votes - senate - 1970

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

Is he aware that a meeting held at Richmond Town Hall, Victoria, on 2nd February 1970 to discuss the Moratorium Campaign a motion was carried by 102 votes to 86 to remove from the Moratorium Campaign policy statement the wordsthat all actions taken be of a peaceful and nonviolent nature’? [More…]
In view of the considerable delay in finalising the result of the Australian Capital Territory by-election due to the existing provisions of section 96 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act, I ask: Has the Minister given consideration to fixing an earlier cut-off period for the lodgment of postal votes? [More…]
Many honourable senators may recall that eventually a motion which was moved by me - and I well remember it - to increase the allowance of a senator by Si 50 was carried by 31 vo’.es to 16 votes. [More…]
However, we do not want this chamber put on a course by little more than half its votes at any one point of time without the balance of the Senate being really in agreement and willing to go along and work for that particular pattern of operating. [More…]
If the Democratic Labor Party thinks that any piece of legislation which is considered next week should be amended, my colleagues and I will certainly provide our votes to support such an amendment. [More…]
At the present time the Commonwealth has not been invited nor has it decided to enter upon direct assistance for primary education, rt will be remembered that the Commonwealth has assisted by substantial votes the increase of teachers, thereby enabling a greater number of teachers to be available in the schools. [More…]
It is necessary for me to add only that in addition to these very sound votes of great increases that the Commonwealth has made, due to the policy of increasing State grants, the States by their own efforts over the last 10 years have increased their expenditure on education from $325m ten years ago to $898m this year. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party always votes with the Government against my Party. [More…]
Is not the fact that 4 major parties each polled approximately 1 million votes the truest possible indication of the existence of free elections? [More…]
When can senators expect to see a preview of a film aimed at educating voters to avoid informal votes in the forthcoming Senate election, the commentary for which is to be given by Bill Peach who spearheaded the successful ‘This Day Tonight’ programme? [More…]
Has the Minister approved any proposals to ensure that as far as practicable a minimum of informal votes will be registered at the forthcoming Senate election? [More…]
Does the voting system operating in Holland provide for absentee voting rights: for example, can crews of the North Sea fishing fleet delegate to other members of their family the right to exercise proxy votes. [More…]
As one of those who has supported the general principle which has been spoken about on the occasions when votes have been taken in this chamber, I indicate that I shall adopt the attitude which was described by [More…]
His comments on ratification are correct, in that 950 producer country votes are required for ratification. [More…]
4 being dealt with concurrently and at the end of the debate, votes being taken on each separately. [More…]
At the end of the debate I suggest that the votes be taken separately on the Bills and any amendments that may be moved, and that after disposal of the Bills a simple vote be taken on the notice of motion. [More…]
I take it that his wish would be to have separate decisions taken by separate votes, because he has 2 separate amendments. [More…]
The votes will be taken separately. [More…]
If a company holds 200 or more hives, it is entitled to one vote; the shareholders in that company do not receive votes. [More…]
Mr Deputy President, for the convenience of honourable senators I suggest that the second reading debate on the next 7 Bills on the notice paper, namely, the Dairying Industry Bill 1972, the Processed Milk Products Bounty Bill 1972, the Dairying Research Bill 1972, the Dairying Research Levy Bill 1972, the Dairy Produce Sales Promotion Bill 1972, the Butter Fat Levy Bill 1972. and the Dairy Research Levy Collection Bill 1972, be taken together and that at the conclusion of the debate votes be taken separately. [More…]
That, unless otherwise ordered, the votes be considered in the same groupings and order as in the Estimates committees. [More…]
I am told that a list setting out the proposed groupings and order for the consideration of the votes has been circulated for the information of honourable senators. [More…]
That the votes for the group of departments covered by Estimates Committee A be now passed without requests. [More…]
I merely rise to say that the Australian Democratic Labor Party supports the provisions contained in this Bill and we will be casting our votes accordingly. [More…]
In the meantime each senator has been issued with a copy of a return showing the votes recorded at each polling place and Sub-division in the State he represents and each Member of the House of Representatives has been issued with a copy of a return showing the votes recorded at each polling place and Sub-division in the Division he represents. [More…]
I think it is only reasonable that we ought to support any law which gives equality of votes to all citizens. [More…]
-It must seem very peculiar to people overseas that in Australia one Party can receive more votes than another Party and yet obtain fewer seats. [More…]
That the votes for the group of departments covered by Estimates Committee A be now passed without requests. [More…]
That the votes for the group of departments covered by Estimates Committee B be now passed without requests. [More…]
That the votes for the group of departments covered by Estimates Committee C be now passed without requests. [More…]
That the votes for the group of departments covered by Estimates Committee D be now passed without requests. [More…]
That the votes for the group of departments covered by Estimates Committee E be now passed without requests. [More…]
That the votes for the group of departments covered by Estimates Committee F be now passed without requests. [More…]
-Is the Leader of the Government in the Senate aware of the urgent call which was made within the past 24 hours by, I think, the former Chairman of the World Bank, Mr McNamara, that massive starvation will occur in the underdeveloped areas of the world within a year unless those countries able to do so substantially increase their aid votes to meet this threat? [More…]
The question is: ‘That the votes related to the departments covered by group B be passed without request’. [More…]
1 ) That clauses 1 to 6 and the First Schedule be postponed until after the consideration of the Second Schedule; (2) that, unless otherwise ordered, the votes in the Second Schedule be considered in the same groupings and order as in the Estimates Committee. [More…]
The question is: ‘That the votes for departments in group E be now passed without request’. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Primary Industry seen the report in today’s ‘Australian’ that the Government is to spend $2 7 m to buy votes in the country? [More…]
Of course the votes would be taken separately as if the Bills were being debated separately. [More…]
Therefore I suggest that votes concerning each of the days be taken separately. [More…]
Thirty-six postal votes were issued by the Assistant Returning Officer at Suva. [More…]
1 ) How many candidates at the House of Representatives Elections in 1966, 1969, 1972 and 1974 did not receive enough primary votes to have their deposits refunded. [More…]
) How many votes did each such candidate receive. [More…]
1 ) How many candidates or groups of candidates at the Senate Elections in 1967, 1970 and 1974, did not receive enough votes to have their deposits refunded. [More…]
How many votes did each such candidate or group of candidates receive. [More…]
Over the last 30 sitting days of the Parliament he has chosen to support the Government 49 times in votes in this chamber. [More…]
1 ) That clauses 1 to 7 and the First Schedule be postponed till after consideration of the Second Schedule; (2) that, unless otherwise ordered, the votes in the Second Schedule be considered in the same groupings and order as in Estimates Committees B, C, D, E, F, G and A respectively. [More…]
I feel that it would serve the purposes of the Senate- I am sure it would be appreciated by the Committee of the Whole- if future debate were confined to the actual items of expenditure included in the votes under consideration. [More…]
What this table shows is that between 1949 and 1974 the party which obtained the majority of the primary votes, except for one year, 1954, obtained the majority of seats. [More…]
Out of that independence which the richness of an income of $15,000 a year gives to me, I maintain that my attitude in this matter is not actuated in the slightest degree by political votes, of which throughout my whole career I have been just as independent as I have been of Ministers and party leaders. [More…]
As if political votes afford any advantage to me at my stage of parliamentary experience! [More…]
The Opposition proposes to insert after clause 29 proposed new clause 29a which, in effect, is a consequence of the Opposition’s proposed new section 88a dealing with general postal voters, and provides for the numbering or other means of marking of automatic postal votes issued under the proposed system of registering certain electors as general postal voters. [More…]
That the votes for the group of departments covered by Estimates Committee B be passed without requests. [More…]
That the votes for the group of departments covered by Estimates Committee C be passed without requests. [More…]
That the votes for the group of departments covered by Estimates Committee D be passed without requests. [More…]
That the votes for the group of departments covered by Estimates Committee E be passed without requests. [More…]
That the votes for the group of departments covered by Estimates Committee F be passed without requests. [More…]
That the votes for the group of departments covered by Estimates Committee A be passed without requests. [More…]
The Committee has already passed the groups of departments covered by Estimates Committees A to E. The votes for the group of departments covered by Estimates Committee F are now before the Committee. [More…]
So I think there will be a few more informal votes if this amendment is insisted upon in those words. [More…]
This proposed omission accords with the proposed omission of section 92 (2) of the Act by clause 30 of the Bill and is in line with the Government’s proposition that completed postal votes be transmitted to the divisional returning officer or the division concerned rather than being posted or delivered to another official for onwards transmission. [More…]
Clauses 50, 51 and 52 deal with postal votes and they are consequential upon clause 30 and we voted against clause 30. [More…]
It is all about postal votes being delivered to the returning officers before a certain time prior to the close of the ballot whereas at the moment they may be returned at a later date. [More…]
Yes, the computer used by the Australian Electoral Office produced details of the aggregate votes recorded for all candidates and political parties in respect of each State and Australia as a whole in relation to the 1974 House of Representatives elections. [More…]
Did the Australian Electoral Office computer on 18 May 1974 ascertain the aggregate votes for the House of Representatives election for Australia as a whole and also separate aggregates for each of the States; if so, will the Minister provide the seven tables showing the voting position for at least the following times, viz. [More…]
That unless otherwise ordered the votes in the Schedule be considered in the same groupings as in Estimates Committees A, B, C, D, E and F respectively and that each group be taken as a whole. [More…]
Under the Wheat Trade Convention of the International Wheat Agreement exporting members together hold 1000 votes as do the importing members of the Agreement and as at 30 June 1976 these were distributed as follows: [More…]
The Committee will now proceed to consider the votes in group A. [More…]
Is it the wish of the Committee to consider the votes as a whole? [More…]
-We are prepared to co-operate on this, but we will be opposing one Bill; so we assume that the votes will be taken separately. [More…]
That unless otherwise ordered, the votes in the Schedule be considered in the same groupings as in Estimates Committees as set out in the list circulated to honourable senators and that each group be taken department by department. [More…]
I cannot see what difference this fact makes to whether Senator Harradine votes for this legislation. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations aware that builders labourers working on Melbourne’s $5 5m State Bank building project, and who have been on strike since 5 July, on Monday last voted by 44 votes to 16 to return to work? [More…]
That unless otherwise ordered, the votes in Schedule 2 be considered in the same groupings and order as in Estimates committees A, B, C, D, E and F respectively. [More…]
In accordance with the motion, the Committee of the Whole will now proceed to a consideration of the votes in group A. [More…]
Is it the wish of the Committee that we consider the votes in group A as a whole? [More…]
Before I call the next honourable senator I mention that the Committee has agreed to consider the votes in group A as a whole. [More…]
If he can get 33 votes on one Thursday I have no doubt that he will get some priority. [More…]
Because of the interruption in the debate on the International Sugar Agreement Bill 1978- which is very important to Queensland, the State which I represent- I think it is necessary to remind the Senate before it votes on this legislation of the amendment which has been moved by the Opposition. [More…]
Is it the wish of the Committee to take the votes in group B together? [More…]
The Committee will now proceed to the consideration of the votes in group D. Is it the wish of the Committee that we take the votes of group D together? [More…]
I think there is a high degree of incongruity in a junior Government senator, who owes his place in this Senate to the votes of pensioners, making a statement such as the one he has just made when last night, on four occasions, he supported motions to prevent this chamber from discussing the broken promise of his Government to index pensions. [More…]
Because an election is to be held now this specimen of humanity comes along here without consideration for anything but winning a few votes for a motley crew of politicians so as to save their jobs in South Australia. [More…]
-The Committee will now proceed to the consideration of the votes in Group A. [More…]
Is it the wish of the Committee that we take the votes in Group A together? [More…]
That the votes contained in Group A be now passed without requests. [More…]
Senator Wriedt, I do not think your question can be related to the votes in Group A. [More…]
-Is it the wish of the Committee that we take the votes in Group B together? [More…]
Is it the wish of the Committee that we take the votes in Group C together? [More…]
Is it the wish of the Committee that votes for the Department of Finance and the Advance to the Minister for Finance be taken together? [More…]
-Is it the wish of the Committee to take the votes in Group E separately? [More…]
Could not this election promise be regarded as a blatant political falsehood by the Liberal Party to win votes at the last election? [More…]
Naturally, I deprecate the preposterous suggestion that any statement made in the policy speech of the Government parties was calculated merely for the purpose of gaining votes. [More…]
They believe that it will look after their welfare more effectively than will the Australian Labor Party, despite the desperate promises that were made by the Australian Labor Party to capture the votes of country people. [More…]
The present system gives us the Australian Democratic Labor Party which votes for issues on their merits and, whether people like us or not, honourable senators will find that, throughout the community, people will say that since the Australian Democratic Labor Party has been represented here the Senate has never functioned better in its capacity as a House of review. [More…]
At that election the ALP polled 46.97% of the votes throughout Australia; the Liberal Party polled 34.78%; the Australian Country Party polled 8.54%; the DLP polled 6.02%; the Australia Party polled .87% - I do not know whether that is the reason for the resignation of its leader; and the Communist Party polled 08%, with other groups polling 2.73%. [More…]
On the vital issue of the Vietnam conflict those who supported Australia’s involvement in Vietnam - the Liberal Party, the Country Party and the DLP - received 49.34% of first preference votes. [More…]
If we add the votes of the Labor Party, the Australia Party and the Communist Party we get a figure of 47.92%. [More…]
That is a little over 1% less than the combined Liberal Party and Country Party votes. [More…]
We have to add to that 47.92% the 2.73% which represents the votes of the other groups, which opposed the Government’s policies. [More…]
Mr Quinn’s motion was carried 102 votes to 86. [More…]
I am quite satisfied that many Country Party members would not have received the number of votes they did had the farmers known about the quota before the casting of the vote. [More…]
Let members of the Country Party go out and tell the people in country areas that they agree with that sort of policy and see how many votes they get. [More…]
He said: We cannot do anything because the farmers organisations would kick up a row and that would mean votes’. [More…]
Votes were involved and the Government was quite prepared to tolerate a situation in which the wheat industry would get into a mess, as it has, because if the Government attempted to interfere at any time it might lose votes. [More…]
He was led up the garden path by people in the Government who refused to provide any leadership and who were actuated only by one thing - the fear that if they opposed the people running the wheat industry they might lose votes In those circumstances I say we will vote for this measure, but in the future I hope we will get a little bit of leadership from the Government for the wheat industry. [More…]
The practice is to appoint polling booths at any place where the Divisional Returning Officer is satisfied that at least 30 ordinary votes could reasonably be expected to be recorded on the occasion of an eleciton or referendum. [More…]
As 74 ordinary votes were recorded at Elton Hills at the last election, the retention of this booth appears to be warranted. [More…]
I would much prefer the Commonwealth or State system of distributing relief to the system which was in force in the United States of America at the turn of the last century when, to be quite blunt about it, it was left to the political parties to buy votes by giving people coal in the winter and ice cream in the summer. [More…]
One should not take advantage of the empty stomachs of the people to buy votes. [More…]
If the Senate votes against that proposition the immediate reaction will be that South Australia will not receive any extra water at all. [More…]
Despite the fact that gallup polls and votes have demonstrated that Australia’s participation in Vietnam has no support the Australian Labor Party is not successful in getting Austraiian troops withdrawn from Vietnam. [More…]
Serious problems have arisen in the dried fruits industry, particularly as the proposal for stabilisation placed before the industry recently failed to receive a sufficient number of votes. [More…]
Senator Little spoke because the Democratic Labor Party expects to get more votes from Victoria than it will get from South Australia. [More…]
An election was held in 1968 and although Labor received a majority of votes it did not form the Government and the Hall Government reversed the instructions given to South Australia’s representative on the River Murray Commission and agreed to the proposal for the building of the Dartmouth Dam. [More…]
Being a representative of Tasmania I will speak completely fearlessly with some very deep knowledge of the situation and, let me say to Senator Cant, with no thought of votes that may be won or lost. [More…]
Again I point out to Senator Cant that I am not thinking about votes. [More…]
It is cheap in money and it is cheap in votes because if every 20-year-old or every 22-year-old or every young able bodied man in the community were conscripted there would be a wave of reaction through the families which were affected. [More…]
In fact, in my own State the Party that came out and opposed Australia’s participation in Vietnam received 52% of the first preference votes. [More…]
Old argument about ‘my country right or wrong’ carried some weight with the majority of the Australian people and that those who were opposed to the war were accused of sabotaging in some way the war effort, of stabbing our boys in the back, and we were losing some votes at that time. [More…]
If one felt that there were votes to be gained and offices to be won by supporting the war in Vietnam, and that even if one felt it was wrong that would be a reason for supporting it, I do not believe that the Labor Party came into existence merely to acquire jobs for people who were looking for them. [More…]
Senator Greenwood is just as careless of the reputations of his fair, fellow Australians as he is of the lives of those Australians whom he votes to send to Vietnam. [More…]
The point which concerns me is that the Senate votes an annual appropriation for the activities of the Department of Civil Aviation. [More…]
Let us not be hypocritical about it if occasionally a little bit of something which is designed to catch votes creeps in, because this is one of the facts of life. [More…]
As Australian governor in the Fund, the Treasurer (Mr Bury) recorded Australia’s votes in favour of the resolution proposing the increase in fund quotas mentioned above. [More…]
I suggest that in the debate honourable senators express their points of view and, having expressed their points of view, we then have votes on them so that we can get the Bill to the other place as quickly as we can. [More…]
It votes on various matters, but what it does is not conclusive upon the Senate. [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, In order that the views of the industry should be properly reflected, voting in the referendum will be compulsory. [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…]
Can the Minister representing the Minister for the Interior indicate whether he has received a response from the Minister for the Interior to my suggestion of last week that section 96 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act be amended to allow an earlier cut off of the lodgment of postal votes? [More…]
He said that, when he asked a leading member of the German Government why these measures for a free economy had been applied to everything except farming, the answer was that there were too many votes involved in the agricultural areas. [More…]
lt is all fight for getting votes at election time. [More…]
Finally, divisions were taken and both Senator Murphy’s motion and Senator Byrne’s amendment failed to pass, the votes being 23 all in each case. [More…]
If those whose policy is justice for the family man will support that policy with their votes there will be enough votes in the Senate to defeat these measures. [More…]
It is quite obvious that Senator Greenwood has a very short memory because a matter of 500 or 600 votes in a few seats - no more than A - throughout Australia on the occasion of the last House of Representatives election determined whether the Labor Party would govern in its own right or the coalition would be returned. [More…]
I ask him: Does he think that the Government is enhancing Australia’s prestige by stopping one person from coming here, irrespective of whether this person wants to speak at a meeting which is being held to protest against the declared policy of the Government and which has the support, one may say from the votes cast in the last general election, of practically half the population of Australia. [More…]
That amendment was subsequently agreed to by 28 votes to 23 votes. [More…]
I am asking that my amendment, which is in terms similar to an amendment of mine which was carried on 1 1th June last by 28 votes to 23 votes, will be endorsed by the Senate today, so that this will be the first matter referred to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare, one of the committees which have been talked about so glibly and so graciously, as a matter of fact, over a long period of time. [More…]
1 repeat that on 11th June last we accepted by 28 votes to 23 the amendment that 1 read out. [More…]
Then on 17th June last the amendment that I have read out was carried by 28 votes to 23. [More…]
What happens in relation to this motion is that the Opposition parties express their opinions of the Budget, but any decision to defeat the Budget depends not upon this vote but upon votes which will be taken upon subsequent Bills. [More…]
Despite all the talk in the world and no matter which party is in power, it will have to face up, in some degree or another, to the necessity for major defence votes for Australia in the context in which Australia finds herself. [More…]
The social services referendum was carried by 2,297,934 votes to 1,927,148. [More…]
I do not think that any responsible person wald say that a government - gets votes out of pensions. [More…]
A government loses votes out of not doing enough for pensioners because there is always that part of human nature which claims that whatever you do is not nearly enough. [More…]
Irrespective of whether the amendment is carried, the Bill will come into operation by the vote of the Senate, including the votes of Opposition members. [More…]
I would be inclined to think that the false cry that increased social service payments means increased taxation could result in a loss of votes to a political party rather than a gain. [More…]
If honourable senators cast their political minds back to 1946 and the years that followed they will remember that 2 Ministers for Repatriation, one after the other, were defeated by the votes of the people at elections in the State from which I am proud to come. [More…]
The Government is adopting an attitude to a very large section of this community that it does not care about, except for those from which it thinks it may be able to buy votes in a political campaign. [More…]
Wherever it can the Government is trying to buy votes. [More…]
It will be remembered that on 12th May 1967, 3 years ago, when we dealt with 2 similar Bills the ALP and the DLP voted together and we defeated the Post and Telegraph Rates Bill by 25 votes to 24. [More…]
On 19th May a motion to postpone a second Post and Telegraph Rates Bill was successful by 23 votes to 22. [More…]
On 20th June the Senate was recalled specially so that we could deal with regulations which provided for increases in certain rates, and we defeated those regulations by 27 votes to 25. [More…]
Had the Department carried through the Post Office organisation the conception that the charges for the several services are influenced by the results of the financial operations as disclosed by the commercial accounts, the Committee believes that the Post Office would have concentrated less upon the departmental votes than it appears to have done. [More…]
I would like a little elucidation on what is proposed to be done because we would want separate votes to be taken on each Bill. [More…]
The Opposition has been deprived, through the combination of votes of the Government parties and the Democratic Labor Party, of the opportunity of fully considering this amendment and arriving at a decision which might have assisted in carrying out what is behind the approach of the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
They are battening on to both political parties in the hope of obtaining enough votes to be able to retain their seats in the Parliament. [More…]
By 996 votes to 4 the farmers declared against having a parliamentary inquiry. [More…]
The amendment should be carried and the debate proceeded with, in any event, at 8 p.m. We hope that if the Senate takes that course the matter will be brought to a decision so that honourable senators can show by their votes in this chamber where they stand. [More…]
We still obtain more votes from the electors than any other political party in Australia. [More…]
Do not come to us and say that the Government will not do k. I have seen honourable senators opposite beg for the supporting votes of the DLP to defy the Government or to block legislation, sometimes successfully. [More…]
Because of the farmers’ problems today 1 know that the Labor Party thinks it may be able to pick up a few votes at the Senate election next month. [More…]
I suppose all of us have shed political tears at times for those engaged in the wool industry in the hope of getting votes for our own Senate team at election time. [More…]
I am informed that Mr Steele Hall’s motion of no confidence in the appointment was defeated by 13 votes to 3. [More…]
Honourable senators will remember that this was one of the problems which arose in 1965 in deciding who should have a vote, or whether big wool growers should have more votes than small wool growers. [More…]
The Government’s decision, together with the Crawford report, was considered and accepted by the Wool Industry Conference on 14th October, and last Tuesday this Bill was introduced into the Parliament That is the background to this Bill which the Opposition claims the Government has introduced in a hurry in an attempt to gain some votes at the Senate election. [More…]
In this Commission of 7, I suppose the votes of 4, whoever they may be- [More…]
No, the votes of 4 out of 7. [More…]
We want to win votes by the will of the Senate. [More…]
The Minister made some statement indicating that the Ordinance had been passed by the House of Assembly by 54 votes to 21. [More…]
Every year the Commonwealth votes a sum of money for repairs to this highway. [More…]
It is votes that I am concerned about, and I will have sufficient to be back here next year, in spite of what the Australian Labor Party might hope. [More…]
The votes are what concern me, and votes 1 shall get because f believe 1 have devoted myself to the job that the people elected me to do and that I have done it well and conscientiously. [More…]
In 1964 he topped the ALP Senate ticket and became the first Australian politician ever to win more than a million first preference votes. [More…]
Note (1)- Denmark- In Denmark, voters who cannot without excessive difficultypresent themselves at a polling station within the limits set for voting may for Lower House elections register their votes in accordance with the regulations. [More…]
Voters domiciled in Denmark may register their votes at a Registry Office including that in the municipality in which they are listed on the Electoral Roll. [More…]
Voters residing outside the borders of the country may register their votes at a Danish diplomatic or consular post abroad or at the home of a person authorised by the Minister for the Interior. [More…]
Persons who expect to be outside the Kingdom on polling day may cast their votes before departure or abroad. [More…]
It does not matter whether it was carried by one vote or by 51 votes; the fact remains that it became a decision of the Senate and should have been observed and not overridden by the Executive. [More…]
Is one to draw any distinction between the rams and the ewes for the purpose of determining how many votes a person is to have? [More…]
Many votes in support of lifting the embargo were given because the resolution contained words similar to the following - ‘providing the Federal Government uses the embargo removal as a bargaining point to obtain benefits for Australian wool in overseas countries’. [More…]
Already on 1 occasion the Senate has voted to oppose the lifting of the ban, and on another occasion when only members of the Opposition and members of the Democratic Labor Party had participated in the debate and had spoken in support of the ban, the matter was not taken to a vote but the indications were that if it had been the members of the Democratic Labor Parly would have voted with the Australian Labor Party and we would have had a sufficient number of votes to establish our view. [More…]
It was obvious tonight when several votes were taken. [More…]
Does the honourable senator question the fact that the number of votes the Australian Country Party received shows that the Party is discredited? [More…]
Expenditure on additional classroom space is appropriately a charge to the States’ capital works votes. [More…]
I know the hour is getting late and that it is desired that votes be taken on this very important subject tonight. [More…]
Honourable senators will be aware that we presented this proposition during the recent Senate election campaign, particularly in Victoria and Queensland where we gained very big numbers of votes. [More…]
Is there any similarity between the rejection of votes for the electorate of Campbelltown in the New South Wales Slate election, where a number of ballot-papers were ruled informal because they were initialled by the Returning Officer on the front instead of the back, and’ the ruling given under the Commonwealth Electoral Act in the 1969 House of Representatives election in respect of absentee votes which recorded a first preference for Mr W. Morrison, M.P., but which were deemed informal because of the omission, by the Returning Officer at the absentee booth, of the name of one of the other contestants from the ballot-paper. [More…]
Accordingly, there is no similarity between the rejection of voters in the Electorate of Campbelltown at the recent New South Wales State election, where a number of ballot-papers was ruled informal because they were initialled by the Returning Officer on the front instead of the back, and the rejection of votes in the Division of St George at the 1969 House of Representatives election. [More…]
1 do not think there would be any difficulty in taking the votes at a later stage, if this would assist the Government. [More…]
That motion was carried by 26 votes to 22, a majority of 4, as shown at page 820 of Hansard of 23rd September 1970. [More…]
The motion was moved by the Australian Democratic Labor Party supported by every member of the Australian Labor Parly, and was carried by 2S votes to 24, a majority of 4. [More…]
An amendment I moved in the debate on the New South Wales Grant (Flood Mitigation) Bill was carried on 16th March of this year by 28 votes to 24. [More…]
Was he engaging in a little politicking in order to ensure that he got a couple of pensioners’ votes? [More…]
The provision of mobile polling booths at hospitals and institutions to enable patients and inmates to record votes at Commonwealth elections has been considered by the Government and I am pleased to be able to inform the honourable senator that the Commonwealth Electoral Bill which I introduced in Parliament on 31 March’ 1971 provides for the establishment of such booths at hospitals, convalescent homes and the like. [More…]
I say that notwithstanding that as we were beginning to deal with the matter, for one reason or another there were divided votes in this chamber, but ultimately the principle was accepted. [More…]
So, when the United States votes $400m to help that war, we are not voting a give away programme. [More…]
In this debate the question is: Who votes where tonight? [More…]
So, when the United States votes $400,000,000 to help that war, we are not voting a give away programme. [More…]
So when the United States votes $400m to help that war - [More…]
So, when the United States votes $400m to help that war. [More…]
So when the United States votes (400m to help that war, we are not voting a give away programme. [More…]
So when the United States votes $400,000,000 to help that war, we are not voting a giveaway program. [More…]
1 think it is quite wrong to draw red herrings across the path, as the Opposition has done during the past few weeks, particularly in respect of wheat, in order to try to get a few more votes. [More…]
The amendment was carried by the Senate by 28 votes to 24. [More…]
point of view of votes and nothing else. [More…]
I often wonder whether this is done because of the votes that can be gained or whether it is directed towards giving the aged people of our country some dignity in the evening of their lives. [More…]
In 1968 the General Assembly of the United Nations voted overwhelmingly - 94 votes to nil with 3 abstentions, and Australia was one of the 94 - in favour of a resolution which was highly critical of capital punishment. [More…]
I refer to a proposition that seems to imply that, because the Parliament votes $10m for a specific item in a certain financial year - let us say for the building of an earthworks dam - it is not within the right of the Government to reduce that expenditure to $8m during that year. [More…]
By their votes 1 understand they intend to do just that. [More…]
I remind the Minister that the Senate on 7th April - 4 weeks ago - carried an amendment by 25 votes to 20, as follows: [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 so, will he tell me what hold the Government has on those who strongly oppose, by their voices, such exports to China, but yet blindly, by their votes, support the action of the Government in sending to China iron, steel and chemicals for the manufacture of arms and munitions with which to kill or maim Australian soldiers? [More…]
This amendment was defeated by 47 votes to 17. [More…]
By way of argument and votes in this Senate we have almost corrected this situation and protected the rural citizen from being subject to having his house searched under circumstances in which other members of the community would not he liable to have their houses searched. [More…]
This Agreement shall, for the Governments which have deposited instruments of ratification, approval or acceptance, enter into force definitely as soon after 30 June 1971 as such instruments have been deposited on behalf of Governments representing at least six producing countries as set out in annex A holding together at least 950 of the votes set out in that annex and at least nine consuming countries as set out in annex B holding together at least 300 of the votes set out in that annex. [More…]
This seems to me a pretty onerous kind of definitive ratification of the Agreement when the 6 depositing countries that are required to ratify the Agreement have to control at least 950 of the 1,000 votes that are available to the producing countries. [More…]
Article 46 then deals with the amount of tin produced by the producing countries and with those 950 votes. [More…]
Australia has 32 votes so that if Australia did not ratify, the Agreement could still come into force. [More…]
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has 49 votes so if it did not ratify, the Agreement could come into force. [More…]
If any of the other producing countries failed to ratify the Agreement it could not come into force because 950 votes would not be available. [More…]
