the various clauses which would be embodied in legislation authorising the expenditure of Federal money in the field of reconstruction and rehabilitation. [More…]
This time the vote was 4,560 for the scheme and 56 ‘no’ votes. [More…]
So there were 56 ‘no’ votes out of 4,616,. which was a great victory. [More…]
I should like to quote from the United States Catholic Bishops’ pastoral letter on war which was approved at their national conference in November 1968 by 180 votes to 8. [More…]
I repeat that this particular statement was approved at the national conference of the United States Catholic Bishops in November 1968 and was passed by the huge majority of 180 votes to 8. [More…]
It has also provided amounts in the votes of other Commonwealth departments, such as the $154,000 in the votes of the Department of Labour and National Service for the continuation of the employment training scheme conducted by that Department - which is, I believe, already having an important effect in increasing permanent employment of young Aborigines. [More…]
We can be certain of this only when the Senate votes on the position. [More…]
Clearly, due to the exigencies of having to try to win votes, and to persuade people that one is strong and able to cope, it is imperative almost for a government not to listen to any suggestions made by the Opposition. [More…]
The regrettable thing about debates at the moment is that they are held in the public gaze and we have to concentrate on maintaining our votes. [More…]
The principal function of the Public Accounts Committee is to ensure that when Parliament votes a specific sum of money for a particular purpose the Public Service does in fact use that money for that purpose and no other. [More…]
It was obvious from the Minister’s statement that under this Government the vital responsibility for financing education in Australia will continue to be regarded in terms of how many votes it may be worth rather than how many children may be handicapped educationally by the current inequalities of the various systems throughout this nation. [More…]
It is time we stopped using State aid as a means to buy votes. [More…]
The Minister has been described as the Wandering Minstrel of the Department of Shreds and Patches, presiding over a rag bag of responsibilities of minor importance on which the Government does not wish to spend money and in which there are no votes. [More…]
Parliamentary publications include Hansard, the Notice Papers, Votes and Proceedings and Journals of the 2 Houses, the Parliamentary Handbook, the various pamphlets and lists published by the parliamentary departments and the Parliamentary Papers series - which comprises some 250 papers which the Houses order to be printed during each year. [More…]
I know that if I wanted to get votes now - I hope the honourable member for Dawson will listen to this - I would recommend acquisition; but I think we have to ask ourselves whether it is wise. [More…]
I could adopt the attitude of members of the Country Party and give away principles for votes, but I am not prepared to do so. [More…]
I think that the honourable member for Kennedy would be very wise to take the edition of Hansard which contains his speech around his electorate because it will win him votes. [More…]
He should take not only his own speech but also the speech of the honourable member for Sturt because I believe that that speech would probably win him more votes than his own, however many it might bring him. [More…]
The result was that this motion was lost, with 55 votes in favour, 59 against and 15 abstentions. [More…]
When I was working last week in an area where the Aborigines live, the votes from only one ballot box in the Legislative Council election had been counted, and the colleague of the honourable member for the Northern Territory, representing the Country Party had received 39 votes and the Australian Labor Party candidate had received 152 votes. [More…]
The other matter I want to refer to as an illustration of this tendency to get on bandwagons in an attempt to extract votes is the Simpson Desert discussion which has been going on recently. [More…]
It is not good enough for us to use conservation in an attempt to drum up a few votes in an electorate. [More…]
Was the insistence of Taiwan that there should be no division of the Chinese nation an important factor in the great discrepancy between the for and against votes on the final resolution from Albania? [More…]
Dealing with the first part of the honourable member’s question, although I have discussed this matter with a very large number of delegates in New York it would be very hard to make a judgement about the influence on the votes of particular members of the United Nations of the fact that the Republic of Taiwan did not feel it was in a position to say - [More…]
lt is possible this did have an effect on some of the votes. [More…]
Nevertheless, when the vote was going against that important question motion there was, one could say, a movement of votes during the course of this debate on Monday night in the United Nations to join those who were voting in favour of the Albanian motion. [More…]
The Minister has put another reason why it might be necessary to suspend the 11 o’clock rule and that is that if we are having a cognate debate on certain Bills and we then need to have separate votes we might have to defer till the following day the votes on any of the Bills which had not gone through before 11 o’clock. [More…]
There are even Bills introduced by the Opposition to give votes to 18-year- olds, or to provide electorates of equal population, or to synchronise elections, or to abolish capital punishment for crimes under Federal laws. [More…]
Nearly 99 per cent of the seats were won in East Bengal and about 80 per cent of the popular votes cast over the entire country. [More…]
After all, in 1969 they received less than 8 per cent of the total votes cast across the Commonwealth. [More…]
In those elections in the metropolitan area the Labor Party received 149,094 votes for which it received 2 seats; the Liberal Party received 78,701 votes for which it received 3 seats. [More…]
In the agriculture, mining and pastoral areas the Labor Party with 63,698 votes received 1 seat, the Liberal Party with 43,868 votes received 5 seats and the Country Party with 25,035 votes received 2 seats. [More…]
Of the 5,004 growers enrolled 4,616 or 92 per cent cast their votes; and of these 4,560 or 98 per cent voted in favour of the scheme offered by the Government. [More…]
It is perfectly clear, and undeniable, that these men played a leading role in the formulation of the policy on immigration, a policy on which they want an inquiry and a policy that was adopted by the Launceston Conference only weeks ago by 44 votes to one. [More…]
This might reduce some of the political advantage that enables the ruling party of the time to gain votes, but it would ensure smoother industrial relations. [More…]
Was this the situation, or was it simply that the error having been made our friends in the Opposition saw their opportunity once again to strike a blow for those who they know are the enemies of Australia and whom they have been aiding and comforting for so long in the hope that they could secure some degree of political advantage to give them an opportunity to win votes at an election based upon the fact that they believe in their hearts that a significant number of voters are people bereft of courage, bereft of character and possessed only of the desire to avoid any threat to their own safety? [More…]
At page 12 of the report we find that the Journals of the Senate and the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives cost about $8,000 per annum and are of such great value, interest and worth that of the 700 daily copies all except 21 have to be distributed free. [More…]
One should give credit to Sir Robert Menzies, a previous Prime Minister, because in all the time that he used the threat from the north and about China sweeping down between the Indian and Pacific Oceans when he was mustering votes for the ballot boxes, he never raised our representation in Taiwan to the level of Ambassador. [More…]
Here is a Party, which forms a coalition government after receiving 8 per cent of the total votes cast at a general election, the leader of which is writing to 50,000 of his Party’s hard core supporters - the Party still hopes that it has that number of supporters - asking them to give the Party some guidance. [More…]
What a great example of positive leadership from the adjunct of the Government - a Party which receives only 8 per cent of the total votes cast in a general election - to send out 50,000 letters asking for guidance. [More…]
We know that there are no votes in improving prison conditions. [More…]
I am aware that there are no votes in prison reform. [More…]
In relation to the question of control’ of licences, it should be explained that under the present law, a person (or company) is deemed to be a position to control a company if he is, broadly, in a position to control more than 15 per cent of the shares or votes in that company, either directly or indirectly. [More…]
As I say, I think this is of extreme value because it allows complete and open discussion without, as it were, the matters being brought to a divisive stage with votes being taken. [More…]
I am sure the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser), who is a great Red baiter and who is relying heavily on Democratic Labor Party votes at the next election, will flog this issue when he rises to speak tonight. [More…]
1 reminded the House that we decided to have free votes on Standing Orders matters. [More…]
However, before the House votes on the Opposition’s amendment, let me make this point: This Bill is designed to assist the States in their own housing activities. [More…]
About 1963 he discovered that there were votes in things such as State aid. [More…]
I often hear people say, ‘Why do not you teach the youngsters in your schools all about politics and about how to vote so that we can cut down on the great number of informal votes at election times?’. [More…]
The time to demonstrate one’s support for a proposal is when one votes here on it. [More…]
I have been listening to this debate pretty closely, and it appears that all Opposition members have been doing is fighting for 2 votes from this side of the Committee. [More…]
I was so disturbed on Thursday that they could possibly have had 3 votes from this side. [More…]
The facts of life are that back in 1963 as a political exercise by a former Australian Prime Minister to gather in a few more votes a scheme to provide Commonwealth assistance for libraries was introduced. [More…]
But if the Opposition makes all the promises on equal terms as though it would be put into effect immediately it became the Government, if it ever did come to power, then either it is expressing itself accurately, and if so its proposal is vastly expensive when put alongside the Opposition’s other promises, or it is not accurate, in which case the Opposition is not entirely honest in its approach to the wooing of votes at this time. [More…]
If the Government were to give votes to 18-year-olds, 19-year-olds and 20- year-olds, there is no question how those who are still in the country would vote because they are the people who cannot get jobs and who therefore go to the cities. [More…]
Of the 5,004 growers enrolled, 4,616 or 92 per cent cast their votes and of this number 4,560 or 98 per cent voted in favour of the scheme offered by the Government. [More…]
Of the 5,004 growers enrolled 4,616 or 92 per cent cast their votes; and of these 4,560 or 98 per cent voted in favour of the scheme offered by the Government. [More…]
Will they not welcome the idea of secret ballots so that they can force their officials to support them whenever they secure a majority of votes in a ballot? [More…]
I wonder whether or not various State governments - perhaps some members of the Parliament may be able to give a run down on exactly what the State governments have done in this field - look at this as a matter which does not hold many votes and therefore they let the ball pass through to the keeper. [More…]
The report draws attention to the fact that on each of the main votes the decisions were arrived at by an extremely narrow majority. [More…]
The votes taken during the proceedings indicate this. [More…]
He will gain votes in one place but lose votes in the other rural areas of Australia. [More…]
Mr Speaker, you, perhaps better than anyone, would know that nothing counts much but votes. [More…]
The Country Party, which receives only 8 per cent of the votes across the nation, has in this Parliament a number of seats quite out of balance with the number of people who support it. [More…]
Mr Turner looks very young because he only has to count votes and does not have to win them. [More…]
Around them, carelessly displayed, Were all their dreadful tools of trade The standing orders, votes, and motions, The statutes, May, and such like notions. [More…]
or by Missions using funds supplied through votes of the Department of the Interior. [More…]
Is it a fact that persons not entitled to membership in a federal organisation are in fact being included in thi federal register of members of some organisations, and are recording votes in elections for office in the organisation. [More…]
I believe the Australian people are entitled to know the views of those on this side, whether or not votes are taken, who represent about SO per cent of the people, or are we to be cast aside when the issues are to be presented. [More…]
Governments are put in and out of office on votes. [More…]
If we want to avoid heavy unemployment in Australia, it is essential to avoid the position where men like Mr Hawke, who is under such a heavy obligation to his Communist sponsors, without whose votes he could never have been elected as President of the ACTU, could control an Australian government. [More…]
We have heard about Communism and political advantage for the Australian Labor Party, but I make this point: Many of my colleagues from Western Australia and from the north of Australia realise that some of the things that we advocate for Aboriginal advancement do not win them votes. [More…]
They operate in communities where there is much racism and I pay tribute to some of my colleagues from those areas for having taken up some of these issues knowing that this will lose them votes. [More…]
It gets more votes in Australia at any federal election than the Libera” Party and the Country Party combined but it is still not the Government. [More…]
If the Aboriginal voter is on a station the postal votes may not be sent direct to him, but to the station owner, whose task it is to distribute the ballot paper to any Aborigine on his station registered to vote. [More…]
Station owners in this case control the distribution of postal votes. [More…]
It is so easy to do this, to arrange for mobile polling booths to go around the stations and collect the votes from the people concerned. [More…]
I do not know why the present complicated system of postal votes is used in the Stuart electorate, unless it is for the purpose of preventing Aborigines from voting. [More…]
The votes were between 4 to 1 and nearly 8 to 1 in favour of the Labour Party in areas where the votes were collected by official returning officers appointed by this Government. [More…]
What happened when the postal votes were sent out and given to Country Party station owners to distribute? [More…]
We got a complete reversal in the votes. [More…]
We got votes of 221 to 83 in favour of the Country Party representative. [More…]
The right honourable gentleman will know that the former West Australian Liberal-Country Party Government, the present South Austraiian Labor Government and the present Tasmanian Liberal Government have all introduced votes for such citizens in Slate elections and that the other State governments have, I believe, all supported the proposition although stating that it would be easier and cheaper 10 introduce if the Commonwealth introduced it at the same time. [More…]
I ask the right honourable gentleman whether his Government supports the statement made by his predecessor during the Senate election in 1970 that such citizens would have votes at the next House of Representatives election. [More…]
I wonder why honourable members in this House are prepared to hide behind the genuine appearance which the honourable member for Fremantle presents and the votes he undoubtedly wins because of his sincerity, knowing that when the Victorian group moves it spells death for anybody. [More…]
The Opposition, with a 222,000 vote surplus, certainly won a majority of votes over the combined Liberal-Country Party vote. [More…]
It was not votes that gave them their mandate, and the Prime Minister was careful not to say that it was. [More…]
The former Prime Minister, during the Senate campaign, promised votes to persons of from 18 to 20 years of age at future Federal elections. [More…]
He has repudiated the mandate that his Government received, albeit on a minority of votes. [More…]
I do not believe that we can carry on with this continuing auction for votes. [More…]
Mr Westerway said ballot boxes had been substituted and votes deliberately miscounted. [More…]
Many have put the proposition that the Liberal-Country Party Government supports the Catholic education system for political purposes - to get the preferences of the Australian Democratic Labor Party, to get the votes of Catholics and so on. [More…]
Finally, the Maltese will be waiting patiently until Polling Day to cast our votes in this, the most vital election for your government. [More…]
In November 1968 the Australian Wool Industry Conference decided by 37 votes to 16 - not by any absolute majority or by unanimous decision - partially to relax the embargo. [More…]
This resolution was carried by a majority of 62 votes to 32. [More…]
The House divided on the proposal and by a vote of 52 to 44 - a majority of 8 votes - members of the Opposition were denied a proper opportunity to debate the matter at that time. [More…]
Finally, the organisation which recommended a relaxation of the ban to the Government is made up of representatives of all Federal wool grower organisations, and the decision of the Australian Wool Industry Conference to make this recommendation was carried in the first place by a majority of 37 votes to 16 votes. [More…]
The results of the votes taken were 37 to 6, 31 to 17 and 31 to 18. [More…]
Turning to the ballots, some argument has been advanced regarding the manipulation of the ballot in respect to the 200 hives and multiple votes. [More…]
It has been argued by some that there is nothing to stop a beekeeper who has 800 hives from having 4 votes. [More…]
No-one will convince me that beekeepers will deliberately create multiple partnerships merely to obtain extra votes. [More…]
If 2 partners own 400 hives, obviously each one gets a vote, but when 2 partners own 200 hives, which one votes if an argument arises? [More…]
These matters are not important enough to warrant my proposing amendment, but I remind honourable members that there are not many votes in the industry. [More…]
With similar Commonwealth and State legislation there has been no experience of deliberate, attempts to manipulate ballots by the creation of new partnerships in order to gain extra votes. [More…]
If there is not some safeguard it could be that someone with 800 hives could register, dividing them by 4, and thereby get 4 votes. [More…]
In other words, he could divide his holding by 4 into 200 hives each and thereby be entitled to 4 votes. [More…]
He referred also to the question of multiple votes. [More…]
Australia has long passed the stage of sophistication when all that a government needed to do was point to a defence installation, whisper ‘Top Secret’ and watch the votes pour in. [More…]
It is also very clear that this Left Wing victory was not an isolated thing but that, in fact, in any Labor government the Left would have the decisive votes. [More…]
These statements have now been given the lie once and for all by one of his senior colleagues - a man who came within a few votes of defeating the Leader of the Opposition in a contest for the leadership of his Party. [More…]
At about the time when he challenged his Leader for the leadership of the Labor Party and came within a handful of votes of replacing the present leader, he took a much more moderate line on demonstrations than he has in recent times. [More…]
I admit that the Leader of the Opposition blushes as he attempts to buy their votes. [More…]
The Commonwealth has 2 votes and the States have one each. [More…]
I have said also that we have to decentralise political representation in this country because the amenities go where the votes are and when we have a census and find that more people have gone to the cities we get a redistribution of electoral boundaries and more members of Parliament from the city than from the country, so much so that I now represent about one-quarter of Victoria. [More…]
I am, of course, speaking now as one personally not looking for votes. [More…]
There should be many more free votes on internal questions within Bills because there are a remarkable number of non-partisan matters which pass through this place about which the Ministry should not be so possessive. [More…]
We are not all having free votes from now on. [More…]
It chooses to ignore and, so far as it can in votes, will allow the chaos that it has created in the economic life of this country through its shortsighted and doctrinaire Budgets. [More…]
In addition we decided that the subject matter should be indicated and that a record should be made in Hansard as well as in the Votes and Proceedings of the House. [More…]
I echo today my regret, more in sorrow than in anger, that non-party votes in this Parliament inevitably find every Liberal voting on the party line. [More…]
It is a waste of time having non-party votes if supporters of the Liberal Party, despite their independence that we are told about are to be regimented, even on simple things like the Standing Orders of the Parliament. [More…]
After all is said and done, when the votes are being taken we might just as well make the matter a party issue because there is no hope at all of getting any support from the Government side of the House. [More…]
No-one on our side of the House canvassed votes or lobbied in any manner whatsoever. [More…]
That a Member entitled to use the title ‘Doctor’ or ‘Reverend’ or having a substantive military, academic or professional title should, if be so wishes, have the title used with his name as it appears from time to time in official House documents such as the Votes and Proceedings, Notice Papers, List of Members, etc. [More…]
Will the Minister consider revising the constitution of the Board to ensure that all members representing both co-operative and proprietary companies are as free as possible from vested interests, and specifically that suppliers whose votes determine the appointment to the Board are given an opportunity to have a say in the nominations? [More…]
Just where are we going when a government arrogantly, for the sake of votes in a party room, appoints Assistant Ministers and refuses to tell honourable members what the Assistant Ministers are doing, what they are paid and what facilities they will have at their disposal? [More…]
I doubt whether anyone here is consciously and deliberately racist, but Government supporters are willing to tolerate them for political expediency because they want to win the votes of extreme right wing migrant organisations and others in Australia which are prepared to support them. [More…]
I want this Government to give up the manner of supporting right wing racism and extremism in this country in order to curry votes from those extremist groups in Australia - I want action taken against them for violence will become worse than it is. [More…]
The point at issue is that the members of the Country Party in this Parliament get 10 per cent of the votes of the Australian people. [More…]
What an incredible and silly proposition - for one to seek to reduce votes when I happen to occupy a very marginal seat in the Commonwealth Parliament. [More…]
Mr Westerway said ballot boxes had been substituted and votes deliberately miscounted. [More…]
If one were to study the records of that time one would see that Mr McEwen said the Country Party had lost power and votes. [More…]
The question of postal votes should be dealt with also. [More…]
Postal votes have been manipulated by unscrupulous party organisers from time to time and the system needs reforming. [More…]
Why not deal with the question of polling, the question of Senate voting and the question of the elimination of the huge total of about 500,000 informal votes? [More…]
He said that ballot boxes had been substituted, that votes had been deliberately miscounted, and that the effect of this had been to help non-Labor parties in certain seats. [More…]
One candidate, Mr Frank Donnelly, has won the last 2 of the 3 ballots by 2 votes and one vote respectively from Alderman Peter Morris. [More…]
This BDI provides for interstate absentee votes, a reform that the Opposition would support in this House. [More…]
This would no doubt win votes. [More…]
1 think we may have reached the stage at which he will withdraw Australian Democratic Labor Party preference votes from the Government parties. [More…]
Candidates for election to the House of Representatives to be elected on the basis of the greatest number of votes to any candidate, i.e., first past the post’ and on the basis of one vote one value. [More…]
The ALP candidate polled 45.4 per cent of primary votes. [More…]
The other candidates polled 54.6 per cent of primary votes between them. [More…]
After the distribution of the second choice of these voters - the preference vote - the Liberal candidate won the seat with 51.19 per cent of the votes. [More…]
In the 12 seats I was able to research, under the first past the post system of voting, the Labor Party would have won all these seats with a minority of the votes. [More…]
In the seat of Phillip, 43 per cent of votes went to the Labor candidate, while in Holt the figure was 45 per cent. [More…]
The 12 seats which I mentioned and in which the Labor Party had a very much smaller percentage of the votes than the winning candidates, would have been won by the Labor Party on a first past the post system. [More…]
Let us take a hypothetical case, say, in the electorate of Bendigo where the Australian Labor Party candidate receives 10,000 votes, the Country Party candidate receives 9,000 votes, the Liberal Party candidates receives 9,000 votes, and another candidate receives 2,000 or 3,000 votes. [More…]
He is out to get votes and he does not care how he kicks people around in order to get them. [More…]
He was speaking in terms of what was a reasonable percentage of votes in a ballot for the amalgamation of unions, and he said this: ‘It is true that in Victoria, out of 33 members of Parliament, 18 are elected on preferences.’ [More…]
Despite what the Minister for Labour and National Service said in a statement on 2nd March, we are now to have a situation where it will be practically impossible to bring about an amalgamation of unions because of the percentage of votes required in favour of such a move. [More…]
It would be possible in a ballot in which 48 per cent of the membership voted to have 47 per cent in favour and 1 per cent against, but because the number of votes cast was not 50 per cent of the membership, the ballot would be invalid. [More…]
The motion was defeated 6 votes to 5 votes, with Mr Holgate present and voting. [More…]
The Bill has not been brought on for resumed debate because it would have been possible for the Opposition to move an amendment to it for votes at 18 years of age. [More…]
The honourable gentleman who interjected belongs to a party which, just under 3 years ago, was understood in the words of its leader to promise votes at 18 years in this year’s election. [More…]
This Government’s Bill has been stalled for all these months - for the last 14 months - because the Government will not have a vote on this subject of votes at 18 years of age. [More…]
Of course it has, but the next government will give opportunities to conclude debates and take votes on private members’ Bills. [More…]
The present Government has taken the attitude that it will not allow debates to conclude or votes to be taken on private members’ Bills, even where those Bills or resolutions are brought in by its supporters. [More…]
In most of the countries of Europe and the countries which Europe had settled votes were then available to citizens at 18 years of age. [More…]
At the last elections in the United Kingdom men and women of 18 years of age had votes. [More…]
So, where the Commonwealth is responsible in Territories and in other common law countries with whom we usually compare ourselves - Britain, America and Canada - votes are now given at 18 years. [More…]
Therefore, I do not again have to list all the other countries which have had votes for 18 year olds for much longer periods. [More…]
1 do not have to go again through the arguments why votes should be given for men and women at 18 years. [More…]
The people who are affected by the administrative and legislative provisions in this regard are denied the votes to influence the legislators. [More…]
If 18, 19 and 20 year old men and women had votes in Australia much more would have been done to see that conditions outside the metropolitan areas were such as to retain such people in those areas and give them some future in those areas. [More…]
The other area in which much more attention would be given to social, economic and civic requirements, if there were votes attached to those areas, is on the outskirts of the metropolitan areas. [More…]
If votes were given to those who are 18, 19 and 20 years old, very much more political attention would be given to the needs of these developing areas on the outskirts of metropolitan areas, as well as to those regions outside the metropolitan areas which are being denuded. [More…]
The Government should accept, with good grace, votes at 18 years in this year’s House of Representatives election. [More…]
There are excellent chances that men and women of those ages will be able to have a vote in this year’s House of Representatives election, even if the Government does not allow a vote to be taken on the Bill I have introduced today, or on the Bill which I introduced in June 1970, or on the Bill which the Government itself introduced in March last year to which we would move an amendment to give votes at 18 years of age, The reason why these people might have a vote at this years House of Representatives election is because the Constitution states: [More…]
The Gorton Government had time to consider this matter and we all understood it had agreed to introduce votes at this year’s election for citizens of 18, 19 and 20 years of age. [More…]
Even the McMahon Government has had time to sort out its collective mind sufficiently to introduce votes for such citizens. [More…]
But the issue before us is not whether we support or oppose the principle of votes for 18-year-olds; it is whether we will support the passage of this Bill at this particular time. [More…]
Is it to be said that the dear old lady that votes Conservative or Tory or Liberal or Country Party, God help her, is not as destructive to good government as a young person who supports leftism or militancy. [More…]
Undoubtedly the case for votes for those of 18 years of age is supported by world opinion, by advanced nations and on the grounds of democratic rights. [More…]
Does this mean that there are to be free votes on some issues of conscience and principle and not free votes on others? [More…]
Many are afraid of a parliament where a political party could in effect buy votes by raising wages, but there are many parliaments which have this power. [More…]
It never ceases to amaze me how this Government has been able to get away with blatant misuse of the powers conferred upon it merely by being elected to govern although it did not have the majority of the votes cast by the electors, lt has never ceased to amaze me that this Government is able to be the voice of this Parliament through the support of some 22 Australian Country Party members who received less than 8 per cent of the total vote. [More…]
But one must always remember that if a union, by a secret ballot, votes for a strike, the settlement of that strike will be made more difficult, because presumably there will have to be another ballot before the settlement can be approved. [More…]
Of course it was rejected because the Australian Labor Party woke up to the fact that the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) was going to use this report to try to get votes. [More…]
Let him consider that stand by the Government and equate it against the action taken in regard to the group for whom he is trying to pitch to get a few miserable votes. [More…]
ls it to buy preference votes? [More…]
I want something that will get us some votes. [More…]
You were beaten by 7 votes, although 1 think that the Government’s normal majority is 6 votes. [More…]
When you get to the stage where the Government is at the bottom of the barrel in public prestige, when the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) of this country can command about only 25 per cent of the votes, according to the gallup polls, it seems to me that this Government has not got its heart in discouraging people from smoking. [More…]
The Australian voters are entitled to know, before they cast their votes in what I believe will be one of the most important elections in our history - an election in which defence and foreign policy must be a major issue - where the Government and the Opposition stand on these matters. [More…]
I have not noticed the honourable member for Henty being invited to Queensland to speak in the current election campaign in that State where, at the last election, the Country PartyLiberal Party coalition won about 44 per cent of the votes, which was slightly less than the percentage won by the Australian Labor Party, but which gave it a majority of 11 seats. [More…]
What has not been said is that I won the ballot by more than 60 votes, that I did not canvass for support in the campaign and that Rowley James, who lived at Kurri outside the Shortland electorate, despite the fact that petrol was rationed, had been campaigning for almost 12 months. [More…]
On a previous occasion when votes were taken on this subject, the overwhelming number of members of the Parliament voted for the Capital Hill site. [More…]
I think that the Government realised that it would have lost a packet of votes had lt not amended the legislation in this way. [More…]
They suddenly woke up to the fact that they have offended, and deeply offended, a large proportion of our migrant population, and that many of our migrant population, because they have chosen to become Australian citizens, have votes. [More…]
This results from the fact that the Government treats migrants as individuals deserving to be treated as such whereas the Opposition sees them merely in terms of votes to be used for its own political advantage. [More…]
It was a great credit to the producers of This Day Tonight’ that the programme should show him thundering forth in such fine fashion and denouncing the Labor Party’s approach to rural industries, knowing full well that any chance he had of capturing a few votes in the rural areas had been destroyed by the Federal Conference of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
The texts of the 3 resolutions, together with details of the votes recorded, are as follows: [More…]
When the North Vietnamese started their massive aggression with 130 millimetre guns and Russian tanks in April of this year and they went into Laos, Cambodia and South Vietnam, killing the people of those 3 countries, the Victorian Branch of the Australian Labor Party, by 1 1 1 votes to 96, supported the North Vietnamese in their aggressive activity. [More…]
The facts of life are that the honourable member for Bowman mentioned the votes of those 2 Parties and gave the impression that the Labor Party picked up all the rest. [More…]
It has introduced a Budget which is purely and simply designed to catch votes. [More…]
So with his election strategy in tatters the Prime Minister has only 2 things left: The Budget with which to buy votes and the good old well worn issue of defence. [More…]
This Government has an appalling record in defence, and this whole thing is again a ploy to catch votes. [More…]
It is something that has flowed down through the last 20 or 30 years, ad hoc sometimes, here and there, developed by Vietnam and sponsored and maintained by the terror of the preference votes of the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
Therefore, it becomes a litmus test as to whether the Commonwealth Government cares tuppence about children or cares only about those educational issues in which there are votes. [More…]
Of course, last week’s Budget demonstrated that money is no object if we have to buy votes because of our reaction to a gallup poll or if we want to see that the graziers are fixed up all right. [More…]
It has decided to let it go to buy votes. [More…]
It is a crusade for votes in Australian ballot boxes in November. [More…]
Labor won 72 out of 126 seats at the last Federal election and should have been the government according to the country’s first preference votes. [More…]
It is buying votes. [More…]
Unfortunately, Dr Evatt and the Labor Party missed out on being elected to the government of this country by a matter of about 600 votes over the whole of Australia. [More…]
All these things will go by the board in order that this Budget can give hand outs that the Government thinks might win enough votes to enable it to stay in office after 23 years. [More…]
While that document was issued only to try to give a little bit of gloss to the Government’s generally murky image, the examples in it when analysed show very clearly and conclusively that once again the Government has not tried to help those who require the most financial relief but has either hurriedly introduced a tax reduction purely to try to attract votes or deliberately decided, as it has on so many other occasions, to give not relief but deliberate handouts to the very people who are in a position to withstand the existing tax requirements. [More…]
More often than not the Queensland delegation votes against those items. [More…]
He gained his position through the votes and assistance of the communists and the socialist left. [More…]
Dr Cass does not believe that the Labor Party will lose votes on abortion reform. [More…]
All told it is painfully disappointing and PIN can’t imagine ANY party winning uncommitted rural votes on the strength of this sort of wishy washy stuff. [More…]
The Treasurer says that it is the correct economic response in the present economic climate, protesting that it is not designed to buy votes. [More…]
But the fact of the matter is that in bringing down the Budget the Treasurer has earned the nickname of ‘two dollar Bill’ because he has attempted to buy the votes of the Australian voting population with a $2 tax handout. [More…]
I think that the members of the Australian public are sick of this cynical approach to politics and will reject this Government not just for its sins of the past 22 years but also for the sin of handing out $2 to try to buy their votes. [More…]
He is out to get votes and he does not care bow he kicks people around in order to get them. [More…]
When the Government is going bad and is in need of votes the age pensioner receives an increase at the whim of that Government, irrespective of the Party in office. [More…]
Any increases that come are far too late and have no retrospectivity, and are given after the Government has had the maximum of publicity from them for the purpose of obtaining votes. [More…]
But from the Government’s point of view, money spent on helping the unemployed in Western Australia is wasted money because it will not bring the Government more votes. [More…]
The Opposition has moved an amendment in respect of this very worthwhile Budget, which of course it had to do because it was in a spot and had to try to catch some votes somehow in the face of a very well received Budget. [More…]
He is one of those mysterious and ghost like figures elected exclusively to boost the numbers of votes for the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon in the party room. [More…]
The committee president, Mr Peter Buff, said that with about 100 ‘postal votes’ still to come, Mr Gorton had captured about 70 per cent of the vote’. [More…]
This Budget is nothing more or less than a cynical attempt to purchase votes. [More…]
It merely looks for votes. [More…]
The point is that basically this Government, by providing this money, has tried to buy votes and to disguise unemployment which this Government has created. [More…]
From start to finish it is a give away bonanza budget designed in a desperate attempt to win votes and to save Government supporters from electoral defeat. [More…]
If this scheme is to be introduced, why must the introduction be delayed simply to suit the Government’s purpose of announcing its introduction in its election policy in an effort to buy votes. [More…]
The votes being equal, the right honourable member for Higgins used his own vote against himself in order to give an opportunity to the Liberal Party to change its leadership. [More…]
In the 1969 House of Representatives election, under the leadership of the present Leader of the Labor Party Labor received 2,870,792 votes, or 46.95 per cent, of all formal votes and it won 59- seats. [More…]
The Liberal Party, under the leadership of the right honourable member for Higgins, received 2,126,987 votes, or 34.79 per cent of the formal votes cast, and it won 46 seats. [More…]
received 523,342 votes, or 8.56 per cent of the formal votes cast, and it won 20 seats. [More…]
The total Liberal-Country Party vote was’ 2,650,329 votes - 43.35 per cent- of the formal votes cast. [More…]
The Labor Party received 2,870,792 votes - 46.95 per cent of the formal votes cast. [More…]
In other words, the Labor Party gained 220,463 .votes more than the combined votes of the Liberal-Country Party and .3^.6 per cent more of the formal votes cast yet, it won 7 seats fewer. [More…]
That Bill does not deal with the subject of votes at the age of 1 8 years. [More…]
However, the long title of the Bill is such that it was open to any honourable member to move an amendment to it for the purpose of giving votes at the age of 18 years. [More…]
It provides among other things for votes at 18 years of age. [More…]
This matter must be debated independently because the Government will not bring forward other legislation on electoral reform which would pemit members of the Opposition to move appropriate amendments to provide votes for 18-year-olds. [More…]
I do not know what votes the Government thinks it will get out of that ploy, because frankly the white collar workers would enjoy the value of a 35-hour week even more than the blue collar workers. [More…]
The Government makes a serious error if it thinks that, by promoting this issue, it is gaining votes. [More…]
As for the Senate being a States’ house, the truth is that the Senate votes exactly as we do - that is on party and not State lines; it always has and there is no reason in the world to believe that that position will ever change. [More…]
I am not trying to seek votes when I say that. [More…]
Honourable members opposite claim that everything that the Government is doing at this time is just political and is designed to win votes. [More…]
Of the total proposed Commonwealth provision of $55.3m for 1972-73 it is intended that, in addition to the $22.545m available in the Aboriginal Advancement Trust Account under my control, of which the $14.5m for the States forms part, $24.5m be provided in the votes of the Department of the Interior for expenditure on Aboriginal advancement in the Northern Territory, $305,000 in the votes of the Department of Labour and National Service, S3.73m and $75,000 in the votes of the Department of Education and Science for secondary and study grants and for the continuation of special projects in the Northern Territory, and $150,000 in the votes of the Department of Health for similar special projects in the Northern Territory. [More…]
In previous years these amounts for education and science and health were, included in the Aboriginal Advancement Trust Account, and it would therefore be appropriate to compare last year’s provision in the Trust Account of $14.83m with the total provision this year of $26.5m for the same purposes; but it has been thought more appropriate that provision should be made from now on in the votes of the functional departments. [More…]
The proposition which I will put is not put with a view to getting votes as I am not nominating for the next election. [More…]
At the very least it will certainly lose it plenty of votes. [More…]
You locked out delegates who cast votes in regard to your preselection for this place. [More…]
Just a matter of a few votes in a few different electorates made all the difference between implementation of his promise and this long delay. [More…]
Again, I emphasise that it is because the Government is trying to purchase votes. [More…]
Perhaps the Government has neglected the children because children have no votes. [More…]
So I say that children have no votes, and this entire Budget is a political Budget. [More…]
It has been designed to purchase votes from the people. [More…]
When a vote was taken on the amendment, it was defeated by 61 votes to 52, with all Government supporters opposing the amendment and, of course, with members of the Australian Labor Party supporting it. [More…]