Bolivia controls 169 votes out of 1,000. [More…]
The International Tin Agreement could very easily be upset by one country’s standing out so the 950 votes would not be available to ratify the Agreement. [More…]
provided that such instruments or notifications have been deposited with the depositary Government: By 30 June 1971 or, if the Third Agreement is extended, by the date of termination of that Agreement; and On behalf of Governments representing at least six producing countries as set out in annex A holding together at least 950 of the votes set out in that annex, and at least nine consuming countries as set out in annex B holding together at least 300 of the votes set out in that annex. [More…]
Even so, the provisional ratification of the Agreement is still controlled by the 950 votes being available. [More…]
Even a provisional entry, if the 950 votes are obtained on a promise of ratification, cannot continue in operation for a period of more than 6 months. [More…]
When I look at annex B to the Agreement - I find that the voting rights of the various governments to come to an agreement on this world marketing situation are such that 1,000 votes are allocated to the consuming countries. [More…]
Almost onethird of the votes that are available to the consuming countries are allocated to the United States of America. [More…]
Under article 46 300 votes are required from the consuming countries to bring the International Tin Agreement into operation. [More…]
The United States, by her own vote, can bring the Agreement into operation providing 950 votes are available from the producing countries. [More…]
She is able to control it because she has one-third of the votes of the consuming countries. [More…]
She is able to bring it into force by having the surplus of the votes of the consuming countries. [More…]
We on the Government side can take some comfort from the attitude of the Democratic Labor Party because today we are assured - as we have been assured on countless occasions - that the Democratic Labor Party votes for measures on their merits. [More…]
In fact, legislation is brought down in the Parliament and that legislation is reflected upon in this place, votes are taken and approval is given or not given. [More…]
There are 1,000 votes held by the countries which are exporters and 1,000 votes held by countries which are importers. [More…]
The EEC controls 252 of the 2,000 votes. [More…]
Canada controls 280 votes based on the amount of wheat that it normally has for export. [More…]
The United States has the same number of votes. [More…]
Australia has 100 votes. [More…]
These are the rural votes which the Country Party relies upon but what is it doing to try to assist these people to rehabilitate themselves? [More…]
The Democratic Labor Party is not interested in assisting them because that Party only gets a few votes from around the suburbs of the towns. [More…]
I have to announce the result of the ballot as follows: Senator Sir Magnus Cormack, 31 votes; and Senator O’Byrne, 26 votes. [More…]
The result of the ballot is: Senator Prowse, Western Australia, 30 votes; Senator Fitzgerald, (New South Wales, 26 votes. [More…]
The ballots and the counting of votes were conducted by officials appointed in accordance with the respective union’s rules as registered under the provisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
From this account particular expenditures can be met only with the approval of Parliament under the annual votes or special appropriations. [More…]
If the legislation is disallowed it will be disallowed certainly so far as our votes count in the matter not as an exercise to knock over the Government. [More…]
I disagree with the system which has been adopted of forcing votes by giving only 1 minute’s notice of the gag. [More…]
If he votes against the Government will this be a repudiation and will he automatically put himself outside the Ministry. [More…]
All costs to the Commonwealth Government are not separately recorded, for example- the salaries of Departmental staff engaged on the visit were met from Departmental salary votes and the costs of services provided by Departments as part of their normal functions were carried on the votes of those Departments. [More…]
I feel that as a result of my efforts Sir David Brand might have made a move to get votes away from me. [More…]
Each has his own opinion and votes accordingly. [More…]
We are not here to discuss whether some person or another in a party meeting got 33 votes or any other number. [More…]
I should add that in the General Assembly the resolution was carried by 94 votes to nil with 3 member nations abstaining, Australia being among the 94. [More…]
It is about time the members of the Democratic Labor Party stopped humbugging in this chamber and put their votes where their hearts and minds are. [More…]
It is regrettable that a man, even if he is elected on second hand votes, is able to indulge in gutter language of that nature in the hope that he will get some cheap notoriety out of it, and the sooner he is removed from this chamber the better this country will be. [More…]
For any honourable senator to say that by denying ourselves an extra hour on urgency motions, which are not a regular feature of this chamber, we will attain something that has never happened in the history of federation is to put forward a fallacious argument that should not be considered by any honourable senator when he votes on this matter. [More…]
Is it because the Government and the Opposition like pensions to be in a political arena to be used as a football, or as a bribe to -get votes at election time? [More…]
I understand that the votes on the 2 measures will be taken separately. [More…]
In voting on the Bill the Australian Labor Party and the Democratic Labor Party combined to defeat the Government by 25 votes to 24. [More…]
The Democratic Labor Party and Senator Turnbull voted with the Opposition to carry the amendment by 26 votes to 24. [More…]
Whoever votes for the proposed amendment votes for the Bill and the increased charges. [More…]
The debate was conducted extensively in the Senate on that night and adjourned until 4th June 1968, when the motion for the second reading was carried by the Senate by 24 votes to 21. [More…]
It knows that its methods will lose votes. [More…]
I ask them to note that the Security Council, by 10 votes to 1, was in favour of recognition of South Vietnam as an independent sovereign state. [More…]
The combined vote of the military forces included the votes of troops in the trenches in Flanders as well as those in military camps in Australia. [More…]
The one which had the gerrymander, the one which had rigged the electorate to suit its convenience and the one which gave votes to rabbits and trees - 10 per cent of the vote for 20 seats. [More…]
I suggest that if they are called upon to judge there will not be any question as to where their votes and their sympathies will lie. [More…]
I do not look on winning this issue by one, four or five votes as a great political triumph. [More…]
At the end of the day a balance was taken between the envelopes in the box and the voting coupons to see whether the proper result had been obtained and that the number of envelopes corresponded with the number of votes who had been registered. [More…]
In other words votes which had the slightest suggestion of doubt were declared invalid and not formal. [More…]
Parliamentary publications include Hansard, the notice papers, votes and proceedings and journals of the two 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…]
It is the fact, as reported to me, that the United Nations has agreed to the Albanian resolution by 76 votes to 35, with 17 abstentions. [More…]
What is the constitutional position regarding votes taken in that body of countries failing to meet their membership obligations? [More…]
The Interim Council that was appointed to administer certain aspects of the initial programme recommended by 8 votes to 4 that Mr Laurie Thomas, a very well known man in the field of arts, a former director of the Queensland Gallery and, I think, of the Gallery of Western Australia, be appointed to that position. [More…]
In addition to the 3.5 votes against Taiwan’s expulsion, 17 nations abstained. [More…]
When Senator Wheeldon tries to equate the votes of Singapore and Malaysia in the United Nations to the fact that they really do not fear subversion inspired from the People’s Republic of China, I wish to say to him only that perhaps he should go and speak to the leaders of the countries of South East Asia - and go with his ears open, his eyes open and his mind open - because he will find that each of those countries expressed grave concern at the continued subversion, the continued terrorism being practised in their territory by Communist terrorists. [More…]
Votes have to be taken on whether the matters should be agreed to or defeated. [More…]
Obviously separate votes will be taken on them. [More…]
A decision should be reached by way of separate votes on the 2 motions that I have moved. [More…]
Coupled with the Country Party’s fading power as its rural chickens come home to roost, could this move be construed as a final desperate attempt to hold the Party together long enough to secure a few votes at the next Federal election, or is it perhaps an indication that Mr Anthony- [More…]
It is a fact that the Herald and Weekly Times Ltd does control within the meaning of the Broadcasting and Television Act (which is broadly the ability to control, directly or indirectly, more than15 per cent of the shares or votes in a company) the companies which bold the licences for stations HSV Melbourne, BTQ Brisbane and ADS Adelaide, with interests of 85 per cent, 30.6 per cent and 40.6 per cent respectively. [More…]
What is the constitutional position regarding votes taken in that body of countries failing to meet their membership obligations? [More…]
1 invite the attention of honourable senators to the’ great primary industries party, the little hillbilly corner, that supports primary industries in the areas where its candidates get the value of 2 votes for one in the city. [More…]
That is why they are able to come back to this Parliament with 20 members on 10 per cent of the votes. [More…]
Supposing that in a doubtful seat which could be won by a few hundred votes- [More…]
Thai the votes be considered in the same groupings as in the Estimates committees and thai unless otherwise ordered the order for consideration be the votes considered by Estimates Committee M, the votes considered by Estimates Committee D. the vo:es considered by Estimates Committee E. the voles considered by Estimates Committee A and- the voles considered by Estimates Committee C. [More…]
Let us be sensible about this, lt is ali right getting up here and saying something in the hope of winning the votes of some idealistic people. [More…]
Let us in this national Parliament have in our minds a degree of Australian sentiment - to the extent and intensity that whatever we do is in the best interests of this country and is nol something that we would say just because we think it might win votes at an election, but something which will be of real benefit to this country. [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…]
1 am concerned that at a place such as Nhulunbuy, which is the mining centre on the Gove Peninsula, only 230 votes were recorded. [More…]
This included votes from the nearby Yirrkala Mission. [More…]
Mr Dick Ward, President of the Northern Territory ‘Executive of the Labor Party, blamed the confused slate of the rolls for, any reduction in the percentage of votes’. [More…]
1 think it is important to note that this group of votes may be judged in its importance by the fact that in cash terms its proposed expenditure is $l,579m in a total vote under the whole of these Estimates of some $2,934m. [More…]
If the Government votes against this motion I would regard it not only as an indication that it is trying to stall this Bill but also as not being consistent with the arrangements made from time to time between the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson) and myself. [More…]
Having lost the scare which operated particularly to Senator Gair’s advantage in whipping up a few votes in Queensland on the supposition that the little yellow men who were waiting beside their sampans to come down here and rape our womenfolk were closer to Queensland than they were to anywhere else, they are now trying to compensate by perhaps winning back a few seats in Western Australia by this newly manufactured fantasy that we are about to have Russians land on the coast of Western Australia. [More…]
Everyone knows that spending money for defence purposes, is not sound electorally as it does not buy votes. [More…]
Is it because 50 votes are involved? [More…]
I put it to the Opposition: How many of these disasters are disasters because of the votes involved in them? [More…]
and that that resolution was passed, I think, by the affirmative votes of some 80 nations, with no nations dissenting and only one nation, Brazil I think, abstaining, and that Australia voted in favour of the resolution? [More…]
This proposal was voted on at the United Nations General Assembly on 16th December 1971 with the result that it was adopted by 61 votes to nil with the unusually large number of 55 abstentions including one by Australia. [More…]
I am disappointed that it has become apparent that the Commonwealth Government is coasting along in this regard simply because, to my mind, there are not many votes to be won in public transport seeing that most people want to use their own cars and, in the main, it is only the under age, the very old and the very poor who have lo use the public transport system. [More…]
If the Committee is prepared to accept the amendment without examination of the references that is its responsibility, but I do believe that anybody who asks the Committee to take that course is under an obligation to explain the general effect of the provision before the Committee votes. [More…]
I wish to submit that every honourable senator who votes against this proposed clause is completely unjust to the policeman whom he puts in a position where his duly requires him to face violence on the part of criminals throughout the country. [More…]
I can recall repeated warnings that it was a matter to be put under the carpet, that it would give rise to sectarian brawling, that it was unwise to advocate it and, worst of all, in the eyes of political leaders, that it might lead to loss of votes. [More…]
I believe it is merely putting up a smokescreen for electoral purposes because of its desire to obtain votes in November. [More…]
They argued about one point, however, and I refer to the probability of multiple votes by producers who have more than 200 hives. [More…]
He went on to talk about the probability of multiple votes. [More…]
It was feared that someone with 1,000 hives could register and divide his holding by 5 and so be entitled to 5 votes. [More…]
How many polling places are there in the State of New South Wales, situated on private property, where fewer than 50 people cast votes at federal elections. [More…]
Where appropriate, polling places have already been appointed at centres where more than 50 votes may be recorded. [More…]
They said that the present methods of producing Hansard, Votes, Journals and Notice Papers were obsolete and not replaceable and that new machinery was needed to carry out the production of Parliament’s printing in the time required. [More…]
He scraped back by only 6 votes when there was a vote of the Caucus. [More…]
However, I point out that no government can act on preconceived ideas about motions, resolutions, decisions and votes in the House of Commons. [More…]
Now we have reached the stage where the Government is using this matter to show a solidarity in its organisation, a solidarity in the Democratic Labor Party, and divisions in the Labor Party because the Labor Party is the only honest group which votes according to its conscience. [More…]
Once again the euphemism ‘very careful consideration’ means bowing to the pressures that mean votes. [More…]
Once again we see that it is not principles that count with the Government, but the plain, shoddy, mundane consideration of votes. [More…]
Of course it has decided, as ever, that votes are to be garnered by putting the boot into the unions. [More…]
In that electorate all the preference votes had to be counted. [More…]
I say to members of the Democratic Labor Party: If they were sincere they should have appealed to the Liberal Party to resign because it retained office aided and abetted by the Communist Party’s preference votes. [More…]
Senator Gair knows as well as I do that it was the Communist Party’s votes in 1961 that elected Jim Killen as the member for Moreton and returned the Menzies Government. [More…]
Then it is up to him to decide whether he votes. [More…]
Do we want any better illustration than this that this is a biased, partial government which is not concerned with industrial relations but which is concerned with serving its friends, with seeking votes, and to hell with the rest of the community. [More…]
I think that some common sense proposal could be arrived at, otherwise votes are going to be put without any discussion at all on the clauses or perhaps legitimate amendments will not be dealt with by the Senate. [More…]
As honourable senators are well aware, conscience votes are recorded by members of some political parties on certain matters which are regarded as issues of conscience - for example, hanging, divorce, marriage - and rightly so. [More…]
Unless otherwise ordered, the votes be con sidered in the same groupings as in the Estimates Committees. [More…]
I have been informed that a list setting out the proposed groupings for the consideration of the votes has been distributed for the information of honourable senators. [More…]
That the votes for the group of departments covered by Estimates Committee E be now passed without requests. [More…]
As the Committee’s role was advisory only, votes were not taken. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for the Interior whether voting facilities can be provided for the recording of absentee votes in any polling booth throughout Australia at the next Commonwealth election without the need for amendments to the existing Commonwealth Electoral Act? [More…]
No longer can this discredited Government, with its ‘how can we best win votes’ attitude to such major questions as war and peace, frighten the Australian electorate with its images of the great yellow peril or of Chinese hordes descending upon us, because they no longer wash in the eyes of Australians. [More…]
At that time the Government came within one seat of not being returned; in fact, 15 votes against the Government would have made the difference to its continuation in office. [More…]
Turning to the question of the Budget winning votes, if the unemployment position was markedly reduced by the time of the election some people might accept the fact that the Government knew what it was doing. [More…]
I wish to ask a question of the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, ls it a fact that at 2 recent international conferences Australia managed to record 2 different votes on the same subject of a 10-year moratorium on the commercial killing of whales? [More…]
It is not prepared to put its foot down about anything because it thinks that its action might affect votes at the next election. [More…]
I think on 4 occasions in the Journal I have written: Put not your trust in political parties because either party will sell you down the river as fast as it can if it thinks it can win votes. [More…]
It is not a matter for Ministers who are trying to have their images refurbished so that they will appear better and win a few votes. [More…]
Its members also will have an opportunity to cast their votes in accordance with what is professed to be their political views. [More…]
Votes have been granted to 18-year-olds in Western Australia and South Australia. [More…]
In this way we would avoid absentee votes and other problems. [More…]
I appreciate that on an election eve he might want to score in this regard for purposes of the election and I forgive him for that, but I repeat that this issue will endure past the election and is far more important to Australia than his getting votes from it. [More…]
Some 70 people are involved - a major group - and there is no reason why the Government should not extend itself a little and at least forward applications for postal votes before the writs are issued. [More…]
election date might be extended to November, or even to December as seems to be favoured by some sections of the Liberal Parly, or to January as is favoured by another section - after all Santa Claus might bring votes at Christmas and the Government may be able to afford to postpone the election until January - but under the Constitution the date cannot be extended beyond 20th January. [More…]
The Liberal Movement leader, Mr Steele Hall, today walked out of LCL headquarters after a clash with LCL officials over a check on votes in the ballot for party president. [More…]
In every election since I have lived in South Australia - and I went there in 1950 - the Labor Party has polled more than 50 per cent of the votes cast. [More…]
I want to put on record that after the redistribution took place in South Australia the Labor Party received less votes at the 1970 election than it received at the 1968 election when it could not win the government. [More…]
Although we received between 52 per cent and 53 per cent of the votes in an election for the lower House, we can get only 4 members out of 20 members elected to the upper House. [More…]
Did Australia’s representatives at 2 recent international conferences record different votes on a 10-year moratorium on the commercial killing of whales. [More…]
Can voting facilities be provided for the recording of absentee votes in any polling booth throughout Australia at the next Commonwealth election without the necessity of amending the Commonwealth Electoral Act. [More…]
The Commonwealth Electoral Bill which the Minister for the Interior introduced on 31st March 1971 contains provisions which would enable electors to record absent votes at polling booths throughout Australia. [More…]
It will not be a rushed action designed to gain a few lousy votes in an election by condemning the Government over something which it has not yet had time to consider. [More…]
This order of the day relates to the Commonwealth Electoral Bill 1972, the purpose of which is to provide votes for 18-year- olds. [More…]
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. [More…]
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 the Departments of 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 $ 1 4.83m with 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 question is not whether we will in appropriate circumstances support or oppose the principle of votes for 18 year olds but whether we support the passage of a Bill of this nature at the present time. [More…]
At the Senate general election on 22nd November 1958 the Democratic Labor Party received 387,792 votes. [More…]
In 1961 the DLP received 472,578 votes, which was 9.82 per cent of the total vote, but it was not able to have one candidate elected to the Senate. [More…]
In that Senate election the Liberal-Country Party received 2 million votes or 44 per cent of the vote and its candidates were successful in winning 15 scats. [More…]
They indicate that the Australian Labor Party put up 18 candidates and obtained 14 seats with 12.15 million votes or 44.71 per cent of the vote. [More…]
That could not be correct because there would not have been 2 million votes for the Labor Party in South Australia. [More…]
The Democratic Labor Party received 433,51 1 votes and 2 of its candidates were elected. [More…]
The Liberal-Country Party received 2.3 million votes and 14 of its candidates were elected. [More…]
In the Senate election of 1967 the DLP received 540,000 votes or 9.77 per cent of the vote and obtained 2 seats. [More…]
At the House of Representatives general election on 30th November 1963 the Democratic Labor Party received 407,416 votes or 7.4 per cent of the total and obtained no seats at all. [More…]
At the same election - I repeat that I am not being critical of it - the Country Party received 489,000 votes or about 82,000 votes more than the Democratic Labor Party and obtained 20 seats. [More…]
But in the country electorates there would be some Liberal Party votes which would counterpoise that argument to some degree. [More…]
In the House of Representatives election of 1966 the Country Party received 561,000 votes and obtained 21 seats; the Democratic Labor Party received 417,411 votes but obtained no seats. [More…]
In the last House of Representatives election, which was held in 1969, the DLP received 367,977 votes and obtained no seats at all, whereas the Country Party had the usual record in relation to its vote. [More…]
There was proper scrutiny and proper accounting of votes and ballot papers, and I could find no fault during an attempted objective assessment when going around polling booths both in Saigon and in one of the new provinces to which we were lifted by helicopter. [More…]
r of the Bill, but are relevant to the subject-matter of me Act it is proposed to amend, provided that such motion shall be carried by at least 23 affirmative votes. [More…]
You double the number of candidates that you want and you divide that into the number of votes and add one, which gives 50 per cent plus one. [More…]
The Conservative Party attracted a fairly large vote and most of the remaining seats, and the Liberal Party, which received a big swag of votes in the middle, won about 6 seats. [More…]
As far as I am concerned the whole of the Labor Party’s approach to the question of votes for 18-year-olds has been phoney. [More…]
It is interesting to note that on that occasion, on 21st April 1970, the Government defeated the Labor Party amendment by 61 votes to 52. [More…]
I feel that the Government by making this move at this time will gain many votes, particularly from Western Australia. [More…]
Senator Withers addressed that conference on his own behalf and on behalf of Senator Durack and myself in declaring our support for votes for 18-year-olds. [More…]
In a few words these are many of the reasons why I sup port votes for 18-year-olds. [More…]
If we believe that the best interests of Australia will be served by giving votes to people at whatever age it may be - in this case 18-year-olds - then I suggest this must be the criteria upon which we should make our judgments and decisions. [More…]
I shall continue to use my endeavours, and try to harness the endeavours of my colleagues who support votes for 18-year-olds, to convince the Government that it should introduce this legislation. [More…]
That was an example of a government seeking to gain an advantage by giving the vote to another age group, but it was surprised to find that the people in that age group cast their votes more in favour of the Conservative Party than for the irrational Opposition. [More…]
1 think it could be said that, if 18-year-olds were entitled to vote, their votes would be in the mould of their parents’ votes. [More…]
It is to take from every person in the Australian community who votes for the Democratic Labor Party - there are close enough to 500,000 of them - the right to have an effective franchise. [More…]
Nobody can be elected with a minority of votes. [More…]
The Labor Party says that it will let those people vote for the Democratic Labor Party but it will make their votes ineffective in the final analysis by having the first past the post system. [More…]
Proportional representation allows every person in the community to express freely his political point of view without the penalty of disenfranchisement because he votes for a minority group. [More…]
Many of the people in Senator Bishop’s Party today advocate first past the post voting as the millenium of all reforms because at this point, according to the votes his Party is now getting, it will advantage his Party. [More…]
I am quite sure that Senator Little will accord with that view because his Party, the Democratic Labor Party, is represented in the Senate whereas although the percentage of votes it gains at each election would normally entitle it to some representation in the House of Representatives if that chamber were a truly representative assembly, it has no representation there. [More…]
The French have 2 elections to ensure that in each electorate there is one person who can be said to have received the majority of the votes at the election. [More…]
In effective terms, if there were some 5 or 6 candidates standing, there could be a situation where the one who polled 21 per cent of the votes was the candidate who was elected. [More…]
If the honourable senator votes against the amendment proposed by Senator O’Byrne then I submit that he is not concerned with the future of Australia, Australian industry and Australian workers. [More…]
I know who would get the votes. [More…]
I am quite sure that if Senator McLaren wishes to go out with Senator Young amongst the rural electors of South Australia and justify his stand against the abolition of Federal estate duty and if Senator Young were to justify his stand I know who would get the votes, it would not be Senator McLaren. [More…]
We will see who gets the votes; it will not be Senator McLaren. [More…]
It was because they do not believe in their own conscience; they are after votes. [More…]
He talks against the Liberal Party but votes with it so that he will be assured of the No. [More…]
Then Senator McManus went on - this hurt me - to point out that the Australian Labor Party, when it finds that certain aspects of a Bill will be defeated if it keeps up its opposition, turns round the next time the Bill comes into this chamber and votes for it. [More…]
Whether this is electioneering or whether it is a seeking of votes, a humanitarian principle is involved. [More…]
What votes are involved [More…]
Anyone who ls interested in the depressed sections of our community, no matter what Party they arc in or what votes are involved in this issue, has to vote for this amendment. [More…]
When he is not here it is remarkable that they mostly vote with the Government, and when they are not here and he is here he mostly votes with the Government; so it is all very confusing. [More…]
That, if carried, would mean that the Commonwealth Electoral Bill, which has been described as the votes for 18-year- olds Bill, would come on for debate at 8 o’clock tonight. [More…]
We will see him scuttling across the chamber like a rabbit with myxomatosis to make sure that he votes with the Government parties. [More…]
Australian electors going to Macquarie Island will be able to record their votes before leaving Australia while electors returning to Australia would normally be able to vote upon their return. [More…]
It is another measure which has been pushed through this House late in the session because the Government is hoping to attract some votes in hard-hit areas throughout the Commonwealth. [More…]
This is the time when they can vote and their votes will be effective enough to require reconsideration of this measure by the House of Representatives. [More…]
If those honourable senators on the Government side want to put their votes where they have indicated they have some sympathy, now is their opportunity. [More…]
The result of the vote in relation to Senator Drury’s amendment was ayes 22 and noes 24 so it was defeated by 2 votes. [More…]
The details of the votes which took place in the other place show that the first motion was moved by Mr Grassby on 21st March 1972. [More…]
Votes and proceedings show that Mr Giles was present in the House at some time during the day. [More…]
On the motion of the Minister for Primary Industry the question that the question be put was put and resolved in the affirmative, 60 votes to 54. [More…]
Five members are elected biennially on the votes of agencies which, during the preceding 2 years, have participated in (he planning, originating or production of Commonwealth advertising. [More…]
I do not always stand up here seeking votes. [More…]
His attitude seems to be: How many votes are in it? [More…]
When no votes are obvious in them, such matters are abandoned as quickly as they are enunciated. [More…]
I suggest that the Native Members of the Forces Benefits Bill 1972 and the Repatriation (Torres Strait Islanders) Bill 1972 be debated together and that separate votes be taken on each Bill. [More…]
There being no objections, the Bills will be debated together and separate votes will be taken on each Bill. [More…]
Day after day I have moved that the Bill be brought on for decision and each day that move has been rejected, again by the votes of Government supporters and the Democratic Labor Party, including honourable senators who claim outside this chamber that they are in favour of the vote being given to 18-year-olds but who come in here and do everything they can to frustrate it. [More…]
They should be prepared to trespass on whatever decisions their own parties may have taken and which normally would bind their votes in this chamber. [More…]
Does it mean that if the proposed referendum is held on the Torres Strait islands and one person out of the whole population votes against it the islands cannot be transferred. [More…]
I ask Senator Gair, when he speaks and votes on this matter, to consider the objections that he, Senator Kane and Mr John Maynes took to the original proposals of the previous Government when it decided late in 1971 to impose all the strictures on the union movement which would have stopped the right wing unions as well as the left wing unions. [More…]
It may have won many votes as a result of that promise to the people. [More…]
We feel not for the people who sought votes for the Labor Party but those who prepared all the facts and figures which go to the Public Service Arbitrator. [More…]
I suppose it was thought to be a very attractive policy which might win a few votes. [More…]
It is simply that honourable senators opposite do not follow and cannot accept what was accepted overwhelmingly by the majority of the Australian people, when the Labor Party received more votes than the combined vote of all the other political parties in Australia. [More…]
To squeal unfair and to want to alter the system so that the Labor Party may win with a minority of votes will fool no-one, least of all the average decent sensible Australian who, whilst pretty easy going about many matters, will not be fooled by cheap political slogans which he knows instinctively to be untrue. [More…]
I think Senator Withers was very careless with the truth in the way in which he juggled the figures for votes obtained in the other States. [More…]
Nations give instructions that on everything which the Third World votes for get in with it, and oppose what the Free World votes for. [More…]
Its policy was to increase pensions by a max imum of 50c a week and such increases were always dangled as a political carrot before electors on the eve of an election in an endeavour to win votes for themselves. [More…]
I believe that they do have an interest in politics and in what happens in this country, and that they will cast their votes according to their judgment of the political parties and the candidates at the time of the election. [More…]
We made policy about 2 or 3 years ago at our Federal Conference in favour of votes for those of 18 years of age. [More…]
1 have heard some Australian Labor Party supporters contend that it will be a big advantage to their Party, but I understand that in some places where it has been tried it has not been found to have a very considerable effect upon the percentage of votes received. [More…]
it looked at foreign affairs and said: How can we win votes within Australia?’ [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…]
During the long term of my membership of the Committee I found it rare for its votes not to be either unanimous or almost unanimous. [More…]
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 of Representatives. [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…]
There will be no penalty attaching to any member of the Liberal Party who speaks, votes and acts in that way. [More…]
That basically represents the viewpoint to which I subscribe and on which I will determine the vote I will cast here tonight or whenever the Senate votes upon this matter. [More…]
We know it will be carried as a result of the phalanx of votes which must go one way since the result would be absolutely disastrous to a member of the Labor Party who was not prepared to vote as his Party dictates. [More…]
I feel that the unborn, at a particular stage, have a right to life, lt will be very interesting should that Bill be introduced into the Senate to see in actual fact the way in which Senator Georges votes. [More…]
I will watch with interest how he votes in the matter. [More…]
Unfortunately when the chips were down and the votes were counted he was never on the side of those people who were opposed to it. [More…]
An examination of the votes cast on that occasion reveals that 25 senators voted in favour of retaining the excise and 23 voted against retaining it and that 3 South Australian supporters of the then government were paired. [More…]
The combined votes of the Country Party and the Labor Party show that we outpolled Mr Giles. [More…]
The sitting Liberal member held it by only 44 votes. [More…]
It is believed that they are matters which should be considered further before the Senate votes on the Bill. [More…]
As honourable senators opposite have already voted on this subject on 3 previous occasions, I imagine that their votes will be the same on this occasion. [More…]
The Senate is entitled by a division to have recorded the individual votes of the senators. [More…]
In the light of the new development in the Senate with the emergence of independent senators, we should look at the Standing Orders to see whether there is some way in which the votes of honourable senators in respect of a particular matter can be registered. [More…]
It is dated 10th October 1972, which was at a period when an election was in the air and people were seeking votes. [More…]
As recently as this afternoon we heard Senator Murphy during question time talking about conscience votes on the part of the Labor Party. [More…]
If tonight the Labor Party in this Senate votes to reject the motion seeking the establishment of this select com mittee there can be one reason and one reason only for it doing so; it is covering up. [More…]
I would like to make this comment: Whilst this is primarily a Senate matter - I can understand that perhaps the Government has no need for pairs in this place; it may think that it will always be in the minority if the 3 Opposition groups combine and therefore a pair or two does not matter, and that whether the Government loses by one vote or by 4 votes is immaterial - I, of course, must have discussions with my parliamentary leader, the Leader of the Opposition in another place, because if the same course were adopted by the Opposition in the other place - at this moment I have no knowledge of whether it would be adopted - the working of government would become impossible. [More…]