In other words, the Government’s attitude seems to be not to worry about it while things are going smoothly but to introduce it with the hope of wooing a few votes when the community has not been properly satisfied with the previous situation. [More…]
We are able to ensure that anybody, no matter where he is, votes effectively at Federal elections. [More…]
But he won the seat; he bought votes by that means. [More…]
The delayed distribution has meant not only that the people of Western Australia will not have as many votes in the next House of Representatives as the Constitution says they are entitled to have; it also means that the next House of Representatives will not be truly representative of the Australian people or even of the areas where the Australian electors reside. [More…]
I had it last night when I exposed your prevarication on this matter to members of an enthusiastic audience who noticed the contrast between your statements and those of your predecessor about votes for people in the Australian Capital Territory where there is no State government, a restricted local government, one member of the House of Representatives and no senators. [More…]
Some who support the Australian Labor Party and who believe that Labor’s vague and unspecified promises in this area would win votes have reacted in a hostile manner as they now see that the Government’s actions go much further than the Opposition’s promises. [More…]
The metropolitan sections of the electorates of Canning and Moore have grown so rapidly and the country areas have been depopulated so much that the Country Party members will almost certainly have fewer primary votes than both the Labor and Liberal candidates in those electorates. [More…]
To do that we must have the votes of countries which normally do not support us. [More…]
They certainly want their votes but what are we doing for them? [More…]
We are doing everything we possibly can and are coming to secret agreement with the Soviet Union so as to get the 3 Soviet votes - as honourable members know, the Soviet Union has 3 votes - necessary to enable Australia to be elected to the Security Council. [More…]
I am not looking for votes, as honourable members know I am retiring at the end of this Parliament. [More…]
Honourable members have said that I want votes for rabbits and kangaroos but this has only been to draw attention away from what I am saying. [More…]
I draw the attention of the Minister to the fact that in the election of 1966 on which I did a lot of work, postal votes represented 2.4 per cent of the total number of votes cast. [More…]
In Queensland, postal votes represented well over 3.5 per cent. [More…]
We do not allow a political party representative to follow a voter into a polling booth on election day to see how he votes or to take his ballot paper and fill it in for him. [More…]
I turn now to the question of votes for 18-year olds and to what the Minister for the Interior said in August 1971. [More…]
Let us consider what the Minister for the Interior has said in this chamber about votes for 18-year-olds and compare that with the speech which was delivered on his behalf by the Minister for Immigration over 12 months ago. [More…]
The voting results demonstrated that it is now possible for the Labor Party to attract a sizable proportion of the votes of the middle classes’. [More…]
I appreciate the fact that the Government, like the Opposition, does not intend to use the unemployment issue as a basis for trying to win votes, and that is not my intention in raising this matter today. [More…]
I know it is not the intention of the Minister for the Navy or any other Minister to use unemployment as a means of getting votes. [More…]
It deals with the rights to exercise the votes to control companies by shares. [More…]
Of course, the whole exercise of the midnight Cabinet meetings and so on have been devoted to trying to get the dissident Government supporters not to put their votes where their mouths have so often been. [More…]
It so happened that I led on first preferences but was defeated on the distribution of preferences, if my memory serves me correctly, by 114 votes. [More…]
In this way the Australian taxpaying public could pick up the bill and the Country Party could pick up votes at the end of the year. [More…]
The record of the honourable member for Wannon is not good enough to enable him to talk about wheat and votes. [More…]
We know that the ALP made 140 promises at the last election in order to attract that extra 2.7 per cent of votes which has given it its present majority. [More…]
The Prime Minister will be stalking the corridors and the rooms to drum up votes for his own view and he will either get the votes or he will face compromise on the issues. [More…]
Whilst others may not believe so, I believe that the Prime Minister has the right to participate in votes in this Parliament when he so desires. [More…]
I have sat there for 2 hours, with the ringing of bells and the counting of votes and nothing else. [More…]
Votes for 18-year-olds, the abolition of national service, recognition of the People’s Republic of China, and more control of and information about United States bases in Australia are all measures that daily add to the program introduced by the new Government. [More…]
I should like to know also whether this statement about promoting a regional growth centre in Townsville was just another election gimmick to win votes in north Queensland. [More…]
Whether the Prime Minister was angling for votes I do not know but he stated during the election campaign that this project would be proceeded with. [More…]
I suppose he works on the same basis as the Country Party does with the boundaries of electorates - getting the minimum of votes and exerting the maximum influence it possibly can. [More…]
When that result was made known, the Labor Party was successful in the electorate of Lilley by the margin of 35 votes. [More…]
It would be wrong not to acknowledge the sterling efforts of my opponent’s wife in her collection of sick and absentee votes. [More…]
On that occasion I had the honour of moving the Address-in->Reply after having won the seat of Wilmot for the first time on 28th September that year by 843 votes. [More…]
His attainment of more than 11,000 votes, standing as an Independent, gives credence to the claim that those who scrapped him, including the present New South Wales Minister for Lands, had not lived long enough in the electorate to understand the importance of his service or the fidelity of his supporters. [More…]
My form of farming was prosperous so long as I worked 80 to 90 hours a week, but unfortunately chook farmers and small orchardists do not have many votes. [More…]
If honourable members examine the final results of a number of seats occupied by members sitting on the Government benches they will find that those members would not now be occupying those seats if there had been a small swing in the votes. [More…]
When it receives the votes of some of the 18 to 20- year olds at the next election, will the Government respect their votes by insisting that youth has a real say in the running of this country? [More…]
These States, jealous of their State rights and justice, would seem justified in demanding votes at Federal elections for their enfranchised under their State laws, but section 41 of the Federal Constitution states: [More…]
In Queensland, Cabinet has approved the principle of votes for 18-year-olds and in Tasmania the lower House already has passed a Bill which includes provision for lowering the voting age to 18. [More…]
It pointed out that the swing of 3 per cent which gave the Australian Labor Party SO per cent of the first preference votes in the Federal election held on 2nd December was caused mostly by a 6 per cent gain by the Australian Labor Party amongst voters aged 21 to 29. [More…]
Each major party, as evidenced by the remarks by the Minister for the Capital Territory, feels that it would get more youth votes than the other. [More…]
I have no doubt that the addition of votes of 18-year-olds in the electorate of Griffith will bring about a significant change in the result of that electorate, as I expect that there will be significant changes in the results in many other electorates. [More…]
When a young person votes at the age of 18 he does not at that point of time suddenly become armed with all the wisdom, knowledge, and perhaps, prejudices, of an older voter. [More…]
It has been very interesting to listen to albeit that it seems that all members in this House are now agreed that votes for 18-year-olds are a proposition that should be put into effect. [More…]
Yet not so very long ago, in fact I think somewhat less than a year ago, those who are now in Opposition were sitting on the Government side of the House and opposing the proposition that 18-year-olds should have votes just as vehemently as they are now sup porting it. [More…]
These people could see a threat to their position if 18-year-olds were in fact able to come forward and cast their votes as to who should be governing this country. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party is not concerned about the Territory because it is 2,000 or 3,000 miles from Melbourne and Sydney, or wherever the Labor members come from or get their votes in the outer suburbs of the big cities. [More…]
Studies have shown that the first votes of a young voter are more volatile, reflecting the fact that young people have not settled their political allegiances. [More…]
And this applies also to the constituting city government throughout Australia; in some of our States most of the residents have no vote and some of the residents have 8 votes. [More…]
To bring the Country Party right up to date I state that at the 1972 elections the Country Party polled 9.44 per cent of the votes, won 20 seats and has 16 per cent voting strength in the House. [More…]
In 1961 the Labor Party polled 2,534,702 votes, or 46.76 per cent of the votes, and in 1969 polled 2,870,792 or 46.95 per cent of the votes. [More…]
I turn to Queensland, this bastion of selected democracy where the Country Party reigns; where redistribution of boundaries has been the scorn of the Party since 1958; where it is possible for the Labor Party to gain 46.75 per cent of the votes, more than the combined votes of the Liberal and Country parties (42.23 per cent) and to win only 33 seats as against 47 for the Government parties. [More…]
In that State the Country Party, with the lowest total vote - the lowest percentage of the votes (20 per cent) - won 26 seats to the Liberal Party’s 21 with 22.23 per cent of votes, against 33 by Labor with 46.75 per cent of total votes cast. [More…]
The Country Party which polled a minority of votes, and a minority of the percentage of the votes, holds the Premiership of the State of Queensland. [More…]
It has real interest only in women’s votes. [More…]
My purpose in taking part in the debate has been simply to draw attention to the anomalies which are created in this legislation and which always are created when governments make decisions quickly without thinking out the consequences but simply to gain votes. [More…]
We could have done it to gain votes but we did not. [More…]
Because of the understandable reaction of the industry to the imposition of the excise, members of the Labor Party saw the whole problem, from the beginning to this moment, purely in terms of votes. [More…]
But one of the difficulties which we should recognise in the Australian voting system for both Federal Houses is that it is the most complicated system of voting to be found in any country and it brings about the largest percentage of informal votes, apparently, that one finds in any country. [More…]
Of course more than half the Aborigines are like that, but most of the people who cast their votes for members of this House have scarcely ever seen the Aborigines at the other end of the spectrum - the people who are still living in tribal or near tribal conditions. [More…]
Indeed even in the reformed Australian Labor Party the trade union movement has some 60 per cent of votes. [More…]
Indeed, other members might be fearful that the image they project would at times not win them votes. [More…]
Attributed to a former Labor Minister and Senator was the saying: 1 don’t care who votes or how they vote so long as I count them’. [More…]
If all divisions could be drawn so that their votes were equal they would be greatly less than equal within months. [More…]
These figures are derived as follows: 17 extra-metropolitan divisions in New South Wales, including Darling, cast 875,069 formal votes. [More…]
That is an average of 51,475 formal votes per division, including Darling. [More…]
Excluding that division’s votes, there were 834,369 formal votes cast in the other 16 divisions, giving an average of 52,148 votes per division. [More…]
Twenty-eight metropolitan divisions cast 1,531,877 formal votes or 54,709 per division. [More…]
In fact, in the last election the Labor Party polled fewer votes in proportion than the percentage of seats it holds in this Parliament. [More…]
He was never on record as criticising the property qualification of voting for the upper House or the system of local government in which most of the residents of Perth have no votes and some have eight. [More…]
What they stand by solidly is malapportionment to make sure that the votes, at any rate of the Country Party segment, will always have a much greater value than those of anybody else. [More…]
In the Westminster system where there will be monopoly of power for that side which has the majority of seats, there is a very clear moral obligation to ensure, so far as it is humanly possible, that the side which has the majority of seats has had the majority of votes. [More…]
Its electoral system is identical with that of Melbourne, identical with that of Adelaide and identical with that of Perth in that most of the people have had no votes and some have had a multiplicity. [More…]
It gives an equal weighting to the votes of citizens. [More…]
The Constitution does not provide for equal value of votes. [More…]
Equality of representation should be seen to be far more important than mere mathematical equality of votes. [More…]
It received on occasions the majority of the votes cast in the nation. [More…]
It is very interesting that in one of the areas in this State to which the Leader of the Country Party drew attention there is a mayor who sits with no fewer than 28 formal votes. [More…]
They want their votes to be of equal value. [More…]
According to the Government the amendments proposed by this Bill will mysteriously ensure that all votes will have equal value. [More…]
No distribution should permit a situation where a party or coalition which secures a majority of votes does not secure a majority of members of the House of Representatives. [More…]
Only once since 1 949 has the party or group of parties with a majority of votes failed to win a majority of seats in the House of Representatives. [More…]
In 1972, Labor polled less than 50 per cent of the votes but won 53.6 per cent of the seats - not a bad record for a Party competing against what is claimed to be, in terms of the assertions and the allegations put forward by the Government in this debate, an ‘unfair’ Electoral Act. [More…]
When did one Liberal Party member of this Parliament stand up and outline the situation in the Upper House of South Australia where a party able to obtain 35 per cent of the votes is able to obtain 80 per cent of the seats? [More…]
In other words the honourable member for Wimmera is supporting a proposition where every elector in his electorate has 2 votes in this Parliament to the one vote of the honourable member for Diamond Valley. [More…]
The honourable member for Kalgoorlie (Mr Collard) will have 100 votes in this place. [More…]
It would be similar to the position in Queensland where the Liberal Party - which at least receives about 30 per cent of the votes - cannot obtain more seats than the Country Party which has 19 per cent of the votes and has a Country Party Premier imposed on it by a rigged electoral system and not by the will of the people. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition, just before he sat down, made a claim that in every election except the 1954 election the party which has obtained the majority of votes has won the election. [More…]
In 1961 the Australian Labor Party obtained a greater percentage of votes than did the combined Government parties and their supporters. [More…]
Government parties obtained a greater number of votes than did the Australian Labor Party in every election except the one in 1954. [More…]
The Communist Party gets so few votes that it is the most insignificant party in Australia. [More…]
The Australia Party has received a significant number of votes in elections it has contested and it has directed its preferences to the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
If it is good enough for the Liberal Party to claim that DLP votes are Liberal votes, it is reasonable for us to claim that Australia Party votes were votes in support of a Labor government. [More…]
The record of redistributions for Federal purposes has been free from charges of gerrymandering The fairness of recent redistributions has been demonstrated by election results where, in elections since 1949 with the exception of one - although one honourable member has challenged this - the Party or parties which gained the highest percentage of votes throughout Australia formed the Government. [More…]
The results of the last election where Labor won 49.6 per cent of the votes and 53.6 per cent of the electorates would seem to underline the fairness of the 1968 redistribution. [More…]
Any member of the Liberal Party who votes for a gerrymander that favours the Country Party votes against his interests, the interests of the Liberal Party and the interests of people who vote Liberal. [More…]
The question of votes for 18-year-olds was brought before the House quite separately. [More…]
In this debate we have pointed to a number of criteria, such as the overall result of the present electoral system, which is a majority of seats for the party which receives the majority of votes. [More…]
Time and time again honourable members from this side of the House have said in this debate that since 1949 there has been only one election, that of 1954, in which the party which has achieved an overall majority of votes has not received an overall majority of seats. [More…]
The point 1 am making is that when the Australian Labor Party got the votes under the existing system in 1972 it got the numbers. [More…]
What it now wants to do is to so arrange things that it gets the numbers when it does not get the votes. [More…]
The statement by the honourable member for Barker (Dr Forbes) that only once since 1949 has the Party gaining the greatest number of votes been unsuccessful in winning the most electorates, 1 believe, was an incorrect one because in 1961 and again in 1969 the votes gained by the Australian Labor Party totalled more than the votes gained by the parties now in Opposition. [More…]
I do not subscribe - I make no apology for saying this - to a policy which gives country people up to 50 per cent advantage over city people in respect of the value of votes cast. [More…]
In Queensland it took an average of 13,045 votes to elect an ALP candidate and 6,972 to elect a Country Party candidate. [More…]
I can foresee, as Mr Martin, the President of the Young Liberals in Queensland, apparently had the foresight to realise, that if the Liberal Party wishes to sit idly by and allow the Country Party voting power to develop to such a degree that one vote in the country is worth 1 or 2 votes in the city there certainly will be a reaction from people living in the cities. [More…]
But there are 10 senators from South Australia representing 350,000 people with votes of the same value as 10 senators from New South Wales who represent 31 million people. [More…]
Those of us who sit on the Government side of the House - included in our ranks are more representatives of country electorates than any other political party has - say categorically that the value of all men’s votes should be equal, irrespective of where they live or what they do. [More…]
With just over 8,000 primary votes, he represents the people of McMillan - nearly 50,000 electors - in this House. [More…]
Considering the views of the honourable member I am not surprised that he received only 8,000 odd votes. [More…]
The views that he expressed in his maiden speech were the views of the League of Rights and it is surprising and deplorable to me that people with views such as those should receive even 8,000 votes in any electorate in Australia. [More…]
I think it needs to be noted - this is the ultimate test of fairness of an electoral system - that in the one year, under the first redistribution which we had undertaken, in which the Labor Party obtained a majority of votes in total that Party at the same time won office. [More…]
In 1954 Labor won a greater number of votes in total than did the present Opposition parties. [More…]
But under all the redistributions that we have introduced the party that won the majority of votes was the party that won office, and that includes the last election. [More…]
It will carry no weight with the Minister for Northern Development (Dr Patterson) and the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby) or at least with the people who elected them on the last occasion but will think better of it on the next, because they know that they have now elected to this Parliament a Government that is concerned only with votes in large cities and is not concerned with the remoter country towns, provincial cities or the people who live in the rural communities - not just the farmers but the totality of people who live outside the great metropolitan areas. [More…]
As a member for one of the larger electorates, I can fully appreciate the difficulties of distance in these large electorates and the amount of travel involved in endeavouring to give some service to the people, but I feel that this situation does not justify the large disparity in numbers that exists at present, lt should not be used to reduce the value of electors’ votes in other areas. [More…]
But whilst we still have our anomalies in South Australia, I think we have lost our crown as the most gerrymandered State to Queensland, where we see the reins of government in the hands of a Party which is receiving only 20 per cent of the overall votes of the Queensland people. [More…]
And it was a successful frustration of the democratic process, for in the elections of 1950 the Liberal and Country Party team won a majority of the votes, actually 49.7 per cent, but gained only 31 of tha 75 seats, whereas Labor polled but 46.5 per cent of the votes yet managed to get 42 of the seats. [More…]
Obviously, the Government is trying to create a situation in which it would not need to get any more votes to win more seats or, perhaps, the Government wants to win the same number of seats with many less votes than it received on 2nd December. [More…]
At present there is no doubt that, with one exception in the last 25 years or more, the Party which received the majority of votes became the Government. [More…]
The Government would have a redistribution and create a situation in which the Labor Party, with the same number of votes that it received at the last election, would win a vastly increased majority. [More…]
No-one disagrees with the slogan of one man one vote, but what this really means is that in a democracy the government should be won by the party which obtains a majority of votes. [More…]
I could not help thinking that they must have coalesced some way and discussed it, because it was precisely the same speech that his father made here in days gone by, depending to the last drop on the right of the Country Party for special consideration because it cannot obtain votes from the Australian people. [More…]
A few moments ago the honourable member for Farrer said that only once since 1949 has the party that obtained the majority of the votes not won the election. [More…]
The facts are that in 1954 the Australian Labor Party won 50.1 per cent of the votes and gained 56 seats. [More…]
The LiberalCountry Party with 47 per cent of the votes gained 58 seats. [More…]
In 1961 the Labor Party gained 46.76 per cent of the votes and won 62 seats. [More…]
In 1961 the Labor Party won 46.76 per cent of the votes and gained 62 seats. [More…]
The Liberal-Country Party won 40.91 per sent of the votes and gained the same number of seats. [More…]
In 1969 the Labor Party won 46.95 per cent of the votes and gained 59 seats whereas the Liberal-Country Party with 43.33 per cent of the votes gained 66 seats. [More…]
In Queensland in the last State election the Country Party with 20 per cent of the vote won 26 seats and the Liberal Party with 22 per cent of the votes won 21 seats. [More…]
The Labor Party with 47 per cent of the votes, more than the combined total of the other 2 parties, won 33 seats. [More…]
The minority party in Queensland - the Country Party, which supplies the Premier - with the lowest percentage of votes exercises supreme control in that bastion of Country Party democracy with the help of the greatest gerrymander in the world. [More…]
In the long run real democratic government, real equality of representation or real equality in the value of votes is achieved only by ensuring that all members of this Parliament have an equal opportunity to represent the people in their electorates. [More…]
The percentage number of votes polled in any election in relation to the number of seats held is a useless and unsound comparison. [More…]
Factors that allow a party which gains 8 per cent of the votes to enjoy 16 per cent of the parliamentary representation have no place in an Electoral Act that should enshrine the basic democratic principle of one vote one value. [More…]
To be responsible means that the Government must receive the majority of votes cast by the people and a change in electoral support must be reflected by a change of parliamentary support. [More…]
In the Westminster system where there will be monopoly of power for that side which has the majority of seats, there is a very clear moral obligation to ensure, so far as it is humanly possible, that the side which has the majority of seats has had the majority of votes. [More…]
It is in the interests of the groups which have an advantage in the weighting of electorates and the value of votes to keep the present system. [More…]
I think most people would agree that the first requirement in any election is that the Party or Parties which get the majority of the votes should form the government. [More…]
What he forgot to quote, of course, was the total percentage of votes from all the non-Labor parties. [More…]
To get a true reflection of electoral opinion all non-Labor votes must be taken into account and only in 1954, as has been said on more than one occasion in this debate, under an electoral redistribution done by the Labor Government in 1948 has a situation arisen where the . [More…]
majority of the votes cast did not result in that Party forming the government. [More…]
A further confirmation of the equity of the present system can be found by comparing the percentage of votes cast with the percentage of seats won. [More…]
At the last election, held in December last year under a system which this Government alleges was heavily biased against the ALP, the Labor Party got 49.9 per cent of the votes but won 53.6 per cent of the seats. [More…]
Taking New South Wales as an example, 17 extra-metropolitan seats averaged 51,475 formal votes whilst 28 metropolitan averaged 54,709. [More…]
The Labor Party polls 44.8 per cent of rural votes in Australia and the Liberal Party polls at least 10 per cent. [More…]
There has been for as long as I can remember, at least throughout the 1960s, and it was confirmed by votes of the House, observance of the ruling that honourable members could not ask for a withdrawal of aspersions which are made on organisations to which they belong, such as political parties. [More…]
A government will not lose votes because it spends money. [More…]
But the aggregate of their votes adding up to 34.3 per cent does not invalidate my argument. [More…]
The migrant community should be treated fairly, but if migrants require over-generous treatment, in the short term they may get advantage and the Australian Labor Party may get votes, but over the long term that is not to the advantage of the groups in the migrant community. [More…]
The acceptance of so much of our program by the Liberal Pary and the Country Party confirms this belief and goes to the extent of making it hard for us to remember now all the agonising they appeared to go through on such questions as votes for 18-year-olds, the removal of excise tax on wine, the Commonwealth Employees Compensation Bill or, to come back to the Bill before the House, unqualified portability of pensions. [More…]
Half way through it I whispered to him, not quite so quietly: ‘I am trying to win votes.’ [More…]
But the Government, in charge, of the business of the House, has decided that a given time will be provided for debate and in addition time will be allowed for votes to be taken so that the views of honourable members on this Bill can be determined. [More…]
It would not be safe if the ALP ever had that vital 31 votes out of the present 60 senators. [More…]
The Government does not have in the Senate the vital 31 votes which it needs for its revolutionary changes. [More…]
I think it most likely would come back divided 30-30 and the Labor Party would not have the vital 31 votes which it needs for revolution. [More…]
It is quite clear that it was rushed in during the last Parliament by the previous Government in a desperate effort to buy votes and without full consideration of the implications which would arise once it was brought into operation. [More…]
The honourable member’s Party provided certain telephones at great expense just to buy votes. [More…]
When the votes were counted 1 had won but technically it could be said that I won the position by default. [More…]
Who will ever forget the way their Government restricted votes? [More…]
Out of formal votes totalling about 41,700 cast on that occasion the Country Party candidate received 3,618. [More…]
Country Party candidate came within about 400 or 500 votes of winning the seat. [More…]
The number of votes taken on General Business items in the 27th Parliament was five. [More…]
I should also like to pay a tribute to those who have produced this Bill in the House, because they have faced a real issue that exists and will continue to exist no matter how this House votes and because they have obviously put so much effort and research into their contributions. [More…]
If the majority of honourable members votes in the same way as I do, the further amendment which has been circulated in the name of the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) will not be able to be moved. [More…]
What matters is the strength of the votes. [More…]
This figure excludes salaries of public servants and other administrative expenses which cannot be isolated within the global votes for these items. [More…]
If a resolution is 90 per cent acceptable, one votes for it. [More…]
It does not mean that one votes for every individual aspect of it. [More…]
In order that honourable members might see what was done by the Liberal Party in comparison with what has been done by our Government, I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard some extracts from the ‘Votes and Proceedings’ of the House of Representatives for 4th May 1971. [More…]
The Government is putting its mouth and its money where the votes are and the Government’s anti-rural bias becomes more evident every day. [More…]
Labor knows where its votes are, and that is what counts. [More…]
If the Opposition is foolish enough to believe it has the support of people in rural areas it should ask itself why it was that it lost seats in the last election, why it was that its representation declined in rural areas and why it was that it did not receive a greater number of votes from those particular people. [More…]
Last month it was agreed by the Steering Committee of the Convention that 21 local government delegates, sharing 8 votes, would be. [More…]
Realists will see it as a direct appeal for the votes of public servants. [More…]
It would not simply provide representatives of the Territory in the Senate, as section 122 of the Constitution contemplates; it would also provide territorial senators who, by reason of the powers conferred on them by this Bill, would be taken into account in constituting a quorum in the Senate and in voting as to whether a resolution was carried by a majority of votes in the Senate. [More…]
Questions arising in the Senate shall be determined by a majority of votes, and each senator shall have one vote. [More…]
The Senate, particularly in recent months, votes as does this House - along Party lines. [More…]
The Senate, like this House, votes on Party lines. [More…]
Questions arising in the Senate shall be determined by a majority of votes, and each senator shall have one vote. [More…]
The President shall in all cases be entitled to a vote; and when the votes are equal the question shall pass in the negative. [More…]
Questions arising in the Senate shall be determined by a majority of votes, and each senator shall have one vole. [More…]
Questions arising in the Mouse of Representatives shall be determined by a majority of votes other than that of the Speaker. [More…]
There are only two or three votes between the parties on either side. [More…]
Although the present member for the Australian Capital Territory (Mr Enderby) enjoyed a handsome majority, if the votes of a whole lot of minor parties were added together and regarded as a non-Labor Senate vote it would probably have returned a nonLabor senator. [More…]
In other words, the Government is putting the whole of its efforts behind the votes that it receives in those areas and it could not give a damn about the rest of Australia. [More…]
It is also well known that some of his fellow Ministers, particularly the honourable member for Dawson (Dr Patterson) and the honourable member for Riverina (Mr Grassby), are very hostile because they realise that the decision could lose them votes. [More…]
With the consent of the House I do not propose to read the message which will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings. [More…]
The honourable member for Darling Downs (Mr McVeigh) who interjected received 17 per cent of the primary votes at the last election and he got into the Parliament. [More…]
if the honourable member votes for it - that will give appropriate times for committees to meet. [More…]
At that stage we should have come to some sort of agreement about a joint sitting of both Houses or a counting of votes. [More…]
According to the Government, the amendments proposed by this Bill will mysteriously ensure that all votes will have equal value. [More…]
The true test of equitable electoral legislation is that the Party which obtains the majority of votes shall also receive the majority of seats. [More…]
There could be no better example than the Federal election held in December 1972 when the present Government received 49.6 per cent of the votes of the Australian electorate and, as a result, received 53.6 per cent of the seats. [More…]
Only once since 1949 has the party or group of parties with a majority of votes failed to receive a majority of seats in the House of Representatives. [More…]
No distribution should permit a situation where a party or coalition which secures a majority of the votes does not secure a majority of members of the House of Representatives. [More…]
As if that were not sufficient, he went on to suggest that over recent years the party polling the majority of votes has always been elected to government in this Parliament. [More…]
In 1954 the Australian Labor Party polled 50.1 per cent of the votes and the Liberal Party and Country Party between them polled 47 per cent. [More…]
In each election the minority votes of the population of Australia elected the majority of members to the Parliament. [More…]
The dilution of the votes of some citizensor some class of citizens cannot be justified within the concepts of democratic government, and it will not be tolerated by this Government. [More…]
In the last decade they introduced redistributions on 3 occasions to ensure them of government even though they received a minority of the votes. [More…]
What I am concerned about, and what we all should be concerned about, is not the value of votes but the value of representation. [More…]
We are not elected to this Parliament to pass laws by gallup poll; we are elected to this Parliament to exercise our judgment, to determine what we believe is best and to cast our votes accordingly. [More…]
The costs of travel by departmental officers are shown in the Bill against the votes of the departments concerned. [More…]
The costs of travel by departmental officers is shown in the Bill against the votes of the departments concerned. [More…]
In an edition that was made available to me is reference to the size of the new party - this will be the party when the Country Party and the DLP amalgamate - and it appears that if the percentage of votes is considered in Queensland it will have 30.4 per cent of the vote against the Liberal Party’s 25.4 per cent of the vote. [More…]
Their votes are not being bought. [More…]
That legislation will be introduced in order to give effect to equality of voting because, this Government stands against the loading of electorates which allows people like those in possum paddock, if I might use the expression with 50 per cent fewer electors that I have in my electorate, to receive the same vote as people who represent a majority of the votes in Australia. [More…]
In other words, members of the Country Party want loaded votes and, to tell you the truth, having a good look at the Country Party, how could they win except under an undemocratic political system? [More…]
From memory, not one member of the Country Party has ever won more than 50 per cent of the primary votes before being elected to this Parliament. [More…]
These are not things that win votes. [More…]
From memory, not one member of the Country Party has ever won more than 50 per cent of the primary votes before being elected to this Parliament. [More…]
He did not get 27 per cent of the votes; he got 25 per cent. [More…]
This means that of 20 members of the Country Party, 14, or 70 per cent of them, were elected on less than 50 per cent of the primary votes, and the figures ranged from 16.4 per cent to around 47 per cent or 48 per cent. [More…]
not one member of the Country Party has ever won more than SO per cent of the primary votes before being elected to this Parliament. [More…]
The only reason that we have inflation in our economy is that the previous Government thought it could buy votes with a big Budget last year and it has left us with the problems of trying to correct it. [More…]
So we should look at the question of state aid to schools in the light of Mr Santamaria’s comments and the Menzies science blocks grants which were handed out in return for DLP votes 10 years ago by a party that was historically and traditionally non-Catholic. [More…]
Sir Robert Menzies used the National Civic Council for DLP votes and to keep money flowing to GPS schools. [More…]
From memory, not one member of the Country Party has ‘ever won more than SO per cent of the primary votes before being elected to this Parliament. [More…]
He spoke in general form only and said that no ohe member of the Country Party had ever won more than 50 per cent of the primary votes before being elected to this Parliament. [More…]
I mentioned that the honourable member for Darling Downs got, I think, 17 per cent or 30 per cent of the primary votes. [More…]
He got 32 per cent of the primary votes. [More…]
In my explanation tonight I said that the honourable member for Cowper got 48.49 per cent of the primary votes of the electors of Cowper who were enrolled at the last election. [More…]
not one member of the Country Party has ever won more than 50 per cent of the primary votes. [More…]
I refer specifically to the charges he has made relating to the number of honourable members particularly of the Australian Country Party, who have been elected having won not more than 50 per cent of the primary votes on the first count. [More…]
Party in each of the last 3 general elections - without going back any further - have been elected with more than 50 per cent of the vote after the distribution of preferences, whether one takes it as formal votes or as primary votes. [More…]
But it concerns me that the Leader of the House, I believe, has thrown discredit on the Government because something like 50 per cent of the members of the Australian Labor Party in the last election received, as I understand it, something less than 50 per cent of the primary votes cast. [More…]
They failed to catch votes but they did bring hardship down on those on low and fixed incomes. [More…]
The new honour able member for Lilley (Mr Doyle) gained his seat by 35 votes at the last election. [More…]
As the honourable member for Lilley had a majority of only 35 votes, it could be the kiss of death for him, or more importantly, for Labor in the electorate of Lilley. [More…]
You cannot take votes in countries every day of the week or every 6 months. [More…]
The honourable gentleman is saying, in effect, that the Government has not many seats in the country, it does not like its prospects of winning votes there, so those who live in the country can go to Bourke. [More…]
Perhaps we in the Liberal” Party should be happy to have a person who is so willing and able to lose votes for the Government. [More…]
Its attitude on this occasion indicates that its words have had but a hollow ring, that me quality of life as judged by the Labor Party is something that is measured more by the capacity of a particular area to produce votes and win seats in this House than by a concern for the welfare of the people of that area. [More…]
The honourable member for Lilley (Mr Doyle) won his seat by only 35 votes at the last election. [More…]
That did not matter as long as honourable members opposite got the votes. [More…]
With that money they bought votes in the right area. [More…]
He said “ sourly that at each election the British unionist votes in condemnation of his own anarchy. [More…]
It is interesting to note, however, that when the second reading of the Bill was agreed to by this House on 29 May 1973, it was carried by 78 votes to 43. [More…]
It is obviously based not on justice or philosophy but on the cheap political trick of gaining votes in the large areas of population. [More…]
Many are afraid of a parliament where a political party could in effect buy votes by raising wages. [More…]
Having been a Minister in charge of 3 different portfolios I doubt whether there is a Department of State that does not somewhere or other pad expenditure votes in this country. [More…]
But it is bad parliamentary practice, it is bad for departments, it is bad for the Public Service and it ought not to be possible to pad votes in this area. [More…]
That is just showing in a slightly ludicrous fashion how particular votes can be padded. [More…]
Surely it cannot be in the best interests of the Parliament that a Party which represents quite a large section - I reject completely the actual percentage of votes that were recorded in our favour because we did not contest all the seats in the Parliament - [More…]
The honourable member suggesting the reforms is one of those great democrats who got 10 per cent of the Australian votes at the last couple of elections. [More…]
One would be laughed out of any serious discussion if one tried to prove that the Senate votes on State lines. [More…]
The suggestion made by the honourable member on behalf of his own Party that the Liberal Party could not get one-third of the votes in the Australian Capital Territory where the Public Service of Australia is based, where the residents are the people most likely in the best position in Australia to judge the performance of the Australian Government, I think is an indictment of his own Party. [More…]
As a matter of fact when I was first elected to this House I received more than 50 per cent of the votes. [More…]
We tried to acquire that land but the resumption was set aside in the Senate, not in this House, on the votes of the Country Party. [More…]
But in the place where the vote counts, in the Senate, the Country Party marshalls its votes, all 5 of them - I think it has 5 senators there - and by their vote they say: ‘Not on your life’. [More…]
The truth of my statement is that the Country Party in the place where it counts votes against increased representation for the Northern Territory. [More…]
It votes against the constituents of the honourable member for the Northern Territory. [More…]
His Party, in the place where it counts, votes against his constituents. [More…]
We are not like the Country Party which votes one way in this House and another way in the Senate. [More…]
Members are judged by their actions and votes in this place, not on what they say. [More…]
The only way to establish whether a member is a man of principle who supports the things he espouses is to see how he votes. [More…]
Frankly, if their votes are bad in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory, they should be because members opposite are denying to the people of these Territories the same rights as apply to every Australian in every part of Australia outside of the 2 Territories. [More…]
They have been particularly fair whether printing material for the Country Party, which is one of the parties in our country which receives 8 per cent of the votes and therefore should be acknowledged, or the Democratic Labor Party which is also a party in our country which receives almost 8 per cent of the vote - [More…]