Is that what Senator Withers, Senator Greenwood, Senator Wright and Senator Young are putting to the Senate and to the Australian people, that the 3 votes that Senator Young claims were denied tonight were votes automatically to be cast in support of the motion submitted by the Democratic Labor Party? [More…]
Is that what parliamentary democracy is about, that those votes would have automatically been for the adoption of the motion? [More…]
There would not be equality and the provision of a 10 per cent variation instead of 20 per cent is not going to make votes any more equal. [More…]
But the simple fact is that if one looks at the statistics of the primary votes of this country over a period of some 30 years one will find that the party or the group of parties that received the greatest primary vote took office. [More…]
In the last election we had a situation in the 2 electorates of Chifley and Gwydir where Chifley had approximately 65,000 people and Gwydir had approximately 46,000 people recording votes. [More…]
If we take that difference of 20,000 and apply it throughout other divisions of the Commonwealth it is undeniable that the surplus of votes can be skilfully juggled to maintain the number of what are now Opposition strongholds. [More…]
Thus, the Committee concluded that it should recommend the inclusion in the Constitution of provisions ensuring the regular review of the electoral divisions of each State and also accord near uniformity to the value accorded to the votes of the electors for each of the States. [More…]
All the prima donnas who had won by a majority of 20,000 votes in a House of 75 seats said that they had to win by 20,000 votes in a House of 120 seats. [More…]
The argument on the Executive was whether to tell these officers to transfer 6,000 votes over the river from Richmond to Fawkner so that Bill Bourke would win. [More…]
The other day I was reading a statement by a South Australian, politician - this will appeal to the Minister for Works (Senator Cavanagh) in which he pointed out that in the recent election in that State the Labor Party received SI per cent of the votes and won 57 per cent of the seats. [More…]
When I was defeated in 1961 I received 200,000 votes. [More…]
In Tasmania 10 senators received 180,000 votes. [More…]
In 1961 I received 200,000 votes and I did not win a seat. [More…]
He believes in the system under which 10 honourable senators can each receive 18,000 votes but a man who stands for Parliament and receives 200,000 votes does not obtain a seat. [More…]
On that occasion the split was caused by the votes of one-quarter of the Labor membership of this country which determined on the split in opposition to the votes of three-quarters of the Labor membership. [More…]
Reference was made to the fact that the DLP to obtain votes was supposed to select people whose names began with the first letters of the alphabet. [More…]
On occasions we have polled one-sixth of the votes in Victoria, but in a Parliament of 100 members we do not get one seat. [More…]
Obviously a Party which polls one-sixth of the votes ought to get some representation. [More…]
To test the fairness of each electoral method, the number of wasted votes was calculated. [More…]
It was found that under the preferential system 50 per cent of votes were wasted. [More…]
With first past the post more than 60 per cent of votes were wasted: They did not help to elect a candidate. [More…]
It was found that the wastage of votes dropped from 50 per cent or 60 per cent to 12.5 per cent. [More…]
From the parties’ point of view, the PR method gave results in fair agreement with the votes cast. [More…]
They want the votes of 4 people in the country to equal the votes of 6 people in the city. [More…]
In the last election the Country Party won 9.44 per cent of the votes but it ho ds 16 per cent of the seats in the Mouse of Representatives; it holds 20 seats. [More…]
After getting 5t times as many votes, the Australian Labor Party holds less than 3i times as many seats. [More…]
He is well known as a man who is now grandstanding to try to exploit the King Island misfortune so that he can get a few votes for preselection. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Is it a fact that an election is to be held on 11th August in which only Aboriginal voters will be eligible to cast their votes for .’ [More…]
The Labor Government which .cynically exploited the second preference votes of the Australia Party, the Defence of Government Schools party, the Women’s Electoral Lobby and others, will now discard them in case the preferences of those parties should turn against them. [More…]
The: true test is that a party which gets the majority of votes shall get the majority of seats. [More…]
I repeat also that if .the principle of one vote one value is to be tested it has to be applied to an electoral system so, in the end, the conjunction of all the electorates and their results produce a majority of votes and a majority of seats. [More…]
I want to say that on the votes- cast in the ballot box in my State . [More…]
of New South Wales in December 1972, one country vote, taking into account the electorate of Darling and all these other large electorates, was equal to 1.06 extra metropolitan votes. [More…]
As I say, if we were to remove the electorate of Darling from New South Wales and leave in the electorate of Eden-Monaro - it would take 2 days to drive around its 122 polling places - one country vote at the last general election was equal to 1.04 extra metropolitan votes. [More…]
Rather are they an attempt to establish parity between the value of city votes and rural votes. [More…]
It took 26,000 votes, in New South Wales to elect a member of the Labor -Party. [More…]
20,000 votes to’ elect someone from the Country Party and 26,000 to elect someone” from the Liberal Party. [More…]
In the electorate of Kelvingrove in the United Kingdom it took 6,106 votes to elect a Labor man. [More…]
Yet in the electorate of Billericay in Essex it took 47,700 votes to elect a Conservative member. [More…]
We also have a preferential system of voting which enables the person who votes to have a second or a third choice which is taken into consideration if his man does not get enough primary votes. [More…]
He loaded the electoral system in Queensland so that even when the Opposition Party obtained more than 50 per cent of the votes it remained in Opposition with a minority of the seats. [More…]
He was the strongest candidate and be topped the list, but when it came to counting the votes I found that he was not elected. [More…]
Why should so many votes be declared informal? [More…]
I clearly recall how many votes were discarded as informal because the voter had placed ‘1’ against the name df the candidate that he wanted but had not placed any other figures against the names of the other candidates. [More…]
But the DLP has the audacity to challenge the rights of a Party which attracted 49 per cent of the votes. [More…]
But he- takes his chances on a first past the post system: If he cannot get sufficient votes under the first past the post system, he is not good enough. [More…]
It has been reiterated during the course of this debate that the strength of political parties in the Parliament has reflected the number of votes that were cast for them in the electorates. [More…]
I have been amazed at times at the reflection of the votes cast because the votes cast for a certain political party were in no way reflected in the percentage of members returned. [More…]
Thus, the Committee concluded that it should recommend the inclusion in the Constitution of provisions ensuring the regular review of the electoral divisions of each State and also accord near uniformity to the value accorded to the votes of the electors for each of the States. [More…]
Year in and year out, on the total aggregate of votes cast throughout Australia at Federal elections, generally speaking the Labor movement has secured more votes than the total votes of the Liberal Party, Country Party and Democratic Labor Party put together. [More…]
At the last election we received the overwhelming number of votes and for the first time, thank goodness, despite the gerrymander of the honourable senator’s Party in 1965, the electoral weight of the people was so much against the then Government that they threw it out of office and now we are trying to bring parliamentary democracy back into the Australian electorate by reducing the 20 per cent disparity to what was normal custom, practice and tradition until 1965. [More…]
In 1966, 40 per cent of the Australian electors showed by their votes that they wanted a Labor government while 57.2 per cent showed they did not. [More…]
In 1969, 47 per cent showed by their votes that they wanted Labor government while 49.4 per cent were decisively opposed to it. [More…]
We should not disguise the fact that this Government has never won the support of the majority of the Australian electors, that it has never won 50 per cent plus one of the votes in any election held from 1958 up to and including 1972. [More…]
In December 1972 the ALP won 49.59 per cent of the total votes cast. [More…]
Since 1958, the present electoral system has rewarded with office the parties able to muster more votes than their opponents. [More…]
The truth is that it polled only 43 per cent of the votes. [More…]
If the difference between the value of city votes and country votes is the tiny margin that I have mentioned, the Parliament in 1965 was well justified, as I see it, in writing into the Act concern for electors living in divisions vaster than some of the largest nations of Europe, peopled by a thinly scattered population, remote from the great population centres of the Australian seaboard. [More…]
The situation could arise in any election in this country in which, say, 2 parties were vying for votes and where one party got 51 per cent of the votes in every electorate and the other party got 49 per cent. [More…]
There is an added proviso that in the event of an equality of votes the chairman, who would be appointed by the Committee from one of the nominees of the Government, would have a casting vote. [More…]
The Standing Orders provide that where there is an equality of voting, the chairman of a committee shall have 2 votes. [More…]
When the Votes are equal the Question shall pass in the negative. [More…]
It received 49.6 per cent of the votes and 53.6 per cent of the seats on boundaries which were drawn by the former Government. [More…]
I claim that the present Bill is an attempt by the Labor Party so to organise its affairs that it can get the majority of seats without necessarily having to get the votes. [More…]
The commissioners could never make an accurate determination as to when all votes were of equal value. [More…]
Labor, on the other hand, could claim that it bad won a clear majority of votes at all but 2. [More…]
In 1971 another article by Dean Jaensch was published in the ‘Australian Journal of Politics and History’, Volume 17, and in that article he quoted the percentage of votes gained by the Labor Party in South Australia under a system which has been proved to be biased towards the Liberal Country League. [More…]
In 1947 the LCL won 19 seats with 40.05 per cent of the votes, and the ALP won 25 seats with 48.64 per cent of the votes. [More…]
In 1950 the LCL won 19 seats with 40.51 per cent of the votes, and the ALP won 23 seats with 47.91 per cent, and 12 other seats were contested for which the percentage was 11.58. [More…]
In that case we gained 13 per cent more of the votes but won 2 seats less. [More…]
We received nearly 11 per cent more of the votes but won 2 seats less than the LCL. [More…]
In 1950 the LCL won 23 seats after polling 40.51 per cent of the votes, and the ALP won 12 seats after receiving 47.91 per cent of the votes. [More…]
In 1953 the LCL won 21 seats after receiving 36.44 per cent of the votes, and the ALP won 14 seats after getting 39.39 per cent of the votes. [More…]
In 1956 the LCL won 21 seats having received 36.69 per cent of the votes, and the ALP won 15 seats after gaining 47.37 per cent of the votes. [More…]
In 1959 the LCL won 21 seats with 36.95 per cent of the votes, and the ALP won 16 seats after receiving 49.35 per cent of the votes. [More…]
In 1962, 18 seats went to the LCL after it gained 34.51 per cent of the votes, and the ALP won 19 seats after getting 53.97 per cent of the votes. [More…]
If consideration is not given to these matters they would create anomalies in the weighting of electorates and in the weighting of the votes of individuals. [More…]
Under our preferential system, after the votes are counted effect is given to the wishes of the majority who vote for a candidate. [More…]
What we are considering is the grouping of people so that their votes, when expressed in the majority, may fairly represent that group in a majority opinion. [More…]
In what way does the Ministry for Foreign Affairs supervise proposed votes by the Australian delegation to the United Nations? [More…]
Senator James McClelland has tremendous respect for the Victorian Premier’s power to attract voters because in Victoria recently he attracted a lot more votes than Senator James McClelland’s Party could attract, although Senator James McClelland has said that the Premier’s policies were really Labor’s policies. [More…]
We are here to represent the political thoughts and ideas of all sections of the political communities in the States, having gained sufficient votes in a poll that is more democratic than that which is conducted for other Parliaments throughout Australia, to act on behalf of people in the various States. [More…]
On this issue the Premier of every State has interpreted the votes which were given to his party and which enabled him to form a government to mean that the people want that government to retain the powers which have always been considered since Federation to reside with the States and which, without question or doubt, resided in the hands of the States before Federation. [More…]
If he was the perfect negotiator, I cannot understand why honourable senators opposite were trying to get votes for Mr Whitlam. [More…]
Oan the Minister refer the Senate to any authority for the statement that pairs are off on votes of confidence, I having failed to find any. [More…]
That, unless otherwise ordered, the votes be considered in the same groupings and order as in Estimates Committees A, B, C, D, E and F. [More…]
To state that the Australian Labor Party polled more votes than the Liberal Party at the last State election in Victoria is completely untrue. [More…]
We have also provided that a simple majority df the members of a union should be sufficient to encompass the aim of an amalgamation and, of course, we have eliminated a requirement that there can be a ballot inquiry into amalgamation votes when the vote has been conducted officially by the Registrar. [More…]
We say it should provide that an amalgamation cannot, take place unless and until more than half the membership of the union votes for it. [More…]
After a debate which lasted for some 3 hours the motion was defeated by 26 votes to 20 votes following a division. [More…]
It was carried in one Stale, New South Wales, by a hatful of votes out of millions. [More…]
I believe every member of the House must resolve the following question in his own mind before he votes on this proposal: [More…]
On close votes in the House or the Senate where one or two votes can make the differencein extremely controversial issues, should the people who choose to reside in the Nation’s Capital bold the balance of power? [More…]
A representative is as well as being a speaking machine, a voting one, and if Mr Barton will say in the Bill that this representative or these representatives are not to have votes, tthen my alarm will be dispelled. [More…]
I believe every member of the House must resolve the following question in his own mind before he votes on this proposal: On close votes in the House or the Senate where one or two votes can make the difference in extremely controversial issues, should the people who chose to reside in the National’s Capital hold the balance of power? [More…]
I wish to make it clear that the Government of Australia votes in the United Nations in the way which it considers to be in the interests of Australia. [More…]
I rise to speak only because I feel that we should pause a moment to think about what would have happened if the few communist votes that went to the Liberal Party in the 1961 election had not been cast in that way. [More…]
That was not true becuase there have been votes in this chamber in respect of which the Australian Labor Party has voted against such a Bill, but I pass that aside. [More…]
The Prime Minister has reneged on a promise which he gave the Australian people and which was intended to gather in votes prior to a Federal election. [More…]
In a shameful effort to gain votes the previous [More…]
Those promises were stated in order to win votes. [More…]
He toured a number of areas in the course of the election campaign and, in search of votes, he published a document called ‘Priorities in Education’. [More…]
It does little credit to Senator McLaren, who would himself claim to be a man of honour, that he is prepared to defend dishonesty and to defend the breaking of a pledge freely given by the Prime Minister and the Minister for Education when they were chasing votes in order for their Party to become the Government. [More…]
This increase was made not on the basis of a grant of 5m which Senator Rae’s Party made available when it was in Government and was looking for votes - when it bought votes with 5m in order to win an election - but on the basis of a deeply considered and deeply studied analysis of the education system of this country by a very responsible committee. [More…]
Here for the first time we have a document designed not to be vote-catching, not to be a gimmicky thing that sets out to win some votes and some cheap political advantage but a document based on the needs of a great country frying to fulfill the educational requirements of every child in the Australian community. [More…]
Goodness gracious me, it was riddled with bad features - features based upon that initial concept of buying votes. [More…]
In the first place the previous government started by buying the votes with 5m, and so far as I am concerned in every succeeding Budget the education vote has been pitched to the securing of votes. [More…]
The votes for several Departments in 1972-73 provide for expenditures in or on behalf of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The great bulk of this will be financed under votes of the Department of External Territories ($132,900,000). [More…]
It should not be done when the Senate is in session, when Standing Orders have to be obeyed and votes taken. [More…]
He probably did not beat the late Jim Fraser in the number of votes he received but he probably got near a record vote. [More…]
I remind you, Mr Deputy President, that far from doing that the Senate last night carried a motion, by 29 votes to 23, which related to a very specific area of the Karmel Committee report. [More…]
I believe that any member who votes against this amendment fails to realise the importance of this Parliament - the properly elected spokesman of this community - to make its judgment on important matters. [More…]
We have conscience votes on many matters inside the Labor Party. [More…]
I pointed out that the committee brought in a report which stated that electoral justice could best be obtained by introducing a system of proportional representation and that if such a system had existed the complaints of the Labor Party over a number of elections to the effect that it had received a majority of votes but a minority of seats would have been unnecessary. [More…]
Honourable senators can waffle on about this matter as long as they like, but how could any honourable senator say that votes should be of unequal value, that a barman in Melbourne should receive half the vote of a barman in a country district of Australia? [More…]
The fact is that barmen, carpenters, labourers, schoolteachers or postmasters receive unequal votes, depending on their geographical location in Australia. [More…]
It will be of no use for the Labor Party at the next election to seek the votes of the East European migrants. [More…]
The previous Government hoped that it would be able to buy votes with its last Budget. [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact that an election is to be held on 1 1 August in which only Aboriginal voters will be eligible to cast their votes for the purposes of electing 80 representatives from all States and the Northern Territory to the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee. [More…]
I suppose the Treasury should try to get the name of this individual who votes Labor for the purpose of advising Treasury on how it should control inflation in Australia. [More…]
Now Senator Jessop is advancing the same solution on behalf of an authority higher than the Treasurer- someone who votes Labor. [More…]
I believe that any party which gets 50 per cent plus one of the votes of the electors is entitled to govern. [More…]
It befriended the wine industry for the purpose of gaining votes on the promise of a repeal of the excise. [More…]
It stamps the Labor Party as a party which budgets for votes and which, in its assessment of the inflationary impact of the Budget or the equitable impact of the Budget as between the various people of this country, denies any sense of justice or competence whatever. [More…]
The Government then in power- the Liberal-Country Party Government- wanted votes. [More…]
There was an economic recession in 1961 when at a general election they were re-elected with a mere majority of 240 votes in one seat. [More…]
That is virtually what was happening because the previous Government was trying to buy votes. [More…]
That proposition was defeated by only 45 votes to 42, I am told, and the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) was in favour of the proposition to let the people have a vote on the question of incomes. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite may base all their political philosophy on getting votes and winning of elections, but the Democratic Labor Party is above that. [More…]
They must certainly have varying ideas on all subjects, and, on this one by 45 votes to 43 or 42, they made a hairline decision. [More…]
None of us in this Senate is important; our political careers are unimportant, whether we get votes is unimportant compared with the question with which we are trying to deal. [More…]
They cannot obtain 31 votes under those circumstances. [More…]
I took note of the statement made by Senator Little that even if a vote were taken today the Government could not obtain the required 31 votes. [More…]
He does not have to keep on distorting facts in order to get additional votes. [More…]
Then, as we know, he went to the Caucus- and the rest is history; by 45 votes to 42 Caucus overthrew him. [More…]
Therefore there will be 2 referenda proposals which will be presented simultaneously and on which votes will be taken. [More…]
It is rather interesting to recall that last Saturday an election took place in the middle of all the debate and publicity that has been going on in connection with the prices referendum; but apparently it did not win any votes for the Government. [More…]
It turned out to be by 30,000 votes. [More…]
When he was asked why he did not stand up for an adequately armed Britain he said it was because at the time there were no votes in it. [More…]
Yesterday, much of the time was wasted by unnecessary votes and what might be fairly described- certainly in regard to the first Bill-as filibustering activity. [More…]
Mr President, it is interesting to note, however, that when 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. [More…]
The ordinance was brought down in June of this year and on that occasion we did lend our votes to its rejection. [More…]
It is a matter of history that the amalgamation of the unions which now comprise the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union came about by the votes of a mere handful of people and that the people who counted the votes were involved with those who wanted the amalgamation. [More…]
The Constitution provides that the voter shall have before him before he votes both the case for and the case against. [More…]
Our attitude to union amalgamation is that every union member should have before him before he votes a clear case for and a clear case against the amalgamation. [More…]
It is a sad reflection upon the paucity of business acumen in the Government and a sad reflection upon the degree of responsibility of an outfit masquerading as a government in Canberra today that the Caucus of this Government votes to overturn the decision of a Cabinet and, quite contrary to the repeated declaration of the Reece Labor Government in Tasmania, seeks to drain Lake Pedder and regenerate the vegetation at a cost of up to $ 12m, followed by alternatives that will entail about $S0m in one case and $ 100m in the other. [More…]
The whole thing has been done by recorded votes and by majority votes. [More…]
Does this condition by China amount to an external support for the present ailing Government, enable China to dictate items of policy and account for some of the extraordinary votes of this Government at the United Nations? [More…]
But if the Opposition votes to delay this Bill by some amendment and to put it over until the next year, that means it is deliberately saying ‘We are not prepared to consider any amendment of the existing legislation which we know to be unworkable and we are prepared, for whatever motive, to allow those practices to go on and to leave the consumer unprotected. [More…]
They confess by their votes that their masters outside, those who finance them and dictate to them, are telling them to delay this legislation as long as they can in the same way as they delayed even the pitiful legislation that was introduced in the 1960s. [More…]
It may be that that is an indication that the Government after 23 years in Opposition has finally realised that it now has the responsibility of conducting the foreign affairs of this nation and that it cannot make great statements designed to gain votes or which may have some ideological flavour to them. [More…]
Subject to what follows, questions arising at a meeting of the Committee shall be determined by a majority of votes of the members present. [More…]
At a meeting of the Committee, the person presiding has a deliberative vote and, in the event of an equality of votes, also has a casting vote. [More…]
Is it a fact that the time would be given according to the percentage of votes won by parties at the previous election and further that once the limit for each party was reached in relation to the time factor that party would be unable to continue advertising regardless of any money that it may have to spend? [More…]
-Candidates have freedom to canvass votes for themselves. [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…]
I think that was resented greatly because, when one added the individual votes, there was a preponderance in the direction other than that which was determined by the then Prime Minister. [More…]
The motion was carried by 41 votes to 13. [More…]
The great decision of the Senate on that occasion was taken by a margin of 2 votes, and 2 senator’s who voted for the joint meeting are absent today. [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…]
But we now seek an arrangement whereby we will sit conjointly with another House by which we are overridden 2 votes to one. [More…]
Our votes might be able to sway the decision for the siting of the new parliament house, but the value and prestige of the Senate would be weakened as a result of a precedent being set of a greater numerical House overriding us. [More…]
It provided for the resolution, such as it was, to be ascertained by a majority of votes. [More…]
As it was supposedly the wish of members of Parliament, expressed by their votes, that would be taken as the criterion as to where the house would be situated, I think an answer has been given already. [More…]
Adding the votes of members in the other place and in the Senate, those for Camp Hill total 63 and those for Capital Hill total 83. [More…]
I have confidence that the will of Parliament as expressed by the majority of votes, will be upheld. [More…]
that as 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…]
There was a majority of 2 votes on that occasion opposing a joint sitting. [More…]
In the Minister’s second reading speech the request for a total of $36m is explained as follows: Salaries, what I call not fundable under existing votes, represents about $5.288m; an amount for the restructuring of and additions to departments which is not specified; an amount for education of $ 1.834m which, as I said yesterday, is for admirable purposes; Service pensions and gratuities of about $9m. [More…]
One of the things that people forget, particularly the juvenile Press that we have about the country today, is that this Senate derives its constitution from the people of this country and it derives its election from the votes of the people of this country- the same people who elect members to the other chamber. [More…]
Mr Abba Eban, the outspoken Israeli Foreign Minister, said the other day that if an Arab country gets up in the General Assembly of the United Nations and alleges that the world is square he starts off with 40 votes. [More…]
When the vote was taken in the House of Representatives on the original Bill, it was carried by 78 votes to 43. [More…]
This Bill, which seeks to provide Senate representation Tor the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory, is identical to the Bill of the same title which was passed by the House of Representatives on 30 May 1973 … it was carried by 78 votes to 43. [More…]
When he comes up for election in Victoria in the next 6 or 8 months he will have to find some 300,000 first preference votes before he is elected. [More…]
I acknowledge that there is the problem in Victoria that 300,000 first preference votes will be required to return a senator. [More…]
Senator Poyser, who tries to interrupt again, knows that in Victoria a candidate must have 300,000 first preference votes before he is elected to the Senate. [More…]
In New South Wales I think that some 600,000 first preference votes are required. [More…]
In our Party, the Australian Labor Party, 6 votes from Western Australian delegates at a Federal Conference are equal to 6 votes from delegates from Victoria or New South Wales. [More…]
Senator Webster referred to the number of primary votes that were received by Senator Poyser and myself when we were elected to this place, but numbers do not always have a monopoly on ideas. [More…]
The Senate, in its wisdom, decided that the debate should not cease, the motion being defeated by a majority of 5 votes, 25 to 20. [More…]
I did not want to delay a decision but I wanted to prevent the taking of two or three votes during the last moments of the parliamentary week when only 45 senators were available to vote. [More…]
It will be one motion but 2 votes. [More…]
If we have these 2 votes, I suggest that it would clear the air beautifully. [More…]
Are not postal votes available to New South Wales electors who wake up in time? [More…]
Both secured an overall majority of total votes but a majority in only 3 States. [More…]
I ask the Minister- I have asked twice already for a ministerial interpretation of this matter- whether the yes votes on the first question are to be taken into account as yes on the second question, even though the ballot paper says that only no voters on the first are to vote on the second. [More…]
Apparently the reason for the slowness of the receipt of the figures by comparison with the rate of receipt at Federal elections is that for Federal elections full-time electoral officers are engaged in counting the votes whereas for the New South Wales State elections part-time electoral officers are engaged. [More…]
Paper products have been in such short supply that we could not get out application forms for postal votes for the referendum until 2 or 3 days after the writs had been issued. [More…]
It would not have taken very many votes for the result to have been the other way. [More…]
The question now is that the votes in relation to the departments covered by group B be now passed. [More…]
There being no requests, I declare the votes passed. [More…]
The question now is that the votes in relation to the departments covered by group C be now passed. [More…]
There being no requests, I declare the votes passed. [More…]
The, TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN (Senator Wilkinson)- The question is that the votes in group E be passed without requests. [More…]
It was the votes of Senator Wood and the independent senator, voting with the then Opposition, which secured the establishment of those committees against the combined vote of those who are now praising them. [More…]
We say that if the Opposition votes for the amendment or votes against putting the matter to the people it is denying the people the right to say whether the elections for the Senate and the House of Representatives should be synchronised. [More…]
If the present proposal had applied at the time of the 1969 election, one vote in the electorate of Sydney would have been worth 1.7 votes in the electorate of Robertson, and one vote in the electorate of Melbourne would have been worth 1.77 votes in the electorate of Diamond Valley. [More…]
On occasion we have obtained in elections 500,000 votes. [More…]
Is there any provision in this Bill, by a Government which says that it wants electoral justice, to give the DLP with 500,000 votes any representation? [More…]
The representatives of the two bigger States and one of Queensland were defeated by 7 votes which came from the smaller States. [More…]
At that time I scored 2 10,000 votes. [More…]
I did not get a seat although I got 2 10,000 votes. [More…]
But 10 senators with an average of 18,000 votes each got in for Tasmania. [More…]
I said to Senator O ‘Byrne, who is a Tasmanian senator: ‘Do you agree, Senator O ‘Byrne, with a situation whereby 10 senators from Tasmania representing 180,000 voters were elected and I did not get a seat although I got 30,000 more votes than the 10 of them’. [More…]
A big union of 70,000 to 80,000 members would get 4 votes and a union made up of 53 members would get one vote. [More…]
A committee of the Victorian branch of the Australian Labor Party, led by the late Senator Sam Cohen, Mr Gordon Bryant and other leading personalities of the branch, was asked to sit down and determine the system which in its opinion would give electoral justice and would ensure that if the Australian Labor Party ever received 50 per cent of the votes it would be in government. [More…]
But if one is a practical politician- every senator ought to be if he is not- one has to remember that only just recently, at the time of the Parramatta by-election, there was a sudden decision to build a $8m hospital in the area because it was necessary to win votes. [More…]
All we ask of the Government is this: Having made a promise before the election and received thousands of votes because of that promise, it should keep its promise and give to the small number of A class schools that are left the basic per capita grants which Mr Whitlam and Mr Beazley pledged themselves as honourable men to give. [More…]
He made overtures to the non-government schools for the purpose of attracting votes. [More…]
In the light of the promises given by Mr Whitlam and his cronies for the purpose of capturing votes in order to gain office and receiving a report such as this which divorces the real benefits of our system from a significant section of the non-government school students, this Party would deserve to earn discredit if it did not fight to establish the principle that every child in this country is entitled to receive 100 per cent of the cost of his state school education if he wants it- and I took it- or, if he goes to an independent school, that he is entitled to such proportion of that expenditure as the Federal Government of the day decides. [More…]
When the Government says to us that it will fight an election on the issue, I tell it that we will welcome an election on the issue of whether the promises that the Government made when it wanted votes to win an election can be believed. [More…]
Senator Webster, who would talk under water, stands here talking day after day, week after week, and then sends his statements to the provincial Press in the western district of Victoria, hoping that he will get enough votes to send him back to this place. [More…]
Motions that the question be now put and that the Chairman do report progress and ask leave to sit again and that the Chairman do now leave the Chair shall be moved without discussion and be immediately put and determined, provided that a vote on the question that the question be now put shall require at least 2 1 affirmative votes. [More…]
Are not postal votes available to New South Wales electors who wake up in time? [More…]
I think that the Labor Government should be strongly criticised for the attitude that it has adopted in this legislation which indicates that it discriminates in areas where it wants to discriminate but not in others where it thinks it can play up to the votes of certain people. [More…]
As a result the Parliament was deadlocked 86 votes to 86 votes and this forced a general election. [More…]
I want to thank the Ministers and others for their assistance in the presentation of their arguments and for their votes. [More…]
The result of the ballot is: Senator Webster, 30 votes; Senator O’Byrne, 27 votes. [More…]
There has to be time after the election and before 30 June to enable votes to be counted and matters to be sorted out. [More…]
I did not hear all of Senator Greenwood’s remarks on this matter, but I have campaigned in quite a few Senate elections over the past few years and on each occasion I have heard the leaders of the Liberal Party and the Australian Country Party advocating votes for the Liberal Party and the Country Party and the leaders of the Australian Democratic Labor Party advocating votes for the DLP. [More…]
If honourable senators opposite advocate votes for their candidates when they are in government on the basis that they should also have a majority in the Senate to be able to govern, why would they argue that the elections for the Senate and House of Representatives should not be held at the same time? [More…]
In the time that I have been living in that State- nearly 25 years- only once did the Conservatives win a majority of votes. [More…]
To win votes Mr Whitlam said that the unfair freight rates imposed by overseas shipping companies and the inflation throughout Australia has resulted in a breakdown in the economic viability of many rural areas. [More…]
He finished up winning after the recount by some 200,000 votes, which was a much as he was going to win by after the first count. [More…]
Any man who votes against allowing the people to vote on the proposition which the elected Government wishes to put to them can hardly claim to be a democrat. [More…]