I did that once and the Liberal Party could muster only 35 votes in the first division. [More…]
I do not believe that he is a man who is afraid of losing a few votes from the liquor interests in the Northern Territory should he advocate stronger action against them for serving drunken persons. [More…]
There are no votes in that action; one only loses votes. [More…]
The honourable member for Lilley (Mr Doyle), who is interjecting at the moment, holds his seat by a margin of 35 votes. [More…]
It has been said by some that there are no votes in defence these days. [More…]
Perhaps Labor will not be getting those votes in future. [More…]
I hope that the Minister for Services and Property will recognise and acknowledge the bigger mistake he made in regard to the votes recorded in favour of Country Party members. [More…]
The honourable member for Bradfield is a great reformer who talks one way in the Parliament and votes another way when the chips are down. [More…]
The honourable member for Maranoa and the honourable member for Bradfield should put their votes where their hearts are and then we on this side of the Parliament will believe that they are fair dinkum. [More…]
In my view, politicians usually shirk their duties concerning these very serious social questions because they say that there are ‘no votes in homosexuals’. [More…]
One of the major reasons why the Government has lost such a massive percentage of votes in the country is because of the jackboot tactics which the Leader of the House has adopted. [More…]
Either too many votes have been bought at too high a price at the taxpayers’ expense or the donations to political party funds have been bought, again at too high a price, at the taxpayers’ expense. [More…]
The million or so dollars which the Liberal Party has received under the lap from its multi-national friends looks petty beside the hundreds of million of dollars which the Country Party has stolen from the Australian taxpayers by way of its generous assistance schemes for rich rural interests and so-called decentralisation programs - hundreds of millions of dollars which have been spent on buying votes. [More…]
From memory, not one member of the Country Party has ever won more than SO per cent of the primary votes before being elected to this Parliament. [More…]
When the honourable member for Mackellar and other honourable members opposite decide that they want extra sitting times and to sit late hours and then they come in here and deliberately disrupt this Parliament - as the honourable member for Mackellar does - seeking to be made heroes by being thrown out and then can muster only 37 miserable votes out of 58 they are making a sham of the Parliament. [More…]
They are casting one of their most intelligent votes on this matter. [More…]
If honourable members on the Government side had any decency they would vote for this motion of no confidence because they know that, while they temporarily have a majority in this House, if we were counting the votes of the people instead of the votes of the members of the Labor Party Caucus to the last inch the majority of the votes would be for this coalition of the Liberal Party and the Country Party. [More…]
They have said that they will support him again if they have an election, provided he does not lose by too many votes. [More…]
Although America and Russia still will be best placed to be the most powerful, due to their control of resources, it will be constructive co-operation with smaller countries that will win them more votes in global and regional forums. [More…]
We all know that the last time the problem of the new and permanent Parliament House problem was referred to the Senate it voted for Capital Hill 46 votes to two. [More…]
The whole experience of this place since 1927 surely has proved over and over again that, no matter how deplorable the conditions here are, we will put up with them because there are no votes in it - if that is the cynical view honourable members take - and we will do the things for which people outside will applaud us or the things that need to be done. [More…]
Admittedly no votes are involved in this issue, but I believe that this nation would be better served if the conditions under which the national Parliament operated were improved. [More…]
But paragraph 3 of the resolution carried by the Senate goes on to say that at such a joint meeting there should be no debate on the subject matter of the alternative sites and that the question should be decided by a majority of votes. [More…]
3 votes in many cases. [More…]
Of 6,642,627 votes cast in the 6 States only 2,718,684 went to the Liberal Party or the Country Party. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party had to win some 505,042 votes above that figure to govern. [More…]
So, we will look forward later to a demonstration of his sincere desire to help the industry in his State and throughout the nation; we will be watching very carefully the way he votes on this matter. [More…]
Votes were taken but not the slightest notice was taken of the wishes of the States, as has been the accepted tradition when the Commonwealth and 6 States come together as 7 equal partners. [More…]
The facts are that when I came here in 1966 I just scraped in because I received one-third of the postal votes in my electorate. [More…]
May I recount very briefly for the Minister the manner in which postal votes are exploited and then put to him a system which I believe would be most satisfactory in the interests of all? [More…]
I believe with conviction that the exploitation of postal voting is such that it could prevent a party going out of office and ensure a party coming into power, depending upon which party is on its feet and is more agile in whizzing around and obtaining these votes. [More…]
If we look at the Australian figures we see that in 1966 there were well over 100,000 postal votes. [More…]
In fact there were approximately 150,000 postal votes. [More…]
The political parties then feed into the electoral office of the division concerned a bundle of postal votes in the morning of a particular day. [More…]
I do not trust them whether they be members of the Liberal Party, the Country Party, the Australian ‘Labor Party, the Democratic Labor Party or the Communist Party; when it comes to obtaining votes all parties are the same. [More…]
Furthermore, I have never wanted 80 per cent of the postal votes. [More…]
I take this opportunity of reminding him of completed postal vote application forms with the names and addresses filled in that have been sent out by his organisation together with an accompanying letter, not signed by the honourable member naturally because he would not breach the Electoral Act, but signed by a responsible officer, usually his campaign director - and posted to people throughout the electorate on the basis of the the card index system of postal votes for the previous election that he keeps. [More…]
I have never at any time done anything illegal in relation to postal votes. [More…]
In 1969 a Labor alderman, after the Labor Party had tried to bring up the point that the honourable member for Bowman made, said to me: ‘That little effort was worth 500 votes to you. [More…]
I should like to make one short comment on a matter that was discussed earlier by the honourable memfor Griffith (Mr Donald Cameron), namely, the obtaining of postal votes from elderly people. [More…]
There is nothing more unedifying than to see canvassers on behalf of candidates scrambling for the votes of elderly and sick people. [More…]
I offer very shortly the thought to the Minister for Services and Property (Mr Daly) for inclusion in the legislation on electoral matters which he has foreshadowed he will bring down that the right to vote of people over 70 years of age should be voluntary and not compulsory, and the seeking of postal votes from those people by canvassers on behalf of candidates should be outlawed. [More…]
If it is a requirement and if it is in the national interest that certain rural areas should have a lower telephone rental applied to them because of a lower rate of telephone usage than the urban areas, would not one have thought that, after almost a quarter of a century of Country Party dominated government, that policy would have been evolved and put into operation rather than honourable members opposite imposing upon other telephone subscribers a higher telephone rental so that they could buy more votes? [More…]
We would have bought the farm but instead honourable members opposite bought votes with public money. [More…]
Under an Act passed by a Liberal-Country Party Government for the Upper House in that State - a country dweller has 15 votes compared with one for a city person. [More…]
There was, therefore, no opportunity whatsoever for a division to be called for or put into operation and for the tellers to be asked to count the votes. [More…]
To do so, I quote from the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives for the First Session of the 26th Parliament in 1967. [More…]
The votes and proceedings continue: [More…]
The Votes and Proceedings state: [More…]
The Votes and Proceedings continue: [More…]
You called for a vote on the matter and then decided that the votes of those who were in favour of the motion would be counted. [More…]
Both secured an overall majority of total votes but a majority in only three States. [More…]
In other words, it provides for equality of the value of votes as between the States. [More…]
It is a denial of logic to suggest that, having determined that the number of members elected from each State should be determined by equal value of votes, the electoral divisions within the States should be determined on a different basis. [More…]
On 3 occasions in the last decade the Australian Labor Party has received substantially more votes than the Liberal-Country Party candidates but did not have a majority of seats in this House. [More…]
In 1954 the Australian Labor Party received just over 50 per cent of the votes. [More…]
We are being asked to support a proposal which would result in the votes of urban workingclass people, for want of a better term, having the highest value; the votes of country people having a lesser value; and the votes of urban middle-class electors having the lowest value. [More…]
The Prime Minister wants the electors in such areas to have proxy votes for the people who are ineligible to vote. [More…]
Again, the Prime Minister wants the parents to have proxy votes on behalf of their children. [More…]
This means, of course, that if the Prime Minister’s proposal had applied in 1969, and electorates had equal populations, one vote in Sydney would have been worth 1.7 votes in the electorate of Robertson for example. [More…]
Using the same kind of example in Melbourne, one vote in the electorate of Melbourne would have been worth 1.77 votes in Diamond Valley - an even bigger departure from one vote one value than would have occurred in New South Wales in 1969. [More…]
Here is a Party one of the members of which, sitting in the back, the honourable member for McMillan (Mr Hewson), was elected on 16.63 per cent of the primary votes. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party candidate who was defeated got 48 per cent of the primary votes and the Liberal Party candidate polled 24 per cent, with the Democratic Labor Party candidate getting 8 per cent and the Independent candidate 6 per cent. [More…]
The honourable member who received 16 per cent of the votes has had more say in the Parliament than the honourable member who got 80 per cent of the votes. [More…]
One way of judging whether we have a fair and democratic electoral system is to relate the percentage of votes won by a party to the seats gained by it at an election. [More…]
In Victoria the Country Party gained only 7.43 per cent of the votes at the last elections yet it has 17.65 per cent of the Victorian seats in this chamber. [More…]
In other words, does the vote at election time enable the party which polls the majority of votes to win the majority of seats? [More…]
Only twice since 1949 has the party with the highest percentage of votes - or the votes of the parties which usually distribute their second preferences to another party or parties - failed to win a majority of seats. [More…]
Taken to extremes, has the Labor Party taken to heart Neville Shute’s views as expressed in his book ‘In the Wet’ that some people should have as many as 7 votes - a vote for himself, his marriage, his family, his property, his overseas travel, his war service, and his service to the Queen? [More…]
Between 1969 and 1972, while the Australian Labor Party vote went up considerably in New South Wales, the Liberal Party vote declined by 37,673 votes and the Country Party vote rose by 14,593. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party received 430,476 votes, which was 48 per cent of the total votes cast, and had 33 members elected. [More…]
The Liberal Party received 201,608 votes, or 22 per cent of the total vote, and had 21 members elected. [More…]
In democratic Queensland, where the Country Party is in control of the coalition, the Country Party gained 181,288 votes - less than 20 per cent of the total vote - and won 26 seats. [More…]
Examining the results, it can be seen that Liberal Party candidates gained 20,320 votes more than their co-runners for 5 fewer seats. [More…]
Further, the combined votes of the Country Party and Liberal Party candidates totalled 382,896 or 47,580 fewer than the total ALP vote, but won 14 seats more than the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
The rotten position in Queensland as a result of political wheeling and dealing is that, at the 1972 State election, on average it took 13,045 votes to elect one ALP candidate, 9,600 votes to elect one Liberal and 6,972 votes to elect one Country Party member. [More…]
The magnitude of the political racketeering which has been imposed upon the people of Queensland is shown when one realises that Brisbane’s Lord Mayor at the last Brisbane City Council election received 30,000 votes more than the Country Party could muster in the whole of the State at the previous State election. [More…]
The Prime Minister proposes to restructure the Loan Council so that there will be 6 State representatives, 6 local government representatives and an additional Commonwealth representative to make 4 Commonwealth votes. [More…]
He votes for me, too, I understand. [More…]
As my colleague the Minister for Services and Property (Mr Daly) pointed out, even when the Parliament was completely unanimous, when nobody said ‘no’, when Opposition tellers could be appointed because there was no Opposition - the Speaker of the day still had the votes recorded to show that there was an absolute majority in favour of the constitution alteration Bill as required by the Constitution. [More…]
I mention in passing that the 130,700 Territory votes will not be counted in the votes of the States in order to determine whether in a majority of the States a majority of the electors voting approve the proposed law. [More…]
Our proposal is that the votes of the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory electors be included in the national aggregate vote. [More…]
They asked whether he was aware that the citizens of the Australian Territories are not entitled to vote at referendums and therefore in a series of referendums that have been foreshadowed in future months over a quarter of a million people living on the Australian mainland will be denied an opportunity to be represented in national votes on vital issues. [More…]
There would be very little difficulty in having the votes of Territorians registered and included in the overall vote of the Australian people- [More…]
This is the one that should have been taken notice of by the Government - and therefore influencing whether there was an overall majority of votes in favour or against a particular issue. [More…]
I have said this previously, and I will repeat it: It is paradoxical to find that Switzerland, the country whose procedures most resemble Australia’s - that is, an amendment passed by Parliament, by a majority of votes, in a majority of cantons and a majority overall - has had, in contrast to Australia, the greatest number of constitutional amendments. [More…]
The bait is offered that, by passing this Bill and supporting this referendum on which the Bill is based, we should give votes in a referendum to all electors in this country. [More…]
If I were not normally a charitable socialist fellow I would, of course, think that my colleagues opposite were simply trying to have 2-bob each way, as the saying goes; in other words, that they would not give votes to the people of the Territories if it came to a single straight-forward vote on the issue in this place. [More…]
The number of times the Liberal and Country Parties of Australia have achieved an absolute majority of the votes is minimal indeed. [More…]
But at the same time I agree with the Government that the votes of those in the Territories should be counted in the general total which is required of all electors to carry a referendum. [More…]
Significantly, as at 20 November 1973 he had received 1,371 votes out of 20,358 voters en rolled. [More…]
The figures relating to the Gosford electorate were: Mr Brooks, Liberal, received 10,319 votes or 52.4 per cent of the vote; Mr Dunbar, Democratic Labor Party received 637 votes or 3.2 per cent of the vote; and Mr McGowan, Australian Labor Party, received 8,744 votes or 44.4 per cent of the vote. [More…]
There is another State seat called Peats which is also totally within the electorate of Robertson and the figures relating to this seat were: Mr Hallett, Liberal, received 10,458 votes or 42.1 per cent of the vote; and Mr O’Connell, Labor, received 14,397 votes or 57.9 per cent of the vote. [More…]
The figures for the third seat of Munmorah, two-thirds of which is in the electorate of Robertson, were as follows: Mr Connolly, DLP, received 1,262 votes or 5.1 per cent of the vote; Mr Jackson, Liberal, received 7,649 votes or 30.4 per cent of the vote; and Mr Jensen, Labor, received 16,215 votes or 64.5 per cent of the vote. [More…]
To summarise the points: The Government when in Oppositon pledged to remove the excise on wine introduced in 1970 by the previous Government, the removal of which was consistently opposed by the honourable member for Angas and the honourable member for Barker by their votes. [More…]
Even the honourable member for Angas (Mr Giles) personified them when he votes against his own motions. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I seek leave to have recorded in Hansard page 578 of the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives, which records the names of the 51 members of the Opposition who voted against the adoption of clause 66 of the States Grants (Schools) Bill 1973. [More…]
The corrupt electoral system and the rigged boundaries allow him to be the leader of the major party in the coalition government, although that party receives a minority of votes in elections. [More…]
In hard political terms it virtually has no votes. [More…]
I support the form of the original Bill, particularly clause 2 (a), which would omit the words ‘in each State’ from section 128 of the Constitution, thus allowing Territorians, in both the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory, to have their votes counted at a referendum. [More…]
I will try not to look, if there are divisions on these amendments, to see on which side of the chamber the honourable member for Wilmot votes. [More…]
He arrived at this conclusion by some hypothetical comparison between metropolitan voting and votes cast by the rest of the community. [More…]
As I mentioned before, if we were to go through the forms of the House and divide the House where Standing Orders would give us opportunities to divide, it could be that another hour would be taken up while we sit here, the bells are rung, and the tellers count the votes in this House. [More…]
We did not come into office because of clever gimmicks dreamed up overnight to ensnare a few votes here and a few votes there in a desperate bid to buy the government of this country. [More…]
The people responded and decided by their votes that these were the policies most suitable to their needs and to these times. [More…]
It rests on the votes of a majority of Australian adults. [More…]
It was buying votes, as my colleague points out. [More…]
Further, in relation to specific complaints by residents in the electorate who applied for postal votes and didn’t receive ballot papers, I quote the following example: [More…]
Although we got a minority of the votes we remained in government because the then Labor Government wanted a gerrymander in 1949 to preserve its own skin. [More…]
The Government is not doing this from any intuition that it is serving democracy; the Government is doing this because it believes that such a policy will favour the Australian Labor Party in votes. [More…]
The Government wants to achieve’ a situation where the Liberal and Country parties will have to poll 60 per cent of the votes to win government and so that the Australian Labor Party will be able to win government with only 40 per cent of the votes. [More…]
A government led by the Country Party in Queensland governs with approximately 19 per cent of the vote, yet the Liberal Party which in fact received a greater percentage of the votes but fewer seats cannot govern the State because of the gerrymander. [More…]
Normally, simple arithmetic shows that the procedure is that a government needs at least 51 per cent of the votes. [More…]
Other parties make up the remainder of the votes but have not got the majority of seats. [More…]
The Liberal Party of Queensland with approximately 30 per cent of the votes has fewer seats than the Country Party. [More…]
For a time a Liberal Party government governed in South Australia with 32 per cent of the votes because of a gerrymander. [More…]
Neither would ‘I if I were he because when I look at the votes received by the honourable member for McMillan (Mr Hewson) I see that he got in with only 17 per cent of the primary vote. [More…]
Why should the Country Party want to change the system when in Queensland, with 19 per cent of the votes, not only is it beating the votes of the Liberal Party but it also has a member who could not obtain one-fifth of the votes and yet is Premier of that State. [More…]
Why would members of the Country Party want to change a system that can give them a Premier with 19 per cent of the votes of the people of Queensland? [More…]
Why change a system which enabled the honourable member for McMillan - not a very good member - to get here on 17 per cent of the primary votes? [More…]
I remind him that all the Labor Party seeks to do with any legislation affecting electoral boundaries or any other electoral matter is to see that the Party that gets the majority of the votes gets the majority of the seats. [More…]
If one has regard to their performance and to their approach one must realise that they could not win a majority of the votes because the majority of people are more sensible than to elect Country Party members because they know they are the types of people who are elected only because boundaries are gerrymandered and rigged to their advantage. [More…]
The papers and records show that it is a minority party of minority votes. [More…]
If a simple majority of votes is sufficient for election to this Parliament, if a simple majority of voters in each State, and across the Commonwealth, ds good enough, then a majority of the States should suffice. [More…]
The Minister sat at the table and assured us that under the Standing Orders all the Bills would be discussed in Committee and votes would be taken. [More…]
It is possible that the electors in the Territories could have an amendment of the Constitution foisted on them which would not have been carried by a majority of all the electors in Australia because if the Territory electors had had a vote their votes would have countervailed a majority of the electors in the whole of the States. [More…]
The last time an amendment was produced by a government of another political complexion in 1967 - the Aboriginal referendum - there were suggestions that the Constitution should be altered at the same time to give votes at referendums to electors of the Territories. [More…]
It is possible to abolish the Senate if every State votes in favour of doing so, but the Senate cannot be abolished in the usual way that the Constitution can be amended, namely, by just getting a majority of electors overall in Australia plus a majority of electors in a majority of the States. [More…]
Their votes ought to be counted in determining whether there is a majority of the electors voting in the whole of Australia in favour of the referendum. [More…]
First of all, the blue sheet which was circulated before lunch today set out very clearly the times at which the votes were to be taken. [More…]
Thirdly, I point to the voting figures in the division in question, which were 57 votes for the Government and 51 votes for the Opposition - indicating that in view of the fact that the Government had 67 members in attendance or, allowing for yourself Mr Speaker, 66 votes, 9 Government members missed the division hut only 3 Opposition members missed it, as we had 3 members away due to their own illness or illness in the family and our Leader, the right honourable member for Bruce (Mr Snedden), did not vote at any time today. [More…]
It is merely an attempt to gain a few miserable votes. [More…]
It is no wonder that there is now a case before the Court of Disputed Returns on the question of Coogee where a Labor candidate was allegdly defeated by 8 votes. [More…]
If so, in view of the forthcoming Senate election, will he clarify the position ‘for electors in order to avoid confusion and informal votes? [More…]
In view of the projected legislation dealing with the registration of political parties and, just as importantly the forthcoming Senate election, it is necessary for the people to know precisely the parties contesting elections in order that they may avoid in many ways informal votes. [More…]
So I ask the city dwellers to make sure that they vote for the National Party, and the country dwellers to make sure that they vote for the National Alliance because it is important that confusion does not force them to make what might be termed informal votes. [More…]
So the people should be aware that when they vote for the National Alliance they vote for 2 parties and, in effect they have struck the jackpot - 2 votes for one. [More…]
I hope this explanation will avoid people casting a false vote and, in effect, will avoid people casting informal votes at the forthcoming Senate election. [More…]
In the same year the United Australia Party-Country Party polled 44.26 per cent of the votes yet won only 23 seats - 2 per cent more than Labor polled but 12 fewer seats. [More…]
In 1950 Labor won 46.3 per cent of the votes and 42 seats, the Liberal-Country Party 48 per cent or 2 per cent more than Labor but 31 seats - 11 seats fewer than the Labor Party. [More…]
Of course what they do not say is that that was the percentage of the total votes cast in all Queensland. [More…]
A very different result would be obtained if the Country Party vote were quoted as a percentage of votes obtained in electorates where it fields candidates and then compared with the percentage that the Labor Party gains in seats where it fields candidates. [More…]
We have a situation in Western Australia, for instance, where in one Upper House electorate there are 85,000 electors and in another electorate there are 5,400 electors, a difference which represents an effective 15 votes for an elector in one electorate compared with one vote for an elector in another electorate. [More…]
In South Australia at the moment - and this system is about to be abolished - there is an upper House in which the party that has 56 per cent of the votes in the lower House can get only 4 to 6 seats. [More…]
In Western Australia the differential between the largest and the smallest seat in the upper House is 15 to one - a range of 85,000 votes down to 5,000, and that is a greater differential than any democratic system can stand. [More…]
After all, we are all elected to represent people and we have to represent people who do not have votes because they are not yet 18 years of age; we. [More…]
do have to represent people who do not have votes because they are not yet naturalised; we do have to represent Aboriginals who have not chosen to enrol. [More…]
The concern shown by Mr Anthony, Leader of the Country Party, for the profits of BHP must bring tears to the eyes of those country dwellers whose votes put him where he is. [More…]
Let no one who votes for the referenda and the Whitlam Government at the Senate election be heard to complain after the event that they did not know the gun was loaded. [More…]
Everybody is aware that it takes three or four weeks to finalise the counting of votes in a Senate election. [More…]
Of the continuing senators fourteen belong to the Labor Party; there are 2 independent senators - Senator Negus and Senator Townley - and in examining the results of the division in the Senate in the past year I see that Senator Negus almost always votes with the Labor Party. [More…]
It is only fair to say, however, that the less the public knows about the Country Party the more chance it has of winning votes. [More…]
An election is coming up in Western Australia and if some advantage can be gained by this - I doubt very much that there are any votes in it - and the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) thinks so, then why not bring it before the Committee ahead of the elections to let the Western Australians know that the money will be spent in Western Australia? [More…]
I do not believe that they would takethe bait but it is essential, for the Labor Party plan to get control of the Senate, to get those 31 votes and it will not scruple to employ any such device for this purpose. [More…]
I believe this is something that the people must bear in mind very closely when they cast their votes at the Senate election on 18 May. [More…]
At the recent South Pacific Conference meeting was a resolution adopted by ten votes to five condemning the French nuclear testing in the Pacific. [More…]
In fact, it did not even get a majority of the votes of the Australian people. [More…]
It won the election principally by the votes of people in Sydney and Melbourne, but nowhere else in Australia; yet it claims that it has a universal mandate to bring forward whatever form of legislation it wishes. [More…]
The last speaker, the Leader of the Australian Country Party, quite incorrectly said that the Labor Government was elected to power on the votes of the people in Sydney and Melbourne. [More…]
If the record of metropolitan votes is any indication, the new seat of Tangney will follow the political colour of the person who so ably represented Western Australia in the Senate, as will the 5 senators who will be returned. [More…]
If the Labor Party liked to complain - I am not making this complaint - it could say that when the electorate of Kambalda, which had a Labor majority, was put into Boulder-Dundas, which already had a large Labor majority, to make an inflated majority wasting Labor votes, the altering of the boundary could be called a gerrymander. [More…]
What does disturb me are the situations that one can get where one has an ultraweighting of votes so that the electoral result is not in truth the way in which the people voted. [More…]
By 35 votes. [More…]
If a story were to read: ‘Once upon a time a member of a newly elected government won a seat by 35 votes and then that government, at a time of desperation, took action to try to save that seat’ - we would have the key to the successful initiation of this Brisbane Airport project. [More…]
The Government’s action is simply a cheap political endeavour to gain some votes. [More…]
The fact is that when the votes were counted Mr Cope was the winner, and he won quite comfortably. [More…]
Mr Giles, 57 votes. [More…]
I commend his candidacy to the House and I will be most surprised if, when the ballot is taken, there are fewer than 125 votes for Mr Scholes. [More…]
The result of the ballot is: Mr Lucock 54 votes, Mr Scholes 64 votes. [More…]
In New South Wales, taking the State as a whole, the Country Party won 10.6 per cent of the first preference votes while the Liberal Party won 33.3 per cent of the first preferences, yet the Country Party was able to gain 20 per cent of the seats in New South Wales as against 24.4 per cent of the seats for the Liberal Party. [More…]
Again, in Victoria the Country Party won 7.4 per cent of the first preference votes in that State, yet managed to obtain about 18 per cent of the seats in Victoria. [More…]
I hope that the Senate will see the light and that, based upon the principle of equal votes for each State that it espouses, it will pass the legislation. [More…]
I remind him that on 29 May 1973 this Bill was carried by 78 votes to 35. [More…]
That is why because of their superior political knowledge they returned me to this House with 73.6 per cent of the votes cast at the polls. [More…]
votes before the Parliament could assemble. [More…]
We have had one or two votes in this House and I do not know just what has happened but we have certainly been winning the divisions even though we are not supposed to have won the election. [More…]
We cannot tell farmers that or we might lose votes. [More…]
It said, in a late pre-election bid for votes that it would order some other new equipment but up until now there have been no new firm orders. [More…]
We have heard criticism about the number of people who in the Northern Territory were disfranchised because postal votes did not reach their destinations, were not returned in time or reached electors after polling day. [More…]
As I was saying, the true test of the sincerity of a member of Parliament is how he votes. [More…]
When I close the debate we will watch with interest to see who, on the other side of the House, calls for a division and we will watch with interest to see which way the honourable member for the Northern Territory votes. [More…]
We will see how he votes on it. [More…]
When we ask for the cost of his scheme he can refuse to give it to us and, because the Government has a majority of the votes in this House, he can steamroll the legislation through this House. [More…]
If that is not so - if one does not apply for a secret ballot - one votes in the evening on a star night and a ballot is then conducted in a room. [More…]
more than one-half of the members who record formal votes on those ballot papers vote in favour of the amalgamation. [More…]
What is it that is wrong with a secret ballot by postal votes that causes the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) to delete those words from the Bill and use the word ‘ballot’. [More…]
Anyone who votes absent in that union is a marked man and nobody does because he knows that it would indicate him immediately as against the hierarchy and against those in control. [More…]
The members record their votes which are put in the ballot box and counted by the scrutineers. [More…]
I point out to the honourable member for Gippsland that when the counting of votes in the Sydney electorate finished the honourable member for Sydney (Mr Cope) was well in front. [More…]
On 18 May, 53 per cent of votes in New South Wales were cast for the Labor Party. [More…]
It received nearly 200,000 votes above those cast for all the Opposition parties and their allies and their offshoots combined. [More…]
Once we won a division by 1 1 votes and twice we have won them by 10 votes. [More…]
With a change of a few votes circumstances might have been created for an election. [More…]
He spoke about receiving 200,000 more votes. [More…]
Goodness me, 200,000 more votes for the Labor Party! [More…]
What he did not tell us is that the Government did not get a majority of the votes. [More…]
He was referring to the 20 per cent tolerance - shall have approximately the same number of electors, so that the votes of all electors shall be equal in value. [More…]
Does he want to use the device of the Electoral Act to try to rig boundaries to ensure that he can maximise votes in the city areas resulting in a loss of voice for country people? [More…]
In his performance in the Parliament this morning the Prime Minister indicated to his own ranks what he thought of last night’s event when he narrowly won a decision by two or three votes. [More…]
Throughout Australia and even within particular States some people’s votes are worth 50 per cent more than others- in fact, up to 90 per cent more than others. [More…]
The Committee feels constrained to say, however, that the one-fifth margin on either side of the quota Tor a State which the Act allows may disturb quite seriously a principle which the Committee believes to be beyond question in the election of members of the national Parliament of a federation, namely, that the votes of the electors should, as far as possible, be accorded equal value. [More…]
Such a possible disparity in the value of votes is inconsistent with the full realisation of democracy. [More…]
At least that is his official title; but he is generally known as the Minister for the conservation of a Labor government in office even with a minority of the votes. [More…]
Under the present system of redistribution, seats gained in Commonwealth parliamentary elections have reflected with sufficient accuracy the number of votes cast for a party or groups of parties. [More…]
One need only remember that the Labor Party polled less than 50 per cent of the votes in 1972 and again in 1974 but gained more than 50 per cent of the seats. [More…]
The Labor Party wanted to give votes to people under the voting age and to people who were not citizens by drawing up electorates on the basis of population. [More…]
In fact the Labor Party holds more seats in this House proportionally than the votes it polled. [More…]
The Labor Party polled less than 50 per cent of the votes yet it has more than 50 per cent of the seats. [More…]
The basis of its argument in fact is that the Government believes that there can be manipulation in its favour to preserve it in office with under 50 per cent of the votes. [More…]
In local government in elections for city councils most people have no votes and some have 8 votes. [More…]
Certainly the Labor Party won the election but not with a majority of the votes. [More…]
In fact, its proportion of the votes was reduced compared with the number of votes it received in 1972, its representation in the House of Representatives was reduced, it did not get control of the Senate and it lost the 4 referendum questions. [More…]
No distribution should permit a situation where a party or a coalition of parties which secures a majority of votes does not secure a majority of members in the House of Representatives. [More…]
The simple fact of life is that what the Australian Labor Party wants is 52 per cent of the parliamentary seats for about 45 per cent of the votes. [More…]
A political party like the Country Party which rarely receives more than about 10 per cent of the votes of the Australian people has a disproportionate influence on the welfare of this nation. [More…]
Looking at a few members of the Liberal Party I reckon that they have some dead votes and that if there were more cemeteries in their electorates a few of them would not be here. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party in that State won 5 seats with 46 per cent of the votes, and the Liberal party won 5 seats. [More…]
On 18 May last the Country Party polled 10.7 per cent of the votes. [More…]
I mention the following matters in order to bring the situation up to date: In Queensland, for instance, the Australian Labor Party with 48 per cent of the votes- more than the combined total of the votes of all the other parties- holds only 33 seats; yet the combined parties with 42 per cent of the votes hold 47 seats. [More…]
In Queensland it takes 13,045 votes to elect a Labor member, 9,600 votes to elect a Liberal member and 6,972 votes to elect a Country Party member. [More…]
The answer to the problem of representing country seats is not to weight the electorates for country members but to give them adequate facilities to carry out their responsibilities and to reach their electors and not by making country votes worth more than city votes. [More…]
The situation is that in 1954, 1961, 1969 and 1972, the Australian Labor Party obtained more votes than were obtained by the parties of those who sit opposite. [More…]
That principle is to ensure that every electorate shall have approximately the same number of electors, so that the votes of all electors shall be equal in value. [More…]
As the Leader of the Opposition has effectively pointed out, the real test of equitable electoral legislation is that the party which receives the majority of the votes should also receive the majority of the seats. [More…]
At that time in respect of the House of Representatives the present Government polled 49.3 per cent of the formal votes and received 5 1 .96 per cent of the seats in the new Parliament. [More…]
In fact when the vote is expressed as a ratio of the percentage of seats to the percentage of votes the result slightly favours the Labor Party. [More…]
The Opposition is on record in this Parliament as supporting the principle that all votes should have equal value. [More…]
In fact of the total votes polled, the Australian Labor Party polled about 250,000 more than the combined votes of the Liberal Party, the Country Party and the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
Gladstone once said: ‘Do our opponents believe in counting votes or weighing them?’ [More…]
It is where one gets the weighing of votes to suit a series of areas. [More…]
There is absolutely no doubt that the Australian people want a system which gives equality of value of votes for all voters. [More…]
So it was assumed that, consistent with the constitutional requirement, there would be equality of value of votes cast in elections for this Parliament. [More…]
It has been argued in this Parliament in the past that there has never been an occasion when the party with the majority of votes has not had the majority of seats. [More…]
In 1972 the Australian Labor Party gained 49.59 per cent of the primary votes and 41.48 per cent of the primary votes went to the Liberal and Country Parties. [More…]
It took that proportion of the primary votes to change the government and put the category A boys in their place. [More…]
With one exception the party that got the majority of votes formed the Government, and that is the real test. [More…]
Are the people of Australia to trust government of the future to a Country Party that can poll at best, say, 10 per cent of the votes and demand 1 6 per cent of the seats? [More…]
The justification for the Senate was the preservation of State rights, not the destruction of votes for city people. [More…]
Admittedly, as a result of the double dissolution we did remove a splinter Party which supported the Liberal Party and the Australian Country Party through thick and thin but did not have enough votes to have one person elected to the House of Representatives. [More…]
In the present situation, the Labor Party can poll 5 or 6 per cent or more of the votes than the Opposition Parties but can only obtain a narrow majority. [More…]
The facts are that in 1972 the Australian Labor Party received 49.6 per cent of the votes and 53.6 per cent of the seats and won Government. [More…]
It is a fact- the honourable members for Phillip (Mr Riordan) tried to ignore it but it is a simple fact- that the only redistribution that did not present the perfect result in terms of seats won for percentage of votes won was the 1949 redistribution which was brought in by Labor itself. [More…]
On that occasion the Labor Government tried to gerrymander the electorates and all the prima donnas wanted safe seats with a majority of about 20,000 votes. [More…]
After the South Australian elections in 1968, when the Labor Party received almost 54 per cent of the votes but were defeated in government, 20,000 people marched from the parade grounds in Adelaide to Light Square to demonstrate against the iniquitous electoral system that operated in that State. [More…]
In 9 elections held under Sir Thomas Playford ‘s Government, Labor won the majority of votes in 8 elections but it never governed during that period. [More…]
It needed only 11 more votes in one seat in that State, as my friend the honourable member for Stirling (Mr Viner) can confirm, and it would have won 60 per cent of the seats on 46 per cent of the State vote. [More…]
That principle is to ensure that every electorate shall have approximately the same number of electors, so that the votes of all of the electors shall be equal in value. [More…]
I suggest that the reason lies in the means by which the Government expects that it can influence the votes, to give it control of the Senate, in the representation from those Territories. [More…]
In 1970- the figures would be greater now, of course- a person required almost 300,000 votes to be elected as a senator in New South Wales. [More…]
In Victoria he required almost 225,000 votes. [More…]
But to be elected a senator for the Australian Capital Territory all that would have been required in 1973 was 28,000 votes and to be elected a senator from the Northern Territory all that would have been required was 10,600 votes. [More…]
If one examines the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory and considers the methods which have been adopted one can only believe that the intent of this Bill is to ensure that representation from both of those places ultimately will be secured for a Labor Government which, by the expenditure of money, buys votes. [More…]
It is by this means that we have seen developing in this country the use of patronage in order to secure votes. [More…]