If we are to accept the argument put yesterday by the Government senators that we would be acting undemocratically in not allowing the proposal to go to the people then I ask this quesiton and I would like to hear the comments of Government senators on this proposition when they reply: If a Bill which would submit a proposal for an alteration of the Constitution to the people should pass through the Senate with a constitutional majority of 31 votes, go to the House of Representatives, and be rejected and then, after an interval of 3 months, again be passed by the Senate with a Constitutional majority of 3 1 votes, would the Government give an absolute undertaking that it would advise the Governor-General to submit that proposal to the people? [More…]
It would appear to me to be a departure that if we are not going to insist upon a vote by the majority of States to vary the Constitution but enable the referendum to be passed on an equality of State votes, together with a majority of the aggregate of the people ‘s votes it will be, to use my original term, a misconception of the very nature of the compact of federation. [More…]
Questions arising in the Senate shall be determined by a majority of votes, and each senator shall have one vote . [More…]
Questions arising in the Senate shall be determined by a majority or votes, and each senator shall have one vote . [More…]
You would have to say that the question has been carried by whatever the votes were and then say that, in accordance with standing order 242, there not having been an absolute majority, the Bill is laid aside forthwith, and is not to be revived during the same session. [More…]
First of all, attention has been called to section 23, which we have debated previously; but in accordance with rulings which prevail in this chamber, a decision as to the passage of a Bill or- let me be more precise- a decision on a question arising in this Senate shall be determined by a majority of votes, each senator having one vote. [More…]
Therefore I submit that the President of the Senate should record the decision of the Senate as being that the Bill as amended was agreed to by a majority of 28 votes to 23. [More…]
It states that any question that arises shall e determined by a majority of votes. [More…]
A a result of a physical division of the Senate in order that I could discern where the numbers lay and who was in favour of and who was against the motion, the tellers informed me that the votes were ayes 28, noes 23. [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 the 75 seats, whereas Labor polled but 46.5 per cent of the votes yet ‘managed to get 42 of the seats. ‘ [More…]
At that time Labor endeavoured to argue that preferential voting, which has served Australia very well, meant that people had 2 votes. [More…]
They argued that under preferential voting a person virtually had 2 votes. [More…]
It means that the people resolve the difference between the 2 candidates who are left when those candidates who obtained a smaller number of votes have been eliminated. [More…]
An analysis of the British figures shows that Labour polled 37.2 per cent of the votes. [More…]
The Liberal Party in England polled 1 9.3 per cent of the votes. [More…]
So the difference between 19 percent and 37 percent is the difference between 14 seats and 301 seats, enabling Labour at the moment to form a minority government when it does not have twice the number of votes of a minority party which has only 14 seats in the House. [More…]
The mere fact of it gaining more votes meant that it took primary votes from the 2 major parties, which ensured that one of the major parties would be faced with a situation of having to form a minority government. [More…]
I had a rundown on the figures prepared, and to my very great surprise I found that Labor got only 48 per cent of the votes, yet it got 64 per cent of the seats. [More…]
On the other hand, the Government Party at that time, the National Party, got 41 per cent of the votes and only 37 per cent of the seats. [More…]
Labor with 48 per cent of the votes, got 64 per cent of the seats and the other party, with 4 1 per cent of the votes, got 37 per cent of the seats. [More…]
The figures I received from an official in the Library show that at the last election Labor with 49 per cent of the votes, got 53 per cent of the seats. [More…]
The Liberal-Country Party got 41 per cent of the votes and 46 per cent of the seats. [More…]
One of the factors that leaps to the eye is that in the last election the Liberal Party won 19 per cent of the votes and gained 2 per cent of the seats. [More…]
The other minor parties gained 24 seats from approximately 1,700,000 votes. [More…]
The Liberals received more than 6 million votes but only 14 seats. [More…]
Labour won S seats more than the Conservatives, while polling 0.9 per cent fewer votes. [More…]
But one thing is clear: The States and the State governments are ruman and they have a tendency to want to give up those powers and responsibilities which at any point of time are unpopular- those that are too costly, those that are difficult and those that they feel they could let the other fellow have without losing votes. [More…]
There are no votes in it. [More…]
Here, of course, there are additional safeguards because one has to get a majority of votes in respect of the States so that four out of the six States, as well as a majority of voters, must approve the proposed change. [More…]
Senator Prowse and others joined with us and we successfully defeated the resolution in all States with the exception of New South Wales where the Yes vote won by a handful of votes. [More…]
I repeat that some leaders of State governments are prepared to sacrifice and to surrender any power which they think might cause them to lose votes, instead of having the courage and determination to preserve the sovereignty of the States which they are charged to control. [More…]
I do not think that he took any real part in the actions leading to an increase in interest rates, but I believe that the Prime Minister primarily understood what the Labor Party was quite deliberately doing, particularly to people with whom Labor had entered into a contract in the last election campaign in order to win their votes. [More…]
Because one Party- the Australian Labor Party- recieved a very small surplus of seats and votes at the last election, that does not mean that that Party should have a completely open go. [More…]
The rate of income for pensioners should be established by a tribunal independent of political boastings in this Parliament and independent of an atmosphere of bribing the pensioners, paying them more than someone else to get their votes. [More…]
Plots are being worked out to bribe more votes out of another section of the community in this country. [More…]
It surprises me that the colleagues of the Country Party senator from Western Australia allied themselves with the Democratic Labor Party in what may be described as the national disaster alliance and lost votes much more effectively than any other party in the whole of the election. [More…]
In these circumstances, as I have not received any letter of resignation from Senator Gair, he is a member of the Senate and may take his place and take part in the votes and proceedings of the Senate, as in fact he did last night. [More…]
With an even number of members on each side of the chamber and 3 judges appointed to cast their deciding votes we could achieve a fair result, but not otherwise. [More…]
That result could be achieved with an even number of members on each side of the chamber and 3 judges who could cast their votes. [More…]
Even the system that the Opposition is espousing involves mass meetings and postal votes if a decision has to be made. [More…]
We know of the positions which have been dangled in front of honourable senators with a view to influencing their votes. [More…]
The result of the ballot is: Senator Milliner, 29 votes; and Senator Webster, 30 votes. [More…]
Although perhaps this is not the ultimate judgment, I recall that it was Nick McKenna who, up to the time of his retirement from politics, always polled more votes than any other in Tasmania in a Federal election. [More…]
Only a few weeks ago the Prime Minister, wooing votes from the Public Service, cried: ‘Shame. [More…]
-With a slightly reduced majority but overall- collectively so far as votes throughout Australia are concerned- with a majority of votes being cast by the Australian people in support of the policies and candidates of the Australian Labor Party. [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…]
The amendment was carried by 13 votes to 2 and subsequently was supported by the United States delegation. [More…]
It was a product of precisely the same sort of perverted logic which compels the conservative parties to insist that an electoral system- such as that used in Western Australia and under which the votes of some Western Australians have 15 times the value of other Western Australians- is democratic. [More…]
It ought not to be forgotten that the Government was returned having lost 5 seats and having secured office by one seat which was won by 146 votes, by another seat which was retained by only 147 votes and by still another seat which was retained by only 163 votes. [More…]
We have seen patronage used by the massive outpourings of government money designed to secure the votes of persons who are dependent upon government money. [More…]
But Mr Daly’s refusal to accept 52 per cent of the seats for less than 50 per cent of the votes leads one to believe that he and his Party want more than 52 per cent of the seats for a similar or lesser vote. [More…]
But for the alertness of Liberal Party scrutineers the Labor Party would have won 60 per cent of the seats in my State of Western Australia with only 46 per cent of the votes. [More…]
Party vote should equal 1 1/2 Opposition votes. [More…]
During the recount it was found that one bundle of votes that had been counted as 100 votes in favour of the Labor Party in fact contained only 97 votes. [More…]
There was only one bundle of miscounted votes for the Liberal Party. [More…]
That bundle, which was counted as being 100 votes for Mr Viner, the Liberal Party’s candidate, in fact contained 1 1 1 votes for him. [More…]
The Labor Party, with 49.3 per cent of the formal votes cast obtained 51.96 per cent of the seats in the new Parliament. [More…]
No distribution should permit a situation where a Party or coalition of Parties which secures a majority of votes does not secure a majority of members of the House of Representatives. [More…]
Under our present Electoral Act, the party which receives the majority of the votes wins office. [More…]
The major criterion for any electoral system is that the party receiving the majority of the votes gains office, and the system brings stability of government to the country. [More…]
It will be found that the total number of votes cast for the 128 Government candidates who stood at the last election exceeded the total number of votes cast for the 174 Opposition candidates who stood for election. [More…]
Senator Withers talked about the margin of votes by which a candidate won an electorate. [More…]
I emphasise again that if the number of votes cast for a candidate exceeds the aggregate vote of that candidate’s major opponents and he still loses the seat, how can it be said that the vote cast by a person in one electorate is reasonably on a par with that cast by a person in another electorate? [More…]
Senator Withers talked about votes being mixed up in particular bundles. [More…]
Equality of representation should be seen to be far more important than mere mathematical equality of votes. [More…]
The test of fairness is whether the party that polls a majority of votes wins a majority of seats. [More…]
He said that only once in that period, in 1954, did the Labor Party receive more than 50 per cent of the votes and not form a government. [More…]
At the last election the Labor Party received 49.3 per cent of the votes and won 51.96 per cent of the seats. [More…]
In the last election the Liberal and Country Parties received 45.6 per cent of the formal votes and won 48.03 per cent of the seats. [More…]
The figures expressed as a ratio of the percentage of seats to the percentage of votes are 1.0539 for the Labor Party and 1.0526 for the Liberal and Country Parties. [More…]
But for losing by 1 1 votes in the electorate of Stirling, the Labor Party would have won 6 seats on that percentage. [More…]
Those 17 divisions cast 1,024,333 formal votes averaging 60,254 formal votes for each division. [More…]
Excluding the division of Darling, the other 16 divisions cast 977,079 formal votes on an average of 61,067 for each division. [More…]
The 28 metropolitan divisions in New South Wales cast 1,810,858 votes or 64,673 for each division. [More…]
The value of the extra-metropolitan area votes is equal to that of 1.07 metropolitan voters or 1.05 metropolitan voters if the division of Darling is excluded. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party polled 430,476 votes or received 48 per cent of the votes for 33 seats. [More…]
The Liberal Party polled 2 10,608 votes or 22.2 per cent of the votes for 2 1 seats. [More…]
The Australian Country Party polled 181,288 votes or 20 per cent of the votes for 26 seats. [More…]
The combination of the Liberal Party and Country Party coalition votes represented 42.2 per cent of the vote for 47 seats. [More…]
The coalition Government in Queensland received 42.2 per cent of the votes for 47 seats and the Australian Labor Party received 48 per cent of the votes for 33 seats. [More…]
Did he say that to be elected he should require as many votes as are required in New South Wales or Victoria to elect a senator? [More…]
One of the important votes to be cast in this chamber will be that cast by Senator Steele Hall on this measure. [More…]
All I am saying is that the Labor Party won the last 2 elections, and won them under an electoral system which it ought not to say is weighted against it, particularly since in neither case did the Labor Party secure 50 per cent of the votes. [More…]
That is a very clear smear against the civil servants who were counting the votes and who, as far as I have seen them over the years I have been associated with them, no matter how they themselves might have voted, have been devoted civil servants. [More…]
An examination of the vote taken at page 2815 of the House of Representatives Hansard of that date shows that there were 78 votes in favour of the measure and 35 votes against it. [More…]
From where did the votes in favour of the measure come to bolster the number to 78. [More…]
Even though we might have hopes that the Government could do better in the Australian Capital Territory, surely no one doubts that it is a very formidable task to expect any one party or group to win 66 per cent of the votes, even in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
I would think that members of the Opposition would hang their heads in shame if they looked at the divisions and the way votes were recorded in the House of Representatives in the period from when the Parliament assembled on 28 February 1973 to the end of 1973. [More…]
The argument seems to be that by allowing the senators for the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory to have equal votes with existing senators who claim to represent the States, the rights of those States would be reduced disproportionately. [More…]
If, for the purposes of Territorial representation, representatives of the Territories are to come in here, they certainly cannot be permitted to come in here to diminish the proportionate value of the States’ votes- and that is the inevitable result of this Bill. [More…]
In that election, the timing of which was chosen by the Opposition, the Government obtained nearly 50 per cent of the votes throughout Australia. [More…]
None of us got here except by the votes of the Australian people. [More…]
In my capacity as chief Australian electoral officer, I wish to refute this totally uncalled for implication that a fair and proper recount of votes, and final result, in the division of Stirling, would not have been achieved without the ‘alertness’ of Liberal Party scrutineers. [More…]
1 wish to stress that the recount of votes, together with the initial count, was conducted by officials of the Australian Electoral Office with their customary thoroughness and impartiality. [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…]
My vote does not mean anything as the votes of honourable senators on this side of the House will not mean anything in regard to this Bill. [More…]
Do members of the Australian Labor Party support it, or are they sufficiently interested only to give their votes when the division is called to support their Party’s policy? [More…]
-Mr Dunstan will do everything he needs to do to capture votes in South Australia. [More…]
I think if I had agreed to leave being granted, only a simple majority would have been needed to pass the motion, whereas now, under standing order 448, votes will be needed to have the motion passed. [More…]
-1 still think that 3 1 votes would be needed. [More…]
I am not prepared to jettison the success of this motion when votes may be lost by precipitation. [More…]
I only wish that Senator Steele Hall were here at this moment so that he could understand that if he votes with the Labor Party for an urgent debate he is saying to the people of Australia: ‘I will connive, however unwittingly, with the Labor Party to ensure that there can be no rethinking within the Labor Party Caucus. ‘ [More…]
I would like to have leave of the Senate for these 3 motions to be taken together but for separate votes to be taken at the conclusion of the debate. [More…]
We do not have votes. [More…]
The level of salary will be one consideration but in point of principle what may be a greater disincentive will be the spectacle of decisions of responsible tribunals on wage fixation- an established and desirable method of removing wages from contentious debate- being set aside by the votes of either House of Parliament for insufficient or extraneous considerations. [More…]
Is it fair and reasonable to allow 10 days between the closing of nominations and election day; or is the Government doing it for some subtle purpose, so that those who are in the centres of concentrated population will be able to cast their votes very readily and others will not? [More…]
d ) When only two members are proposed and seconded as Chairman, each member present at the joint sitting shall give to the Clerk a ballot-paper, containing the name of the candidate for whom he votes, and the votes shall be counted by the Clerks at the Table; and the candidate who has the greater number of votes shall be the Chairman, and take the Chair. [More…]
When more than two members are so proposed and seconded, the votes shall be taken in like manner, and the member who has the greatest number of votes shall be the Chairman, provided he has also a majority of the votes cast; but if no candidate has such a majority, the name of the candidate having the smallest number of votes shall be excluded and a fresh ballot shall take place; and this shall be done as often as necessary until one candidate is declared to be appointed as Chairman by such majority, when such member shall take the Chair. [More…]
If, at a ballot at which no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast, two or more candidates receive an equal number of votes and no candidate receives a lesser number of votes, the Clerk shall cause another ballot to be taken. [More…]
If, in the further ballot, no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast but two or more candidates receive an equal number of votes and no Candidate receives a lesser number of votes, the Clerk shall determine by lot which of the candidates so receiving an equal number of votes shall be excluded. [More…]
Questions, other than the question that a proposed law be affirmed or the question on a motion for the suspension of a rule, shall be decided by a simple majority of the members present and voting, and, if the votes are equal, the question shall be resolved in the negative. [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-firth 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…]
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 1 972 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 16 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…]
I believe that if honourable senators and members- even those few on the Government side who think sanely and sensibly about the implications of this legislation- genuinely believe that the statement of Edmund Burke that bad laws make for the worst form of government should not be seen to be repeated by the Government in this Parliament, they should cast their votes against this measure. [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…]
I put it to the Parliament that the Government cannot have it both ways, lt 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…]
By the time the vital votes on this Bill are taken it will be apparent, in view of the expressed attitude of the Liberal-Country Party Opposition to the Bill, whether party political ideology purportedly masked under the guise of self-professed independence will prevail or whether the interests of all Australians as consumers will be safeguarded by a joinder of certain forces with the Government to destroy the reactionary and conservative opposition to the Bill. [More…]
The simple fact of the matter is that if the -honourable senator peruses the estimates for my Department she will see that no votes for grants are provided by the Treasury funds for my Department to make for that purpose. [More…]
Country people are not able to have telephones installed because there are fewer votes in the country areas. [More…]
Senator Wright has cast the wholly unwarranted aspersion that this Government has deliberately spent more on urban roads because there are more votes in urban areas. [More…]
It is true that there are more votes in urban areas, but it is not true that this Government has allocated a higher percentage of the expenditure under this Bill vis-a-vis the previous Bill to urban areas. [More…]
But it certainly was not a very sensible thing to do if it was trying to attract votes in the urban areas by bribing them with a greater allocation of road funds. [More…]
In respect of each of these elections, the detailed list of candidates forfeiting deposits; candidates’ party affiliations; and first preference votes polled is prefaced by a summary, consisting of a two-part breakdown analysis on a StatebyState andParty basis respectively. [More…]
In respect of each of the four elections the detailed list of candidates forfeiting deposits, candidates’ party affiliations, and first preference votes polled is prefaced by a Summary, consisting of a two-part break-down analysis of the number of candidates forfeiting deposits on a State-by-State and Party basis respectively. [More…]
When the rank and file meeting was finally held the decision to lift the ban was made by 20 votes to 8 votes. [More…]
Eventually, amongst the small nations, Australia was able to muster enough votes to enable Dr Evatt to be elected as the President of the United Nations. [More…]
As Senator Willesee has pointed out previously, the argument put up by the Opposition to the effect that Senator Willesee is bending towards certain countries with a view to gaining votes is quite false because these countries are not entitled to cast a vote. [More…]
He said that Senator Willesee was looking for new friends so that he could get their votes [More…]
When the matter was put to the meeting Mr Harding lost the motion 64 votes to 1. [More…]
Suggestions were made that Australia would get votes from the Soviet Union, other countries of the Soviet bloc or the developing countries in support of Senator Willesee ‘s candidature for President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1975 as a quid pro quo for the Australian Government’s de jure recognition of the incorporation of the Baltic republics into the Soviet Union. [More…]
Finally, the amalgamation is taken to be approved only where more than one-half of the members who record formal votes vote in favour of the amalgamation, provided that ballot papers are received from at least one-half of the members on the roll of voters. [More…]
An amalgamation is now to be taken as approved if, in the ballot or each of the ballots if there is more than one, more than one-half of the members who duly record formal votes in favour of the amalgamation. [More…]
After all, both the Country Party and the Democratic Labor Party were represented by quite a number of senators in this place, in addition to which the Democratic Labor Party in its own right polled a significant number of votes at the previous Senate election. [More…]
They obtained a significant number of votes in their own States. [More…]
After all, the Austraiian Labor Party received approximately the same number of first preference votes at the last general election after the double dissolution of the Parliament as the Liberal Party and the Country Party. [More…]
We received approximately the same number of votes as the Labor Party which is why we came back with the same number of senators as the Government. [More…]
Therefore, it is very difficult in mathematical terms, to work out the proportion of votes received by each party in the other States. [More…]
Even though these 2 motions are the subject of a cognate debate I take it we will have separate votes on each motion. [More…]
It is quite clear that he wants to transform the Constitutional Convention into another senatorial chamber, because no votes are taken at the Convention. [More…]
However it attempts to manipulate the figures, it did not get a majority of votes in that State. [More…]
Opposition senators have been talking a lot of nonsense and rubbish because Playford was the worst Premier that any State ever had because he controlled South Australia under a system in which his Party prevailed in government with a minority of the votes. [More…]
-We have heard a lot of nonsense from time to time from honourable senators opposite, even when they were in government, about outside interference and people being bound by votes. [More…]
They always forget that it is a traditional feature of our parliamentary party system that even Cabinet is bound by votes. [More…]
Which period is accepted will depend on the votes of the two independent senators. [More…]
It divided 4 votes to 2, and the 4 votes included my vote as a Liberal Party member of the Senate. [More…]
But he did not seem very responsible when he said in Hobart some time ago, in effect, that he was not very interested in Tasmania because there were more votes in Newcastle than there were in Tasmania. [More…]
I believe that the votes which I cast in this chamber will gain greater credibility by the public of Australia than those cast by Senator Greenwood. [More…]
If it votes against this amendment and the clause it will show that it just wants to be against the clause. [More…]
He was defeated in ballots by thousands of votes. [More…]
I suggest that if the Opposition votes against the Bill one puts beyond possible improvement the sort of industrial complexities which we have today when we should be aiming to solve many of them. [More…]
On the occasion that I forced a vote on this issue, 15 November, believe it or not, my motion attracted 14 votes. [More…]
Whether I get 14 votes on this occasion because of my advocacy or the couple I needed on a former occasion, I, as Leader of the Government in the Senate, will remain steadfast to the proposition that Camp Hill should be the site for parliament house. [More…]
The total Protestant, Anglican and other votes in favour of granting a divorce immediately or after an interval of 12 months was 71.8 per cent. [More…]
The only things it has ever done have been done with the thought of winning votes. [More…]
So when honourable senators cast their votes they will be doing so completely, absolutely and utterly according to their own views and their own approach to the Bill. [More…]
Senator Hall, as the representative of the Liberal Movement, was unable to secure nationally one per cent of the votes. [More…]
It is said that Senator Steele Hall on occasions votes with the Labor Party, which he does. [More…]
If it can be said that because Senator Steele Hall sometimes votes with the Labor Party, which he does, that makes him in some way not a member of the Opposition, what can be said about the DLPthe Party that kept the Liberal and Country Parties in office for 17 years? [More…]
However, expressed as votes by individual senators, this represents 11,571 occasions on which the 29 members of the Liberal-Country Party Opposition have not opposed the Government. [More…]
In my case there have been an additional 49 occasions on which I have given individual votes in support of Government Bills. [More…]
In order to find the number of occasions on which the LiberalCountry Party Opposition has voted for the Government, one has to multiply the votes of the 29 Liberal-Country Party senators by the number of Bills by the number of procedural matters which are decided by vote. [More…]
We are very proud to race around the Third World and recognise Russia’s sovereignty over the Baltic States to win a few votes to try to get the Presidency of the United Nations. [More…]
We are very proud to go to China and prove to the Third World that we have an interest in it, but if we really have an interest in the Third World it ought not to be measured by whether we get votes for the Presidency of the United Nations. [More…]
It was the initiative taken by Australians in the United Nations in a hostile world that helped to get through the United Nations the votes to form the state of Israel. [More…]
We say that it is all part of a shameful exercise by this Government to curry favour with a number of nations in the world with a view to securing votes to promote a person’s candidacy for the presidency of the United Nations. [More…]
I would be grateful if the Minister could say who were the persons who received invitations to that council and who were the persons who received votes at the council. [More…]
It can be- the allegation is certainly madethat it is a method of patronage and support for the Australian Labor Party because the persons in this western region commission who have had the sponsoring of the organisation are essentially there in order to ensure that by the use of money judiciously dispensed the Labor Party can secure votes for itself in the future. [More…]
Patronage is certainly a means by which votes can be secured and patronage can exist where there is no parliamentary requirement as to the terms upon which money is to be expended. [More…]
Senator Greenwood, as is his wont, has tried to extract as many base motives and evil actions as he can on the part of this Government in respect of this scheme and has suggested that it is a means of patronage whereby the Labor Party will secure votes. [More…]
I will not vote for an amendment which will make Aboriginal welfare suffer because some politician wants to gain some votes from it. [More…]
I do not know whether Australia is silent because of hope for funds from Arab sources or because of hope for positions we might obtain in the United Nations as a result of Arab votes. [More…]
Senator Missen asks whether it is a matter of getting oil money or getting votes in the United Nations. [More…]
Senator Missen raises the question of lining up votes in the United Nations. [More…]
Lining up votes is just not on. [More…]
If honourable senators look at some of the votes we have taken in the last session they will see that we have disappointed everybody at times. [More…]
On other votes we have disappointed some of our friends in the WEO Group. [More…]
I am quite sure that he would be glad if that happened, irrespective of the consequences, because from that he would be able to solicit a few votes in his home State of Victoria. [More…]
I accuse them, on a Wednesday, of an inability to shut up in the belief that their speeches will get them votes at the election. [More…]
That is the thing we made very clear in recent votes in the United Nations. [More…]
These include: optional preferential marking of ballot papers; printing of party affiliations of candidates on ballot papers; registration of political parties for purposes of indentification 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 ballot paper; 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 Officer; 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 Assistant 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. [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 elections, 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 would 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 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 applied 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 1 949- 1 974. [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 1 8 May 1 974. [More…]
But so that it can be fully understood it is necessary, I believe, to analyse what the Committee has already determined that the law should be, because of votes earlier this afternoon the Committee has established the Family Court of Australia. [More…]
Consequently the group’s deliberations and the manner in which votes are taken are not a matter of public record from which I can indicate how Mr Grenville might have voted on the resolution. [More…]
We could have the arguments now and then take the votes, one after the other without further argument. [More…]
The Committee has decided by its earlier votes that the ground for divorce should be one year’s separation. [More…]
If there is any delay in the counting of postal votes, a lot of it must lie at the foot of the postal system rather than at the foot of the electoral system. [More…]
One may say that we are also somewhat suspicious politically in regard to this proposal because it is a statistical fact that certainly over the last 20 years postal votes have favoured my side of politics, not the Government side of politics. [More…]
Having regard to the percentage of informal votes for this place sometimes, perhaps we should have symbols too. [More…]
Another argument put by the Government is that optional preferential voting will reduce the number of informal votes. [More…]
As I understand it, in the election for the House of Representatives this year the informal vote was only 1.92 percent of the total votes cast throughout Australia. [More…]
In fact, since 1900 the percentage of informal votes for House of Representatives elections has hardly moved, up or down. [More…]
As to the Government’s argument on informal votes for House of Representatives elections, I do not think that has much validity. [More…]
Turning to Senate elections, if one uses the argument that optional preferential voting will reduce the percentage of informal votes, I do not know how the Government can attempt to substantiate it. [More…]
I do not believe it is valid to take the results of an electorate here, an electorate there and an electorate somewhere else and talk about the percentage of informal votes within the electorate generally. [More…]
What one must do is look at the informal votes cast in Australia because, after all, we are talking about a Bill for an Act which will affect all electors in Australia in elections for the whole of Australia. [More…]
might have the effect of continuing to produce a fairly high informal vote, it definitely precludes the possibly greater evil of exhausted votes- that is, votes which become exhausted in the process of transfer. [More…]
one result of a system that does not require electors to vote for all candidates whose names appear in the ballot paper is that a candidate may be declared elected although the total number of votes credited to him falls short or the required quota. [More…]
At the parliamentary election in New South Wales in 1922 and 1925, the exhausted votes, which far outnumber the informal votes, were the cause of much dissatisfaction and disputation. [More…]
It is sometimes stated that if we introduce optional preferential voting for the Senate we may reduce the number of informal votes. [More…]
We find that during that time a percentage of informal votes between 4 per cent and 9 per cent. [More…]
It certainly is not any significant reduction in the rate of informal votes. [More…]
I am not going to enter into the detailed arguments about what is being done to alter the right to cast postal votes. [More…]
I can recall many malpractices occurring in order to secure votes. [More…]
I have in mind the present Labor Government in the United Kingdom which is in office after having polled 37 per cent of the votes. [More…]
This system was tried, as Senator Wood said, in Queensland in the 1930s and when it last operated there, in 1941, 1 notice that with something like 5 1 per cent of the votes the government of that day was elected with 66 per cent of the seats. [More…]
Had this sort of system prevailed for the last Federal election in Australia 49 per cent of the votes would have won 58 per cent of the seats. [More…]
The fact that came from the 1974 election was that with 49 per cent of the votes the Labor Party became the Government, having won 51 per cent of the seats. [More…]
It is possible, of course, that there happens to be a State election campaign and that my beloved friend, the Premier, with whom I converse regularly- I will not refer to him religiously tonight; he has over the last few weeks done a lot to lose that title- would adopt this sort of tinny gimmick which he would think would probably gather votes for him. [More…]
He was up in the Torres Strait Islands just last week buying votes for the Australian Labor Party in Queensland by handing out money to the councils for the Torres Strait islanders as though it was going out of style. [More…]
He was been Minister for Aboriginal Affairs for almost 18 months, but 2 weeks before an election he goes to Queensland and starts tossing money around so that he can buy some votes from the Aborigines. [More…]
He will recall that on Thursday 28 November last Senator Bonner accused him of buying votes for the Australian Labor Party in Queensland by handing out money to the councils for the Torres Strait Islanders as though it was going out of style. [More…]
Can he also inform the Senate whether Senator Bonner has ever sought financial assistance from him to be used for the welfare of the Aboriginal people in Queensland and, if so, did he consider that by agreeing to any such requests he might be leaving himself open to being accused by Senator Bonner of attempting to buy votes for the Australian Labor Party? [More…]
Whether I would be accused of trying to buy votes by acceding to Senator Bonner’s request never entered my head, nor did it enter my head that such an accusation would be made in the Torres Strait Islands where I was trying to improve the conditions of Aborigines. [More…]
I suppose that everything the Government does which is of benefit to someone could be alleged to be buying votes, but the Government- through my portfolio in particularhas a responsibility to advance the conditions of Aborigines and Islanders. [More…]
I remind him that the measure we were debating last week was not in the votes or any of the clauses of a Government measure. [More…]
In the areas of these Ministers money is used for purposes which the Labor Party regards as desirable and it is hoped thereby to buy votes. [More…]
The improvements we have made in the industrial field are said to be things we have done because we want to get votes. [More…]
It is interesting to note that in all the votes that have been taken on this tonight I could have remained out of the chamber and the results would have been the same. [More…]
We know that Senator Wood is no admirer of the Prime Minister of this country, but he is Prime Minister because of the votes of the people of Australia, twice. [More…]
Australia or even of Queensland take such comfort, from a situation where a coalition with S8.7 per cent of the votes gets 69 seats and the Australian Labor Party with 36.3 per cent of the votes gets only 1 1 seats? [More…]
The Federal Government is attempting to buy votes. [More…]
It has assumed financial responsibility for these people, so let the Federal Government pay the right price for their votes. [More…]
Talking of electorates I am reminded of the Minister for Transport (Mr Charles Jones), the honourable member for Newcastle, who made a famous statement which appealed to Tasmanians no end, that there were more votes in Newcastle than there were in Tasmania, so why worry about Tasmania. [More…]
I would think that all honourable senators can be assured that had any undercover members of the Labor Party been present in the ranks of the Liberal Party their votes would have been cast in favour of retaining Mr Snedden as Leader. [More…]
It would have been an impossible state of affairs if, having secured over one-third- 36 per cent- of the votes, the Labor Party had ended up with only one or two seats in a House of 82 members. [More…]
The Country Party has one criterion on when subsidies will apply and that is whether it will gain Country Party votes. [More…]
There are no Country Party votes in Tasmania. [More…]
Let me say, more for the benefit of the public than for the benefit of the members of this Committee of the whole, that the debate which is taking place is a free debate and the votes which are to be taken are free votes. [More…]
They would call for a division knowing that the result of it would be 55 votes to 5 votes. [More…]
But such senators called for a division because they wanted their votes recorded. [More…]
The basic principle of proportional representation is that votes cast for each party should be reflected in seats won by that party. [More…]
In order to give expression to this principle, it is necessary that in the filling of a casual vacancy, the representation of the parties should remain a reflection of the votes cast for those parties at the previous election. [More…]
On that occasion, the Australian Labor Party candidates polled 200 000 first preference votes more than their LiberalCountry Party opponents. [More…]
Murphy, received some 200 000 votes over and above the Liberal and Country Party candidates. [More…]
As I have said, at the last election in New South Wales the Labor movement secured a majority of votes over and above the Liberal-Country Party candidates in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, and it is only 7 months ago that the people of New South Wales expressed that point of view. [More…]
Despite the fact that a mere 7 months before the people of New South Wales by their votes had elected Mr Murphy and other Labor candidates to this Senate, Mr Lewis is now cutting across the expressed wish of the people of New South Wales and determining to rip up that convention and that vote. [More…]
Liberals are frightened to speak because they are bound by strict Party votes. [More…]
If honourable senators here are trying to say that no votes are taken in the Liberal Party room, that they are not held to votes, let them get up and say so. [More…]
One of the defects of proportional representation and the transfer of votes from the original papers is that if there is an election in 1974 and the casual vacancy occurs in 1975 a great deal of change in the political judgment of the electors may have occurred in that interval. [More…]
So if it is found that the Constitution is in line with the general theme that the Senate is a body in which the States have a particular interest and that the Constitution prescribes that the members of both Houses of the State Parliament sitting together shall fill a casual vacancy, it can be seen that it may be that a decision by the people’s representatives in the State Parliament would be a more appropriate interpretation of the will ofthe people in February 1975 than a transfer of votes from an election held in May 1974. [More…]
The most satisfactory way to ensure this result, the Committee considered, was by a provision in the law that any votes credited to an ex-senator be transferred to the next in line according to his ballot papers and the candidate elected by a continuation of the count would serve until the expiration of the term or until the election of a successor at the next election, whichever should first occur. [More…]
As reported in the Constitutional Review Committee’s report the Committee found it impossible to devise a provision which would allow for the transmission of votes according to party nomination. [More…]
If the States concede their constitutional power to fill a casual vacancy they could refer that power to the Parliament of the Commonwealth and enable the Commonwealth, having got rid of section 15, to go on and add to the present truncated proportional representation provisions, those provisions that would enable casual vacancies to be filled in accordance with those principles by a transfer and a recount of votes. [More…]
If so, is this a precedent which will be followed in relation to victims of any natural disaster which happens before Parliament debates and votes on the National Compensation Bill? [More…]
Early in this situation I was asked- accused really- by Senator Sir Magnus Cormack whether we were canvassing votes from the Third World group, etc. [More…]
I pointed out then that this was quite ridiculous because the Third World group does not have votes. [More…]
It would be a little like Malcolm Fraser in his bid for the leadership of the Liberal Party canvassing votes in the Labor Party. [More…]
The proposal 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 in Victoria and South Australia. [More…]
If the Government imagines that by putting up the deposits required or the percentage of votes required is going to overcome this problem it has another think coming because it will not achieve what it attempts to do. [More…]
I shouted for the bar- that was not canvassing votes, so they tell me in western countryand the honourable member was able to partake of the refreshments provided by me on that occasion. [More…]
Votes are not won by petty displays of fisticuffs; they are won on policy and in the ballot box. [More…]
People were looking for sinister implications, but the electoral officer played it according to the book and the Opposition candidate won by 4 votes. [More…]
It is a mockery to say that the average man’s vote equals the millionaire s vote, so long as the millionaire’s vote can be supplemented with a $100,000 contribution to buy television time that will influence thousands of other votes. [More…]
On that occasion 49.3 per cent of the votes gave this Government 5 1.2 per cent of the seats. [More…]
It-was defeated by a margin somewhat greater in terms of absolute numbers of votes cast than the margin by which the Opposition was defeated by the Government. [More…]
I am not going to be able to say whether he voted specifically one way or the other or how many votes were cast one way or the other. [More…]
2) and the Minerals (Submerged Lands) (Royalty) Bill 1974 are being debated cognately and I assume that separate votes will be taken on the 2 matters. [More…]
Moreover the new provisions provide for an amalgamation to be taken as having been approved if in the ballot or each of the ballots, if there is more than one ballot, more than one half of the members who recorded formal votes are in favour of the amalgamation. [More…]
What I am saying to Senator Wright is that if he votes against the second reading he is precluding the alteration of the Bill in this fashion. [More…]
The returns were as follows: For the Amalgamation Engineering Union, the yes vote, expressed as a percentage of votes cast, was 85.7 per cent and the no vote, expressed as a percentage of votes cast, was 12.7 per cent. [More…]
For the Boilermakers’ and Blacksmiths’ Society of Australia, the yes vote, expressed as a percentage of the votes cast, was 73.2 per cent and the no vote, expressed as a percentage of the votes cast, was 25.5 per cent. [More…]
For the Sheet Metal Workers Union, the yes vote, expressed as a percentage of the votes cast, was 69.9 per cent and the no vote, expressed as a percentage of votes cast, was 29.5 per cent. [More…]
-We received more votes throughout the Commonwealth for the Senate than for the other place and, strangely, the Labor Party received less votes for its Senate candidates than it did for its House of Representatives candidates. [More…]
The AIDC legislation now will be passed by the Senate, I hope- as long as the Government votes for it- and we will see the Corporation as an expanded institution with more checks on it and able to take the place it believes it can take in the [More…]
In other words, it was buying votes in constructing these medical insurance organisations. [More…]
They are buying votes and, if they are going to buy votes, I insist that they pay the right price for those votes. [More…]
Now Senator Sheil comes into this chamber and says: ‘Those were only vote-buying tactics by previous governments and by this Government and that the government subsidies were just at that level to buy votes’. [More…]
In view of votes which have been taken in the past I daresay that we will fail again. [More…]
The promise of open government- a promise that it thought would win votes- has proved as phoney as its other election promises. [More…]
I will not follow the votes through, because I have already explained them in this chamber. [More…]
The Opposition believes in a fair and equitable electoral system, one in which the party with the most votes wins the most seats. [More…]
We always collect enough votes to keep our deposit. [More…]
The Labor Party has tried to disguise the fact that this Bill would effectively deprive many people of a postal vote, without offering them any other way of having their votes counted. [More…]
The Opposition takes this basic stance: If voting is to be compulsory electors should be given every possible opportunity to have their votes counted. [More…]
Under the specious excuse of avoiding delays in counting election results, the Government would insist that all postal votes be received by the close of the poll if they are to be counted. [More…]
There are few occasions when counting of postal votes materially delays the outcome of an election; but if it does, surely these votes are vital. [More…]
We will be proposing that for each election a different coloured postal vote form be used, ensuring no party can store up forms and then solicit votes with these forms. [More…]
Donkey votes come about because people do not understand the system and do not understand how it works. [More…]
One can imagine being a polling clerk at a small booth where one can expect only 40 votes in all. [More…]
At the last Federal election less than one year ago, 5 1 per cent of the seats in the House of Representatives were gained by the Australian Labor Party with 49 per cent of the votes. [More…]
Postal voting, it is suggested in this Bill, should be such that no votes will be counted that are not received by the closing of the polls on the Saturday, if that be the day of the election. [More…]
This means that the period of 10 days which has been the normal time outside which it is not allowable for such votes to be received is to be changed. [More…]
I do not want to labour this particular point, but I do want to suggest that hundreds of thousands of Australians are not in the spectator group of the community and do in fact enjoy playing bowls, cricket, football, golf or whatever, and to these people, I say quite seriously, this is an option that is being taken away from them- the option of coming back after 6 p.m. and having until 8 p.m. to register their votes. [More…]
As to the question of the cut-off time for votes after an election, if there is to be some malpractice or some honest misunderstanding with regard to the votes in transit, that will certainly happen in those 10 days after an election. [More…]
If we were to apply to a postal ballot for a trade union election the safeguards that exist for postal votes in our electoral system of the moment, there could be resorts to all kinds of rorts. [More…]
I do not say that postal votes are the be all and end all ingredients of victory in an election where the results are very close. [More…]
There were some misgivings on the part of the Labor Party at the number of postal votes which seemed to indicate a manifestation of Party loyalty out of all proportion to the trend of voting in metropolitan Sydney. [More…]
Suppose the Opposition was to say to us: We do not like your idea of having a cut-off time for postal votes’. [More…]
Unquestionably, the facts have shown that there is a preponderance of postal votes which go to the Opposition and which during the later counting, in some cases, tend to swing seats towards the Opposition. [More…]
So I had a pretty high level crew at that time, and each one of them and the others who joined me on those many occasions would agree with me when I say that many of the proposals incorporated in this Bill are those which used to be indicated to us by people coming to cast their votes and encountering some of the difficulties and problems associated with the casting of votes and who observed very strongly to us that it was time the electoral laws of this country were brought up to date. [More…]
I come now to the rather vexed question of the earlier deadline for the receipt of postal votes. [More…]
I think I can do no better in my observations on this point than to indicate to the Senate that research around the world has led to the conclusion that we are the only country which allows postal votes to be received after the time of closing of the polls. [More…]
The order of election of senators is based upon the obtaining of a quota, and that quota cannot be determined until all the votes are in. [More…]
I think that on the basis of reason there ought to be a concession which will allow the lodgment of postal votes before but not later than the close of the polls. [More…]
But we are a democracy catering for everybody and everybody should have an equal opportunity of recording their vote as do the great bulk of the people- by going along to a polling booth and recording their votes. [More…]
I know it is quite easy to say we should cut down the hours for voting but, when all is said and done, as a democracy our aims should be to get every vote possible and therefore whilst it might take a couple of hours longer than some people want I think that in the main the extra votes that come in really suit the true democratic purpose of this country. [More…]
As to preferential voting, here again I know that it is very easy to say: ‘Why force people to give preference votes?’ [More…]
Informal votes will occur at any time. [More…]
Whether the system is a straight-out first past the post system, whether it is an optional preference system or whether it is a compulsory preference system, informal votes will still be cast. [More…]
At present postal votes must be received within 10 days after the close of the poll. [More…]
Therefore we should cast the net widely and make the voting system elastic so that notwithstanding the faults of the voters we get as many votes as possible, and that when the election result is announced it is what the people of the country really intend- a government of their choice elected to govern this country for the following 3 years. [More…]
If they cannot get an absentee vote, their votes are lost. [More…]
We must get the most votes possible. [More…]
To get the correct decision for the government of the country for the ensuing term we should make the recording of votes as easy as possible. [More…]
I think this system has lent itself to the manipulation of votes. [More…]
We are well aware of the actions of one gentleman who immediately after an election is held begins compiling applications for postal votes for the next election. [More…]
He was first off the mark and had an advantage over others from his activities in helping people to apply for postal votes. [More…]
Another reform is the prohibiting of the listing of names of persons who apply for postal votes, except in certain specified circumstances. [More…]
But for the alertness of Liberal Party scrutineers the Labor Party would have won 60 per cent of the seats in my State of Western Australia with only 46 per cent of the votes. [More…]
What Senator Withers was trying to imply was that this Government under Mr Daly, the Minister responsible, had by some manner or means instructed the electoral officers to manipulate the votes in that electorate so that the candidate from Senator Withers’ Party, Mr Viner, would not win the seat. [More…]
It needs a safe result in which the votes of all electors are considered. [More…]
It needs a result in which the people, by their votes, say who they do not want to be elected as well as who they do want to be elected. [More…]
I remind the Senate once again that with the present system the political party gaining the majority of votes in Australia can form a government because it will obtain the majority of seats in the Parliament. [More…]
These people are not impressed by any argument that counting of votes can commence 2 hours earlier. [More…]
But if the polls close at 6 p.m., I have been informed by the Bureau of Meteorology that for some 27 weeks of the year -more than 6 months of the year- 6 p.m. will be before sunset and people of these 2 religious faiths will be prevented from personally attending the polling places and casting their own votes. [More…]
If there is any delay in processing the application for the votes or in returning the votes then electoral justice is lessened. [More…]
Well, under this Bill the Government has decided that it is going to set an earlier deadline for the return of postal votes and it will insist upon their being returned direct to the respective returning officer. [More…]
An earlier deadline for the return of postal votes has no justification except that it will lead to this more rapid result which is seen by the Labor Party as such a valuable aim in itself. [More…]
Any kind of postal delay, any kind of bureaucratic failure, any delay in delivering postal vote application forms, any overloading of a divisional returning office with work could result in the disfranchisement of those seeking postal votes. [More…]
I remind the Senate that full preferential voting in a Senate election ensures that there are sufficient votes remaining late in the count and available to elect the proper number of senators. [More…]
Whilst this latter requirement may have the effect of continuing to produce a fairly high informal vote it definitely precludes the possibly greater evil of exhausted votes, that is, votes which become exhausted in the process of transfer. [More…]
In this connection it is pointed out that at the 1922 and 1925 parliamentary elections in New South Wales the exhausted votes, which in number exceeded the informal votes, were the cause of much dissatisfaction and disputation. [More…]
We have in this country electoral history which tells us that exhausted votes do occur and that they can complicate the correct decision about who has been elected and who has not, and they can be the cause of much dissatisfaction and disputation. [More…]
Nothing in the search for speedier results justifies taking away the rights of citizens to vote and to have their votes counted. [More…]
The Opposition apparently believes that the present system, which particularly in Senate elections gives rise to an average of about 10 per cent informal votes, should be retained. [More…]
The Opposition would preserve this high rate of informal vote while the Government ‘s aim is to ensure that the percentage of informal votes is reduced and that people whose intentions are clear are afforded the maximum opportunity to have those intentions translated into a valid vote. [More…]
Again this question boils down to striking a balance between the necessity to give members of the public a reasonable opportunity to place their votes and the burdens placed on the polling officers because of counting procedures and so forth. [More…]
1 wish to refer to the question of postal votes. [More…]
-Before the Committee votes on this question I think [More…]
The only people who will lose that deposit and will be penalised are those who poll a very low number of votes. [More…]
This is one of the necessary provisions for the Government if it is to limit the capacity of people to lodge postal votes. [More…]
Thus it appears that the Opposition proposes to add a system of automatic issuing of postal votes to persons in the larger country divisions who register as general postal voters. [More…]
Under the existing postal voting arrangements, applications for postal votes may be made after the tenth day prior to the issue of the writ, thus allowing generally about 6 weeks before polling day. [More…]
So far as Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson’s argument is concerned, true it is I said that under the existing postal voting arrangements applications for postal votes may be made after the tenth day prior to the issue of the writ, thus allowing, generally speaking, a period of about 6 weeks before the actual polling date. [More…]
There are local returning officers and divisional officers to which people may apply and get their postal votes very quickly indeed. [More…]
This clause is intended to prevent persons from inspecting lists of those people who apply for postal votes. [More…]
The Opposition is opposing clause 29 which deals with inspecting applications for postal votes at divisional offices. [More…]
At the present time section 89 (3) of the Act provides that all applications for postal votes shall be open for public inspection at all convenient times during office hours from and including the third day after polling day until the election can be no longer questioned. [More…]
It has been found that this entitlement has been misused by certain persons who list the names of electors who recorded postal votes and retain such a list until just prior to the next election, when postal vote applications are forwarded to those electors without really knowing whether they are still entitled or desire to vote by post. [More…]
The effect of this clause, if inserted, would be that postal votes would have to be delivered or posted direct to the relevant divisional returning officer. [More…]
Clause 30 and I think clauses 31 and 32, relate to postal votes. [More…]
A 10-day period for the return of postal votes to the divisional returning officer for the division concerned would be retained and electors would continue to be able to transmit their postal votes to another divisional returning officer, to an assistant returning officer or to a presiding officer, and provided one of those officers receives the envelope containing the vote before the close of the poll, the divisional returning officer for the division concerned must await its receipt for inclusion in the scrutiny. [More…]
The fact that Senator Douglas McClelland said that the fate of a government may depend on these votes is all the more reason that they ought to be counted. [More…]
An inference to be drawn from his remarks- I hope I am not doing him an injustice because I admire him too much as a person- is that it is far better to determine the fate of a government by not counting all the votes than determining it by counting all the votes. [More…]
We should continue to accept their votes. [More…]
Clause 32 deals with postal votes and seeks to amend section 96 of the Act. [More…]
It provides that the divisional returning officer shall admit to the scrutiny only those envelopes containing postal votes received by him up to the close of the poll. [More…]
This again is related to the Government’s proposal that postal votes should be returned direct to the divisional returning officer for the division concerned and be received by him by the close of the poll. [More…]
Some people might have voted that way deliberately and, if people deliberately vote from the top to the bottom of the ballot paper, I think it is a bit of ruddy cheek for members of political parties to say that they are donkeys or that they have cast donkey votes and that they do not know what they are doing. [More…]
If he wishes to write some biblical quotation across it, if he wishes to pass comments on the candidates whose names appear on it- many informal votes result from that practice- or if he wishes to do nothing with the ballot paper, that is his business. [More…]
Senator Withers knows that political scientists can substantiate claims that a certain percentage of votes at an election goes to the candidate whose name is first on the list. [More…]
It was always interesting to observe that in comparable electorates like Barton and St George the DLP candidate in one of the electorates whose name started with ‘A’ received about 2 per cent more votes than the DLP candidate in the other electorate whose name started with ‘R’. [More…]
Of course, there is a simple solution to that problem, and that is for them to apply for postal votes. [More…]
They have made arrangements for postal votes when an election is held in hours when they cannot attend in person. [More…]
So Senator Baume cannot say that the people of his faith or of the Seventh Day Adventist faith will be disenfranchised if polling closes at 6 p.m. because it is quite in order for them to have postal votes. [More…]
Postal votes would be required only when elections are held in the time of the year when daylight hours are longer and the sun sets after 6 p.m. [More…]
It is not as Senator Withers would say and as he has said- that the returning officer should engage another group of people to count the votes after the booth closes at 8 ‘clock. [More…]
He also pointed out that, even though there is a difference between polling hours in a Federal poll and a State poll in Queensland, there have not been fewer votes cast in State elections than in Federal elections; so he has completely answered that argument. [More…]
In this democracy, everybody should have an equal right in the recording of votes. [More…]
-We on this side of the chamber are being accused of trying to deny people votes because we decided that we would like to have 6 o’clock closing at polling booths. [More…]
This is done to stop the workers from casting their votes at all. [More…]
The people concerned have been able to vote at elections by vitue of their right to cast postal votes. [More…]
We can say, in effect, that we will keep the booths open for 24 hours because certain people in our community must go along and get postal votes as they cannot vote within the 12 hours that are allocated to them. [More…]
1 do not believe that the suggestion that there be made available to these people literally thousands more postal votes is a suitable solution. [More…]
The Government’s view is that polling hours from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., together with the absentee and postal voting facilities, provide ample opportunities for persons to record their votes. [More…]
Consequently, the progressive results of the counting of the first preference votes for which the nation is waiting will be known much earlier on the night of polling day. [More…]
If any person so elected and returned contrary to the provisions of this Part sits or votes in the Council, he shall be l iable to a penalty of Two hundred pounds to be recovered by any person who sues for the same in any court of competent jurisdiction. [More…]
That, unless otherwise ordered, the votes in the Schedule be considered in the same groupings and order as in Estimates Committees A, B, C, D, E, F and G respectively. [More…]
If the amendment moved by Senator Withers is carried the staff at hospitals will be asked to stay on duty for those extra hours to cope with votes which in my opinion will probably already have been cast because the people in charge of the mobile polling booths will ensure that the votes are cast. [More…]
Section 123 ( 1) (a) of the principal Act states that when an elector has a ballot paper for a Senate election he shall place the number 1 in the square opposite the name of the candidate for whom he votes as his first preference, and shall place the numbers, 2, 3, 4 and so on as the case requires in the squares opposite the names of all the remaining candidates so as to indicate the order of his preference for them. [More…]
The argument is that in that election the number of informal votes was excessive. [More…]
I will quote to honourable senators the number of informal votes cast at various elections since proportional representation was introduced in 1949. [More…]
There has been a lot of interesting folk law in regard to informal votes. [More…]
It saw a fall in the votes of both the major parties which were then in government and in Opposition and quite an unusual rise in the votes of the minor parties and the Independents. [More…]
One could extend that argument and say that there are too many informal votes which are not counted. [More…]
Are the major parties to be elected to office or sent into opposition on the votes of the least intelligent in the communitythose who need mark the ballot paper with only the number 1 in a House of Representatives election and with the numbers 1 to 5 when voting in a Senate election? [More…]
I do not know whether any real evidence has been produced as to the cause of informal votes. [More…]
I would not attempt to put a percentage on the number, but I believe that quite a number of informal votes are deliberately informal. [More…]
Then there is the other informal vote- the person who votes 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, and 5 because he becomes confused. [More…]
I do not think there is any real evidence as to what causes the informal votes. [More…]
I put it quite frankly that optional preferential voting in a proportional voting system is slower to count than a full preferential voting system because when the quotas have been fixed one must make certain how one takes out the exhausted votes. [More…]
The percentage of informal votes cast at [More…]
It does not speed up the poll, nor will it reduce the number of informal votes. [More…]
I think we would have had a lot more formal votes if the people who were compelled to go to the polls had to vote only for the number of candidates required to fill the vacant positions. [More…]
I have taken out some figures of the informal votes at the Senate election in May last year. [More…]
The total number of informal votes for the whole of Australia was 788 126. [More…]
I am indebted to Senator McLaren who told us that it will reduce the number of informal votes. [More…]
For the Labor case to have any validity the Government must be able to show us an example where a voting alteration has led to an alteration in the result- a smaller number of informal votes. [More…]
If we look at the results that have been obtained around Australia it appears that it is not the number of candidates or the exhaustive preferential system which affects the rate of informal votes. [More…]
The proper casting of votes is a road to power. [More…]
What does the Government intend to do to overcome the problem of exhausted votes? [More…]
I am sure that the Minister will agree that wherever optional preferential voting has been used and wherever there has been a quota for the election of senators- even going back to the New South Wales experience in the 1920s- exhausted votes have meant that quotas could no longer be met for the later candidates to be elected. [More…]
Government’s plan is to cope with the problem of exhausted votes and inadequately filled quotas. [More…]
It produces circumstances such as those in Great Britain in which 36 per cent of the votes provided a government. [More…]
The optional preferential system was tried in Queensland once upon a time and on that occasion, if my memory serves me correctly, approximately 5 1 per cent of the votes produced 66 per cent of the seats. [More…]
Let us assume that candidate A receives 45 per cent of the votes, candidate B receives 30 per cent and candidate C receives 25 per cent. [More…]
It was ultimately won by the Country Party which gained just over 30 per cent of the votes. [More…]
At least it is fairly clear that there is a correlation between the number of candidates and the number of informal votes. [More…]
I am surprised it has not occurred to members of the Opposition that one of the reasons for introducing an optional preferential system is that people will still be able to record a valid vote without being compelled to number their preferences all the way down to number 73 and to record quite meaningless votes or be forced to record quite meaningless preferences when they have no real preference at all between candidates No. [More…]
I believe that we should endeavour to make formal as many votes as possible and I believe that the Government’s move will have the effect of making more votes formal. [More…]
As I understand it, the Government’s argument is that, because of the high number of candidates, under the optional preference system where one votes only from one to five the amount of the informal vote will fall. [More…]
I understand that a reduction in informal votes has been the Government’s principal argument for the introduction of preferential voting. [More…]
He was looking at the amendments relating to the counting of votes. [More…]
Senator Baume made great play of the fact that, in relation to informal votes, although there had been 74 candidates on one occasion, there had been previous years when the number of informal votes was higher. [More…]
There was a very vigorous campaign conducted by the Electoral Office and I think that campaign held down the figure for informal votes to 12 per cent or so. [More…]
I put it to the Committee, in all fairness, that it must be faster to check the tens of thousands of votes in New South Wales by checking from one to five than it is to check from one to seventy-four- and there is no guarantee that the number of candidates will be held down to seventy-four, in view of the amendments that the Opposition has thrown out. [More…]
This clause proposes an amendment to section 123 of the principal Act, which deals with the method of marking of votes at a Senate election. [More…]
Compare our position with that of the ordinary elector who goes along and votes for senators. [More…]
There is a correlation between the number of candidates and the number of informal votes. [More…]
There would be the same sort of atmosphere in the States other than New South Wales, where there was a high publicity drive which did hold down the informal vote to 12.3 per cent; but even in that State there is a correlation between the number of candidates and the informal votes. [More…]
In New South Wales there were 1 9 Senate candidates and the percentage of informal votes was 10.08 per cent. [More…]
It sets out how one votes under optional preferential voting. [More…]
Examples would be optional preferential voting, Party affiliations on ballot papers and an earlier close off time for the receipt of postal votes. [More…]
Unfortunately there is often in public men a timidity that they may offend someone, may lose some votes here or may do something else, but so far as I am concerned it is a case of making a decision on whether it is right or wrong. [More…]
Has the Government received representations from the Queensland Conservation Council protesting at the votes cast by Australia’s representative, an officer of the Department of Agriculture, at the 1974 International Whaling Commission meetings? [More…]
There is no automatic relationship between the total votes, but there is an automatic relationship between the appropriations provided in the Advance to the Treasurer. [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…]
As I have pointed out previously, with less than 50 per cent of the first preference votes the Government was able to win office in 1972 and to retain office in 1974. [More…]
What will alter the balance between the parties is that one party or the other will gain a far greater percentage of the votes than it gained on the last occasion. [More…]
He substantiated his argument by a most peculiar thesis which is that as long as the result overall in Australia produces a percentage of votes for a party in accordance with the general overall Australian content of Liberal Party, Labor Party, National Country Party or other voters, it is a just scheme. [More…]
This was highlighted by our opponents of the then Liberal Country League which represents the view of Senator Withers that there should not be electoral equality between the country and the city and that some additional weighting and value ought to be given to country votes. [More…]
I reiterate that it was one of the most intensive campaigns that South Australia has seen and the party standing for one vote one value received 46 per cent of the votes in the first count and the then Liberal Country League received 29 per cent of the vote. [More…]
He knew that the redistribution as proposed will take votes from his electoral district and give them to the division of Denison. [More…]
It is opposed on those grounds by a number of sitting members in Tasmania- the ones who will lose some votes and the ones whose electors will be inconvenienced. [More…]
In other words Mr Howard was saying that on the basis of a one party preferred analysis it would be proper for the Labor Party, polling 48.7 per cent of the votes, to win 44.5 per cent of the seats and the Liberal Party, polling 51.3 per cent of the votes, to win 55.5 per cent of the seats. [More…]
Senator Withers has argued that it is quite appropriate now for the Labor Party, on a one party preferred system, with just under 52 per cent of the votes to obtain just over 52 per cent of the votes. [More…]
Moreover, the honourable member for Gwydir, Mr Hunt, disagreed with the honourable member for Bennelong, not on a value judgment about what does or does not constitute a proper and fair result for a particular number of votes polled, but on the facts of what would happen as a result of a 3 per cent swing. [More…]
1 do not know how the members of the Opposition reconcile that contradiction in the arguments put by their 2 parties; that is, one claims that a party polls 45 per cent of the votes and wins 66 seats and another says the same party polls more than that and wins 59 seats. [More…]
It is not my duty to advocate that the honourable member for La Trobe (Mr Lamb) should be entrenched in his seat with a certain percentage of the votes, whereas in the last election he just scraped through. [More…]
We find that the ruling Party in this Parliament at present can be entrenched in a majority of seats with 48 per cent of the votes. [More…]
When we examine the redistribution we find that if the Labor Party lost some of its votes, if it polled only 48 per cent of the popular vote, it could continue to hold 53 per cent of the seats. [More…]
The Liberal and Country Parties could obtain more than 50 per cent of the votes in New South Wales and could do no better than win 47 per cent of the seats. [More…]
It is the essence of a gerrymander that a change in the popular vote does not remove a government which fails to get a majority of votes. [More…]