That is patronage, that is corruption and that is the way in which votes can be won and it was the way in which of course, prior to the English Reform Acts, votes were won in the United Kingdom. [More…]
In 1972 the Liberal Party secured 26 per cent of the votes and again the result would have been the same and members of the Labor Party know this. [More…]
Nevertheless, I am confident, the belief of the Labor Party is that by the distribution of Government largesse and by the exercise of patronage the necessary votes can be secured. [More…]
How can there be one vote one value when 28,000 votes in the Northern Territory will elect one senator and 300,000 votes are required to elect one senator in New South Wales. [More…]
It is a Bill which would give a disproportionate influence to the Territory senators so that they would have the deciding votes in any issue on which, having regard to the equality of State representation, the major parties would be equally divided. [More…]
Each one of those State representatives is going to be prejudiced by the degree to which his voice is watered down by the addition to that chamber of additional votes by persons who are not going to be in the same way concerned with these basic economic issues which only last week in this chamber have been shown to be of so little concern to the Government. [More…]
Everyone in this chamber will watch with interest the way in which the honourable member for the Northern Territory (Mr Calder) votes on this measure. [More…]
We on this side of the chamber will watch with interest how the honourable member for the Northern Territory votes on this measure because he has consistently said that he supports Senate representation for the Northern Territory, but just as consistently he has voted with the Country Party against any measure which is designed to bring that about. [More…]
We on this side of the Parliament look with great pride to when this vote will be taken, because when the vote is taken we will see a majority of votes- as is needed under the Constitution- in this Joint Sittingto give the people of the Northern Territory the just rights for which they have been fighting since 1911. [More…]
Every member on this side of the House will be watching the performance of the honourable member for the Northern Territory to see which way he votes. [More…]
What members opposite are saying is that, so far as the Senate is concerned, 100,000 votes in the ACTU should have no value. [More…]
It will be recalled that when the motion for the second reading of the Bill was agreed to by the House of Representatives on 29 May 1973 it was carried by 78 votes to 43 votes. [More…]
Are members of the Opposition parties being so complimentary to us as to say that the Australian Labor Party will receive over twothirds of the votes in each of those Territories and thus have its senators elected? [More…]
It seems strange, putting it in the lowest possible key, to claim that these people would be full senators for the purposes of some sections of the Constitution- for example, section 22 and 23 relating to votes and quorums in the Senate- but not in others, for example, section 24 relating to the nexus between the number of senators and the number of members in the House of Representatives. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that if these Bills are passed, as the march of numbers means they will be, it is certain that every man sitting on the Government side of the chamber who votes for them will rue the day, because it is an absolute certainty that each generation will pass on its achievements or its failures. [More…]
But he sits there and consorts with the Opposition and votes for their socialist policies. [More…]
They are all variations on a theme and they all come from the magnificent promise of freedom from cost and worry, mainly from politicians in order to curry favour and win votes. [More…]
It is quite a remarkable thing that in the electorate of Kalgoorlie there was a tremendous swing in votes against a man who was highly regarded in that area but who had one great burden to carry. [More…]
But in the division this morning the Opposition could muster only 47 votes. [More…]
The position is made quite clear by reference to page 1 163 of Hansard where you will see that the motion for the adjournment of the House was carried by 56 votes to 45 votes. [More…]
He said that the motion for the adjournment was put and was carried by so many votes to so many other votes. [More…]
Mr Speaker Abbott’s ruling has been at once so comprehensive and so well observed that there is only a single recorded instance of the votes of members on a public matter being disallowed- namely, in 1 892 on a motion for a grant in aid in connection with a projected East African railway. [More…]
The informal vote throughout Australia totalled about 800,000 or 10 per cent of the votes. [More…]
In New South Wales there were 332,000 informal votes; in Victoria, 230,000; in South Australia, 82,000; in Western Australia, 60,000; in Tasmania, 26,000; and in Queensland, 65,000. [More…]
Many intelligent people cannot record votes for 73 candidates without making a mistake. [More…]
The Labor Party seeks by all its electoral proposals only to see that the candidate or Party that secures the majority of votes gets the majority of seats. [More…]
How many postal votes were cast in each electoral division in (a) the 1972 House of Representatives Election and (b) the 1 974 General Election. [More…]
It has won a lot of votes for itself in this way. [More…]
It was none other than the need to buy votes or to attempt to buy votes for the inevitable election at the end of 1972. [More…]
The second was the buying votes inflationary Liberal-Country Party Budget in August 1972. [More…]
We have had several votes in the Parliament, both in the Senate and in the House of Representatives, and there have been occasions when the Senate voted for Capital Hill and this House voted for Camp Hill. [More…]
They have not got that many votes. [More…]
We know that we will not win the votes back. [More…]
Let us turn to the west coast and the municipality of Gormanston, an area which many would think traditionally votes Labor. [More…]
That statement was made deliberately to gain votes in Tasmania. [More…]
The Opposition’s manifesto was drawn up not to cure whatever maladies this country may have but to try to win votes in all directions, even if in the process those maladies multiplied. [More…]
The right honourable gentleman has made it plain by his votes in the last Parliament and his abstentions in this Parliament that he still adheres to the patriotic views that he was the first Prime Minister to launch. [More…]
The Labor Party panders to the city dwellers because that is where the votes are. [More…]
Care.fully reading through the last one one gathers that the Liberals if they were in government would wipe the Department of Urban and Regional Development, restore a few subsidies and throw aU welfare programs into reverse or hold except in those areas where there might be a few votes. [More…]
He persisted with this ruse for 3 months until, after a couple of months of votes and constant defeat of the Opposition in this Parliament, he finally decided he had actually lost the election. [More…]
But when the Liberal Party realised that the Australian electorate appreciated the fact that a major party researched policies, cared about policies and thought about them before they opportunistically offered policies at an election to try to buy votes it realised that it should have federal conferences to try to thrash out policies. [More…]
To my mind it is a budget aimed at winning as many votes as money can buy, on the one hand, and selling to the highest bidder those votes that mean little for electoral purposes, on the other hand. [More…]
Given a few extra votes the Opposition would have had another 3 members. [More…]
I am well aware that there are dragooned votes in this House. [More…]
This might be uncomfortable for departments and Ministers but it is good for the Parliament and good for the nation because it stops people padding votes in this area or that area in a manner that no Minister can really unravel and makes sure that the Parliament understands what is happening. [More…]
I know that people who like to pad votes will not like this sort of proposal and this sort of parliamentary activity, but for the better government of Australia and for the status of the Parliament surely the wider objective can be accepted. [More…]
If they want to do that with the possibility of winning a few votes they should go right ahead. [More…]
No other geographical group will vote against the candidate of the WEO Whatever may be thought about members belonging to other groups, they will have no votes. [More…]
Although the final votes have not been counted, the way the count is going it seems as though that money may have been spent in vain. [More…]
This clause will ensure that any claim which is before an Appeal Tribunal or an Assessment Appeal Tribunal- it will apply to the boards eventually- shall be valid if decided by a majority of votes of the members present and voting. [More…]
Now it is finding that it is caught with these promises and will have to make huge increases in repatriation and other social welfare votes in order to meet those promises. [More…]
Some vital votes in my preselection ballot depended on the fact that I was able to show that a certain person suffering from Parkinsonism was able to claim repatriation benefits because at one stage some 20 years earlier he had had a pyrexia of unknown origin whilst serving in the forces. [More…]
What we are proposing, of course, is not a final scheme but it is what the Supporting Fathers Association asked for as a first step, and as such those members who have made promises to representatives of the Association when they came to see them here can now show by their votes in this House whether they are men of their word. [More…]
It will be simple and it will be illustrative to see which members of the Labor Party who have given pledges to get votes will now cross the floor and vote on a social service matter in accordance with their conscience. [More…]
This 4Vi page address was delivered by the Prime Minister at the Evans Deakin shipyards on 2 October 1972, at a time when he was looking for votes and seats. [More…]
It is an electorate in which the Australian Labor Party came within 720 votes of winning representation in 1972 but in which it was soundly thrashed in 1974 because of its subsequent actions. [More…]
The day is over when the Government can win votes by talking. [More…]
Honourable members opposite may find this debate very useful, politically, in endeavouring to gather a few votes. [More…]
We should not adopt foreign policies simply because they mean a few extra votes here in Australia. [More…]
The fact of life is that the Opposition is doing it with the simple objective of obtaining a few petty votes. [More…]
-The Minister for Services and Property would be aware that the senior partner of the Queensland coalition Government received 19 per cent of the votes in the last Queensland election. [More…]
In answer to the honourable member for Port Adelaide let me say that it is true that the Queensland Premier survives on 19 per cent of the votes of the guided democracy known as Queensland. [More…]
I understand that on the last occasion both the Liberal Party and the Labor Party got more votes than the Country Party but obtained less seats. [More…]
The Labor Party, with more votes than any of the other parties, got less seats than the other parties combined. [More…]
Undoubtedly he is quite confident of success because even a most unskilled politician ought to be able to win if he requires only 19 per cent of the votes. [More…]
I can assure them that under the democratic proposals of the present Whitlam Government such a state of affairs will never happen in the Federal arena where people will have to get the majority of the votes to get the results that are necessary in any democracy, and that is democratic majority rule. [More…]
Can the Minister assure the House that in view of his emphatic endorsement of the principle of properly drawn electoral boundaries his Government will dissociate itself from the submission lodged with the New South Wales Electoral Commissioners by the New South Wales branch of the Australian Labor Party and which if implemented would produce, on the basis of the 1 974 election results, 29 ALP seats out of 45 in New South Wales and, in percentage terms, 64 per cent of the seats in New South Wales although that Party in the May election polled a mere 52 per cent to 53 per cent of the primary votes? [More…]
That was to win union votes. [More…]
That was to win the consumer votes. [More…]
What was the proportion of formal votes cast for candidates of (a) the Australian Labor Party; (b) the Liberal Party of Australia; and (c) the Australian Country Party- (i) at polling booths within the electors’ subdivision; (ii) by absentee votes; and (iii) by postal votes in each State and Territory at the election for the House of Representatives held on 18 May 1974. [More…]
To supply polling booth statistics relating to percentage of first preference votes to formal votes recorded, in each of the categories specified, would require more than thirty thousand calculations, a task which is beyond the current resources of the Australian Electoral Office. [More…]
These Forms set out the number of votes polled by each candidate at each polling booth, together with number of absentee and postal votes polled by each candidate for the Division as a whole. [More…]
When one thinks of the infinite number of debates we had on Vietnam until Vietnam went sour and the Opposition would not debate the subject because there were no votes in it. [More…]
These include: optional preferential marking of ballot-paper; printing of party affiliations of candidates on ballot-papers; registration of political parties for purposes of identification and printing of affiliations on ballot-papers; introduction of mobile polling booths at hospitals and similar institutions; drawing for positions of candidates on House of Representatives ballot-papers; closing of the polls at 6 p.m. rather than 8 p.m.; requiring a candidate changing his name within 12 months prior to nominations to declare the change, and providing for the former name to be included on the ballotpaper; prevention of persons enrolling or nominating for election under changed names in certain circumstances; an earlier deadline for the return of postal votes and for the return of postal votes direct to respective returning officers; restricting postal vote application forms to be used at an election or referendum to those specified by notice in the Gazette; prohibiting the listing of names of persons who apply for postal votes, except in certain specified circumstances; providing postal voting facilities for prisoners who have retained their franchise entitlements; increasing the amount of deposit required with nomination and varying the conditions under which deposits may be saved; preservation of the voting entitlement of Australian citizens posted overseas in the service of the Crown, and retention on the roll of the name of an elector temporarily absent from his address; precluding nomination for election to the Australian Parliament of a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory or the Australian Capital Territory; prevention of a person from nominating as a candidate for more than one Federal election held on the same day; protection of candidates against the issue of misleading how-to-vote cards; change in qualifications for enrolment, voting and candidature from ‘British subject’ to ‘status of a British subject’; eliminating the need to state the address of author in the case of broadcasting or telecasting of political matters; the manner of announcing the name of an author of political matter on radio or television; responsibility for publication of matter or comment of a political nature in the Press between issue of the writ and the close of the poll; removal of the restriction on exhibition of electoral posters within a hall or room being used for political party meetings; provision of support staff for Distribution Commissioners; authority for alterations to the roll when a street is renamed or renumbered; lowering the permissible age of presiding officers or assisting presiding officers to 18 years; appointment of substitute assistant returning officer at places outside Australia in certain circumstances; increases in penalties for failure to enrol; the provision of fines as an alternative to imprisonment where relevant; amounts of monetary penalties to match imprisonment terms; amendment of questions to be put to voters by presiding officers; conversion of distances to metric measurements; use of ‘given names’ in lieu of ‘Christian names’; candidates making gifts, donations, etc., prior to an election; retitling of the Act. [More…]
Firstly, it is proposed that an earlier deadline be fixed for the return of postal votes. [More…]
Secondly, it is proposed that postal votes be returned direct to the relevant returning officer, by the elector or his agent, rather than through an assistant returning officer, some other returning officer or a presiding officer as allowed under the existing law. [More…]
At present, a period of 10 days’ grace after polling day is allowed for the receipt of postal votes by the relevant returning officer, of votes posted direct to him. [More…]
For instance, under the proportional representation system used for the Senate, the quota for an election cannot be determined, nor can the count commence, until the exact number of formal votes cast is known. [More…]
At the recent Senate election, the precise number of formal votes was unknown until over 2 weeks after polling day. [More…]
While the proposed introduction of optional preferential marking of ballot papers will speed up the counting process, especially for the Senate, this advantage will be largely lost if it remains necessary to wait for postal votes for up to 10 days after polling day. [More…]
It is therefore proposed that postal votes be returned so as to reach the appropriate returning officer not later than the close of the poll. [More…]
As far as can be ascertained, no other country allows the admission of votes returned after polling day. [More…]
This Bill also makes provision for votes to be recorded at specially designated hospitals and institutions before polling day itself. [More…]
As the Government is particularly anxious, as I feel all honourable members are, to prevent unscrupulous persons taking advantage of aged or infirm electors, it is also proposed to prohibit the inspection of postal vote applications for the purpose of listing of names of persons who apply for postal votes at an election, except where such listing is genuinely required in connection with an inquiry into possible malpractices. [More…]
In order to prevent any possible misunderstanding, I must stress that people who, because of their religious beliefs, are precluded from voting during certain hours will retain the right to apply for postal votes. [More…]
Table I- Percentage of informal votes recorded at Senate elections 1949-1974. [More…]
Table IV- Number of postal votes admitted to the scrutiny at the 1972 and 1974 House of Representatives elections. [More…]
Table V- Summary of votes for political parties showing the votes recorded, Seats won and percentages in respect of the Senate elections held on 18 May 1974. [More…]
Table VI- Summary of votes for political parties showing the votes recorded, seats won and percentages in respect of the House of Representatives elections held on 18 May 1974. [More…]
Despite the fact that the Country Party rejects this percentage description as being a true indication of the support for the Party in Queensland, if it is examined on a seat by seat basis it will be seen that the coalition parties in Queensland with 42 per cent of the votes in the last State election got 47 seats in the Legislative Assembly, compared with the Labor Party which polled 48 per cent of the votes and got only 33 seats. [More…]
Do not forget that this is not an area that votes 70 per cent Liberal; it is an area that at the last election voted 55 per cent Labor. [More…]
I think that he was one of the first to get sufficient votes to ensure election. [More…]
It has raised interest rates to the highest level in our history and it had done that by insisting upon buying votes through spending in the Government sector. [More…]
It is significant that last April and May when the Country Party, with the Liberal Party tagging along, made its illfated effort to change the Government, there was never any suggestion by the Leader of the Country Party or the Leader of the Liberal Party that if they again failed to secure a majority in the House of Representatives they would try to use votes in the Senate, which is always more evenly balanced in numbers, to deny supply again. [More…]
If honourable gentlemen wish to have the precise text and votes, then I would ask them to put questions on notice. [More…]
It may mean, of course, as it turned out in May 1 974, that the Labor Party was denied a majority in the Senate, not because people did not want it but because of the system, because of the informal votes for Senate candidates cast in the safe Labor electorates. [More…]
In the electorates of Sydney; Grayndler, the seat of the Minister for Services and Property; Hunter; Chifley; Newcastle and Cunningham- it will be a long time before the Liberal Party holds any of these electorates- the proportions of informal votes were: 20 per cent, 1 6 per cent, 1 5 per cent, 1 4 per cent, 1 4 per cent, and 1 1 per cent. [More…]
All one knows is that one votes for one’s team. [More…]
Perhaps one knows for whom one votes first and second but from then on it is a guess to make sure that one numbers the ballot from one to seventy three and that nothing happens in the meantime to make it an informal vote. [More…]
The top percentages of informal votes of course are always in Labor held electorates. [More…]
Under the present system we must wait 10 days after an election for postal votes to come in, so that we have speculation in the newspapers every day about which Party is going to govern Australia. [More…]
We see news stories to the effect that there are six more votes to come from New Zealand, five more to come from Coolangatta, two more to come from the United Kingdom, seven more to come from France or somewhere. [More…]
The votes of hundreds of thousands of voters were not counted because of the system. [More…]
In his protesting too much I think the honourable member reveals why the Government is pressing this Bill through with indecent haste- that is, that the system, as the honourable member for Port Adelaide pointed out, works against certain Labor electorates with the percentage of informal votes, and what is being dressed up in the cause of a very democratic and just procedure is really something that Labor wants to alter in some ways because it can see some advantage to itself in these alterations. [More…]
Rarely in a multiple party system does the final vote on first past the post voting bring with it a majority of votes for the party which is elected to government. [More…]
If one looks at the votes for the Liberal Party in Britain where up to 20 per cent of the people have voted for that Party in recent elections, 20 per cent of the people of Britain are virtually disenfranchised because of first past the post voting. [More…]
If one considers the present system in Australia where preferences are distributed, at the last elections the party that gained the greatest percentage of votes- it amounted to more than 50 per cent- is now in government. [More…]
With first past the post voting and multiple parties the chance of having a government elected on the majority of votes is reduced dramatically. [More…]
Under this system we add the numbers given to the votes for each candidate and the person with the lowest number is elected because he has the highest number of first or second preferences. [More…]
Three weeks after Australian citizens had cast their votes nobody knew which Party would govern or which Party had the majority in the Senate. [More…]
Seventy per cent of people who vote in elections at present cast second, third and fourth preference votes which are never counted. [More…]
One gets in dummy runners so as to ensure that one’s opponent receives the lowest number of votes. [More…]
I believe also that reduction of the informal vote is desirable because it will significantly reduce the time taken in counting the ballot papers, in counting the votes, in determining the result of an election, and that is important in a democratic society. [More…]
We all know that there are ways of nullifying postal votes taken in hospitals and rest homes and elsewhere. [More…]
I do not think that honourable members opposite would suggest that we should introduce that system here, but, in essence, that is the best system of all because on 2 separate occasions if a candidate does not get an absolute majority of primary votes on the first count people are forced to direct their minds to making a decision as to which of the three or four or whatever the number of candidates is they will vote for. [More…]
In the elections in Britain in February 1974 the Liberal Party polled 6 million primary votes, the Conservative Party polled just on 1 1 million primary votes and the Labour Party polled just on 1 1 million primary votes, yet in the House of Commons the Liberal Party got 14 seats and the other 2 parties got almost 300 seats each. [More…]
To compel people to vote and then to reduce their opportunities for casting their votes is, I think, an extremely odd form of electoral justice. [More…]
Of course, the truth of the matter, as honourable members opposite and all of us know, is that the real delay of 2, 3 or 4 weeks occurred because of the final calculation of the votes for Senate vacancies in the various States. [More…]
Postal votes are almost exclusively preserved for Liberal candidates in the electorates around Brisbane that I know of. [More…]
How disgraceful it is when party politics stoop to this level, when Liberal canvassers solicit votes in this way from the aged and infirm in nursing homes. [More…]
Let it be denied that scrutineers and canvassers for the Liberal Party, in particular, have gone to nursing home after nursing home and have stood over these people, the aged and the infirm, to extract votes for their candidates. [More…]
He believed that the Labor Party had supremacy as far as the collection of postal votes were concerned in his electorate. [More…]
It has changed to the extent that the Liberal Party in Griffith during the last election campaign was prepared to advertise in local newspapers and was prepared to solicit postal votes from people in the electorate of Griffith. [More…]
In fact, it was soliciting postal votes. [More…]
1 per cent of the total first preference votes counted and I, the successful Labor candidate, polled 51.14 per cent. [More…]
But at that election the Liberal Party gained 47.14 per cent of the postal votes whereas the Labor Party gained only 44 per cent. [More…]
In 1972 the Labor Party polled 55.2 per cent of the formal first preference votes and the Liberal Party gained a massive total of 39 per cent. [More…]
But in that year the Liberal Party gained 41 per cent of the postal votes as compared with 5 1 per cent for the Labor Party. [More…]
The Act requires, in relation to an election for the House of Representatives, a candidate to gain 20 per cent or one-fifth of the total number of first preference votes polled by the successful candidate in order to avoid forfeiture of his deposit paid upon nomination. [More…]
The proposal is to amend the Act so that the candidate retains his deposit if the total number of votes polled in his favour as first preference votes is more than 10 per cent of the total number of first preferences polled in the election. [More…]
On the basis that it has, my scheme aims to superimpose the entire preferential voting pattern of a candidate on to the vote of the elector who votes for that candidate only. [More…]
If a party, person or government seeks, by legal means, to deny a disadvantaged section of the community its voting rights this can be achieved by placing complications or difficulties in the way of voting which will prevent a substantial proportion of the population from casting formal votes. [More…]
In the last Senate election a deliberate nomination of candidates took place in New South Wales for the purpose of creating informal votes- in your electorate, Mr Speaker, 20 per cent of the votes cast for the Senate were informalto the advantage of a political party which suffers least from the casting of informal votes. [More…]
-I say that because the proportion of informal votes in Labor seats was nearly double on average the proportion of informal votes in Liberal seats, and the margin between 6 seats and 5 seats in New South Wales was only 4 per cent. [More…]
-What I am saying-I think if you look at the statistics I will not need to say it too often- is that the order in which the seats rank in accordance with the percentage of Labor votes almost exactly relates to the order in the number of informal votes cast in the Senate election. [More…]
You would also seek to deny them the full value of their vote by giving your friends, supposedly disadvantaged millionaire farmers, 2 votes to their one. [More…]
Before the sitting was suspended, the honourable member for Bennelong (Mr Howard) said that an example of the effect of taking away compulsory preferential voting would be what happened to the Liberal Party in England where that Party gained 25 per cent of the votes and won no seats in the House of Commons. [More…]
What it did was take away any disadvantage which may have been suffered by the Liberal Party through votes going to the DLP. [More…]
In England, had a compulsory preferential voting system applied, possibly the Liberal Party votes would have gone to the Conservatives and the Conservatives may have won additional electorates. [More…]
There are a number of provisions in this Bill which will, I believe, assist electors to cast valid votes. [More…]
That is, after all, the important thing- giving electors an opportunity to cast valid votes. [More…]
There are people who actually cast their own votes without assistance. [More…]
In the existing situation, if a person voting in New South Wales at the last election had correctly numbered his Senate card from 1 to 7 1 and had repeated or left out one of the last three numberseven though it might have been for a candidate who had less than 100 votes in the State and would have been the first eliminated; therefore the order of preferences would have made no difference at all to his vote, it would not have been counted- that person’s vote was wiped out. [More…]
I use the obvious example of the 2 parties which had substantial minority votes in the last election- the Australian Party and the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
The situation with regard to the Senate under the proposed system would be that in all but a very small number of cases the number of votes required to be cast would cover the candidates elected. [More…]
I am not sure what is meant by ‘an earlier deadline for the return of postal votes and for the return of postal votes direct to respective returning officers’. [More…]
Does this mean that postal votes will have to be returned to all returning officers by the close of the poll? [More…]
To my mind the proposal for the return of postal votes is completely impractical. [More…]
How in the name of fortune will these people lodge their votes? [More…]
Another provision refers to prohibiting the listing of names of persons who apply for postal votes, except in specified circumstances. [More…]
I think the non-provision of such votes could be classified as one of the penalties of serving a sentence. [More…]
Some informal votes will arise from voting papers deliberately cast as informals. [More…]
Every effort should be made to reduce the number of informal votes cast by those desirous of recording an effective vote. [More…]
In these circumstances the counting of votes would be complicated by the need to check the votes for accuracy and the number of informal votes might not be significantly reduced. [More…]
These votes would be easy to check and easy to count. [More…]
The number of preferences to be distributed would in a significant number of cases be distributable in accordance with the registered how-to-vote card, and these votes could be separately counted and their prospective destination brought into account in making assessments as to the result of the election. [More…]
In these instances the result would be available without it being necessary for other preference votes to be individually scrutinised. [More…]
This simplified preferential system would be far more effective than optional preferential voting, not only in leading to the speedier finalisation of election results but also in simplifying voting procedures, assisting the convenience of electors and reducing the number of informal votes. [More…]
When we turn to the amendments which are designed to alter the circumstances in which postal votes are to be submitted we find that their effect is to reduce the franchise. [More…]
In some States there were public holidays after the weekend on which the election was held and, as a consequence, there was a significant rise in absentee and postal votes. [More…]
Any change in the law should be aimed at making it easier, not more difficult, for people to record their votes. [More…]
The argument that the law as to postal votes needs to be changed to allow for a speedier finalisation of results is a specious one. [More…]
There is no more difficulty for a government in office to administer the affairs of the nation until a count of votes is completed than there is for it to do so during the election campaign itself. [More…]
In each instance the tightening of the time limits imposed for the lodging of postal votes have the effect of depriving people of their franchise. [More…]
For years the Australian Labor Party has espoused support for the view that all votes should have an equal value, yet in a most hypocritical fashion it proposes a law which is designed to prevent people from having a say in the determination of the government in their country. [More…]
The Opposition stands condemned if it votes against the proposals which it endorsed itself. [More…]
It only adds to the number of informal votes. [More…]
Does the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) sincerely believe that the Queensland method of regimenting postal votes is democratic in State and Federal politics in Queensland? [More…]
Optional preferential voting will give to the people of Australia the opportunity to vote without there being a waste of countless thousands of informal votes. [More…]
The introduction of mobile polling booths will bring to people who are sick, aged and infirm the opportunity to cast democratic votes. [More…]
Why should not postal votes be in on the night of the election? [More…]
I can tell the people of this country that in the last election Labor lost a seat on postal votes because a lot of people voted after 8 o ‘clock on the night in question but signed that they had voted before that time. [More…]
Any Labor member who votes against this motion and who supports the Government will be a traitor to his own conscience, knowing that the Government has caused so much economic and social disruption and destruction. [More…]
Again he is courting popularity and seizing on what he hopes might bring him votes. [More…]
By the curiosity of the Standing Orders we were in the position where committee members on one side of the House could appoint the chairman, but the chairman would not have a deliberative vote and so committee members from the other side of the House would actually have a majority of the votes. [More…]
That is, if the Government appointed the chairman, the 2 members of the Liberal Party and the one member of the Country Party would represent 3 votes and there would be only 2 votes from the Government side. [More…]
We have to gain about 55 per cent to 56 per cent of the votes cast to secure sufficient seats in that Queensland Parliament to become the government of the State. [More…]
Secondly, according to the map supplied to the Distribution Commissioners for the proposed Federal redistribution, it is proposed that the Australian Labor Party will get 62 per cent of the seats with 49.6 per cent of the votes, as in the May election. [More…]
One has only to look at the votes attracted by Labor leaders like the late Mr Forgan-Smith, the late honourable E. M. Hanlon and ex-Senator Gair, at whom members of the Opposition were sneering in the course of the contribution made a few minutes ago by the honourable member for Gippsland. [More…]
It is a fact that there are a number of nursing homes in the metropolitan area of Brisbane where the Liberal Party receives privileged access in terms of applying for postal votes or electoral visitor votes in the State election campaign and in distributing how-to-vote cards and pamphlets and in actually placing people on the roll. [More…]
But it is a serious situation when many elderly people can have their votes manipulated in the interests of the Liberal Party. [More…]
For years I had been getting only 2 votes out of eighty-seven, and at the last election I got four. [More…]
He would cost the Labor Party more votes than ever. [More…]
To overcome this impediment to its operations, this company decided in November 1973 to sponsor a change in the articles of the company to limit the votes of the New Zealand shareholders to 14.9 per cent of the total votes. [More…]
By this means, Brierley Investments Ltd exercised approximately 42 per cent of the votes, well above the 15 per cent cut-off to foreign companies under the legislation. [More…]
The tragedy is that politicians disregard them because there are no votes in looking after the homeless. [More…]
Although making eloquent statements on both sides of the House about a fundamental grass roots problem may make us feel better and may get us votes in the election, it will not solve the general problems of soil conservation. [More…]
The costs of travel for departmental officers are shown in the Act against the votes of the departments concerned. [More…]
In New South Wales last May the Australian Labor Party secured 52.7 per cent of the votes cast for the House of Representatives while the LiberalCountry Parties secured 44 per cent. [More…]
For the Senate the Labor Party obtained 50 per cent of the formal votes and the Liberal-Country Parties 41.7 per cent of the formal votes. [More…]
Senator Murphy, as he then was, secured 200 000 more votes than did his nearest competitor who headed the Liberal-Country Party team. [More…]
I went very well, and 12 votes in the Labor Party are worth 100 in the Liberal Party. [More…]
The proposal failed only narrowly to obtain an overall majority of the votes. [More…]
The proposed law received a majority of yes votes in the most populous State, New South Wales, and was only narrowly lost in Victoria and South Australia. [More…]
The Prime Minister went to Europe and said that oil prices should go up; he came home and for the narrow purpose of votes tried to pretend that a man had said something he had never said. [More…]
Such is the manipulation of the electoral laws in Queensland that the present Premier and his Party could win an absolute majority in the Queensland Parliament with 33 per cent of the total votes in that State. [More…]
He criticised the Country Party and the Premier of Queensland because they had such a low percentage of votes. [More…]
Will he confirm or deny that the recent Australian Labor Party Federal Conference, where he and others learned to drive backwards in a desperate attempt to regain votes, cost approximately $100,000, including the cost of accommodation, overtime- including swimming time- transport, installation of a new switchboard and telephones, security, use of parliamentary typing pool staff, and even barbecues. [More…]
-No, but it got more votes than the Country Party. [More…]
A person like John Singleton and all his mates can march up to a political party and say: ‘If you want to win this election this is the way to do it: Forget about telling someone for 10 minutes that you have a good policy on a peace zone in the Indian Ocean or that you support equal rights for women because that is not the way in which to win votes’. [More…]
The Bill was passed by 355 votes to 48 less than 2 hours before he tendered his resignation. [More…]
He was speaking of the proposal relating to the referendum- failed only narrowly to obtain an overall majority of yes votes. [More…]
The proposed law received a majority of yes votes in the most populous State New South Wales and was only narrowly lost m Victoria and South Australia. [More…]
Notwithstanding the fact that he was floored for the political full count by the honourable Joh Bjelke-Petersen in the recent Queensland State elections- I liked the remarks of the honourable member for Corio when he said that they were democratic elections, and I thank him for that admission and for the accuracy of his political comment and that he was defeated by a majority of 3.75 million votes to 3.5 million votes on 18 May last, on his own admission, on the self same referendum issues he now seeks to introduce the proposal again. [More…]
In his second reading speech the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) said that the proposal failed only narrowly to obtain the overall majority of yes votes. [More…]
He failed to say in his second reading speech that the proposal failed dismally to obtain the majority of votes in the States as required by the Constitution. [More…]
In fact, the proposal received a majority of votes in only one of the States. [More…]
Again- and I use this phrase which is one which the Prime Minister is so fond of using- the will of the people is expressed by the votes that they cast at that election at which the person chosen to fill the casual vacancy is put forward. [More…]
Where an amalgamation is submitted to a ballot or ballots in accordance with this Part, the amalgamation shall be taken to be approved if, in the ballot, or each of the ballots, if more than one, more than one-half of the members who duly record formal votes vote in favour of the amalgamation. [More…]
more than one-half of the members who record formal votes on those ballot papers vote in favour of the amalgamation. [More…]
If the absent votes come in one after the other against the ruling junta in the AMWU at the time, the names of the persons who made those absent votes are known. [More…]
To say that the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union would keep the names of those who applied for postal votes is a dastardly untruth. [More…]
That a committee be set up to inquire into and report upon allegations that some Members of this House are under obligation to give their votes in this House at the direction of an outside body or bodies. [More…]
The Treasurer (Dr J. F. Cairns) beat him by 25 votes to 24 votes on that one. [More…]
If we look strictly at the motion which has been moved, it is an unsubstantiated allegation that in votes taken in this House honourable members have been subjected to somebody else’s direction. [More…]
The motion we are debating deals with votes in this House. [More…]
Where are the specific votes in this House in which an honourable member voted against what he wanted to do? [More…]
is in a position to cast, or control the casting of, more than one-half of the maximum number of votes that might be cast at a general meeting of the firstmentioned corporation; or [More…]
Another is none other than the Leader of the Country Party (Mr Anthony), the principal saboteur of parliamentary democracy in Australia, a man who will go to any lengths to prevent us from having decent parliamentary elections where all people’s votes count equally and a man who at every question time in this House will use his capacity and his special position to break up question time so that no longer can there continue one of the important traditions of this Parliament, namely, that Ministers stand here and answer in the public place and be heard publicly. [More…]
I hope that when the House votes on the Minister’s amendment it will do so uncluttered by any considerations of delay or frustration that may occur in the passage of this legislation. [More…]
He adopted them, but of course when we bring them in he votes against them. [More…]
Because the Labor Party received about 50 per cent of the votes at the last election, the Minister thinks he has a mandate to carry out something that he can impose upon the whole of the Australian people. [More…]
Other members of Parliament who would like to support this legislation are afraid to do so because they represent borderline electorates and sectarian votes may be organised to get rid of them. [More…]
That Committee operates within the framework of government policy, not challenging policy but in a manner that does not allow departments or Ministers to pad votes. [More…]
A couple of hundred more votes in 3 seats would have made him the Prime Minister, not the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
What a cheap and nasty way to attempt to get the votes of the Australian people by showing concern. [More…]
We are wondering when the next seven or eight names are going to be announced, because the Leader of the Opposition got 37 votes and it is only right that the other six should be included. [More…]
One can hardly expect the percentage of informal votes to be less than they were at the last election. [More…]
The highest percentage of informal votes is 3.7 and the percentages range down to one point something. [More…]
The Government will not reduce the informal votes below that percentage. [More…]