Senator Baume indicated that 54.9 per cent of the votes in New South Wales produced for the Labor Party 56 per cent of the seats. [More…]
If we go further afield to the Australian scene we find that 49 per cent of the votes produced 5 1 per cent of the seats for the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
In spite of the somewhat cynical remarks of the Minister for Services and Property, Mr Daly, from time to time when he refers to gaining votes for cars, sheep, haystacks and so forth there is no doubt that behind it all there is in the Minister a determination, electorally if necessary, to destroy the National Country Party. [More…]
I want to make it quite clear that the sort of redistribution that is proposed in New South Wales would bring about a situation in which, in round figures, 45 per cent of the votes would bring the Labor Party to government and 55 per cent of the votes would be necessary to bring the Liberal-National Country Party force into government. [More…]
If there is to be one vote one value the party or parties which command a majority of votes must win a majority of seats. [More…]
Every one of the distributions done in our time meant that the party or parties that gained a majority of votes would get a majority of seats. [More…]
So by its skill of penmanship the Australian Labor Party proposes that the Party should gain 4 seats with no more votes. [More…]
Is it one vote one value when 52 per cent of the votes will produce 64.4 per cent of the seats? [More…]
As Senator Scott so ably said, they have not given one vote one value to the country areas, but 6 city votes are equivalent to 7 country votes. [More…]
I repeat that the electors have not changed their votes with regard to this balance; the map makers have changed the balance despite the electors. [More…]
Of course, it confers an enormous advantage upon the Labor Party if its votes are spread and spread widely while the votes of the Liberal and Country Parties are herded together. [More…]
There has been a stacking of votes in the country. [More…]
Where is the one vote one value principle in the fact that, as I have said, the votes of 7 country voters will equal the votes formerly of 6 country voters?. [More…]
Where is the one vote one value principle when in a short and measurable period of time the Grayndlers and the Sydneys of this world will have the votes of 5 of their voters equal to the votes of 7 voters in certain other electorates. [More…]
Despite the fact that the Liberal and Country Parties polled a majority of the votes twice out of three times in each of those 2 decades they were kept out of government. [More…]
I suppose that if we were to do that the people in the Pilbara area would have 10 votes to every one else ‘s one vote because there is more productivity there than in any other place in Australia. [More…]
When I was younger I used to hear the argument that people of greater intelligence and people with more money should have greater weight placed on their votes than was placed on the votes of ordinary mortals like myself who were not born into the world with these sorts of things. [More…]
The interviewer asked Sir Gordon Chalk: ‘Do you believe that people in the country should get four, five or six votes to everyone else’s one?’ [More…]
Senator Sheil must recall that over the years the National Party has dominated the Liberal Party and the State of Queensland with 19 per cent of the total votes. [More…]
If the Labor Party wanted to win a majority of seats in the Queensland Parliament it would need to receive about 56 per cent or 57 per cent of the total votes. [More…]
It canvassed votes in order to get a gentleman from the Mareeba area on the No. [More…]
The members of his Party hoped like hell that an Aboriginal would not get the votes. [More…]
Senator Sir Magnus Cormack told the Senate that Dr Allende was elected with 34 per cent of the votes. [More…]
When he was elected ultimately he was elected with over 60 per cent of the votes because the Christian Democratic Party supported him in the run-off election. [More…]
If there is to be an amalgamation, we believe that by all means it should be encouraged, but it should be an amalgamation for which the membership votes in favour. [More…]
Questions arising at a meeting of the Council shall be determined by a majority of the votes of the members present and voting. [More…]
The member presiding at a meeting of the Council has a deliberative vote and, in the event of an equality of votes, also has a casting vote. [More…]
That is the miserable Government that would toady to a section who wants political votes at the expense of the national interest. [More…]
They know full well they have the votes in this situation. [More…]
They know they have the votes, and they can laugh about it. [More…]
If any votes are to be won, they have got them. [More…]
I am sure that Senator McAuliffe expects some additional votes out of this matter. [More…]
He should not humbug the country because he wants some votes. [More…]
He is already counting the votes. [More…]
I take particular exception to the remark that the Government is trying to win votes by this legislation. [More…]
To win votes from about 5 per cent of the work force? [More…]
The Government seems to be able to find an extraordinary amount of money for other sporting organisations throughout Australia- I gather to attract votes for a possible election in the future. [More…]
I ask: Will the Government be trying to buy votes by suddenly offering support and assistance to meet the problems of Bass after Vh years of neglect? [More…]
As a result of that occurrence, the majority of the honourable member for Braddon in another place increased by some 10 000 votes from some hundreds of votes. [More…]
Both the motion of the Attorney-General and that of the Leader of the Opposition were negatived on tied votes on 2 1 September 1 974. [More…]
I do not think we need to go into the statistics of the percentage of votes polled by each of the parties at the last election. [More…]
Those divisions do not include the free votes that were taken in relation to the Family Law Bill. [More…]
In the course of canvassing for votes at a late stage of the campaign in or about February 1974 two members associated with the team which Egan and I were promoting namely Francis Anthony Shanahan and Lloyd Grove were apparently seen by Commonwealth Police to engage in conduct which led to them being charged with offences under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act by interfering with a ballot. [More…]
That is true, but one hardly votes for the suspension of Standing Orders if one does not intend to vote for the subsequent motion. [More…]
That is something that has not been abused and I think the right to have recorded how one votes or how somebody else votes on a particular question is one which should be preserved. [More…]
So far I have not heard of any votes of thanks being passed by any of the insurance companies; nor, indeed, when they have been talking about creeping socialism, have I heard them saying that this was an aspect of it which they deplored. [More…]
Will the Bill stop the Government going out and trying to buy votes? [More…]
But the taxpayer paid for the Government to run around buying up votes. [More…]
What Mr Daly wants is freedom for the Government to use taxpayers’ money to buy votes and limitations on everyone else so that they cannot compete, even though their funds are provided voluntarily. [More…]
It is easy to say in this context that what I am putting is that if people have the money they will win the votes. [More…]
RSL blast will cost one million votes [More…]
Let us look for votes elsewhere ‘. [More…]
The reason, presumably, is that proportionately there are few people involved and anyway the Government does not think it can get their votes. [More…]
-In rising to support the Budget I point out to Senator Baume that the Australian Labor Party has never had to resort to gimmicks to get votes in elections. [More…]
Recently we saw, too, the most savage increases in the Australian National Line freight rates that anyone can remember when when Mr There - Are - More - Votes - In - Newcastle - Than - Tasmania - Jones approved those ANL freight rate increases. [More…]
It has adopted the old style tactics of merely sideswiping at this item, that item and the other item and picking out comparatively small items and criticising the Government for overspending in one direction or underspending in another, merely to try to capitalise on the votes that might be influenced of those who are interested in the matters that are the subject of the criticism. [More…]
I think this Government realises that there are very few votes in country areas, so I would sum it up by saying ‘no vote, no value’. [More…]
I think it is also a disgrace to the memory of Senator Milliner that the Premier of Queensland could not, at least out of respect for Senator Milliner, appoint a man who is qualified, a man who went before the electorate, a man who missed out on becoming a senator in his own right by a mere handful of 4000 votes out of many hundreds of thousands of votes. [More…]
There has been a great deal of comment in the last few months in particular and over the last few years in general concerning the propriety of an Upper House such as the Senate, that is not properly based on the electors of Australia but based for its elective purposes on the population of States, which has no regard to any particular weight and value of votes, taking certain action. [More…]
I was about to say when I was interrupted that apparently the new expert would give the right to a fragment of a party in the lower House, by withdrawing 4 or 5 votes to a junta or a party, to cross the benches today and to establish a new party and so constitutionally cause the Government to go to the people. [More…]
Statement showing results of the scrutiny of first preference votes (voting figures) in respect of polling places and of postal, absent and section votes (recorded in Election Form 62) are available at the Australian Electoral Office for 1969, 1972 and 1974 House of Representatives elections and 1970 Senate elections. [More…]
These figures show the result of the poll at each polling booth, except those booths polling less than 100 votes. [More…]
Votes recorded at booths with less than 100, arc amalgamated with other booths in order to avoid the possibility of a violation of the secrecy of the poll. [More…]
Counting of votes is undertaken only at those polling places which have been designated as counting centres. [More…]
The decisions taken by the Government will be, as always, in accordance with what it believes will be in the best interests of the rural sector and not just for the purpose of winning a few short term votes. [More…]
He did not tell us that the votes the Party lost in the main went to the very virile Party of his opponent in South Australia, Senator Hall. [More…]
These Bills endeavour to put value back into people’s votes. [More…]
It seems rather banal now to talk about democracy and what has happened to it, but when people are appointed to the Senate at the whim of a State Premier rather than by means of the votes of the people in that State being followed it makes democracy look rather sick. [More…]
The seat of Diamond Valley has 86 000 votes and the seat of Wimmera has 49 000 votes, a difference of 43 per cent, and Wimmera is not all that far from civilisation. [More…]
In Victoria there are seats like Burke, which have 83 000 votes, and seats like Mallee, which have 49 500 votes, a difference of 41 per cent. [More…]
There are seats like Holt with 80 000 votes and Wannon with 53 000 votes, a difference of 34 per cent; La Trobe with 86 000 votes and Indi with 54 000 votes, a difference of 33 per cent; Bruce with 77 000 votes and Melbourne Ports with 55 000 votes, a difference of 29 per cent. [More…]
None of those places are so far from civilisation that they need those additional votes. [More…]
That idea has been canvassed around this country for a long time, and the Government insists that a vast number of people in Australia do not believe that their votes should be of less value, should be worth half or one-third or one-fifth of votes in other electorates. [More…]
These Bills endeavour to make the votes of everybody equal. [More…]
Party is concerned with arranging for votes for sheep and goats. [More…]
Of course, that may be the view of honourable senators opposite, it may be the view of Mr Daly and it may be attractive to his particular type of sense of humour, but the facts are that this redistribution which Mr Daly promotes with such a measure of urgency month after month is a redistribution which would establish in the Australian scene a necessity for a Liberal-National Country Party coalition to achieve 55 per cent of the votes in order to attain government and would enable the Labor Party to achieve government with some 45 per cent of the vote. [More…]
We know that a person gaining only 26 per cent or 27 per cent of the votes can win an electorate. [More…]
He was able to remain in office on a minority of votes for so many years that it did not matter. [More…]
In the election before the last one something like- in round figures- 9000 votes were needed to elect a member of Parliament from the Liberal Party, something like 6000 votes were needed to elect a member of Parliament from the Country Party, and something like 14 000 votes were needed to elect a member of Parliament from the Labor Party. [More…]
For 3 years this great upholder of the freedom of the country, this great upholder of the freedom of the electoral laws was able to cling to power as the leader of the majority party because he was able to secure at the previous poll the total of 19 per cent of the votes. [More…]
But it is again significant to note that even though the Opposition Party in the State House, which is the Labor Party, has 1 1 members- there are a couple of rag-tags amongst the Independents who are associated with and, of course, support the Liberal Party all the time- as a result of an electoral shift the Premier of great honour whom I mentioned a few moments ago and who was able to get only around 28 per cent or 29 per cent of the votes was still the leader of the majority party. [More…]
But our dishonest political opponents thieve votes, thieve power and thieve office by manipulating the electors. [More…]
Nobody on this side of politics will challenge you because you are able, with your handful of votes, to dominate us in this Parliament.’ [More…]
This power hungry man, this Premier who remains in power on a small percentage handful of the votes, is in the situation in which he is able to thumb his nose at authority, thumb his nose at convention, thumb his nose at the Constitution and thumb his nose at the law. [More…]
If the Senate does that, the Government might try to muster sufficient votes to get the measures through at a joint sitting. [More…]
We have heard examples, this afternoon of a man who gets no more than 20 per cent of the vote in an entire State- one out of five votes- and yet becomes the Premier of that State because he draws the map in such a way as to ensure he becomes the Premier. [More…]
That is the value which the Country Party is trying to put forward that votes should have. [More…]
In fact, it exists to express the fact that a majority of votes will win a majority of seats. [More…]
Let me recite this simple situation: In 2 decades of Liberal and Country Party government the boundaries were so honest that you got a majority of the seats with a majority of the votes. [More…]
Is it not a fact that the optional preferential voting system is a device to wreck the system of one vote one value and that in fact under such a system minority votes need not have one value? [More…]
Is it not a fact that under such a system majority party votes shall always have one value and shall always be counted, but minority votes will be counted or not, depending upon the whim of the particular elector who marks or does not mark the ballot paper. [More…]
One vote in Mr Daly’s electorate would have the value of 4 votes in Mr Cadman ‘s electorate. [More…]
But I say that under our regime there was never any question but that a party which got a majority of the votes would get a majority of the seats. [More…]
I repeat that the Government hopes to ensure that at an election the 127 seats will be so distributed that a majority of votes gives it a majority of seats. [More…]
I have been horrified to live in a State which until 1965 was under the control of a State Labor government which corruptly denied a vote to the people, which denied postal votes, and which drew boundaries in such a way that those honourable senators who know Goulburn, for example, will know that the State Labor Government drew on a map a shape like a cow’s teat down to Captain’s Flat to take in that area. [More…]
1 city votes. [More…]
In Mr Daly’s seat, and in seats like that, one Labor vote came dangerously close to equalling 2 Liberal votes elsewhere. [More…]
Senator Carrick said that a country member of parliament needs some leeway in the weighting of votes so that he can service his district. [More…]
It is a denial by the Liberal Party of the opportunities that stretch out before it to refuse to accept the right that it has to take a larger share of the national Parliament and possibly to deny the Country Party some of its votes in this House and in the House of Representatives by making more certain that the Country Party’s representation in the Lower House is related in percentage terms to the percentage of votes that it gets in the community. [More…]
He appears to believe that if the votes of country people have more value than the votes of the city people then in some way, which he failed to explain, that would decentralise the population geographically. [More…]
In other words, the votes of those people who lived in the city of Adelaide were worth only 25 per cent of the votes of the people who lived in the rural areas. [More…]
But people cast their votes in a number of confusing circumstances. [More…]
Had about 1000 votes in 3 electorates gone another way we would have had a different government. [More…]
Following the 1974 election the number of votes needed by the Opposition to capture Wilmot was only 3 per cent. [More…]
It is obvious that if an election were held tomorrow in Bass the Labor Party would get fewer votes than it did then. [More…]
But the effect of the redistributionthat is how I concluded the sentence, had Senator Everett been listening- is to transfer effectively some Labor votes from Franklin to Denison, making the position such that instead of a 3 per cent swing being needed by the Liberal Party to win Denison under the present situation, a 5 per cent swing would be needed by” the Liberal Party to win Denison under the redistribution. [More…]
I think that Mr Sherry wisely would not want a redistribution because he could see some of his Labor votes going to the Denison electorate. [More…]
Because of the way in which the electorate is going in Tasmania, I believe that at the next election the swing in Tasmania will be such that it does not really matter how many Labor votes are transferred from Franklin to Denison. [More…]
I think that the proposed redistribution, particularly this evening out of the situation in Denison and Franklin, is an attempt by the Government to equalise the number of votes that would be needed to win these 2 seats. [More…]
It is true that in 1954 the Labor Party gained 50.1 per cent of the votes but did not gain government. [More…]
In 1961 the Labor Party gained 46.7 per cent of the votes and won 62 seats in the House of Representatives. [More…]
The Liberal and Country Parties gained 40.9 per cent of the votes and also won 62 seats in the House of Representatives. [More…]
On the matter of the value of the vote, let us assume for a moment that Labor gets this legislation passed and that all our votes are equal. [More…]
If there was an electorate with, say, 100 people and 3 candidates for election, and the first candidate got 35 votes, the second candidate 33 votes and the third candidate 32 votes, on first past the post or optional preferences voting the first candidate would be elected with 35 votes. [More…]
1 per cent of the votes, yet did not gain government. [More…]
In 1961 the Australian Labor Party gained 46.76 per cent of the votes and won 62 seats in the House of Representatives. [More…]
In that year the Australian Labor Party won 59 seats with 46.95 per cent of the votes. [More…]
However, the Liberal-Country parties were able to secure 66 seats with 44.3 per cent of the votes. [More…]
Is it also true that the Australian Labor Party Caucus confirmed this Whitlam activity by about fifty-five votes to twenty five? [More…]
all questions shall be decided by a majority of votes of the members present and voting; and [More…]
the member presiding has a deliberate vote and, in the event of an equality of votes, also has a casting vote. [More…]
I remind the Opposition that when we were given a majority in the House of Representatives in May last year, at the double dissolution election, we received a greater number of votes for the Senate than the combined opponents of the Government. [More…]
Despite the fact that the Government went to the people and got a majority of votes, the Senate upheld its right above the people and above democracy. [More…]
Given the rate of increase in votes for our party at each election I expect that Senator Young’s party will some day be in the minority position in that State. [More…]
As the Government did not permit the motion to be debated and immediately moved the gag, was the intent of the motion to commit publicly all votes of the Australian Labor Party to the course of action of the Prime Minister? [More…]
Did the Government anticipate that the votes of members such as Dr Cairns and Mr Connor might not be in support of the course of action premeditated by the Prime Minister? [More…]
An amendment moved yesterday to the defence Loan Bill was carried by 29 votes to 28. [More…]
The same amendment has been moved to procedural motions on these 2 appropriation Bills and it can be expected that the amendments will be carried again by 29 votes to 28. [More…]
The Opposition would not have carried the amendment yesterday with 29 votes but for the unfortunate death of one of our colleagues and the breaking of convention by replacing him with someone who does not follow the Party that the deceased member followed. [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 incorporate in Hansard, for the benefit of honourable senators, a statement 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 candidates) and 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 ballotpaper. [More…]
These facilities, 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. [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 Bill, 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 relevant 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 Gazette; postal voting facilities 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 senators 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 senators 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…]
In order to remedy this situation, it is proposed, firstly, that an earlier deadline be fixed for the return of postal votes and, secondly, that postal votes be returned direct to the relevant Returning Officer, rather than through an Assistant Returning Officer, some other Returning Officer of a Presiding Officer, as allowed under the existing law. [More…]
At present, a period of ten day’s 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…]
But harken to the fact that twice in this Senate in the brief time that I have been here I have heard the Leader of the Opposition (Senator Withers) say that the Opposition would not take advantage in votes in this House of the death or resignation- I will confine it to the death- of a senator. [More…]
The Committee had earlier adopted 2 draft resolutions on the Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination by votes of 126 for, 1 against and 2 abstentions, and 126 for, 1 against and 1 abstention. [More…]
But he will not create a vacuum in which there are no Appropriation Bills, a vacuum in which the Prime Minister can refuse to provide money in the mistaken hope that this will help him to win votes. [More…]
Their views have been distorted by their counterparts in the States whose votes they carry across the chamber. [More…]
We also remind him that he would need to gain a majority of the votes in a majority of the States of this country to change the Australian Constitution. [More…]
Let me tell honourable senators, some of whom may have forgotten but many of whom will know, that in the period from 1950 to 1970 individual senators who were members of the Australian Labor Party recorded approximately 6000 votes in the assertion of the power of the Senate to reject or to take equivalent action by deferral or other similar action on a money Bill as defined by Mr Odgers and as accepted by this Parliament. [More…]
In 1971, in relation to the Post and Telegraph Bill, 3 votes were taken to reject it, namely, on the second reading, at the committee stage and on the third reading. [More…]
If I may respond to the interjection, Mr President, I think it possibly could be a matter that the people who conceive legislation in the Opposition ranks could well consider the possibility of making it mandatory for members of the Opposition to have secret votes in their party meetings since they seem to think it is a good idea in union elections. [More…]
The Labor Party has abrogated, through its votes in this House and through its speeches in this House and in the other place, its right to claim that it defends the interests of the people in the matter of the basic thrust of democratic government. [More…]
When he votes against securities and exchange legislation in this country because he wants to protect that group, I think that that is also the height of hypocrisy. [More…]
If we look at the figures for the Senate in the last double dissolution in May of last year we find that 1 032 460 formal votes were cast in Queensland. [More…]
How many votes did the late Senator Milliner, who was a personal friend of us all, poll? [More…]
He polled 441 060 votes. [More…]
As the Government did not permit the motion to be debated and immediately moved the gag, was the intent of the motion to commit publicly all votes of the Australian Labor Party to the course of action of the Prime Minister? [More…]
Instead, the entrenched weighting of votes under the present system, which very much suits the National Country Party at the expense of all the urban dwellers of Australia and, I might say, at the expense even of Liberal supporters in the urban areas of Australia, was retained by the Opposition. [More…]
I am surprised that members of the Opposition parties, who have always decried the philosophy that the end justifies the means, should apply this very principle so far as this Government is concerned- a goverment which twice in 3 years has been given a majority in the Lower House and which, even in the double dissolution elections of 1974, failed by a handful of votes in Queensland and New South Wales to win the additional seat in each of those States. [More…]
If the votes on any motion are equal, the motion is defeated. [More…]
There are still votes for Australian Labor Party senators there. [More…]
He is concerned about the decline which the National Country Party would suffer if the votes of citizens in the cities of Australia were worth the same as the votes of citizens in certain country electorates. [More…]
There is a difference of one in this place and the vote here will possibly be 29 votes to 28, or even allowing for pairs, with a majority of just one. [More…]
At the last Senate election in 1974 the Australian Labor Party gained approximately 200 000 more votes than the Liberal and Country parties senators who sit opposite us. [More…]
Although in the last Senate election we polled some 200 000 votes more than our opposing parties, we received less than a majority in this place. [More…]
The Government increased its representation in the Senate from 26 to 29 members and attracted 200 000 votes in excess of the combined vote of the Opposition senators. [More…]
However, I assure the honourable senator that under the existing votes for travel by Ministers, office holders and others, funds are getting very tight indeed. [More…]
It is no part of the Governor-General’s function to give advice as to the way any member of this Parliament votes. [More…]
The members of the Opposition in the Senate this morning, by their votes taken on the voices, declared these Bills to be urgent. [More…]
But, I am faced with the position that, some votes under the Supply Acts are subject to greater demands than others. [More…]
The result of the ballot is: Senator Drake-Brockman 36 votes; Senator Melzer 27 votes. [More…]
-Then, as my colleague says, we gained many thousands more votes than our political opponents; then a mere 12 months after that double dissolution we had the death of one of our colleagues in the Senate and the plot that had been in existence for some time was put into effect. [More…]
There have been some suggestions that not only was the power of the media involved but also there could have been a lot of bribes given for the purpose of purchasing votes. [More…]
How much was paid throughout Australia to hopeless independent candidates in order to get them publicity to win votes on the condition that they give their second preference to candidates standing for the purpose of opposing the Government then in power. [More…]
-That we did not buy votes? [More…]
I would make a declaration for my Party that we did not purchase votes. [More…]
It may be said that the big rallies purchased votes, but here is a Minister of the Crown who is justifying the purchase of votes. [More…]
I think that all Labor people contributed for the purpose of attracting votes. [More…]
I give an annual contribution for the purpose of attracting votes but I did not give a penny for the purpose of getting Michael Cavanough a vote in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
That is the purchase of votes. [More…]
But the fact cannot be avoided that people outside a particular political party were paid to enter this election for the purpose of purchasing votes. [More…]
The gentlemen on my right will recall that the 1969 election, when I happened to be the member for Grey, was held under a redistribution that was introduced by my Party which excluded no less than 8000 votes from one of my blue ribbon rural areas. [More…]
I was able, with the support of my Party, to be defeated on preferences when the present member for Grey was saying that I was going to be beaten by 7000 votes. [More…]
The present member for Grey won the seat by about 550 votes. [More…]
I was there canvassing for votes and did not talk about the mining venture but on the other 3 occasions I did speak to the Aboriginal people. [More…]
Just as Dr Evatt was wrong and just as successive ballot boxes carrying the votes of the electors rejected the Labor Party, so indeed it has happened this time. [More…]
That doctrine was imposed to win votes in the short term. [More…]
Those 4 senators, could be elected on the preference votes of the other political parties. [More…]
It reminded us all too often that we represented only the same number of votes as the city of Newcastle and so did not rate special attention. [More…]
Is it a fact that on a recount of almost 2.8 million votes only some 10 000 votes changed hands? [More…]
Did the majority for the successful candidate for the last Senate seat in New South Wales change only from 800 to some 2000 votes in the recount? [More…]
As to his statistical information relating to how the votes changed hands, his figures are correct, as I recall them. [More…]
That is the defect in the system, not the method of counting the votes. [More…]
It must be recognised and made public that candidates and workers for the Liberal Party in the Labor-held seats in South Australia did a great deal in attracting a large number of votes for Senate candidates. [More…]
I think it was probably because it is very many years since the Liberal and Country Parties captured the first position in a Senate ballot in terms of votes recorded. [More…]
He said his vote was up over 1000 votes in this area. [More…]
What was the number of primary votes polled by each candidate in each subdivision of each electoral division in the House of Representatives election held on 13 December 1975. [More…]
The Chief Australian Electoral Officer has informed me that he has supplied the honourable senator with copies of Election Form 62 (‘Results of the Scrutiny of First Preference Votes in Respect of Polling Places’) for each State and Territory, in respect of the 1975 House of Representatives election. [More…]
This publication includes a summary, in respect of each electoral Division, of the number of first preference votes recorded for each candidate in each Subdivision. [More…]
What was the total number of votes recorded and the percentage of that vote on (a) a national basis and (b) a State and Territory basis for all candidates contesting the 1975 House of Representatives election on behalf of the Australia Party, the Australian Labor Party, the Communist Party, the Australian Democratic Labor Party, the Liberal Party, the National Country Party and the Workers Party. [More…]
-And we gained 57 per cent of the votes; the honourable senator is quite right. [More…]
I put the point that Senator Walsh probably lost the ALP the last 2 rural votes left for it in Australia. [More…]
If we had received another 200 or 300 votes we would have had equal numbers in the Senate and honourable senators would have seen a different set-up here today. [More…]
I shall report later as to the outcome of the testing of having attend the tribunals this additional person, who is an observer but not a person who votes on the appeal and not a person who may be required to take any part whatsoever in the consideration of the appeal. [More…]
The one aspect of that Party of which I am most proud is the freedom of its members to exercise their votes in accordance with the dictates of their conscience. [More…]
Let him realise what will happen before the election next Saturday if he votes for a party which endorses this type of policy. [More…]
It is taking it out on the people whose votes the Government sought before the last election, before it started pulling the rug from under those people. [More…]
In my own State of Western Australia, where all people are equal, but some are 16 times as equal as others because they have a vote in the Legislative Council of Western Australia which is worth 16 votes of other Western Australian citizens, quite massive income taxes can be and may be applied by a Parliament which is elected on a basis which is democratic to the extent of a ratio of 16 to one. [More…]
It saw that there were votes in the State aid issue. [More…]
A voter says: ‘I want candidate A as my first choice, then candidate B as my second choice if candidate A does not get sufficient votes, and then I want candidate C if candidate B does not get sufficient votes. [More…]
Alderman Bunton however was chosen by a joint parliamentary vote of 87 votes to 70 votes. [More…]
That was the only nomination but, after a 3-hour debate, the Parliament voted by 62 votes to 15 votes- Labor had 1 1 members in the Queensland Parliamentnot to accept the nomination. [More…]
Then the man whom Mr Bjelke-Petersen nominated, Mr A. P. Field- a relative unknown in politics at that time and, incidentally, not really known by Mr Bjelke-Petersen himself- was appointed by 50 votes to 26 votes. [More…]
No longer will the votes of the electorate have any special significance for the Senate. [More…]
In view of these and other problems referred to in the report I ask: Will the Minister agree that when Mr Fraser put forward his policy on union elections in an attempt to win votes, he was unaware of the major difficulties involved? [More…]
On the following day, the General Assembly- in a resolution passed by 72 votes to 10 votes, with Australia voting for the resolution -called on Indonesia to withdraw from East Timor to enable the people to decide their own future. [More…]
In the recent New South Wales election it is true that Labor had, I think, some 6 more candidates fielded in electorates than previously so that this time it registered a larger vote, which last time was disguised in independent votes. [More…]
The vote for Labor in the previous election was artificially lower because its vote was hidden in independent votes. [More…]
What I said was that the vote for the Labor Party in 1 973 was lodged largely in the votes for independents. [More…]
For the first time the Federal Government was in a situation where it could ensure that roads were considered as part of a national transport network and not as a means of buying rural votes or pandering to the elitists of this country. [More…]
I do not think there is anything more reprehensible than for a politician, for the sake of winning a few lousy votes, to con people, deceive them and delude them about what the future holds. [More…]
The Miners Federation has a similar type of ballot- it is called a pit head ballot- for its official positions in relation to which it gets an 85 per cent return of votes. [More…]
This legislation, irrespective of whether postal voting is compulsory, will not achieve the same percentage of votes as either the Waterside Workers Federation or the Miners Federation has achieved. [More…]
These little men, these miserable men, these socialist men who only give public money where they cannot multiply votes and in this area because the agriculture industries as a whole provided only 6 per cent of the votes, they ignored them, But they gave $8m for idle time on the waterfront, $500m for the unemployed, and all the rest of their squandermania. [More…]
I suppose he has to protect the home State because that is where his votes come from. [More…]
The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: (1), (2) and (3) The information sought by the honourable senator in respect of annual allocations of funds on the votes of the Depanment of Aboriginal Affairs is provided in Second Reading Speeches in respect of the States Grants (Aboriginal Advancement) and States Grants (Aboriginal Assistance) Bills in respect of the financial years 1972-73 to 1975-76 and in the annual reports of the Depanment of Aboriginal Affairs for the period ending 30 June 1974 and 1974-75. [More…]
Information on other Government funds allocated to Aboriginal affairs on the votes of other Departments is available in the Appropriation Bills, Budget Speeches and associated documents for the appropriate years. [More…]
-The Australian Labor Party always talks about migrants when it wants their votes. [More…]
I live in Sydney and the establishment of national parks in the Northern Territory will not mean more votes for me, but as an Australian I would like to believe that we will see this vision which was John Grey Gorton’s. [More…]
He said: ‘I wish the election was on Saturday because I would have a majority of 5000 votes’. [More…]
The document is dated 9 September 1976 and it shows the proportion of votes that the Labor Party had to get to win government in South Australia as against the proportion of votes received by the Liberal Country League over the years. [More…]