I suppose of all the public servants no men stand higher in public esteem than those who count the votes, particularly the man who controls and appoints the State electoral officers. [More…]
The Labor party did not even ask for a recount in the electorate of Stirling where there was a 12-vote majority because it has trust in the integrity of those who count the votes. [More…]
The Government seeks to have electoral reform whereby citizens of Australia in casting their votes will be able to do so with knowledge, with understanding, being able to identify clearly the persons who are offering themselves for election. [More…]
On a personal basis, the honourable member may get a few votes. [More…]
The most obvious exercise that has ever been undertaken to ensure that many candidates contest a ballot in order to bemuddle the people was undertaken, of course, during the Senate selection that was conducted together with the House of Representatives election following the double dissolution in 1974 in relation to which a political research team discovered that the Australian Labor Party would lose 80 per cent of the additional informal votes for every candidate above the number of 40 who ran at that election. [More…]
Elements such as the period of polling, the way in which postal votes can be recorded, and the amount of deposits all form part of that system of fairness. [More…]
The document states that, if a great number of candidates can be nominated for Senate elections, this will cause so many informal votes that certain parties could be defeated. [More…]
These people are working on the basis that in the very heavily industrialised seats represented by the Labor Party the proportion of informal votes would be the greatest, and the document goes on to prove this chapter and verse. [More…]
When we consider that, amongst the 73 candidates, some received only 150 votes out of about 2 million votes, nobody could say that these were not frivolous candidates. [More…]
I do not think it would mitigate against any serious contender for political honours, and it certainly would stop those who nominate and get 23, 50 or 150 votes, out of a couple of million, causing not only great inconvenience to some individuals but also great cost and at the same time a tremendous number of informal votes. [More…]
Either they will have to alter the Senate system of voting to make it simpler so that the number of candidates will not matter in relation to the number of informal votes, or they will have to face up to what is a reasonable amount for the deposit. [More…]
In the first place, the Minister referred to the number of informal votes. [More…]
But if he were to examine the informal votes in the election we all have in mind- the Senate election for New South Wales in which there were 73 candidates- he would find that the informal percentage was not greatly different from the percentage in the election held in 1 96 1 . [More…]
Either they thought the candidates were frivolous or they thought they were of insufficient weight; but, whatever the reasoning was, those candidates did not get many votes as a percentage, and that is what matters in a Senate count under the proportional representation system that we use. [More…]
That amendment is consequent on the decision that postal votes must be returned to the respective divisional returning officers by the close of the poll. [More…]
That proposition is put forward simply in connection with the motion which was moved elsewhere and is in line with the Opposition’s view that in a condition of compulsory voting there should be no restriction on the facilities that are provided and that therefore the cut-off time at the end of the polling day- be it 8 o’clock or 6 o’clock ultimately- will represent the end of the receipt of votes that can be included in the count. [More…]
In relation to the return of the postal votes, under the postal voting system it is possible at this stage to vote after the close of the poll on the Saturday night. [More…]
That is one reason why the postal votes ought to be in the electoral office on the night of the poll. [More…]
So this clause makes an attempt not to prevent people from voting but to see that all votes are in on the night the election is held. [More…]
In practically every country if the votes are not in on the night of the poll they are not counted. [More…]
People know by half past 10 or 11 o’clock at night who has won the election because the votes are in the box. [More…]
There can be no doubt, as a result of the common form which has existed over the years, that people who consider themselves smart electioneers have been able to manipulate the manner in which they are able to get people to cast postal votes. [More…]
Conditions exist under which people are eligible for postal votes. [More…]
Firstly, many people who cast postal votes perhaps do not want to vote at all but are coerced into voting. [More…]
Secondly, many people who cast postal votes are not eligible to do so because they do not comply with the laws set down on the postal vote form. [More…]
By looking at the figures concerning postal votes that were cast one can see how expert the political parties of Australia are becoming at going around hospitals, nursing homes and old folks’ homes trying to make people vote when in fact they do not want to vote or they have an excuse for not voting. [More…]
There is no doubt that the people involved- not just the political parties but all candidates- are becoming increasingly aware, particularly in the marginal electorates, of the importance of postal votes. [More…]
This is a patently very obvious method of doing away with their votes. [More…]
The one great characteristic of the Australian voting system, which has been denigrated, rubbished and criticised, is that it is the only voting system in the world which is designed to guarantee that nobody is elected unless he gets 50 per cent plus one of the votes. [More…]
This proposed amendment has in it the ingredients to destroy the proposition that nobody can be elected in Australia unless they receive 50 per cent of the votes plus one vote. [More…]
The Government is seeking to provide by this legislation that a person can be elected with less than 50 per cent of the votes. [More…]
I can say only that the Minister for Services and Property, who has been good at getting votes himself, has had this proposition put on him by someone else. [More…]
So, I do not think in these provisions we ought to be concentrating on improving the percentage of informal votes. [More…]
He said that in Britain postal votes have to be in by the close of the polls. [More…]
What the Government would do by maintaining this provision would be to cut out a number of people who are at present able to register postal votes either because of delays in mail, because of remoteness, or because a person was ill and put off voting for a few days. [More…]
People in country areas ought to be assisted to cast their votes for the candidates of their choice rather than prevented from doing it. [More…]
How does the honourable member think that they will get postal votes in in time? [More…]
We know that even with the period that is provided now some votes are received too late. [More…]
It refers to those people in remote areas and to the difficulty that they have in getting postal vote application forms and ballot papers in time and in having them returned so that their votes can be counted- in fact, so that these people can vote. [More…]
What is suggested here is that the divisional returning officer for a division that exceeds 26 000 square kilometres shall keep a register to be called the ‘Register of General Postal Voters’, and such persons shall receive automatically application forms for postal votes. [More…]
Presumably it is because they think that these votes will not favour the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
I take this opportunity to make a plea to anyone who might be listening in these remote areas to do their best to get these votes in, even if it means considerable inconvenience in travelling to a booth because of the uncertainty of the mails. [More…]
Of course our complaint is that postal votes come in long after the booths are closed and Australia and the rest of the world has to wait to see who is to govern this country. [More…]
Of course under the Opposition’s proposal a returning officer on the night on which the poll closes could say: ‘There is only 50 votes difference between the sitting member and the candidate for the other major political party’. [More…]
He would immediately look at the postal voting register to see how many people he had not received votes from and would have an immediate check on whom he could get in touch with to go out and see those persons to make sure that some son of postal vote was recorded on behalf of those people. [More…]
Then he would make sure that there was some evidence that the votes were posted before 6 p.m. or 8 p.m., whatever is the time specified in this Bill when it is finally passed. [More…]
We say that Australia has to wait far too long for the return of those postal votes to get a decision for the country. [More…]
Under section 89 (3) as it now stands, applications for postal votes are open for public inspection from and including the third day after polling day. [More…]
That provision currently is used by political organisations and candidates to make lists of all postal votes for use at later elections. [More…]
It is proposed to prohibit the listing of names of persons who apply for postal votes, except where the Divisional Returning Officer is satisfied that it is required in connection with a genuine inquiry into possible malpractice. [More…]
It is the view of the Opposition that the clause is intended to prevent persons from inspecting lists of those people who have applied for postal votes. [More…]
Briefly, the reason for closing off this section is to prevent things happening such as that which the honourable member for Griffith (Mr Donald Cameron) admitted he was an expert in doing- the canvassing of postal votes, the applications being freely available, the forms being available from year to year. [More…]
In effect he has been going very close to infringing the Act by canvassing and soliciting postal votes. [More…]
You cannot solicit postal votes, tell people that they can get them and all this kind of thing. [More…]
That advertisement by the honourable member for Griffith about postal votes goes terribly close to breaching the Act. [More…]
One has only to look at the voting returns for postal votes and the pattern of voting to be able to see that some extraneous influence is being brought to bear. [More…]
My scrutineers reported to me that the number of votes coming in for the Liberal candidate from the first batches of postal votes- these were the first postal votes put out and were ones that had been solicited- showed a pattern of voting much more in favour of the Liberal candidate than was the voting trend in any sub-division in the whole electorate. [More…]
The point I am making is that these votes were specially solicited. [More…]
The situation is that in many electorates groups, belonging not only to the Liberal Party, have gone out to hospitals where sick people are and have organised the votes. [More…]
They know from an examination of the lists that these people are there and that their votes can be solicited. [More…]
As the honourable member for Griffith said, these people are stood over and their votes are obtained. [More…]
What we will never be able to do by legislation is to prevent candidates of any political party compiling special lists of names of people who are known to be infirm or ill whom they then canvass to solicit their votes. [More…]
After all, the present Labor Government was elected at the last election on 49 per cent of the votes. [More…]
The Opposition believes that if voting is to be compulsory electors should be given every opportunity to have their votes counted. [More…]
Postal votes are the only way by which many ill people, travellers or people living in remote areas can vote. [More…]
The Government’s proposals require postal votes to be lodged no later than the close of the poll. [More…]
This would replace the present 10-day delay from the close of poll to the counting of postal votes. [More…]
It would disfranchise those who did not submit their postal votes several days before the poll. [More…]
In Western Australia we have seen several things of note happen: Firstly, the rather unusual circumstances surrounding the appointment of the Western Australian commissioners; secondly, the results of the boundaries of a special redistribution in Western Australia in which the Government gained nearly 60 per cent of the seats on 44 per cent of the votes. [More…]
It was only 12 votes away from obtaining 60 per cent of the seats. [More…]
Thirdly, in a count of the votes for the seat of Stirling- which, as honourable members will be aware, ran to within a margin of 12 votes- we saw a recount discovering that many votes or one or two more in ballot papers which up to then had been counted a number of times. [More…]
I was present at the table as one of the two scrutineers when those votes were discovered. [More…]
In one ballot box 1 1 1 votes were found in one bundle that was supposed to contain 100 and 97 in the other that was supposed to contain 100. [More…]
Since the original phoned in, figures were correct and those votes counted in the divisional office were incorrect it was a stra’nge ‘proceeding. [More…]
I refer also to the refusal of the opportunity to scrutineer a recount of the Western Australian Senate votes in spite of the fact that that count was carried over many days making it impracticable for any party to have it scrutineered- there were also many complaints from electoral officers that they were tired and working under difficult conditions- and in spite of the fact that a recount was allowed at an earlier Senate election for an objecting Australian Labor Party candidate, when the percentage difference was greater than was the case in the last Western Australian Senate election. [More…]
Then curiously enough he went on to tell us about the time when he was in a polling booth as a scrutineer and stood and watched people counting votes by hand. [More…]
He said that there were too many votes in one bundle and not enough in the other. [More…]
The number of informal votes cast on that occasion was extraordinarily high. [More…]
But all of those good votes have been thrown out because somewhere about 73 or 74 the voters became tired and neglected to put a number on the ballot paper or put the same number in twice. [More…]
Next, there is the question of an earlier deadline for the return of postal votes and for the return of those votes direct to the respective returning officers. [More…]
I can see advantage in returning postal votes direct to the respective returning officers because this might save a little time instead of the votes being handed into an assistant officer in the United States of America, England or wherever it may be. [More…]
It is beyond dispute that in normal elections postal votes probably run 2 to 1 in favour of the Liberal Party. [More…]
It may be that 66 per cent of such votes would favour the Liberal and Country Parties and 33 per cent would favour the Labor Party. [More…]
But on the postal votes, Padman, the LiberalCountry Party candidate, got up and narrowly won the election by 150 votes. [More…]
It is proposed that instead of having up to 10 days after the end of voting for the postal votes to come in that postal votes should have to be in by the same time as the ballot closes on the Saturday night. [More…]
We know that in 1 96 1 40 votes in one electorate were enough to keep the Menzies Government in office. [More…]
A proposal that deprives people of hundreds of postal votes that would run strongly in favour of the Liberal-Country Parties would help to keep an unpopular Labor Government in office against the will of the people generally. [More…]
I have a number in my own electorate and I know that you, Mr Deputy Speaker, have many in your electorate, where there might be only 70 or 80 votes cast in a day. [More…]
Certainly so far as the Liberal-Country Party is concerned, I have no doubt that we lose a large number of postal votes, from which we score heavily, because our people do not know the affiliation of the particular candidates for whom they are voting. [More…]
Under the Constitution, the votes being equal, the Bill was rejected. [More…]
The reform will make for speedier counting of votes. [More…]
It will reduce the number of informal votes. [More…]
I do not believe that anybody could criticise the efficiency of the Electoral Office in counting the votes, but under the laws we made in this Parliament it was impossible to get a new Parliament until 3 months had elapsed since the previous Parliament had been dissolved. [More…]
This was largely due to delays in counting the votes cast at the election on 18 May and the complicated preferential system in use at that election, especially for the Senate. [More…]
It is absurd that at least 10 per cent and possibly nearer 20 per cent of electors should have their Senate votes rejected as informal because the task of filling out their mammoth ballot-papers correctly has exceeded their understanding or exhausted their patience. [More…]
It is so complicated that 12 per cent of Senate votes in New South Wales were discarded as informal. [More…]
The present system whereby a period of grace of 10 days after polling day is allowed for the receipt of postal votes by the relevant divisional returning officer of votes posted direct to him is seen by the Government as a major problem, especially in [More…]
Senate elections where under the proportional respresentation system the quota for an election cannot be determined nor can the counting progress until the exact number of formal votes is known. [More…]
The Government’s argument in respect of this clause and a number of others- those relating to postal votes and those relating to other matters, such as the reduction in the hours of polling and in other procedures- is that they are all aimed at getting a quicker result. [More…]
This clause provides that only postal votes received up to the close of the poll should be counted. [More…]
The Government is also wanting to restrict the time in which postal votes can be received. [More…]
Earlier I referred to the deadline for application for postal votes and to one or two connected provisions. [More…]
I have no doubt that records are kept of the number of postal votes received. [More…]
Registers are not needed for all the other areas or fields to which the honourable member referred- certainly everyone would agree vith that- but there is a need for some recognition of the difficulty some people have in casting valid votes. [More…]
It is important to have it reasonably efficient, but it is more important that people should have a reasonable chance to cast their votes and to have them counted. [More…]
Those people who are crying about the system never seem to try to dissect the differentials between those who may be entitled to postal votes and those who are not; nor do they try to dissect those sections of the community which in total are entitled to postal votes. [More…]
We are also talking about the manner in which people canvass the votes of the sick and the elderly. [More…]
One can understand the role that will be played by doctors in the forcing of postal votes at any future election that may be conducted. [More…]
Surely we do not have to sit around for 10 days hoping that we can think up some methods by which we can manipulate the system in order to get a few more votes if at the conclusion of the counting on polling night we find that there is only a handful of votes between the candidates. [More…]
I have referred to the particularly low percentage of invalid votes. [More…]
It is pretty clear that the number of votes that a candidate and a party get are rather closely related to polls which are taken, and we think that the present system at least is one to which people are accustomed. [More…]
Clancy polled 3,300 votes out of a total of approximately 41 000 formal votes. [More…]
In 1958 when Clancy was not on top of the ballot paper and when approximately 49 000 people voted because of an expanding area he polled 1 700 votes. [More…]
She got 1200 votes. [More…]
He did not put out any bills or manifestos or have any workers, yet he received 2300 votes because his name was on the top of the ballot paper. [More…]
Despite the fact that he was not contesting the election he polled 150 votes because bis name was on the top of the ballot paper. [More…]
I do not think the people to whom I have referred are insignificant in number and therefore should be expected to lodge a postal vote, particularly under the proposed restricted facilities for postal votes. [More…]
After section 1 13 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:- 113a.5(1) Where a hospital is a polling place, the presiding officer may make arrangements with an appropriate person, or appropriate persons, on the staff of the hospital for the votes of patients in the hospital or in part of the hospital to be taken in accordance with this section. [More…]
votes may be taken under this section at a special polling place at such time or times as the presiding officer determines, being a time or times between 8 o’clock in the morning and 6 o’clock in the evening on polling day or on one or more of the S days preceding polling day, and at no other time. [More…]
Unless one candidate receives half of the votes to begin preferences must be distributed. [More…]
In many cases those receiving fewer votes are eliminated before the determination between the 2 most favoured candidates is arrived at. [More…]
In fact, the present Labor Government won the last election with 49 per cent of the votes of this country. [More…]
But informal votes, a feature of the proposed system which has been emphasised by the Prime Minister, were equally as high in the Senate when voting was voluntary. [More…]
So if that is any criterion we cannot expect the percentage of informal votes to drop very much. [More…]
The low percentages of informal votes at the moment are remarkably good. [More…]
It is fair enough to make things as simple as possible, but I think it is somewhat insulting to assume that the matter can be simplified further to include the votes of a significant number of people who supposedly are not casting valid votes at present. [More…]
They will know that a high percentage of informal votes come from blank ballot papers. [More…]
As I said earlier, had their votes been formal or had the informal vote for the Senate election paralleled the informal vote for the House of Representatives election there can be no doubt that the Labor Party in New South Wales would have won 6 positions in the Senate. [More…]
I remind the Government that it has always been keen on relating the percentage of votes cast to the percentage of seats won. [More…]
Many times it has been quite unfair when it has compared seats won to the percentages of votes cast. [More…]
I think we have a first class example of this in Britain where we see that a Labour candidate may get 36 per cent or 37 per cent of the vote and the Liberal candidate and the Conservative candidate split the rest of the votes. [More…]
If the Government were consistent it would realise that the Liberal Party, for instance, in the United Kingdom can poll millions of votes and yet win almost no seats. [More…]
There is no relationship at all between the percentage of votes cast for the party and the number of seats won by it. [More…]
The present system of preferential voting was brought in by Prime Minister Billy Hughes at the behest of the Country Party after he had left the Labor Party in 1919 to organise votes in the interests of the conservative parties by ganging up and exchanging preferences. [More…]
Under that system we would have a proper expression of opinion and less informal votes as far as single member constituency candidates are concerned. [More…]
Smith gets 41 primary votes, Brown gets 39 votes and Jones gets 20 votes, making a total of 100 votes. [More…]
Under the present system, the preferences of the candidate with 20 votes, that is Jones, are distributed. [More…]
Let us say that the other 2 candidates get 10 votes each. [More…]
Smith ends up with 5 1 votes, which is an absolute majority, and Brown ends up with 49 votes. [More…]
1, so there are only 10 second preference votes to distribute. [More…]
Smith ends up with 46 votes and brown ends up with 44 votes. [More…]
Under the optional preferential system the first candidate, Smith, wins with 46 of the 100 votes. [More…]
The whole purpose of preferential voting is to be absolutely certain that when all the preferences have been counted, when all the votes have been counted, whoever wins can say that a majority of the people voted for him, either as a first preference or as a second preference. [More…]
It denies the basic principle that we have at the moment, that whoever wins can, without fear of contradiction, say confidently that the majority of people who casted formal votes voted for him, either in their first preference or in their second preference. [More…]
Lib-CP votes deal ‘a sham’ -McMillan MP [More…]
It is very easy for Opposition members to achieve some cheap votes by talking about privacy, or the lack of it, when statistics are being collected. [More…]
-No one is attempting to obtain the cheap votes more than is the honourable member for Griffith, who said by way of interjection ‘Hear, hear’. [More…]
Partly as a result of the history of the last 30 years, politicians have tended to believe that it is a proper and good thing for them to buy votes with other people’s money. [More…]
-When the honourable member can get more than 4 votes in his Caucus he will have a right to speak in that manner. [More…]
It is a sad fact of history that failure in the battlefield is something that democracies do not like, because there are no votes in failure. [More…]
But whatever the tally of the votes, the record cannot be expunged. [More…]
The priorities are continually being assessed in terms of need and not in terms of: ‘Will this Act bring us more votes at the next election?’. [More…]
I know that there are honourable members in this place who believe that there are votes to be gained for supporting, as I understand it, the Zionist point of view. [More…]
There are no votes to be gained that way in Australia. [More…]
However, it is felt that the proposal by this Government to eliminate country polling booths which have not averaged over 50 votes per booth for the past 3 years, is a very serious matter for country people throughout Australia because if this proposal is implemented, and I have no doubt that it will be, many people will be disfranchised. [More…]
At Killoe in the Merriwa area there were 55 votes cast at the last elections. [More…]
In this area there is a creek called Bow Creek, and if there is a storm there is no possibility of the votes getting from the Killoe area into the neighbouring town of Merriwa. [More…]
I emphasise the point once again to the honourable member for Angas and the honourable member for Patterson that if they are concerned that these Country Party voters or National Country Party voters or National Party voters- I am not sure exactly what it is- cannot cast their votes they should apply for postal votes. [More…]
I do not know what point the honourable gentleman is making, except that it is very clear that he is grovelling and pandering for votes in his electorate by trying to influence a decision in favour of a tender from his area. [More…]
There are no votes in it. [More…]
I can only conclude that because there are no votes in the industry the Opposition has not taken this matter up. [More…]
On matters such as abortion reform and on other matters of a social nature it has been the practice of the Government to allow a free vote, but so that the votes may be taken procedures have been laid down and endorsed on party lines. [More…]
If Liberal members wish to put their votes where their mouths are they can reject the Superannuation Bill. [More…]
In effect, with no increase in votes, these measures would increase a Labor majority of five to a Labor majority of eleven to fifteen. [More…]
The present Government with a majority of the votes gets a majority of the seats. [More…]
But by this redistribution it is seeking with the same number of votes over the whole of Australia to increase its total majority. [More…]
But in New South Wales, the Labor Party has 55 per cent of the seats with 52 per cent of the votes. [More…]
In fact I cannot remember an occasion when there has been a unanimous point of view on associated Bills on the Opposition side and a similar point of view on the Government side, that the Bills have not been debated cognately although separate votes have been taken on each Bill. [More…]
It is a device to try to maximise Labor Party votes in city areas at the expense of country people. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that a redistribution is being carried out which will require an abnormal percentage of the votes to put the present Government out of office. [More…]
This point is worth stressing, given the frequent assertions which have been made by Country Party spokesmen to the effect that the percentage of seats won by the Government and Opposition in recent elections has accurately reflected the number of votes polled. [More…]
For example, at the 1972 House of Representatives elections the Country Party polled 9.44 per cent of the votes, yet was able to win 16 per cent of the seats. [More…]
In relation to charges about previous elections reflecting accurately the vote which was given to the various parties, it is suggested that because in 1974 the Labor Party received as a second preferred vote 51.7 per cent of the votes, that it is fair and equitable that we receive 52 per cent of the seats. [More…]
The Liberal Party and the National Country Party which received 48.3 per cent of the votes received 48 per cent of the seats. [More…]
In 1963 the present Opposition which was then led by Sir Robert Menzies on a second preferred vote received 52.6 per cent of the votes and had a majority of 22 seats. [More…]
In 1972 on a second preferred vote we received 52.7 per cent of the votes and had a majority of 9 seats. [More…]
The Whitiam Government is trying to achieve an electoral system that will keep it in office, similar to the situation that now exists in the United Kingdom where the Labor Party is holding office with 39.5 per cent of the votes, with 6 1 per cent of the votes against it. [More…]
That Joint Sitting, based on the votes of members of both Houses of this Parliament who were elected by the people of this country, said that a 10 per cent difference was all that was justified. [More…]
One can produce facts and figures to show that a national vote one way will equate with a number of seats for one party; that a national percentage of votes one way will equate conversely with the other party in terms of seats. [More…]
I would like to place on record in Hansard the fact that the test of strength was such that the Bill passed through this House by 60 votes to 59. [More…]
I can well see that at the next election I will be sitting in the Parliament with a majority of at least 25 000 votes. [More…]
On the redistribution as presented originally- before the amendments- the Minister for Northern Development and Minister for the Northern Terrritory (Dr Patterson) would have lost his seat by approximately 1000 votes. [More…]
In fact, on the assessment that I have seen of the situation which would result from a transfer of the votes cast in the 1974 election to new boundaries, the Labor Party would hold 6 seats out of eighteen. [More…]
The honourable member for Petrie (Mr Hodges) might have a better chance of escaping the wrath of Marshall Cooke ii he supports the redistribution proposals rather than votes against them today. [More…]
The situation that has existed in Queensland is such that the Liberal Party in the State sphere can never hope to gain the position of strength in the Queensland coalition that it should be able to demand according to the number of votes it receives in the elections. [More…]
With a minority of the votes they gained a clear majority of the seats. [More…]
It is in that context that Labor seeks this redistribution which will give it more seats with no more votes. [More…]
Obviously the Government intends to continue the already heavy expenditure in areas where the most votes reside, particularly in industralised suburbs. [More…]
My point is this: I have to go and tell my electors they have to muster 5 votes to equal the force of argument of only 3 voters in the electorate of Mallee. [More…]
A total of 9.44 per cent of the votes cast returned 16 per cent of the members- those in National Country Party held seats. [More…]
The honourable member for La Trobe complained that it takes 5 votes in the La Trobe seat to equal 3 votes in the seat of Mallee. [More…]
It is humbug for them to come into the House and talk about one vote one value when they stand for that sort of difference between Tasmania and Victoria and complain because of the few votes difference in their particular States. [More…]
Every time he opened his mouth I got more votes. [More…]
He got the shock of his life after the elections to find out that the local Country Party member’s votes had increased. [More…]
He has the most peculiar mathematical brain I know of because it is the first time I have heard of anybody improving his seat by losing votes. [More…]
As the honourable member for Gippsland (Mr Nixon) clearly pointed out, if the Government is able to achieve success in respect of these proposed electoral boundaries, we will have in Australia a situation in which the Labor Government, with a 45 per cent share of the total votes as against the 49 per cent share that it achieved at the last election, will remain in power. [More…]
Unfortunately for the parties on this side of the House, we would need to achieve a mammoth proportion of the votes to maintain the present numbers that we have in the House, let alone to be returned to government. [More…]
He said that Labor would require only 45 per cent of the votes to remain in Government, whereas the Liberal Party and the National Country Party would need 55 per cent of the votes. [More…]
I have here details of the first preference votes polled by the major parties at House of Representatives elections from 1949 to 1974. [More…]
Only once in that period has the National Country Party received more than 10 per cent of the total votes. [More…]
The rump on the Opposition side holds power and influence over the Liberal Party out of all proportion to the votes it gains at elections. [More…]
How can we beat a candidate who has to receive only 22 per cent of the primary votes to win? [More…]
The honourable member for McMillan says that he received 26 per cent of the primary votes. [More…]
This point is worth stressing, given the frequent assertions which have been made by Country Party spokesmen to the effect that the percentage of seats won by the Government and Opposition in recent elections has accurately reflected the number of votes polled. [More…]
For example, at the 1972 House of Representatives elections the Country Party polled 9.44 per cent of the votes, yet was able to win 16 per cent of the seats. [More…]
In May last year Labor won 52 per cent of the seats with 49.3 per cent of the votes. [More…]
The Opposition won 48.3 per cent of the seats with 46.8 per cent of the votes. [More…]
Yet the Labor Party’s scheme means that it can stay in office with fewer votes. [More…]
The Opposition will need more votes to put the Government out of office. [More…]
It had a clear majority of votes, and I would not argue otherwise. [More…]
Under these proposals, with the same vote- no extra votes needed- its number of seats would go from 25 to 28 and the Opposition’s share would go down to 1 7 seats. [More…]
If there is one thing that is required in a redistribution of electoral boundaries it is a situation where the people of Australia, wanting a change of government, can be certain that when they cast their votes they will be able to achieve a change of government. [More…]
The problem in Macarthur is that all the Labor votes are in the northern end of it. [More…]
It is politically desirable to make great play about the rebuilding of Darwin, but because there are no votes for the Australian Labor Party in the Riverina where I come from the farmers there will get nothing. [More…]
By encouraging a proliferation of the number of candidates they sought to confuse electors and so increase the number of informal votes. [More…]
There were more than threequarters of a million informal votes at the May 1974 Senate elections- 798 126 to be precise. [More…]
This provision was inserted in the Bill essentially for the purpose of clarifying the choices open to electors when they cast their votes. [More…]
One has only to look at the percentage of postal votes which favour the Liberal and Country Parties to realise which parties are responsible for most of these abuses. [More…]
We aimed at an earlier deadline for receipt of applications for postal votes and an earlier deadline for the receipt of completed postal votes by the appropriate returning officer. [More…]
By their actions and their votes in this House and in the Senate, they stand convicted on this charge. [More…]
Why do we need changes in boundaries which, of course, would give the Australian Labor Party in most of the States a potential proportion of seats greatly in excess of the Party’s potential proportion of votes, if we base that on the figures at the last 2 elections in 1 972 and 1 974. [More…]
The Minister talked about the very high informal votes in the Senate. [More…]
Surely to heaven, it would be a brave man who would try to claim that a change in the system will really reduce very much the number of informal votes. [More…]
It seeks to prevent the counting of postal votes after the polls close on polling night- not in the least in order to get a quick result, but because it is sure on past records that those votes will not favour the Labor Party. [More…]
Those votes are from Australian citizens. [More…]
Surely those who are in isolated regions, or those who are sick or for some other reason cannot get to a polling booth, should have a reasonable opportunity to have their votes counted. [More…]
Many of their votes would not be counted under this system because there would not be time, particularly with the mail service run by this Government, for the votes to get to the appropriate polling booths so that they could be checked and counted in the usual way. [More…]
One of the greatest harms that this Government has done has been to try to divide country and city and to try to buy votes in the cities by kicking people who live in the rural communities very firmly in the teeth. [More…]
All that honourable members on the other side of the House were looking for was votes. [More…]
So the young- those whose votes the Labor Party set out to win in order that they could succeed at the 1972 elections- are to pay in future. [More…]
For 143 years we have been attempting to get to the point where, in this Parliament at least, the political issues will be decided by the equal votes of equal and free people. [More…]
This country was one of the first in the world to give votes to women. [More…]
Thus some people’s votes are worth 70 per cent more than other people’s. [More…]
The vote of a South Australian is to be valued not by party but by place of residence, not by for whom he votes but by where he votes. [More…]
The Committee feels constrained to say, however, that the one-fifth margin on either side of the quota for a State which the Act allows may disturb quite seriously a principle which the Committee believes to be beyond question in the election of members of the national Parliament of a Federation, namely, that the votes of the electors should, as far as possible, be accorded equal value. [More…]
Such a possible disparity in the value of votes is inconsistent with the full realisation of democracy. [More…]
So the opinion of the outside expert- the independent expert- on which the Leader of the House relies and has relied repeatedly, and on which the Prime Minister relied during his contribution to the debate on this subject, as to the fairness of the redistribution was given without any knowledge of what was contained in the New South Wales proposals, without any knowledge that those proposals would give to the Labor Party 28 seats out of the 45 seats in New South Wales with no extra votes, and without any knowledge that the New South Wales proposals contained the greatest possible imbalance and the most manifest evidence of how unjust are these proposals. [More…]
If one examines the overall Commonwealth situation the Australian Labor Party polled 49.3 per cent of the votes in 1974 and won 52 per cent of the seats. [More…]
On numerous occasions figures have been given to demonstrate the number of seats won by the Government and the Opposition compared with the number of votes gained. [More…]
In 1974 the Labor Party polled 49.3 per cent of the votes and it won about 52 per cent of the seats. [More…]
I will stick by my beliefs and not try to muck around with the Australian electoral system or maintain a system that gives the National Country Party about 17 or 18 per cent of the seats with about 9 per cent of the votes. [More…]
If members of the Liberal Party had any brains at all, they would not support that project; they would support the Government’s proposals and see that the National Country Party was represented in this House according to the number of votes it received. [More…]
Daily the Caucus and Cabinet have a brawl with variations in votes from one to up to thirty between supporters of Cabinet and Caucus decisions. [More…]
This point was brought out especially in the last election, when the Australian Labor Party won 52 per cent of the seats with 49.2 per cent of the votes. [More…]
The questions were very unclear and slanted in favour of the Government which was trying to get a majority of yes votes. [More…]
The proposal failed only narrowly to obtain an overall majority of the votes. [More…]
The proposed law received a majority of yes votes in the most populous State New South Wales, and was only narrowly lost in Victoria and South Australia. [More…]
So, if he can, he has got to create confusion, because the more the facts are known, the more the tide will swing against him, the fewer votes he will get, the quicker he will go out of office and the longer he will stay out. [More…]
In only one State was the number of votes in favour of the proposed law greater than those against it. [More…]
There the vote in favour was less than the informal vote- about 30 000 votes as against 40 000 informal votes. [More…]
It knows that if it is to win government, if it is to take over the benches from the current Government, it will need to secure votes in the outer suburbs of Sudney and Melbourne. [More…]
Because the Senate amendments have the effect of removing from the Bill the electoral reforms agreed to by this House, in particular the major reforms contained in the clauses dealing with optional preferential voting for Senate and House of Representatives elections, the printing of party affiliations against the names of candidates on ballot papers for the purpose of clarifying the choice open to electors when they cast their votes, the drawing for positions on ballot papers at House of Representatives elections, and those reforming postal voting procedures. [More…]
If we were to agree to all the proposals to change boundaries and electoral laws we would need about 60 per cent of the votes to be against the Labor Party in order to get a majority of seats in the House. [More…]
My colleague the honourable member for Bennelong (Mr Howard) and other colleagues took the opportunity, when debating boundaries recently, to point out that if they had been agreed to, the percentage of seats obtained by the Labor Party would be greater than the percentage of votes it would get. [More…]
The figures used related to votes recorded at the last 2 general elections. [More…]
The law cannot be so bad, so biased or so one-sided if both sides have won under that law and if- this is the important criterion- the percentage of seats won by the Government Party is pretty close to the percentage of votes which it gained across the country. [More…]
For instance, the Bill seeks to prevent postal votes received after the close of the polling booths on polling day from being counted; it seeks to have them declared invalid. [More…]
It may be that honourable members who have city electorates I have one- really do not understand the time that it takes for applications for postal votes in isolated regions to be received by the returning officer and for the ballot papers to be sent out. [More…]
That is not an unreasonable time, considering the state of the mails in this country, considering the isolation of many people in country areas and considering the rights and interests of the sick and infirm who have to cast votes in this way. [More…]
Is it a tremendous help to the commentators on television on election night to be able to see the votes in front of them as being final? [More…]
Or is it, as the Opposition believes, that the Labor Party is not favoured by late postal votes and that at election after election those Australians who use their right to vote by postal vote tend to favour the non-Labor parties and therefore the Government would like to cut them out? [More…]
Anybody who votes for a candidate who is not one of the 2 major candidates- that cannot be known until the count has finished, or after it has started- does not get a vote at all. [More…]
That system means that anyone who votes for a minor party candidate has no vote at all. [More…]