In other words, while a politician may find it ‘appropriate’ to promise us all sorts of things to woo our votes, he may find it quite inappropriate to deliver the goods once the ballot forms have been filled in. [More…]
The votes show it. [More…]
I think we would all feel that that was characteristic of him because he often went in knowing that perhaps he had no votes at all but that he would win the argument. [More…]
If he is a man of such integrity why does he continue to govern under an electoral dictatorship in which his Party receives fewer votes than the Labor Party but holds VA times as many seats as the Labor Party? [More…]
In fact, his Party gets fewer votes than the Liberal Party but holds more seats in the Queensland Parliament than does the Liberal Party. [More…]
How many votes can be gained from around women’s centres, women’s refuges or rape crisis centres? [More…]
That, unless otherwise ordered, the votes in Schedule 2 be considered in the same groupings as in Estimates Committees A, B, C, D, E and F respectively in accordance with the list circulated to honourable senators. [More…]
Is it a fact that on a recount of almost 2.8 million votes only some 10 000 votes changed hands? [More…]
Did the majority for, the successful candidate for the last Senate seat in New South Wales change only from 800 to some 2000 votes in the recount? [More…]
I would have done so too if I had been the candidate defeated by 854 votes, as I think the result was at that stage. [More…]
Although Senator Baume says that only 10 000 votes changed hands, I think the system under which we are operating needs an overhaul. [More…]
The 10 000 votes to which Senator Baume referred were nearly all additional informal votes. [More…]
Approximately 4500 votes were taken from the Liberal-Country Party total, 3600 were taken from the Australian Labor Party and 300 were taken from the Socialist Workers League which had been the recipient of the donkey vote. [More…]
I submit that actually many more votes changed hands. [More…]
It shows that in the recount it was found that votes had been credited to the wrong candidates. [More…]
I had scrutineers ringing me up and saying that a bundle of 50 or 100 votes credited to the LiberalCountry Party should have been mine, and vice versa. [More…]
As I said, many more than 10 000 votes were involved. [More…]
Also when we are talking about 10 000 informal votes that were wiped out, we have to consider that scrutineers reported that many informal votes that originally were put out of the ballot were then put back into the ballot. [More…]
When we consider that the final vote which elected the last senator, who happened to be myself, showed a majority of 2016, those 10 000 plus votes tend to assume rather critical significance. [More…]
I submit again that if the votes were recounted today the totals would probably be altered because of the near impossible task given to the officials of the Australian Electoral Office in scrutinising the votes of 53 candidates in the Senate election in 1975 and, perhaps even worse, the votes for 73 candidates who stood for New South Wales in 1 974.I think it should be mentioned also that because there was a complete recount there was also a new random sample. [More…]
Although the people of the United States went to the polls only yesterday or early this morning Australian time, probably nearly all the votes for governors and senators have been counted, and with perhaps 80 million votes to be counted, the new President of the United States is probably known. [More…]
If we look at the donkey vote and at those statistics, we find that 22 230 votes drifted directly across to the Liberal Party. [More…]
But in fact the drift was much more than that because 2302 votes went to the Family Action Movement, 474 went to the Democratic Labor Party and 233 went to the Workers Party. [More…]
This cost the Government Parties thousands of votes. [More…]
This meant that people moved across the ballot paper to the righthand side, came back to the lefthand side and finished their votes with the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
The vast number of informal votes I have talked about did show a clear intention to vote for one party or the other. [More…]
Again I do not want to dwell on what is happening in the United States of America today but it is an example of how millions of votes can be computed quickly. [More…]
I think we should get back to the votes before the Committee. [More…]
I would be very pleased if you would discuss the votes. [More…]
Mr Ellicott as the shadow Minister for Aboriginal Affairs was a very shadowy minister indeed while he was trying to pick up votes for the Liberal and National Country Parties. [More…]
In this regard I am advised that no separate item has been provided in the votes for that Department, either in the current year or earlier, but additional nutritional supplements considered necessary as part of the treatment have been provided in the past at hospitals and rural centres, and the Minister for Health has indicated that this aspect of the provision of health care should be expanded out of the funds provided in the current estimates. [More…]
1 am talcing up the case for these people, not because 1 suspect that there are any votes in it but because human lives and civil liberties are involved. [More…]
With regard to the escalation of costs as to particular items both in the Darwin Reconstruction Commission, which has a bloc vote, and the National Capital Development Commission, which has a bloc vote, it may be taken into account in discount of the tedium that I have inflicted on the Committee that we take some credit for having handspiked out of these bloc votes particular items that do demand scrutiny. [More…]
But if everybody votes between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. and the votes are counted in the presence of scrutineers that should be it. [More…]
At the moment the National Civic Council supporters have 19 votes, compared with 17 votes for people such as Phil O Toole. [More…]
Balance of Power- The National Civic Council Faction has the numbers 1 9 votes to 1 7. [More…]
This would have precluded the 4 officers above from being in the college and the balance of power in the FCU would swing against the NCC 1 7 votes to 1 5. [More…]
The Branch Council of my Branch in Queensland, which is the governing body of this Branch, recently by 1 3 votes to 1 removed a National Civic Council Federal Councillor and replaced her with a non-party person. [More…]
The moves were carried by 20 votes to 16 votes. [More…]
Those 20 votes included the votes of the 4 officers and the removed delegates from the central and southern Queensland branch. [More…]
It would be impossible to remove either of our political parties from power if they were given a head start of 15 per cent of the votes. [More…]
After the election the Commonwealth police made certain inquiries and as a result 2 men were charged with depriving members of the Miscellaneous Workers Union of their votes. [More…]
As Senator Scott has spoken in this debate, since the question of new federalism was a central, if not the central, issue in the New South Wales election which was held on 1 May and which much to the consternation of the Liberal Party resulted in the defeat of the then Liberal Government and the election of a Labor Government which was campaigning vigorously against the new federalism, and since I understand that Senator Scott has received a telegram from the Premier of that State asking him to vote against this Bill- given that on 1 May the people of New South Wales also voted against this legislation- it will be interesting to see how Senator Scott votes on this Bill. [More…]
We must recognise that each step should be based on the best possible knowledge and that we ought to act with the best possible motivationnot the pursuit of the political ‘sacred cow’ of education, not the pursuit of a mere handful of votes, but the pursuit of that which will vindicate this society some time in the future through the only reasonable basis of judgment- the benefit to the people to whom it is directed. [More…]
I will be interested to note the day when he votes against his Caucus decision. [More…]
Can we trust the Attorney-General after what he said in November and December 1975 to the Aboriginal people of this country, when he led them down the drain and told them lies, politically, in order to get a few extra votes. [More…]
For the sake of getting a few votes from those of the blue rinse set who live in some areas where they have a doubtful voting capacity they scare the living daylights out of them by saying that we are going to be overcome by Communist countries. [More…]
I refer now to an article in the Australian of 12 August 1976 headed ‘Farm Crisis will cost votes, PM warned ‘, which reads: [More…]
Can the Minister say whether votes were taken of rank and file unionists to endorse this action? [More…]
If Parliament votes on a motion to disallow but the motion is not carried, then Parliament has not revoked the Governor-General’s proclamation that it is in the national interest and mining will go ahead. [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…]
We shall speak to each of those amendments, then deal with the 4 remaining amendments together, speaking to each one separately, and then have 2 votes. [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…]
As we mentioned earlier this afternoon, we believe that that provision will be a bind on the task that will be given to the electoral commissioners in drawing up reasonable and sensible boundaries based on the principle of ensuring that the party with the greatest majority of votes on a percentage basis has the majority of seats in the Parliament. [More…]
Senator Douglas McClelland said this afternoon that there are no details as to how the votes cast at an election can be counted and how the election can operate. [More…]
Despite the fact that there will be an inability to count the votes by the time the writs are returnable, the provision has been included in this legislation. [More…]
The government in the other place, no matter who got the bulk of the votes, would be at the mercy of all sorts of interesting people. [More…]
While, at all times, the Labor Party adopts the principle of equal value for votes, the problem is that those who, through economic circumstances, have moved to outer urban areas now lack many essential services such as sewerage, adequate roads, safe and efficient public transport services, reasonable rates and suitable houses. [More…]
The commissioners to be appointed will have a tremendous responsibility because it will be up to them to make recommendations which will ensure that when the election is held the party which gets the greatest number of votes or the greatest percentage of votes also gets the greatest number of seats. [More…]
Each candidate elected needed nearly 92 000 primary votes. [More…]
The Liberal Party of Australia got approximately 42 per cent of the vote and sixty-eight of its members were elected to the House of Representatives on a basis of 47 000 votes per member elected. [More…]
The National Country Party, with a little over 1 1 per cent of the votes, had 23 members elected to the House of Representatives on an average of 37 000 votes for each candidate. [More…]
Whatever we say about redistribution- I make no apologies for the imbalance between the percentage of votes gained and the number of seats that the major parties obtain in the House of Representatives- there is another leveller. [More…]
We know how cities can die with the exodus of votes to the suburbs. [More…]
He should have a following; otherwise there will be a maximising of informal votes. [More…]
I regret that he trotted out again the old chestnut that his Party gained 42 per cent of the votes in the last election and only gained 36 per cent of the seats. [More…]
I think Senator Douglas McClelland also had some worries about the fact that the Labor Party obtained a certain percentage of votes but did not get the same percentage of seats. [More…]
Senator Mulvihill knows as well as I do and any other honourable senator in this chamber does that there are such things as 2-party preferred votes and preference votes. [More…]
If the election is held under conditions laid down by regulation, what is to prevent a government or a political party deciding in a State where it believes it can get more than 50 per cent of the votes that it will issue regulations providing for what is usually known as an exhaustive preferential ballot? [More…]
House of Representatives elections held in 1954, 1961, and again in 1969 showed that the party getting the majority of the votes did not get the majority of the seats. [More…]
That is exactly what it was last time when a candidate could gain an additional 25 000 votes if his name was near the top of the ballot paper. [More…]
1 position on a ballot paper- he may be completely unrepresentative of any electors in a State in Australia- thereby gets 25 000 votes or more, that system needs an overhaul. [More…]
The number of informal votes indicates that the situation at the moment certainly discriminates against migrants and poorly educated people. [More…]
If members of the National Country Party looked at the percentage of informal votes in rural electorates in New South Wales they would certainly be worried about the system and they would be trying to change it. [More…]
Somebody said- I think it was Senator Douglas McClelland- that to get electoral justice the party that gets the greatest percentage of the votes ought to get the greatest number of seats. [More…]
There is a disparity of votes of 3 1 7 12 in a quota sense between the size of the seats in South Australia and the Northern Territory. [More…]
Cynicism about Mr Fraser’s motives is understandable, but those who allow it to dictate their votes on May 2 1 really will be indulging in a classic exercise in cutting off their noses to spite their faces. [More…]
I believe, however, that there was a sound psychological argument behind the idea that if we advocated a yes vote for one proposal and then 3 no votes we would confuse the public and lose the referendum. [More…]
The first thing agreed upon way back in 1890 was that if the States were to federate, they should have equal votes in the Senate. [More…]
It votes on party lines and it votes that way for party reasons. [More…]
It was because of the displeasure of the voters in that State with the disregard which the Federal Government had for that State’s interests that Mr Menzies, the then Prime Minister, came within a handful of votes of becoming Mr Menzies, the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
I interpret this legislation as righting the wrong, because no matter which way you look at this situation affirmative votes are vital. [More…]
I have great confidence that the Australian people will do no damage to our democracy by their votes in the forthcoming referenda. [More…]
New South Wales and Victoria between them could command 79 of the 127 votes in the House of Representatives. [More…]
In view of the spurious arguments of some of his coalition colleagues who intend to oppose the referenda in the electorate but who say that their votes in this place for the measures are simply to allow the people a chance to vote on them, will the Minister give an undertaking that their votes for the measures under these circumstances will not be used in support of the official Yes case to be delivered to each elector? [More…]
That amendment was carried by 49 votes to 39 votes. [More…]
If, after the election, the Senate comes back upheld in its stand upon an equal vote in each State with equality of numbers in this chamber, but if Sydney and Melbourne, with their 79 votes out of 125, prevail in the House of Representatives, the Representatives view can be established only if there is a majority in a joint sitting. [More…]
But the danger to this Senate is that the Prime Minister, who will be elected substantially by votes from Sydney and Melbourne, will have power to dissolve half the Senate. [More…]
The proper way to give representation to a successor of a vacant seat under proportional representation is to recount the votes because the votes at a single election must be represented in the proportion in which the people then voted. [More…]
An empirical decision subsequent to an election for the fulfilment of a vacancy, unless guided by the recount of votes of a candidate who has already been before the people, will be invading the very fundamental principles of proportional representation. [More…]
The recording of votes continuing- [More…]
All they were doing was emptying the barrel; handing out money left right and centre buying votes all over the country even amongst my own people. [More…]
I take it that there will be separate votes in respect of recommendations ( 1 ) and (2). [More…]
When the Coalition Government was soundly defeated on at least 2 occasions and narrowly won, in terms of the percentage of votes, on the third occasion it still felt that as a government it was God ‘s gift to this nation. [More…]
Cuts were made in the Hayden Budget, they were reinstated to some degree at a later date and then the votes were reduced again. [More…]
The only change to the present law will be that the votes of Territorians will be counted in the overall total. [More…]
I remind you, Mr President and the Senate, that this is the case despite statements that have been made by the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt), despite the votes that have been taken in the House of Representatives on this subject and despite the referendum that was held in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
The election was by secret postal ballot of the rank and file and the votes are currently being counted. [More…]
There has been talk of graft and corruption, buying and selling people’s wishes and votes and so on. [More…]
The present Government parties also opposed the question involving the giving of votes to people in the Territories. [More…]
I was interested that Senator Wood mentioned votes in referenda. [More…]
On 17 November the Fourth Committee of the United Nations adopted a resolution on Timor by 61 votes in favour, 18 votes against and 49 abstentions. [More…]
I say it as one who, if I had been an American citizen, would not have voted for Mr Carter; I would have voted for the Socialist Party candidate, who got about 5000 votes. [More…]
It is now history that Fernandes won his seat from gaol by over 300 000 votes and that the coalition parties were successful. [More…]
It sets out a number of criteria and these are the only factors which are binding on the Commission when it makes its distribution according to the equality of votes with a 10 per cent tolerance. [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…]
In spite of the very low percentage of votes that the Liberal Party got it still won the government in South Australia. [More…]
The Labor Party won the election with a majority of seven, with a very small increase in votes following the redistribution brought about by Mr Hall. [More…]
Prior to the adjournment I had had incorporated in Hansard a chart showing the percentage of votes received by the respective parties in South Australia over a period covering 37 years and 14 elections. [More…]
What we have to look at is the number of votes received by any political party. [More…]
What Senator Messner is endeavouring to say is that we should lump together the percentage of votes received by independents and those received by the Liberal Party and say that represents the Liberal Party vote. [More…]
If the preferences had been allocated right across the board a lot of those votes would have come to the Labor Party. [More…]
He has taken a set of figures which simply show party votes, comparing one party with the other, since 1938 to the given date. [More…]
Consequently, there is no way that he can draw a statistically balanced judgment merely by comparing percentages of party votes. [More…]
Senator McLaren emphasised those elections last night and related the 1938 election result to the fact that the Liberal Party in South Australia gained only 3 1 per cent of the votes in the 1975 election. [More…]
Theoretically we could have a situation where the rank and file have determined the rules under which they wish to operate, where votes have been taken under plebiscite rules, and still the Court could superimpose, under section 17 Id a scheme of reconstruction that is not consistent with the wishes of the members. [More…]
He showed that on every occasion the Australian Labor Party never received less than 40 per cent of the votes and that a government, receiving a minority of votes, was elected. [More…]
But Senator Messner cannot say that there was not a gerrymander in 1953 when Labor received 50.97 per cent of the total vote- that was a majority of the votes- and was defeated in its attempt to gain government by a party that received 36.45 per cent of the vote. [More…]
But when all seats were contested in the March 1968 election, Labor received 51.98 per cent of the votes and was defeated by a party that received 43.82 per cent of the votes. [More…]
Every time an attempt is made in the United Nations to deal with a situation of this nature, the great body of the United Nations votes against it. [More…]
If the Government votes against that amendment and defeats it, what does it mean? [More…]
Senator Sir Magnus Cormack, in relation to South Africa, has failed to understand that the United Nations, by an overwhelming majority and in many cases by votes in excess of ninety with a small number of countries abstaining and with one or two countries in opposition- often countries like Spain- called upon the rest of the United Nations organisation to assist in decolonisation and in the movement for independence in Africa. [More…]
Honourable senators 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…]
We meet in a rather grizzly atmosphere after an ineffectual fortnight when an assault upon this chamber was defeated fortunately by constitutional means which provided for the people of the 3 small States to have the chance by individual votes to defend themselves. [More…]
They support them in their votes in this Senate, in the speeches they make and in the preferences they give to the Liberal and Country Parties on election days. [More…]
What arrangements have been made in the Northern Territory for polling booths, postal votes and absentee votes for the voluntary poll for a tune for a national song to be held on 21 May 1977. [More…]
Additionally, automatic postal votes have been sent to all eligible electors and postal vote application forms for other Northern Territory electors who need them are available at all Post Offices and from the two Electoral Offices in the Territory. [More…]
That unless otherwise ordered, the votes in the Schedule be considered in the same groupings as in Estimates Committees as set out in the list circulated to honourable senators and that each group be taken as a whole. [More…]
Many people in the Australian community today are now admitting that they were wrong when they cast their votes in December 1975 and they would like another opportunity. [More…]
The United States votes against the resolution. [More…]
A Plenary meeting of the U.N. General Assembly votes 68-20, with 49 nations abstaining, to uphold the resolution of November 17. [More…]
The Bill passed all stages after a division won by the Government by 78 votes to 30. [More…]
I inform the Senate that I have been advised that at a meeting in Redfern this afternoon of the day and afternoon shift workers they voted by 556 votes to 435 votes to lift the bans. [More…]
I think two areas that could be given better attention than has been the case in the past are firstly, the remuneration of people operating in the Antarctic bases and secondly- I have raised this with the Minister before in Estimate Committee hearings- the right of people in the Antarctic to vote and the ability of those people to be able to cast their votes in elections and referenda and matters of that kind. [More…]
Surely a simple means could be found of having their votes cast and counted, as they are in the booths throughout Australia, and then the results sent by telegraph to the counting office here. [More…]
He was defeated by a very narrow margin- some 120-odd votes. [More…]
According to the statements made last night, she consistently votes with what is called the socialist left, although where that exists in Tasmania I do not know. [More…]
I should like to remind Senator Grimes that there was a vast difference also between the percentage of votes in the Senate for the ALP in Tasmania at the last Senate election and the percentage at the previous election. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the Australian Farmers Federation, as a result of the Government’s lack of decision to alleviate the problems of the farmers, is now urging its members to use their votes against the Liberal Party and the National Country Party? [More…]
It was not until it became important in 1963, when the LiberalCountry Party Government had a one seat majority in the Parliament, that that Government found it necessary to buy a few votes by giving assistance to non-government schools. [More…]
Unfortunately years ago in 1963 there was no doubt, as I said earlier, that the Liberal Government of the day, desperate for votes, was prepared to use exactly that sectarian weapon and buy votes. [More…]
The United Nations charter clearly states that decisions should be taken with the affirmative votes of the five permanent members of the Council- the United States, Great Britain, France, Russia and China. [More…]
One can understand the Security Council finding this procedure convenient for its ordinary day to day affairs, but when it comes to Chapter 7 decisions involving the peace and threats to the peace, war, blockade, sanctions and international security then one would expect decisions to be taken with the concurring votes of the five permanent members. [More…]
It is now possible for the Security Council to take momentous decisions and implement them without the concurring votes of any of the five permanent members, and I believe that to be outside the intent, spirit and letter of the United Nations charter. [More…]
Since, under new voting procedures, only nine affirmative votes are needed to take decisions, according to the doctrine on abstentions the Council can adopt substantive resolutions in cases where all five of the permanent members have abstained. [More…]
It has been proved that the Labor Government increased the costs of the people of the outback and that it had no regard for those people because it supported the multitude that lived on the eastern coast where the votes were. [More…]
I should like to remind him of the percentage of votes the Liberal and National Country parties did get and the number of seats they got with that vote under the old system of election. [More…]
In the 1975 election the Australian Labor Party polled 3,313,004 votes, or 42.8 per cent, and we won 36 seats. [More…]
The Liberal Party polled 3,248,136 votes, or 42 per cent, that is, 0.8 per cent of the votes less than the Labor Party got, but the Liberals won 68 seats. [More…]
It polled 853,943 votes- 1 1 per cent of the vote- and got 23 seats. [More…]
So the National Country Party gets 1 1 per cent of the votes but wins 23 seats, whilst we get 42.8 per cent and only 36 seats. [More…]
So, comparing the figures, we find that the Labor Party polled nearly four times the number of votes of the National Country Party, yet we got only 13 more seats. [More…]
The idea is that we should have premature votes on subjects which are unnecessary and which are polarising so far as the community is concerned. [More…]
It has been too busy looking after the large number of votes in the eastern States. [More…]
In answer to Senator Cavanagh who asks whether I have won any votes, I do not make any such claim this evening. [More…]
I can say that Mr Whitlam has lost a good deal of votes for the Labor Party and I have given some of the reasons in, I admit, a rather casual assessment of the situation. [More…]
In fact, he won very narrowly by ten votes in a very high poll held on the campus. [More…]
On 24 October a meeting of ATEA members in Perth rejected the Federal Council resolution by 240 votes to 170 votes. [More…]
This is a typical State Labor government attitude which is more anxious to gain votes in the metropolitan area. [More…]
That was, in fact, done by the commissioners and that then brought the Kalgoorlie division 901 votes above the minimum number of electors required by the 1974 amendments to the Electoral Act. [More…]
To the electorate of Kalgoorlie, which already was almost 1,000 votes over the minimum required by the Commonwealth Electoral Act, the Commissioners added a small portion of the shire of Yalgoo and the entire shires of Carnamah and Perenjori and Three Springs, which involved a total of 1,670 votes. [More…]
So by the unnecessary inclusion of those three shires in the Federal division of Kalgoorlie the Liberal Party, which currently holds the seat, has gained in net terms in excess of 1,000 votes which could well be enough to enable the Liberal Party to retain the seat at the forthcoming election. [More…]
The informal votes would most probably run at 95 per cent. [More…]
How would we count the votes? [More…]
It votes one way in the Parliament but goes out and tells the producers something else. [More…]
Under the present system, the votes take too long to count. [More…]
Millions of votes are cast, yet the result is known within 24 hours of the ballot closing. [More…]
Perhaps the best place to look at in relation to the quick counting of votes is Great Britain. [More…]
In the State of New South Wales, which is the experience to which I will continue to refer, 12.13 per cent of the Senate votes in 1974 were informal. [More…]
In 1975, despite the campaign waged by both major parties, more than 10 per cent of the votes, or one in ten, were informal. [More…]
I understand that about 12,000 votes cast were awarded to different candidates as a result of the recount and that there was a reduction in the total number of formal votes cast. [More…]
When faced with a situation such as that which occurred in New South Wales in the last election, where in the first count there was a difference of only 19 votes per electorate for the 45 electorates, it is apparent that the system of random sampling also needs investigating. [More…]
I believe it will cut down drastically on the number of informal votes. [More…]
The system of counting votes is archaic. [More…]
I thought that there were a number of defects in the American presidential system in which, as I understand it, theoretically a candidate can receive a majority of the electoral college votes without receiving the majority of the popular votes. [More…]
I do not think it was good for democracy when well over 12 per cent of the votes were informal. [More…]
The Government’s failure to act upon the report of the Committee of Inquiry into Public Libraries is scandalous and certainly will be used against it by the Labor movement and the people of Australia when they cast their votes at the forthcoming Federal election. [More…]
It certainly is not uncommon in the United Kingdom, with its first past the post system, for a party to get 60 per cent of the seats with 30 per cent or 40 per cent of the votes. [More…]
As I think I said many times in Opposition, between 1949 and 1975, with the exception of one occasion, the party or parties that obtained the greatest number of votes gained office. [More…]
Given the rate of increase in votes for our Party at each election I expect that Senator Young’s Party will some day be in the minority position in that State. [More…]
In the Advertiser of 3 1 March 1 973, there is a headline ‘LM votes for new party’. [More…]
If he does not go out and repeat those remarks it will mean that he is trying to cover up for Senator Hall and trying to win him a few votes. [More…]
It wants to use it as an election issue for the purpose of attracting votes in spite of the possible sacrifice of human life, the possibility of nuclear weapons proliferation and the possibility of terrorist control of nuclear material. [More…]
When the votes were taken on that amendment you yourself, Mr President, voted for the amendment, so you acquiesced with your Party at that time in the use of those words on more than one occasion against the members of the Parliamentary Labor Party and in particular against the Prime Minister of the day, Mr Whitlam, and his Ministers. [More…]
Several votes were taken that day. [More…]
A division was called and carried by the Government Party of the day by a majority of ten votes. [More…]
The motion “That the question be now put’ was then moved by Mr Daly and, on the division, was carried by 10 votes. [More…]
We would welcome suggestions and ideas because I think this is a matter on which all parties agee that all persons who have an entitlement to enrol ought to be encouraged and assisted to do so and, having enrolled, they ought to be given the greatest possible help in casting valid votes. [More…]
That is the period in which one cannot indulge in trying to buy votes. [More…]
When one bears in mind the great, important and onerous responsibilities of the divisional returning officers at a Federal general election, especially when a ballot is very tight- when a seat or even a government can be determined by a mere handful of votes- one can see that one needs a person whose pay is at a level in accord- .ance with the responsible position he is occupying. [More…]
As I said earlier, electorates and governments can be determined by a mere handful of votes. [More…]
In fact, if the game was being played as it was in the case of the 1974 and 1975 elections it would be a very interesting experience- and I would revel in it- to bring the three electoral commissioners to the bar of the Senate and ask them what the result would have been if another 4,000 votes had been added. [More…]
I am calling on memory, but I think that somewhere in the votes for the Attorney-General’s Department an item is shown for the costs of litigation or legal costs paid on behalf of the Commonwealth. [More…]
We can only presume that means that anyone who differs in opinion from the Queensland Premier as reflecting by votes cast may not see any of the funds appropriated by this Parliament That is not quite good enough. [More…]
However, when her leader brought on a hurried election and the Government had to scamper around and bring in something that would appeal for votes, it sought to amend the Bill and afford provision over and above what the Budget had contemplated. [More…]
The votes in both the areas in which the teams will be operating will come back to the Labor Party at this election, so it will not make one iota of difference. [More…]
That honourable member was the gentleman who said at one stage that there were more votes in Newcastle than there were in the whole of Tasmania. [More…]
He rushed legislation through the State Parliament to prevent the illiterate Aboriginal people from applying for postal votes and from having persons assist them at the polling booth. [More…]
The electors believed that there would be a reduction in unemployment in 1978, commencing after February, and accordingly gave their votes to the Government. [More…]
In NSW the percentage of informal votes was down to 9 per cent. [More…]
It is interesting to note, when looking at the final figures- I am talking now of the primary votes in South Australia- that in the House of Representatives election the Liberal Party polled 45 per cent of the votes, whilst the Australian Labor Party polled 42.6 per cent of the votes. [More…]
I emphasise that I am referring specifically to primary votes. [More…]
In the Senate election the Liberal Party in South Australia polled 49 per cent of the votes and the Labor Party 36.8 per cent. [More…]
On a twoparty preferred basis, in South Australia in the House of Representatives election the Liberal Party polled 51.3 per cent of the votes and the Labor Party 48.7 per cent; yet we in the Liberal Party finished up winning only five of the 1 1 seats. [More…]
Granted, we were only marginally behind in one of those seats, namely, the seat of Grey, in which our candidate was a matter of 60-odd votes short of the number he required to beat the Labor Party candidate. [More…]
Nevertheless, I have always believed that if one party gets 50-plus per cent of the votes it should finish up with a majority of the seats. [More…]
In the Senate election- also on a two-party preferred basis- the Liberal Party received 55.9 per cent of the votes and the Labor Party received 44. [More…]
If we look at the State figures for South Australia we find that the Liberal Party, combined with the Country Party and the Australian Democrats, polled 46.5 per cent of the votes, whilst the Labor Party polled 53.8 per cent of the votes. [More…]
It is interesting to note, when looking at the final figures- I am talking now of the primary votes in South Australiathat in the House of Representatives election the Liberal Party polled 45 per cent of the votes, whilst the Australian Labor Party polled 42.6 per cent of the votes. [More…]
I emphasise that I am referring specifically to primary votes. [More…]
In the Senate election the Liberal Party in South Australia polled 49 per cent of the votes and the Labor Party 36.8 per cent. [More…]
On a two-party preferred basis, in South Australia in the House of Representatives election the Liberal Party polled 5 1.3 per cent of the votes and the Labor Party 48.7 per cent; yet we in the Liberal Party finished up winning only five of the 1 1 seats. [More…]
Granted, we were only marginally behind in one of those seats, namely, the seat of Grey, in which our candidate was a matter of 60-odd votes short of the number he required to beat the Labor Party candidate. [More…]
The whole crux of the matter is that had the Labor Party had the same sort of finances to spend in Hawker as Mr Hall and the Liberal Party spent we would have won by 10,000 votes. [More…]
Nevertheless, I have always believed that if one party gets 50-plus per cent of the votes it should finish up with a majority of seats. [More…]
That was the last occasion in any South Australian election that the Liberal Party polled the majority of votes. [More…]
I do not think that it is beyond the bounds of possibility that the Commonwealth Electoral Act could be amended- I know that the Leader of the Government, Senator Withers, has acknowledged that it would be possible- to provide for votes to be cast in a place like the Antarctic. [More…]
Ballot papers could be prepared, and votes cast. [More…]
The number of informal votes cast varies from election to election. [More…]
I simply put the proposition that irrespective of whether the composition of joint committees as set out in the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives of 2 March is acceptable to individuals is really irrelevant. [More…]
1 remember, as other senators will, the number of debates and votes that we have had in this chamber about the siting of the new and permanent parliament house. [More…]
I thought we might try to get some votes here tonight, to see where everybody stands, instead of everybody just talking. [More…]
In the election just passed Mr Fraser attempted to win votes by branding his opponents as ‘free traders’. [More…]