Votes for those candidates are eliminated as there is no distribution of preferences. [More…]
It has become a sensational factor, a gimmick for the honourable member for Griffith in order to get a few votes. [More…]
If we look back we see that it is always issues affecting the rural areas that are used as excuses for votes of confidence in the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam). [More…]
Two major decisions for the rural industries and all people living in country areas were made subjects of votes of confidence in the Prime Minister. [More…]
It is true that this Government has removed some of these subsidies but by and large what we are after are efficient industries, not industries that have to be patched up with a series of bandaids which come from measures implemented at election time just to save a few more votes in a few more seats. [More…]
The thrust was to win votes by reducing tariffs, that is, import taxes, thus ensuring lower prices for Australians as consumersas buyers of goods. [More…]
The other matter I want to raise is of some principle, and there are no votes in it for me. [More…]
Of course, the votes were taken on non-party lines. [More…]
Apparently we must now wait until this new Bill is presented to see what range of features it offers and how much the Government may wish to see itself in the role of buying votes and of being over-generous again. [More…]
Yet he has said that in seeking to remove those inequities the Government is trying to win votes. [More…]
win votes in the way in which honourable members opposite are obviously trying to win them- by appealing to some kind of prejudice outside against public servants. [More…]
These changes would have resulted in a situation where, if one were to look at the voting trends of recent elections, there would be a far greater percentage of anticipated Labor seats, expressed as a whole of all seats which were available, than the anticipated percentage of Labor votes in a given State. [More…]
If Labor were to get 50 per cent of the votes one would expect it to get about 50 per cent of the seats, not about 60 per cent or 70 per cent of the seats which would have been the result, particularly under the scandalous proposal for New South Wales. [More…]
It must be pretty incompetent because the Labor Party on the polls cannot do better than 35 per cent of the total votes. [More…]
A little earlier I made the point that the money being spent by the Government through the Department of the Media through its vast army of public relations men- they are a vast army- is nevertheless not having much success if its aim is to get votes. [More…]
But when the Government introduces in this place proposals which attempt to stop many people from making postal votes, which attempt to close down polling booths and which carries on this business of optional preferences- which the Minister for Services and Property (Mr Daly) has misrepresented so much- the Opposition, of course, has a view on it. [More…]
Do not let us run away with the idea that the Australian public is entirely unsophisticated and that it votes only on the election campaign. [More…]
It forms opinions outside the election campaign and it votes on them. [More…]
It received 46.8 per cent of the votes in the 6 Australian States combined. [More…]
If a distribution of preferences became necessary the votes of the candidate to whom the No. [More…]
-He got 33 votes. [More…]
But the honourable member for Port Adelaide, the Minister for the Capital Territory and everybody else on that side of the House know clearly that if one votes yes for this Bill which their Government has put up, one is voting for the continuation of every United States base in Australia. [More…]
He said that there are more votes in Newcastle than in Tasmania. [More…]
Honourable members remember how many votes the Minister got in Newcastle- 38 554- but his Party will be lucky to get that many votes in the whole of Tasmania at the next election. [More…]
Your leader writer wrote: Perhaps the attitude of the Transport Minister, Mr Jones, is indicated by his reported statement that there are more votes in Newcastle than in all of Tasmania. [More…]
Apparently the Opposition thinks there are some votes in slamming England. [More…]
In the Queensland House today the Labor nominee, Dr Mai Colston, formerly a Senate candidate on 2 occasions, was rejected by 62 votes to fifteen. [More…]
At the last election about 5000 votes prevented his being elected to the Senate. [More…]
I considered that his Party owed him an obligation as the man who had submitted himself to the people and who would have been elected next if his team had polled more votes. [More…]
That nomination was rejected by 62 votes to fifteen. [More…]
As with the parent Electoral Laws Amendment Bill itself, the proposals contained in these 6 Bills, taken as a whole, are designed to implement improved voting facilities; to provide more realistic and less cumbersome voting procedures which will assist electors to exercise their franchise effectively by the recording of valid votes; to permit a speedier finalisation of election results and to reduce the scope for electoral malpractice in any guise. [More…]
The consequence is that their ballot papers are rejected as informal and their votes are wasted. [More…]
I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard for the benefit of honourable members, a statement provided by the Chief Electoral Officer showing the percentage of informal votes recorded at the 1974 Senate election in each State and in each electoral division throughout Australia. [More…]
Under the optional preferential system proposed by this Bill a candidate cannot be elected unless he has received more than 50 per cent of the votes in the count at the stage he is elected. [More…]
It is recognised of course, that some votes may become ‘exhausted’ during the distribution of preferences in a Division where it is necessary to exclude a candidate- or candidatesand further preferences are not shown on the ballot-papers concerned. [More…]
However, the saving in informal voting which must result from the acceptance of ballot papers which, although bearing a first preference, do not indicate preferences for all candidates, can be expected to offset votes which become exhausted. [More…]
We intend therefore by this Bill to assist the electors to knowingly record their votes, particularly in circumstances where they are uncertain of, or unable to ascertain, the political affiliations of the candidates appearing on the ballot paper. [More…]
These faculties, together with the availability of modern day private and public transport, are adequate to enable electors to conveniently record their votes, and effectively eliminates the need to keep the polling booths open until 8 p.m. A by-product of the earlier closing hour is that the scrutiny can commence 2 hours earlier with the result that the counting trend for which the nation is waiting is known much earlier in the night of polling day. [More…]
The establishment of mobile polling booths in hospitals is a vital reform, one which would permit polling officials, in the presence of scrutineers, to take the ballot boxes and voting material to bed patients, thus enabling such patients to record ordinary or absent votes. [More…]
This facility would be a significant step forward in making it easier for the aged and infirm to register their votes, while at the same time removing the need for canvassers and political party organisers to invade the hospitals, convalescent homes and institutions, as they do at present. [More…]
This Bill, the last in the series of Bills incorporating proposals previously contained in the Electoral Laws Amendment BUI, provides for: A speedier finalisation of election results, by introducing an earlier deadline for the return of postal votes and by providing for the return of postal votes direct to the respective returning officer; prohibition on the listing of names of persons who apply for postal votes, except in certain specified circumstances; restriction of postal vote application forms to be used at an election or referendum to those specified by notice in the Australian Government Gazette; postal voting faculties for prisoners who have retained their franchise entitlements; discretion to appoint a licensed or registered surveyor as a Distribution Commissioner in lieu of the Surveyor-General of the State concerned; and other minor amendments to the existing electoral law. [More…]
As honourable members are well aware, the present electoral system involves intolerable delays in finalising the election results, particularly when a large number of postal votes is admitted to the scrutiny as was the case in the 1974 House of Representatives elections when almost 5 per cent of the total votes recorded throughout Australia were postal votes. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard details of the number of postal votes admitted to the scrutiny at the 1972 and 1974 House of Representatives elections. [More…]
Somebody- perhaps it was the present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam)realised that votes were to be won and lost at the centre. [More…]
It was elected to office twice by the additional votes gained from the relatively well to do. [More…]
We will know the validity of what Mr Bjelke-Petersen and his Government in Queensland propose to do when the votes are counted some time later today. [More…]
So I say to the Government that it is about time it woke up and really lived up to its responsibility to protect all sections of the community and not just those from where the biggest majority of votes for it come. [More…]
Ultimately we may see at a vital time in the Senate a majority changed by votes brought about by the actions of the Leader of the National Country Party in this place and the Leader of the National Country Party in Queensland, and a docile Liberal Party leadership which will not stand up and be counted on a great moral and democratic issue such as this. [More…]
He had to withstand being defeated by a few votes at the last Senate election and now he has to withstand the complete might of the privileges of the Queensland Parliament and to try to defend himself against it outside the Parliament- - something that is very difficult and perhaps impossible to do. [More…]
The impact of this philosophy in political terms can be judged from the experience of Winnett Boyd in Canada when in 1972 he stood as a Conservative Party candidate and increased the vote of the Conservative Party in the constituency from 15 458 to 37 181- reducing the Liberal majority of the Government of Pierre Trudeau by approximately 20 000 votes to only 1847. [More…]
I refer also to the many policy areas in which there are no votes to be won. [More…]
What began as a tentative political gesture to catch the Catholic and private school votes was actually giving those schools 19 times less a year than the Labor Government is giving them today. [More…]
The honourable member is afraid of losing votes. [More…]
Are they seriously suggesting that a union which, in a ballot conducted by the Commonwealth Electoral Office under the provisions of the Arbitration Act, decided by 25 000 votes to 200 votes that a certain person was to be the general secretary, could be told by the court that they could not have that person? [More…]
In other words, an honourable member makes sure that he is there for the important votes. [More…]
Honourable gentlemen opposite on the one hand claim that this Government should reduce its rate of spending and so reduce the Budget deficit; on the other hand, on an ad hoc basis, they will make promises here, there and everywhere, in an attempt to catch a pocket of votes here or somewhere else. [More…]
I suppose he was there getting riding instructions rather than trying to get a few votes for the Leader of the National Country Party (Mr Anthony) - [More…]
A handful of votes in New South Wales and Queensland stopped the Government from having a majority in the Senate. [More…]
It was this Minister who, on the arrival of the orphans from Vietnam, cried in front of the public of Australia to try to win cheap votes. [More…]
In that State there is a Premier whose party receives about 20 per cent of the votes. [More…]
The Minister knows that in the 1972 and in the 1974 Federal elections the Australian Labor Party polled a clear majority of votes in New South Wales and on both of those occasions the Labor Party won a clear majority of seats. [More…]
At the present time of the 45 New South Wales seats in this Parliament 25 are held by the Australian Labor Party and 20 by the Opposition; rightly so, according to the votes that were cast in May of 1974. [More…]
What perhaps some members of the House may not know is that if the proposals submitted to the Distribution Commissioners by the Australian Labor Party in New South Wales- this Party which is so committed to democratic government, which is so committed to one vote one value, which is so committed to electoral justice- were accepted by the Commissioners they would, on the same votes cast in May 1 974, give to the Labor Party in New South Wales 29 seats and not 25 seats and would give to the joint Opposition Parties 16 seats and not 20 seats. [More…]
Country people really do not matter as long as he can look after the bulk votes in Broken Hill and Cobar. [More…]
No amount of plausible, high sounding argument about the right to equality of votes can hide the fact that the Minister is determined, if he can, to destroy the real right which every elector should enjoy, that is, equality of representation. [More…]
Members of the Liberal Party are partners in a coalition government, the other member of which, with 19 per cent of the votes, has taken over complete control of the State. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that the Labor Party in Queensland, under the gerrymander that the honourable member supports, gets more votes than the other 2 parties put together but gets fewer seats. [More…]
In 1 972 they got 9 per cent of the votes and they got 16 per cent of the power in this Parliament. [More…]
That is the kind of system that honourable members of the Country Party want to force on this countryloaded, rigged and gerrymandered boundaries all designed to keep in power a party which cannot get a majority of the votes and which represents less than 10 per cent of the Australian people. [More…]
What we would like to know is why honourable members opposite think they cannot win the votes of the Australian people and repose to a fair and just electoral system in this country. [More…]
It was a majority that I am prepared to say the Government was entitled to receive because it polled a majority of votes. [More…]
In addition the Labor Party believes that people everywhere are equal in respect of their votes and the domicile of a person should not give him twice, three times or fifteen times the voting power- as is the case in Western Australia under a Liberal-Country Party Government- of another man who lives in the city. [More…]
In Western Australia the Labor Party will have to get 54 per cent of the votes to win. [More…]
At the next Federal election, whenever it may be, any South Australian who votes for Mr Fraser’s policies will do so at his own peril. [More…]
They think a few votes are to be gained by looking at it now and advocating its cause, but when they had the opportunity, and when the Country Party leader, Sir John McEwen, a responsible Minister, appointed the Committee they did not have sufficient faith in the Committee ‘s report to bring it into this chamber and table it. [More…]
Governments in such a position will introduce Budgets designed to catch votes. [More…]
The number of votes recorded there in the last 3 years has been 57, 47 and 40. [More…]
The Minister for Services and Property would be well aware that the people who cast their votes in some of these isolated areas are not favourably disposed towards this Government. [More…]
The honourable member will no doubt be aware that the first agreement concluded under the States Grants (Nature Conservation) Act 1974 in respect of Badger Island, Tasmania was tabled and appeared in the ‘Votes and Proceedings’ on Tuesday, 2 September 1975. [More…]
Yet as a political instrument consumer protection has enormous potential for any human being who is interested in getting votes. [More…]
Why such people have only just realised that it is a matter of tremendous political mileage is beyond me, although I must confess that I did not realise the potential that lies in consumer protection either, and I have spent all my life working out how to get political votes. [More…]
Is the Government intending to disfranchise these people by reducing the allowable time for the receipt of postal votes, and by the reduction and discontinuance of postal services? [More…]
We know that had the proposed boundary changes been agreed to the Labor Party would have won a greater percentage of seats in certain States and its percentage of votes - [More…]
The principal clauses of the Bill under discussion deal with how ballot papers are to be marked, what constitutes an informal ballot paper and the scrutiny of votes. [More…]
The basic fairness of that is this: If he votes No. [More…]
2 for candidates who, as it turns out when the votes are counted, are less favoured candidates, then, if he has to fill in the whole of the ballot paper, ultimately he has a say in determining which of the two most favoured candidates comes last or, in the case of the Senate, the two most favoured teams. [More…]
So members of the Labor Party come along here with a lot of spurious arguments about the percentage of informal votes and so on. [More…]
The percentage of informal votes is a factor but nevertheless it will never be extinguished. [More…]
I have in front of me the percentages of informal votes recorded at Senate elections since 1949. [More…]
There will always be a percentage of those deliberately informal votes. [More…]
The percentages of votes it has received in Senate elections have been represented pretty closely by the percentage of senators it has had elected. [More…]
-Because if you look at the figures for informal votes in New South Walesyou have looked at them, which is why you are trying to consolidate the present system in its present form- you will find that in the electorates where there was the highest number of informal votes the people who have been penalised are, to be a very large extent, the migrants, the disadvantaged groups and the groups which may have some difficulty in voting from one to seventythree. [More…]
I put it quite seriously to the House that not only will the system be made inoperable but also we will never be able to count the votes. [More…]
If people want to exercise their rights to prove a point- I would not suggest that honourable members opposite should laugh- and there are 300 or 400 candidates for the Senate in New South Wales, it will take 6 months for the Electoral Office to count the votes. [More…]
It has been the tradition in this country that, apart from the 20 per cent or 25 per cent of the people in the middle who change their votes from election to election, people vote out of political persuasion; they vote for their political teams and not for individuals. [More…]
I wish to raise the question of the counting of votes in accordance with the amending Bill. [More…]
In arriving at that quota you take into consideration the number of formal votes cast and also the number of candidates who are to be elected. [More…]
4 and 5 there is every possibility that no formal votes, or very few, would be left. [More…]
5 would be elected with fewer votes than those who would be elected No. [More…]
I do not wish to say anything more about that matter other than that I hope that the Minister will be able to give me a firm assurance that senators so elected under this scheme will be elected on the same number of votes as Nos. [More…]
I do not know whether the honourable member for Port Adelaide had any justification in suggesting that a lot of migrants- I think that is what he saidcast informal votes at the last Senate election. [More…]
He may well vote for somebody who in the event receives few votes and has little hope of being elected. [More…]
If the elector votes initially for a minor candidate and gives a preference to the full number of candidates on the ballot paper ultimately his preferences will be distributed. [More…]
I suppose one would need to qualify that by saying that if a candidate has an absolute majority- that is 50 per cent of the votes plus one- the preferences are not necessary but in most elections they are necessary and in all elections they may be necessary. [More…]
Australia was one of the first countries to introduce universal franchise, votes for women, secret ballot and full preferential voting. [More…]
All the POllS and predictions aside, one cannot know who is going to win until the votes are counted. [More…]
One of the specious arguments used is that the optional preferential system would reduce the number of informal votes. [More…]
I have a list which shows the percentage of informal votes cast in elections in this country since 1949. [More…]
If one scrutinises the ballot papers when the votes are being counted one sees that some are blank, some are spoiled in other ways and some are amusingly not blank. [More…]
Of course, the motive behind the whole package of the proposals being put to this Parliament now for the third time in under 12 months is that the legislation if passed would greatly help the Australian Labor Party get more votes, and in the present political climate preserve more of its members when we next go to an election. [More…]
The Government really wants to produce a situation in which it can get from a few votes some sort of preferential treatment. [More…]
The Government would then be able to split the votes of its opponents even though those votes in total might exceed the votes for the Government candidate. [More…]
If one compares the percentages of votes that are cast for the Australian Labor Party with the percentages of Labor Party candidates who are elected one will find that the percentages are pretty close. [More…]
It so happens that some States are very antagonistic to the Labor Party and if they had not had equality of votes in the Seante they would never have joined the Federation in the first place. [More…]
I just want to touch on one argument which seems to keep reappearing, though strangely not in the Minister’s second reading speech on this occasion, namely the argument that the optional preferential voting system will be greatly beneficial because votes will be counted more quickly. [More…]
We do not want to cut off certain votes and, as is proposed in later Bills, place other restrictions on the rights of people simply because it helps the Labor Party which argues that under such a system the result could be known by midnight of the day of counting. [More…]
If honourable members want an accurate determination of the effect of informal votes on a large number of candidates and of the difference that the optional preferential system will make, it can be found in the figures for the House of Representatives and the Senate in 1974. [More…]
On an Australia-wide basis, the number of informal votes cast for the House of Representatives was 1.92 per cent of total votes cast. [More…]
Informal votes for the Senate were 12.3 per cent of the total Senate vote. [More…]
It is possible under that system for a candidate who obtains a minority of the votes- that is, 40 per cent of the total votes cast or even 35 per cent of those votes- to be elected. [More…]
The legislation now before this House proposing an optional preferential system embodies a provision that requires that a successful candidate must have 50 per cent of the votes at the stage of counting when the result for each seat is declared. [More…]
The successful candidate must have a majority of the formal votes cast at that stage of the counting. [More…]
But if we look at the high percentage of informal votes cast in country electorates, we find that the National Country Party, and the Opposition in general, are supporting a system which deprives far more country voters of an expression of choice for a candidate than that system of voting does in respect of city voters. [More…]
In the electorate of Paterson in New South Wales, 15.6 per cent of voters cast informal votes. [More…]
The percentage of informal votes in the electorate of Lyne in New South Wales was 16.1 per cent. [More…]
I compare that level of informal voting with the number of informal votes cast in the electorate of Berowra, a city electorate, which was 7.3 per cent. [More…]
More than twice as many country voters cast informal votes in the Senate election last year than were cast by city voters in the electorate of Berowra. [More…]
Dealing with country informal voting again, in Calare, 14.1 per cent of total votes cast were informal. [More…]
Let me deal now with the interjection which came from my friend in ‘cockies’ corner’ who asked about the optional preferential system and exhausted votes. [More…]
I think all honourable members will agree that the aim of any system of voting in single member constituencies should be to ensure that the victorious candidate receives the support of at least 50 per cent of the formal votes cast either by first or subsequent preference. [More…]
Let us say that we have a constituency of 100 people and that 100 valid votes are cast at a poll. [More…]
Candidate Garland, as I shall call him, receives 41 of those votes by way of first preference, candidate Riordan receives 39 and- I will be modest- candidate Howard received only 20 votes. [More…]
So Garland ends up with 47 votes and Riordan with 43 votes. [More…]
The Minister had interjected but he cannot gainsay the fact that if we have an optional preferential system, if we have 3 candidates, and if only half of the number of persons who voted for the third candidate express a preference, it is possible for the victorious candidate to be elected with less than 50 per cent of the primary or subsequent preference votes of the people taking part in the poll. [More…]
It leads to the election of candidates, in single member seats, in respect of whom more than 50 per cent of people have cast adverse votes. [More…]
The fact that we get something like six or eight times the number of informal votes when we have a large number of candiates as in the last Senate election in New South Wales as against the last House of Representatives election in New South Wales, apparently fades away into insignificance as far as the Opposition is concerned. [More…]
I accuse the Government of humbug because since this Government came to power it has successfully eliminated no fewer than 900 polling places around Australia thus making it more difficult for thousands of people to cast their votes. [More…]
Clause 5 refers to the percentage of votes required before a candidate or a group of candidates will have their deposits refunded. [More…]
After all, we do not know until they have stood and the votes are gathered whether they are going to be elected, but I believe the Minister is trying to prejudge the matter. [More…]
As a general rule, under this provision candidates would be required to gain a slightly higher percentage of votes than at present. [More…]
So we say that in matters such as the number of polling booths, the provision of adequate facilities, particularly with regard to postal votes, and the hours that the booths are open, there is a requirement, a duty, for the Government to provide reasonable convenience to electors. [More…]
Clearly, if the time for casting a vote, the availability and number of polling booths and the way in which postal votes can be lodged are restricted the rights of the people are restricted. [More…]
In using the term ‘donkey’ I am not referring to the people who cast such votes. [More…]
The position at the top of the ballot paper can be worth between 700 and 1400 votes. [More…]
He received thousands more primary votes than any of the other candidates, of whom there were twelve or thirteen if my memory serves me correctly. [More…]
Speaking of mobile polling booths, the establishment of which this legislation proposes to authorise, the Minister said that they would be: … a significant step forward in making it easier for the aged and infirm to register their votes while at the same time removing the need for canvassers and political parties organisers to invade hospitals, convalescent homes and institutions, as they do at present. [More…]
Here we have the chief of the maligners now pretending penitence, crawling for votes and saying that all his previous protestations were false. [More…]
I hope that every person of overseas origin who is now a voter and who finds a Labor Party member crawling to them for votes, as the honourable member for Lalor crawled on 6 September, will know that the Labor Party is phoney through and through on this issue. [More…]
If this convention had not been breached, if it had not been broken, more recently by the Country Party Premier of Queensland, despite the votes in the Queensland Parliament of the Deputy Premier- the Leader of the Liberal Party- and the Liberal Ministers, and if it had not also been broken earlier by the Premier of New South Wales, whose Party at the top level has now repudiated him on the issue, then there would be two more Labor senators in the Senate. [More…]
Furthermore, I would recall to honourable gentlemen that the last election for the Senate, the date of which was determined by the Federal Government since it was a double dissolution, more votes were received by the Labor candidates than by the candidates of all other parties combined. [More…]
The obvious proposal which comes from the honourable member is that the more voting is facilitated, the more people are able to vote, the easier it becomes to cast a vote, the fewer informal votes there are, the more this will assist the Government That may well be true, but it is also true that to facilitate the expression of opinion by electors is basic to the democratic concept. [More…]
This clause would insert into the Act a provision to assist those living in remote areas to lodge postal votes. [More…]
We have heard in several debates that the Government wishes to facilitate the voting by people at election time, yet so many of its proposals are to restrict it in terms of time or postal votes generally- we will come to that matter when we deal with the next Bill- and in terms of that clause which we last debated providing some people who are living overseas with the right to vote. [More…]
Of course with the Post Office as it is- I do not want to be too rude about its operations but it is common knowledge that some of its transportation of votes is a bit slow- and with the understandable congestion in an electoral office whilst an election is being conducted, I suppose it is not possible to process all of these applications and to sent out ballot papers the very next day. [More…]
If all the postal votes had been received in time at the last election for the seat of Kalgoorlie, who could say whether its representative would have been the man who is sitting in this chamber today? [More…]
There were a great number of postal votes that were received and were not counted. [More…]
Some of the postal vote applications and the votes sent out in envelopes were put on the wrong train and went to the wrong village. [More…]
No doubt the Government could get lists from the Electoral Office of the votes that were subsequently received but which could not be counted because the time had expired. [More…]
The Government wants to restrict that time limit so that more and more votes will be declared invalid. [More…]
That is one reason why people apply for postal votes. [More…]
I can remember when I narrowly lost an election in 1969 because an extraordinary number of absentee votes came in from a place called Werris Creek which everybody knows is a little railway town in the north-west of New South Wales, not known as a place to which people from Bondi go for their annual holidays. [More…]
Nevertheless, these votes all turned up and honourable members would be surprised at the way they went. [More…]
The Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr Riordan) put up some argument about what happened in his electorate with absentee votes. [More…]
We are not talking about absentee votes. [More…]
We are speaking about postal votes. [More…]
There is enough of this happening- that is to say people being unable to lodge valid votes, to demonstrate the need for amendment to the law. [More…]
The argument put on absentee votes is invalid. [More…]
After section 1 1 3 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:- ‘ 1 13a ( 1) Where a hospital is a polling place, the presiding officer may make arrangements with an appropriate person, or appropriate persons, on the staff of the hospital for the votes of patients in the hospital or in part of the hospital to be taken in accordance with this section. ‘ [More…]
votes may be taken under this section at a special polling place at such time or times as the presiding officer determines, being a time or times between 8 o’clock in the morning and 6 o’clock in the evening on polling day or on one or more of the 5 days preceding polling day, and at no other time. [More…]
We do not go to hospitals with 400, 500 or 600 beds because we are interested in getting all the votes. [More…]
Whilst the present system continues the candidates will have no alternative but to do their utmost to ensure that they maximise their opportunities for gaining votes. [More…]
My scrutineers noticed at the last election that the postal votes which were cast early, the ones that were organised in hospitals, for example, showed a much greater support for the Liberal Party than would be the case in any subdivision in the whole electorate. [More…]
Members of the Liberal Party or people paid by them had gone around the hospitals and organised the votes. [More…]
I fail to believe that these votes would be any different in normal circumstances from the votes that would apply in the rest of the community. [More…]
The fact that it takes a bit longer to count and there is a little more inconvenience to officers of the Australian Electoral Office, who after all are paid to do the job, is really of small consequence against what is intended, which is to find the intention of the people as expressed through their votes in the ballot box. [More…]
The Minister proposes to do 2 things in respect of postal votes. [More…]
I talked about postal votes and particularly the needs of people in the remote regions a little earlier. [More…]
The Minister proposes to restrict the time within which postal votes may be received. [More…]
He is going to restrict a certain number of them, and their votes are going to be invalid. [More…]
That is the direct consequence of what is being done here, and I believe it is being done deliberately because the Government has come to the conclusion that by and large those postal votes that come in late do not favour it. [More…]
-Therefore the more the Government can cut down these votes the better. [More…]
I was pleased to hear agreement from the honourable member for Griffith (Mr Donald Cameron) because I know that he among many members here is very knowledgeable in the field of postal votes. [More…]
I notice from looking at election results that he seems to find at the time these votes are counted that he is very popular with the majority of people who vote in this manner. [More…]
Far more serious than that is clause 10 which provides that postal votes need to be received by the divisional returning officer by the close of the poll; that is to say, 8 p.m. on polling day or, as the Government would like, 6 p.m. We oppose that change. [More…]
That will have the effect of making invalid a significant number of postal votes. [More…]
The present situation is that we have up to 10 days after polling day to get postal votes in. [More…]
But the Government does not want that; it wants to eliminate the effectiveness of as many postal votes as it can. [More…]
Of course not a lot of election results depend on postal votes. [More…]
When they do, surely to heaven the aim should be to provide as great an opportunity as possible for electors on a particular roll to express their view and to cast their votes. [More…]
It would be a large restriction and would cut out 10 days for those who have to vote through the mail to have their votes recorded. [More…]
Firstly, there is the earlier closing off of applications but, secondly and more importantly, there is the earlier time by which votes have to be received before they can be counted. [More…]
Many votes are now received after polling day and 3 weeks, which is the time between nomination day and polling day, is not very long. [More…]
I think that is just an argument that is brought forward because it is so hard to make arguments other than the real one, which is the desire to cut down the number of valid votes which are being cast through the post. [More…]
The clause would mean that postal votes would have be be delivered or posted direct to the relevant divisional returning officer. [More…]
Our primary interest must be that a large degree of convenience is afforded to the public and that the result is the proper interpretation of the valid votes that are cast by people. [More…]
It is a hypocritical exercise to talk about people voting when the Opposition supports a method of voting that ensures that a large percentage of votes, particularly country votes, are rendered informal. [More…]
It is nonsense to talk about the number of electoral booths if, when the people cast their votes, the votes are then rendered informal by a complicated system of numbering. [More…]
It is just mouthing words to come into the chamber and to try to put across a case for giving people an entitlement to vote if something is not done about ensuring that the votes that are cast are formal votes. [More…]
At the same time it provides for the closing of applications for postal votes at 6 p.m. on the Thursday. [More…]
Provision is made for those votes to get back to the booth. [More…]
Section 96 of the Electoral Act deals specifically with scrutiny by a divisional returning officer of postal votes, the return of postal votes and the opening of them. [More…]
I was a scrutineer with respect to votes cast in his electorate at the last 2 elections. [More…]
Under the system which operated in 1974 and which still continues at present, 1302 postal votes were cast in the electorate of Paterson. [More…]
Of those votes, 61 per cent went to the successful candidate. [More…]
The unsuccessful candidate received 36 per cent of those postal votes. [More…]
The interesting point is this: As scrutineers, we had to challenge a considerable number of postal votes that carried postmarks dated several days after the date on which the election was held. [More…]
There is no way in which the date when those votes were cast can be determined. [More…]
I do not believe that all of those votes were cast prior to 8 p.m. on 18 May 1974. [More…]
A number of those votes were challenged. [More…]
We asked that a number of such postal votes be passed on to the Electoral Officer for further investigation. [More…]
Looking at the result in the Paterson division in 1974, we find that the majority was 275 votes. [More…]
If we examine the difference between the percentages of votes cast for each candidate at polling booths and the percentages of votes cast for each candidate through the postal voting system, we find that the margin is sufficient to represent the difference between winning and losing that seat. [More…]
The net margin was 275 votes. [More…]
So 53 500 people in the electorate of Paterson voted for one candidate or another and, in a final majority of 275 votes, 140 people by the postal voting method selected the successful candidate. [More…]
When we look at the results in the 1972 election, we find that a similar situation emerges with respect to that abuse, as revealed by a comparison of the percentages of polling booth votes and postal votes. [More…]
The Opposition will not tell us that, as it knows that the present situation ensures that in country electorates a large proportion of voters cast informal votes for Senate elections. [More…]
They are dragged along to polling booths or make application for postal votes, worrying about penalties for failing to vote, and cast their votes. [More…]
All the time, honourable members opposite know full well in their own minds that they are wholeheartedly supporting a method of vote counting that ensures that the informal rate in votes cast by country electors is almost twice the rate of informal votes lodged by city electors. [More…]
I would like to turn to a less emotional aspect of the Bill and refer to the endeavours by the Government to change the postal voting procedure by altering the deadline for the return of postal votes. [More…]
At present, a period of 10 days’ grace after polling day is allowed for the receipt of postal votes by the relevant returning officer. [More…]
It is therefore proposed that postal votes be returned so as to reach the appropriate returning officer not later than the close of the poll. [More…]
It is proposed that this be brought so that the postal votes have to be back at Kadina by polling day. [More…]
The truth is of course that at the last Senate election the people not only recorded 200 000 more votes for the Australian Labor Party candidates- the Government- than for all other Parties represented in the Senate combined, but elected 29 Labor senators and 29 Opposition senators and 2 Independents. [More…]
This election will be won by the party that gets the most votes from the sensible, decent Australians who value the system of democracy. [More…]
The election will be a contest between foreign dollars and Australian votes, the votes of men and women who want to keep Australia Australian and who want parliamentary democracy to remain democratic. [More…]
Australian Labor Party candidates at the last Senate election got more votes than candidates of all the other parties. [More…]
The tame, docile members of the Liberal Party- I congratulate them- every time the National Country Party speaks, run like rabbits to their burrows because for some reason or other they are scared stiff of a selection of people who get 10 per cent of the votes and have 20 per cent of the power in this Parliament. [More…]
I am reminded of the fact that in a variety of votes the prospective wage increases have not been taken into account. [More…]
Votes are cast in Russia. [More…]
When the Opposition comes into this Parliament and says it supports tax indexation and then votes against loan raising legislation of course it brings about a situation which would make tax indexation quite impossible. [More…]
If one talks to them privately you find that their private attitudes are different from the ones they express in their votes in this House. [More…]
Governments are formed and unformed by votes in this House and both sides of this House ought to acknowledge the ascendency of that reality and what is being done. [More…]
I cite the example that this Government in the last Senate election received 200 000 more votes than all the other political parties and groups put together; yet because of a quirk of the electoral system and because of the States representation the Government did not win a majority. [More…]
The Opposition will shortly face 7 million consumers and it will have to explain to those 7 million consumers, whose votes they will be seeking, why it was that in the very area that concerns the consumers most of all- protection from dishonest advertising and protection from dishonest manufacturers, retailers and wholesalers- it has used this device to prevent an Act being put on the statute book. [More…]
They are welcome to all the votes the multinational corporations in New York can give them as long as we get the votes which the consumers will give to the people who they consider are looking after their interests best. [More…]
It talks about superannuation schemes and what it is going to do regardless of the cost because it thinks that this will win it a few votes. [More…]
It will allow the Consumer Protection Bill to join the long list of other Bills already rejected by the Senate as evidence of the obstructionism of the Senate and as evidence of the way the Senate is bound hand and foot to interests that do not have votes and in this case are diametrically opposed to interests that have more than 7 million votes. [More…]
Government obtained 200 000 votes more than the combined votes of all of its opponents in the Senate. [More…]
There was equality of numbers in the Senate but a majority of votes for the Government party. [More…]
As Steele Hall said, he is carrying the votes of dead men in his pocket in another place. [More…]
Money is coming in in thousands because people will not see democracy destroyed by a collection of individuals opposite who exist on dead men’s votes. [More…]
Senator Withers said that they arranged to do it even before the votes had been finally counted. [More…]
And of course the number of informal votes cast will be increased. [More…]
Has he noticed that the Australian Labor Party vote was down by 7 per cent and that even the right wing Workers Party polled approximately as many votes as his once great Party? [More…]
But what I was appalled to notice was that the Country Party and Workers Party votes rose. [More…]
I gather that there is some proposition that the Leader of the Opposition, who on the most favourable issues at most can depend on the votes of half the senators, should himself give advice to the Governor-General as to when there should be elections for the House of Representatives a very novel proposition. [More…]
It was part of a headlong rush by the Government to cut tariffs in a bid to lower prices at a stroke and thereby win easy votes. [More…]
It is therefore intended, as with the Aboriginal Councils and Associations Bill, that the Aboriginal Land (Northern Territory) Bill should not proceed immediately through the second and third readings but lie before the House until a later date so that any representations may be taken into account before the House votes on the legislation. [More…]
The second point is that now the High Court of Australia has come down with a decision that the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory shall qualify for Senate representation the mastermind of the Australian Labor Party, the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), has said to the Minister: ‘You had better get that into the House and get it through because there might be a few votes in the Northern Territory for us’. [More…]
I suggest that in the stillness of the night the honourable member for the Northern Territory should examine his own conscience in this matter and ask how those votes are rolled up, ask . [More…]
The clause states that the question shall be decided by a majority of the votes, but the question of Aboriginal custom and so on, commendable as it is, does not come in there. [More…]
I also want to take him up on the remarks he made about the rigging of votes. [More…]
Strangely enough, in the area about which he was speaking- -Wattie Creek and Hooker Creek about 70 miles south from there- at a previous election a whole block of votes came in all marked with the same pencil and all marked with exactly the same preferences. [More…]
I shall not advise the Governor-General to dissolve both ‘Houses at the behest of this tainted Senate in which the Opposition parties have a chance majority or can muster half the votes because of the death of Senator Milliner and the constitutional impropriety of the Queensland Government in failing to replace him with a nominee of my Party. [More…]
Votes are carried with the support of members of the Liberal Movement. [More…]
Those people in rural industries, those in rural towns, were hit worst of all because the previous Administration seemed to believe it could win more votes in the great cities if it kicked to death the people in the countryside. [More…]
About 3 weeks prior to the election date I received a visit in my office from the Deputy Shire President of the Gosford Shire Council, Councillor Don Leggett, who informed me that he was one of 4 nonmembers of the Liberal Party who had been approached to stand as Independents in an attempt to drag votes away from the Labor Party in the traditional Labor Party area of Woy Woy. [More…]
Very clearly this seems to be another case where a man has been bribed to take a place on the ballot paper in an attempt to take votes away from a Labor candidate and I would like the matter investigated by the Attorney-General (Mr Ellicott). [More…]
I think this sort of thing has been going on for so long that we have almost come to the point where we accept as a normal part of electioneering that in seat after seat the expenses of candidates are paid in an attempt to siphon off votes from various candidates. [More…]
Very clearly anybody who spends the sort of money that Mr Smith was able to spend- particularly after what I have been told- to get a couple of thousand votes needs to have his head examined. [More…]
It is a disturbing spectacle for any democrat to observe that the Liberal Party with 3 248 000 votes or 42 per cent of the total votes can gain 68 seats in this House while the Australian Labor Party with 64 868 more votes than the Liberal Party, with a total of 3 313 000 votes or 42.8 per cent of the total, can gain only 36 seats in this House. [More…]
Let me put the essence of that again: With 42 per cent of the votes the Liberal Party gained 68 seats; with 42.8 per cent of the votes the Labor Party gained only 36 seats. [More…]
That Party succeeded in attracting only 853 000 votes which is 1 1 per cent of the total. [More…]
Yet, with 1 1 per cent of the total votes it gained 23 seats in this House. [More…]
The effect of the present system is that for every seat won the Labor Party had to gain 92 000 votes; the Liberal Party had to gain 47 000 votes; and the National Country Party had to gain 37 000 votes. [More…]
To show the absurdity of the present situation, if one takes the total votes of the Labor Party and divides them by the votes per seat gained by the National Country Party, the Labor Party would have gained 89 seats. [More…]
A senator from New South Wales must gain a quota of 232 588 votes to be elected. [More…]
A senator from Tasmania needs to gain only 20 2 1 1 votes to be elected- one tenth. [More…]
A senator from the Northern Territory needs only 9476 votes to be declared elected. [More…]
For every one the honourable member can concoct, I can give him 100 examples of bullying tactics by members of his own Party who try to influence votes and refuse people the right of free speech in the community in general. [More…]
It is interesting to note that in the 1975 election the National Country Party obtained 37.8 per cent of the votes in the electorates it contested, a 4 per cent increase on the 1972 result, and obtained a grand total of 26.7 per cent of the total votes registered in that State. [More…]
It took on average to obtain one Liberal seat 48 422 votes. [More…]
To obtain one National Country Party seat on average it took 36 139 votes. [More…]
But to obtain one Australian Labor Party seat it took on average 92 58 1 votes. [More…]
It took 91 per cent more votes on average to obtain one Labor seat than to obtain one Liberal seat. [More…]
It took 156 per cent more votes on average to obtain one Labor Party seat than to obtain one Country Party seat. [More…]
The National Country Party was frantic that an electoral redistribution which just might be passed by the Liberal members of the Senate- those few who might have had some sense of fairnessmight have brought some equity and justice in the distribution of electors in Australian electorates and reduced the disproportion of representation they have in relation to the votes which they are able to achieve. [More…]
It got 42.8 per cent of votes cast but has only 36 seats in this House. [More…]
I compare that with the position of the National Country Party which, with less than 10 per cent of the votes cast, has 23 seats in this House. [More…]
Too often a referendum has been lost in Tasmania by only a handful of votes. [More…]
They act where votes are required. [More…]
It is argued that new and elaborate welfare systems buy popularity and votes. [More…]
This Government has to try to rectify a problem which was created by a Government which literally was prepared to buy votes wherever and whenever possible. [More…]
It should be left to the votes of the members of Parliament to express any disagreement. [More…]
During March 19S1 whilst in London I wrote to the Australian Prime Minister, Mr. R. G. Menzies complaining that there were no facilities at Australia House, London for registering Australian citizens in Britain for postal votes. [More…]
An office was opened at 38 Parliament Street, London SW1, and an extensive advertising campaign was launched, publicising the need for Australians to register for postal votes for the forthcoming Australian general election. [More…]
Our efforts were quite successful as we registered 30,000 Australians for postal votes in that time. [More…]
One of the sadder aspects of this Government’s attitude to expenditure programs has been the way it has moved to reward its own sectional supporters for previous service in giving their votes. [More…]
This was reduced to a narrow 5-seat majority, decided by only about 220 votes over 3 different seats. [More…]
If there had been less than 1000 votes cast the other way the Liberal and National Country Parties would have had a majority of about 9 seats. [More…]
In time we would have seen boundaries which would have meant that Labor needed only about 30 per cent of the votes to win. [More…]
The Labour Party got only 39 out of every 100 votes cast in England and yet won government. [More…]
In Poland and East Germany it is proudly stated that the National United Front gets 98 per cent of the votes cast. [More…]
The biggest unions get the most votes. [More…]
First, the majority of farmers are heavily in debt because of the previous 3 years under a Labor Government and that Government’s cheap attempt to buy political votes from city voters. [More…]
It is just a straight out ad hoc, short term, political decision to win votes at a particular time. [More…]
It is interested in votes; it is not interested in the long term problems of the industry. [More…]
Every decision we have to make concerning how we are to vote, how we are to speak and what we are to support or not to support involves a dilemma as to whether our actions and votes should be directed towards assisting Australian. [More…]
On the one hand it belted the rural sectorbelted a major resource- but on the other hand of course it increased the goodies coming to Canberra for use as handouts so that it could, in fact, attempt to buy votes. [More…]
Let us get that clear There are no votes in supporting people who deliberately will not work. [More…]
At the same time honourable members opposite will find that there are no votes in going to the other extreme, in imposing penalties upon people who are out of work, just because they are out of work. [More…]
The democratic system of this country has reached a very low level if people can be appointed to the Senate by State governments and then have the power to block the supply of finance approved by this House of Representatives a House in which each member is elected by the wishes and the votes of the people of Australia. [More…]
The votes of the people of Australia give this House of Representatives the basic power, one might say the singular power, of total control over the appropriation of money from the Treasury and from the Consolidated Revenue Fund. [More…]
The letters were used for promoting the Australian Labor Party in the last election campaign, and in fact were used to attempt to gain votes for that former Minister. [More…]
I think that I would probably crack even on the votes of that 1 8 per cent. [More…]
I know the reason why I was elected with a majority of 12 000 votes. [More…]
The Labor Party had no other consideration in mind than the votes of the potential 300 000 members of this scheme and no doubt some of their relatives. [More…]
They bought votes with this measure, promising it far too hastily, and now we will all lament. [More…]
A little while ago the honourable member for Parramatta thought it was a breach of privilege almost to suggest that we should let the people of his electorate know how he votes in this place. [More…]
The honourable gentleman referred to the percentage of votes cast in certain elections. [More…]
I am further informed that, as the House would know, under section 170 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act unions can request a ballot to be conducted by the Commonwealth Electoral Office at public expense and that the average percentage of votes cast in elections conducted under section 170 is of the order of 40 per cent. [More…]
This applies to successful candidates and those receiving 20 per cent of the votes cast. [More…]
In order to participate in the distribution of parliament seats, the general rule is that a party must have received at least 4 per cent of all votes cast throughout the country (exactly 4 per cent of the votes cast entitles the party in question to 14 seats in parliament). [More…]
However, parties receiving fewer votes are permitted to participate in the distribution of seats in constituencies where the party has captured at least 12 percent of the votes. [More…]
Staff support now provided by the national government shall be supplemented by a basic support amounting to 1.5m SKr annually to each political party represented in parliament that has captured 4 per cent of the votes cast in the latest election. [More…]
National support shall be provided for political parties not represented in parliament on the basis of the percentage of votes captured by the party in question in the most recent election. [More…]
Parties that are represented in parliament under the 12 per cent rule, but did not capture as much as 4 per cent of the votes, shall receive the support described in points 1 and 3 above, although they shall not receive more than 14 mandate support units. [More…]
He will be able to return to that past practice of buying rural votes with road funds- a return to rural socialism and the handout mentality of pre- 1972 that resulted in our major national highway, the Hume Highway, being a virtual goat track after 23 years of conservative government. [More…]
I think that perhaps the major reason why he is protesting at this given time is the event that is going to take place in New South Wales on 1 May when the people of that State will be going to the ballot box to cast their votes for a State government. [More…]
Having somehow acquired these lists, the Labor Party then set about ringing people and knocking on doors at all hours trying to get Labor votes. [More…]
It is not the sort of welfare initiative which gets votes but it is the sort of welfare initiatives which satisfies one greatly because one realises that one has discharged a very important moral obligation in society to do something for the very serious social casualties that we do have in our community, and to help the very worthwhile people who dedicate their lives to helping the men and women who are homeless and who are drifting in the community, often in a situation of that nature because of some sort of crisis that has occurred in their life. [More…]
Nobody should imagine that it did not win votes for the Government; it did. [More…]
But, of course, by the same rule it will lose votes for the Government now that those who voted for it in the belief that they were going to get the democratic direct voice of the rank and file know that they are going to get only an indirect voice and that handfuls of men calling themselves the management committees of unions will elect each other to the most important full time positions at the federal level. [More…]
That policy, I am proud to say- and I hope I say it with some modesty- did something to win votes in the outlying electorates that were won from us in 1972 and 1974. [More…]
The figures for the New South Wales State election reveal that for every seat won by the Labor Party, approximately 25 333 votes were cast, but for every seat won by the Liberal-Country Party coalition, approximately 21 833 votes were cast. [More…]
Paul Whelan was elected to office with a swing of over 6500 votes from the result of the last election. [More…]
The votes that people cast go to electing members of a college and it is the college which formally elects the new President of the United States of America. [More…]
The Labor Party polled the majority of votes in New South Wales. [More…]
Minor party and independent candidates are eligible to receive a proportion of full funding based on past or current votes received. [More…]
Minor parties are eligible for lesser amounts based on their proportion of votes received in a past or current election. [More…]
In a later decision, the Federal Constitutional Court reduced to 0.5 per cent the percentage of votes needed to qualify for subsidy, and in early 1974 the subsidy itself was raised to 3.50 DM for each vote polled. [More…]
The subsidy is distributed among parties according to the number of votes polled, and is distributed at the rate of 10 per cent in the first year after the election, IS per cent in the second year, 35 per cent in the third year and the remaining 40 per cent immediately after the general elections. [More…]
If the ALP continued not to recognise the fact that it had lost the election, continued to attack the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, and Lady Kerr, and persisted with its slogan of ‘Shame, Fraser, shame’, it would lose more seats and votes. [More…]
One wonders how many electors in seats that swung narrowly to the Government on 13 December would have cast their votes as they did if they had knowledge of this measure. [More…]
I do not think that to say this just to gather in a few votes- parish pumpingis a good thing. [More…]
It might get votes. [More…]
This serious situation had been caused by an under valuation of our currency in 1972 and an over expansive, politically attractive, buying the votes LiberalNational Country Party Budget in that year. [More…]
I do not know how anyone in Australia is going to be inspired into a new confidence when they can read into these 2 documents the gigantic fraud that has taken place in Australian politics in terms of what the people were told when their votes were up for grabs and what they are being told not 2Vi years before the next election. [More…]
From a reading of almost every page of the policy speech one can see that when the Government wanted the votes everything could be done. [More…]
It means, of course, that when one goes to an election one can say anything so long as one can get the votes. [More…]
As I said earlier, when the votes were up for grabs, say anything at all. [More…]
That is contained in the policy speech of the Liberal and National Country Parties when, as I say, the votes were up for grabs. [More…]
This Government would not take the easy Labor way to electoral popularity, that is, buying votes with mass spending which does nothing to solve real poverty problems. [More…]
Here we have the position where the whole electorate is divided into segments and votes in its small segments. [More…]
The system as we have it in the Senate, where the electorate votes as a whole State, is so big that nothing personal can be known and only the party affiliations can come through. [More…]
Even after the people of America cast their votes, the formal election of the President of the United States, the highest elected position in the world, will be decided by a college. [More…]
On this occasion I suggest that he is playing politics in a way which will not win him any votes. [More…]
There will be a duplicity of votes and of voting procedures that could give rise to some doubt and confusion in the minds of voters. [More…]
The honourable member for Port Adelaide referred to the percentage of votes cast in union elections. [More…]
He implied that the percentage of votes cast in union elections conducted under the auspices of the Industrial Registrar or the Australian Electoral Office was not high. [More…]
It was a brutal exercise in buying rural votes at the expense of the lives of urban motorists and causing distress to urban families. [More…]
They have been able to do that with the assistance of the gerrymander of electoral boundaries which gives a distorted value to National Country Party votes. [More…]
If the House votes that the time proposed to be omitted stand, that means that that time of 1 o’clock stands. [More…]
He will get his fingers burnt and lose votes in his electorate. [More…]
In looking for a reason I have to say that during previous debates when free votes were taken the track record of the Attorney-General was not terribly good in respect of voting on the side that won the division. [More…]
In fact it was the worst incident since the unruly Northcote demonstration in the electorate of Batman prior to last December’s election which won the Liberal Party tens of thousands of votes. [More…]
It made the promise at that time for very good reason- not only to win votes but because it was being properly advised at that time not to create confrontation in this country. [More…]
Honourable members opposite might take back to the honourable member for Newcastle (Mr Charles Jones) his statement, well remembered in Tasmania, that there are more votes in Newcastle than there are in Tasmania. [More…]
That is a curious concept to the honourable gentlemen opposite who felt that welfare was something you bought votes with rather than looked after people with. [More…]
We do not have as our basic god, as our basic gaol, the purchasing of votes through the welfare system which was the sole motivation in assisting the middle class twoincome family at the expense of the worker in this kind of situation. [More…]
We should be looking in particular at a system of casting votes which takes 2 minutes rather than 10 minutes. [More…]
I have a file in my cupboard about the way in which the honourable member for Chifley gathers postal votes. [More…]
We all know that many seats could change hands if that percentage of the postal votes were manipulated. [More…]
All I ask for is a fair go and a fair share of the votes, which is at least 50 per cent plus one. [More…]
The Opposition, of course, stands for the one man one vote principle, with votes of equal value. [More…]
In the 1975 House of Representatives election the Liberal Party won 3 248 000 votes, or 42 per cent of the total. [More…]
Australian Labor Party commanded more supporta total of 3 3 13 000 votes, or 42.8 per cent of the votes. [More…]
Actually, the Labor Party won 64 868 more votes than the Liberal Party, but it won only 36 seats- not 68 seats, as the Liberal Party got. [More…]
On the other hand, the National Country Party won only 853 943 votes, or 1 1 per cent of the total. [More…]
If the Labor Party could gain a parliamentary seat with the same number of votes as are sufficient for the Liberal and National Country Parties to gain a seat, the composition of this chamber would be very different. [More…]
Taking the total number of votes for the Australian Labor Party and dividing it by the votes per seat for the Liberal Party, the Australian Labor Party today would hold 68 seats in the House- not 36 seats, as it does. [More…]
That would be the position if the same number of votes were required to elect a Labor man as are required to elect a Liberal man. [More…]
On the other hand, if one takes the National Country Party situation I can well understand why the honourable member for Hume wants to try to sit me down- one finds this incredible position: Dividing the total ALP vote by the number of votes required to elect a National Country Party candidate, Labor would have not 36 members but 89 members in the House at the present time. [More…]
In essence, this is what the figures mean: Labor, which polled more votes than any other party, gained 3 314 000 votes, or 42.8 per cent of the total. [More…]
For each of the 36 seats that it won, it had to get 92 027 votes. [More…]
The Liberal Party with fewer overall votes- that is, with 3 248 136 votes or 42 per cent of the total- had to get only 47 766 votes per seat. [More…]
Labor had to get 92 027 votes to win a seat and the Liberal Party had to get 47 766 votes. [More…]
-As the honourable member for Melbourne Ports says, the Liberals had to get about half of the votes that the Labor Party had to get. [More…]
The National Country Party got only 853 943 votes, or 1 1 per cent of the total, and it had to win only 37 128 votes per seat. [More…]
Then he went on to talk about how the Liberal Party got so many votes, and how it got a bigger proportion of the seats than it was entitled to as compared with the Labor Party. [More…]
No doubt if the National Country Party had contested as many seats as did the Labor Party it only stands to reason that its vote- I think he said 800 000 votes- would naturally be increased. [More…]
Consequently in adding up the figures, the honourable member for Hughes should add together the votes polled by the National Country Party and the Liberal Party. [More…]
Those colleagues know that when they have the majority of votes in South Australia in the future they will be the government. [More…]
In fact, recent accurate analyses of voting figures show quite clearly that only twice in its record period of office of 32 years was the Playford Government elected with a minority of votes. [More…]
These people say that the Playford Government was kept in office with a minority of votes. [More…]
Under this new redistribution the Liberal Party will have to attain 54 per cent of the votes to obtain office in South Australia at the next State election. [More…]
Advances in social welfare usually arise because during election campaigns politicians decide that it might be a good thing for the purpose of winning votes to make this, that or the other promise in terms of social welfare. [More…]
But in passing, as it is a related subject, I wish to remark upon the extraordinary attitude still being maintained by the honourable gentlemen opposite who still take the view that the Federal Government has a right to try to buy votes by buying into areas with taxpayers’ money that quite properly should reside with the States. [More…]
This Government will win its votes by its efforts and it will not buy them with the taxpayers’ money the way the Labor Government did. [More…]
Their votes are not even counted on a proper basis. [More…]
I am talking here of the sort of centralised authoritarian control which we saw in Canberra in the years 1972 to 1975 which led to the crushing votes against the Labor Government in Tasmania, Western Australia and Queensland in particular. [More…]
If local government believes, and if it is a fact, that the only Premiers who will at present support it are the Premiers of the Labor-controlled States, then local government already has 3 votes at the Premiers Conference. [More…]
The Liberals have never really cared about the arts because they do not win votes and they do not make money. [More…]
But for his own part he has used the plight of dairy farmers only to try to win votes in the forthcoming State election. [More…]
But worse still, in the hunt for cheap votes it drove a wedge between rural and city interests, and that will take a long time to overcome. [More…]
Never again can the matter of pension increases become a bargaining point to win votes from the electors during a pre-election Budget or at election time, a procedure which I believe reduces the dignity of the pensioner quite callously and unnecessarily. [More…]
I suggest that once again the question of mechanical counting of votes of this House be investigated, but I suggest that in the meantime the Standing Orders be altered to provide for different arrangements in the event of procedural motions. [More…]
Honourable members who wish to cast their votes on a substantive motion and have them recorded by way of division should be able to do so, but where we are voting on procedural motions I suggest that the procedures of the House could be much improved if the idea I have put forward were examined and adopted. [More…]
He is always worth 10 000 votes to me when he does. [More…]
It was just a red herring drawn across the path of the Australian people in a bid for votes. [More…]
The Branch Council of my Branch in Queensland, which is the governing body of this Branch, recently by 13 votes to 1 removed a National Civic Council Federal Councillor and replaced her with a non-party person. [More…]
Moves to achieve this were carried by twenty votes to 16. [More…]
The twenty votes included the four officers and the removed delegate from the Central and Southern Queensland Branch. [More…]
But included in the 20 votes for the Maynes’ faction are 4 votes from the federal officers of the union, three of whom are full time and one of whom is part time, who would nevertheless be compelled under the 1973 legislation to face a full rank and file ballot. [More…]
Those people in turn have the right to cast votes. [More…]
There is no guarantee that they will cast the votes they now have in the way that those who voted for them want them cast. [More…]
The disadvantage of the collegiate system is that where we have several tiers, such as the Victorian branch of the Australian Labor Party has in its pre-selection system which the honourable member for Burke has just recently survived by 2 votes, there can be manipulation by various interest groups. [More…]
I ask honourable members to imagine the faction that might have control of those 15 votes. [More…]
It might be appropriate to mention, although all the votes have not been counted, that President Ford had an advertisement on American television showing himself convincing a group of children of the virtues of voting for him. [More…]
It was part of the cynical buying of votes which took place at this time last year. [More…]
They refused to deal with the legislation because they knew that they could not get the necessary votes of the senators to defeat Supply. [More…]
The Parties of honourable members opposite conspired to rig the Senate by stacking it with people who could not get elected and who could not get the votes of the Australian people and utilised the votes of those people who were dishonestly appointed by State governmentshonourable members opposite do not know much about honesty- in order to acquire the numbers to defeat an elected government. [More…]
The people who are now quite justifiably in Opposition are in Opposition because of the votes of the people. [More…]
The votes of Government senators were not cast according to their consciences but according to their party rules. [More…]
The Country Party is renowned for its past record of buying votes with road funds without regard to the human consequences and tragedies that flow because our road systems are inadequate. [More…]
We must also see that we get the best value for the money that Parliament votes. [More…]
As to the other 75 per cent, your votes are safe because they will vote responsibly and well. [More…]
I do not have to make speeches to win votes- I do pretty well in the mining areas- but every one of those men should be highly paid, paid in keeping with the dangerous occupation they follow. [More…]
The consent of a Committee for the purposes of paragraph ( 1) (a) shall be given by resolution passed at a meeting of the Committee by a number of votes greater than the number determined by the Minister for the purposes of paragraph (3) (b). [More…]
I understand that the promise was made to Queensland producers to try to get a few more votes. [More…]
I suggest that they could muster no more than 20 000 votes at best. [More…]
Johnson) and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Uren) who said that the last home savings grants scheme-and now this one- was merely an election gimmick and a way to win votes. [More…]
About 7S00 members were eligible to vote but the successful candidate, Marius Webb, won with a mere 1200 votes. [More…]
There is clear evidence to suggest that by the fragmentation of votes from a multiplicity of candidates for such an election it is possible that the successful candidate would not represent the staff fully. [More…]
This is what comes of a shabby approach to farm policy simply in support of electoral aims and endeavours or, to put it in its crudest form, policies for votes. [More…]
The procedures for applying for postal votes are extremely complicated, even though they are meant to apply to people who are sick or aged and to large numbers of people who only once in their life are going to tackle filling in those forms. [More…]
I thought the honourable member who holds that seat would have a majority of about 12 000 votes. [More…]
I hope that they will do so fairly quickly because the level of informal votes which is taking place in Senate elections is destroying any claim that the Senate is a representative House. [More…]
The level of informal votes is running at something like 10 per cent. [More…]
It should be possible for us to get beyond the horse and buggy stage whereby 10 or 12 days after an election people are not able to say even how many votes there are still to be counted, let alone when they are likely to arrive. [More…]
In fact, as late as the day of the distribution of preferences in the last general election, 20-odd votes turned up. [More…]
I know that the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs found a very important bundle of votes which apparently no one knew existed. [More…]
The proposal must be passed by a majority of all the electors voting in the referendum and it must also be passed by a majority of votes in a majority of States. [More…]
That majority will now take account of the votes of electors who are resident in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory. [More…]
I also vouchsafed the opinion that in respect of Cocos Island and Christmas Island there are powerful international arguments for giving votes for the House of Representatives to the citizens who reside there. [More…]
The motivation of the people when they cast their votes for the election for a House of Representatives election in accordance with the policies expressed by political parties would also flow to the Senate candidates being elected at the same time. [More…]
There is only one slight variation, and that is that in the case of a casual vacancy occurring as a result of a person elected to the House of Assembly in Tasmania dying, resigning or being unable to hold his seat, his votes are in fact recounted and the next person who would have been elected on his preferences takes office. [More…]
They found that, when vacancies occurred, instead of their votes still counting, they were then represented by persons for whom they would never have voted and who indeed were not even candidates at the elections at which their original choice received their number one vote. [More…]
It is a pity that perhaps the proposal does not go quite so far as it could; for example, by employing the Hare-Clark system as it applies in Tasmania so that the votes could have been counted. [More…]
A political party may choose to nominate as a candidate for appointment to the Senate someone whom it would not be prepared to put on its party ticket at an election because that party might know that the person whom they were nominating would not have public appeal and might in fact lose it votes if he had to face an election. [More…]
If not, would the Parliament of Tasmania have the right to appoint as a successor to Senator Townley a representative from the party which had the largest number of votes at the election at which Senator Townley was elected? [More…]
If there were to be a guarantee of proportional representation- and that would have to be the situation as I think there is a guarantee in Tasmania- then a mathematical quota could be worked out and the person who is next on the ballot paper, presumably, once the votes were worked out, would be the person entitled to fill the vacancy. [More…]
The result has been- the recent Senate election indicates this quite clearly- that people tend to vote for those people who put forward a point of view which is attractive but which would not attract their votes if the choice of a government depended on their decision. [More…]
I remind honourable members that on 18 May 1974 New South Wales was the only State that was prepared to vote ‘yes’ in favour of allowing the votes of the people of the Australian Capital Territory to be counted when determining whether a referendum had been passed. [More…]
I propose with the concurrence of the House, to appoint, not tellers, but 4 persons to record the votes of ‘aye’. [More…]
There is some legislation before this Parliament which might have some consequence in that regard and I will be very interested to see whether the honourable member for Hawker votes in favour of that legislation. [More…]
I do not for one moment propose that we should be regarded as having a vote that ought to be worth less than the votes of rural dwellers. [More…]
South Australia had the Liberal-Country League- Sir Thomas Playford ‘s Governmentruling for something like 30 years with a minority of votes. [More…]
The Government should ensure that the majority of people in Australia are not disadvantaged by having their votes downgraded, with my vote being worth only half the vote of people in the seats of Wimmera or Mallee. [More…]
It was truly said on an earlier occasion that it is not the way that the people vote but the way that the people ‘s votes are counted that matters. [More…]
It certainly would create serious difficulties in the re-assembly of a Parliament and the counting of votes. [More…]
I do not believe it is proper that a redistribution should depend on it being acceptable to the party with the majority of votes at any given election. [More…]
But the point I want to take up with previous speakers and in particular the honourable member for Evans, is that once we depart from a principle of equality of votes where does it end? [More…]
If that determination discloses that there should be an alteration to the number of members of the House of Representatives for any State, then the required redistribution will be proceeded with and on that redistribution the electors will cast their votes to choose those members who will form the Government in the next Parliament. [More…]
Electoral legislation could make it possible for a party which achieves a majority of votes, as the Australian Labor Party did in 1955, 1961 and 1969, to be denied government through the loading of electorates which operate against the interests of those residents of the capital cities who make up the bulk of the Australian population. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party, with 3 3 13 000 votes, or 42 per cent of the votes, obtained only 36 seats. [More…]
The Liberal Party with 3 248 000 votes, or 42 per cent of the votes, obtained 68 seats. [More…]
The National Country Party, with only 853 943 votes, or 1 1 per cent of the votes, obtained 23 seats. [More…]
It is interesting to note that Labor actually won 64 868 more votes than the Liberal Party in the last election. [More…]
It has been a long haul through manhood suffrage, abolition of plural voting, removal of the property franchise, fixing up other qualifications, giving votes to the Aboriginal people of Australia, votes for women and recently votes for people over 18 years of age. [More…]
I hope that what has been fought by the National Country Party today is a rearguard action, that the concession made by the Liberal Party is a rearguard concession and that we will eventually come to the stage, not too far off, where Australian elections will be an example to the rest of the world as were the general principles of establishment of manhood suffrage, secret ballot and votes for women some three-quarters of a century ago. [More…]
Even when one takes the figures in relation to the totality of numbers and votes they tend to reflect that the party that has the greatest number of votes usually is in power. [More…]
Because of this threat some of them have a tendency to bail out of their parliamentary duties and get back to their electorates-they are skulking around their electorates in the hope of gaining some votes. [More…]
Assuming that both organisations are required to hold a ballot, under the provisions of the Act at least 50 per cent of the members entitled to vote must vote and at least 50 per cent plus one of the formal votes recorded must be in favour of the amalgamation. [More…]
So Liberal Party influence in that State will be nowhere near the influence that it should hold according to the number of votes it receives in Queensland. [More…]
Whereas we received 43 per cent of the votes in 1975, we find ourselves with 28 per cent of the representatives in this chamber. [More…]
It received 8 per cent or 9 per cent of the votes throughout the country but has about 20 per cent of the members of this House. [More…]
They are Upper Houses where the Labor Party receives a majority of votes at the elections but can get only four out of fifteen people elected. [More…]
Sir Thomas Playford faced 9 elections and on one occasion he received the majority of votes. [More…]
It will take the non-Labor parties as many votes to beat the Dunstan Government at future elections as it took Don Dunstan ‘s Party to defeat the Playford Government. [More…]
The sad thing is that the Labor Party cannot get over the fact that it simply cannot win a majority of Australian votes. [More…]
So it will take 3 votes to elect a Liberal or Labor representative for every one vote it will take to elect a National Party representative in Queensland. [More…]
Its policies in respect of the fruit industry have gone up and down like a lavatory seat depending on where it thinks it can pick up a few votes, because it is only 12 months ago that Labor Party spokesmen were in fact recommending that the stabilisation scheme be phased out. [More…]
Unless they support the amendment proposed by the Labor Parry, which would provide for some increased assistance and which would keep growers off the poverty line, the people of Tasmania will reject these political oncers and time servers, and next year I am sure that they will be looking anxiously for somewhere else to put their votes. [More…]
Indeed, they will be placing their votes against the names of the Labor Party candidates who are at least concerned and who have had a consistent policy on the financial plight of the apple and pear growers in Tasmania. [More…]
Such reflex solutions may win a few votes but only increase the long-term demand on limited Government resources by failing to tackle causes of problems, concentrating instead on covering them over. [More…]
But above all, it must come from those people who are disgusted with those politicians and political parties who indulge mainly in cheap political point scoring in the endless pursuite of votes at any price and from people who want their Parliament to identify the real and significant problems of the future and to take action now which will make the country a good, safe and sound place for future generations. [More…]
That victory is assured if we rally the votes of women. [More…]
The proponents of the No case say that the people of Canberra are not concerned with State powers and that State electors should not have their parliamentary powers determined by votes from Canberra. [More…]
What the Minister wants to cover up is his retention of the ability to buy country votes with road funds, even, I understand, for roads to Cape Corna. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that the Budget contained an allowance of $90m for prospective salary and wage increases for Commonwealth employees but that that amount was not appropriated in individual salary votes. [More…]
A State member wishing to gain votes in some area- I do not say a State member would ever do this but he could do so- could build houses in that area although they might be more urgently required in other areas. [More…]
The Prime Minister has led along those who support him in this place because of the overwhelming majority that he received in this place, not on votes, in the last general election. [More…]
An allowance of $90m for such increases was made in the original Budget estimates but was not appropriated in individual salary votes. [More…]
There is the question of votes for people in the Territories. [More…]
I would like to deal with some of the points made, apparently seriously, by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) who seems to lurch from absurdity to absurdity in his desperate search for left wing votes for the forthcoming Labor Party leadership election. [More…]
Therefore (and as we live in a democracy, and because doubtless you would agree that taxpayers deserve to know who votes for what) we propose to print in our journal soon the names and the electorates of those who do not rigorously oppose this unfair retrospectivity. [More…]
It is not a specific piece of legislation which votes money for a project or a scheme. [More…]
It was left to this side of the chamber- it just shows the force occasionally of 36 votes to 91 votes- to convince the Government, not on the most important aspects of the Bill, but that section 49 and the protection given by it to the small business people ought to remain. [More…]
It is as well to remind the House also of another notable aspect of that referendum, that it achieved the highest Yes vote in the history of referendums in Australia- 89 per cent, which is even better than some of the Yes votes that were achieved in the last referendums. [More…]
In any proceedings referred to in sub-section (1) or (2), the Court may, if it thinks it just to do so, adjourn the proceedings and direct the Industrial Registrar to make arrangements for the submission of a matter that the Court is satisfied is relevant to the exercise of its powers in the proceedings to a vote of all or any of the members of the organization taken by secret ballot and authorize the Industrial Registrar to give such directions as the Industrial Registrar thinks necessary for ensuring the secrecy of votes and otherwise for the purposes of the conduct of the ballot or the communication of the result of the ballot to the Court. [More…]
Under the Standing Orders of the House, if 2 members call for a division we have to proceed with it but I suggest that the honourable member give some consideration to his colleagues in view of the votes that have already been taken and the things that have happened. [More…]
In relation to the extent to which votes will be allocated, there has been discussion, again without resolution. [More…]
The honourable gentleman who yesterday won by one or two votes is a man discredited in the history of this country as the Prime Minister who broke more promises than did any other man who held that office. [More…]
The Government is treating the Australian people as fools in believing that it can buy their votes in the short run, assuming that our fellow citizens do not think deeply about issues and do not worry about our ailing economy, including our unprecedented rate of unemployment, and in believing that the people will not choose policies which are correct in the long run and not just temporary, mainly illusory palliatives in the short run. [More…]
-I am sure that Mr Coates, if he happens to be the opponent of the honourable member at the next election, is not concerned about 5,000 votes. [More…]
Is it due to expediency- votes and left wing pressure? [More…]