So the ratio of Yes to No votes in Queensland was eight to one which is a pretty good indication that there is massive support in that State for the proposition that the Commonwealth has a constitutional responsibility. [More…]
There is no caucus and there is no binding of votes on the Government side of the chamber. [More…]
The decisions were really a consensus, because rarely are votes of Senate committees taken in private session. [More…]
It does not matter whether the intruders are people from an unorthodox church, Christadelphians, politicians canvassing for votes or salesmen. [More…]
I remember a Labor Minister who was also the member for Newcastle who once said that there were more votes in Newcastle than there were in Tasmania. [More…]
If the report is true, will the Minister state whether or not this is Government policy for future United Nations votes on these issues? [More…]
But I think we have passed the period when any cheap votes are to be picked up in this field. [More…]
The Electoral Act contains specific provisions for the section votes. [More…]
Because of partnership arrangements some small properties had several votes while very large companies had one. [More…]
I hope that the socialists on the other side of the chamber will realise that by pandering to one national group which it thinks will vote for it, it will not get those votes because the majority of migrants in Australia, those who really want to settle down, realise that the socialists are only using them as a political football. [More…]
I refer in particular to a public meeting of the Capricorn Coast Protection Council which 350 people attended, and at which the resolutions in this document were carried by 341 votes to nine. [More…]
When the resolutions on these two matters came before delegates for the vote, the Australian votes, which consist, under IPU rules, of 13 votes, were divided, after full, friendly discussions, among members of the delegations. [More…]
On the first item the votes were 6 ayes, 3 noes, 4 abstentions, and on the second item 6 ayes, 7 noes. [More…]
I hope that he will have regard to that as he remembers everything wicked that the Labor Government did to everything good that he was doing in those days and remind the Senate of it in the way that he votes in the Senate in 1978. [More…]
The Premier said that because the Liberal Party had lost votes and seats in the State election he did not think it was entitled to the eight Ministers it had in the previous Cabinet. [More…]
At Aurukun, for example, his party received 6 votes only from the Aurukun people and Queensland Government officials working at Aurukun. [More…]
However, developers have been defeated on most major votes. [More…]
The Labor Party will be in great difficulty when it votes on this Bill because it does not want to be seen to be opposing this Bill which, in fact, it has opposed- tooth and nail- the whole way through. [More…]
Questions arising at a meeting of the Council shall be determined by a majority of the votes of the members present and voting. [More…]
The person presiding at a meeting of the Council has a deliberative vote and, in the event of an equality of votes, also has a casting vote. [More…]
The meeting wants this referendum held before the State Parliament votes on the issue. ‘ [More…]
Approximately the same motions as were moved at the previous meeting were moved at this meeting and the maximum support was 57 votes. [More…]
As I have said, a lot of them were observers and the maximum support they got for their motions was 57 votes. [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…]
Honourable senators 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…]
that unless otherwise ordered, the votes in the Schedule be considered in the same groupings as in Estimates Committees A, B, C, D and E respectively, as set out in the document circulated to honourable senators; [More…]
Perhaps it would be better if we dealt with the motion first before we deal with the votes in group A. [More…]
I shall speak briefly to the motion, which arises from the deliberations of Senate Estimates Committee A, although at a later time I shall speak on individual votes which are covered within the report of the Estimates Committee. [More…]
Note: All clerical officers in the Administrative Section of the Parliamentary Reporting Staff perform duties directly associated with the production of the Hansard Reportpreparation and checking of formal matter, liaison with senators and members, and the insertion in the report of their corrections, checking the report against the Journals and Votes, consultation with and the dispatch of copy to the Government Printer. [More…]
The cost of office accommodation would come under the votes of the Overseas Operations Bureau, Department of Administrative Services, which has already been dealt with. [More…]
The final votes ought to be postponed until tomorrow. [More…]
But if we examine the situation we find that the Country-Liberal Party gained 4 1 per cent of first preference votes. [More…]
It is clear that a referendum on the issue, being counted on the number of single votes would have failed. [More…]
Senator Robertson again interjects in his angry manner and says: ‘ We do not buy votes’. [More…]
At the moment we have Labor politicians playing petty politics, whipping up emotions because in that area, which is an area of a substantial trade union majority, they cannot get the votes. [More…]
So they are indulging in this little exercise, which I believe will be quite futile, to get votes. [More…]
In fact, Senator Sir Robert Cotton was the first candidate in any election in this country to be returned with a million votes. [More…]
In fact six times in the history of this country people have had a million votes. [More…]
One of the honourable senators on the other side of the chamber, Senator Mulvihill, had more than a million votes, but Sir Robert Cotton with almost one and a quarter million votes has had more votes in a single election than has any other candidate in this country. [More…]
He is the only person to have had more than one million votes on two occasions. [More…]
Honourable senators, the result of the ballot is as follows: Senator Laucke, 38 votes; and Senator O’Byrne, 24 votes. [More…]
The result of the ballot is: Senator Scott, New South Wales, 37 votes; Senator Mulvihill, New South Wales, 25 votes. [More…]
Of course, this comment could apply similarly to Queensland today where it requires almost twice as many votes as are required to elect to Parliament a member of the Labor Party as are required to elect a member of the National Country Party. [More…]
If one looks at voting patterns in New South Wales one can see the absurd position in which the Labor Party and the Liberal Party polled somewhat the same number of votes and yet the proportion of seats is overwhelmingly in favour of the Liberal Party. [More…]
We find that the number of votes received by the Australian Democrats equalled the votes of the National Country Party yet the Democrats were denied representation in the lower House whereas the Country Party has representation in that House. [More…]
As the report says and as, I think, Senator Baume mentioned, for too long in this country and in other countries the whole debate on drug abuse has been clouded by hysteria on both sides, for and against, by the use of anecdotal evidence without any scientific backing up and, which is inevitable, I suppose, particularly in our political system, by the use of this debate by some people to gain a segment of the votes in the community by playing on the prejudices of those people whom they believe they need to support them. [More…]
However, if we continue to shout at each other and to air our prejudices in this Parliament and in the media, and if we continue to condemn those whose views differ from ours to gain political votes in political ballots or according to the prejudices we think the community has, we will continue to go the way we are going as an intoxicated society; and the only difference that will occur is that the variety of those intoxicants will increase, the absolute volume of those intoxicants used will increase, and we will get nowhere. [More…]
Back when votes were being wooed, back in 1975 and again in 1977, there were promises of tax reductions which came, and then went. [More…]
Indeed, we are the ones who have lost votes, or who have had a true exercise of parliamentary democracy. [More…]
A total of 55,493 formal votes were cast of which 9,477 (or 17 per cent) were ‘Yes’ and 46,016 (or 82.5 per cent) were No’. [More…]
A total of 45,656 formal votes were cast of which 13,016 (29 per cent) were ‘Yes’ and 32,640 (7 1 per cent) were ‘No’. [More…]
If we add the ‘Yes’ votes to the two questions we get 22,493 which is still 10, 1 47 less than the ‘ No ‘ vote on the second question. [More…]
To the credit of Australian Liberals belong the following firsts: National old age pension system; arbitration system; tariff protection of local industries; federal railway system; compensation legislation; Commonwealth involvement in education; votes for women and 18-year-olds; free compulsory and secular education; the free Press; the secret ballot; the opening of our land to free settlement. [More…]
I hope that Senator Missen, together with those of his colleagues who have expressed great concern about this impost, as have honourable Opposition senators, will take the necessary action before the Budget debate is concluded and before the votes are taken to see that the proposed impost is not levied on these people. [More…]
The votes polled at the various ballot boxes in the Werriwa by-election showed definitely that the biggest swing to Labor occurred in those districts which normally vote Liberal and in the middle class districts. [More…]
Labor received its smallest increase in the proportion of votes in the working class districts. [More…]
Perhaps we could not have polled more votes in those districts. [More…]
If changes were to be made to this very deceitful and dishonest Budget, they could have been made only with the support of the 26 solid votes of honourable senators of the Australian Labor Party and with a couple of votes from the honourable senators of the Australian Democrats, who, from the way in which they have asked questions and contributed to the discussion, could have been relied upon to support the changes. [More…]
That certainly will not be enough votes for the Liberal Party to beat the Dunstan Government and get into government. [More…]
I was expelled by nine votes to eight, one of whom was Senator Gietzelt and one of whom was Mr Hartley. [More…]
The more he allied himself to Mr Fraser, the more votes he lost. [More…]
I interjected to say: ‘Yes, but words from the Liberal Party mean nothing; it is the votes that count’. [More…]
Of course, she will have to live up to the way she votes on these Bills when they are put to the test in this House. [More…]
He votes for the very thing he is complaining about. [More…]
If we on this side wanted to be really political we could thank the Government for doing this, because it will cost the Government hundreds of thousands of votes. [More…]
They should put their votes where their mouth is. [More…]
He polled 1,265 votes. [More…]
In 1974, out of more than 722,000 votes, how many do honourable senators reckon he got? [More…]
Out of nearly 760,000 votes he received- come on, who has got it?- 2 13. [More…]
The voting numbers are going up and his votes are going down, the more he cackles. [More…]
All that he quoted were the primary votes on a Senate ticket. [More…]
With our preferential system of electing senators, that result just goes to show how closely knit the Labor Party vote is when it votes for the Australian Labor Party Senate ticket. [More…]
I was not going to enter this debate but I think that I ought to if only to remind the chamber, Senator McLaren in particular, that this is an important clause and that votes are needed; and when one has a vote one keeps it in the bag and does not blow the bag as he has done. [More…]
But whatever the justice or the wisdom of providing or not providing cheap credit for agriculture, there can be no justification for cynical pre-election prime ministerial promises to deliver cheap money- promises which are inoperative as soon as the votes are safely in the ballot box. [More…]
The Prime Minister made certain promises in order to gain votes; with a cynical disregard he has dishonoured those promises; just as he promised that he would maintain Medibank- we know what has happened to that institution; just as he promised that he would support wage indexation- we know what he has done; just as he promised that he would reduce interest rates by 2 per cent- there are only eight weeks left for him to fulfil that promise because he said that he would do it during 1978. [More…]
He proposes recision, a procedure, by the way, requiring an absolute majority of 33 votes. [More…]
It is on demand, the same as it would be in the Australian Capital Territory if the Senate votes for this motion. [More…]
Where are the people who are blackmailing us with regard to our votes while millions of babies starve to death in, say, Africa? [More…]
I remind every honourable senator on the Government side of the chamber who votes against Senator Ryan’s motion and Senator Evans’s amendment that, having in mind Senator Rae ‘s contingent notice of motion, they are voting against the recommendations which I am about to read. [More…]
These are situations which attract free votes. [More…]
All these issues attracted free votes from honourable senators on this side of the Senate chamber. [More…]
It was rejected by 98 to 23 votes. [More…]
On one crucial issue the vote was eight votes to seven. [More…]
Mr Beazley said that in 1973 the House of Representatives had rejected an extension of abortion by the huge majority of 98 votes to 23. [More…]
In election years the coalition Government probably gave them $ 1 or $ 1 .2 5 in an attempt to buy their votes. [More…]
We in the Australian Labor Party are criticised and told that we try to buy votes from the pensioners. [More…]
Last week the ex-Minister for Social Security, Senator Chipp, placed on record in this Parliament that the coalition Government did buy the votes of the pensioners. [More…]
He is now having second thoughts; attempts should not be made to buy the votes of pensioners. [More…]
That, unless otherwise ordered, the Votes in Schedule 2 be considered in the same groupings and order as the departmental estimates referred to Estimates Committees A, B, C, D, E and F, respectively, as set out in the document circulated to honourable senators. [More…]
Not only does the Executive presently determine the aggregate allocation of funds to the legislature, but it also has day-to-day control of much of those funds, as a large proportion of the moneys relating to the functioning of the Parliament is contained in the votes of Executive departments. [More…]
Mr President, there is a tendency, I believe amongst all of us, to regard the Australian Electoral Office as an organisation which concerns itself almost solely with the maintenance of the electoral roll, the running of elections and the counting of votes. [More…]
Voters in polling places have also received personal assistance because the Australian Electoral Office has endeavoured to ensure that Poll Clerks fluent in one or more languages have been employed at those booths where large numbers of former migrants are expected to record their votes. [More…]
That achieved the objective of reducing the number of informal votes cast and simplified the electoral process without necessarily taking away the right of the electors to record a full formal vote inasmuch as they could extend their preferences if they so desired. [More…]
This represents the lowest percentage of informal votes recorded in an election at large for a considerable number of years. [More…]
I draw the attention of the Minister and of the Senate to the fact that an even better breakdown of the figures shows, for example, that the number of informal votes in the seat of Sydney in 1974 was 20.5 per cent. [More…]
Yes, that is Senate informal votes. [More…]
The percentage of informal votes in areas such as Bradfield, Berowra, Wentworth and Warringah were 5.59, 7.3, 7.4 and 9.2 respectively. [More…]
I have pointed to the reduction in the number of informal votes in both local government and State elections in New South Wales. [More…]
But whatever the merits or demerits of providing funds at concessional interest rates, there is no excuse for making extravagant promises, as the Prime Minister did just a year ago, which become inoperative as soon as the votes are safely in the ballot box. [More…]
I hope that Mr Nixon will honour that promise which is contained in the letter I received today and that next year he will not endeavour to back away from the promise made by his colleague, Mr Sinclair, when that Minister was seeking votes in Alice Springs. [More…]
Government members are already on record as saying, when buying votes in the Northern Territory- that is the best way one can put it- that there would be a special allocation. [More…]
Official establishments’ votes of my Department. [More…]
Official establishments’ votes of my Department. [More…]
I do not know what formula we can use so that we can have members of the minority parties and the independent honourable senator speaking in debates, but as we received over twelve per cent of the votes one would think that one-eighth of the speaking time would be reasonable. [More…]
That is what is being done, notwithstanding a firm promise by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) at the last election on which he must have won hundreds of thousands of votes- possibly millions of votes. [More…]
Having made that additional point which is pertinent to this debate, I repeat that we of the Australian Democrats pledge ourselves to support the Australian Labor Party in any moves it might want to make in conformity with the Standing Orders in an effort to force the Government in some way to honour the promise on which it won millions of votes in 1977. [More…]
An agreed sum is fixed for each elector according to the number of votes polled for each of the parties. [More…]
Candidates are partially reimbursed for election expenses if they are elected or receive more than 15 per cent of the total votes cast in their electoral district. [More…]
The recommendations continue: Secondly, as a party, it must have polled at least 150,000 votes and had at least one member elected in the previous election; or thirdly, as a party, it must have had at least two of its candidates returned as members in the previous election. [More…]
At the last election he received 656 votes out of a total enrolment of 51,886 voters. [More…]
They are in districts where they have to receive votes in order to survive. [More…]
Can he assure me that this anomaly will be corrected so that these women will be given their democratic rights to cast their votes in all future elections? [More…]
They wanted the same situation that we have in the broader electorate in State and Federal elections: A person votes for the party he wants and he votes for the candidate who, he thinks, is going to do the best. [More…]
One young man was beaten by four votes. [More…]
My son was a candidate in the elections and he was beaten by six votes. [More…]
That motion was lost because of the equality of votes and, let it be clearly said, because of the vigorous opposition to it that the then Senator Lionel Murphy led at that conference. [More…]
He pointed to the fact that people on Palm Island who were on the Commonwealth and State electoral rolls were, by the decision of the Queensland Government, taken off the Palm Island rolls because their votes may have brought about a result which was different from what the Queensland Minister for Aboriginal and Island Affairs, Mr Porter, desired. [More…]
I plead with the Government to rise above the thought I have heard expressed frequently- a cynical and despicable thoughtthat there are no votes in foreign aid. [More…]
-As my colleague Senator Cavanagh says, we got 49 per cent of the first preference votes. [More…]
I think that if the political records of this country are perused it will be seen that we had to get only about 200 votes over about four seats throughout the length and breadth of Australia and a Labor government would have been elected. [More…]
Despite the fact that we had four undesirable candidates who would corrupt the Commonwealth Parliament if they were elected, in the electorate of Moreton in Brisbane the Labor Party lost by only 14 votes after the distribution of the Communist Party preferences and Killen the magnificent was returned. [More…]
South Australia, who was third on the ticket, got a greater proportion of first preference votes than did any other candidate in third position on a ticket until Nancy Buttfield campaigned for the women’s votes. [More…]
Only last week the Swedish Parliament, by 259 votes to 6 votes, passed the first draft of a Bill forbidding totally corporal punishment of children. [More…]
This would clearly show the expressed will of the people insofar as the party which obtained the majority of votes would, of course, be adequately represented in the Houses of Parliament. [More…]
The previous chairman received the highest number of votes. [More…]
I urge the Senate before it votes upon this matter to reconsider the fundamental issue of the amendment. [More…]
But it was a fair and square election and these people are waiting for the postal and absentee votes to be counted. [More…]
To some extent the same anxieties are present because the election result cannot be determined absolutely as there is a ‘cliff hanger’ situation there with the counting of votes. [More…]
The results of the elections have still to be declared at both communities and the election of two candidates at Mornington Island still depends on the outcome of postal votes. [More…]
To which votes of the departmental estimates were any additional expenditures charged, and in which financial years. [More…]
What expenditures were incurred by the Minister’s Department for and on behalf of the Silver Jubilee Appeal, and to which votes of the departmental estimates was each of these expenditures charged. [More…]
Have all these telephone accounts been paid; if so, against which departmental votes has each of the accounts been charged. [More…]
All accounts received in respect of the periods mentioned above have been paid, being charged against departmental votes as follows: 1976- 77-Division 130/3/26- $675 1977- 78-Division 130/3/12- $16,022 1978- 79-Division 130/3/ 12- $10,427; Division 130/3/13- $3,074. [More…]
Often Treasury submissions were hotly contested and I can remember on more than one occasion saying to Frank Stewart: ‘Frank, if you continue in this way you will have only two votes in this Cabinet and they will be yours and mine’. [More…]
That is a question which must exercise the mind of every Victorian when he or she votes on Saturday. [More…]
In the last election in Queensland the Labor Party polled 42.83 per cent of the votes and got only 23 seats, which in actual terms represents only 28 per cent ofthe votes. [More…]
The Opposition received 15 per cent more votes than the National Party but 12 fewer seats because of the electoral distribution in that State. [More…]
So because of the totally unnecessary addition of those shires to the electorate of Kalgoorlie, the Liberal Party finished up with a net gain of in excess of a thousand votes. [More…]
They show that the Australian Labor Party in Western Australia won 32.79 per cent of the votes. [More…]
In that blue ribbon Labor seat in Western Australia we find that John Sydney Dawkins picked up the grand total of 45 per cent of the primary votes. [More…]
After a distribution of preferences, the Labor vote in the seat of Fremantle, where the vast majority of Labor votes were locked away unfairly, totalled 51.82 per cent. [More…]
ls it not lack of imagination, lack of humanity, the prevalence of racism, the propensity of politicians to spend money where votes can be procured? [More…]
Is the Minister aware that it has been alleged by Mr Daly that Mr Ellicott intervened in the counting of the ballot for the seat of Parramatta, giving legal advice to the returning officer for that division in respect of the validity of certain postal votes, which advice had the effect of favouring the position of the Liberal Party candidate– [More…]
Included under Administrative Expenses votes is $2. [More…]
I am advised that the Chief Australian Electoral Officer sought advice from the First Assistant Crown Solicitor, Mr B. J. O ‘Donovan, on 12 December 1972 concerning the proper interpretation of the legislative provisions with respect to the counting of postal votes. [More…]
The postal votes concerned were for the Division of Parramatta. [More…]
The number of postal votes in issue was 1 57. [More…]
Mr O ‘Donovan consulted the then SolicitorGeneral, Mr Ellicott, on the matter that had been raised with him and each of them concluded that, although the matter was not clear beyond doubt, the better view was that the votes should not be rejected or disallowed if the Divisional Returning Officer was satisfied as to matters set out in paragraph (b) of section 96 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act. [More…]
Both Mr O ‘Donovan and Mr Ellicott were of the view that strong argument could be put for the view that the Divisional Returning Officer had a residual discretion to disallow some or all of the postal votes in issue and that it was a matter for the Divisional Returning Officer to decide which course he would adopt. [More…]
Both Mr O ‘Donovan and Mr Ellicott expressed the view that whichever course was adopted by the Divisional Returning Officer a petition to the court of disputed returns would be likely to be made if the final count left the two main contending candidates for the Division of Parramatta less than 157 votes apart. [More…]
Accordingly, the advice from the Attorney-General ‘s Department was given without knowledge of which candidate would be favoured by admitting or rejecting the postal votes in issue. [More…]
The most blatant attempt ever to buy votes was an advertisement showing a hand with a fistful of notes- we all remember it in the 1977 election campaign- and Mr Fraser uttering some prophetic words. [More…]
I may have lost some votes because I told the children to ask their parents to take them out and show them the Southern Cross, and that night was a bitterly cold night in that part of Tasmania. [More…]
Those solemn promises were made by Mr Sinclair to win votes for Mr Calder in the Northern Territory. [More…]
He would do so immediately he received an indication from Senator Kilgariff and Senator Jessop that they would not just say: ‘We supported you by not voting and thus depriving our side of two votes’. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Commonwealth Electoral Officer, Mr Pearson, has carried out a survey of informal votes cast during the 1975 and 1977 elections? [More…]
Does the survey show that the great majority of informal votes were cast for candidates of the Australian Labor Party? [More…]
Is it a fact that it is intended to make the survey available to the Parliament so that optional preferential voting can be instituted with the intention that all votes properly recorded will be properly reflected in the ultimate result? [More…]
The cynics would say that the Government was merely buying votes. [More…]
The house of representatives agreed by a margin of more than 100 votes to an administration plan to conserve vast stretches of Alaska, a state which is one-sixth the size of the rest of the country. [More…]
That Aboriginals should have the same opportunity to enrol and record valid votes in State elections as in Federal elections ‘. [More…]
That Aborigines should have the same opportunity to enrol and record valid votes in State elections as in Federal elections. [More…]
That Aborigines should have the same opportunity to enrol and record valid votes in State elections as in Federal elections. [More…]
I ask them to bear in mind that one can get situations where State electoral law can be more permissive in terms of helping such people to get votes than can Commonwealth legislation. [More…]
The legislation in Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory allows marksmen to apply for postal votes. [More…]
I refer very quickly to page 31 of Mr Justice Kay’s report for his comments on postal votes, which again 1 think are useful in pointing out the differences between the States and the difficulties of ensuring, when a marksman is involved, that one is getting a vote from the person who is claimed to have his name on the electoral roll. [More…]
Just in case he does say that, I point out to him that experience has shown- the votes will prove this- that it is very difficult for members of any government to turn their backs on that Government and to reject any regulation made by it. [More…]
The money may then be spent in the interest of attracting votes, a situation not without precedent for the present coalition Government. [More…]
If he looked at the situation that occurred in the election that took place recently in Zimbabwe-Rhodesia he would find that 4 per cent of the white minority in that country had 28 per cent of the votes in the lower House. [More…]
changes that should be made to Parts XIII to XV of the Commonwealth Electoral Act which deal with methods of polling and the present system of counting returned votes; [More…]
This Government is prepared to buy votes with blatant promises which are unacheivable Despite the claims to the contrary it is, in fact, a high tax party. [More…]
Government back benchers are now terrified that the policy is costing the Government votes. [More…]
The inhuman and unchristian people who speak in this place to gain votes take the attitude that they do not care whether 5,000 people, or 10,000 people, or however many will be employed at Roxby Downs, will suffer the lingering death of painful cancer and that men are easily replaced. [More…]
What we have done has been to engage, in the debate on that motion, in a most petty exercise in an attempt to win a few cheap votes. [More…]
However, because of the electoral reform that was introduced by a Labor government, any party in South Australia that can obtain 50 per cent of the electors’ votes on a broad base over the whole State will have the required numbers in the upper House. [More…]
It believes that in violence there are votes for it. [More…]
They want to buy votes by promising benevolence. [More…]
Despite Senator Teague ‘s optimism, if there is a drop in the percentage of votes cast for Labor- I do not think there will be- it has to be to the extent of seven per cent for the Liberals to get into government, and it has to occur in the metropolitan seats now held by Labor. [More…]
We find that they are absent when votes are taken on these matters. [More…]
At that election he polled 6.6 per cent of the vote in Patersonsome 4250 votes- compared with 1.45 per cent for Mr William Ignatius O’Donnell, an independent candidate, 57.61 per cent for Mr Frank Lionel O ‘Keefe, the National Country Party candidate, and 34.28 per cent for Kerry Donald Scott, the Australian Labor Party candidate. [More…]
I believe there is a moral obligation on the Australian Democrats, as a political organisation and as a political party, to honour a debt incurred in terms of material prepared not only for the promotion of Mr Baker as a candidate but for the promotion of Senator Mason, who gathered together the 6.6 per cent of the votes that he received in the electorate of Paterson, in amassing the total of votes which brought him, as an Australian Democrat, into this Senate. [More…]
The Credentials Committee decided by six votes to three that the Pol Pot administration would continue to represent Kampuchea in the United Nations. [More…]
Subsequently there was an Indian amendment, which was defeated, and eventually the report of the Committee was put to the Assembly and adopted by 71 votes to 35, with 34 abstentions. [More…]
It makes no attempt to buy votes or favours by using taxpayers ‘ money. [More…]
Senator Rae has suggested various ways that it could be picked up out of different votes and so on. [More…]
-Yes, we will get a lot of votes down there. [More…]
My colleague, Senator Messner, is quite right when he says that we of the Labor movement will get a lot of votes down there. [More…]
The peculiar system of voting for the South Australian Legislative Council means that votes cast for any group other than the major parties may result in preferences not being distributed. [More…]
The fact that it was a lie was proven because the votes for a candidate for the Australian Democrats- a minority party- were counted and he was elected. [More…]
This relates to governments holding 55 per cent of the votes of exporting countries and 65 per cent of the votes of importing countries in accordance with the distribution of votes established in an annexure to the agreement. [More…]
Every Government senator who votes for this proposal ought to know and admit to himself that this Bill is simply tinder for electoral fire. [More…]
It eventually went to the Court of Disputed Returns where allegations were made that Liberal Party candidates and members of the Liberal Party had applied undue pressure to members of the Aboriginal communities to ensure that their votes were not cast in the way they wished them to be cast. [More…]
In the court Mr Justice Smith found that the Labor candidate had been improperly denied votes by the tactics of the Liberal candidate, Mr Alan Ridge, who was then the Minister for Community Welfare. [More…]
If the Opposition claims that that is not a worthy objective, it is entitled to its view; but obviously the people of Australia, as they express themselves by their votes in the elections for members of this Parliament, say otherwise. [More…]
Certainly, before any honourable senator on either side of this chamber, no matter what his ideological bias may be, votes for such legislation, he should demand to see the guidelines and regulations. [More…]
The Western Australian electoral Act changes will make it very difficult for Aborigines and migrants to cast valid votes. [More…]
7m was allocated to other Departments’ votes, e.g. [More…]
We remember the manner in which in 1977 we were shown pictures of handfuls of notes being handed over to the taxpayer as a bribe to obtain votes by a government which was bent on deceit. [More…]
I can see that I am not going to receive any more votes from Canberra citizens in future elections. [More…]
Secondly, there is a new system of votes at the AUS councils whereby the voting strength of campus delegations is proportional to student numbers except that the half dozen smaller campuses have been upgraded to two votes instead of the nil or one vote they would have had under a perfectly proportional system. [More…]
The outcome of that series of votes, which took place in September this year, can be described only as representing a situation in which the tide has unequivocally turned. [More…]
The costs are costs met from votes under the control of the Attorney-General ‘s Department. [More…]
In regard to Senator Lewis’s suggestion that the Government take the issue to the United Nations, he will be aware that the United Nations General Assembly debate on the situation in Kampuchea concluded on 15 November and adopted an Association of South East Asian Nations draft resolution, there being 9 1 votes in favour, 21 against and 29 abstentions. [More…]
Senator Evans advised me today that he recalls telling Senator Chipp at about 10.30 last night in relation to the Human Rights Commission Bill- I am using Senator Evans’ words- ‘I do not think we can assume there will be no votes tonight’. [More…]
At that time no doubt many votes were won because of that promise in the Riverland and the Barossa Valley. [More…]
This is a good gesture from a government which favours grand gestures; a government which enables its CountryLiberal Party colleagues to endeavour to try to buy votes in a futile attempt to retain government. [More…]
That further consideration of the votes in Group A be postponed. [More…]
It is important for people who are supposed to know something about industrial relations to note- I am talking to Governments Senators, not to the officers of the Bureau- that a settlement was reached by these votes. [More…]
Maybe handicapped people do not rank important in terms of votes, but this could hardly be considered a reason for reducing support for them in terms of the Budget. [More…]
I wish to quote part of an article in today’s Melbourne Age headed ‘Loan “bought votes” Cover Up, says Wilkes’, who is the Leader of the Opposition in Victoria. [More…]
His own party was also criticising the Liberal Government for what it did to buy votes. [More…]
Of course, we have often spelt out in this place what the people who sit opposite will do to buy the votes of the people. [More…]
Before we depart from estimates for the Department of Primary Industry are those honourable senators going to dissociate themselves from their Victorian colleagues and say that their colleagues are completely wrong in criticising Mr Smith because he let the cat out of the bag by saying that $9m of taxpayers’ money was put at risk in order to buy a few votes in Victoria? [More…]
In future we will have to give closer attention to similar types of legislation brought into the Parliament as we now have on record a State Minister of Agriculture saying that this type of legislation was introduced only to buy the votes of the electors. [More…]
We are now pushing through the votes in Group E, which involve the expenditure of almost $ 1,000m, as though we are talking about a kid’s pocket money. [More…]
As my colleague the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Dawkins) has indicated in the other place, such is the redistribution that it requires my party to gain more than 50 per cent of the votes in order to exceed the quota of two seats in Western Australia. [More…]
Labor votes locked away, so it cannot be seen as a redistribution which is locking away a majority of Labor votes in a way which disadvantages the Labor Party in other seats. [More…]
I would suggest to all honourable senators that they look at the percentages of votes obtained by the parties in the last three elections which are contained in the figures which were distributed by the Australian Electoral Office to all senators. [More…]
At first it was believed that the idea of running the Premier’s wife was merely to attract votes to the National Party team by capitalising on the Bjelke-Petersen name. [More…]
There she would have no hope of winning but could have drawn votes to the team. [More…]
I will not detail those events, but ultimately an appeal was lodged with a Court of Disputed Returns by the Australian Labor Party candidate, Ernie Bridge, who had been defeated by 93 votes. [More…]
Justice Smith found that 96 people had been improperly deprived of their right to vote for Ernie Bridge and for that reason declared the election void- the winning margin having been only 93 votes. [More…]
The objective was to prevent Aborigines from recording votes, or if that failed, from recording valid votes. [More…]
I understand that sums totalling $7,264.82 and chargeable against the votes of the Attorney-General ‘s Department have been paid to, or in respect of the attendance of, Miss Artopoulou as a witness. [More…]