Virtually every member of the Opposition front bench knows in his heart that the uranium decision is morally and economically right and that a Labor government would have wanted to take the same action but he dares not say so for fear of losing a few votes or, more likely, for fear of the outside forces that control him. [More…]
In other words, a majority of valid votes were cast in favour of the Yes case in each State; but, regrettably, there was not the clear majority that was required throughout Australia. [More…]
Is it because enough rabid people in the Opposition who can see just political advantage can convince their colleagues that they might win votes? [More…]
I suspect that they will not win votes. [More…]
Do we take it from the Opposition, the people who turn about face just to get votes, or do we take it from the scientists? [More…]
In fact, what I am about to say is based on statements made in this House and outside it by the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) and votes by Australia in the United Nations. [More…]
Every financial member of the trade union movement is subscribing to the Labor Party, whether he votes for that Party or not. [More…]
At the election last Saturday he received 636 votes out of 11,000 votes cast, which is just under 6 per cent of the votes cast. [More…]
He exaggerates his votes at all times. [More…]
He solicited support and votes for Labor candidates in Georges River. [More…]
He used taxpayers’ money by using parliamentary stationery to canvass votes for Labor candidates. [More…]
What is more, the Labor member for Ashfield possibly bordered on an infringement of the Electoral Act because he solicited postal votes in his electorate. [More…]
They use their own finances, unlike the Labor Party candidates who use taxpayers’ money to solicit votes. [More…]
I know that union elections may come around every two or three years, but one day should be set aside on which people could go to some appropriate place and cast their votes in a secret ballot. [More…]
First Queensland- I guess this is good for votes rather than strategic development- is to get the first stage of the development. [More…]
The desire to obtain quick dollars has been replaced with a desire to acquire quick votes. [More…]
As I understand it, both lost votes. [More…]
I do not question that it lost us a lot of votes. [More…]
The would-be alderman Byers stood as an independent Liberal candidate and got 697 votes out of 10,000 votes in the Smithfield ward. [More…]
Don McDonald also stood as an independent Liberal and got 636 votes out of 1 1,000 votes in the St Marys ward for the Penrith Council. [More…]
How many votes and what percentage of the total votes were polled by: [More…]
The votes and percentage of total formal votes polled at the election of members of the Legislative Assembly for the Northern Territory on 13 August 1977 were as follows: [More…]
Australian Labor Party, 12,165 votes- 38.23 percent [More…]
Country-Liberal Party, 12,769 votes-40. [More…]
other candidates, 6,883 votes- 2 1 .64 per cent [More…]
I am pleased that he came because he will win votes for the candidate Bill Foster at that byelection. [More…]
I would like honourable members to bear in mind the fact that unless enough votes are cast in the ballot boxes we will not win seats. [More…]
It feels that there are votes to be gained by being tough. [More…]
They do not need to talk to somebody who normally votes for the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
He has not got any votes here but he affects the lives of a lot of people in Canberra and he should be here in the Committee to hear what people have to say about the mess he has made of the administration of Canberra. [More…]
Nevertheless, the people on the south side of Canberra gave their votes to the present honourable member for Canberra who I am sure will be here for a long time. [More…]
At that meeting only one candidate, Mr N. D. Thomas, received more than half the votes and he was declared elected under the Society’s rules. [More…]
Let us set out to see what we can get from that monster in the way of further trade in the manufactured products, because we will not get that customs union to change its attitude when it comes to the votes of the farmers having their sway. [More…]
Will the right honourable gentleman also acknowledge that since the simultaneous elections referendum received overwhelming support from the electors in the whole of Australia last May but majority support from the electors in only half the States I have constantly said that the way to implement the people’s wish to have simultaneous elections but a contemporary Parliament is to have elections for both Houses as close to the end of June as will permit the Senate votes to be counted? [More…]
For the record, it was won by 56 votes. [More…]
This is just a statement issued from the point of view of getting votes. [More…]
Hundreds of votes are coming in every week and now that these men have succeeded in expelling Oliver the word will go out that it is no use voting for Oliver because he has been expelled. [More…]
If the Defence Force is to be used with special equipment for such a role as fishery surveillance, then I think it would be appropriate for that to be charged to the votes of the relevant departments. [More…]
Clearly, the Queensland Government is in breach of that proposal when we have regard to the incredible gerrymander that operates in that State where the government of the day is elected on about 24 per cent of the votes. [More…]
They are nothing more than a political device to try to concentrate political power and votes in the city areas, at the expense of country people. [More…]
The seat was won from the ALP by 801 votes in 1966 and, as a result of the 1968 Federal redistribution, was subjected to some improvement. [More…]
It is not a political move, such as we have seen on the part of Labor supporters to win votes through a variation in the boundaries of electorates. [More…]
I do not believe that in this chamber we should suggest that the philosophy or policy of a party is all that is required to get a member in this House; that any member from any seat comes in here purely to be a number, and participate in votes. [More…]
Recently he took his grandson to see the Australian cricketers, purely to get votes. [More…]
I have no sympathy whatsoever for the view that we ought to have a differential that is related to distances or anything else because in this Parliament we make the decisions for the nation in the votes on the floor of the House and the numbers in Australian politics are so finely balanced that when one changes the numbers one changes the vote here. [More…]
I believe that the redistribution proposal for Western Australia is, to begin with, totally unfair to the National Country Party which in that State gets sufficient votes to merit its having one seat. [More…]
When the votes in Western Australia split 50-50 the seats went 50-50. [More…]
It is a clear calculation of the Liberal Party that no matter what happens it will get eight out of ten seats, on 45 per cent of the votes. [More…]
It took the view that anything could be achieved with money, including buying votes. [More…]
As a result of the suspension of Standing Orders that censure motion against the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden) was carried overwhelrningly, the vote being 67 votes in favour and only 27 Labor votes against. [More…]
-Mr Speaker, I wish to raise a point of order arising from the Votes and Proceedings No. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I draw your attention to page 374 of the Votes and Proceedings publication. [More…]
Furthermore, if you look at the Votes and Proceedings and also at page 2557 of Hansard, of last Thursday you will see that the motion was not carried in the proper way by an absolute majority. [More…]
The record in Votes and Proceedings does not state that there was a seconder. [More…]
With regard to the absolute majority that was required, the Votes and Proceedings records merely that the question was put and passed with the concurrence of an absolute majority. [More…]
I suppose this is some scheme for the purpose of catching votes by trying to put forward the idea that we are interested in deliberately creating unemployment, so that people will have their noses kept to the grindstone and kept in fear of retrenchment. [More…]
It also shows Mr Fraser ‘s confidence that the electoral benefit derived from falling inflation far outweighs any loss of votes from high unemployment. [More…]
They are all looking for votes in the small States and are prepared to ditch New South Wales. [More…]
I assure honourable members opposite that they will not get any votes in the Cobar area unless something is done about this matter. [More…]
He may get a few votes from the lone fathers of Franklin, but let me tell him that there are a lot of people unemployed through lack of work because of the things he and his Government have done. [More…]
How many votes were recorded at each of those elections. [More…]
In particular, I congratulate you upon obtaining a majority of the votes of the members of your own Party. [More…]
He received not only all 37 votes from the 37 members of the Australian Labor Party who are present. [More…]
In fact, he received a total of 38 votes. [More…]
In 1972 he was unlucky enough to be defeated by a very small number of votes after distribution of preferences. [More…]
With another six votes the result would have been turned around and the honourable member for Lyne (Mr Lucock), who had filled the office with some distinction for many years, would have retained the position. [More…]
Only six more votes were needed for the honourable member for Lyne to have been elected here this afternoon. [More…]
That ought to cause political parties to look to their merits in making their own decisions as to where the votes lie. [More…]
The proposal by the honourable member for Port Adelaide is an attempt to ossify the existing political structures so that the only way one would be financed at taxpayers’ expense would be through the existing political parties on the basis of the votes received at a previous election. [More…]
In the town of Kerry in my electorate- the Labor Party will need to go right back to square one when it hears what its standing is- a town of some 141 voters, the Australian Labor Party gained five votes, which represents 3 per cent of the vote. [More…]
I can only say that every time honourable members opposite smear members of the Government parties, particularly members of the Ministry and the Prime Minister himself, they are just doing a lot of good for the Government and helping us to win more votes. [More…]
Nineteenth century philosophers feared that democracy would bring with it the politics of greed, that is, the buying of votes by the crudest and most vulgar promises of individual material reward. [More…]
It just was not possible, despite the magnificent effort he made during that campaign and despite the number of votes that he won, to withstand the effect of the redistribution. [More…]
We all know it is losing votes. [More…]
Its members have been elected here on 10 per cent of the votes cast in Australia. [More…]
It polled an almost similar number of votes as the Australian Democrats. [More…]
had one of its candidates returned as a Member, and received as a party a total of not less than 150,000 votes. [More…]
Reimbursement should be restricted to those candidates who poll at least one-eighth of the votes cast, and the amount to be reimbursed should be the candidates’ actual election expenses up to a limit of half his legally permitted maximum expenditure. [More…]
It suits the political purposes of the South Australian Government not to make funds available for the Stuart Highway because it does not think there are any votes for it in the Northern Territory. [More…]
It received 39 per cent of the votes. [More…]
The Labor Party, which received more of the overall percentage of the votes, has only 38 seats. [More…]
I have a copy of the advertisement which reads: ‘You get three votes for one when you vote for Fred Nile’s Senate Team’. [More…]
But just as Edith Cavell said: ‘Patriotism is not enough’, we may say that sometimes a bare majority of votes at an election is ‘not enough’. [More…]
One of the most extraordinarily successful elements of the Liberal Party is the fact that it secures very many ‘deference’ votes. [More…]
It is also extraordinary in many ways that the area of greatest success for the Liberal Party and its allies has been in securing the votes of women. [More…]
The Liberal Party, of course, attracts very many traditional votes, but I suspect that one of the reasons why many people in this essentially apolitical society of ours prefer to vote for the Liberal Party is that the Liberal Party seems to be less like a political party than does the Labor Party. [More…]
At the biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings, or CHOGMs, to use that jarring acronym, no votes are taken and no member is bound to abide by any recommendation which might emerge. [More…]
I am proud to belong to a government that, in an election campaign, did not go around trying to buy votes but which, when returned to office and having the confidence of the vast majority of the Australian people, put into legislative form what it had promised. [More…]
He made statements justifying himself in that court hearing, saying how lacking in understanding the Aboriginal people were and what a shame it was that he had to waste his time campaigning for their votes because they were so unintelligent. [More…]
It was a planters’ government, which operated on lines very similar to the gerrymander which operates in Queensland today where acres have more votes than people. [More…]
In many electorates, two to four times as many votes are needed to return one Labor member to Queensland Parliament as are needed to return a member of the Government parties. [More…]
It is simply a band-aid proposal by the Government to try to drag back some votes in rural Australia. [More…]
There are two Ministers who presumably sat in Cabinet and approved this legislation coming into this Parliament and who will be casting their votes against the interests of the people of Tasmania as they are perceived by the honourable member for Franklin. [More…]
One is entitled to ask of those members who will cast their votes tonight, having been told by members of the Opposition- we are used to the fact that they do not believe us and do not accept our arguments- and having been told by one of their colleagues that what they are doing in casting their votes - [More…]
Minister, had the hide to go to Tasmania at the last election and say, in an attempt to get votes, that Tasmania would be a great place for a patrol vessel base. [More…]
The Labor Minister said: ‘There are no more votes in it. [More…]
Votes- that is all Aboriginals mean to the Labor Party. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that the Budget contained an allowance of $90m for prospective salary and wage increases for commonwealth employees but that that amount was not appropriated in individual salary votes. [More…]
Finally, would the Prime Minister care for me to catalogue at greater leisure the vast range of not only wrong forecasts but also totally false assertions which he has made, especially at election time, in an effort to try quite dishonestly to obtain votes? [More…]
This also raises a question of the complex problem of the formality of votes. [More…]
It is simply a means of recording a name on a list so that when a person votes we know that that person is eligible to participate in that ballot. [More…]
That a candidate be nominated by no less than 6 members entitled to vote in the elections in any electorate, together with a nomination fee of $10.00; that if a candidate receives 20 per cent of the successful candidates votes that the nomination fee of $ 10.00 be returned. [More…]
One settlement had more inhabitants than another and one candidate got all the votes in the larger settlement whilst the man who would probably have done a far better job for the Aborigines- certainly the Aboriginal community considered that he would have- was not elected because he came from a settlement that did not have the same number of inhabitants. [More…]
He allowed all these matters to be discussed throughout the conference so that when Australia made its decision on how its votes would be cast on these issues it had been made after a rational discussion among the members, a full understanding of the nature of the different views and an acceptance of the right to differ. [More…]
The IPU meeting was a valuable experience and I was particularly interested to watch the workings of the different bloc groupings in the votes following debates. [More…]
Unlike other delegations, as has been said by the honourable member for Perth (Mr McLean) and the honourable member for Scullin (Dr Jenkins), the Australian group spoke and voted as individuals on two important votes, one on the behaviour of the Israeli authorities in occupied Arab territory, and the other on the situation in southern Africa. [More…]
The Australian delegation split its 1 3 votes. [More…]
In the vote on the Middle East debate Israel was condemned 605 to 73 votes with 106 abstentions. [More…]
Similarly, in respect of the southern African situation the overall vote went in favour of the South West African People’s Organisation 625 to 32 votes with 100 abstentions. [More…]
It may be of interest to the House to know that of the 68 nations which voted on the southern African situation only Australia, Canada, Denmark and the United States split their delegate votes between yes and no. [More…]
Only 13 countries exercised their right to split their delegate votes on the Israeli question. [More…]
The Asprey Committee might think this but this Government, which is led by a man who never tires of telling people how he is interested in their well-being, anxious to promote the wellbeing of all Australians, was anxious to pick up a few votes and so he promised to knock out this tax which the Asprey Committee, a conservative committee, believed contributed to the equity of the tax system. [More…]
The article goes on to show that one person could control 4,000 votes at that meeting by being one of the names in numerous joint accounts. [More…]
He does not think he gets any votes from those particular people and he does not care what happens to them. [More…]
When, after a two-year process of consideration and negotiation in which Australia participated actively, the amendments to the Articles were settled within the Fund’s Executive Board and presented to the Governors of the Fund for consideration, the Treasurer of that time cast Australia’s votes in favour of approving them. [More…]
The increase in Australia’s quota will also bring a corresponding increase in the number of votes Australia has in decision making within the Fund, although since our proposed quota increase under the sixth general review is less than proportional to the overall increase, Australia ‘s relative voting strength will be marginally reduced. [More…]
The point of that case was that Liberal Party emmissaries, in the Minister’s presence, offered a bribe to an independent Senate candidate in the hope of securing second preference votes. [More…]
Of course, there are Labor Party people who do not like those words because it does lose them votes, and at least they demonstrate some pragmatism on the rare occasions when they get the opportunity. [More…]
( 6 ) The consent of a Committee for the purposes of paragraph ( 1 ) ( a) shall be given by resolution passed at a meeting of the Committee by a number of votes greater than the number determined by the Minister for the purposes of paragraph (3) (b). [More…]
Electoral: Distribution of Votes in St George Division (Question No. [More…]
First preference voting figures for each candidate together with informal and total votes in each subdivision for elections of the House of Representatives and the Senate in the period 1960 to 1975 are contained in the publication Election Statistics (formerly Statistical Returns) for New South Wales published by the Electoral Office after each election. [More…]
To my way of thinking one of the fundamental problems is that whereas the Government would need to meet quorum calls and meet division calls to ensure that the votes were carried, the Opposition members would be in a position of being able to continue in the legislation committees. [More…]
But you never know; this may be the beginning of a new spirit in which there is understanding that righteousness and infallibility do not always lie with the members that happen to win the majority of votes placed in the ballot box at an election. [More…]
On what basis did the Australian Electoral Office calculate the percentage of the votes notionally obtained in December 1975 on divisional boundaries adjusted for the 1977 redistribution as indicated in the Interim Result of Count of First Preference Votes for the House of Representatives. [More…]
To assist analysis of the election results, the Australian Electoral Office estimated the percentage of the formal votes which each political party would have obtained in every division had the 1975 elections been conducted on the basis of the new boundaries created by the 1977 redistribution. [More…]
The votes obtained by each political party in those subdivisions which had not been split by the redistribution were aggregated. [More…]
Where a subdivision had been split by the redistribution, the votes obtained by each political party at those polling places which were included in the new division were also aggregated. [More…]
The totals obtained for each party in this way were then converted to a percentage of the formal votes. [More…]
A proportional adjustment was made for the effect of postal, absent and section votes in each of the former divisions which either wholly or partly comprised the new division. [More…]
Other administrative costs associated with the operation of the Boards and Tribunals are a direct charge to the Department of Veteran’s Affairs administrative votes in the Budget. [More…]
Funds for the administrative costs allocated with operational expenses for these Repatriation determining authorities are appropriated on an itemized basis and included in the votes for the Department of Veterans’ Affairs. [More…]
Governments of all complexions have always placed value on the votes of our serving personnel and our ex-servicemen rather than seek value for taxpayers’ money spent on the requirements of eligible ex-service men and women. [More…]
It won them many votes. [More…]
Instead he would knock off the increased levy so that the price for oil would not reach import parity- he was trying to buy a few votes in that way- when everyone knows that we have to go to import parity. [More…]
So, under those circumstances, I suggest that the way in which the House votes upon this amendment is very important indeed. [More…]
Labor Governments have to buy middle-class votes; they do not need to spend money on the poor since the poor can be expected to vote for them anyhow. [More…]
There was a very temporary tax relief to get votes at the last election. [More…]
I deplore that, and I say that sooner or later the Opposition will realise that there are no votes to be won by playing politics with unemployment, particularly youth unemployment. [More…]
Was the Queensland Government represented at the Hobart Constitutional Convention; if so, who were its representatives and what were their votes on this issue. [More…]
As to the votes cast by these delegates on the motion referred to in (5 ) above, see the last part of my answer to ( 5 ) above. [More…]
This is not unreasonable when there are insufficient rural votes to indicate to city dwellers what are the actual facts. [More…]
Within this House the votes from the rural industries would be about 40 out of 124 altogether. [More…]
If honourable members opposite feel that the Australian people are stupid enough to listen to the sort of stupid inane criticism which has been bandied around the House today and if they think that they can win votes by making remarks such as the ones that we have heard today, I am sorry to point out to them that it will be proved again at the next election that Labor is just not on. [More…]
We on this side will be interested to see whether the honourable member for Franklin votes on this occasion instead of being locked in the toiletinadvertently of course- as he was during the last division on this matter. [More…]
It hopes that it might swing the votes of a few apple growers in Tasmania in an endeavour to regain some lower House representation. [More…]
The attitude of the Labor Party is a very cynical attitude because it is based on the thought that perhaps it can get a few votes in Tasmania in the short term, as distinct from any understanding of or empathy with the industry. [More…]
I do not advocate a system of continual rebellion and crossing the floor when votes are taken as a matter of course in the Parliament, but I think that we would be better served if we had a genuine House of review which could be seen as such by the public and the media by means of the way in which the debates and the business of the government of this country are conveyed to the electorate at large through the various ways in which the media gets the message through. [More…]
What I am talking about is people making irrelevant claims about a document carrying privilege because it was presented when in fact that privilege was given by a majority vote of the House in which the Premier who now complains commands a majority of votes. [More…]
This is a Government which, by the way, gained less than 41 per cent of the primary votes at the Territory election last year. [More…]
Green Valley rose from only 73 per cent to 78.9 per cent but it is rather hard to improve on an area that votes between 70 and 80 per cent. [More…]
No wonder the Country Party in New South Wales is panicking because of the influence of the dairy farmers’ votes. [More…]
The votes for Pittwater have not been all counted yet, so there may be a Labor member in that seat too. [More…]
Even seats like Eastwood and Northcott, which are in the heart of Tory land, have been retained for the Liberals by only 3,000 or 4,000 votes. [More…]
I am quite sure that honourable members opposite will not know the significance of their votes. [More…]
The administrative costs for the premises listed fall within the total financial votes allocated to the Department of Administrative Services and the occupying department/ authority. [More…]
It is looking after the votes of people in the rural areas and it will subsidise their rural produce. [More…]
The fact is that the honourable member for Franklin wants to say one thing in Tasmania about the problems of service station proprietors but votes with his head in his hands in another fashion in this place. [More…]
Counting votes on the Hill in the United States is a professional art which competent people can predict to within a very small number of votes in relation to most pieces of legislation. [More…]
In the 1977 Federal election the ALP in Queensland polled fewer primary votes than in 1975. [More…]
This is done for a very good reason- it wants their votes. [More…]
Valuation Boards- (a) and (b) Funds provided out of the administration votes of the Central Office of the Department of the Treasury. [More…]
We on this side of the House have supported the underwriting of the operating losses of the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Co. Ltd. We did not do so on the basis that we believed that it was the right political thing to do, or because of a wish to grab votes or on any other issue. [More…]
I am quite disturbed that people, having had their hopes lifted by reading the newspaper this morning, have found upon further investigation that it was just another dupe by this Government, that it does not really intend to release home building land at all and that this is merely another headline to get a few votes. [More…]
They do not have votes but their owners do. [More…]
Who likes to go round the hospitals trying to get the matrons on side with respect to assisting in getting the maximum number of votes out of the private nursing homes, the geriatric wards, the hospitals and so forth? [More…]
had one of its candidates returned as a Member, and received as a party a total of not less than 150,000 votes. [More…]
Supporters of Mr Lynch are confident that they can obtain the necessary three-fifths of the votes cast to expel Mr Jennings. [More…]
The Labor Party hurried the Bill into this House, as we know, to try to get votes for the Labor Party in the 1975 election. [More…]
The Victorian ALP left-wing dominated conference rejected the motion by 142 votes to 1 30 and threw out completely the moderate line. [More…]
If so, will a condition of these payments be that expenditure, employment, housing and other local government, community development, welfare and commercial activities so funded be under the control of the representatives chosen by the communities concerned at ballots where voting and the custody and counting of votes are supervised by scrutineers appointed by the local communities, assisted by appropriate legally aware persons chosen by them after full information as to voting and scrutineering statutes is given to his satisfaction. [More…]
As a political proposition I have always said that the anti-Labor Parties are welcome to the votes of those who want to leave the rank and file to the tender mercies of their paid officials. [More…]
That motion repeated a decision made by the administrative committee of one of the two major political parties in the State of Victoria, but on Saturday, 11 November 1978, the procommunist left wing of the Victorian branch of the Australian Labor Party defeated that resolution by 142 votes to 130. [More…]
Conference voted by 1 42 votes to 1 30 to reject it. [More…]
It is all very well to be popular, to buy votes, but in the final analysis the buck passing stops at the table of the Commonwealth Treasurer; he cannot please everyone. [More…]
The Brisbane City Council seems to have some sort of inbuilt mechanism by which it believes it can buy votes cheaply by losing $9.4m a year- on the last available figures- on providing a public bus service. [More…]
Anyone who votes against this motion today is voting to place and to keep many decent Australian citizens below the poverty line, the line defined as that level of income necessary for the basic requirement for food and shelter. [More…]
As well, it is clear that unlimited funds from unspecified votes are available to pay for the increasingly frequent international safaris of the Fraser Ministry. [More…]
Let us look to the other morass where the real costs of travel associated with ministerial trips have been hidden or buried- the travel votes of the various departments. [More…]
If we look through the Budget Papers and examine those votes we find an almost astronomical total of $93. [More…]
It so happens that at the last general election some 735 people voted at the Amberley polling booth and my honourable friend managed to get only 2 1 8 of the votes. [More…]
The proposition was rejected by 98 votes to 23 on the second reading. [More…]
Lest there should be any honourable members in this chamber who are concerned with the retention of votes in a forthcoming election, I draw attention to the results of a Morgan gallup poll of 1 974. [More…]
In 1 973 the House rejected such a proposal by 98 votes to 23 votes. [More…]
It has been said that the way an honourable member votes may be used against him electorally. [More…]
It is my opinion that the members of the Australian public are too sophisticated and too intelligent to be beguiled into venting their spleen upon any member of this House at election time because of the way he votes in relation to this Bill. [More…]
What is wrong with Australia when we fail to remember that honourable members in this House in 1973 rejected by 98 votes to 23 a motion which would give abortion funding on demand? [More…]
If it gains a majority of votes it will be unnecessary for me to determine the priority of other amendments. [More…]
The form of reporting followed the practice adopted by Hansard and, indeed, the Votes and Proceedings of this House, whereby members’ names are recorded alphabetically and the tellers are shown at the bottom of the list. [More…]
As I also counted the votes, my name appeared as a teller. [More…]
So I ask you Sir, to please give consideration to this problem with a view to examining the method of recording votes cast during a division so that it is clear to those who may care to read Hansard, and perhaps not understand the system, how the tellers voted. [More…]
I have just received a page of the Votes and Proceedings from the clerk. [More…]
But certainly the page from the Votes and Proceedings makes it clear that the honourable gentleman did vote for that amendment. [More…]
I will consult with those responsible for Hansard and for the Votes and Proceedings to see whether the situation can be rendered differently. [More…]
I have been on the losing side in choices and votes for too long to expect that, but I always feel when we talk about parliament that we are talking about people’s representation, the people’s participation and members’ participation. [More…]
In the Senate the votes were 42 and six respectively. [More…]
But in the Senate, the votes stood at about the previous vote. [More…]
The totals of the votes were clearly for Capital Hill. [More…]
Of course, the crunch point is the roll call vote, and it may be of interest to the House if I were to table conference documents giving details of the voting patterns on particular issues from which power groupings, in votes taken at the Conference, may be discerned. [More…]
There is no doubt that Dr Howard, who had been with previous delegations, knew the people to talk to, who to go to, who to see to find out what was going on, how votes were going and what was to be the strategy employed by various governments. [More…]
It is happy to appeal to them to get their votes at election time, to put on a fake anti-communist or anti-Russian attitude and talk big about helping them to reconquer the Baltic states. [More…]
This broader view of expenditure patterns, based on a two to three year perspective, needs to be given more consideration by Parliament rather than, as occurs at present, expenditure being viewed solely in terms of short-term economy strategy and in terms of the politics of individual expenditure votes. [More…]
Even at the time of that enormous crisis, the people of Switzerland agreed by a narrow majority of 40,000 votes in a referendum to continue with a nuclear power program. [More…]
He said that there are more votes in Newcastle than there are in Tasmania. [More…]
Included under Administrative Expenses votes is $2. [More…]
We are all aware that the present legislature on the island, the Norfolk Island Council, is elected by a simple and seemingly fair method whereby all voters must cast eight preference votes for eight candidates and for no others. [More…]
The eight candidates with the highest number of votes form the new Council. [More…]
However, minority power groupings have received a considerable number of votes but no representation, despite this very fair method. [More…]
It will always appear that in terms of votes it is more efficient to spend an extra $ 1 m. The votes gained by that expenditure will always appear to be more than those lost by taxing people an extra $ 1 m. This philosophy has appeared in all sorts of governments in recent years. [More…]
To return to the matter before us, the former senator, Sir Reginald Wright, made the point that judges should not receive a penny less or a penny more than the actual sum that the Parliament votes to them. [More…]
I see the first of those two areas as being the need for acceptance by both sides of the House that it is necessary for procedures in this place to be covered in such a way that the relativity of numbers between the Government and the Opposition can be maintained, with no disruption to the continued procedures of committees outside the House because of the necessity for members of those committees to come into the chamber to register their votes. [More…]
In regard to other questions posed to me by the honourable member, I state that in an attempt to highlight the serious implications of this draft resolution Australia cosponsored, along with Ghana and also Fiji, a procedural motion which will make the suspension of a member of WHO what is termed ‘an important question’ requiring a two-thirds majority of the votes. [More…]
When there is a division called on this matter I will be interested to see how he votes. [More…]
Voting: Votes are to be allocated to Fund members on the basis of: [More…]
callable capital /guarantees from ICA members, within the framework of the following distribution of votes between the UNCTAD country groupings: [More…]
No group will have a simple majority of total votes. [More…]
When the honourable member for Petrie votes against land commissions, he is arguing against Sir Thomas Playford, against the history of responsible government in South Australia and against people of his party and political persuasion. [More…]
By contrast, the speech made by the Leader of the Opposition on behalf of the Labor Party was a speech determined on winning votes and nothing else. [More…]
He will tell the people of Australia any lie that has to be told in order to get votes. [More…]
Promise the people what you like; we do not have to maintain the promise; we only have to get the votes! [More…]
Why should the union movement not be entitled to rely on the promise made by this Government that it would adhere to it when the union movement knows that this Government is so treacherous that as soon as it gets its votes it will go into court and oppose wage increases. [More…]
Some 23,000 members of the AMWSU voted and Mr Miller won by a margin of 13,500 votes to 9,500 votes. [More…]
On both occasions those candidates have saved their deposit by only a couple of hundred votes. [More…]
Despite the fact that members on this side of the House are denigrated in the rural areas we are able to improve our votes in those areas. [More…]
They were cynical, pragmatic exercises in buying votes. [More…]
As I have said, Africa, with perhaps 10 per cent of the world’s population and 0.1 per cent of the world ‘s gross domestic product and producing a very small percentage of the funds to run the United Nations, has nearly 30 per cent of the votes. [More…]
In the cases where the surveys were made by the Department of Productivity all expenses were met from within the Department’s salary, travel and administrative votes. [More…]
Although I have said that the decisions referred to in the honourable member’s questions were taken at meetings of the employees concerned, the results of the votes taken at those meetings did not necessarily represent the wishes of the majority of the TWU membership concerned. [More…]
It is a grab for votes in an area that is totally outside its domain. [More…]
The allowance of $35m for prospective wage and salary increases during 1979-80 for employees other than those paid from votes included under the Defence function continues to be shown at budget time under the heading ‘Not Allocated to Function’. [More…]
For the record of this instance I draw the attention of honourable members to the Votes and Proceedings of 7 May 1963, page 464. [More…]
For the record of this instance I draw the attention of honourable members to the Votes and Proceedings of 4 June 1976 on page 247. [More…]
For a while it made the pretence that it did by introducing a number of useless schemes, but as the word came back to it that there was no sympathy for the unemployed and therefore no votes it decided to drop even that pretence. [More…]
The Premier, meanwhile, has tried to buy votes, desperately and somewhat belatedly, by promising rail links north to Redcliffe and south to the Gold Coast. [More…]
Yet this miserable government, in the hope that it might attract a few votes in South Australia next Saturday, says that the problem of South Australia is within the borders of South Australia. [More…]
So it seems that they have missed the bus and that they will continue to do so in the vain hope of picking up votes. [More…]
They believed, mistakenly as the campaign is turning out, that the current support for the Labor Party in South Australia would give them enough votes in an election to win control of the Council. [More…]
In the area of propaganda- that is how I put it- there has been a significant increase in the allocation under the votes of the Postal and Telecommunications Department for the Special Broadcasting Service. [More…]
It is almost as though Aborigines do not have votes or the Government does not want them to have votes. [More…]
Each consumer, as it were, votes with his dollar in billions of ‘elections’ in the market place. [More…]
These votes are translated into shifts and adjustments of resources. [More…]
-The sum of $ 10m of taxpayers’ funds should be made available out of general revenue and distributed to parties in proportion to the number of votes received at the previous election. [More…]
All I wish to say in response to the question of the honourable member for La Trobe is that any political figure in Australia who thinks that he is on the right track and that he is going to win votes by advocating opposition to this Government’s federalism policy is very sadly mistaken. [More…]
I think the Opposition ought to be reminded that the old proposition that votes can be bought by spending more money is, to say the least, outdated and shallow. [More…]
Effectively this gave them the right to have multiple votes. [More…]
I shall repeat what I said two moments ago, This gave them the effective right to have multiple votes. [More…]
With the election of 1975 came the Fraser Government, with its growing recognition that there were many potential votes in migrant communities. [More…]
Thirdly, I think it is important that we adopt the principle that was initiated by the Right Honourable Sir John Gorton when he was Prime Minister- those matters which concern the Parliament are subject to free and open votes and discussions in this place. [More…]
Honourable members opposite have indicated general acceptance of the scheme of the legislation and the honourable member has accepted that by his votes to date. [More…]
The nomination of Members to consider the proposed expenditure of each department or service shall be incorporated in the Votes and Proceedings. [More…]
Are decisions of the United Nations arrived at by including the votes of the leaders of countries who rule by the sword rather than by popular democratic vote? [More…]
Perhaps it is a good policy on the part of Sir Charles Court to have more confrontation, because he might get more votes; but such a policy is disastrous for democracy in this country. [More…]
This question might lead those spineless State Liberal Ministers to do something about the State gerrymander and try to work out why, if they beat the National Country Party on primary votes, they ought not to be entitled to have more members in the Parliament and more Ministers in the coalition, a conclusion which seems to have escaped them so far. [More…]
Therefore, I ask the leave of the House to incorporate in Hansard two tables setting out the results of the recent Japanese election showing not only the number of seats won but also the percentage of votes compared with those at the previous election. [More…]
Brown) would know, the assistance to local government, is one of the most important and appreciated aspects of the federalism policy which the coalition parties have been following so successfully, both in terms of appreciation and in terms of votes flowing to them around Australia not only in the Federal sphere but also in State elections. [More…]
-Because I was a voting member in this Parliament and I had a lot more votes than had the honourable member for Diamond Valley. [More…]
That might attract a few more votes, although I may say that I have noticed in the 10 years in which I have been in the Parliament that people who talk that way generally do not last very long in the Parliament. [More…]
If anything other than the crude numbers game were played he would be censured, but the message of this debate is that whatever the result in terms of votes he will be censured for the grave weaknesses of the administration over which he has presided. [More…]
But if it thinks it is going to win more votes by requiring people to exercise less conscience about their fellow man, if it wants them to be their brother’s keepers to a diminishing degree in the future than has been the case in the past, it is operating in a fool’s paradise if it thinks it can do this on the cheap to the advantage of the taxpayer. [More…]
The honourable member for Adelaide apparently wants us to have a false price for petrol in Australia in order to buy votes at the next election. [More…]
It is true that the Timor resolution was carried by 55 votes in favour, with 26 against, including Australia. [More…]
The Australian Electoral Office has acquired some strictly limited data, however, on the hours at which electors record their votes in Federal elections. [More…]
If the Parliament, Heaven forbid, should ever actually get its back up on any of these changes, to the extent that it votes them down, we would be closing the door after the horse has bolted. [More…]
He thought of elections in terms of how he could pick up a couple of per cent of the votes here and a couple of per cent of votes there. [More…]
Another case in point concerning gimmicks and picking up percentage votes was this Home Savings Grants Scheme. [More…]
On page 1205 of the Votes and Proceedings of20 November 1979, the last two lines read: [More…]
Instead the Opposition is looking for scapegoats and for votes and is throwing fuel on the fire. [More…]
Let us face it together instead of the Opposition muckraking for the sake of votes. [More…]